explorers

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Specimens gathered by explorers generations ago continue to provide valuable scientific insights today, especially in remote regions where fieldwork remains difficult.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

It can be broken into hydrogen and oxygen to produce rocket fuel, sparing tomorrow’s explorers the need to carry enough for the trip home.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The voyage was marketed for explorers eager to venture to “the edges of the map,” from Antarctica to some of the most remote islands in the world.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

But it was a chance to capture the imaginations of new generations of future space explorers, while also calling back to the one-giant-step-for-mankind sense of awed enormity that characterized the 20th-century Space Race.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

To get there, I would travel along the highway that is also named for Captain Cook, who, I knew from studying explorers with Franny, sailed from England to Australia.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin