Salty Clouds aren’t the only strange thing about this object in space
This episode of Shortwave explores mysteries across space and time, from a distant celestial object with salt clouds to ancient human relatives and the evolution of laughter in primates, revealing how science unravels the unknown through observation and comparison.
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