Discoveries from 1957 include the launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite, into outer space; the discovery of Charnia, the first found Precambrian fossil; and the release of evidence by the UK Medical Research Council that smoking is linked to lung cancer.

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Discoveries from 1957 include the launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite, into outer space; the discovery of Charnia, the first found Precambrian fossil; and the release of evidence by the UK Medical Research Council that smoking is linked to lung cancer.

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Cooper Cox:

If there is anything to be taken from life, it’s the relationship between the cosmic and lungs.