First-light collage for ESO’s MOONS spectrograph on the VLT: Unit Telescope 1 at Cerro Paranal with an inset of Baade’s Window showing fibre pointings. Credit: ESO/MOONS team/VVV survey/F. Char (ESO ...
Mars has about 97% as much surface area as Earth’s dry land, a geometrical coincidence created by the oceans covering most of ...
By refusing to look away, a space telescope discovered that planets are commonplace, not rare exceptions to the cosmic rule.
The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...
In 2009 a drill crew in northeast Iceland went looking for very hot water and hit something that was still moving. They were working at Krafla, a volcanic caldera about ten kilometres wide in one of ...
Concept illustration of a laser-driven lightsail. This is an artist's concept, not a spacecraft that has reached relativistic speed. Credit: Breakthrough Initiatives. Source and project information. A ...
For adults aged 60 and older, the point where more walking stopped adding much extra protection against dying early sat at roughly 6,000 to 8,000 steps a day. Not ten thousand. That figure comes from ...
More than two out of every three homes in a wealthy European country are heated not by their own boiler or furnace, but by hot water piped in from somewhere down the road. The Danish District Heating ...
A road junction in Sendai, Japan, in the early 1990s. The light turns red, a line of cars stops, and a crow drops onto the road just ahead of a front tire. It sets down a walnut, then flies back to ...
Feed a birch seedling air laced with a rare form of carbon, wait nine days, and some of that carbon turns up inside a fir tree standing a few metres away. That result came out of a British Columbia ...
Sperm whales come up from the deep wearing evidence. Rings of pale scar tissue across the head and flanks, some as wide as a coaster, pressed there by something with suckers and no interest in being ...
Somewhere on the planet right now, somebody is the last living person who can tell a particular joke and have it land. The punchline runs on a word that exists in exactly one language, and that ...
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