Cats are notoriously indifferent to sweet things. Pour syrup near a dog and the dog will investigate.
In the middle of the night of 13 February 2023, a muon passed through a partially built detector sitting 3,450 metres below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, off the southeast coast of Sicily.
In 1999, psychologists showed people a short video of a basketball being passed around, asked them to count the passes, and then watched as…
Point the right instrument at HD 189733b and the colour that comes back is a deep cobalt blue, the kind of blue a person who grew up with photographs of Earth from orbit would recognise in an instant.
In October 2017, a survey telescope on Maui caught a faint, fast point of light that did not belong here.
Spent rocket stages and defunct satellites do not manoeuvre. Once launched, they simply fall, very slowly, pulled toward Earth by the drag of an upper atmosphere that thickens and thins with the Sun's eleven-year activity cycle.
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