Neptune was found not by anyone scanning the night sky but by mathematics — Urbain Le Verrier noticed Uranus being tugged off its predicted path, worked out where the hidden planet had to be, and astronomers in Berlin who pointed a telescope at that patch of sky found Neptune within a degree of his prediction that same night.

On the night of 23 September 1846, an astronomer at the Berlin Observatory pointed a telescope at a particular patch of sky, compared what he saw against a star chart, and found a planet that no chart recorded.

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When Vera Rubin measured the spin of galaxies, she found their outer stars moving so fast that visible matter alone could not hold them in place — one of the clearest early signs that most of every galaxy is made of something nobody has ever seen.

Beginning with the Andromeda galaxy in the late 1960s, the astronomer Vera Rubin and her colleague Kent Ford measured how fast stars and gas clouds orbit at different distances from a galaxy's centre.

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The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs happened to strike a shallow seabed rich in sulphur and buried hydrocarbons, throwing soot and aerosols into the sky — and researchers argue the same rock hitting most other places might not have ended their reign.

The asteroid that struck near Chicxulub, in what is now the Yucatán Peninsula, about 66 million years ago did not hit a random patch of the planet.

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NOAA has placed an 82 per cent probability that El Niño will emerge in the central Pacific between May and July 2026, the climate state that in 1997-98 caused more than 20,000 deaths worldwide and approximately US$36 billion in damage, that in 2015-16 produced what was then the warmest year on record and the most extensive Amazon drought yet measured, and that has accompanied every one of the ten warmest years in the global temperature record, all of which have occurred since 2015

NOAA's Climate Prediction Center issued an El Niño Watch on 12 March 2026, the formal alert level indicating favourable conditions for the development of the climate state called El Niño within the following four months.

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In 1964, a quiet British physicist named Peter Higgs proposed the existence of an invisible field permeating the entire universe — the thing that gives every particle of matter its mass — and it took another 48 years before scientists at CERN finally proved he was right, in a discovery that completed our most fundamental theory of how the universe is built

On 19 October 1964, Physical Review Letters published a two-page communication by Peter Higgs of the Tait Institute of Mathematical Physics at the University of Edinburgh.

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The Human Genome Project was declared complete in 2003 — but about 8% of human DNA was still missing, including some of the regions most critical to chromosome stability and immunity, and it took another nineteen years to finally read it all

On 14 April 2003, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announced the completion of the Human Genome Project through the National Human Genome Research Institute and the US Department of Energy.

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Neptune was found not by anyone scanning the night sky but by mathematics — Urbain Le Verrier noticed Uranus being tugged off its predicted path, worked out where the hidden planet had to be, and astronomers in Berlin who pointed a telescope at that patch of sky found Neptune within a degree of his prediction that same night.

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When Vera Rubin measured the spin of galaxies, she found their outer stars moving so fast that visible matter alone could not hold them in place — one of the clearest early signs that most of every galaxy is made of something nobody has ever seen.

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The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs happened to strike a shallow seabed rich in sulphur and buried hydrocarbons, throwing soot and aerosols into the sky — and researchers argue the same rock hitting most other places might not have ended their reign.

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There is a spot in the South Pacific so far from any coastline that when the International Space Station passes overhead, the nearest human beings may be the astronauts in orbit — not anyone on land.

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The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs happened to strike a shallow seabed rich in sulphur and buried hydrocarbons, throwing soot and aerosols into the sky — and researchers argue the same rock hitting most other places might not have ended their reign.

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NOAA has placed an 82 per cent probability that El Niño will emerge in the central Pacific between May and July 2026, the climate state that in 1997-98 caused more than 20,000 deaths worldwide and approximately US$36 billion in damage, that in 2015-16 produced what was then the warmest year on record and the most extensive Amazon drought yet measured, and that has accompanied every one of the ten warmest years in the global temperature record, all of which have occurred since 2015

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In 1964, a quiet British physicist named Peter Higgs proposed the existence of an invisible field permeating the entire universe — the thing that gives every particle of matter its mass — and it took another 48 years before scientists at CERN finally proved he was right, in a discovery that completed our most fundamental theory of how the universe is built

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The Human Genome Project was declared complete in 2003 — but about 8% of human DNA was still missing, including some of the regions most critical to chromosome stability and immunity, and it took another nineteen years to finally read it all

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When Vera Rubin measured the spin of galaxies, she found their outer stars moving so fast that visible matter alone could not hold them in place — one of the clearest early signs that most of every galaxy is made of something nobody has ever seen.

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs happened to strike a shallow seabed rich in sulphur and buried hydrocarbons, throwing soot and aerosols into the sky — and researchers argue the same rock hitting most other places might not have ended their reign.

The Human Genome Project was declared complete in 2003 — but about 8% of human DNA was still missing, including some of the regions most critical to chromosome stability and immunity, and it took another nineteen years to finally read it all

When Vera Rubin measured the spin of galaxies, she found their outer stars moving so fast that visible matter alone could not hold them in place — one of the clearest early signs that most of every galaxy is made of something nobody has ever seen.

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs happened to strike a shallow seabed rich in sulphur and buried hydrocarbons, throwing soot and aerosols into the sky — and researchers argue the same rock hitting most other places might not have ended their reign.

There is a spot in the South Pacific so far from any coastline that when the International Space Station passes overhead, the nearest human beings may be the astronauts in orbit — not anyone on land.

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs happened to strike a shallow seabed rich in sulphur and buried hydrocarbons, throwing soot and aerosols into the sky — and researchers argue the same rock hitting most other places might not have ended their reign.

The Human Genome Project was declared complete in 2003 — but about 8% of human DNA was still missing, including some of the regions most critical to chromosome stability and immunity, and it took another nineteen years to finally read it all

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