The science of discovery
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When a 130-ton Russian space station plummeted toward Earth, Taco Bell floated a giant target in the Pacific and bought insurance on the odds of a catastrophic bullseye.
A visual search of ultra-deep VST mosaics found 47 dwarf-galaxy candidates where only four were catalogued, exposing both the power and the biases of by-eye discovery.
What began as a municipal database became an unexpected outlet for human connection, as thousands of strangers worldwide started pouring their hearts out to inanimate objects.
The protective caps on human chromosomes shorten by 50 to 100 base pairs every time a cell divides, and once they run out the cell either sleeps forever or self-destructs. The same countdown that ages tissue is one of the body's strongest defences against cancer.
Two space powers deepen ties on everything from solar storms to lunar missions, signaling a shift toward shared responsibility for Earth's orbital environment.
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