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Earth reaches its farthest point from the Sun on July 6, in the middle of northern summer, and the backward timing is the clearest sign the seasons don't come from distance
Ask most people when Earth is closest to the Sun and they will say summer. It makes a tidy kind of sense: closer to the fire, warmer the room.
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We think of Mount Everest as the ultimate mountain, but Olympus Mons on Mars rises nearly three times as high and spreads across a footprint roughly the size of Italy, making Earth’s tallest peak look almost local by comparison.
Mount Everest has become the human shorthand for height. It is the mountain people name when they want to say that something has reached the limit of what Earth can offer.
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The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Scientists expected Pluto to be a frozen, ancient world scarred by billions of years of impacts. But when New Horizons finally arrived in 2015, it found something stranger: smooth young plains with almost no craters, signs of flowing nitrogen ice, possible ice volcanoes, and a layered blue haze in an atmosphere no one expected to look so complex
We think of Mount Everest as the ultimate mountain, but Olympus Mons on Mars rises nearly three times as high and spreads across a footprint roughly the size of Italy, making Earth’s tallest peak look almost local by comparison.
Sharks are roughly 450 million years old — older than trees, older than forests, older than the first broad leaves. When they first appeared, life on land was still mostly low, simple mats of early plants, and nothing had yet learned how to grow into a forest.
Carl Sagan spent years trying to persuade NASA to take a picture many saw as scientifically pointless: Earth from more than 6 billion kilometres away, reduced to a pale blue dot smaller than a pixel. Voyager 1 finally captured it in 1990 — and that tiny speck became one of the most haunting images in human history.
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A Central African frog fights off predators by driving the sharp bones of its own toes out through its skin to form claws, a defense biologists first described in detail in 2008
A black coral colony discovered in the fjords of New Zealand has been growing for an estimated three to four centuries, and despite its name the living coral is actually white, with only its skeleton turning black
Earth reaches its farthest point from the Sun on July 6, in the middle of northern summer, and the backward timing is the clearest sign the seasons don't come from distance
We think of Mount Everest as the ultimate mountain, but Olympus Mons on Mars rises nearly three times as high and spreads across a footprint roughly the size of Italy, making Earth’s tallest peak look almost local by comparison.
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