The science of discovery
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John Young's hidden corned beef sandwich on Gemini III reached NASA's budget hearings, where James Webb called it an inadequate performance and Robert Gilruth defended the crew.
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.
Zircon dating moves the buried Ames impact in Oklahoma to about 370 million years ago, close in time to the Late Devonian mass extinction, UT Austin researchers report.
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.
An amateur astronomer's casual observation became a cosmic mystery that still puzzles scientists today.
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