The specific numerical fact that essentially every high-school astronomy textbook published in the specific interval between approximately 1970 and the present…
On the morning of Sunday, 26 December 2004 — about two hours after a 9.1-magnitude megathrust earthquake had ruptured the Indian Ocean seafloor 250 kilometres…
In March 2014, three American researchers published a paper in Behavioural Processes titled "Scent of the Familiar: An fMRI Study of Canine Brain Responses to Familiar and Unfamiliar Human and Dog Odors.
On Apollo 16 and 17, NASA strapped nuclear emulsion plates around astronauts' heads to prove the mysterious light flashes crewmen had been reporting since Apollo 11 were actually cosmic ray particles crossing through their skulls.
In June 2004, in the specific suburb of Spartanburg, South Carolina where the 76-year-old retired psychology professor emeritus John W.
At 6:53 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, 24 December 2024 — while most of the American public was busy with Christmas Eve preparations, and while the…
Astronaut Don Pettit called them 'luminous dancing fairies' — the streaks of light that cross astronauts' vision on the ISS. They are cosmic rays punching through the hull and through the eye, the same phenomenon every Apollo crew reported from 1969 onward.
At 7:49 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, 14 July 2015, the piano-sized robotic spacecraft New Horizons flew past the dwarf planet Pluto at roughly 32,000 miles per hour, at a closest approach distance of 7,800 miles above the surface.
The drifting spots you see when you stand up too fast are not imaginary. A brief drop in blood pressure starves the retina for a heartbeat or two, and the photoreceptors, running on some of the most expensive metabolism in the body, fire phantom signals as their power fails.
On 2 December 1971, the Soviet Mars 3 lander did something no spacecraft had ever done.
Stand on Mars and watch the Sun go down, and two things would look strange to an Earthling's eye.
In January 1610, Galileo Galilei pointed a small telescope at Jupiter and saw something no one had ever recorded.
During Apollo 14 in 1971, Edgar Mitchell sat blindfolded in the command module and logged a flash of light in his vision every 2.9 minutes. The cause, it turned out, was cosmic rays passing through his eyeballs.
A decapitated cockroach can stand, walk, and respond to touch for about a week before dying — not from the wound, but from thirst. The reason lies in an open circulatory system and body-wide breathing that make the head, biologically speaking, almost optional.
Mars once had a global magnetic field, generated deep inside the planet, strong enough to deflect the solar wind much as Earth's does today.
Dark matter is thought to make up roughly 85 per cent of all the matter in the universe.
