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Experienced birdwatchers were found to have denser, more structurally complex brain…
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For 21 years, Voyager 1’s primary roll thrusters were considered dead
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The Sturtian glaciation, the longest Snowball Earth event, lasted about 57 million…
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Scientists initially weighed the planet GJ 3378b at 5.3 Earth masses, a number that…
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A Jupiter-sized planet outlived its dying star, and NASA’s Webb has now read its…
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A single ten-month run added 161 gravitational-wave detections and pushed the total…
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On 13 April 2029, a 375-metre asteroid called Apophis will sweep past Earth closer…
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A 10-millimetre dung beetle called Onthophagus taurus can pull 1,141 times its own…
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In 1847 a Vienna doctor cut childbed-fever deaths on the doctors' ward from about…
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The Sun accounts for 99.86 percent of all the mass in the entire solar system
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Stand up too fast and the stars filling your vision aren't imaginary
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In 1971, the Soviet probe Mars 3 became the first spacecraft to land softly on Mars
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In the Martian sky, the sun appears roughly two-thirds the size it looks from…
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In 1610, Galileo pointed a small telescope at Jupiter and saw four moons orbiting it
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