JPL's measured gravity and radius put a surface-grazing Deimos orbit near 14.2 km/h and local escape near 20.1 km/h, although ...
A banana-and-berry smoothie is often described as an easy way to combine fruits. A small controlled crossover study found a narrower biochemical effect than claims that this mixture neutralises the ...
A registered beefalo, the bison-cattle breed at the centre of the study. Credit: Karl Young, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A bull called Joe’s Pride changed hands in 1975 for $2.5 million. His ...
On the night of August 1, 1969, a green pulse of light left a telescope at the Lick Observatory in California, travelled a quarter of a million miles to the Sea of Tranquillity, struck a ...
Two and a bit tonnes of snapped rock, stacked into neat circles, in a chamber that has never once seen daylight. Nobody has worked out why. Bruniquel Cave sits above the Aveyron gorges in the ...
What if the part of a battery you never think about, the fluid that sits between the electrodes, could be made from the shells your last seafood dinner left behind? That is roughly what a team led by ...
Don Gurnett, the principal investigator for the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, spent decades turning the electromagnetic noise of the outer planets into ...
Opportunity self-portraits from January 2014, left, and March 2014 show how wind removed much of the dust from the rover’s solar panels. These images postdate the first dust-devil photograph and do ...
Twice a week the most famous fountain in Rome is switched off, drained and vacuumed like a lounge room carpet. Workers climb down into the emptied basin with long-handled brushes, sweep the coins into ...
A solar telescope in New Mexico is being torn down, and the reason is a pool of liquid mercury hidden inside it. The mercury was the clever trick that made the telescope work. It is now the thing that ...
There are roughly two occasions in the entire history of human cartography when a working continental map has felt obliged to include a single individual tree as a labelled feature. Both are in Niger.
The 64-gram student experiment that lifted off from NASA’s Wallops Island facility on June 22, 2017 would have been easy to lose in a coat pocket. It was a cube less than four centimeters on a side, ...
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