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For years the humble American penny carried a quiet embarrassment that finally ended its long run: each one-cent coin had come to cost nearly four cents to make, and in late 2025 the US Mint struck its very last circulating penny
about 1 hour ago
Ask most people how much it costs to make a penny and...
The ocean produces roughly half of the oxygen humans breathe — not the Amazon, not forests — through microscopic organisms called phytoplankton that most people have never heard of
about 2 hours ago
Take a breath beside a forest and the source of oxygen seems...
How does a fish live eight kilometres beneath the surface, under pressure equal to a thousand cars stacked on its back, in water so cold and so heavy that the proteins in its body should long since have stopped folding?
about 3 hours ago
In August 2022, a baited camera descended into the Izu-Ogasawara Trench south...
The more money, time, or effort we’ve poured into something failing, the harder it gets to quit, even when walking away is plainly the smart move: we throw good resources after bad just to justify what we spent
about 4 hours ago
A few years ago, I held onto a coffee business for longer...
Ingenuity was funded as a technology demonstration with five flights and a thirty-day window, assembled partly from mobile phone components because nothing space-rated was light enough, and it flew seventy-two times across nearly three years before a roto
about 5 hours ago
Ingenuity arrived on Mars with no scientific instrument, no requirement to help...
Uranus is tipped so far over it does not spin like other planets so much as roll around the Sun, and the result is brutal: each pole spends about 42 years in continuous sunlight, then roughly 42 years in unbroken darkness
about 6 hours ago
Imagine standing at the north pole of a planet and watching the...
How does a planet 95 times the mass of Earth end up light enough to float on water?
about 7 hours ago
Saturn is not light. Its mass is about 568 million trillion trillion...
The first woman to fly in space was not a test pilot or a scientist but a young textile worker, and in 1963 Valentina Tereshkova orbited the Earth alone for three days, longer than every American astronaut combined had managed by then
about 8 hours ago
When you picture the people who flew the first space missions, you...
The Parker Solar Probe flies through the sun’s outer atmosphere behind a carbon shield eleven and a half centimetres thick, and the arrangement works so well that while the front face glows at almost fourteen hundred degrees, the instruments sitting a m
about 9 hours ago
At its closest approaches, Parker Solar Probe passes about 6.2 million kilometres...
The 24-hour day is not fixed but slowly stretching, and in the dinosaurs’ time it was shorter: the Moon’s pull is gently braking Earth’s spin, so a day back then ran about 23.5 hours, and far shorter deeper in the past
about 10 hours ago
The day you are living through right now is longer than any...
How does a lake the size of Lake Ontario stay liquid under four kilometres of Antarctic ice, sealed away from sunlight and the atmosphere for something like fifteen million years?
about 11 hours ago
At Russia’s Vostok Station, the average annual surface temperature is close to...
For most of us the Hale-Bopp comet was a once-in-a-lifetime sight in the spring of 1997, but for thirty-nine people it was a departure time, and what happened next shocked the world.
about 12 hours ago
The spring of 1997 was, for those who saw it, the season...