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July 23, 2025, 02:54 PM - 6 min read
Delivering a baby and caring for one in space is a much messier and more complicated process than on Earth, where gravity helps with everything from positioning to feeding.
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May 21, 2025, 02:10 PM - 6 min read
Light is electromagnetic radiation: basically, an electric wave and a magnetic wave coupled together and travelling through space-time. It has no mass. That point is critical because the mass of an object, whether a speck of dust or a spaceship, limits the top speed it can travel through space.
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February 25, 2025, 03:19 PM - 8 min read
On Earth, the geologic record of oceans is distinctive. Modern oceans are only a few hundreds of millions of years old. Yet the global rock record is riddled with deposits made by many older oceans, some several billions of years old.
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September 4, 2024, 10:28 AM - 6 min read
Phaethon was discovered by chance in 1983 by two astronomers at the University of Leicester, Simon Green and John Davies. They came across it orbiting the Sun while analysing images collected by a space telescope called the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (Iras).
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