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A paperclip-sized spacecraft could visit a nearby black hole in the next century
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Warm and cool temperatures travel on completely different paths to the brain
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Public GPS was initially only accurate to around 100 metres
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THE SCIENCE OF ART
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In 2019, Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian – a banana duct-taped to a wall – sold at auction for $120,000
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Claude Monet drew caricatures before becoming a renowned impressionist painter
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HOW CATAPULTS WORKED
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The world’s largest wood-framed trebuchet, built in 1304, was 90 metres tall
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A GUIDE TO EXOPLANETS
TYPES OF EXOPLANETS
HD 189773 b experiences glass rain that falls sideways due to extreme winds
Rogue worlds are exoplanets that don’t orbit a star, having possibly been ejected from their orbit
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FINDING AN EARTH LIKE PLANET
METHODS OF EXOPLANET DETECTION
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The F-16 can carry more than its own weight in weapons, fuel and cargo
WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL MICROSCOPE
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Dutch spectacle-maker Zacharias Janssen is credited with the invention of the compound microscope in 1600
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The protons and neutrons in an atom are around 1,800 times more massive than electrons
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The highest resolution microscope can resolve details 20 picometres across – a fifth the width of a hydrogen atom
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HOW TOOTHPASTE IS MADE THE TECHNIQUE BEHIND THE TUBE
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HOW NATURE RECORDS HISTORY
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