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Why does a cumulus cloud drifting overhead often weigh several hundred tonnes and still hang in the sky as if it weighed nothing at all?

In 1868, astronomers watching a solar eclipse from India detected a bright yellow spectral line in the Sun's atmosphere that matched no known element on Earth, and helium became the only element in the periodic table discovered on another world before it was found on this one

How does a coastal forest that covers less than one percent of the tropics store up to four times more carbon per hectare than the rainforests inland?

The Murchison meteorite that fell on a Victorian farming town in 1969 contains silicon carbide stardust that formed in the outflows of dying stars up to 7 billion years ago, making it older than the Sun itself by roughly 2.5 billion years

How did a Central Asian sea that lost roughly 90 percent of its water in 40 years claw back a northern lobe deep enough for fishing boats to return?

In 1952, Rosalind Franklin exposed a hydrated DNA fibre to X-rays for over 60 hours in a King's College basement, and the resulting image — Photo 51 — showed a dark diffraction cross so unambiguous that the helix was visible before any model had been built

How does a spacecraft launched in 1977 still transmit data from beyond the heliosphere on less electrical power than a household hallway bulb, nearly five decades after leaving Earth?

Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm

Carbon fibers bend and straighten under electric control

KSAT prepares Hyperion in orbit relay test for satellite data
