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The Universe is big. We are not. Credit: Ben Canales
Do aliens exist? Probably. Are they intelligent? Probably not.
Phil Plait
May 19, 2020
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Today is the vernal equinox… the earliest one in 124 years!
Phil Plait
Mar 19, 2020
The Earth on the vernal equinox of March 20, 2019. This image was taken by the DSCOVR satellite 1.6 million km from Earth in the direction of the Sun. The glow is sunlight reflecting off the Pacific Ocean, directly on the Equator.
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Don't bawk at this study that finds New Zealand birds doing statistics
Adam Pockross
Mar 3, 2020
New Zealand Kea parrot
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Why do we have leap days?
Phil Plait
Feb 28, 2020
I couldn’t get one of my own goats to jump on cue, so I had to get a stock photo. Credit: Wikipedia / Wilfredor
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Katherine Johnson, trailblazing NASA mathematician and Hidden Figures subject, dies at 101
Josh Weiss
Feb 24, 2020
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2010s or 2020s? Some decadent thinking.
Phil Plait
Dec 31, 2019
calendar rolling over from 2019 to 2020
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How do you calculate the orbit of an object in space?
Phil Plait
Oct 22, 2019
Saturn and the orbits of many of its moons. Credit: SpaceKit, via Ian Webster
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Happy September equinox! So what exactly does that mean, anyway?
Phil Plait
Sep 23, 2019
The Earth seen from the DSCOVR spacecraft on Sep. 23, 2018, on the equinox. Credit: NASA/NOAO
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Google team breaks Guinness World Record for most accurate value of pi
Adam Pockross
Mar 14, 2019
A Pi Day pie from Reilly's Bakery in Biddeford at Biddeford High School
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The median Earth
Phil Plait
Mar 5, 2019
A map of the world created by taking the median data from a year’s worth of observations from Suomi-NPP, an Earth-observing satellite. Credit: NASA/SuomiNPP/Johannes Kroeger
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World's largest bee found 38 years later, and she may just do math
Adam Pockross
Feb 21, 2019
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Mathematician crunches the numbers on Black Panther, A Quiet Place's Oscar odds
Jacob Oller
Jan 18, 2019
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How far away can you see a meteor?
Phil Plait
Dec 13, 2018
A bright Geminid streaks past Orion and the bright star Sirius in the 2009 shower. Credit: Babak Tafreshi
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New study shows bad Rotten Tomatoes reviews have no impact on film earnings
Carol Pinchefsky
Sep 12, 2017
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