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A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
Right now, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, a 48-year-old spacecraft is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 miles per hour.
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on: 2026-03-30
These Stunning Butterflies Flew 2,600 Miles Across the Atlantic Ocean Witho
Researchers combined several lines of evidence to solve the mystery of why a group of painted ladies, which do not live in South America, were found fluttering on a beach in French Guiana
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on: 2024-07-01
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Self-Powered Cart
A club for Meccano enthusiasts in London, holding four meetings each year and a public Meccano Show in Falconwood.
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on: 2023-12-22
π in Other Universes
Everyone loves $\pi$. It’s usually the first irrational number someone encounters. $\pi$ is conceptually simple enough that it can be explained with basic geometry.
A circle …
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on: 2023-10-30
Bicycle – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining the physics of a bicycle.
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on: 2023-03-29
As easy as 1,2,3…
In every day life we all do our calculations, whether for the taxman, our purchases, paying the household bills or in some academic discipline, using the place value decimal number system. It consi…
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on: 2018-05-08
Mas Subramanian's Quest for a Billion-Dollar Red
The trail may start with YlnMn, the first blue created in two centuries.
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on: 2018-04-19