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Northern lights could dazzle to start July 4 weekend - The Hill
Sure, you may be hoping to see fireworks or a drone show over the July 4 weekend, but nature may be gearing up to give you its own colorful nighttime display.
Can you actually do a nine-to-five PhD? Nature readers weigh in - Nature
Nature readers share their PhD time-management woes.
Demographers estimate that about 117 billion members of our species have ever been born, which means the roughly 8 billion of us alive today are about 7% of everyone who has ever lived - Space Daily
Start with a single number: about 117 billion. That is the Population Reference Bureau’s estimate for how many people have ever been born on Earth. Set the roughly 8 billion alive today against that, and the living come out at nearly 7 percent of everyone who…
Last-minute launch problem delays satellite rescue mission for NASA - AP News
A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem. Northrop Grumman’s rocket-launching plane took off from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific on Thursday, following weather delays all wee…
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe - Quanta Magazine
Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ones are true.
This 17th-Century Flemish Painting Held A Gnarly Bat Secret - Defector
To Jan Brueghel the Elder, paradise could not be contained to a single biome. Many of Brueghel’s paintings teem with menageries of birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish that would never ordinarily meet in the wild: monkeys from the Americas mingling with birds f…