Daniel Moran
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NASA schedules eight and a half hours for astronauts to sleep each night, but on 1,294 of 2,951 nights studied aboard the space station they got less than six — and three quarters of the astronauts surveyed reported turning to sleep medication in orbit (opens the original)
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Zip yourself into a padded cubicle barely wider than your shoulders, strap down so you do not drift into the wall overnight, then try to ignore the fourth sunrise since dinner. NASA writes eight and a half hours of protected sleep into its mission rules. What crews actually get is closer to six. Across 2,951 nights of wrist-monitor data gathered aboard the International Space Station, astronauts slept under six hours on 1,294 of them, and three quarters of the station crewmembers who answered th
The Wi-Fi in your house traces back to an Australian astronomer searching for signals from exploding black holes — he never found them, but the signal-processing method he developed later helped a team at Australia’s national science agency untangle radio waves bouncing around rooms, became part of (opens the original)
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Somewhere in the house, a small plastic box is blinking behind a stack of unopened mail. The maths running inside it was honed on a hunt for exploding black holes. In March 1974, Stephen Hawking published a page and a half in Nature under the title Black hole explosions?, question mark and all. His argument was that black holes leak. Big ones leak so slowly that the universe is far too young for it to show. Very small ones, born in the chaos after the Big Bang, would evaporate fast and finish wi
Sea turtles have survived for more than 100 million years and can navigate thousands of miles of open ocean using Earth’s magnetic field — yet artificial lights along a beach can still send newly hatched turtles crawling inland instead of toward the sea (opens the original)
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Fifty-five baby loggerheads died on a Florida road in August, and every one of them was doing exactly what it was built to do. Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring reported that lighting from nearby homes and businesses pulled the hatchlings towards Gulf Drive instead of the Gulf. Weeks later, as reported by FOX 13 Tampa Bay, more than 70 were rescued on the same island after crawling inland, with two others pulled from a swimming pool and a storm drain. A loggerhead breaks ou
A student's question made the engineer behind New York's new Citicorp tower recheck his calculations in 1978, and he discovered the building could be toppled by a storm expected every 16 years. Welders reinforced the joints at night for three months while the true danger was kept from the public. (opens the original)
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For three months in the late summer of 1978, the brightest thing above Lexington Avenue after midnight was a welding torch. Beneath it, crews were fixing steel plates across the joints of Manhattan’s newest skyscraper, then clocking off at dawn before the bankers arrived. Staff at Citicorp Center were told the night shifts were routine maintenance. About a dozen people knew it had a measurable annual chance of falling into the streets below. St Peter’s Lutheran owned the north-west corner of the
France fenced off roughly 1,200 square kilometres of its former World War I front after 1918 because the land was too devastated and littered with unexploded ordnance to farm. Parts around Verdun remain closed a century later, and disposal teams still lift hundreds of tonnes of wartime explosives a (opens the original)
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In an oak and hornbeam forest northeast of Verdun, one patch of ground runs to roughly 18 per cent arsenic by weight, and almost nothing grows on it but moss. The place is called Place à Gaz, and it is the tidiest available summary of what France chose to do with its ruined battlefields. After the armistice, surveyors walked the front with maps and graded the damage. The worst grade came with unusually blunt wording: total devastation, agriculture impossible, human life impossible. Roughly 1,200
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