Sophie Hardach
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Sep 4, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for BBC Science & Environment
- Top 1K sites
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- Jul 21, 2026
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The 300-year-old tool helping stranded astronauts get home (opens the original)
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An old seafaring instrument could help astronauts on ever more far-flung and perilous missions. Imagine you're an astronaut flying to Mars. Suddenly, disaster strikes: all your electronic navigation systems fail. How do you find your way back home? For Nasa astronauts, the answer could be a wayfinding tool invented around 300 years ago: the sextant. Used by seafarers on Earth, and astronauts on early Nasa missions, sextants are a last-resort navigation option for missions to the Moon, and potent
'We were all just in awe': A stranding in Ireland sheds new light on the long, slow, ice-cold life of a deep-sea shark (opens the original)
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Some Greenland sharks alive today may have been contemporaries of Shakespeare. With a scarred heart that beats for centuries and eyesight that doesn't fade, this deep-sea shark defies age-related decline. The ocean's dead often wash up on the storm-battered west coast of Ireland. But in April 2026, a group of researchers and volunteers stood on the cloudy shoreline of County Sligo, Ireland, and marvelled at the sight of a species that had never been stranded here before – a dead Greenland shark.
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