Earth
How the stunning Earthrise became the world鈥檚 most famous photograph
On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 became the first crewed spacecraft to circle the moon. Emerging from its dark side, one astronaut reached for his camera
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Technology
From the archives: How LaserDiscs (almost) took the world by storm
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Wine breathing
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Flight of fantasy
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Life size
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Earth
Dan Holdsworth captures a vanishing landscape in a point-cloud
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Feedback: The President of Nigeria is (almost certainly) not a clone
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Life
3000-year-old woman’s mummy found in tomb from the time of Tutankhamun
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Feedback: How can we make the men in green more, er, green?
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Counted out
I remember being told that when you see a flash of lightning and start counting until you hear the thunderclap, the number you have counted to will amount to the number of miles distant the storm is. Is this true? If not, is there any way of calculating the distance based on the observed time difference between lightning and thunder?
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Fab sprouts
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Fleece police
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Feedback: Spirit guides have spoken, and they say more juice
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Ski slope catwalk
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