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• A quote attributed to Robert Frost has been circulating in offices around the world for decades and remains unsettling for one reason: his explanation of when the brain stops thinking has lost none of its power
• For the first time, humanity significantly altered the orbit of a celestial body
• A colleague sent Olga a strange photo taken on a Russian beach, and now scientists believe they have discovered a macabre pattern among orcas: sometimes they hunt each other
• NASA observes Argentina from the International Space Station and detects a gigantic pink heart nearly 10 kilometers wide, whose color does not have as romantic an origin as it seems
• Goodbye to the 24-hour day: from this date onwards, days on Earth will last 25 hours
• Scientists extract a bacterium over 5,000 years old from the ice and discover something disturbing: it was already resistant to ten modern antibiotics long before our medicine existed
• Ian Emmanuel, molecular biologist at age 12, on his school: “They told me I had attention deficit disorder”
• A form of life has been detected in Chernobyl that not only resists radiation, but seems to use it to grow
• Farewell to the harbor lights: light pollution could wipe out 40% of the world’s puffin population