The Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching Birds

Click Here to Read: The Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching Birds: Some animals can remember where they’ve buried hundreds of thousands of seeds. Why can’t we remember where we’ve put our eyeglasses? By Matthew Hutson in The New Yorker on December 29, 2024.

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Pluto May Have Captured Its Biggest Moon After an Ancient Dance and Kiss

Click Here to Read: Pluto May Have Captured Its Biggest Moon After an Ancient Dance and Kiss: Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up thre by By Jonathan O’Callaghan in the New York Times on January. 8, 2025.

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