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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Click Here to Read: The Secret to a Better City Is a Two-Wheeler: E-bikes get cars off the road and reduce pollution—and that’s only part of why places like Denver are giving them away. by Clive Thompson in Mother Jones in the January+February 2025 Issue
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Click Here to Read: How AI is unlocking ancient text —and could rewrite history: From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries By Jo Marchant on the Nature website on December 30, 2024.
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