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The Roman Space Telescope is designed to pair a wide field of view with infrared vision sharp enough that its surveys can pick up outer solar system objects, exploding stars and growing black holes while mapping galaxies by the billions

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Aug. 30, 2026, carrying a 300-megapixel infrared camera with a field of view 100 times wider than Hubble's — wide enough to survey outer solar system objects, supernovae, feeding black holes and billions of galaxies in the same frame.

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We tend to think honey spoils like any other food, but sealed jars recovered from Egyptian tombs over 3,000 years old have been reported still edible, preserved by a combination of low water content, natural hydrogen peroxide, and a pH acidic enough to stop bacteria from growing at all

Sealed honey pots recovered from Egyptian tombs have been reported edible after 3,000 years — and the chemistry that makes it possible, from bee-added enzymes to water activity below 0.6, still shapes how modern food scientists and mānuka producers think about preservation.

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In 1665, Robert Hooke sliced a paper-thin sliver of cork, held it under a compound microscope of his own design, and saw rows of tiny empty compartments that reminded him of monks' quarters, giving biology the word 'cell' 174 years before anyone worked out what was actually inside one

How a Royal Society polymath, a leather-tubed microscope, and a sliver of dead bark gave biology its most fundamental word — and why it took 174 years to figure out what was actually inside a living one.

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Why does removing rats and stoats from a scatter of small offshore islands bring back flightless parrots and ground-nesting seabirds that had not bred on the mainland for over a century?

New Zealand's kākāpō population has climbed from 50 birds in the 1990s to over 200 today, entirely because rats, stoats and cats have been eradicated from three small offshore islands — Whenua Hou, Anchor and Chalky. Here's how removing one pressure lets an 80-million-year-old ecosystem reassemble itself.

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How did a treeless volcanic island in the North Atlantic, stripped of its birch forests by Viking axes over a thousand years ago, begin clawing woodland back onto slopes of black ash and wind?

Iceland lost more than 95% of its birch forests after Norse settlement in 874 CE, and now plants three to four million trees a year to claw woodland back onto slopes of volcanic ash. Here's how the soil chemistry, the sheep economy, and a century of forestry are rebuilding the least-forested country in Europe.

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