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The world’s smallest snowman is only 2.7 microns tall (for comparison, a human hair is 75 microns thick). To create it, scientists stacked 3 tiny silica spheres, added a nose and arms made of platinum, and cut the eyes and mouth with a focused ion beam. Source

After 40 years, scientists may have solved the mystery of the “Wow!” space signal

In August of 1977, a group of astronomers examining radio transmissions in Ohio received a mysterious signal from an unknown source.

Shocked by its incredible length — 72 seconds — one scientist scribbled “Wow!” next to the recording, inadvertently giving the unusual communication a nickname that would last decades.

Now, after 40 years of grappling with possible explanations for the Wow! signal — which even include the possibility of aliens — scientists at the Center for Planetary Science have finally solved the puzzle.

A comet unknown to researchers in the 1970s likely caused the signal, and researchers were able to test that theory in a recent fly-by. Read more (6/8/17)

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Giant squids might be even bigger than we realized

According to research from Charles Paxton, fisheries ecologist and statistician at Scotland’s University of St. Andrews, published in the Journal of Zoology this month, the giant squid could grow to reach as much as 65 feet. But even that is a “conservative analysis,” as size could protect against their #1 predator.

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The Magnus Effect - When a small amount of spin is added to a dropped object, the object moves forward

A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help with his luggage. He says, “No, I’m traveling light.”

Saturn aurora, taken by Nasa Hubble.

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DIY organization Autonomous Space Agency Network just sent a Trump protest 90,000 feet in the air. And it didn’t even cost that much to do it.