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By The Artful Age Editorial Team · Sep 17, 2026
We tend to picture Earth's core as a solid ball of iron, but laboratory experiments squeezing molten iron, silicon and…
- Sep 14, 2026 The last time NASA delivered an instrument to Mars designed specifically to detect living microbes was in 1976 By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 11, 2026 Thirty-six and a half seconds after Apollo 12 left the pad on 14 November 1969, lightning travelled through the Saturn… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 7, 2026 In 1974, humans sent their first message to the stars from a radio telescope in Puerto Rico, aimed at a cluster 25,000… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 3, 2026 Mariner 1 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 5:21am on 22 July 1962 carrying no camera By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 29, 2026 The tiny ghost galaxies orbiting the Milky Way are among the oldest and most pristine in the universe, and Hubble… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 27, 2026 In 1950, a Yale professor named Josef Albers began handing his students coloured paper squares instead of paint and… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 25, 2026 When a New Caledonian crow strips a barbed length off a pandanus leaf to fish grubs from a rotting log, it produces a… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 16, 2026 When a child sprinkles iron filings onto a sheet of paper laid over a bar magnet, the tiny slivers stand up and align… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 14, 2026 In 1922, Howard Carter's team lifted a sealed alabaster jar from Tutankhamun's tomb and found paint pigments still… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 13, 2026 In 1903, cousins Edwin Binney and C By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 13, 2026 When a child rolls a ball of air-dry clay too thin at the edges and thick in the middle, the outer rim loses water… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 9, 2026 In 1839, Charles Goodyear accidentally dropped a mixture of rubber and sulfur onto a hot stove and discovered… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 5, 2026 Slide a leaf between two sheets of freezer paper, run a warm iron across the top, and the plastic coating melts into… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 3, 2026 During World War II, chemists at Dow Corning and General Electric independently made a bouncing silicone putty that… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 31, 2026 When a child pours vinegar onto a mound of baking soda in a paper-mache volcano, the acid and base swap partners in… By The Artful Age Editorial Team