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THE RACE is on. Rafael Nadal (pictured) and Roger Federer, the two men who dominated men’s tennis from 2005-10, have enjoyed a startling resurgence in 2017, splitting the year’s four grand-slam titles. Mr Federer picked up his wins at the Australian Open (where he defeated Mr Nadal in a five-set final) and Wimbledon, while his long-time rival paired his tenth French Open crown with this year’s US Open title. Mr Nadal cruised to the championship in New York, dropping only one set in his last four... Читать дальше...

Americans have started picking up the piecesand racking up the billsin Florida.

Amy Klinkhammer, Discover
After more than a century, a mysterious shorthand message exhumed from the archives is confounding scientists and historical societies alike.In the winter of 1903, upon returning from his very first Antarctic expedition, Sir Ernest Shackleton found himself in need of a job. He applied for a secretary position within the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS), an organization responsible for introducing the latest and most innovative technologies. Among them at the time: the telephone.

Andrew Masterson, Cosmos Magazine
Even if it were possible to reach the planet known as WASP-19b which it isn't, being 800 light years away it would be most unpleasant place to visit.Some of the reasons for this are obvious. WASP-19b is a hot Jupiter, large and so close to its parent star that a single orbit takes just 19 hours. Measurements taken by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Germany have established its atmospheric temperature at 2000 degrees Celsius.

Chelsea Wald, Nature News
On the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda, septic trucks full of human excrement bump and slosh their way up orange dirt roads to their final destination: the Nduba landfill. Until recently, the trucks would spill their contents into giant open pits. But since 2015, workers in green jumpsuits have greeted them outside a row of sheds and plastic-roofed greenhouses, ready to process the faecal sludge into a dry, powdery fuel.

Robert Service, Science News
The first day of Mary Schweitzer's 2017 dinosaur hunt isn't going well. The team has been searching under the high summer sun without success for the fossil-rich strata that braid through the arid rangeland here. Then, toward sundown, the aging Chevy Suburban in which she and four colleagues are riding erupts in a brief, poltergeist-like spectaclewith door locks jumping up and down and multiple dashboard warning lights flashing simultaneously. Finally, the car gives up the ghost and stops completely.

Daniel Whiteson, Aeon Magazine
If you could fast-forward some 1,000 years and peek into a college science textbook from the year 3000, what would you see? I doubt you'd find many of our current theories still in there. Today, the Standard Model of particle physics and Albert Einstein's general relativity seem like twin pinnacles of human intellectual achievement. Tomorrow, they might be cast into history's dustbin, relegated to mere footnotes alongside old ideas about the Earth-centred solar system and the deterministic Universe. Читать дальше...

Mika McKinnon, NewScientist
After an 8.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coast of Mexico on 7 September, videos of fuzzy green smears in the night sky went viral online.Earthquake lights are a phenomenon so unusual that they border on myth. The first known reports of them are from 89 BC, with spotty descriptions over the centuries.

HBO's "Game of Thrones" has shot its way up the list of TV shows with the most Emmy Award wins.

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Millennium Tower is a luxury residential high-rise in San Francisco that has sunk 18 inches and tilted 14 inches toward the north-west.

Millennium Tower is a luxury residential high-rise in San Francisco that has sunk 17 inches and tilted 14 inches. Here's what we know about its fate.

Atheists behave 'impartially toward ingroup and outgroup partners,' while Christians demonstrate 'an ingroup bias'

Yes, at $999 it's Apple's most expensive iPhone to date, but for a perfect picture we think a lot of people will be sold

Now psychologists say 2-year-olds know they are transgender.

Dunelm set itself a £2 billion sales target on Wednesday as the homewares retailer sought to move on from the shock exit of boss John Browett.

Beyond the EU institutions, the capital of Alsace offers the perfect blend of sophistication and charm

For 13 days, Race reporter Tarquin Cooper followed the race from start to finish, chasing athletes from Salzburg’s cobbled streets to the sandy shores of the Mediterranean, via a few crazy hairpin bends and some steep mountain ascents. Below, he shares so