• If you haven’t discovered Summer Ash, do so. Or, consider the physics of your morning coffee, an exoplanet extravaganza from Kepler, or maybe the oldest known piece of planet Earth (and other notes).
• What do you get when you cross Bill Nye, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and President Barack Obama? I don’t know, but it sure is smart ….
• Disordered hyperuniformity: You’ll never look at a chicken the same way again.
• Two words: blue lava.
• What does the number 915,103,765 have to do with LEGO bricks?
• Cosmic spiders? Not quite, but black widow binaries are still pretty scary.
• Every cloud has a silver lining, and really bad weather helps us find things we’ve lost.
• The question on everyone’s minds: What is a dropleton?
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