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Modern phones see in the dark by cheating time. When the shutter button is tapped, the camera has already been quietly stacking frames — and the picture that appears is a composite the software built while the finger was still on the glass.

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Every colour on a screen is a controlled hallucination. Displays emit only red, green and blue light because the human retina has just three cone types to fool, and hitting them in the right ratio produces every hue the brain can name.

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Launched in 1977 on a four-year mission to Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 is now the most distant human-made object — and the plutonium batteries keeping it alive weaken by roughly four watts a year.

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Deleting a file rarely destroys anything. The operating system unlinks the reference and marks the space as available, but the actual bytes remain on the disk until something else happens to overwrite them.

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A new University of Houston-led institute has been awarded roughly $20 million to study whether the thousands of ageing structures dotting the Gulf of Mexico can be given a second working life instead of being cut up and hauled away.

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