鈻� Slow walkers
The UK鈥檚 Ordnance Survey is to recalculate how long walking routes take. Its Victorian-era formula currently generates times that are unrealistically fast for many hikers.
鈻� Patient physicists
The radioactive decay of xenon-124 has been observed. With a half-life of a trillion times the age of the universe, it makes watching paint dry an extreme sport.
鈻� Donald Trump
In other rare news, the US president has come out in favour of science. He declared 鈥渧accinations are so important鈥� in response to US measles outbreaks.
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鈻� Russian whale
A whale wearing a harness marked 鈥淓quipment of St Petersburg鈥� may have been trained by the Russian navy. Or perhaps it just liked visiting cathedrals?
鈻� Asteroid Ryugu
Japan confirmed it had blasted a hole in asteroid Ryugu, going a small way to avenging the dinosaurs.
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