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Follow an unexpected subject. Every Thing has its own page, an explanation, and a trail back to the sources.
Space
SaturnSaturn’s hexagon
Around Saturn’s north pole, a jet stream traces an enormous hexagon. The atmosphere has been drawing the same improbable shape for decades.
SaturnEnceladus’s hidden oceanBeneath the frozen surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus lies a global ocean. Material from its interior escapes through fissures near the south pole.
Nature
History
GreeceThe Antikythera mechanism
Recovered from an ancient shipwreck, this corroded mechanism used precisely arranged gears to calculate astronomical cycles.
EuropeThe Voynich manuscriptYale’s Beinecke Library holds an illustrated manuscript written in an unidentified script. Its author and meaning remain debated.