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56 dispatches

4 April – 24 September 2026 · closed archive

Fifty-four dispatches, then the desk went quiet.

Science filed every weekday for seven weeks — a rift crossing an Antarctic shelf, a feathered dinosaur's tail in amber, Cassini's last orbits, 160 new species out of the Mekong. Nothing has been added since. It is kept exactly as it was filed.

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Powerful crack in Antarctic glacier — filed 25 April 2022

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Every dispatch, by the day it was filed

56 dispatches over 36 publishing days. Weekends were never filed.

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A dozen of these fifty-four dispatches are about spacecraft — Cassini's last orbits, Dawn's images of Ceres, the Trace Gas Orbiter's first look at Mars. All of them quietly assume something the reports never spell out: nobody drives a probe. You send an instruction and you wait.

  • One-way time, and the round trip you actually wait
  • A range, not one number — the planets keep moving
  • Any distance you like, in kilometres
  • Nothing is sent anywhere; the sum runs on your device

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