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What is Manhattanhenge and when can you see it?

Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers

The Independent UK

'Manhattanhenge' returns: Where and when to see the sun 'kiss the grid' in New York next week

The Instagram-worthy alignment of the setting sun and the streets of Manhattan is about to begin again. The annual spectacle is caused by New York City's gridiron layout.

LiveScience

Best books about space and astronomy 2024

Buckle up: it’s time to have your melon well and truly twisted

Evening Standard

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The James Webb Space Telescope has solved a lot of puzzles, and created a few more

Hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, the 2024 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate surrounded the James Webb Space Telescope's scientific revolution.

Space

Pluto TV will rally to make Pluto a planet again on April 1 (it's no joke)

Pluto may have lost its status as a full-fledged planet in 2006, but that doesn't mean it's a joke of a world this April Fools' Day and the folks behind Pluto TV want to make that clear.

Space

Neil Degrasse Tyson Critiques Dune 2'S Sandworm Physics Inaccuracies

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson critiques sandworm physics in Dune: Part Two, sparking debate on scientific accuracy in fiction.

Top News

The Internet Is Perplexed By JLo’s 'Unhinged' New Visual Album Trailer, And I’m Dying Over These Fan Reactions

The trailer for Jennifer Lopez's This Is Me...Now: A Love Story dropped this week, and fans do not know what to make of the confusing clip.

Cinemablend

The 19 Best Mean Girls Easter Eggs In The Movie Musical

Ok, Mean Girls superfans, it's time to dive into a list of the best nods to the 2004 classic in the 2024 musical revamp.

Cinemablend

Science communicators need to stop telling everybody the universe is a meaningless void

The scientific worldview has made great contributions to humanity’s flourishing. But, as science advances into territory once firmly held by religion – attempting to answer questions about the origins of the universe, life and consciousness – science communication often paints a fairly pessimistic picture of the world.

The Conversation

The dumbing of America: Reagan to Trump

Every Trump tantrum makes headlines, while the actual president's work is ignored. This is Reagan's legacy

Salon

Where Would Barbie Land Be Located If It Existed IRL? A Legit Scientist Has Shared His Theory

No, it wasn’t just a guess. He used ~science~.

Pedestrian.tv

After Seeing Margot Robbie's Barbie, Neil DeGrasse Tyson Thinks He Knows Where Barbieland Is Located

After seeing Barbie, Neil DeGrasse Tyson decided to put his brain to use figuring out where Barbieland is located in the Margot Robbie-led movie.

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Newslaundry

#FreeThePress: Ahead of Modi’s White House visit, full-page ad in WaPo on India’s press freedom issues

Prime minister Narendra Modi is currently in the United States – doing yoga, hanging out with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Elon Musk, gifting Jill Biden a 7.5 carat green diamond, and having crucial dinners and meetings with US president Joe Biden.

The Independent UK

From Elon Musk to Neil deGrasse Tyson: The business and thought leaders set to meet Modi on US visit

Modi says ‘special invitation is a reflection of the vigour and vitality of the partnership between our democracies’

The Guardian - AU

Three things with Adam Spencer: ‘I’m nowhere near an Adonis type but I love to throw some steel’

In our weekly interview about objects, the broadcaster and maths nerd tells us about his ‘favourite toy’

Fortune

A CFO with a background in astrophysics talks about the influence of A.I.

As CFO at Nanotronics, Alice Globus uses her scientific background to support A.I. in manufacturing.

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Reason

How To Use Drugs in Space

It's best to avoid sparking up a doobie on a spaceship, but there are other ways to consume substances in the cosmos.

Benzinga

First He Ruined Pluto Being A Planet, Now Neil deGrasse Tyson Wants To Ruin 2022's Biggest Movie

If you were born before the year 2006, you might remember learning about the nine planets in school. Fast forward to Aug. 24, 2006, and there were only eight planets. An astrophysicist that helped declassify a planet is now trying to ruin the biggest movie of 2022 and its impossible…

The Independent UK

Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick stunt debunked by star astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘He be dead. Very dead,’ science star said of ‘Top Gun’ character’s stunning survival

Tribune News Service

Neil deGrasse Tyson says current billionaire ‘space’ travel doesn’t really qualify as space

Translating science for popular culture isn’t easy and only a handful of people have pulled it off the over the years like Carl Sagan and Bill Nye.

Daily Mirror

Dramatic 'Manhattanhenge' images where sun aligns perfectly with skyscrapers

People flocked to see "Manhattanhenge" in New York where the sunsets in perfect alignment with skyscrapers which only happens four times each year. It has been coined due to its comparison with Stonehenge

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: When is Manhattanhenge? Where can you see it?

There’s still time to catch Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and bathes the urban canyons in a rosy glow

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