They tried all day to get back on the right road, but soon it became night time and they were still lost. They decided to pull into a hotel and hit the hay.
In 1891 this promise was fulfilled and Marie went to Paris and began to study at the Sorbonne (the University of Paris). She often worked far into the night and lived on little more than bread and butter and tea.
Bedbugs feed at night, crawling out of hiding from a mattress or a chair. They stick you with a snout that injects an anticoagulant, and then snort up your blood.
All night, every time you breathe out, carbon atoms take off into the night air. Each carbon atom weighs a tiny fraction of a gram. But every breath expels roughly ten billion trillion atoms, so you wake up a pound lighter.
Bedbugs feed at night, crawling out of hiding from a mattress or a chair. They stick you with a snout that injects an anticoagulant, and then snort up your blood.
All night, every time you breathe out, carbon atoms take off into the night air. Each carbon atom weighs a tiny fraction of a gram. But every breath expels roughly ten billion trillion atoms, so you wake up a pound lighter.
But why bother? Given that the night sky is full of bright galaxies, why do astronomers build telescopes manufactured to a billionth of a metre accuracy, just to see faint ones? The answer is about looking back in time.
Our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are destined to collide! This illustration shows what the night sky might look like in 3.75 billion years.
You could say that nights in Cairo are electric. Midnight comes and goes, but men and women still haggle with shop owners, merchants hawk their wares, and waiters serve coffee and juice to their 24-hour clientele.
You could say that nights in Cairo are electric. Midnight comes and goes, but men and women still haggle with shop owners, merchants hawk their wares, and waiters serve coffee and juice to their 24-hour clientele.