YEARS that an experimental camera in Tucson, Arizona, will take to capture one long-exposure image. If all goes as planned, the Millennium Camera will record how the desert landscape changes from now until 3023.
Source: University of Arizona
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YEARS that an experimental camera in Tucson, Arizona, will take to capture one long-exposure image. If all goes as planned, the Millennium Camera will record how the desert landscape changes from now until 3023.
Source: University of Arizona
$1,780
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PRICE at auction in January for a 285-year-old lemon (right) found in the back of a cabinet drawer in England. The lemon was inscribed with a message that included the date: November 4, 1739.
Source: UPI
20
NUMBER of previously unknown poems and stories likely written by Little Women author Louisa May Alcott that were recently discovered. The 19th-century author often wrote under pseudonyms.
Source: Associated Press