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How astronomers find planets by their shadow: the dip in starlight
Most planets around other stars are far too faint to see directly, so astronomers watch the star instead. When a planet crosses its face, a tiny dark disc…
How babies find words in a stream of sound: transitional probabilities
Babies hear speech as one unbroken smear, with no gaps between words, yet somehow they start picking out words long before they can say one. One clue sits in…