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March 31

• WATCH: How Big Does an Asteroid Need to Be to Wipe Out Manhattan?
• New Holographic Exhibit From NASA And Microsoft Lets You Walk on Mars
• Why Do Some of Us Handle Stress Way Better Than Others? It Could Be The Wiring of Our Brains
• Here's What Happens to a Dead Body at The Bottom of The Sea
• Researchers Have Finally Figured Out How Newts Regenerate Their Limbs
• WATCH: This Is What Happens to an Old-Timey Calculator When You Try to Divide by Zero
• Japan's Building a Giant 'Ice Wall' to Contain The Fukushima Radiation
• Scientists Have Developed 'Transparent Wood' That Can Build Windows, Solar Cells
• The 'World's Biggest Orgy' Is About to Start Again
• Early Hominin Known as 'Hobbits' Became Extinct Much Earlier Than We Thought
• WATCH: The Science of Laser Hair Removal in SLOW MOTION
• Over-Reliance on GPS Could See Us Lose Our Sense of Navigation, Expert Warns
• How Amateur Astronomers Used Backyard Telescopes to Film Jupiter's Collision With a Space Rock

March 30

• This Researcher Thinks a Mysterious Planet X Is Causing Mass Extinctions on Earth
• Stem Cells Have Been Used to Regenerate Damaged Spinal Cords in Rats
• A Vegetarian Diet Could Cause Long-Term Genetic Changes
• Japan Has No Idea What Just Happened to Its $278m Orbiting Satellite
• The Origins of Malaria Have Been Traced to The Age of The Dinosaurs
• This 10-Year-Old Has Built a Prosthetic Arm That Shoots Glitter
• Uganda's Going to Start Jailing Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Their Kids
• Physicists Have Finally Figured Out Why These Massive Ice Discs Start Spinning on Their Own
• Quantum Physics Has Just Been Found Hiding in One of The Most Important Mathematical Models of All Time
• The Death Star's Destruction Would Have Wiped Out The Ewoks, According to Science
• Top Medical Experts Say We Should Decriminalise All Drugs
• NASA Is About to Attach an Inflatable 'Space House' to The ISS
• Your Birth Season Is Stamped on Your DNA And Can Affect Your Risk of Allergies

March 29

• Condom-Free Male Birth Control Just Passed Another Trial, And Could Be on Sale Within 2 Years
• Something Just Smashed Into Jupiter
• Scientists Just 'Rediscovered' a Drug That's Effective Against Two Human Viruses
• Scientists Just Built The Most Promising Quantum Computing Circuit Ever
• This Awesome Interactive Site Lets You Relive The History of Space Exploration
• This Biodegradable, Algae-Based Water Bottle Breaks Down When It's Empty
• 7 Surprising Maps That Prove Your View Across The Ocean Isn't What You Think It Is
• WATCH: What if The Whole World Went Vegetarian?
• Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Militarised Dolphins
• Scientists Have Identified a New Universal Facial Expression Called The 'Not Face'
• This Simple New Technique Could Save Sea Turtles From Fishing Nets
• NASA Just Released This New Hubble Image of Two Galaxy Clusters About to Collide
• Tweaking Our Gut Bacteria Could Help Protect Our Brain From Strokes
• Compounds in Dark Chocolate Can Make You Feel Calmer And More Content, Study Finds
• Physicists Just 'Undiscovered' an Important Metal Compound
• Isaac Newton's Recipe For The Mythical 'Philosopher's Stone' Has Just Been Rediscovered
• What Would Air Travel Be Like on Other Planets?
• Scientists Just Found More Evidence That Planet Nine Exists in Our Solar System
• This Award-Winning Underground 'Skyscraper' Would Sink Central Park

March 28

• What's The Link Between Insomnia And Mental Illness?
• Scientists Just Broke The Record For The Fastest Fibre Optic Data Transfer Ever
• Microsoft's New 'Holoportation' Tech Lets You Jump Into Someone Else's Reality

March 26

• Endangered African Rhinos Are Being Relocated to Australia For Protection Against Poachers
• There's a Worldwide Sugar Shortage Happening Right Now, Thanks to El Niño

March 25

• Saturn's Moons And Rings Could Be Younger Than The Dinosaurs, Study Reveals
• A Major Film Festival Is Premiering a Movie From The Man Who Jump-Started The Anti-Vaccine Hysteria
• Biologists Have Just Created a New Species of Bacteria With Just 437 Genes
• This New Map Is The Most Complete Catalogue of Every Known Thing in Our Sky
• There's an Intact Ancient Virus Lying Dormant in Human DNA
• Edison's Last Breath Lives in a Test Tube in The Henry Ford Museum
• We're Getting Closer Than Ever to Reading The Mysterious Herculaneum Scrolls

March 24

• You Know How When You Learn a New Word, You See It Everywhere? Science Knows Why
• Heat-Assisted Storage Could Give You 10x More Space on Your Computer's Drive
• A Novel Written by AI Passes The First Round in a Japanese Literary Competition
• This Japanese Diet Has Been Linked to a 15% Reduction in Mortality
• This German Invention Puts an Actual Mini Farm at The End of Your Supermarket Aisle
• Good News: Scientists Have Found Corals That Might Actually Survive Climate Change
• This Open-Access Picture Book From The '70s Shows How Glorious The Space Race Really Was
• Astronomers Have Observed The Most "Outrageously Luminous" Galaxies Ever
• These Three Factors Explain Why US Men Have a Shorter Life Expectancy
• This Time-Lapse Shows The Sun Only Rises Due East Two Days a Year
• Why Won't This Damn Balloon Pop After Being Skewered by an Arrow?
• Scientists Are Developing an Ultrasensitive 'Biosniffer' to Detect Diseases on Your Breath
• Self-Cleaning Clothes Are Actually on The Horizon
• WATCH: Take This Hearing Test to See How Old Your Ears Are
• 3 Billion Years Ago, Our Moon Had a Different North Pole
• This $99 Device Transforms Any Smartphone Into a 3D Printer
• A Brain Parasite Has Been Linked to an Increased Risk of Rage Disorder
• WATCH: The Tricks You Can Do With These Next-Gen Magnets Look Like Magic
• NASA Just Released New, Ultra-Clear Images of Ceres' Mysterious Bright Spots

March 23

• Massive Solar Storms Are Triggering Jupiter's Amazing 'Northern Lights'
• A Hydrogen Car Just Set The Record For The World's Longest Continuous Journey
• Every 11-Year-Old in Britain Is Getting a Free Mini Computer
• Scientists Have Identified The Molecules Most Capable of Fighting Prostate Cancer
• Just Looking at Photos of Nature Could Be Enough to Lower Your Work Stress Levels
• Only 2.7% of US Adults Meet All Four Science-Backed Criteria For a Healthy Lifestyle
• Pharaoh Ramesses III Had His Throat Cut And Toe Hacked Off by Multiple Assassins, New CT Scans Reveal
• These Are The 10 Cities With The Worst Air Pollution in The World
• Bill Gates Is Backing a Waterless Toilet That Generates Energy From Human Waste
• Physicists Have Finally Solved a Key Mystery in How Hydrogen Bonding Works
• XKCD Comics Will Soon Be Featured in High School Science And Engineering Textbooks
• NASA Thinks It's Found a Frozen Lake on Pluto's Surface
• There's Way Too Much Human Faeces on Mount Everest, Experts Have Warned
• This Unit of Measurement Figures Out How Likely You Are to Die Today
• This Common Bacterium Grows 60% Better in Space Than on Earth
• The World's Smallest Rhino Has Just Been Sighted in Borneo For First Time in 40 Years
• Australia's Spending $3.3 Million to Study 'Wind Turbine Sickness' – Despite No Evidence It Exists

March 22

• Scientists Have Invented a New Type of Metal to Make Nuclear Reactors Stronger And Safer
• Last Time Carbon Emissions Were This High, The Dinosaurs Went Extinct
• NASA Scientists Say We Could Colonise The Moon by 2022… For Just $10 Billion
• DNA Test Reveals That Vietnamese Twins Have Two Different Fathers
• This Interactive Graph Shows How Your Parents' Career Choices End Up Affecting Yours
• Scientists Just Discovered a Black Hole That's Blasting The Fastest 'Space Wind' in The Known Universe
• Two Chinese Poachers Have Been Jailed For 30 Years After Slaughtering 226 Elephants
• We All Carry The Genes For Autism, Study Finds
• WATCH: Guy Gets a Biopsy of His Thigh to Figure Out What Human Flesh Tastes Like
• Scientists Have Removed HIV From Human Immune Cells Using a New Gene-Editing Technique
• Interactive Body Map: What Really Gives You Cancer?
• A Lunar Eclipse Is Coinciding With a Super-Bright Jupiter Tomorrow

March 21

• Silicon 'Nano-Balls' Have Wiped Out Metastatic Breast Cancer in Mice
• Scientists Have Seen The Shockwave From a Star's Collapsing Core For The First Time
• Flash of Light Alerts Astronomers to The Strangest Planetary Orbit Ever Observed
• WATCH: What Happens When You Try to Fold Paper More Than 7 Times With a Hydraulic Press?
• A Patient Has 'Caught' a Kiwi Fruit Allergy From a Bone Marrow Transplant
• 4 Things You Can Actually Learn While You Sleep
• Evidence of a New Particle That Could Break The Standard Model of Physics Is Mounting
• A College Student Has 3D-Printed His Own Braces For Less Than $60
• Two Comets Will Make The Closest Flyby of Earth in Decades This Week
• Dark Matter Might Be Made of Super-Heavy Particles Almost as Big as Human Cells

March 20

• Astronomers Just Discovered a New Type of Galaxy Called 'Super Spirals'
• Something Rare Happened in 2000, And We're Getting The Earliest Spring Since 1896 as a Result

March 18

• The Massive Meteor That Just Shot Over The UK Was One of The Brightest Ever Seen
• Scientists Discover an on/Off Switch For Sperm That Could Lead to Better Male Contraceptives
• This New Urine-Based Fuel Cell Puts Your Liquid Waste to Good Use
• This New Capsule Implant Releases Antibodies to Fight Alzheimer's Disease
• New Quantum Computer Device Takes Advantage of a Loophole in Causality
• This New Technique Allows Scientists to Inject Healthy Nerve Cells Into Damaged Brains
• Astronomers Have Observed a Black Hole Flashing Red With The Energy of 1,000 Suns
• The World's Oldest Message in a Bottle Spent 108 Years at Sea For a Critical Science Experiment
• Scientists Have Isolated 6 Natural Compounds That Could Help Us Slow Down Ageing
• Scientists Have Grown a First-of-Its-Kind Functional Heart Muscle From Stem Cells
• Learning Complex Tasks Breaks Down Barriers in Our Brains, Say Scientists
• A Mysterious Disease Is Killing People in Wisconsin
• The UK Just Announced a Tax on Sugar – And It's Scary News For Coca-Cola And Pepsi
• Scientists Want to Turn Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp Into a Marine Research Lab
• New Evidence of Secret Chambers in Tutankhamun's Tomb Hints at Royal Treasures

March 17

• Seaworld Just Ended All of Its Captive Orca Breeding Programs – Here's Why It Took So Long
• Russia Has a Crazy Plan to Fly to Mars in 45 Days Using Nuclear Power
• This Neuroscientist Is Figuring Out How to Harness The Enormous Potential of The Unconscious Mind
• This Map Estimates Which US Cities Face The Highest Risk From Zika Virus
• An English Professor Just Won $700,000 For Solving a 379-Year-Old Maths Problem
• This Time in 2009, a Bat Hitched a Ride on The Space Shuttle Discovery
• Cities Are Paying People to Ditch Their Cars And Bike to Work Instead
• Even Geckos Might Not Be Able to Survive Global Warming, Say Scientists
• Scientists Use Light to Reactivate Lost Memories in Mice With Alzheimer's Symptoms
• Here's Why You're So Terrible at Rock-Paper-Scissors
• Researchers Inject Dengue Into Vaccinated Volunteers And Find 100% Were Protected
• China Is Responsible For Approx. 10% of Climate Change, Says New Study
• Scientists Have Just Thawed a 12,400-Year-Old Puppy Found in Russian Permafrost
• WATCH: Is It Healthy to Shave Your Pubes?
• The World Happiness Index 2016 Just Ranked The Happiest Countries on Earth
• What Exactly Is Consciousness, And Can We Replicate It?

March 16

• Scientists Get Their First Glimpse at How New Memories Are Born
• The World's First Solar-Powered Airport Is No Longer Paying For Electricity
• NASA Plans to Start a "Large-Scale" Fire in Space by Setting an Unmanned Spacecraft Alight
• A Devastating 'Double-Fault' Earthquake Could Be in Store For California, Warns Expert
• This Is Our Closest Look Ever at The Biological Motors That Power Bacteria
• Scientists Are Developing The World's Biggest Wind Turbine
• WATCH: A McDonald's Big Mac Is "Indestructible" When Covered in Molten Copper
• Italy's About to Pass a Law to Encourage Supermarkets to Give Unsold Food to Charity
• Scientists Have Discovered Mysterious 'Fairy Circles' in The Australian Outback
• Group of Biologists Bypasses Journals And Uploads Their Work Straight to The Internet
• 6 of The Most Beautiful Solar Farms in The World

March 15

• This Painful Video Shows What It Was Like to Send an Email in 1984
• Rare Single Gene Mutation Increases Risk of Schizophrenia 35-Fold
• 'Invisibility Cloaks' For Military Tech Could Breach Geneva Conventions, Says Expert
• How Do Airline Pilots Beat Jetlag?
• Why Science Says Having a Younger Sibling Can Be Really Good For You
• Here's Why You Shouldn't Schedule 'Fun', According to Science
• This Company Recycles Cigarette Butts And Turns Them Into Plastic
• 10 Workspaces of Some of The Greatest Minds in Science
• NASA's Developing a Decelerator That Would Replace Parachutes in Space Vessels
• Too Many Hot Nights Will Leave You Feeling Like You're Battling a Hangover
• This Glorious Map Helps You Keep Track of Every Space Mission in The Solar System
• What Your Parents Ate Before You Were Born Might Affect Your Risk of Obesity And Diabetes
• Scientists Have Created a Painless Patch That Can Control Diabetes Without Injections
• This Computer Simulation Accurately Recreates 350 Million Light-Years of Our Universe
• August Babies Are More Likely to Be Diagnosed With ADHD Than Those Born in September
• Mathematicians Have Discovered a Strange Pattern Hiding in Prime Numbers
• The Oldest Human Genome Ever Has Been Sequenced, And It Could Rewrite Our History

March 14

• The Incredible Life And Times of Albert Einstein
• Scientists Are Closer Than Ever to a Single Antidote For 28 Common Snakebite Venoms
• This New Plane Will Make The First Ever Carbon-Free Flight Across The Atlantic
• This Spray-on Coating Could Ice-Proof Everything From Aeroplanes to Power Lines
• A Forensic Lab Tech Caught Fabricating Results Casts Doubt on Almost 8,000 Criminal Cases
• Scientists Have Grown 'Dinosaur Legs' on a Chicken For The First Time
• 6 Science Podcasts You Need to Be Listening to Right Now
• Pi And Its Role in The "Most Beautiful Formula in Mathematics"
• This New Patch Uses Noise-Cancelling Technology to Silence Snores
• For Every Sexist Email This Student Gets, She Adds a Woman Scientist to Wikipedia
• An Ice Shelf Twice The Size of Manhattan Is About to Break Off From Antarctica
• Researchers Have Built The Most Complex Light-Based Quantum Computer Chip Ever
• Our Next Mission to Mars Launches TODAY

March 13

• Astronomers Discover The Biggest Object in The Universe So Far – The BOSS Great Wall

March 11

• A New Study Will Figure Out if Cats Pick Up The Dialects of Their Owners
• Scientists Think They've Pinpointed Where Bullying Starts in The Brain
• Teaching Children Philosophy Can Improve Their Reading And Math Skills, Study Finds
• Nutrient Drink Helps Protect Memory in Early Alzheimer's Patients, Study Finds
• The Robots Sent Into Fukushima Have 'Died'
• WATCH: This Is What Tuesday's Solar Eclipse Looked Like From a Plane Window
• These Newly Discovered Bacteria Can Help Prevent Cavities, And Scientists Want to Put Them in a Pill
• Combination of Drugs "Dramatically" Shrinks Breast Cancer in Just 11 Days
• 8 Awesome Science Resources That You Can Access For Free Online
• Scientists Identify a Virus And Two Bacteria That Could Be Causing Alzheimer's
• WATCH: Disabling IPhone Animations Can Actually Speed Up Your Device
• WATCH: Could You Eat a Bus, According to Science?

March 10

• This Is The Clearest Picture Yet of What Could Be an Ageing Star's Planet-Forming Dust
• Scientists Just Discovered Plastic-Eating Bacteria That Can Break Down PET
• A "Revolutionary" New Treatment Could Allow Kidney Transplants From Any Donor
• This New Biosensor Can Diagnose Cancer And Other Diseases on The Spot
• WATCH: Goodyear Unveils The Future of Tyres, With Spherical, Maglev Wheels
• WATCH: The Terrifying Physics of Teleporting Humans
• This Bus Will Give Thousands of Homeless People Somewhere Safe to Sleep
• A Canadian Province Is About to Start Trialling Universal Basic Income
• How Much You Earn Could Be Affecting Your Genes
• Alan Alda Has a Message For You About Science Communication
• Google's AI Makes History, Beating World-Class Go Grandmaster
• A Group of Scientists Plans on Paying Young Women $900 to Eat Genetically Modified Bananas
• Scientists Found a New Spider in Australia That Can Swim And Catch Fish
• Who (or What) Drives a Driverless Car?
• Scientists Have Improved Vision in Babies With Cataracts Using Stem Cells
• This New Code Makes Websites Load 34% Faster in Any Browser
• New LHC Results Suggest There's a Flaw in The Standard Model of Physics
• Meet The Hydra, an Animal That Rips Itself a New Mouth Every Time It Eats

March 9

• Getting Multiple Tattoos Can Strengthen Your Immune System
• These Haunting Photos Show What's Left of America's Space Race
• Happiness Can Break Your Heart Too, Scientists Find
• Blue Origin Plans to Launch Humans Into Space by 2017
• Here's How Occasional Fasting Could Actually Be Good For You
• You Can Now Sequence Your Entire Genome For Under $1,000
• We May Have Found The 'Achilles Heel' of Cancer
• Samsung Is Now Shipping The "World's Largest" Hard Drive
• Science Finds 'Aha!' Moments Are Better Than Slow, Analytical Thinking
• Guys, It's Time to Stop Using 'Statistical Significance' as The Mark of Important Research
• This New Facility Is Turning Exhaust Fumes Into Liquid Fuel
• The FCC Is Planning a Monthly Subsidy to Make The Internet Affordable For Low-Income Americans
• A Screening Test For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is Ready For The Public
• Tomatoes, Peas, And 8 Other Crops Have Been Grown in Mars-Equivalent Soil

March 8

• New Mathematical Model Maps The Expansion of The Early Universe Better Than Ever Before
• A Few Nights of Bad Sleep Can Be as Unhealthy as No Sleep at All
• These 6 Women Were Written Out of Tech History
• 10 Inspiring Scientists You Should Have Heard About, But Probably Haven't
• Scientists Grow a 'Person on a Chip' – Living Human Tissues on a Mini 3D Structure
• This Is The Fastest Hydrogen-Powered Car Ever Designed, And It Looks Awesome
• WATCH: A Huge Albino Whale Just Appeared Off The Coast of Mexico
• Watch: Meet Nadine, The 'emotionally Intelligent' Companion Robot
• Scientists Are About to Drill Into The Dinosaur-Killing Impact Crater For The First Time
• In The 1800s, Doctors Prescribed Beards to Help "Filter Air"
• This New Urn Uses Cremation Ashes to Grow a Tree
• WATCH: Something Crazy Happens When You Add Molten Salt to Water

March 7

• The World's Oldest Chameleon Was Just Uncovered in a 99-Million-Year-Old Amber Fossil
• Statistics Show Half of All Inventions Happen by Accident
• Norway's Spending US$1 Billion on Bike Highways to Become Carbon Neutral by 2050
• This New Material Pulls Clean Drinking Water Straight Out of The Air
• This Interactive Map Reveals Every Nuclear Detonation Since 1945
• This Could Be The Jetpack We've All Been Dreaming About
• A River of Trash Is Flowing Through Beirut
• Scientists Say They've Finally Figured Out The Identity of Banksy
• Scientists Have Developed Early Stage Human Embryonic Stem Cells For The First Time
• More Evidence Show That Feeding Kids Peanuts Before They Turn 1 Could Prevent Allergies
• These 'Sea-Nomad' Children Can See Underwater Like Dolphins

March 6

• WATCH: The World's Blackest Material Just Got Even More Black
• For The First Time, Mac Users Have to Worry About Malware That Locks Their Computer And Demands a Ransom

March 4

• Researchers Think They've Just Found a New Kind of Stem Cell
• Explorers Might Have Just Stumbled Upon an Adorable New Octopus Species
• Tiny, Artificial Trees Could Form The Next Generation of Windmills
• Here's How to Get The Best Wi-Fi Signal in Your House
• Scientists Find Regular Aspirin Use Lowers Overall Cancer Risk
• Scientists Have Finally Found a Way to Control Electrons in Action
• Scientists Are Freaking Out Over a New Paper That Says Our Hands Were Designed by God

March 3

• Here's Why Astronaut Scott Kelly Grew 5 Cm During His Year in Space
• A Material That's Better Than Graphene? Scientists Say They've Found It
• Always Switched on: What Years of Multitasking Does to Our Brains
• New Study Reveals How Too Much Stress Could Be Destroying Your Brain
• 9 Science Words That Even Smart People Get Wrong
• A Former Coal Mine Has Been Turned Into a Walkable Representation of The Universe
• This Futuristic 'Vertical Village' Is Like a Jungle Stretching 36 Storeys Into The Sky
• What We Know Affects Our Visual Perception of The World, Study Finds
• Thousands of Ancient Egyptian Texts Have Just Been Deciphered, Revealing Hangover Cures And Death Notes
• At 440 Million Years Old, This Fungus Is The Earliest Land-Based Life Ever Found
• The Future of The Xbox Could Mean The End of The Games Console as We Know It
• Study Finds That Chronic Stress Really Does Spread Cancer in The Body
• Scientists Have Developed The World's First Living, Breathing Supercomputer
• You Can Now 3D Print The World's Lightest Material – Graphene Aerogel
• Mysterious Repeating Radio Signals Have Been Detected Coming From Outside Our Galaxy
• WATCH: This Is Exactly What Happens When You Die

March 2

• One of The World's Newest Atom Smashers Just Hit a Major Milestone
• 10 Weird Things You Never Knew About The Ocean's Deepest Places
• Depression Affects Your Whole Body, Not Just Your Mind, New Evidence Confirms
• Scientists Say They've Figured Out The Best Way to Find Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life
• First Evidence Surfaces That Zika Could Cause a Severe Neurological Disorder
• NASA's Designing a Passenger Jet That'll Break The Sound Barrier WITHOUT The Boom
• This Device Turns Plastic Waste Into Safe, Edible Mushrooms
• First Drug For Huntington's Disease Proves Safe And Effective in Mice And Monkeys
• Here's Why You Subconsciously Assume Prettier People Are More Intelligent
• Doctors Could Soon Cut Out Prostate Cancer More Accurately Than Ever Before
• Scientists Claim They've Invented a Matrix-Style Device That Instantly Uploads Skills to Your Brain
• The World's Biggest Source of Freshwater Is Beneath Your Feet
• A Total Solar Eclipse Is Coming on March 8-9 – Here's What You Need to Know
• Scientists Have Finally Identified The Gene Involved in Turning Hair Grey

March 1

• 8 Facts About The Scientific Mystery That Affects Only 10% of The Population
• The World's Pollinators Are Dying Out, And All Our Favourite Foods Could Go With Them
• Would You Trust a Malfunctioning Robot in an Emergency? These People Did
• These New Quantum Dot Crystals Could Replace Silicon in Super-Fast, Next-Gen Computers
• Why Men Get Stomach Aches When They're Hit in The Groin, According to Science
• What Would Happen if We Abolished Time Zones For Real?
• LIVE STREAM: Scott Kelly Is About Return to Earth After a Year in Space
• WATCH: Scott Kelly Gives Us All The Feels as He Hands Over Control of The Space Station
• This Nanometre-Thick Graphene Film Is The Most Light-Absorbent Material Ever Created
• Super-Rare 'Dragon Eggs' Are About to Hatch in a Slovenian Cave
• A Russian Satellite Could Soon Be The Brightest 'Star' in The Night Sky
• An Asteroid The Size of a Basketball Court Will Approach Earth This Week