Pessimists fear that the church will never change: after all, it only pardoned Gallileo for being right about the earth revolving around the sun ten years ago.

ECONOMIST: Show us the way, Lord | The

Start in the morning: It takes ten hours of direct sun to fully juice it.

FORBES: Off the Grid But in the Game

With the ability to fully charge in ten hours via the sun, or in seven hours by way of the Micro-USB DC input, BoostSolar includes a standard USB port for charging any of your mobile devices.

ENGADGET: Eton adds BoostSolar to its charging lineup, instantly pleases George Harrison (hands-on)

Yet Robert Forward, one of the committee's members, has suggested a way to squeeze even more thrust from such a sail: by passing ten times closer to the sun.

ECONOMIST: Rockets are not the only way to travel through outer space

Viewed from a distance of ten light-years, the sun's side-to-side wobble due to Jupiter causes its position to change by 1.6 thousandths of an arcsecond.

ECONOMIST: A roadmap for planet-hunting

"Our conditions are ten times the temperature and ten times the density of the sun, and we're getting there in billionths of a second, " says John Lindl, NIF's chief scientist.

FORBES: A Nuclear Hybrid

Viewed from ten light-years away, the sun's side-to-side astrometric wobble due to the effect of the earth is just one millionth of an arcsecond, or a twentieth of the tiniest angle that the Keck will be able to measure.

ECONOMIST: A roadmap for planet-hunting

Of Britain's ten national daily newspapers, only two (the Sun and the Times) are cheerleaders for identity cards.

ECONOMIST: Identity cards

The cloth is washed in hot water and massaged with the feet, after which the wet fabric is placed on the snow-covered fields for ten to twenty days to be lightened by the sun and the ozone released by the snow s evaporation.

UNESCO: Culture

Some think that the ten-kilometre meteorite that created it threw so much dust into the atmosphere that it blotted out the sun and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

ECONOMIST: The ultimate environmental catastrophe