The best sentences we read today

-- "Roughly one in every five sunlike stars is orbited by a potentially habitable, Earth-size planet, meaning that the universe has abundant real estate that could be congenial to life."

-- "A recent survey of marine plastic debris found something surprising: Nearly 99% of it was missing."

-- "A Museum of Science Fiction could become a reality in D.C. within the next few years."

-- "“By the mid-’60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas."

-- "The former Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, S.D., has a hallowed place in the history of physics as a spot where nothing happens."

Brad Plumer
Brad Plumer covers energy and environmental issues, which ends up including just about everything from climate change to agriculture to urban policy and transportation. Follow him on Twitter at @bradplumer. Email him here.