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Powerful X-Rays Could Save Earth From An Asteroid Collision, A Bizarre New Simulation Suggests
inverse.com

How Ben Franklin and Lord Rayleigh used little more than oil and water to calculate a molecule’s size
atomsonly.news

The MAD Computer Program
meatfighter.com

The Quest to Build a Telescope on the Moon
newyorker.com • (see also)

Foraging for America’s Forgotten Fruit
atlasobscura.com

The Russian Bot Army That Conquered Online Poker
bloomberg.com • Mirror

Tugboat powered by ammonia sails for the first time, showing how to cut emissions from shipping
apnews.com

Pearl Street, Niagara Falls and the war of the currents: The eccentric beginnings of New York’s bright lights
bbc.com • (see also)

‘Places to heal, not to harm’: why brutal prison design kills off hope
theguardian.com

Cat lost in Yellowstone travels 800 miles to reunite with owners after two months
theguardian.com

Lost Biblical tree resurrected from 1,000-year-old mystery seed found in the Judean Desert
livescience.com • (see also)

‘Butterfly Emergency’ Declared, After the UK’s Record-Low Butterfly Count
vice.com

Ernest Duchesne: The Forgotten Discoverer of Penicillin
amusingplanet.com

CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December
arstechnica.com

Video: A cup of coffee that’s both hot and cold in the same sip [18:22]
youtube.com

Mixed emotions – neuroscience is exploring how your brain lets you experience two opposite feelings at once
theconversation.com

Video: How Kodak invented the “snapshot” [6:15]
youtube.com

Incredible Winners of the Travel Photo Awards Celebrate Global Culture
mymodernmet.com

Video: Absolute Primes – Numberphile [14:26]
youtube.com

Video: Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini – The secret archive of Adolf Hitler’s pilot Hans Baur [4:28]
youtube.com

Revealing the long-lost secrets of the real First World War
independent.co.uk

This Shark Lives 400 Years. Its DNA May Explain Why.
nytimes.com

Six-year-old abducted from California park in 1951 found alive after seven decades
theguardian.com

Scientists Suggest Tiny Black Holes Are Regularly Cruising Through Our Star System
futurism.com

Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake
theatlantic.com • Mirror

The Burning Man Festival As Seen From Space
sciencealert.com

‘The pet I’ll never forget: Shackleton, the cat who faked his own death’
theguardian.com

A Chinese rocket narrowly missed a landing on Sunday—the video is amazing
arstechnica.com

How prison drama The Shawshank Redemption “tanked at the box office” in 1994, but went on to become one of the most acclaimed films in the world.
bbc.com

The Heavy Toll of Desertion From the Russian Army
nytimes.com

‘Immortal’ creatures may reveal clues to contagious cancers
science.org

The flight to freedom of Phillip Mehrtens, the NZ pilot who survived 594 days in captivity
theguardian.com

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot: Study Reveals It’s Not the Same Storm Cassini Observed in 1665
scitechdaily.com

Scientists Discover Signs of Water All Over The Moon’s Surface
sciencealert.com

Exoplanets may be hiding behind the ‘Neptunian ridge’
space.com

Video: Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System [31:54]
youtube.com

Archaeologists Say They’ve Solved the Mystery of a Lead Coffin Discovered Beneath Notre-Dame
smithsonianmag.com

Forgotten story of escape from Nazis found
bbc.com

Image: An odd-looking rock photographed on Mars by Perseverance
mars.nasa.gov

NASA’s flying to an ocean world. Its spacecraft is giant.
mashable.com

The world’s most beautiful climbing locations
bbc.com

The Madcap History of Mad Magazine Will Unleash Your Inner Class Clown
smithsonianmag.com

Jupiter-bound JUICE probe snaps photo of Earth, the moon and Uranus
space.com

This week: Burp surgery, exploding heads, extraterrestrial voting, and more!
damninteresting.com

Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for trespassing and filling its property with ‘space garbage’
engadget.com

Mathematicians Discover New Shapes to Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem
quantamagazine.org

Far Older Than Machu Picchu: Scientists Discover Stunning Ancient Temple in Peru
scitechdaily.com

Doctors Said These Women’s Mutated Genes Wouldn’t Harm Them
theatlantic.com • Mirror

Video: The Amazing Recording History of Here Comes the Sun [15:57]
youtube.com

Previously unknown Mozart music discovered in German library
theguardian.com • (see also)

The crypto bros who dream of crowdfunding a new country
bbc.com

Scientists Say They Have Created the First Electromagnetic Vortex Cannon
popularmechanics.com

Groundbreaking Study Finally Reveals How Rubbing Generates Static Electricity
scitechdaily.com

View the winning entries from the 2024 Small World in Motion Competition
nikonsmallworld.com

Rainbow swamp: The flooded forest in Virginia that puts on a magical light show every winter
livescience.com

In case of extinction, scientists store human genome on a ‘memory crystal’ that lasts billions of years
popsci.com • (see also)

A ‘golden age’ of rat research may be here. What the often unwanted companions can teach us about us
npr.org • (see also)

Kentucky Sheriff Arrested in Shooting Death of Judge
nytimes.com

Porsche’s 6-stroke engine doubles up on power and compression
newatlas.com • (see also)

Europe’s Hera probe to launch Oct. 7 to inspect asteroid NASA smacked in 2022
space.com