James Webb Space Telescope discovers mysterious ‘red monster’ galaxies so large they shouldn’t exist

Video: Australia’s Cassowaries EXPOSED: The Truth Behind the World’s Most Dangerous Bird [6:28]

Countries agreed to try to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Is that still possible?

The Life and Times of Gaston Means, one of the Greatest Rogues in American History

Video: How Solid State Cooling Could Change Everything [16:00]

‘It invites us to reconsider our notion of shadow’: Laser beams can actually cast their own shadows, scientists discover

Video: The Opposite of Infinity [15:04]

Mysterious Hoard of 3,000 Roman Coins Discovered in Germany, Miles from the Empire’s Borders

The drama and farce of the Baker Street bank heist

After decades, tiny 500-year-old royal portrait is identified as Mary Tudor

The 900km Amazon highway that’s dividing a nation

Jupiter stuns in new images

The Woman Who Defined the Great Depression

This scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab

Video: This Ancient Technology Makes Things Spin Really Fast! [9:57]

Scientists just discovered a sea creature [coral] as large as two basketball courts. Here’s what it looks like.

First known double gravitational lens could shed light on universe’s expansion

‘I’m a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive − their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life’

Deep-sea scientists just filmed something enormous swimming over the seafloor in Chile

Mahatma Gandhi’s letter to Adolf Hitler, December 24, 1940

This week: Plastic clouds, Michelangelo’s bunker, chimpanzee stage fright, and more!

A Mysterious Image Was Supposed to Be Amelia Earhart’s Plane. Searchers Found Only an Illusion.

‘I was a fool’: Art Garfunkel describes tearful reunion with Paul Simon

A century before Zoom, the AIEE connected over 5,000 engineers in 8 cities for a live meeting via telephone

Caltech Astrophysicists Flip Black Hole Theories With Stunning New Simulations

Video: Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change [16:53]

Our link curation will be on hold for the week of November 10-16. But we’ll be back.

Emperor penguin arrives on WA beach thousands of kilometres from home

This week: Cheese heist, Shakespearean monkeys, alcoholic fauna, and more!

Elephants can wash with a hose – and sabotage shower time, scientists say

Video: Inside the ‘most sophisticated’ drug lab in Canadian history [10:31]

Chimpanzees perform better on challenging computer tasks when they have an audience, research reveals

The Webb Telescope Found A Planet Orbiting A Star 35 Light Years Away — Its Data Is Just Plain Odd

Mysterious, city-size ‘centaur’ comet gets 300 times brighter after quadruple cold-volcanic eruption

Cells have more mini ‘organs’ than researchers thought − unbound by membranes, these rogue organelles challenge biology’s fundamentals

How Our Brain Stabilizes Vision Amid Constant Eye Movement

On this day in ’73, workers removed the remains of an extraordinary tree: The Lonely Tree of Ténéré

Chimney Sweeps and the Turn Against Child Labor

Video: The Periodic Table in a 2D World [4:21]

Bank Manager Headed to Prison After Stealing a Fortune From His Customer

‘The first thing I did was poke it’: Canada beach blobs mystery solved by chemists

Hubble watches neutron stars collide and explode to create black hole and ‘birth atoms’

Christmas Island’s red crab migration back to bumper levels after dry 2023

85 years ago today a German handyman (and/or time traveler) almost succeeded in assassinating Hitler

Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released

Identity of casts of victims at Pompeii not all they seem, research suggests

Teeny tardigrades can survive space and lethal radiation. Scientists may finally know how

Over 40 monkeys escape from South Carolina research facility

The Shipwreck Detective

How water flowed on ancient Mars

Ticker-tape synaesthesia – when real life comes with subtitles

Are there health benefits to eating turmeric and other spices?

New Discovery Paves The Way to Generating Energy From Body Heat

A World Without Men: Inside South Korea’s 4B Movement

Mysterious circular DNA found in more than half of patients with certain types of cancer

Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers

Plants Really Do ‘Scream’. We’ve Simply Never Heard Them Until Now.

Video: The Change from Roman Numerals [13:00]

Airborne microplastics aid in cloud formation

A Cloned Ferret Has Given Birth for the First Time in History, Marking a Win for Her Endangered Species