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Behind the scenes of the Baltimore bridge collapse
bbc.com • (see also)

Incredibly Detailed Snowflakes by Alexey Kljatov
mossandfog.com

Ancient Mesopotamian People Felt Love in Their Liver and Anger in Their Feet
discovermagazine.com

Video: How scientists are creating real-life invisibility cloaks [5:34]
youtube.com

In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved
bittersoutherner.com

Six hours under martial law in Seoul
theverge.com

How a Country’s Economy Was Siphoned Dry
nytimes.com

Scientists Have Discovered a Simple Brain Circuit That Controls When You Eat
scitechdaily.com

Study: Lead exposure in 20th century affected mental health of millions
upi.com • (see also)

Indian state bans eating beef in public
bbc.com

Scientists Solve a 40-Year Quantum Mystery That Could Change Electronics Forever
scitechdaily.com

Horse Domestication Story Gets a Surprising Rewrite
scientificamerican.com

Diamonds are forever? World-first carbon-14 diamond battery made
gov.uk

Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years
livescience.com

Striking drone image of young sharks hunting fish wins photo competition
cnn.com

Mapping the Gravitational Wave Universe
spaceaustralia.com

Watch: Toyota’s humanoid robot breaks world record for longest basketball shot
interestingengineering.com

Video: ‘I tracked down my WhatsApp crypto scammers’ [25:02]
youtube.com

NEOWISE, the NASA mission that cataloged objects around Earth for over a decade, has come to an end
theconversation.com

A Giant Short-Faced Bear Once Stood 11 Feet Tall During the Ice Age
discovermagazine.com

Lasers Are Making It Easier to Find Buried Land Mines
wired.com

A Mysterious Shipwreck Rests Just 20 Feet Below the Surface. It May Be Connected to Vasco da Gama’s Final Voyage
smithsonianmag.com

100 years ago today an innocuous Dutch trader delivered a very consequential contract to Waterlow & Sons in London
damninteresting.com

Video: What if we made a camera that sees in reverse? [23:02]
youtube.com • (see also)

How to live on the edge of a disappearing coastline
aeon.co

93-year-old YouTuber back in business after being kicked off platform over porn allegation
cbc.ca

Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars
theringer.com

On this day in 1958, a heavily modified airplane flew out of Las Vegas with a single objective: Don’t land.
damninteresting.com

Archaeologists Found an Ancient Temple Hidden in the Heart of a Cliff
popularmechanics.com

Video: Around the world in 20 days… in a balloon [04:07]
bbc.com • (see also)

Video: America’s First Guided Missile and How it Changed Warfare [11:17]
youtube.com

Meet the Women Who Stood by History’s Darkest Figures
rarehistoricalphotos.com

‘Accidental discovery’ creates candidate for universal memory — a weird semiconductor that consumes a billion times less power
livescience.com

What to know about South Korea’s short-lived and chaotic period of martial law
apnews.com

Video: How are these fires burning underground? [4:28]
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Video: But what if we tried MORE power? [4:01]
youtube.com

NASA’s nuclear-powered Dragonfly helicopter will ride a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket toward Saturn moon Titan
space.com

Ancient Venus Didn’t Have Oceans After All
skyandtelescope.org

James Webb Space Telescope smashes its own record to find the earliest galaxies that ever existed
livescience.com

Bear-leather shoes and Roman ‘good-luck’ coins: The lost worlds emerging from glaciers
bbc.com

A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
lrb.co.uk • Mirror

Early Expeditions to Antarctica: Rare Photos from the 1900s-1920s
rarehistoricalphotos.com • (see also)

Video: When the Amazon Flowed Backwards [12:21]
youtube.com

Looking back: NASA’s intentionally unstable, reverse-wing X-29
newatlas.com

The indigenous women saving India’s endangered giant yams
bbc.com

13 marvelous images from the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards
popsci.com • More

Barbarian warriors in Roman times used stimulants in battle, findings suggest
phys.org

The Tragedy that Transformed the Chicano Movement
daily.jstor.org

First ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could come before 2030
english.elpais.com

Video: Black Hole’s Evil Twin – Gravastars Explained [13:32]
youtube.com

When 170 Wild Monkeys Escaped From a ‘Jungle Camp’ and Terrorized New York
smithsonianmag.com

Fugees Founder Pras Michél Speaks Out While Facing 22 Years in Prison: ‘I Never Wanted to Be a Spy’
variety.com

Broken water pipe knocks out data processing for NASA sun-studying spacecraft
space.com

500-Year-Old Walls and a Haunting Past: Exploring the Haciendas of Central Mexico
nytimes.com

The World’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster Exposed 500,000 People to Toxic Gas and Claimed Thousands of Lives
smithsonianmag.com

Video: Can a Red-Hot Mirror Still Reflect an Image? [8:35]
youtube.com

An Arctic Hamlet is Sinking Into the Thawing Permafrost
nytimes.com

New evidence uncovered in Princes in Tower mystery
bbc.com

The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
theguardian.com

Iron sulfides: A spark for life in Earth’s ancient hot springs?
knowridge.com