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On this day in 1857 the United Stated eliminated the half-cent coin
damninteresting.com

US military releases first photo from orbit from its mysterious space plane
taskandpurpose.com

NASA massively lowers impact risk of ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 to 1 in 360
space.com

We’ve Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For Almost 300 Years
sciencealert.com

High-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool
phys.org • (see also)

Doctors in London cure blindness in children with rare condition
theguardian.com

Carbon removal is the next big fossil fuel boom, oil company says
theverge.com

Does Jupiter’s Moon Callisto Have an Ocean? The Evidence is Mounting
universetoday.com

Tomatoes Don’t Kill Humans, And We Just Figured Out Why
sciencealert.com

‘My life as a prison officer: It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’
theguardian.com

Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger: Discover the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler & Dissed by Disney
openculture.com • (see also)

A History of Cryptography From the Spartans to the FBI
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu • (see also)

A Thousand Blows: How a historic women-only gang menaced London for decades
bbc.com

Twenty-four hours in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, where life goes on despite the war
france24.com

Even desert cities could pull drinking water from the air
sciencenews.org

Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism. But the Lie That They Do Is Still Going Strong
thewalrus.ca

How a century-old Montreal invention changed snow removal in the city
cbc.ca

The Cryptocurrency Scam That Turned a Small Town Against Itself
nytimes.com

Why Were These Women Buried With More Than 270,000 Beads?
smithsonianmag.com

When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works
wsj.com • Mirror

After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem
quantamagazine.org

Did Astronomers Just Witness the Formation of a “Strange Star”?
universetoday.com

Smoke, Mirrors & Magic Lanterns: How a Parisian Horror Story Became our First Cinematic Experience
messynessychic.com

Putin’s secret weapon: The threat to the UK lurking on our sea beds
bbc.co.uk

Fossil study reveals that palm trees once thrived in subarctic Canada
phys.org

S.S. United States, Historic 20th Century Ocean Liner, Sets Out for Final Voyage
nytimes.com • (see also)

Blue Ghost Lowers Orbit and Snaps Rare Views of the Moon’s Far Side
gizmodo.com • (see also)

The odds of a city-killer asteroid impact in 2032 keep rising. Should we be worried?
arstechnica.com

Gruesome evidence of cannibalism in Poland 18,000 years ago
cosmosmagazine.com

Migraine is more than a headache — a radical rethink offers hope to one billion people
nature.com

Experiments show wild fish can recognize individual divers
phys.org

Video: The Strange Magnetism of Bismuth: It Shouldn’t Work, But It Does [8:42]
youtube.com • (see also)

Study: Automotive brake dust is a greater risk to lung health than diesel exhaust
gilmorehealth.com

Liquid Mirrors Can Only Point Straight Up. Could Magnets Solve This Problem?
universetoday.com • (see also)

What Lies Beneath the Gravestone of a Fictional It Girl?
atlasobscura.com

Video: Inside Europe’s $1BN Abandoned Mega-Build [16:58]
youtube.com • (see also)

Is Intelligent Life Inevitable?
universetoday.com

Magic Mushrooms Warp Our Sense of Space, Time, and Self By Disrupting Our Brain Connections, Scientists Say
popularmechanics.com

Grave Mistakes: The History and Future of Chile’s ‘Disappeared’
undark.org • (see also)

Webb telescope observes violence around Milky Way’s central black hole
reuters.com

3,500-year-old tomb of ancient king unearthed in Egypt. See what was found inside
miamiherald.com

Louis Pasteur’s Relentless Hunt for Germs Floating in the Air
nytimes.com

Video: How de-aging in movies got so good [9:42]
youtube.com

Scientists Put a Human Language Gene Into Mice And Changed Their Voice
sciencealert.com

Video: This Canadian Lake Changes Its Spots Every Year [5:00]
youtube.com

Exoplanet with iron rain has violent winds ‘like something out of science fiction’
space.com

Neuroscientists Discovered the Key to Dream Memory
scitechdaily.com • (see also)

Why We Think Theia Existed
universetoday.com • (see also)

This “Impossible” Crystal Is Changing What We Know About Reality
scitechdaily.com

Video: Pineapples – The Most Expensive Fruit in History [22:46]
youtube.com

The A-level student who became an enemy of the Chinese state
bbc.com

Video: Can you “see” images in your mind? Some people can’t [5:19]
youtube.com

Intern Finds Only Known Surviving Copy of ‘The Heart of Lincoln,’ a Silent Film Thought to Be Lost to History
smithsonianmag.com

By the end of today, NASA’s workforce will be about 10 percent smaller
arstechnica.com

Scientists spot alien world ‘like something out of science fiction’
independent.co.uk

Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish
theguardian.com

Nat King Cole’s often overlooked role in the Civil Rights Movement
theconversation.com

A weird ice that may form on alien planets has finally been observed
sciencenews.org

Why did a plane crash in Toronto, and how did everyone survive?
bbc.com • Video

Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating
theconversation.com