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Deepest earthquake ever detected struck 467 miles beneath Japan
nationalgeographic.com

Mars helicopter Ingenuity soars through Red Planet’s summer air after radio blackout (video)
space.com

This Groundbreaking Simulator Generates a Huge Indoor Ocean
wired.com

A “singing” endangered animal reveals the evolutionary origins of music
inverse.com

How to Map a Fly Brain in 20 Million Easy Steps
nytimes.com

How did ancient people store food before refrigeration?
livescience.com

New long-form from Damn Interesting: In 1958, one heavily modified airplane flew out of Las Vegas with a single objective: Don’t land.
dam.mn

Tackling a 40 million-year-old conundrum
phys.org

The marvel of China’s multi-generational rice terraces
bbc.com

Seattle police bust lucrative Lego trafficking scheme
theguardian.com

Blue Origin says it will build an orbiting mixed-use business park in space
npr.org

Video: Jupiter Rotates [1:07]
youtube.com

‘My Father, the Hitman’
dmagazine.com

Project Stardust: A Photographer Scours Rooftops Across the Globe for Minuscule Cosmic Particles
thisiscolossal.com

Video: TV From the Moon – Apollo’s Live TV cameras [14:37]
youtube.com

Alien hunters have an update on a mysterious signal from the nearest exoplanet
cnet.com

The Technologies That Could Finally Make Space Elevators a Reality
interestingengineering.com

When a Witness Recants
newyorker.com

MLMs [in the US] might not be able to get away with their shady promises much longer
vox.com

Video: How to Lie Your Way to $34 Billion [Nikola Motors Fraud] [25:50]
youtube.com

When People Carved Turnips Instead of Pumpkins for Halloween
smithsonianmag.com

Why Disney buried Runaway Brain, the monstrous Mickey short
polygon.com • (see also)

Why the Belowground Ecosystem Matters
daily.jstor.org

How jumping spiders’ senses capture a world beyond our perception
sciencenews.org

Observations of Exploding Star in ‘Real Time’ Deemed a Major Step Towards Predicting Supernovas
gizmodo.com

An Atomic Clock Promises Link Between Quantum World and Gravity
quantamagazine.org

Discovery Points to a Crucial Role Red Blood Cells Play in Our Immune Systems
sciencealert.com

Could this be a planet in another galaxy?
esa.int

Baby octopuses grow hundreds of temporary organs, then lose them without a trace
livescience.com

Technosignatures are a sea change in the search for alien life
aeon.co • (see also)

Living with the world’s oldest mummies
bbc.com

Facebook Papers: ‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’
theatlantic.com • (see also)

Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Peculiar Pair of Galaxies
digitaltrends.com

Europeans Once Drank Distilled Human Skulls as Medicine
atlasobscura.com

A newly discovered planet orbiting a dead star offer a glimpse of Earth’s future
popsci.com

The Animal Kingdom Is Full of Genetic Screwballs
theatlantic.com

Scientists Say They’ve Created a “Strange” New State of Matter
futurism.com

What the giant James Webb telescope will see that Hubble can’t
mashable.com

2.5 billion-year-old traces of life locked inside primeval ruby
livescience.com

Scientists have found a way to harden wood to make a knife that rivals steel
cbc.ca

New Brunswick’s Mystery Disease
thewalrus.ca

In 2014, the FBI discovered an entire museum—and thousands of human remains—in the home of a 90-year-old Indiana man
archive.vanityfair.com

Have Sumatran fishing crews found the fabled Island of Gold?
theguardian.com

Shape-shifting materials with infinite possibilities
phys.org

Physicists Created a Supernova Reaction on Earth Using a Radioactive Beam
sciencealert.com • (see also)

‘I was terrified’: the vet sterilizing Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos
theguardian.com

Harvesting ‘true cinnamon’: The story of the Ceylon spice
aljazeera.com

Astronomers Discover Infant Planet – One of the Youngest Exoplanets Ever Observed
scitechdaily.com

NASA Plans February Moon Launch With Giant Rocket
nytimes.com

On this day in 1975, the USSR’s Venera 9 became the first probe to return images from the surface of another planet: Venus. It lasted 23 minutes.
damninteresting.com

Born Knowing: Baby Chicks and Baby Humans
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Solving a 100-Year Mystery: Astronomers Locate Source of High-Energy Cosmic Rays
scitechdaily.com

Remembering ‘Witch Cakes,’ the Evil-Fighting Baked Goods of the 1600s
atlasobscura.com

This week: 📚 Steinbeck’s slurs, 🚁 organ drones, 🌠 meteorite bedfellows, and more!
damninteresting.com

Lockheed Martin plans to build Starlab commercial space station by 2027
newatlas.com

Plants Use RNA to Talk to Neighbors
the-scientist.com

Jaw-Dropping New Images Of Jupiter And Its ‘Wet Moon’ Europa Taken This Week By NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
forbes.com

The Accident That Led to Machines That Can See
nautil.us

Video: Water, salt and music form a mesmerising visualisation of sound waves [6:46]
aeon.co

‘Never sold a painting in his life – but died worth $100m’: the incredible story of Boris Lurie
theguardian.com