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Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?
livescience.com

Women of the sea: Follow Korea’s oldest free divers on their underwater treasure hunt
abc.net.au

Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters
thehustle.co

Hubble’s Stunning Grand Tour of the Outer Solar System
scitechdaily.com

Forensic Psychologist Richard Lettieri On The Many Pathways to a False Confession
crimereads.com

‘It was terrifying’: ancient book’s journey from Irish bog to museum treasure
theguardian.com

Video: The Insane Engineering of the Thunderscreech [19:26]
youtube.com

LightSail 2 Has Been Flying in Space for 30 Months – Paving the Way for Future Solar Sail Missions
scitechdaily.com

How ultracold, superdense atoms become invisible
news.mit.edu • (see also)

Why Do Weeks Have Seven Days?
theatlantic.com

The Radical History of Black Cartoonists
inthesetimes.com

The ingenious living bridges of India
bbc.com

Fashion’s own ‘black widow’: the true story of the house of Gucci murder
theguardian.com

On this day in 1980 a whole freshwater lake fell out, and a new salty one fell in
damninteresting.com

A failed star known as “The Accident” is changing the way we look at the galaxy
massivesci.com

What really happened at Wounded Knee, the site of a historic massacre
nationalgeographic.com

The Pigeon Puzzle: How Do They Figure Out Their Impossibly Long Routes Home?
thewalrus.ca

The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing
theguardian.com

Video: The Big Misconception About Electricity [14:47]
youtube.com

The Decision That Cost Hitler the War
nytimes.com

This week: 🍅 Martian ketchup, 🍄 irradiated fungi, 🏃 elderly sprinters, and more!
damninteresting.com

Astronomers discover enormous ‘barrier’ separating the center of the Milky Way from the cosmic ray sea
livescience.com

The ancient origins of glass
knowablemagazine.org

Deathbed confession sparks Jimmy Hoffa body hunt
bbc.com

NASA’s huge James Webb Space Telescope is one month from launch
space.com

Abandoned former USSR sites – in pictures
theguardian.com

Popcorn used to create an eco-friendly alternative to polystyrene foam
newatlas.com

Does cheese really give you vivid dreams?
bbc.com

Microrobot fish swims through the body to vomit drugs on cancer
newatlas.com

Why do frozen turkeys explode when deep-fried?
theconversation.com

Before Haunted Houses, There Were Hell Banquets
atlasobscura.com

What Hot Dogs Can Teach Us About Number Theory
quantamagazine.org

Fragment of lost 12th-century epic poem found in another book’s binding
theguardian.com

How technology has inspired neuroscientists to reimagine the brain
vox.com

Video: Nature’s fortress: How cacti keep water in and predators out [4:19]
youtube.com

November’s Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Is a Once-In-a-Thousand-Years Event
smithsonianmag.com

Video: The Austrian woman who saved 7,700 children during WW2 [7:20]
bbc.com

The Boxer Who Killed in the Ring
theatlantic.com

A new era of planetary exploration: what we discovered on the far side of the Moon
space.com • (see also)

New iodine-based electric propulsion engine successfully test-fired in orbit
sciencealert.com

New holographic camera sees the unseen with high precision
phys.org

The universe could house black holes smaller than atoms — and they may have left their fingerprints on the moon
cnet.com

Comets, Meteors and Other Stars of Wonder
flashbak.com

The grape cure
wellcomecollection.org

How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer
newyorker.com

The Pirate Queen Who Avenged Her Husband’s Death on the High Seas
narratively.com

Revealed: the software that studies your Facebook friends to predict who may commit a crime
theguardian.com

Even Rainbows Have a Dark Side
atlasobscura.com

Dirty dollars: how tattered US notes became the latest street hustle in Zimbabwe
theguardian.com

This new startup built a record-breaking 256-qubit quantum computer
technologyreview.com

The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry’s favorite retention tactics is illegal [in the US], FTC says
niemanlab.org

The Odor of Things
web.archive.org

Video: What Really Happened at the Millennium Tower? [13:31]
youtube.com

Evil Corp: ‘My hunt for the world’s most wanted hackers’
bbc.com

Alien Worlds Hold Minerals Like Nothing in Our Solar System, Scientists Say
sciencealert.com

Winners of the 2021 Natural Landscape Photography Awards
theatlantic.com

A first in fossil research: Seeds sprouting from an amber-encased pine cone
phys.org

Supersaurus might be the longest dinosaur that ever lived
livescience.com

Is there life at Alpha Centauri? New space telescope to seek out habitable planets around sun’s neighboring star
space.com

Russian anti-satellite weapon test: What happened and what are the risks?
theconversation.com