How Will Humans Change in the Next 10,000 Years?

Stonehenge may have been a giant calendar and now we know how it works

What is the best age to learn to read?

Russia’s Looming Economic Collapse

An ancient language has defied decryption for 100 years. Can AI crack the code?

The History of Ice Cream, One of the World’s Oldest Desserts

Battery-electric “Infinity Train” will charge itself using gravity

Black hole that was closest yet found does not exist, say scientists in U-turn

Landmark trial compares LSD and psilocybin trips, finds few differences

New Jersey Couple Finds Pearl Worth Thousands During Dinner At The Lobster House In Cape May

What a Russian soldier’s panicked text home reveals about Ukraine’s information war

Video: We’re Building Computers Wrong (for artificial intelligence) [21:41]

No, bad leftovers didn’t cause teen’s life-threatening infection, amputations

A rocket is going to crash into the Moon – the accidental experiment will shed light on the physics of impacts in space

Video: The dark history of the suburbs [6:03]

The world’s first video game made its debut at the Westinghouse pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in 1939

An Ancient Croc Stepped in Poop and Created a Portal to the Past

Fusion tech is set to unlock near-limitless ultra-deep geothermal energy

How China built a one-of-a-kind cyber-espionage behemoth to last

Why chocolate is really, really bad for dogs

Italy’s rare, surprisingly bitter honey

What are thermobaric weapons and how do they work?

The Radical Woman Behind “Goodnight Moon”

Origin of the 30,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf discovered

Damn.

Video: Building the impossible: Golden Gate Bridge [5:26]

Johns Hopkins curators examine musical mystery linked to Edgar Allan Poe

Nostalgia relieves pain: Just looking at old photos can cure common aches, study shows

Belarus Issues Dire World War III Warning as It Gets Ready to Send Troops to Ukraine

Are Polar Bears Altruistic or Just Bad At Math?

In New Experiment, Astronomers See No Sign of ‘Cosmic Dawn’

Is it time to stop talking about ‘nature versus nurture’?

Dying for makeup: Lead cosmetics poisoned 18th-century European socialites in search of whiter skin

Should we kill every mosquito on Earth?

Dunwich: The British town lost to the sea

On this day in 1943 a team of Norwegian commandos sabotaged the Nazi effort to build an A-bomb

World’s largest plane destroyed in Ukraine

‘Almost intact’ shrine found in Jordanian desert is 9,000 years old

New article/episode: Robert Rogers, a man obsessed with trespassing, sets his sights on Mount St. Helens in the spring of 1980

On this day in 1741 Commodore Anson’s secret squadron entered the Straits le Maire

How Four Women Destroyed 1,200 Tons of Poison Gas — and Defused a Crisis

Photos: Chaos and Resistance in Ukraine

What can a thermodynamics of mind say about how to thrive?

Doomed ship of gold’s ghostly picture gallery is plucked from the seabed

Ukraine’s Volunteer ‘IT Army’ Is Hacking in Uncharted Territory

Mysterious repeating fast radio burst from space looks strangely familiar, scientists realize

Curiosity Rover Finds a Bizarre Rock on Mars That Looks Like a Flower

Spain’s ingenious water maze

Video: Ukraine’s Civilians Take Up Arms Against Russia’s Invasion [1:50]

At the Ukrainian border, a mother brings a stranger’s children to safety

‘Netwar’ Could Be Even Worse Than Cyberwar

The Quiet Way Advertisers Are Tracking Your Browsing

Superhabitable planets

Scientists describe an elusive example of abrupt evolution happening in columbines

‘Why in the year of our lord 2022 am I still getting robocalls???’

Cryptographers Achieve Perfect Secrecy With Imperfect Devices

Airbus building flying testbed to evaluate hydrogen combustion jet engine

Webb Mirror Alignment Continues Successfully

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