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Video: Behind the Name: James Webb Space Telescope [41:19]
youtube.com

Archaeologists Begin First-Ever Excavation of Tomb Linked to King Arthur
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How Do Dolphins Choose Their Name?
discovermagazine.com

Ed Dwight was in line to be the first Black astronaut. History had other ideas
npr.org

A nose for history: academics recreate lost smells from the past
theguardian.com

Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light
wired.com

Climate change: ‘Sand battery’ could solve green energy’s big problem
bbc.com

Physics meets paleontology: The hotly debated mechanics of pterosaur flight
arstechnica.com

Someone Got YouTube Videos To Play on a 40-Year-Old Computer That Can Only Display Green Text
gizmodo.com

Video: How does alcohol cause hangovers? [4:51]
youtube.com

The 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist is out of this world
newatlas.com

Ruffled Feathers: How Feral Peacocks Divided a Small Town
thewalrus.ca

Remembering the World War II Frogmen Who Trained in Secret off the California Coast
atlasobscura.com

Robotic arms connected directly to brain of partially paralyzed man allows him to feed himself
blog.frontiersin.org

A mysterious cult that predates Stonehenge
bbc.com

Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles: the pentaquark and the first-ever pair of tetraquarks
phys.org

Video: Why NASA Mustn’t Land Near the Moon’s Poles Yet [13:15]
youtube.com

A Florida county is quarantining after a second sighting of invasive Giant African land snail
cnn.com

How Did a Woman with a Missing Temporal Lobe Become Bilingual?
journal.medizzy.com

Physicists Are Startled by This Magnetic Material That ‘Freezes’ When Heated
sciencealert.com

Space Travel Will Absolutely Gut the Environment, Scientists Warn
futurism.com

Never-before-seen crystals found in perfectly preserved meteorite dust
livescience.com

Where will NASA put Artemis Base Camp on the moon?
space.com

Tonga Volcano Blasted Out Pressure Waves “Very Close to The Theoretical Limit”
sciencealert.com

Meet ReachBot, a robot designed to explore Martian caves
cnn.com

Connecting a Divided World: A Brief History of Iran’s Postal System
ajammc.com

Red supergiant stars bubble and froth so much that their position in the sky seems to dance around
phys.org

On this day in 1881 a deranged man shot President Garfield
damninteresting.com

The Man Who Invented Water Skiing
smithsonianmag.com

Ruja Ignatova: The Crypto Mogul Scam Artist Who Vanished into Thin Air
crimereads.com

This Comet Could Be One of the Largest We’ve Ever Seen (And It’s Getting Closer to Earth)
popularmechanics.com

The Lottery Lawyer Won Their Trust, Then Lost Their Mega Millions
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This Plant Lurks Underground to Trap Prey in a Way We’ve Never Seen Before
sciencealert.com

Rise of the dinosaurs traced back to their adaptation to cold
theguardian.com

Million Dollar Fakes: The Lucrative World of Counterfeit Basquiats
melmagazine.com

We Should Be Banking Our Poop for Future Use, Scientists Argue
gizmodo.com

Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals
quantamagazine.org

Is Music Universal?
theness.com

Scientists develop first-of-its-kind implant that relieves pain without drugs
interestingengineering.com

The Case of the False Thumb: Giant Panda’s “Amazing” Feature Developed at Least Six Million Years Ago
scitechdaily.com

The Norwegian library with unreadable books
bbc.com

How a free and open Hong Kong became a police state
economist.com

How Are the Bees?
nautil.us

This bonus episode: 🐝Mutant intersex honeybees, 🐝tools for bees, 🐝cookie monster bee, and more bees!
damninteresting.com

Found: The ‘holy grail of catalysis’—turning methane into methanol under ambient conditions using light
phys.org

The Gauntlet: Women wanted to fly jets in combat. It would prove the fight of their lives.
vox.com

Plant-based plastic strong as PET, degrades into sugars in the environment
newatlas.com

The World’s Oldest Pharmacy, Still Selling Potions for Graverobbers and Queens
messynessychic.com

NASA concept proposes swarm of swimming robots to explore alien oceans
newatlas.com • (see also)

Video: Overnight in the Most Remote Camp on Earth [27:56]
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Universal flu vaccine developed by US government begins human trials
newatlas.com

First 60 hours of the global atmospheric response to the Tonga eruption in Jan 2022, using two satellites
reddit.com

On this day in 1971 a Soyuz spacecraft decompressed, exposing 3 cosmonauts to near-vacuum
damninteresting.com

The Sordid Past of the Cubic Formula
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Riskiest Asteroid Known to Humankind in the Last Year Will Not Strike Earth for at Least 100 Years
scitechdaily.com

Why the Search for Life on Mars Is Happening in Canada’s Arctic
wired.com

Mesmerizing half-wheel bike shows two halves make a whole
zmescience.com

The mystery of how dinosaurs had sex
bbc.com

Bubbles of history
wellcomecollection.org

Video: The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer [17:44]
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