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AI is an existential threat – just not the way you think
theconversation.com

Researchers develop ‘ice inhibitors’ to protect cells during cryopreservation
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What Pompeii’s ruins say about its enslaved, prostituted women
aeon.co

What a major new study on homelessness in California tells us
vox.com

Amazing Accomplishments the James Webb Telescope Achieved in Its First Year
smithsonianmag.com

NASA’s VIPER Rover’s First Moments on the Moon Might Be its Most Terrifying
universetoday.com

Man Finally Collects $3 Million Lotto Win After Ticket Was Stolen by Cashier
people.com

Meet the President’s Daughter, a “Wild Animal That Had Been Put Into Good Clothes”
messynessychic.com

‘You reach a point where you can’t live your life’: what is behind extreme hoarding?
theguardian.com

Time to take laughter seriously
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Chemists discover why photosynthetic light-harvesting is so efficient
phys.org

Ocomtún: A long-lost Maya city that was just discovered
bbc.com

100 years ago today a booming oil town aimed to become a western metropolis through one of the most ill-conceived boxing matches of all time
damninteresting.com

We’re offline for US Independence Day. But here are some things to read in a pinch:
damninteresting.com

Video: The Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics [27:14]
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‘Not so alien’: biologist busts myths and explores enigma of the octopus
theguardian.com

Time Appears to Have Run 5 Times Slower in The Early Universe
sciencealert.com

Barbie movie gets Vietnam ban over South China Sea map
bbc.com

Mars has liquid guts and strange insides, InSight suggests
arstechnica.com

Video: How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910? [7:15]
youtube.com

Video: Why did Megalodon go extinct? [5:24]
youtube.com

New image-based cellular profiling tool peers deeply into metabolic biology
phys.org

Greece boat disaster: Survivors blame Greek coastguard for tragedy
bbc.com

A Rubik’s Cube, Thick Socks and Giddy Anticipation: The Last Hours of the Titan
nytimes.com

Europe’s venerable Ariane 5 rocket faces a bittersweet ending on Tuesday
arstechnica.com

The Man Who Opened a Store Selling Heroin and Cocaine Has Died From an Overdose
vice.com

What Happens If a Tiny Insect Goes Extinct? Should We Even Care?
discovermagazine.com

London Super Sewer gets underground flower garden
bbc.com

Before They Were Cliches: On the Origins of 8 Worn Out Idioms
lithub.com

Mystery of Holocaust escape girls solved after 84 years
bbc.com

Why Saturn’s moons have remained hidden from view
bbc.com

Image captured by Mars rover shows a mysterious ‘doughnut’ on the planet’s surface
cnn.com

Weather satellite captures lightning spectacle across Earth
bbc.com

Fastest steam-powered motorcycle in history tears up the 1/8th mile
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NASA’s Mars Ingenuity chopper ‘phones home’ after 63 days of dead silence
interestingengineering.com

Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content
futurism.com

Explore Animated Models, Digitized Sketches and More in Leonardo da Vinci’s Largest-Ever Online Retrospective
smithsonianmag.com

A grieving whale and airborne elephants: Environmental Photography award winners
theguardian.com

How a Parisian Death Mask Became the Face of CPR Dolls Everywhere
discovermagazine.com

World’s 1st ‘tooth regrowth’ medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
mainichi.jp

Siberian cave filled with mammoth, rhino and bear bones is ancient hyena lair
livescience.com

NASA’s Webb Identifies the Earliest Strands of the Cosmic Web
webbtelescope.org

Transgenic soybeans could replace pork, by producing pig proteins
newatlas.com

Video: Space filling curves filling with water [12:06]
youtube.com

Can you trust a Harvard dishonesty researcher?
vox.com

Saturn’s Rings Shine in Webb’s Observations of Ringed Planet
blogs.nasa.gov

2,200 Forgotten Vintage Computers Are Being Liberated From a Barn in Massachusetts
vice.com

“Groundbreaking” Findings – Previously Unknown Process Could Be Responsible for 12% of Earth’s Total Oxygen Production
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NASA Wants to Mine Resources From the Moon by 2032
gizmodo.com

Who killed Google Reader?
theverge.com

The Tragic Downfall of National Geographic
jjpryor.substack.com

860 Million-Year-Old Quasar Had Already Amassed 1.4 Billion Times the Mass of the Sun
universetoday.com

Our galaxy seen through a new lens: neutrinos detected by IceCube
icecube.wisc.edu

Today is the last chance to answer our short 2023 curated links survey!
docs.google.com

A Direct Image of a Planet That’s Just Like Jupiter, Only Younger
universetoday.com

These organisms have a natural gene-editing system that could be more useful than CRISPR
popsci.com

Stunning Roman mausoleum uncovered in central London
zmescience.com

“It’s Tight Like That”
daily.jstor.org

Extremely Rare Box Jellyfish Caught on Camera
mossandfog.com

Why does the quantum world behave in that strange, spooky way? Here’s our simple, four-step explanation (no magic needed)
aeon.co