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What would happen to Earth if a large asteroid hit the Moon?
astronomy.com

Peregrine Falcon image wins bird photo award
bbc.com

Physicists Observe ‘Unobservable’ Quantum Phase Transition
quantamagazine.org

Anomalous Vibrations on Moon Tracked to Apollo 17 Lander
extremetech.com

The Technology Facebook and Google Didn’t Dare Release
nytimes.com

Newly observed oxygen-28 nucleus fails ‘double magic’ test
physicsworld.com • (see also)

James Webb telescope could detect life on Earth from across the galaxy, new study suggests
livescience.com

OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe heads toward Earth for Sept. 24 sample delivery
space.com

Golden Orb Found at The Bottom of The Ocean Mystifies Scientists
sciencealert.com

Video: All The Times We Nearly Blew Up The World [16:45]
youtube.com

Is this bubble of galaxies a “fossil” from the Big Bang?
cosmosmagazine.com

Why Israel’s New Submarine Looks Different Than Most Modern Subs
popularmechanics.com

50 years ago today an ambitious 1970s era Cybernetic experiment was prematurely terminated
damninteresting.com

The science of dreams and nightmares – what is going on in our brains while we’re sleeping?
theconversation.com

The most overrated metric in entertainment is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked
vulture.com

Video: This library has every book ever published. [4:58]
youtube.com

Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18 b
nasa.gov

SpaceX Must Fix 63 Issues Before Its Starship Can Fly Again
wired.com

Vice Pulled a Documentary Critical of Saudi Arabia. But Here It Is.
theintercept.com

Can We Stop Time in the Body?
nautil.us

‘Radio quiet’ boxes will now power world’s largest telescope
interestingengineering.com

How current & past cultures across the World have seen their myths and legends in the stars
figuresinthesky.visualcinnamon.com

Can We Talk to Whales?
newyorker.com

J.F.K. Assassination Witness Breaks His Silence and Raises New Questions
nytimes.com

The Revolutionary Influence of the First English Children’s Novel
smithsonianmag.com

Amid another rise in cases, Covid’s new normal has set in
statnews.com

NASA’s Perseverance rover produces oxygen on Mars
livescience.com

Colossal Cache of Lithium Found in US May Be World’s Largest
futurism.com

Scientists Devised a Way to Tell if ChatGPT Becomes Aware of Itself
sciencealert.com

Will India’s Chandrayaan-3 probes survive the lunar night?
space.com

Breaking a Bit: After a rough August, we’re taking a much needed break. In the meantime here is a word game we made.
damninteresting.com

Webb Telescope zooms in on supernova that exploded in 1987
scrippsnews.com

For men awaiting execution in Texas, illicit games of Dungeons & Dragons became a lifeline.
themarshallproject.org

Something Just Smacked Into Jupiter And Amateur Astronomers Captured It
iflscience.com

This Hurricane Season Is Unprecedented
theatlantic.com

What Are Dreams For?
newyorker.com

A biotech company says it put dopamine-making cells into people’s brains
technologyreview.com

The Usefulness of a Memory Guides Where the Brain Saves It
quantamagazine.org

UFO videos, newly declassified, now live at this Pentagon website
mashable.com

Brain circuit study finds control of behavioral decisions is similar in insects and mammals
phys.org

Video: Exploring an Abandoned US Government Biomedical Research Facility [49:02]
youtube.com

How sharks avoid the wrath of an extreme hurricane
vox.com

Will humans ever go to Mars?
astronomy.com

Do spiders dream? What about cuttlefish? Bearded dragons?
knowablemagazine.org

Grapefruit Juice Can Kill You, Evidence Shows
sciencealert.com

James Webb Space Telescope shares stunning view of a supernova’s expanding remains
space.com

The spot-on imitations of other birds by the Australian lyrebird exemplify what Darwin missed about female birdsong
nautil.us

India’s accomplishments in space are getting more impressive
arstechnica.com

The Large Hadron Collider has been used to detect every known particle except neutrinos. Until now
salon.com

Dead Stars Could Hold the Secrets of Dark Matter
inverse.com

NASA moon orbiter spots crash site of Russia’s failed Luna-25 lander (photo)
space.com

Video: The Golf Ball Paradox [11:59]
youtube.com

Space junk is on the rise, and no one is in charge of cleaning it up
arstechnica.com

He became the first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town. Then a white minority locked him out
theguardian.com

‘Bee Emergency’: How Beekeepers Got 5 Million Bees Off a Road in Canada
nytimes.com

Does the Spiral Siphonophore Reign as the Longest Animal in the World?
discovermagazine.com

Giant worms go wandering in man’s innards, cause dangerous traffic jam
arstechnica.com

When the Government Tried to Flood the Grand Canyon
daily.jstor.org

NASA gears up for return of OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample
spacenews.com

Fourteen U.S. destroyers barreled down the California coast in a dense fog—until a wrong turn led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
magazine.atavist.com • (see also)