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Scientists have only just figured out how cats purr
newscientist.com

Ancient Babylonian tablet reveals Pythagorean theorem
interestingengineering.com

The Wild Wacky Genius of the Goose Creek Tower Home
mossandfog.com

Astronomers Watched a Massive Star Just… Disappear. Now JWST Might Have Some Answers
universetoday.com

The Danish town that stood up to the Nazis
bbc.com • (see also)

Thousands of salmon escaped an Icelandic fish farm. The impact could be deadly
theguardian.com

Making astronomy accessible to the blind
astronomy.com

Maybe in Your Lifetime, People Will Live on the Moon and Then Mars
nytimes.com

Video: The Ocean Is Deeper Than You Think. We Need Better Maps. [14:11]
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Ancient buildings included ash, beer and urine. Why do they stand the test of time?
cbc.ca

How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet
wired.com

The $2,000 taxi ride: how a simple missed train ended up in an epic six-hour cab journey
theguardian.com

New nitrogen isotope stretches our understanding of nuclear physics
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These are the mental processes required to tell a convincing lie
psyche.co

US issues first ever fine for space junk to Dish Network
bbc.com

Mission to Put a Radio Telescope on The Moon Planned to Launch in 2025
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Scientists Discover Source of Mysterious Alignment of Stars Near the Galactic Center
scitechdaily.com

New Patch Inspired by Octopus Suckers Could Deliver Drugs Without Needles
smithsonianmag.com

Psychedelics plus psychotherapy can trigger rapid changes in the brain − new research at the level of neurons is untangling how
theconversation.com

The World’s Largest Radio Telescope has Scanned Barnard’s Star for Extraterrestrial Signals
universetoday.com

How US Intelligence Agencies Hid Their Most Shameful Experiments
lithub.com

What Really Started the Great Chicago Fire?
newyorker.com

4,400-year-old lost Egyptian tomb rediscovered with mummy inside
cosmosmagazine.com

Scientists Finally Discovered The Mystery of the “Octopus Garden” Gathering Site
inverse.com

Video: Extreme Breath-Holding [18:38]
youtube.com

This giant, next-generation satellite is now one of the brightest objects in the night sky
theverge.com

How Tachyons Travel Faster Than Light, According to a Cosmologist
popularmechanics.com

New York City Is Not Built for This
archive.ph

Why are rare earth elements so rare?
livescience.com

Video: The largest telescope that will ever be built* [29:01]
youtube.com

‘What would happen if Russia invaded Finland? I went to a giant war game in London to find out’
theguardian.com

More than a dozen public art pieces across Baltimore have vanished. Not a single person can say why.
thebaltimorebanner.com

Right before exploding, this star puffed out a sun’s worth of mass
space.com

A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations
arstechnica.com

Prehistoric Carvings Are So Accurate, Animals’ Sex, Age, And Species Can Be Determined
sciencealert.com

Video: Self-assembling material pops into 3D [11:34]
youtube.com

Why the ‘Mother of the Atomic Bomb’ Never Won a Nobel Prize
nytimes.com

The short, forgotten life of New York City’s first skyscraper
ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com

NASA found materials on an asteroid like those that may have “triggered the origin of life” on Earth
salon.com

Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines
bbc.com

New discoveries in Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe: A Human statue with a realistic facial expression found in Karahantepe
arkeonews.net

Russia May Be Planning to Test a Nuclear-Powered Missile
nytimes.com

Video: Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about [10:18]
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Museum Worker Sold Paintings and Put Forgeries in Their Place
nytimes.com

The world’s oldest shoes? Sandals found in bat cave are thousands of years old, study finds
nbcnews.com

How the Cultural Revolution Played Society Against Itself
lithub.com • (see also)

Laura Kieler: A Life Exploited
daily.jstor.org

Lava Worlds Could Hold the Keys to Habitability, New Study Suggests
inverse.com

The slow and delicate aircraft taking on spy missions
bbc.com

Scientists will unleash an army of crabs to help save Florida’s dying reef
vox.com • (see also)

Alien life may evolve from radically different elements than human life did
livescience.com

What Did These Two Ticket Holders See on the Night of Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination?
smithsonianmag.com

The Rebel Drone Maker of Myanmar
wired.com

The chilling tale of snow flies, self-amputation, survival and certain death
phys.org

On this day in 1957, a radioactive cooling tank in Russia exploded, hurling seventy tons of radioactive fission products into the atmosphere
damninteresting.com

We May Have Just Found Evidence of a Cosmic String: a ‘Crease’ in The Universe
sciencealert.com

An Increasingly Noisy Earth Is Drowning Out the Aliens
supercluster.com • (see also)

They kill their own parents, children and neighbours. Now life is even worse for the vicious alpine marmot
theguardian.com

Scientists achieve the tricky task of compressing liquids
nature.com

Someday, We Could Create Gravitational Waves In A Lab
popularmechanics.com