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Video: ‘A robot just swapped my electric car’s battery’ [5:23]
youtube.com

Why is there so much military interest in the moon?
space.com

Mysterious Link Between Owning Cats And Schizophrenia Is Real, Study Says
sciencealert.com

Ancient Stars Forged Elements Heavier Than Anything Ever Found in Nature
sciencealert.com • (see also)

Video: Survival Under Atomic Attack (1957) [28:52]
youtube.com

Royally Sweet: How Hot Beverages Became All the Rage in 18th Century Britain
lithub.com

Watch This Skydiver Perfectly Control Her Body To Execute a Thrilling Routine Inside a Wind Tunnel
mymodernmet.com

“The longing and hopelessness I was experiencing has a name…”
uphere.ca

Video: Inside the Uvalde Response (viewer discretion advised) [53:18]
youtube.com

JWST Discovers Something Strange Inside Mysterious ‘Brick’ in Milky Way
sciencealert.com

The world’s most realistic humanoid robots
interestingengineering.com • (see also)

First tomato ever grown in space, lost 8 months ago, found by NASA astronauts
cbsnews.com

Super rare leucistic alligator born at Florida theme park
bbc.com

The Formerly Enslaved Black Bordello Queen Who Built a Notorious Business Empire
smithsonianmag.com

The Milky Way will probably devour all the tiny galaxies that surround it
arstechnica.com

This week: Rogue-less waves, ✈️piloting delusions, elderly dog fraud, and more!
damninteresting.com

Archaeologists unearth ‘most shocking example of Roman slavery’ at Pompeii
theguardian.com

Tuskegee Airman Laid to Rest Nearly 80 Years After He Disappeared During a Mission
people.com

Placebo effect is real, and complicated
mcgill.ca

Video: The Tragedy Of The Grenfell Tower Fire [46:47]
youtube.com • (see also)

Gene variants that promote having more sex and kids diminish your life span
arstechnica.com

Seti: how we’re searching for alien life at previously unexplored frequencies
theconversation.com • (see also)

How new antimatter science could soon explain the existence of everything
sciencefocus.com

Video: How the Nintendo Zapper worked in Slow Motion [5:23]
youtube.com

‘Shocking’ discovery: Electricity from electric eels may transfer genetic material to nearby animals
nagoya-u.ac.jp

Signs of life shooting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus would be detectable by spacecraft, scientists say
space.com

The Black Sailor Whose Heroic Actions During a Shipwreck Made Him an Instant Celebrity of the Roaring Twenties
smithsonianmag.com

Why do healthy people faint? A pathway between heart and brain may hold answers
npr.org

‘Blob’ circling Milky Way’s central black hole shooting powerful radiation at Earth every 76 minutes
space.com

‘Bone Biographies’ Reconstruct Lives of Medieval Cambridge Commoners
smithsonianmag.com

In a first, human study shows how dopamine teaches our brain new tricks
newatlas.com • (see also)

We Thought We Found Alien Moons, But They Might Not Exist After All
sciencealert.com

Woman shot in buttocks by own gun during MRI appointment
healthimaging.com

Sycamore Gap seedlings show signs of propagation
npr.org

Here’s What We Know About Neanderthals So Far
smithsonianmag.com

Japan targeting Jan. 19 for nation’s 1st-ever moon landing
space.com

The Dream of Space Mining Is Still an Expensive Challenge
bloomberg.com

Why the Worst Weather on Earth Is in New Hampshire
daily.jstor.org

Police Can Spy on Your iOS and Android Push Notifications
wired.com

Woman Who Threw a Burrito Bowl at Chipotle Staffer Was Just Sentenced to Working at a Fast Food Restaurant
foodandwine.com

Do the dead have a right to keep their bodies out of museums?
aeon.co

Earth may have had all the elements needed for life within it all along − contrary to theories that these elements came from meteorites
theconversation.com

BBC presenter apologises after giving middle finger at start of live broadcast
theguardian.com

NASA Shows Off Concept for an Alien-Hunting ‘Cryobot’ Probe
gizmodo.com • (see also)

Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction
lithub.com

Physicists Find Seemingly Impossible Magnets With Just One Pole
inverse.com

The International Space Station celebrates its 25th anniversary
earth.com

Communicating With a Relativistic Spacecraft Gets Pretty Weird
universetoday.com

Inside the secret complex making high-tech gadgets for UK spies
bbc.com

Could Long Covid ‘Brain Fog’ Be an Acquired Form of ADHD?
undark.org

Video: But What IS A Lens Flare? [5:17]
youtube.com

Nikola Tesla’s Obsession with Pigeons, Electricity, and a Plan to Wirelessly Connect the World
nautil.us • (see also)

Diamond data storage breakthrough writes and rewrites down to single atom
newatlas.com

Literary Fight Club: On the Great Poets’ Brawl of ‘68
lithub.com

Study suggests existence of a universal, nonverbal communication system
phys.org • (see also)

Video: How did South African Apartheid happen, and how did it finally end? [6:51]
youtube.com

Podcasters Took Up Her Sister’s Murder Investigation. Then They Turned on Her.
web.archive.org

Oldest mosquito in amber reveals bloodsucking surprise
cbc.ca

Video: Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second [26:28]
youtube.com

‘Wavy space-time’ may explain why gravity won’t play by quantum rules
space.com • (see also)