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Flowers ‘giving up’ on scarce insects and evolving to self-pollinate, say scientists
theguardian.com

Man convicted of murder based on testimony of blind witness wins freedom as prosecutors opt against new trial
chicagotribune.com

A Staggering Excavation Has Rewritten the Fall of the Roman Empire
popularmechanics.com

Why We Sense Somebody Who Isn’t There
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The Pentagon Is Forging an Airborne Wireless Energy Grid
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Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle
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The Learning Labs of Sailing Ships
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Video: Does planting trees actually cool the planet? [5:40]
youtube.com

Bizarre Theory Claims ChatGPT Is Suffering From Seasonal Depression
futurism.com

How different languages laugh online
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Uptown Gothic: The NYC Photographs of Thaddeus Wilkerson
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DNA sleuths solve mystery of the 2,000-year old corpse
bbc.com

Image: Ice flows on Mars
phys.org

Breathtaking photos show wall of lava erupting from volcano on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula
livescience.com

Does quantum theory imply the entire Universe is preordained?
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At what point does the Santa myth become a harmful deception?
psyche.co

Scientists discover hidden population of stars that are the “bluest of blue”
salon.com

The James Webb Space Telescope’s Most Important Discoveries of 2023
popularmechanics.com

The Unending Quest To Build A Better Chicken
noemamag.com

Is the brain uncontrollable, like the weather?
thetransmitter.org

Video: What if NASCAR had no rules? [4:29]
youtube.com

Video: Why Only Earth Has Fire [13:11]
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How This Marine Worm Can Tell Moonglow From Sunbeams
quantamagazine.org

Video: How advanced is whale talk? [5:35]
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What Kind Of Future Does De-Extinction Promise?
defector.com

How Analyzing Cosmic Nothing Might Explain Everything
scientificamerican.com

Iceland volcano eruption: will it spark a flight crisis and how long will it last?
theguardian.com

Mysterious Signals From Space Are Getting Stranger, Scientists Say
futurism.com

Nasa’s Hubble reveals captivating image of irregular galaxy NGC 2814
livemint.com

Analysis of ancient Scythian leather samples shows two were made from human skin
phys.org

You Know It’s a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?
wired.com

Video: How Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa [13:16]
youtube.com

China’s space plane apparently deployed 6 ‘mysterious wingmen’ in orbit
space.com

Dopamine undermines the joy of the everyday
iai.tv

Quantum batteries could charge by breaking our understanding of time
newatlas.com

Chimps Can Still Remember Faces After a Quarter Century
nytimes.com

Video: The Rarest Fish on Earth Doesn’t Swim [7:28]
youtube.com

Five key blood markers linked to suicide have been identified
newatlas.com

What would happen if you drilled all the way through Earth?
livescience.com • (see also)

Volcano in Iceland erupts weeks after thousands were evacuated from nearby town
npr.org

How Christmas Murder Mysteries Became a U.K. Holiday Tradition
atlasobscura.com

Video: A Flight Over Pluto
youtube.com

Rediscovered Rembrandt Portraits May Be the Artist’s Smallest Paintings
hyperallergic.com

Seeing is Believing. Right?
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First discovery of carbon-based cave art in France’s Dordogne region could pave way for precise radiocarbon dating
phys.org

‘It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads?
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100 years ago, the KKK planted bombs at a US university
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Step inside the secretive world of toymakers
cbc.ca

Electrified cloth extracts uranium from seawater
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Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolved math problem
technologyreview.com

Video: Why the government drops flies on California [6:35]
youtube.com

Canadian researcher cracks 135-year-old ‘unsolvable’ code
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Webb rings in the holidays with the ringed planet Uranus
esawebb.org

How do you make cosmic sausage?
popsci.com

Physicists Discover Surprising Quantum-Like Behavior in Tiny Bouncing Droplets
sciencealert.com

With Long Necks and Vicious Predators, How Exactly Did Dinosaurs Sleep?
discovermagazine.com

It’s Been 2 Months. Why Can’t NASA Open the Asteroid Sample Container?
gizmodo.com

Video: The Oldest Voices We Can Still Hear [15:32]
youtube.com

New Clues Emerge About the the Fluffy Dogs Once Bred for Their Wool
atlasobscura.com

‘A pile of dirt makes me drool’: why some people crave and eat inedible things
theguardian.com