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Personal carbon footprint of the rich is vastly underestimated by rich and poor alike, study finds
cam.ac.uk

New method uses light to bend DNA strands for better disease understanding
interestingengineering.com

The Cost of Lightning
wired.com • (see also)

Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Galaxy Caught on The Brink of Collision
sciencealert.com

‘My family knew that my father had been tapping the phone lines. Only later would I discover the secrets the recordings contained.’
thecut.com

Your AI Breaks It? You Buy It.
noemamag.com

The Golden Age of Offbeat Arctic Research
undark.org • (see also) • (see also)

Watch SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronauts conduct 1st private spacewalk early Sept. 12
space.com

America’s Most Advanced Spy Satellite Captured Russian Military Secrets. Then It Crashed Into the Pacific.
popularmechanics.com • (see also) • (sea also)

Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have
arstechnica.com

Doldrums debunked: what really causes still water?
cosmosmagazine.com

NASA’s Juno probe spots massive new volcano on Jupiter moon Io
space.com

Video: The luxury plane that took flight 75 years ago [01:19]
bbc.com • (see also)

Mars leaks faster when closer to the sun
space.com

The Internet Spent Years Searching for Her. She Had No Idea.
nytimes.com

The moon might still have active volcanoes, China’s Chang’e 5 sample-return probe reveals
space.com

Video: Boatlift 9/11 [11:56]
youtube.com

How we discovered that people who are colorblind are less likely to be picky eaters
theconversation.com

Mystery of dwarf planet Ceres’ origin may finally be solved, thanks to retired NASA spacecraft
space.com

Citizen Scientist Discovers Evidence of Possible Crater Left by Ancient Meteorite Impact
thedebrief.org

The future of Boeing’s crewed spaceflight program is muddy after Starliner’s return
arstechnica.com

Novel Architecture Makes Neural Networks More Understandable
quantamagazine.org

We May Already Be Touching The Andromeda Galaxy, Scientists Find
sciencealert.com

Archaeologists discover an ancient Neanderthal lineage that remained isolated for over 50,000 years
phys.org

Astronomers track bubbles on star’s surface
phys.org

What Western medicine can learn from the ancient history of psychedelics
bbc.com

Family of Ethel Rosenberg say US document proves she was no Soviet spy
theguardian.com

18 Famous First Photographs in History: From the Oldest Photo Ever to the World’s First Instagram
mymodernmet.com

Archaeologists Found an Ancient Roman Military Camp Hiding 7,000 Feet High in the Sky
popularmechanics.com

Video: Separated by the Cloud (Full Episode) | 9/11: One Day in America [44:24]
youtube.com

Voyager 1 team accomplishes tricky thruster swap
phys.org

The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50
nsarchive.gwu.edu

A Bloody Battle Depicted in ‘Braveheart’ Dealt a Devastating Blow to the English on This Day in 1297
smithsonianmag.com

Easter Island’s population never collapsed, but it did have contact with Native Americans, DNA study suggests
livescience.com

On this day in 1973 an ambitious cybernetic experiment was prematurely terminated
damninteresting.com

Close Passage of Sun-Like Star Shaped Outer Solar System Billions of Years Ago, Research Suggests
sci.news

‘Get out now’ – inside the White House on 9/11, according to the staffers who were there
theconversation.com

650-Foot High Megatsunami in Greenland Sends Seismic Waves Worldwide
scitechdaily.com • (see also)

Scientists Found the Hidden ‘Edge State’ That May Lead to Practically Infinite Energy
popularmechanics.com

Why children perceive time slower than adults
bbc.com

‘I was a black child raised in a white supremacist cult. When doomsday didn’t come, I had to learn how to live’
theguardian.com

Archaeologists Unearth Rare Trove of Silver Coins on Mediterranean Island
smithsonianmag.com

Could adding extra dimensions help solve the quantum gravity puzzle?
advancedsciencenews.com

Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)
publicdomainreview.org

NASA declares Europa Clipper is ready for Jupiter
cosmosmagazine.com

How an Ethiopian emperor ended up living in Bath
bbc.com

Video: Making an atomic trampoline [58:00]
youtube.com

10,000 Feet Up, Scientists Found Hundreds of Airborne Germs
nytimes.com

Juice confirms that Earth is habitable
esa.int

‘For me, there was no other choice’: inside the global illegal organ trade
theguardian.com

‘The huge US toxic fire shrouded in secrecy: ‘I taste oil in my mouth’’
theguardian.com • (see also)

MSG is back. Is the idea it’s bad for us just a myth or food science?
theconversation.com • (see also)

Video: The Insane Engineering of the LC-130 [29:02]
youtube.com

Yale Settles With Patients Who Sued Over Painful Egg Retrievals
nytimes.com

Polaris Dawn is on its way to attempt first-ever commercial spacewalk
popsci.com

Quantum Experiment Could Finally Reveal The Elusive Gravity Particle
sciencealert.com

Video: The 50 year cover up that poisoned the largest lake in Ireland [24:44]
youtube.com

Boeing Execs Snub NASA at News Conference After Starliner Landing
futurism.com

Secret Vietnam War Rock Band: How U.S. Tried to Defeat Communism
rollingstone.com • Mirror

When did your kidney stone start growing? ANSTO scientist carbon dated his to find out
abc.net.au