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Baghdad Battery: The 2000-year-old artifact and its timeless mystery
interestingengineering.com

Smashing atomic nuclei together reveals their elusive shapes
nature.com

Video: The Unbelievable True Story Of The Apollo 13 Rescue [1:43:58]
youtube.com

Bach, Mozart or jazz: Scientists provide a quantitative measure of variability in music pieces
phys.org

New Homeowners Find Skeleton in Attic 15 Years After Previous Owner Vanished
vice.com

‘Ridiculously smooth’: James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega
livescience.com

In Denmark, an Ancient Army Met a Mysterious End in a Lake
atlasobscura.com • (see also)

Carl Sagan’s scientific legacy extends far beyond ‘Cosmos’
theconversation.com • (see also)

Physicists Spot Quantum Tornadoes Twirling in a ‘Supersolid’
quantamagazine.org • (see also)

Life-seeking, ice-melting robots could punch through Europa’s icy shell
technologyreview.com • (see also)

Video: The real reason polio is so dangerous [6:34]
youtube.com

See the Breathtaking 14th-Century Sienese Artworks That Helped Set the Italian Renaissance in Motion
smithsonianmag.com

Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit
arstechnica.com

Hiker finds strange cart-like item at glacier in Switzerland
miamiherald.com

Will Plants Grow on the Moon?
nautil.us

Habitable Worlds are Found in Safe Places
universetoday.com

A Brief History of the Most Famous Swear Word in the World
lithub.com

Mount Fuji is still without its iconic snowcap in November for the first time in 130 years
apnews.com

Scientists film footage of alien, shimmering creature in the remote ocean
mashable.com

Is there a hidden planet in our solar system? Astronomers say the moment of truth is near
cnn.com • Mirror

Rare Photo of Red Sprites Wins 2024 Weather Photographer of the Year
mymodernmet.com

How Austen and Darwin converged on the question of beauty
aeon.co

China reveals a new heavy lift rocket that is a clone of SpaceX’s Starship
arstechnica.com

Video: Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That? [19:47]
youtube.com

Baseball’s legendary ‘magic mud’ finally analyzed by scientists
popsci.com

What are you Haydn? The hoaxers who fooled the classical music world
theguardian.com

Something Weird Happened 15 Minutes Before the Giant Tonga Eruption of 2022
gizmodo.com

The Great American Nuclear Weapons Upgrade
undark.org

How a Beer Can Helped Solve a Murder Case in Montana
vice.com

A ‘Crazy’ Idea for Treating Autoimmune Diseases Might Actually Work
theatlantic.com • Mirror

At Long Last, ‘The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet’ Has Finally Been Identified
knowyourmeme.com

In Photos: See NASA Juno’s Jaw-Dropping New Images Of Jupiter
forbes.com

There’s a real Wayne Enterprises, and it’s selling a $3 million Batmobile
popsci.com

Astronauts of the underworld: The scientists venturing into the deep, dark Earth
bbc.com

Video: The Most Insane Weapon You Never Heard About [13:55]
youtube.com • (see also)

The world’s oldest tree? Genetic analysis traces evolution of iconic Pando forest
nature.com

6,000 year-old Mesopotamian artifacts linked to the dawn of writing
popsci.com

Why are foods banned in other places still on US grocery shelves?
vox.com

NASA’s 15-year-old NEOWISE asteroid hunter meets fiery doom by burning up in Earth’s atmosphere
space.com

Iron Age Woman Buried With a Knife Stuck in Her Grave Stumps Archaeologists
vice.com

First Satellite Made of Wood Is Launched Into Space
nytimes.com

How online photos and videos alter the way you think
bbc.com

24 Hours in Mumbai With an Airline Pilot
nytimes.com

Video: A look inside Michelangelo’s ‘secret room’ [5:52]
bbc.com

How Doug Emhoff and a ‘Psycho Chihuahua’ took down Taco Bell
sfgate.com

The evolutionary benefits of being forgetful
theconversation.com

Video: ‘I bought a freeze dryer so you don’t have to’ [1:00:14]
youtube.com

This Ancient ‘Lion Cavern’ Mine Is the Origin of the Stone Age’s Favorite Color
popularmechanics.com

Chemists break 100-year-old rule, changing the way we think about molecules
knowridge.com

These Black Americans Were Killed for Exercising Their Political Right to Vote
smithsonianmag.com

The Brothers Grimm Were Dark for a Reason
newyorker.com

Scientists Just Got Closer to Creating The Heaviest Element Ever
sciencealert.com

Video: Bad News: The Ocean Is Full of Spiders* [11:31]
youtube.com

China’s Einstein probe detects mysterious space object that flickers like fireworks
interestingengineering.com

The scientist who tested his revolutionary medicine on his own brain cancer: ‘It seemed worth it to give it a crack’
theguardian.com

Vega star system discovery forces us to rethink planet formation
earth.com

Video: Computer for Apollo (1960s) [29:05]
youtube.com

Why Are Cats So Flexible? This Body Part Is Key
inverse.com

Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct
med.stanford.edu

2 Andy Warhol Prints Damaged, 2 Stolen in Botched Art Heist
vice.com