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Meet the Women Who Stood by History’s Darkest Figures
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‘Accidental discovery’ creates candidate for universal memory — a weird semiconductor that consumes a billion times less power
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What to know about South Korea’s short-lived and chaotic period of martial law
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NASA’s nuclear-powered Dragonfly helicopter will ride a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket toward Saturn moon Titan
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Ancient Venus Didn’t Have Oceans After All
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James Webb Space Telescope smashes its own record to find the earliest galaxies that ever existed
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Bear-leather shoes and Roman ‘good-luck’ coins: The lost worlds emerging from glaciers
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A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
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Early Expeditions to Antarctica: Rare Photos from the 1900s-1920s
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Looking back: NASA’s intentionally unstable, reverse-wing X-29
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The indigenous women saving India’s endangered giant yams
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13 marvelous images from the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards
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Barbarian warriors in Roman times used stimulants in battle, findings suggest
phys.org

The Tragedy that Transformed the Chicano Movement
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First ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could come before 2030
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Video: Black Hole’s Evil Twin – Gravastars Explained [13:32]
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When 170 Wild Monkeys Escaped From a ‘Jungle Camp’ and Terrorized New York
smithsonianmag.com

Fugees Founder Pras Michél Speaks Out While Facing 22 Years in Prison: ‘I Never Wanted to Be a Spy’
variety.com

Broken water pipe knocks out data processing for NASA sun-studying spacecraft
space.com

500-Year-Old Walls and a Haunting Past: Exploring the Haciendas of Central Mexico
nytimes.com

The World’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster Exposed 500,000 People to Toxic Gas and Claimed Thousands of Lives
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Video: Can a Red-Hot Mirror Still Reflect an Image? [8:35]
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An Arctic Hamlet is Sinking Into the Thawing Permafrost
nytimes.com

New evidence uncovered in Princes in Tower mystery
bbc.com

The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
theguardian.com

Iron sulfides: A spark for life in Earth’s ancient hot springs?
knowridge.com

The U.S. Is Building an Early Warning System to Detect Geoengineering
nytimes.com

How the bullet train transformed Japan
bbc.com

Last week: Piscine doomsday, native democracy, racecar rats, and more!
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‘As darkness fell, blazing hangars lit up the sky’: How the fall of Pyongyang brought the world to the brink of crisis
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Video: Why Things Look That Way Under a Blacklight [6:28]
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Extraordinary – Australian scientists create virtual reality for insects
cosmosmagazine.com

Where’s the Blaze Star? Why the overdue ‘new star’ T Coronae Borealis has yet to light up the night sky
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Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?
quantamagazine.org

Video: The “Impossible Torpedo” was real [16:32]
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Giant Redheaded Centipedes Are Venom Mixologists
nytimes.com

A Firsthand Account of What Homelessness in America Is Really Like
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures the Sombrero Galaxy in Breathtaking Detail
scitechdaily.com

‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo
theguardian.com

Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of mysterious repeating radio bursts from space
theconversation.com

Shocking Video Shows Yoga Tourist Being Swept Into the Sea
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Ice age humans made needles from animal bones, archeologists discover
popsci.com

The Mediterranean Almost Vanished Millions of Years Ago. Here’s Why.
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‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’: meet the neuroscientist who believes life could be eternal
theguardian.com

Scientists Just Measured an Atom on the Brink of Existence
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Video: Europe’s Strangest Unsolved Mystery [30:56]
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Why do we kiss? ‘I am not sure we have anything close to an explanation’
theguardian.com

Hoard of Roman coins found during building work
bbc.com

The End Is Near for NASA’s Voyager Probes
wired.com

When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk
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Uranus is weirder than we thought: Scientists report new mysteries of the tilted planet
salon.com

Canada firm compresses spherical tokamak plasma in a world-first
interestingengineering.com

Gargoyles, stained glass and the spire: How Notre-Dame was restored
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Teen Mathematicians Tie Knots Through a Mind-Blowing Fractal
quantamagazine.org

Video: You’re Probably Wrong About Rainbows [27:10]
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