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Video: Why our brains are bad at understanding big numbers [3:14]
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Rare New England Coin From 1652 Found in an Old Cabinet
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Video: The Most Poisonous Paints Ever [10:53]
youtube.com

Canadian man leaps onto polar bear to defend wife during attack
abc.net.au

Powerful Magnetic Fields Spin Around Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole
scitechdaily.com

Chaotic Traffic From Horse-Drawn Carriages Inspired the World’s First Traffic Lights
smithsonianmag.com

The ‘apple library’ with a lost world on its limbs
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Giant cyborg cockroaches could be the search and rescue workers of the future
cnn.com

Antarctic ice lake found to hold previously unknown life
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A ‘giant’ rising in the desert: World’s largest telescope comes together
space.com

How do we know dark matter exists if it can’t be detected?
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Sharks Are 50 Million Years Older Than Trees—A Biologist Explains
forbes.com

The Biggest Crater on The Moon Is Much Bigger Than We Ever Realized
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World’s Priciest Dinosaur Fossil Comes to Museum of Natural History
nytimes.com

Chuck E. Cheese’s Animatronics Band Bows Out
spectrum.ieee.org

Why a health care CEO’s death has provoked such complicated reactions from the public
vox.com

When Songbird Couples Split
nautil.us

On this day in 1921, Thomas Midgley did “a very unscientific jig” to celebrate the discovery of leaded gasoline
damninteresting.com

Video: How This Autonomous Liquid Metal Finds Its Way Through Mazes [8:40]
youtube.com

On secret military island, a mother strives to raise her children normally
bbc.com

Scientists are no longer sure the Universe began with a bang
aeon.co

Want to design the car of the future? Here are 8,000 designs to get you started.
news.mit.edu

The internet made a stink over her ‘politics of smell’ PhD thesis
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Tinnitus Seems to Be Somehow Linked to Sleep
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How the mournful songs of icebergs reverberate around the world
bbc.com

How did Adolf Hitler’s car end up in Ottawa?
cbc.ca

Video: The Nuclear Test That Shocked the Planet [18:34]
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German island festival passes peacefully after criticism over practice of men hitting women
ctvnews.ca

The growing threat of firearms that can be made at home
theguardian.com

Video: How Shopping Malls Are Being Transformed Into Apartments In The U.S. [9:13]
youtube.com

What the Murder of the UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Means to America
newyorker.com

First look at jet-powered VTOL X-plane for DARPA program
newatlas.com

The most dangerous delivery truck? How a lorry-load of antimatter will help solve secrets of universe
theguardian.com

Cleopatra’s Nose
daily.jstor.org

Video: 12,419 Days Of Strandbeest Evolution [21:38]
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Solar maximum just knocked 3 satellites out of orbit. Here’s why more may be on the way.
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The people growing their own toilet paper
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Sabotage as a Tool of Solidarity
inthesetimes.com

This ‘Lollipop’ Device Lets You Taste Flavors in Virtual Reality
vice.com

This week: Simian semantics, not-so-secret Arctic bases, hibernating bat blood, and more!
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Was WWI dazzle battleship camouflage actually effective?
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Scientists Reveal How Our Solar System Could Capture a New Planet
sciencealert.com

The ‘bison skull mountain’ photo that reveals the US’s dark history
bbc.com

Slingshot spiders rely on good vibrations to catch supper
npr.org

Video: How Arms Trafficking Actually Works [36:16]
youtube.com

On this day in 1917, one of the largest non-nuclear man-made explosions occurred in Halifax, Nova Scotia
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NASA delays first crewed flight to the moon in over 50 years
cnn.com

3D scans of giant hailstones reveal surprising discoveries that could help predict future storms
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Video: Butterflies Shouldn’t Remember Being Caterpillars (But They Do) [6:44]
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How lead exposure became the Notre-Dame fire’s toxic legacy
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How worried should we be about Disease X?
npr.org

Glow-in-the-dark wood passively lights homes or parks
newatlas.com

Video: This Giant Space Flower Could Help Us Find A New Earth [7:21]
youtube.com

The Secret of Orange Cats Finally Uncovered After 60-Year Search
sciencealert.com

Astrophotographer captures colorful portrait of the Lion Nebula in a glowing field of hydrogen gas
space.com

Archaeological dig at Notre-Dame unearths 2,000 years of history
france24.com

Behind the scenes of the Baltimore bridge collapse
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Incredibly Detailed Snowflakes by Alexey Kljatov
mossandfog.com

Ancient Mesopotamian People Felt Love in Their Liver and Anger in Their Feet
discovermagazine.com

Video: How scientists are creating real-life invisibility cloaks [5:34]
youtube.com