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Scientists Just Killed the EmDrive
popularmechanics.com

What Happens to a Tree When It Dies?
daily.jstor.org

Synthetic organism undergoes cell division in breakthrough study
newatlas.com

Video: The Insane Engineering of the X-15 [31:29]
youtube.com

Bear cubs in California are developing an unexplained illness that makes them friendly and not afraid of people
businessinsider.com

I’m Alone: How One Canadian Rumrunner Defied the U.S. Coast Guard and Sparked an International Scandal
crimereads.com

Video: The Genes We Lost Along the Way [12:47]
youtube.com

The Radioactive Diamond Battery That Will Run For 28,000 Years
popularmechanics.com

Archaeologists Find 3,000-Year-Old Mural of Knife-Wielding Spider God in Peru
gizmodo.com

Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter
newyorker.com

How a full moon and a ‘huge lever’ helped free Ever Given from Suez canal
theguardian.com

The seed bank that’s inadvertently storing fungi
bbc.com • (see also)

Long-awaited muon physics experiment nears moment of truth
nature.com

Mars Curiosity rover takes selfie picture with ‘Mont Mercou’
cnn.com

Two strange planets: Neptune and Uranus remain mysterious after new findings
phys.org

‘Like finding the Mona Lisa’: Historian learns freed slave buried in Hamilton Cemetery is U.S. Civil War vet
cbc.ca

Ars Technica’s non-fungible guide to NFTs
arstechnica.com

The Life and Times of “The Most Intelligent Bird in the World”
lithub.com • (see also)

Astronomers thought comet Borisov was pretty boring. They were wrong
technologyreview.com

Scientists Implant and Then Reverse False Memories in People
gizmodo.com

Florida’s only lead smelter exposed hundreds of workers to high lead levels
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Meet the Italian Grandmothers Making the World’s Rarest Pasta
messynessychic.com

Growing Up as a ‘Gifted Child’ and the Rude Awakening of Adulthood
vice.com • (see also)

The hidden fingerprint inside your photos
bbc.com

Mystery brain disorder baffles Canadian medicine
theguardian.com

A Giant Whale Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention
theatlantic.com

How the US Lost to Hackers
nytimes.com

Nearest Exoplanet to Our Solar System
nasa.gov

Explosion from the early universe illuminates secret black hole
space.com

Bizarre ‘worm tornado’ in New Jersey has scientists baffled
livescience.com

The World’s Largest Pyramid Is Hidden Within a Hill
discovermagazine.com

How NASA’s MOXIE Could Change Mars Forever
popularmechanics.com

Video: Heliozoa: Spiky, Sticky Sun Animalcules [9:21]
youtube.com

Energy-harvesting card treats 5G networks as wireless power grids
newatlas.com

How Einstein Became a Celebrity
daily.jstor.org

These Mutant Rabbits Walk on Two Legs, and Geneticists Now Know Why
gizmodo.com

The real reason humans are the dominant species
bbc.com

Video: How Used Chopsticks Are Turned Into Tables, Tiles, And Other Furniture [5:47]
youtube.com

‘Experience: I tracked down my impostor’
theguardian.com

How mRNA Technology Could Change the World
theatlantic.com

70 years ago today a pipe bomb exploded in Grand Central Terminal. It was but the first of many.
damninteresting.com

A remnant of a protoplanet may be hiding inside Earth
livescience.com • (see also)

Suez Canal traffic resumes after cargo ship Ever Given is moving again
cnbc.com

The Vampire Ship
newrepublic.com

Gallery: Suez Canal crisis from space: see shipping backlog in satellite images
thenationalnews.com

His Plane Crashed in the Amazon. Then Came the Hard Part.
nytimes.com • (see also)

Bioplastic made from wood powder entirely degrades in three months
newatlas.com

Stalin statue site reveals chilling remains of Prague labour camp
theguardian.com

This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection
smithsonianmag.com

How Mary Wortley Montagu’s bold experiment led to smallpox vaccine – 75 years before Jenner
theguardian.com

Ancient Rocks Reveal When Earth’s Plate Tectonics Began
wired.com

How can some planets be hotter than stars? We’ve started to unravel the mystery
theconversation.com

NASA Says Asteroid Apophis Isn’t A Risk To Earth For 100 More Years
npr.org • (see also)

The Bombs That Never Went Off
theatlantic.com

The Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal: The 2700-year-old ‘fake news’
bbc.com

The Actress, the Steward and the Ocean Liner: What Really Happened in Cabin 126?
crimereads.com • (see also)

Is there such thing as a maximum temperature?
sciencefocus.com • (see also)

Buildings made with fungi could live, grow — and then biodegrade
cbc.ca

Merck’s Little Brown Pill Could Transform the Fight Against Covid
bloomberg.com

The Mathematical Pranksters behind Nicolas Bourbaki
daily.jstor.org • (see also)