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A once-in-a-lifetime bird
theverge.com

The Wall of Wind can blow away buildings at Category 5 hurricane strength to help engineers design safer homes – but even that isn’t powerful enough
theconversation.com • (see also)

A Major Science Journal Publisher Adds A Weird Notice To Every Paper. What’s Behind This?
forbes.com

The Imperiled Inland Sea
daily.jstor.org

The Curious Case of the Arctic Desert Island That’s Not Actually an Island
atlasobscura.com

Lift Energy Storage System: Turning skyscrapers into gravity batteries
newatlas.com

Video: Inside a Liquid Mirror Vortex in Slow Mo [14:49]
youtube.com

Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work
theatlantic.com

India’s mysterious gateway to the stars
bbc.com

Killer Asteroids Are Hiding in Plain Sight. A New Tool Helps Spot Them.
nytimes.com

Image: Rocket Transits Rippling Sun
apod.nasa.gov

The man who built his own cathedral
theguardian.com

Unusual Pulse Detected in The Sky May Be a Completely New Class of Stellar Object
sciencealert.com

Self-deception can fool us into believing our own lies
bbc.com

The Pope’s Secret Back Channel to Hitler
theatlantic.com

How Ants Inspired a New Way to Measure Snow With Space Lasers
wired.com

Could the Double-Slit Experiment Finally be Solved?
thedebrief.org

Astronomers Unexpectedly Capture ‘Great Dimming’ of Supergiant Star Betelgeuse
cnet.com

The Colorful History of Haribo Goldbears, the World’s First Gummy Bears
smithsonianmag.com

A 3,400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River
phys.org

We are offline Monday for US Memorial Day. Enjoy a random article!
damninteresting.com

Video: How did the Sinking of Moskva Impact the War in Ukraine [11:49]
youtube.com

Switzerland’s ingenious cooling caves
bbc.com

Biologists May Have Solved a 30-Year-Old Mystery on Why Touch Stresses Plants Out
sciencealert.com

‘Extremely active’ jumping worms that can leap a foot raise alarm in California
theguardian.com

Video: What It’s Like to See Sound [4:36]
youtube.com • (see also)

78 Long Minutes
nytimes.com

Male mice are terrified of bananas. Here’s why.
livescience.com • (see also)

Hubble telescope spots stunning ‘Hidden Galaxy’ hiding behind our own Milky Way
space.com

Chinese Researchers Publish Strategy to Destroy Elon Musk’s Starlink
gizmodo.com • (see also)

The Antarctic paradox
aeon.co

Behold! Hubble snaps a picture of our galaxy’s misshapen future
inverse.com

Russia scraps age limit for new troops in Ukraine push
bbc.com

Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met
nytimes.com

Here’s the Latest Prototype of SpaceX’s Giant Starship
gizmodo.com

This 830-million-year-old crystal might contain life. And we’re about to open it
npr.org

Astronomers will train James Webb Telescope’s high-precision spectrographs on two intriguing rocky exoplanets
phys.org

Documents Shed Light on Secret U.S. Plans for Apocalyptic Scenarios
nytimes.com

Viruses Revealed in Clear Detail by New Non-Radioactive Reagent
technologynetworks.com

This week: 👽Alien reruns, 🐈hot cat ladies, 💩fecal youth, and more!
damninteresting.com

When London Got the Marilyn Monroe Fever
lithub.com

Rivers can suddenly change course – scientists used 50 years of satellite images to learn where and how it happens
theconversation.com • (see also)

Can Young-Blood Infusions Reverse the Aging Process?
discovermagazine.com

Waiting at a Texas Hospital for Children Who Never Arrive
newyorker.com

Last Salem ‘witch’ pardoned 329 years after she was wrongly convicted
theguardian.com • (see also)

Nuclear waste diamonds to power artificial neuron implants for decades
newatlas.com

Wild animals are evolving faster than anybody thought
theconversation.com

The Women Who Ran Genghis Khan’s Empire
atlasobscura.com

The Secret Math Behind Mind-Reading Magic Tricks
quantamagazine.org

Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air
newatlas.com

Paradise Burned to the Ground. Now It’s Another Hot Housing Market
vice.com

An Entirely New Kind of Highly Reactive Chemical Has Been Found in The Atmosphere
sciencealert.com

His Clients Were Acquitted of Murder. Why Did They Get Life Sentences?
theatlantic.com

60 years ago today a fire started underground in Centralia, PA. It is still burning today.
damninteresting.com

AI reveals unsuspected math underlying search for exoplanets
phys.org

How Credit Scores Can Run—and Ruin—Our Lives
thewalrus.ca

‘Quantum Internet’ Inches Closer With Advance in Data Teleportation
nytimes.com

The Mystery of Why So Many Lifelong Smokers Never Get Lung Cancer May Be Solved
sciencealert.com

‘Mind blowing’ ancient settlements uncovered in the Amazon
nature.com

Pompeii victim’s genome successfully sequenced for first time
theguardian.com