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The 2022 Creative Photo Awards celebrate the weird side of photography
newatlas.com

Hubble finds isolated black hole roaming our Milky Way galaxy
psu.edu

World’s largest freshwater fish found in Mekong, scientists say
bbc.com

How Science Tried, and Failed, to Find a “Gay Gene”
thedebrief.org

Floating Hong Kong restaurant capsizes in South China Sea
theguardian.com

How Paintings Lost in a Small-Town Art Heist Were Recovered 50 Years Later
nytimes.com

How do drugs know where to go in the body? A pharmaceutical scientist explains why some medications are swallowed while others are injected
theconversation.com

Who Were Scotland’s Mysterious ‘Bodies in the Bog’?
discovermagazine.com

Our Blood Could Be Coming From a Previously Unknown Source, Mouse Study Suggests
sciencealert.com

Can we think without using language?
livescience.com

Spirals of blue light in New Zealand night sky leave stargazers ‘kind of freaking out’
theguardian.com

What Hundreds of Photos of Weapons Reveal About Russia’s Brutal War Strategy
nytimes.com

Deciding to Read This Article Isn’t The Result of Gravity Crushing Your Quantum Spirit
sciencealert.com

Video: Self-Healing Material [9:47]
youtube.com

Without a Rosetta Stone, can linguists decipher Minoan script?
aeon.co • (see also)

‘I Got Stuck in the Yellowstone Floods’
theatlantic.com

Newly-Observed ‘Starquakes’ Are Tiny Storms That Can Change the Shapes of Stars
popularmechanics.com

Mystery still surrounds what happened to the bodies of soldiers killed at Waterloo
gla.ac.uk

Some Scientists Coined a New Name for Summer: ‘Danger Season’
wired.com

The supernova explosion that failed to kill its star
cosmosmagazine.com

The Oldest Cookbooks From Libraries Around the World
atlasobscura.com

Video: Ukrainians Are Bombing Russians with Custom Drones [5:37]
youtube.com

Why the US military is listening to shrimp
bbc.com

Letters of Note: Mick Jagger writes to M. C. Escher (and receives a reply)
news.lettersofnote.com

Keith Gessen Explores the Often-Disturbing Biographies of Great Children’s Book Authors
lithub.com

How false memories can shape a criminal court case
sciencefocus.com

‘A Dyson Sphere Could Help Humankind Live Forever. So We Found Out How to Build One.’
popularmechanics.com

This week: 🎷Encrypted saxophones, 🪱styrofoam superworms, 🧬anti-CRISPR, and more!
damninteresting.com

MIT Scientists Propose Space Bubbles to Reverse the Worst of Climate Change
gizmodo.com • (see also)

Polar bear population discovered that can survive without sea ice
nature.com

Scientists Spot Dying Star Brutally Tearing Up Its Unfortunate Planets
futurism.com

Nepal to move Everest base camp from melting glacier
bbc.com • (see also)

Photos: Devastating Floods Hit the Yellowstone Region
theatlantic.com

What’s This Weird Balancing Rock on Mars?
gizmodo.com

A ‘Very Exciting’ Anomaly Detected in Major Experiment Could Be Huge News For Physics
sciencealert.com

Do we need a better understanding of ‘progress’?
bbc.com

Russian Spy Tried to Infiltrate The Hague as an Intern, Here’s His Cover Story
vice.com

How much money is needed for ideal life? Most are OK with £8m, study finds
theguardian.com

How the bluest asteroid in the solar system got its color
space.com

Dall-E mini: how the AI image generator makes your meme dreams come true
sciencefocus.com

Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down
scientificamerican.com • (see also)

Doctors on TikTok: The Dark Side of Medical Influencers
thewalrus.ca

Of War and Electric Death: A Brief History of Push-Button Anxiety
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

These Women Say One Man Terrorized Them Online for Years. Then, They Decided to Band Together.
vice.com

Was the Colosseum Paid for with Pee?
messynessychic.com • (see also)

Facebook is receiving sensitive medical information from hospital websites
arstechnica.com • (see also)

How the Ocean Inside the Mantle Affects the Habitability of the Earth
hakaimagazine.com

The great 16th-Century black composer erased from history
bbc.com • (see also)

Most frogs can jump and land with the precision and grace of an Olympic gymnast. And then there’s the pumpkin toadlet.
theatlantic.com

Particle Hunters Can Spend a Lifetime Searching for Answers
wired.com • (see also)

‘Stunning’ Anglo-Saxon burial site found along HS2 route
theguardian.com

Old not Other: Why do we neglect and disdain the one vulnerable group we all eventually will join?
aeon.co

Plants Appear to Be Breaking Biochemistry Rules by Making ‘Secret Decisions’
sciencealert.com • (see also)

Video: Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years [10:48]
youtube.com • (see also)

‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplace
theguardian.com

Sorry, But New Signal Is Definitely Not Aliens, Says Scientist Working on Project
futurism.com

The Curious Case of Charles Osborne, Who Hiccupped for 68 Years Straight
smithsonianmag.com

Eighteenth-century cockroach found in slave-trading ship ledger
theguardian.com

Happy the elephant is not a person, New York court rules
bbc.com

Mystery of Black Death’s origins solved, say researchers
theguardian.com