Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, dies aged 96

Why do we always need to wait for ‘launch windows’ to get a rocket to space?

Humans Generate an ‘Oxidation Field’, And It Changes The Air Chemistry Around Us

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Scientists create coldest matter in the universe in a lab

The Southern Ocean absorbs more heat than any other ocean on Earth, and the impacts will be felt for generations

World’s Largest Cruise Ship to Be Scrapped Before First Voyage

You Don’t Actually Have A ‘Lizard Brain’, Evolutionary Study Reveals

The Wizards of Mind Control

Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral

Two Super-Earths Discovered 100 Light-Years Away — and One Is Potentially Habitable

Artificial gravity reduces spaceflight’s health toll in fruit fly tests

In the Mind of a Whale

The Cartoon Mystery That Stumped the Internet

Video: The real reason Egypt is moving its capital [10:35]

Pakistan’s monsoon rains threaten world heritage site of Mohenjo-daro

A Good Memory or a Bad One? One Brain Molecule Decides.

Prehistoric child’s amputation is oldest surgery of its kind

Sisters of the revolution: the women of the Black Panther party

Ghostly “Einstein Crosses” Spotted in Deep Space Could Help Resolve Dark Energy Mystery

ISS astronaut shows how CPR is performed in space

Photos: Extreme Drought in Southern China

A 225 million-year-old mammal is the oldest ever identified

On this day in 1934, a fire started aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle. But that was far from the end of the story.

The ‘walking’ statues of Easter Island

How a Fake Billionaire Scammed Rich Buyers for Millions With Bogus Ferrari Build Slots: FBI

Scientists Reveal How Tardigrades Can Survive Decades Without Water

Rare Scarab Beetle in Costa Rica Looks Like It’s Made from Chrome

Why the Pygmy Mammoth Stood at Just 5-Feet Tall

ZOO8: The forgotten story of the UK’s own ‘Woodstock 99’ moment, featuring a zoo in Kent

Escaped chimpanzee returns to Kharkiv zoo on keeper’s bicycle

How Eliot Ness Wound Up Hunting a Serial Killer in Cleveland

17 years ago today we at Damn Interesting posted our first story

With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again

What’s Causing These Geological Formations on the Great Salt Lake?

A memory prosthesis could restore memory in people with damaged brains

Hawaii’s ancient land management system

How the Inside of a Black Hole Is Secretly on the Outside

Latest image from JWST: Tarantula Nebula

Science and mathematics may never fully capture the physical universe. Are there hard limits to human intelligence?

How many people can Earth handle?

America’s Surprisingly Gentle War on Rabid Raccoons

Red Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Was A Different Color Just 2,000 Years Ago

India to design, build reusable rocket for global market: ISRO

Scientists Just Found a New Kind of Synapse Hiding in The Brains of Mice

Scientists hope ‘world’s loneliest tree’ will help answer climate questions

Years after shuttle, NASA rediscovers the perils of liquid hydrogen

App detects COVID-19 in people’s voices with help of AI

This nanoparticle could be the key to a universal covid vaccine

WarWilding: a new word to describe the startling effects of using nature as a weapon

New Details Emerge About NASA’s Lab to House Martian Samples

Is the Psychedelic Therapy Bubble About to Burst?

The Hunt for Big Hail

A New, Non-Addictive Pain Killer With Fewer Side Effects

Russia’s war on Wikipedia

The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse

X-ray laser converts plastic into diamonds, recreating Uranus rain

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Ferns Are Super Weird – And Their Genomes Are Even More Chaotic Than We Thought

Not a wonderful world: Louis Armstrong tapes reveal how racism scarred his life and career