The weird and wonderful art created when AI and humans unite

If the secret police had a file on you, why wouldn’t you want to see it? Ask the Germans spied on by the Stasi

Video: The Sights of Space: A Voyage to Spectacular Alien Worlds [30:42]

Organ Donations, Transplants Increase on Days of Largest Motorcycle Rallies

The Wondrous History of the Waffle

Video: How Solar Panels Can Help Solve California’s Drought [16:07]

A Cold Case in Florida – The Mysterious Murder of a Troubled Teen

World’s first test run of a hydrogen jet engine a success

Video: The Biggest Possible Black Hole [11:40]

The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

‘i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries’ (via @kottke)

New 3D Map of Mars’ North Pole Reveals Buried Canyon

Scientists Reexamine Why Zebra Stripes Mysteriously Repel Flies

Death and the salesman: the 22-year-old selling human bones for a living

Two minerals never before been seen on Earth found inside 17-ton meteorite

Finding Language in the Brain

The 2022 Nature inFocus photo winners deliver spectacle and surprise

Y chromosome degeneration: Amami spiny rat could be a glimpse of our genetic future

Where did the Earth’s oxygen come from? New study hints at an unexpected source

French man wins right to not be ‘fun’ at work in wrongful termination case

AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating

We can now use cells from dead people to create new life. But who gets to decide?

The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran

A woman who disappeared over five decades ago was found in Fort Worth this week

How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle

Hubble Telescope Observes Surreal Galactic Collision

How Dogs Explore the World Through Smell

The Brain Uses Calculus to Control Fast Movements

Emperor Charles V’s secret code cracked after five centuries

Before the US was a country, Filipinos were likely living in raised, stilted homes over the swamplands outside New Orleans

We now know why black hole jets make high-energy radiation

Climate change: Could centuries-old wheat help feed the planet?

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano is erupting, prompting an ashfall advisory for the Big Island

The High-Temperature Superconductivity Mystery Is Finally Solved

Melting point: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow the thawing of the Arctic?

An AI Found an Unknown ‘Ghost’ Ancestor in The Human Genome

‘I spent over a year capturing this, the largest image ever taken of the complete andromeda galaxy’

How Did a World War II Boat End Up at the Bottom of a California Lake?

A French Village’s Radical Vision of a Good Life with Alzheimer’s

Genetically modified tobacco plant produces cocaine in its leaves

Oxford scientists crack case of why ketchup splatters from near-empty bottle

Video: Egg Drop From Space [26:56]

Gallery: New close-up photos of the moon from Artemis I

Double telescope study of zone where Wow! signal originated comes up empty

What if the dinosaurs hadn’t gone extinct? Why our world might look very different

Video: Aftermath of NASA DART’s Rapid Scheduled Disassembly [14:30]

A physicist just solved 50-year lightning mystery, landmark paper reveals new insights

With JWST Fully Operational Again, we get Images Like This: Saturn’s Moon Titan

Long-lost ancient mural rediscovered in northern Peru after more than a century

Video: Beating Scammers at Their Own Game [10:28]

Parasite gives wolves what it takes to be pack leaders

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Things will be quiet around here for the next few days due to American Thanksgiving. But if you really need something to read:

After renegade nurse chops off man’s foot, state finds heap of system failures

Video: Why plague doctors wore beaked masks [5:32]

Fact Check: Did a Ukrainian Sniper Just Make the World’s Second-Farthest Kill?

The story of the purple tomato — and why its success is a win for GM foods

Discovered in the deep: the squid that makes a decoy out of its own skin

Flocks of assembler robots show potential for making larger structures

Video: What If a Supernova Hits Earth? [11:18]