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How Your Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions
wired.com

X marks the spot: newly released treasure map sparks hunt for £15m Nazi hoard
theguardian.com • (see also)

Astronauts are now building parts in space that can’t be made on Earth
washingtonpost.com

Astronomers May Have Solved The Mystery of The Bubbles Towering Over The Milky Way
sciencealert.com

Old NASA satellite may crash to Earth from space on Sunday
mashable.com

Video: ‘My Next Guest with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy’ [44:01]
youtube.com

Study reveals how humans lost their body hair
techexplorist.com

This Frozen Cave Lion Is So Well Preserved You Can Still See Its Whiskers
sciencealert.com

Hubble Finds Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction: Mysterious “Ghost” Stars Wandering Around for Billions of Years
scitechdaily.com

This week: 🔋Swiss water batteries, 🧬genetic exhumation, 🥂champagne history, and more!
damninteresting.com

Why are antennas popping up all over the foothills? Salt Lake City seeks to solve mystery
ksltv.com • (see also)

Pigeon wearing crystal meth ‘like a backpack’ caught inside B.C. prison yard
cbc.ca • (see also)

Meet The Spy Tech Companies Helping Landlords Evict People
vice.com

Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?
news.mit.edu

Will We Know Alien Life When We See It?
nautil.us

A promising oral drug delivery platform could replace injections with pills
drugtargetreview.com

Widening Highways Doesn’t Fix Traffic. So Why Do We Keep Doing It?
nytimes.com

Twitter Promised Them Severance. They Got Nothing
wired.com

Io is Having a Major Volcanic Outburst
universetoday.com

Perseverance rover marks 1 Mars year on Red Planet
space.com

How an Iraqi Instagram Influencer Became a People Smuggler
wired.com

New space missions will launch to the moon, Jupiter and a metal world in 2023
cnn.com

Missing link? A newly-discovered fossil looks like the halfway point between birds and dinosaurs
salon.com

The truffle industry is a big scam. Not just truffle oil, everything
tasteatlas.com

James Webb spots Milky-Way-like galaxies earlier than thought possible
newatlas.com

Advancing Our Understanding of ADHD – Scientists Discover Genomic Differences in Brain Tissue
scitechdaily.com

Edward Norton is direct descendant of Pocahontas, records confirm
theguardian.com

The Circus Came to Town—and Bought the Place
archive.ph

What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble’s Surprising Turnaround?
tedgioia.substack.com

Researchers develop a light source that produces two entangled light beams
phys.org

What Bird Longevity Might Teach Us About Human Health
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Why Some Western Snow Is Turning Pink
smithsonianmag.com • (see also)

It Takes 6,000 Gallons of Water to Cool the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
bloomberg.com

How humans got a new gene that makes our brains larger
arstechnica.com

Thomas Jefferson’s Gourmand Explorers
daily.jstor.org

The Physics Principle That Inspired Modern AI Art
quantamagazine.org

Video: Why do beavers build dams? [4:44]
youtube.com

Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?
hannahritchie.substack.com

What did people do before toilet paper was invented?
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NASA And SpaceX Consider Daring Plan To ‘Reboost’ The Hubble Space Telescope
forbes.com

Japan’s beloved slow-motion train
bbc.com

A Visit to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
theatlantic.com

Would You Sell One of Your Kidneys?
wired.com

Does reality exist when we’re not looking?
livescience.com

Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery
bbc.com

Trapped in the Trenches in Ukraine
newyorker.com

Coastal Job: Shipwreck Forensic Analyst
hakaimagazine.com • (see also)

The Remarkable Emptiness of Existence
nautil.us

Has the Amazon Reached Its ‘Tipping Point’?
nytimes.com

The Curious Case of Nebraska Man
magazine.atavist.com

Government Scientists Discover Entirely New Kind of Quantum Entanglement in Breakthrough
vice.com

Contrary to Popular Belief, the Big Bang Is Not a Theory of the Creation of Our Universe
popularmechanics.com

Video: Wagner Group: How Russian Mercenaries Help Putin in Ukraine [4:24]
youtube.com

Earth reaches its closest point to the sun — just in time to be slammed by a solar storm
livescience.com • (see also)

An Experimental Cancer Vaccine Turned Tumor Cells Into Traitors
gizmodo.com

Guardian offices closed until 23 January due to ongoing fallout from suspected ransomware attack
pressgazette.co.uk

Inside Ancient Asteroids, Gamma Rays Made Building Blocks of Life
quantamagazine.org

2.6 billion-year-old ancestors of the CRISPR gene-editing tool are resurrected
phys.org

Snowflake Bentley’s 19th-century images of snow crystals put online
theguardian.com

Scientists Destroyed 95% of Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Just 45 Minutes, Study Reports
vice.com • (see also)