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Computers Are Learning to Smell
theatlantic.com

Theft and Larceny: The Edwardian Women Forced to Pose in Police Mugshots, 1900s
rarehistoricalphotos.com

There’s a morning-after pill to prevent sexually transmitted infections
vox.com

The Source of The Most Colossal Marsquake Ever Detected Is a Huge Surprise
sciencealert.com

James Webb Space Telescope detects quartz crystals in an exoplanet’s atmosphere
space.com

Stunning photo of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io is our best in decades
newscientist.com

Video: there’dn’t’ve [4:34]
youtube.com

Vintage Toasters: How These Small Wonders Have Evolved Over the Years
rarehistoricalphotos.com

On this day in 1964 China conducted its first test of a nuclear bomb
damninteresting.com

How the Iron Horse Spelled Doom for the American Buffalo
lithub.com

Vivid satellite footage shows solar eclipse hitting Earth from space
mashable.com

How an ancient society in the Sahara Desert rose and fell with groundwater
phys.org

Video: What Satellites Can See From Space Is Troubling [15:36]
youtube.com

The family who left America to live in their ancestral Italian cave
cnn.com

Focused ultrasound turns chemo from shotgun blast to sniper shot
newatlas.com

The First Black American to Reach the North Pole
daily.jstor.org

A Ukrainian Tanker Needed Help With a Captured T-72. So He Called Russian Tech Support.
popularmechanics.com

AI-enabled scams will proliferate
macleans.ca

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Kenya and a railway to nowhere
bbc.com

The Army Finally Fielded Its Drone-Killing Laser Weapon. It Could Reshape Today’s Battlefield
popularmechanics.com

The Lincolnshire village honoured in every Disney film since 2006
bbc.com • (see also)

Scientists explain unique formation of ancient algae that evolved photosynthesis and oxygenated the planet
phys.org • (see also)

Ramjet-powered artillery shell sets new range record
newatlas.com

In History: How Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics shook the world
bbc.com

Google’s New Phone Adds Smiles to Your Photos Even If Everyone Was Miserable
futurism.com

3 powerful earthquakes strike Afghanistan in one week – here’s how people around the world prepare for disasters
theconversation.com

Why Uncontacted Tribes Want to Stay Uncontacted
theatlantic.com

How Megafires Are Remaking the World
nytimes.com

‘Should I worry about my clicking joints – and stop cracking my knuckles?’
theguardian.com

Thousands of Fanzor DNA cutters that may outperform CRISPR identified
newatlas.com

‘This is the cost of living in seawater’: The ingenious and (to us) heartbreaking way turtles survive the salty oceans
livescience.com

Video: Old pinball machines are amazingly complex [50:08]
youtube.com

‘Extremely rare’ Jurassic-era fossils discovered in Lake Powell
theguardian.com

‘I Study Climate Change. The Data Is Telling Us Something New.’
nytimes.com

Félicette the French space cat, the world’s only feline astronaut
rfi.fr • (see also)

The rise and fall of the BlackBerry
theguardian.com

Video: Mark Twain | Edison Film | Digitally Restored [3:30]
youtube.com • (see also)

Neanderthals may have hunted mighty cave lions
popsci.com

Strange Form of Ice Found That Only Melts at Extremely Hot Temperatures
sciencealert.com

Why do we want to go back to the moon?
english.elpais.com

The Senses Animals Have That Humans Don’t
discovermagazine.com

How eclipses have shaped history
bbc.com

Video: The race to mine the bottom of the ocean [11:12]
youtube.com

“Hallucinating” AIs Sound Creative, but Let’s Not Celebrate Being Wrong
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

DARPA preps program to protect mixed reality users against cognitive attacks
sociable.co

Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore
newyorker.com

How sound is providing new clues about the Universe
bbc.com

Cars are a ‘privacy nightmare on wheels’. Here’s how they get away with collecting and sharing your data
theconversation.com

The “Miserable Spectacle” of Executing People With Serious Mental Illness
slate.com

New Stars Forming Uncomfortably Close to the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
universetoday.com

How Mars Lost Its Magnetic Field—and Then Its Oceans
daily.jstor.org

Psyche mission launches as NASA’s first trip to a metal world
cnn.com

Neanderthals hunted dangerous cave lions, study shows
phys.org

Rare Photos of Moscow From the Late 19th Century
rarehistoricalphotos.com • (see also)

Croak it: Female frogs fake death to avoid sex with unappealing males
newatlas.com

Earth’s crust swallowed a sea’s worth of water and locked it away beneath Pacific seafloor
livescience.com

‘Like missing a series finale’: Canada abruptly ends official time signal
theguardian.com

The First Guy to Break the Internet
narratively.com

Nanomaterial stimulates and regrows severed nerves like sci-fi tech
newatlas.com

Scientific evidence supports safe discharge of Fukushima wastewater into the Pacific Ocean
phys.org