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Why it’ll be hard to tell if AI ever becomes conscious
technologyreview.com

The Quest to Quantify Quantumness
quantamagazine.org

NASA tests new kind of Artemis moon-rocket engine in dramatic ‘hot fire’ test
space.com

If There Was Ever Life on Mars, this Ancient Mud Lake is the Perfect Place to Look
universetoday.com

What Are the Loudest Animals in the World?
discovermagazine.com

The role of the gut microbiome in causing Alzheimer’s disease has finally been confirmed
sciencealert.com

The Sahara Desert Grows Green Every 21,000 Years
popularmechanics.com

Dawn of the Bathroom
daily.jstor.org

Stench leads officials to 189 rotting corpses at taxidermist’s funeral home
arstechnica.com

Mathematicians Found 12,000 Solutions to the Notoriously Hard Three-Body Problem
popularmechanics.com

The History of Precrime
daily.jstor.org

NASA’s Webb Discovers New Feature in Jupiter’s Atmosphere
nasa.gov

Why You Don’t Need to Rake the Leaves
nytimes.com

Limbo in Tbilisi: On the Lives of Russian Expats Fleeing the Kremlin
lithub.com

What the first evidence of a spinning supermassive black hole means.
nautil.us

Panspermia theory dives under other worlds’ ocean ice crust
aeon.co

Video: What a Japanese Neighbourhood Bar is Like [15:30]
youtube.com

Why Is Space So Dark Even Though The Universe Is Filled With Stars?
discovermagazine.com

These Rare Daguerrotypes Are the Earliest Surviving Photos of Iran in the 1850s
mymodernmet.com

How to fix the internet
technologyreview.com

Video: Australia is Building a $125BN Mega-Railway [9:55]
youtube.com

Revolutionary Bionic Hand Fuses With Woman’s Bones, Muscles, And Nerves
sciencealert.com

Deep asleep? You can still follow simple commands, study finds
nature.com • (see also)

Keju, China’s incredibly difficult civil service test, strengthened the state at the cost of freedom and creativity
aeon.co • (see also)

Beyond the Myth of Rural America
newyorker.com

Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
wellcomecollection.org

‘I stopped counting how many friends died’: life after the contaminated blood scandal
theguardian.com

The Botched Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Killer
nytimes.com

Galactic archeology reveals Milky Way’s neighbor Andromeda has a violent past
space.com

The Villa Where a Doctor Experimented on Children
newyorker.com

Earth’s Core Appears to Be Leaking In the Arctic and Scientists Don’t Know Why
vice.com

Thirty years ago, astronomer Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn a passing space probe’s instruments on Earth to look for life
nature.com

Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory
quantamagazine.org • (see also)

The zero-waste city: what Kiel in Germany can teach the world
theguardian.com

New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly
nature.com

ESA looks at melting moondust to lay down lunar roads
newatlas.com

Did Ancient Egyptians Know Meteorites Came From Space?
smithsonianmag.com

In its first year JWST proves its worth
cosmosmagazine.com

Video: How Facebook Helped Break an Entire Country [24:10]
youtube.com

The Cold, Hard Truth About What Will Happen to Us When the Sun Dies
popularmechanics.com

On this day in 1959 humanity received its first grainy images of the far side of the moon
damninteresting.com

In search of the Old Ones: Where to find the world’s longest-lived trees
bbc.com

Video: Fly across Mars’s ‘labyrinth of night’ with Mars Express [3:50]
youtube.com

Why People Love to Watch Influencers Get Punched In the Face
nytimes.com

Guinness World Records crowns new hottest pepper
bbc.com

AI Chatbots Can Guess Your Personal Information From What You Type
wired.com

‘The elephant I was riding threw me, then rolled over me like a steamroller. All my bones broke at once’
theguardian.com

20-Year Study Reveals: Neanderthals Were As Intelligent as Homo sapiens
scitechdaily.com

Mathematicians Are Close to Building the Perfect Periodic Table of Shapes
popularmechanics.com

Nikon Small World 2023 photo microscopy contest: Meet this year’s top 20 winners
arstechnica.com

New brain atlas offers comprehensive map of the human brain
technologyreview.com

Why Santorini Is Widely Considered One of the Most Beautiful Places on the Planet
mossandfog.com

Video: Does recycling your plastic actually work? [5:42]
youtube.com

Scientists propose sweeping new law of nature, expanding on evolution
thehindu.com

The Inside Job: A crooked cop, a dead man and an $800,000 estate fraud
torontolife.com

‘When I tried to play, my hand spasmed and shook’: why musicians get the yips
theguardian.com

What’s Really the Average Human Body Temperature?
smithsonianmag.com

That familiar unfamiliar feeling: What the opposite of déjà vu can tell us about cognitive delusions
salon.com

Rising oil prices, surging inflation: The Arab embargo 50 years ago weaponized oil to inflict economic trauma
theconversation.com

Computers Are Learning to Smell
theatlantic.com