JWST takes regular selfies to check the status of the mirrors. This one was from yesterday

Super high energy particle falls to Earth, source a mystery

Honeybees cluster together when it’s cold – but we’ve been completely wrong about why

It is Thanksgiving in the USA, so we are off until Monday. In the meantime, explore a wealth of interesting stuff here:

NASA’s Webb Identifies Methane In an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

Video: A close look at the highest railway bridge in the world [04:49]

The Strange $55 Million Saga of a Netflix Series You’ll Never See

Watch SpaceX Starship explode in stunning telescope footage (video)

How NASA plans to deorbit the International Space Station

How Much Further Can Mining Go?

Sophisticated swarming: Bacteria support each other across generations

1st black hole ever imaged is losing energy through ‘lightsaber’ jets

Video: The boring truth about the Library of Alexandria [22:35]

60 years after JFK’s assassination, the agent who tried to save him opens up

On this day in 1987, a Max Headroom doppelgänger seized control of televisions in Chicago

Bleach does not kill common superbug, study finds

Forensic anthropologists work to identify human skeletal remains and uncover the stories of the unknown dead

Worm’s butt grows eyes and then swims away to make babies

The challenge to dark matter, MOND, is wrong

JWST Has Found A Young Galaxy With A Surprising Amount of Metals

Can we grow veggies on Mars? Fly larvae and synthetic soil may hold the answer

Hoard of 100,000 centuries-old coins discovered in Japan

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024

Twitter’s Former Head of Trust and Safety Finally Breaks Her Silence

James Webb Space Telescope sees major star factory near the Milky Way’s black hole (image)

‘Missing’ blob of water predicted to be in the Atlantic finally found

Video: Roundabouts Are Safer. So Why Does The U.S. Have So Few Of Them? [17:18]

Could Wooden Satellites Reduce Space Junk? The First Is Set to Launch Next Year

Serotine bats have sex unlike any other mammal

Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records

Unraveling the surprisingly complex history of crocodiles

The High-Flying Life of Mary Riddle

Banksy reveals real name in unearthed 2003 interview with BBC

Unique weather phenomenon may have helped Ukraine identify and sink Russian ship Moskva

High-power fiber lasers emerge as a pioneering technology

The Breathtaking Discoveries Of Sorcerer II

Rats Have Taken Over Our Cities—And We Can’t Stop Them

Why Restoring a Banksy Mural in Venice Is So Controversial

Female Archeologist Ommited From History Finally Receives Justice Almost a Century Later

‘The Hum’ Noise: Mystery Sound Is Invading Towns – What Is It?

Steamboat Willie: How Mickey Mouse’s first appearance saved Walt Disney from ruin and changed cinema forever

Video: These Cats Have Human Eyes [6:47]

The Bloody, 76-Hour Battle on a Tiny Atoll That Helped End World War II

More than 200 people convicted in Italian mafia ‘maxi trial’

Did a magician help vanquish the Nazis in World War Two?

The Dramatic Data Rescue From a Doomed Balloon-Borne Telescope

Good profits from bad news: How the Kennedy assassination helped make network TV news wealthy

Unveiling Mercury’s geological mysteries: Salt glaciers, primordial atmosphere, and the new frontiers of astrobiology

Visual Deconstruction of Processed Food

Video: ‘I Challenged Boston Dynamics’ Famous Atlas Robot’ [17:11]

Inside the Chaos at OpenAI

That’s not a potato: mystery of Egyptian treasures found buried in grounds of Scottish school

James Webb telescope discovers ‘Cosmic Vine’ of 20 connected galaxies sprawling through the early universe

MIT tests new ingestible sensor that records your breathing through your intestines

Video: The gory history of barber surgeons [5:35]

On this day in 1980, a shallow freshwater lake was accidentally converted to a deep saltwater lake

Why you age slower on a plane (and other incredibly strange effects of relativity)

Don Walsh: The man who made the deepest ever dive

The School Shooting That Austin Forgot

Mathematicians Have Found The Ninth Dedekind Number, After 32 Years of Searching