Printed from https://www.damninteresting.com/curated-links/?before=88933

Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected
arstechnica.com

What is the ‘sunk cost fallacy’? Is it ever a good thing?
theconversation.com

Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons
quantamagazine.org

The world’s most powerful lasers attempting to unlock the secrets of the cosmos
bbc.com

How spacewalks can affect astronauts’ hands
sciencealert.com

Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space
spectrum.ieee.org

Cats have driven many species to extinction. Experts share tactics for reducing feline destruction
salon.com

The Low Down on the Greatest Dictionary Collection in the World
atlasobscura.com

What Today’s Migrant Crisis Looks Like to a Holocaust Refugee
nytimes.com

Brazil’s mysterious tunnels made by giant sloths
bbc.com

Historian debunks claims that Coco Chanel served in the French Resistance
france24.com • (see also)

World’s biggest iceberg moving beyond Antarctic waters
theguardian.com

The electronic noses designed to prevent food poisoning
bbc.com

‘I gave birth at 45. I didn’t know what it could cost me.’
slate.com

How NASA Keeps Ingenuity Going After More than 50 Flights
universetoday.com

Video: The Surprising Genius of Sewing Machines [18:42]
youtube.com

You can’t even pay people to have more kids
vox.com

Super-hot Mercury may have glaciers at its pole
newatlas.com

Tyrian purple: The lost ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold
bbc.com

Why Won’t Governments Regulate AI?
zocalopublicsquare.org

European Basket-Making Is at Least 9,500 Years Old, When It Was Used to Hold Hunter Gatherers’ Valuables
discovermagazine.com

Redeeming the Old Maid
daily.jstor.org

Video: The Last Thing To Ever Happen In The Universe [11:04]
youtube.com

Complex, volatile coast makes preparing for tsunamis tough in Alaska
arstechnica.com • (see also)

Video: Why use many streetlights when one will do? [5:37]
youtube.com

‘I’m Serving Life in Prison. It’s a Slow-Motion Death Sentence’
rollingstone.com

ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis
nature.com

Scientists can now tell where you’re looking by listening to your ears
newatlas.com

What does a sustainable smartphone look like?
bbc.com

Hydrogen discovered in Apollo-era moon rocks could change the future of lunar exploration
livescience.com

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

Super high energy particle falls to Earth, source a mystery
digitaltrends.com

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

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

NASA’s Webb Identifies Methane In an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere
blogs.nasa.gov

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

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

Watch SpaceX Starship explode in stunning telescope footage (video)
space.com

How NASA plans to deorbit the International Space Station
planetary.org

How Much Further Can Mining Go?
thewalrus.ca

Sophisticated swarming: Bacteria support each other across generations
phys.org

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

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

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

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

Bleach does not kill common superbug, study finds
bbc.com

Forensic anthropologists work to identify human skeletal remains and uncover the stories of the unknown dead
theconversation.com • (see also)

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

The challenge to dark matter, MOND, is wrong
iai.tv

JWST Has Found A Young Galaxy With A Surprising Amount of Metals
sciencealert.com

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

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

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
arstechnica.com

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

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

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

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

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

Serotine bats have sex unlike any other mammal
nhm.ac.uk

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