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You Know It’s a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?
wired.com

Video: How Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa [13:16]
youtube.com

China’s space plane apparently deployed 6 ‘mysterious wingmen’ in orbit
space.com

Dopamine undermines the joy of the everyday
iai.tv

Quantum batteries could charge by breaking our understanding of time
newatlas.com

Chimps Can Still Remember Faces After a Quarter Century
nytimes.com

Video: The Rarest Fish on Earth Doesn’t Swim [7:28]
youtube.com

Five key blood markers linked to suicide have been identified
newatlas.com

What would happen if you drilled all the way through Earth?
livescience.com • (see also)

Volcano in Iceland erupts weeks after thousands were evacuated from nearby town
npr.org

How Christmas Murder Mysteries Became a U.K. Holiday Tradition
atlasobscura.com

Video: A Flight Over Pluto
youtube.com

Rediscovered Rembrandt Portraits May Be the Artist’s Smallest Paintings
hyperallergic.com

Seeing is Believing. Right?
mcgill.ca • (see also)

First discovery of carbon-based cave art in France’s Dordogne region could pave way for precise radiocarbon dating
phys.org

‘It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads?
theguardian.com • (see also)

100 years ago, the KKK planted bombs at a US university
theconversation.com • (see also)

Step inside the secretive world of toymakers
cbc.ca

Electrified cloth extracts uranium from seawater
newatlas.com

Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolved math problem
technologyreview.com

Video: Why the government drops flies on California [6:35]
youtube.com

Canadian researcher cracks 135-year-old ‘unsolvable’ code
ca.news.yahoo.com • (see also)

Webb rings in the holidays with the ringed planet Uranus
esawebb.org

How do you make cosmic sausage?
popsci.com

Physicists Discover Surprising Quantum-Like Behavior in Tiny Bouncing Droplets
sciencealert.com

With Long Necks and Vicious Predators, How Exactly Did Dinosaurs Sleep?
discovermagazine.com

It’s Been 2 Months. Why Can’t NASA Open the Asteroid Sample Container?
gizmodo.com

Video: The Oldest Voices We Can Still Hear [15:32]
youtube.com

New Clues Emerge About the the Fluffy Dogs Once Bred for Their Wool
atlasobscura.com

‘A pile of dirt makes me drool’: why some people crave and eat inedible things
theguardian.com

What Happens in the Brain While Daydreaming?
hms.harvard.edu

NASA reveals first image of ‘space tomatoes’ that went missing on the ISS for 8 months, and they’re gross
livescience.com

Reindeer’s blue eyes act as night vision goggles to help them find food in winter
theguardian.com

White-hot thermal grid battery aims to decimate lithium on price
newatlas.com

Video: You’ll never guess the most popular internet country code [11:13]
youtube.com

Mount Everest Is on Thin Ice
wsj.com

Sun’s strongest solar flare in years knocks out radio frequencies
axios.com • (see also)

Channel 1’s eerily real [AI] newscasters suggest a tumultuous future for online video
arstechnica.com

Scientists drilled through 500 metres of Greenland’s ice — here’s what they found at the bottom
nature.com • (see also)

Video: First Contact: a documentary about an isolated civilization’s first encounter with white outsiders (1982) [55:21]
archive.org • Part 2

Parasite Black Holes Could Be Eating Away at Stars From The Inside
sciencealert.com

SETI’s 1st ‘conversation’ with a humpback whale offers insight on how to talk to E.T.
space.com • (see also)

Oldest fortresses in the world discovered
phys.org

Why do these mosquitoes keep perching on the nostrils of frogs who want to eat them?
cbc.ca

This Device Might Be England’s Oldest Dated Scientific Instrument
smithsonianmag.com

Life-Sparking Chemistry Discovered On Enceladus
astrobiology.com

China brings world’s first Generation IV nuclear reactor online
newatlas.com

How the Boston Tea Party’s ‘destruction of the tea’ changed American history
theconversation.com

Meet your new landlord: Google
businessinsider.com

Making Sense of Santa, as a Science Reporter and a Parent
lithub.com

NASA shares incredible [timelapse] footage of Artemis I capsule hurtling through Earth’s atmosphere after historic moon voyage
livescience.com • Realtime video

Robotic third arm controlled by breathing is surprisingly easy to use
newscientist.com

15 Years of Data Sheds New Light on Betelgeuse’s ‘Great Dimming’
sciencealert.com

An Internet video purportedly shows a tornado being blown up. Is that possible?
arstechnica.com

Neanderthal DNA may explain why some of us are morning people
theguardian.com

Are tiny black holes hiding within giant stars?
science.org

‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Japan says reason behind 1,200 tonnes of fish washing ashore is unknown
theguardian.com

Australian woman jailed for 20 years for death of her four children has conviction quashed
reuters.com

The Destruction of the Nord Stream Pipeline Is the Mystery No One Wants Solved
archive.is • (see also)

Rolls-Royce unveils mock-up of future Moon reactor
newatlas.com