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The Hidden Butterfly Trade: How the lucrative market could spark conservation
nautil.us

Math, like quantum physics, has observer problems
iai.tv

Asbestos: The strange past of the ‘magic mineral’
bbc.com • (see also)

Getting vaccines in different arms improves effectiveness, study finds
newatlas.com

Video: Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED [33:44]
youtube.com

City-size seamount triple the height of world’s tallest building discovered via gravitational anomalies
livescience.com

Amazing Spiral-Shaped Contact Lens Uses ‘Optical Vortex’ to Correct Vision
sciencealert.com

Explosion Light-Years Away Could Obliterate Life on Earth, Scientists Find
futurism.com

People with depression have higher body temperature
knowridge.com • (see also)

JWST Imaged Two Apparent Alien Worlds Still Circling The Bodies of Their Dead Stars
sciencealert.com

Big, dead European satellite will crash back to Earth this month
space.com

NASA Engineers Are Racing to Fix Voyager 1
wired.com

Police Find Ancient Teenager’s Body, Preserved in Irish Bog for 2,500 Years
smithsonianmag.com

Ransomware Payments Hit a Record $1.1 Billion in 2023
wired.com

Astronomers Measure the Mass of the Milky Way by Calculating How Hard it is to Escape
universetoday.com

The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. This is the story of scientists’ quest to decode it – and read people’s minds
theconversation.com

‘AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’’
vice.com

These Pits Carved Into Rocks in Kenya Might Be Ancient Game Boards
smithsonianmag.com

In High Altitude Archaeology, One Woman Isn’t Scared of Heights—Or Mummies
atlasobscura.com

Will this new solar maximum solve the puzzle of the sun’s gamma-ray picture?
phys.org

Video: There’s a Tax Season Villain, and It’s Not the I.R.S. [15:04]
youtube.com

A stunning image of a young polar bear drifting to sleep wins a wildlife-photographer competition
bbc.com

Was an Antiwar Russian Tricked Into Carrying Out an Assassination Plot?
newyorker.com

Earthquake or nuclear bomb? Telling the difference just got easier
cosmosmagazine.com

This Medieval Sword Spent 1,000 Years at the Bottom of a Polish River
smithsonianmag.com

Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog Who Waited For His Deceased Owner for Ten Years
rarehistoricalphotos.com

The Bloody Rivalry That Led to the Fall of Democracy in Athens
crimereads.com

Will Plants Ever Fertilize Themselves?
newyorker.com

A Computer in Every Kitchen?
daily.jstor.org • (see also)

A Hidden Hydrothermal World Was Just Discovered Under a Legendary Lake
popularmechanics.com

Former Google News Director Admits Big Tech Is Killing Journalism
futurism.com

Saturn’s tiny moon Mimas seems to have an ocean, too
arstechnica.com

Blazing Saddles at 50: the button-pushing spoof that could never get made today
theguardian.com

Fusion Facility Generates Twice the Power Put Into It
futurism.com

Scientists Are About to Chart a Course Through the Fabric of Space-Time
popularmechanics.com

Asteroid Impact Near Berlin Reveals Rare Aubrite Treasures
scitechdaily.com

NASA Just Dropped Stunning Close-Up Pics of Volcanic Eruptions on Jupiter’s Moon Io
sciencealert.com

Video: Why Russia Tried to Block This Canal [8:49]
youtube.com

‘Spoon worms lick the seabed with a metre-long tongue’: a voyage into a vanishing Arctic world
theguardian.com

War in space is no longer science fiction
economist.com • Without paywall

A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld
newyorker.com

Discovery of Ancient Mongolian Saddle Rewrites the History of Horse Riding
scitechdaily.com

‘This trippy optical illusion house by Roy Lichtenstein makes me question my eyes’
boingboing.net

Black holes not only existed at the dawn of time, they birthed new stars and supercharged galaxy formation
hub.jhu.edu

Death’s Riddle: Scientists Decipher the Brain’s Final Signals
scitechdaily.com

Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields
quantamagazine.org

Video: What if you threw a baseball at nearly light speed? [3:14]
youtube.com

Scientists Are Using Machine Learning To Decode The Language of Chickens
inverse.com

The smallest known molecular knot is made of just 54 atoms
sciencenews.org

Scientists Train AI Using Headcam Footage From Human Toddler
futurism.com

Big Companies Cashed In on Mississippi’s Water. Small Towns Paid the Price.
nytimes.com

Remembering Stardust, the craft that traveled billions of miles and returned with extraterrestrial cargo
astronomy.com

We’ve Already Seen Category 6 Hurricanes—Now Scientists Want to Make It Official
eos.org

‘UFOs and Aliens: As a Scientist, I Believe in Both, But Here’s Where I Draw the Line’
popularmechanics.com

Can psychopaths learn to feel empathy?
livescience.com • (see also)

Massive Caverns Excavated for New Particle Accelerator in South Dakota
gizmodo.com

Zoozve — the strange ‘moon’ of Venus that earned its name by accident
space.com

NASA wants to put a massive telescope on the moon
phys.org • (see also)

Video: Have we been doing Solar wrong all along? [13:29]
youtube.com

Andrey Shevelyov would rather live on the street than take antipsychotic medication. Should it be his decision to make?
nytimes.com