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Artificial Intelligence used to design brand new viruses
bbc.com

The political implications of Hiroshima’s scarred “maidens”
thebulletin.org

Pumas can help prevent car crashes
popsci.com

Extreme evolution: The animals evolving at super speed to survive
bbc.com

Global Warming Is Rapidly Accelerating, New Paper Finds
futurism.com

AI before AI: The legacy of Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics
france24.com • (see also)

Hackers just broke into America’s tap water
vox.com

Magical Mystery Toads
longreads.com

This organ will play one composition until 2640. It’s redefining how slowly music can be played
apnews.com • (see also)

Video: Scientists Finally Figured Out Why This River Flows Uphill [11:42]
youtube.com

COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you
nature.com • Mirror

On this day in 1945 the USA dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
damninteresting.com

‘Spectral lines’ and a giant plume: what science saw when the SpaceX rocket hit the moon
theguardian.com

Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot
quantamagazine.org

A Mystery Object in the Milky Way Is Blasting Out Particles 100 Times More Powerful Than the LHC
gizmodo.com

The extraordinary comeback of Zimbabwe’s endangered black rhinos
nationalgeographic.com

Video: We might have found aliens. Then we ran out of money. [23:30]
youtube.com

Earth’s Coldest Temperature in 14 Years Recorded at Antarctica’s Concordia Station
discovermagazine.com

Astronaut Snaps Photo of Super Typhoon on His iPhone
petapixel.com

A New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth by Tracing Early Chemical Reactions in Single-Celled Organisms
smithsonianmag.com

What can scientists learn from a stray SpaceX rocket hitting the Moon?
bbc.com

Video: How HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed [28:09]
youtube.com

The truth about blushing: why we do it, how we can resist it
theguardian.com

What triggered one of the most dramatic changes in Earth’s history?
science.org • (see also)

Scientist Constructs “Big Picture” of Mars Water from Rover Data
universetoday.com

German WWII shipwrecks resurface in Danube River
popsci.com

Scientists photograph the sun’s surface in the finest detail yet
apnews.com

Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer’s AI Mandates
aftermath.site

On this day in 1931 an antiquated submarine set off for the North Pole
damninteresting.com

‘I was a death row lawyer. Here’s why I now joke about capital punishment’
theguardian.com • (see also)

Video: The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground [18:27]
youtube.com

Humans did not invent art. It was the other way around
aeon.co

To combat AI deepfake scammers, set a family codeword
bbc.com

Social Media’s Last Taboo: It’s okay to be every kind of person online — except struggling
thecut.com • Mirror • (see also)

NASA Engineers Help Prolong Voyager 2’s Science Mission
science.nasa.gov • (see also)

The Hank Green ChatGPT Backlash Is a Warning For All Founders
inc.com

The Star That Exploded Without Hydrogen
universetoday.com

Earth Has a Billion Years Left. This Plan Could Stretch It to 9 Quadrillion
gizmodo.com

The Seinfeld Chronicles
seinfeld.visualisingdata.com

A Diver Found a $3 Million Gold Cross Hidden Under a Shipwreck. Then a Thief Replaced It With a Plastic Fake.
popularmechanics.com

Refuse collectors help Italian woman recover binned €1m lottery ticket
theguardian.com

Antarctica’s Blood Falls teems with life from unexpected source
popsci.com

SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon
cnn.com

AI Is Great for Poisoning the Internet With Fake Tech History
gizmodo.com

‘When you kill it, it doesn’t die’: the jellyfish that has cracked the secret of immortality
theguardian.com • (see also)

On this day in 1997 the capital of Montserrat was buried by a volcano
damninteresting.com

Amazing High-Res Photo Shows a Butte Rising From Mars
petapixel.com • Direct link

Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
quantamagazine.org

The Mysterious Case of the JetBlue Flight That Went Into Free Fall
nymag.com • Mirror

Video: The Impenetrable Barrier Trapping Us in the Solar System [14:07]
youtube.com

The Whistleblowers Who Exposed Decades of Nuclear Lies
magazine.atavist.com • (see also)

Ray Bradbury’s famous 1950 short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” was set on this day – August 4, 2026 (PDF)
users.wpi.edu • Animated Soviet adaptation • Comic adaptation

The Allure and Peril of Riding an Alaskan Wave for Six Miles
nytimes.com • (see also)

Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission
arstechnica.com

Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics
arstechnica.com

This Man Turned Human Corpses Into Popular Museum Displays. Now, the Creator of These Controversial ‘Body Worlds’ Has Donated His Own Body to Science
smithsonianmag.com

Soviet Gold Sat Trapped in a Sunken Submarine for 40 Years. Then, Divers Pulled Off a Daring Rescue.
popularmechanics.com

The Bagpiper’s Endless Quest for a Place to Practice
nytimes.com

New Observations Reveal the Staggering Scale of the Universe’s Largest Galaxy
thedebrief.org

The body snatchers: how a young Nigerian man was lured to London in an organ-trafficking plot
theguardian.com