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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

What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything
quantamagazine.org

Texas Town’s Misery Underscores the Impact of Bitcoin Mines
time.com

Video: Flash photography used to be pretty wild [33:52]
youtube.com

Scientists Transformed Pure Water Into a Metal – And There’s Video
sciencealert.com

1st look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even be ‘a fragment of an ancient ocean world’
space.com

Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Seen in Melting Tibetan Glaciers
sciencealert.com

The next generation of mRNA vaccines is on its way
technologyreview.com

Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis?
nytimes.com

Huge atom-smasher bid to find missing 95% of Universe
bbc.com

Video: The photography behind Earthrise [14:04]
youtube.com

This Eight-Day Festival Celebrates One of Alaska’s Weirdest Worms
smithsonianmag.com • (see also)

Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist
arstechnica.com

Secret agent protein could help understand longevity and cancer
cosmosmagazine.com

‘If you scream you are a dead duck’: At 14, my mother left me alone all summer – then the man with a knife found me
theguardian.com

In a ‘Dark Dimension,’ Physicists Search for Missing Matter
quantamagazine.org

Stone Age People Used This 35,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Tusk Tool to Make Rope, Scientists Say
smithsonianmag.com

Lunar science is entering a new active phase, with commercial launches of landers that will study solar wind and peer into the universe’s dark ages
theconversation.com

‘How I got scammed’ (Cory Doctorow)
pluralistic.net

AI helps scholars read scroll buried when Vesuvius erupted in AD79
theguardian.com

How Dangerous are Kilonovae?
universetoday.com

The Biggest Snowflake Ever Recorded Is Much Larger Than You’d Think
mymodernmet.com • (see also)