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The unsettling scourge of obituary spam
theverge.com

His Best Friend Was a Warthog. It Decided to Kill Him.
texasmonthly.com

The First A.I.-Generated Art Dates Back to the 1970s
smithsonianmag.com

The Guy That Built His House in a Sports Stadium
messynessychic.com

Chernobyl’s mutant wolves appear to have developed resistance to cancer, study finds
news.sky.com • (see also)

Is Iceland entering a new volcanic era? Scientists think eruptions on the Reykjanes Peninsula could continue for decades or even centuries.
bbc.com

The Bird That Took a Human Mate
theatlantic.com • Without paywall

This Wall of Lava Lamps Helps Encrypt the Internet
atlasobscura.com

Scientists are “blown away” to find a 1,700-year-old Roman chicken egg still has its yolk inside
bbc.com

The surreal life of a professional bridesmaid
thehustle.co

Surprise Discovery Shows Blue Whales Have Been Mating With Another Species
sciencealert.com

Which came first: Black holes or galaxies?
phys.org

A star’s extreme outburst could be tormenting baby planets
space.com

Before Ingenuity ever landed on Mars, scientists almost managed to kill it
arstechnica.com

Video: A cube that balances on its corner [2:52]
youtube.com • More info

Scientists Slowed Down Light by 10,000 Times in an Experiment
sciencealert.com

World’s most dangerous plant ‘can cause suicidal thoughts’ after someone touches it
unilad.com

Countries Are Building Giant ‘Sand Motors’ to Protect Their Coasts From Erosion
wired.com

A tiny robot set to simulate remote-controlled surgery in space
npr.org

How China Miscalculated Its Way to a Baby Bust
wsj.com • Without paywall

Scientists have identified an immune cell that can cause allergies
english.elpais.com

Stunning Juno flyby image shows Io lit up by “Jupitershine”
newatlas.com

How a Nuclear Weapons Lab Helped Crack a Serial-Killer Case
undark.org

Fossilized frog with belly full of eggs unearthed in China is oldest of its kind
phys.org

Video: Why does this flower smell like a dead body? [5:27]
youtube.com

Voice Pitch Influences Social Perceptions Globally
neurosciencenews.com

Generating Electricity…and Uncertainty
daily.jstor.org

Photographer Endures Icy Temperatures to Photograph Beautiful Arctic Animals
mymodernmet.com

Building robots for “Zero Mass” space exploration
arstechnica.com

Video: 360° Camera Inside of a Spherical Mirror [8:01]
youtube.com

The ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Was a Pilgrimage Site in the Wilderness. Can It Hold Up in a Museum?
outsideonline.com

How changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think
aeon.co

Lava bleeds from Iceland volcano into the frozen landscape in incredible satellite image
livescience.com

A Black Hole Has Cleared Out Its Neighbourhood
universetoday.com

‘Like going to the moon’: The world’s most terrifying ocean crossing
cnn.com • (see also)

Bronze Age ‘treasure’ was crafted with extraterrestrial metal
livescience.com

Researchers fuse materials to make mysterious particle theorized in 1937
interestingengineering.com

Could Forests Become Ultrahigh Energy Neutrino Detectors?
universetoday.com

Video: How Drug Trafficking Actually Works [1:28:49]
youtube.com

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