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“A Revolutionary Beauty Secret!” On the Rise and Fall of Radium in the Beauty Industry
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Chickpeas are in peril. Gene editing could save them.
expmag.com

Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing
quantamagazine.org

The Bank Robbers Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight (Or Do Anything Right, Really)
narratively.com

The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth
theguardian.com

The Planets with the Giant Diamonds Inside
nautil.us

Scientists Studying Temperature at Which Humans Spontaneously Die With Increasing Urgency
vice.com

Video: Fans; High is next to Off on purpose [17:47]
youtube.com

How deep brain stimulation changes a person’s sense of confidence
aeon.co

The Space Shuttle Engines Will Rise Again
popularmechanics.com

Video: New Lakes Discovered Under Antarctic Ice with NASA’s ICESat-2 [1:55]
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It’s not just bad behavior – why social media design makes it hard to have constructive disagreements online
theconversation.com

Fear of an Insect Planet
daily.jstor.org

This star cluster is slowly being taken over by black holes. In a billion years they’ll kill it.
syfy.com

‘Social’ Mitochondria, Whispering Between Cells, Influence Health
quantamagazine.org

A shadowy birthplace may explain Jupiter’s strange chemistry
sciencenews.org

The U.S. Military Is Testing a Pill That Could Delay Aging
popularmechanics.com

Video: How Taiwan held off Covid-19, until it didn’t [9:40]
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The Croatian village where the land became ‘Swiss cheese’
bbc.com

11-Year-Old Gets Physics Degree, Says He’ll Use It to Attain Technological Immortality
futurism.com

The Pros and Cons of Spiky Genitals
theatlantic.com

Chinese researchers propose deflecting ‘Armageddon’ asteroids with rockets
reuters.com

Methane in the plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus: Possible signs of life?
phys.org

“Hearing contact lens” claimed to outperform regular hearing aids
newatlas.com

How the Beaches of the South Got There
daily.jstor.org

Did lead poisoning cause downfall of Roman Empire? The jury is still out
arstechnica.com • (see also)

How children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks
bbc.com

Damn.
damninteresting.com

Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)
theguardian.com

Psychedelic spurs growth of neural connections lost in depression
news.yale.edu

China demonstrates most powerful quantum computer
cosmosmagazine.com

Video: How To Terraform Venus (Quickly) [12:47]
youtube.com

Kepler telescope glimpses population of free-floating planets
phys.org

No Soil. No Growing Seasons. Just Add Water and Technology.
nytimes.com

The AI Wolf That Preferred Suicide Over Eating Sheep
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Microbes that feast on crushed rocks thrive in Antarctica’s ice-covered lakes
livescience.com • (see also)

NASA Mars helicopter pulls off ‘most nerve-wracking flight since Flight 1’
cnet.com

A New Kind of Ransomware Tsunami Hits Hundreds of Companies
wired.com

Solar-Powered Moon Rovers Will Help Scientists Seek Lunar Ice
discovermagazine.com

Video: What Really Happened at the Hernando de Soto Bridge? [12:54]
youtube.com • (see also)

Blood Types, Explained (Plus: How To Find Yours)
popularmechanics.com

What Made Early Humans Smart
nautil.us

This week: 🕷️ Spider blankets 🍴 Sexual cannibalism 🦅 Quantum birds …and more!
damninteresting.com

Compelling new clues to how gut bacteria can influence social behavior
newatlas.com

There’s Something About Lizard Blood
daily.jstor.org

The hunt for extraterrestrial life is about to enter a new era
newscientist.com

Here’s what a Falcon 9 looks like after 8 flights to space in a year
arstechnica.com

140 years ago today, U.S. president James Garfield was shot by an assassin
damninteresting.com

Gallery: A new road to an inaccessible land
bbc.com

Breakthrough CRISPR Gene Therapy Could Be a ‘One and Done’ Injection
singularityhub.com

Watch thousands of fire ants form living ‘conveyor belts’ to escape floods (Video)
livescience.com

The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago
theguardian.com

Brighter Than a Billion Billion Suns: Gamma-Ray Bursts Continue to Surprise
quantamagazine.org

Science YouTuber Wins $10,000 Bet With Physicist
vice.com

Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for the first time
news.mit.edu

On this day in 1953 the strange and tormented movie “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.” first appeared in theaters
damninteresting.com

How Trees Act As NYC’s “Natural Air Conditioning Units”
gothamist.com

Video: Trick Your Sense Of Taste In 5 Different Ways [12:56]
youtube.com

Success in Reversing Dementia in Mice Sets the Stage for Human Clinical Trials
tohoku.ac.jp

Radioactive wild boar-pig hybrid emerged from nuclear wasteland of Fukushima
stuff.co.nz