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1,000-year-old remains in Finland may be non-binary iron age leader
theguardian.com

Exploring Antarctica’s Upside-Down World
atlasobscura.com

How your phone battery creates striking alien landscapes
bbc.com

Photos: Devastating Wildfires Rage Across the Greek Island of Evia
theatlantic.com

The Unlikely Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor and the Instagram Account That Saved Her Life
elle.com

NASA is training human-like robots to explore caves on Mars
cbsnews.com

The Lost Canyon Under Lake Powell
newyorker.com

Could we turn poisonous plants into edible crops?
sciencefocus.com

Scientists Found a New and ‘Unique’ Flesh-Eating Plant on the West Coast
vice.com

Meet Melba Roy Mouton, the Space Race mathematician and keeper of orbiting satellites
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NASA’s New Telescope Will Show Us the Infancy of the Universe
newyorker.com

How NIST Learns from Horrific Disaster
spectrum.ieee.org

Charles Loeb: The Black Reporter Who Exposed an Atomic Bomb Lie
nytimes.com

On this day in 1945, 29-year-old Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived his second atomic bomb
damninteresting.com

Origin of dinosaur-ending asteroid possibly found. And it’s dark.
livescience.com

The ‘fearsome dragon’ that terrorized Australia’s skies
cnet.com

Why some of the smartest people can be so very stupid
psyche.co

Young guns: the women and children of WW1 munitions factories
historyextra.com

The Water From Your Tap Is an Engineering Marvel Millennia in the Making
popularmechanics.com

Metals merged into amalgam nanocrystals in new manufacturing method
newatlas.com

The house that can withstand a cyclone: how traditional dwellings are making a comeback in Vanuatu
theguardian.com • (see also)

Wildfires Continue to Rage Across Greece, Cutting Island in Half and Forcing Thousands to Flee
gizmodo.com

The Maya’s ingenious secret to survival
bbc.com

Starship is Stacked on the Super Heavy Booster. The Tallest Rocket Ever Built
universetoday.com

The California tourist town that’s running out of water: ‘It’s a shock’
theguardian.com

For The First Time, Researchers Just Watched How Plants Slurp Up Water
sciencealert.com

Introducing the non-radiating antenna
physicsworld.com

How to train like an Ancient Greek Olympian
bbc.com

If China and the US Claim the Same Moon-Base Site, Who Wins?
defenseone.com

Rings around a black hole from X-ray echoes off interstellar dust
astronomynow.com

NASA Planning Mission To Asteroid Containing Metals Worth $10,000 Quintillion
ladbible.com

Video: Cucuteni-Trypillia: Eastern Europe’s lost civilisation [06:22]
bbc.com

Postal Censorship and Surveillance: A Timeline
reason.com

Dark matter: one last push to crack the biggest secret in the universe
theguardian.com

Microbes anyone? Study outlines huge potential of solar-powered protein
newatlas.com

Dead celebrities are being digitally resurrected — and the ethics are murky
cbc.ca

The Space Elevator, an old dream of scientists and science fiction fans, could be constructed now
mashable.com

Long-Theorized Neutron-Clustering Effect in Nuclear Reactors Demonstrated for First Time
scitechdaily.com

‘It could feed the world’: amaranth, a health trend 8,000 years old that survived colonization
theguardian.com

Why Are Farmers in Senegal Creating Gardens That Look Like Crop Circles?
atlasobscura.com

Climate contrarians predicted the world would cool—it didn’t
arstechnica.com

Dixie Fire becomes largest in California history
livescience.com

Video: Why Cranes Collapse [15:39]
youtube.com

The Ingenious Ancient Technology Concealed in the Shallows
hakaimagazine.com

Perseverance rover’s first attempt to collect Martian sample didn’t go as planned
cnn.com

Ever heard a shrew warble? Secret sounds of small mammals revealed
theguardian.com

This week: 🪨 Reburied treasure, 🎸 Elvis’s genetic struggle, 🏳️‍🌈 Rome’s transgender emperor, and more!
damninteresting.com

What Do You Do with a Billion Grams of Surplus Weed?
thewalrus.ca

Perfectly preserved cave lion cub found in Siberian permafrost
cbc.ca

On this day in 1945, residents of Hiroshima bore horrified witness to the first atomic bomb used in war
damninteresting.com

Does This Medieval Fresco Show A Hallucinogenic Mushroom in the Garden of Eden?
atlasobscura.com

World’s Oldest Known Coin Mint Unearthed in China
gizmodo.com

Perseverance rover drills into Mars for 1st time in milestone for sample collection
space.com

How particle detectors capture matter’s hidden, beautiful reality
sciencenews.org

The human ear detects half a millisecond delay in sound
aalto.fi

Many who refuse to get COVID vaccine struggle to cite valid reasons for hesitation
studyfinds.org

India’s town that’s too wet for the British
bbc.com

NASA astronaut reacts to ‘spiders’ on the ISS
cnet.com

The hydrogen economy is about to get weird
arstechnica.com

Video: The method that can “prove” almost anything [5:05]
youtube.com