From hairpin to house: woman who mastered ‘trading up’ realizes dream

Here Are the Juiciest Bits From the Secret JFK Document Dump

The CIA Once Wanted to Use Dolphins to Sink Enemy Ships

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Meet the bat that eats other bats

Surgeons in New York Successfully Transplant Pig Kidneys to Two People

A potential hangup for quantum computing: Cosmic rays

Why the World’s Astronomers Are Very, Very Anxious Right Now

Mayo Clinic research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment for cancer

Solid-State Batteries Are Here and They’re Going to Change How We Live

Video: Parker Solar Probe Encounters Streamers on the Way to the Sun [0:13]

Bugs across globe are evolving to eat plastic, study finds

Spacecraft enters the Sun’s corona for the first time in history

US prep schools held student exchanges with elite Nazi academies

Video: Why We Should NOT Look For Aliens [12:11]

NASA is tracking two explorers across Antarctica to prepare humans for Mars

The Dark History of Hawai‘i’s Iconic Hand Gesture

The Breakthrough Problem, or Why the Drugs Don’t Work Like They Used To

Photo: On this day in 1972, the Apollo 17 rover in its final resting place. Humans have not set foot on the moon since.

New research explains Earth’s peculiar chemical composition

A Gene-Tweaked Jellyfish Offers a Glimpse of Other Minds

Ghost riders: the invisible lives of Johannesburg food couriers

NASA Begins Testing Robotics for Daring Space Mission To Bring First Samples Back From Mars

Video: Why movie theaters aren’t dead yet [7:03]

Brain surgeons and rocket scientists no brighter than the rest of us, study finds

Discovery of Sub-Earth Planet: Ultra-Light and Super-Fast Exoplanet Is Not Like Anything in Our Solar System

Giant Arc of Galaxies Puts Basic Cosmology Under Scrutiny

Could an Infamous WWII Bunker Become a Symbol of Peace?

When did scientists first warn humanity about climate change?

Unorthodox “Exercise in a Pill” Could Offer Simple Solution to Those Incapable of Physical Activity

The Lost Diary of Anthony Bourdain

Operation Whistle Pig: Inside the secret CBP unit with no rules that investigates Americans

She killed her ex-husband in self-defense. Can she now find peace?

Can oil and water mix?

2023 mission to Venus will skim the acidic clouds for signs of life

NASA’s new sleeping bags could prevent eyeball ‘squashing’ on the ISS

Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Wright and a bitcoin mystery in America

Saving the shuttle simulator—“It was an artifact that needed to be preserved”

Video: The Fossil Record In Your Mouth [9:00]

None of these lines are curved.

Every Night, Hordes of Sea Creatures Rise From the Deep

Pooping hippos create ‘community guts’ in African ponds

The innovative technology that powered the Inca

This Dark Matter Radio Could Tune Into New Physics

Photos: Aftermath of the Devastating Tornado Outbreak in Kentucky

Body of evidence: meet the experts working in crime scene forensics

‘It broke something inside me,’ writer says of bizarre meal at Michelin-starred restaurant

Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging

On this day in 1937 the greyhounds at Romford Stadium had their first race against cheetahs

Ford Almost Made a Mid-Engine Ferrari Fighter in the 1980s. Here’s What Happened

Death of a Lobsterman

David Graeber Is Gone, But He’s Still Changing How We See History

Ask a DNA Expert: What Would It Take to Bring Back the Dinosaurs?

The secret history of Sesame Street: ‘It was utopian

What’s the Closest Planet to the Earth? Surprise, It’s Mercury

Search for mysterious noise in Brooklyn Heights turns into massive crowdsourced investigation

This week: 🤖 Robot reproduction, 😬 Nose teeth, 🍁 Maple syrup cartel, and more!

Optical illusion: These balls are all the same color (Also, this is our 25,000th curated link) (image by @NovickProf)

The hand-cranked calculator invented by a Nazi concentration camp prisoner

Our Sun May Have Been Born With a Trouble-Making Twin Called ‘Nemesis’