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Robots Are Writing Poetry, and Many People Can’t Tell the Difference
thewalrus.ca

You’ve likely heard of the brain’s gray matter – here’s why the white matter is important too
theconversation.com

Letters from the Loneliest Post Office in the World
atlasobscura.com

‘My Great-Uncle, The Holocaust’s First Jewish Victim’
theatlantic.com

Experience: ‘I punctured my lung by eating cereal’
theguardian.com

Venus-like worlds are surprisingly common in ‘habitable’ zones
space.com

The strange appeal of garden lawns
bbc.com

85 years ago today the Hindenburg caught fire while approaching the mooring mast at Lakehurst
damninteresting.com

Goodwill Sold a Bust for $34.99. It’s an Ancient Roman Relic.
nytimes.com

In Test Tubes, RNA Molecules Evolve Into a Tiny Ecosystem
quantamagazine.org

Huge Groundwater System Discovered Under Antarctica
gizmodo.com • (see also)

Video: How Postwar Italy Created The Paparazzi [7:34]
youtube.com

Where people ‘surf’ tubular clouds
bbc.com

Weighing up the Evidence: What does it take to establish a new scientific truth?
historytoday.com

Largest US cave figures, about 1,000 years old, discovered in Alabama
theguardian.com

Why Celebrities Like Kevin Hart and Dave Grohl Go on the ‘Hot Ones’ Talk Show
eater.com

New NASA Black Hole Sonifications with a Remix
nasa.gov

Ben Franklin’s Radical Theory of Happiness
theatlantic.com

The Moon May Have Been Covertly Siphoning Earth’s Water For Billions of Years
sciencealert.com

Video: ‘We Finally Found the Elusive Bristle Worm!’ [9:27]
youtube.com

The true colors of stars
advancedsciencenews.com

Garbology: How to spot patterns in people’s waste
bbc.com

The Quest to Save an Antarctic Kingdom Before It Falls Into Ruin
cnet.com

How Putin’s invasion returned Nato to the centre stage
theguardian.com

Why the father of neuroscience, toward the end of his career, preferred to study ants
nautil.us

We Finally Learned the Location of Forrest Fenn’s Treasure
outsideonline.com

“Black widow” neutron star takes an hour to orbit the star it’s roasting
arstechnica.com

The world’s most dangerous road
bbc.com

Dizzying Video Shows What It’s Like to Get Shot Out of a Centrifuge at 1,000 MPH
gizmodo.com

A visit to the human factory
theverge.com

Physicists Show How Quantum Uncertainty Sharpens Measurements
quantamagazine.org

Video: The Insane Engineering of the Javelin [15:11]
youtube.com

The secret world in the gaps between brain cells
physicstoday.scitation.org

The record-breaking dive under the Arctic ice
bbc.com • (see also)

Scientists Discover Genetic Cause of Lupus, a Chronic Autoimmune Disease
scitechdaily.com

On this day in 1988 a manufacturer of volatile chemicals in Nevada caught fire
damninteresting.com

That Time Reality TV made a Real-Life Lord of the Flies
messynessychic.com • (see also)

Video: Victorian Ice Cream & The Queen of Ices [16:55]
youtube.com

Canada Now Willing to Punish Crimes Committed on the Moon
gizmodo.com

Understanding the Sand Shortage: Why We’re Running Out of Sand
popularmechanics.com

Gallery: The Costs of the Russian Onslaught in Ukraine
newyorker.com

Controversy Surrounds Effort to Signal Extraterrestrial Civilization
supercluster.com

Watch a Grappler Bumper Instantly End a High-Speed Police Chase
thedrive.com

Discover the Microscopic Wonders of Olympus’ 2021 Image of the Year Awards
smithsonianmag.com

Botnet that hid for 18 months boasted some of the coolest tradecraft ever
arstechnica.com

How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Stressing the Neon Supply Chain
popularmechanics.com

Did Leonardo da Vinci Hide a Brain in His Famous ‘Lost’ Painting?
realclearscience.com

A perfumer’s obsessive quest to recreate the fragrance of lost love
salon.com

The Bug in the Computer Bug Story
daily.jstor.org

A ‘galaxy’ is unmasked as a pulsar — the brightest outside the Milky Way
nature.com

How Taipei discovered an active volcano on its doorstep
bbc.com

The device hoping to answer the ultimate existential questions
phys.org

Stanford’s Futuristic Gravity Telescope Could Image Exoplanets – 1,000x More Powerful Than Current Technology
scitechdaily.com

The Most Overhyped Monster on Earth | Brain Eating Amoeba
youtube.com

Unlocking the Mystery of Why a Plant Virus Is So Powerful at Fighting Cancer
scitechdaily.com • (see also)

A single memory is stored across many connected brain regions
news.mit.edu

Rocket Lab catches, then drops booster in helicopter capture attempt
cnn.com

The photographer who fought the Sicilian Mafia for five decades
theconversation.com

New article/episode by Alan Bellows: In 1924 a bankrupt businessman in Portugal launched an audacious international scheme to become one of the wealthiest men in the world
dam.mn

‘It was the poor man’s studio’: how Amiga computers reprogrammed modern music
theguardian.com