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The Women Who Ran Genghis Khan’s Empire
atlasobscura.com

The Secret Math Behind Mind-Reading Magic Tricks
quantamagazine.org

Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air
newatlas.com

Paradise Burned to the Ground. Now It’s Another Hot Housing Market
vice.com

An Entirely New Kind of Highly Reactive Chemical Has Been Found in The Atmosphere
sciencealert.com

His Clients Were Acquitted of Murder. Why Did They Get Life Sentences?
theatlantic.com

60 years ago today a fire started underground in Centralia, PA. It is still burning today.
damninteresting.com

AI reveals unsuspected math underlying search for exoplanets
phys.org

How Credit Scores Can Run—and Ruin—Our Lives
thewalrus.ca

‘Quantum Internet’ Inches Closer With Advance in Data Teleportation
nytimes.com

The Mystery of Why So Many Lifelong Smokers Never Get Lung Cancer May Be Solved
sciencealert.com

‘Mind blowing’ ancient settlements uncovered in the Amazon
nature.com

Pompeii victim’s genome successfully sequenced for first time
theguardian.com

Misleading vintage ads about the dietary benefits of sugar, 1950s-1960s
rarehistoricalphotos.com

NASA to Launch Craft to Unexplored Orbit for Moon Outpost
vice.com

Video: How Advertisers Convinced Us We Need Deodorant [10:19]
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Temple Restoration Reveals Vibrant Art of Vulture-Like Egyptian Goddesses
smithsonianmag.com

Russian Military Readies 60-Year-Old Tanks and Civilian Boats as War Drags On
vice.com

Why Boeing’s successful Starliner test is a big deal
vox.com

Were dinosaurs warm- or cold-blooded? Clues lie in their breath and bones
newatlas.com

Electrical Fashions
daily.jstor.org

How to Murder Your Husband writer found guilty of murdering husband
theguardian.com

Video: How to Not Kill an Extremely Rare Microbe [11:52]
youtube.com

Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder
quantamagazine.org

NASA Hopes Its Tissue Box-Sized Satellite Can Set a New Laser Speed Record
gizmodo.com

Your Brain Operates at the Edge of Chaos. Why That’s Actually a Good Thing
cnet.com

Ukraine-born American Artist Boris Artzybasheff’s Anti-Nazi Illustrations
flashbak.com

Were It Not for Cosmic Good Fortune, We Wouldn’t Be Here
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Made to measure: why we can’t stop quantifying our lives
theguardian.com

The dark secret behind those cute AI-generated animal images
technologyreview.com

The Living Newspaper Speaks
daily.jstor.org

NASA Moves Ahead With Wild Solar Sail Concept
gizmodo.com

Why Did the U.S. Government Amass More Than a Billion Pounds of Cheese?
atlasobscura.com

The Wow! alien signal may have come from the constellation Sagittarius
space.com • (see also)

How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other
vox.com • (see also)

‘He’s sabotaged his entire life for greed’: the $86m rise and fall of Inigo Philbrick
theguardian.com • (see also)

Kelp Is Weirdly Great at Sucking Carbon Out of the Sky
theatlantic.com

Researchers Made Ultracold Quantum Bubbles on the Space Station
wired.com • (see also)

Weird Quantum State of Matter Observed for the First Time
scitechdaily.com

An Object 90 Miles Wide May Have Struck Jupiter’s Planet-Sized Moon Ganymede Say Scientists
forbes.com

On this day in 1940 the Crypt of Civilization was sealed, not to be opened for 6,177 years
damninteresting.com

Video: Inside the Completely Legal Business of Selling Body Parts [25:22]
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Hubble Space Telescope spots streams of star formation flowing between galaxies
space.com

The Real Story of Pinocchio Tells No Lies
smithsonianmag.com

It’s 10 PM. Do You Know Where Your Cat Is?
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An Interview with the Hangman’s Wife
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Ukraine Is Using Quiet Electric Bikes to Haul Anti-Tank Weapons
vice.com

The Mouse That Squeaked Its Way Into Scientific History
smithsonianmag.com

New photo reveals a NASA spacecraft cloaked in Martian dust
arstechnica.com

Diamond mirror withstands lasers powerful enough to burn through steel
newatlas.com

Nuclear isomers were discovered 100 years ago, and physicists are still unraveling their mysteries
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The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps
bbc.co.uk

The Big Fat Lie of the Fat-Free Food Movement
melmagazine.com

Incredible New Views of the Sun – As You’ve Never Seen It Before
scitechdaily.com • (see also)

Aeroplanes are incredibly polluting, but could we ever live completely without them?
bbc.com

Open Source Intelligence May Be Changing Old-School War
wired.com

NASA has early plans to send astronauts to Mars for 30 days
space.com • (see also)

Watch these ‘skydiving’ salamanders that parachute out of California redwood trees
sfchronicle.com

The rise of the Strangler
bostonglobe.com

Hubble captures a peculiar pair of spiral galaxies
phys.org