Physicists Are Startled by This Magnetic Material That ‘Freezes’ When Heated

Space Travel Will Absolutely Gut the Environment, Scientists Warn

Never-before-seen crystals found in perfectly preserved meteorite dust

Where will NASA put Artemis Base Camp on the moon?

Tonga Volcano Blasted Out Pressure Waves “Very Close to The Theoretical Limit”

Meet ReachBot, a robot designed to explore Martian caves

Connecting a Divided World: A Brief History of Iran’s Postal System

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On this day in 1881 a deranged man shot President Garfield

The Man Who Invented Water Skiing

Ruja Ignatova: The Crypto Mogul Scam Artist Who Vanished into Thin Air

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The Lottery Lawyer Won Their Trust, Then Lost Their Mega Millions

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Rise of the dinosaurs traced back to their adaptation to cold

Million Dollar Fakes: The Lucrative World of Counterfeit Basquiats

We Should Be Banking Our Poop for Future Use, Scientists Argue

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Is Music Universal?

Scientists develop first-of-its-kind implant that relieves pain without drugs

The Case of the False Thumb: Giant Panda’s “Amazing” Feature Developed at Least Six Million Years Ago

The Norwegian library with unreadable books

How a free and open Hong Kong became a police state

How Are the Bees?

This bonus episode: 🐝Mutant intersex honeybees, 🐝tools for bees, 🐝cookie monster bee, and more bees!

Found: The ‘holy grail of catalysis’—turning methane into methanol under ambient conditions using light

The Gauntlet: Women wanted to fly jets in combat. It would prove the fight of their lives.

Plant-based plastic strong as PET, degrades into sugars in the environment

The World’s Oldest Pharmacy, Still Selling Potions for Graverobbers and Queens

NASA concept proposes swarm of swimming robots to explore alien oceans

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Universal flu vaccine developed by US government begins human trials

First 60 hours of the global atmospheric response to the Tonga eruption in Jan 2022, using two satellites

On this day in 1971 a Soyuz spacecraft decompressed, exposing 3 cosmonauts to near-vacuum

The Sordid Past of the Cubic Formula

Riskiest Asteroid Known to Humankind in the Last Year Will Not Strike Earth for at Least 100 Years

Why the Search for Life on Mars Is Happening in Canada’s Arctic

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In the waning days of the Cold War, Rainer Sonntag helped fuel a neo-Nazi movement that still plagues Germany today

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An Art Crime For the Ages

Emmett Till: family seeks arrest after discovery of unserved 1955 warrant

CEO test-drives Mojo Vision’s smart augmented reality contact lens

Underwater Wine Jars Suggest How Romans Kept Wine Safe And Flavorful

The Weird, Analog Delights of Foley Sound Effects

Why Strong Magnets React to Copper

First Webb Images Will Include Exoplanet Data and the Deepest-Ever Image of the Universe

Inside the ‘Chitlin Circuit,’ a Jim Crow-Era Safe Space for Black Performers

Harvard’s acoustic computer chip uses sound waves to encode data

AI could improve welfare of farmed chickens by listening to their squawks

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