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How a Lone Researcher Faced Down Millions of Army Ants on the March in Ecuador
atlasobscura.com

Kouri-Vini: The return of the US’ lost language
bbc.com

Russia, So Desperate for Armor, Is Digging Up Ancient Soviet Amphibious Vehicles
popularmechanics.com

‘I’ve spent 5 years researching the heroic life of Black musician Graham Jackson, but teaching his story could be illegal under laws in Florida and North Dakota’
theconversation.com

Why do we stop exploring new music as we get older?
theconversation.com

A dozen exotic bacteria are found to passively collect rare earth elements from wastewater
phys.org • (see also)

The first observations of octopus brain waves revealed how alien their minds truly are
salon.com

Did the CIA Betray Nelson Mandela?
time.com

Back to the father: the scientist who lost his dad – and resolved to travel to 1955 to save him
theguardian.com

The search for the world’s ‘missing’ genomes
bbc.com

Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago, shows study
phys.org

Watch these glassy-winged sharpshooters fling pee bubbles with anal catapult
arstechnica.com

NASA astronaut snaps gorgeous photo of auroras from space station
space.com

February is always a rough month. Not enough days. 😕
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30 years later, Waco siege still resonates – especially among anti-government extremists
theconversation.com

Liquid nitrogen may do the trick for getting moon dust off spacesuits
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Ancient texts shed new light on mysterious whale behaviour that ‘captured imagination’
theguardian.com

How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain
quantamagazine.org

The Vikings traveled a lot. How did they manage to talk to people?
sciencenorway.no

Spectacular Pseudoscience: The Fall and Rise of Bioelectricity
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Video: School Lunch from the Great Depression [18:20]
youtube.com

Beauty breeds obsession: the fight to save orchids from a lethal black market
theguardian.com

Video: No time to die: the resurrection of Manx Gaelic [8:46]
youtube.com

80 years ago today a team of Norwegian commandos sabotaged the Nazi effort to build an A-bomb
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New quantum state boosts material’s conductivity by a billion percent
newatlas.com

How to Print Money
nytimes.com • (see also)

Ford patents car that can repossess itself and drive back to showroom
newscientist.com

Rare insect found at Arkansas Walmart sets historic record, points to deeper ecological questions
phys.org

Medieval medicine: the return to maggots and leeches to treat ailments
theguardian.com

Imagination makes us human – this unique ability to envision what doesn’t exist has a long evolutionary history
theconversation.com • (see also)

See Rare Images of Early 20th-Century Antarctic Expeditions
smithsonianmag.com

The tiny diamond sphere that could unlock clean power
bbc.com

Photos: International Polar Bear Day
theatlantic.com

Video: The Prime Number Race (with 3Blue1Brown) [20:28]
youtube.com

‘Far from justice’: why are nearly half of US murders going unsolved?
theguardian.com

How the Biggest Fraud in German History Unravelled
newyorker.com

The most dangerous substance known to man
worksinprogress.co

Physicists Levitated a Glass Nanosphere, Nudging It Into The Realm of Quantum Mechanics
sciencealert.com

On this day in 1741 a secret squadron sailed through the Straits le Maire⁠—the gateway to the dreaded Drake Passage
damninteresting.com

Scientists Have Made Cocaine From a Tobacco Plant
discovermagazine.com

Could deep boreholes solve our nuclear waste problem?
See also • See also • arstechnica.com

Fourier Transforms: The Math That Made Color TV Possible
popularmechanics.com

Video: This Gun Could Reach Space [19:33]
youtube.com • (see also)

Strange Solar Gamma Rays Discovered at Even Higher Energies
quantamagazine.org

Video: This is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway. [9:16]
youtube.com

Should you avoid eating burnt food?
bbc.com

The Milky Way’s Black Hole is About to Eat 278 Trillion Mile Gas Cloud
inverse.com

From Piltdown Man to anti-vaxxers … What science’s worst hoaxes can teach us
theguardian.com

No One Knows If Decades-Old Nukes Would Actually Work
wired.com

Scientists Have Recorded Brain Waves From Octopuses Just Living Their Lives
sciencealert.com

These scientists lugged logs on their heads to resolve Chaco Canyon mystery
arstechnica.com

Giant Zombie Atoms of the Cosmos
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Astronomers Have Detected Signs of The Largest Magnetic Fields in The Universe
sciencealert.com

Where We Get Wind From May Blow You Away
sciencealert.com

4,500-year-old Sumerian temple dedicated to mighty thunder god discovered in Iraq
livescience.com

‘Something Was Badly Wrong’: When Washington Realized Russia Was Actually Invading Ukraine
politico.com

Wormholes might bend light like black holes do — and that could be the key to finding them
livescience.com

Giant Claw for Removing Space Junk Is Now One Step Closer to Reality
gizmodo.com

Video: How This Lizard Conspiracy Led to Murder [11:34]
youtube.com

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