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07 September 2015

Newly discovered 13.2 billion-year-old galaxy is the most distant galaxy ever seen, and theoretically should not be visible to us.

caltech.edu

06 September 2015

Researchers at Google and MIT have developed an algorithm to remove obstructions from photos.

petapixel.com

05 September 2015

The curious organisms and ecosystem of the long-isolated Movile Cave.

bbc.com

04 September 2015

In new study, 100 percent of participants taking HIV prevention pill Truvada remained infection-free.

washingtonpost.com

Men claiming they found Nazi train reveal themselves on Polish TV; claim it is buried, not in abandoned tunnel.

globalnews.ca

The Secret Story Of How Bubonic Plague Nearly Broke Out In New York City.

foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com

03 September 2015

Video: Live interview interrupted by a blue whale.

bbc.co.uk

Mathematician Alex Bellos demonstrates Loop, a variant of pool played on an elliptical table.

bbc.com

02 September 2015

The Case for Complex Dark Matter.

quantumnittygritty.wordpress.com

Video: Self-balancing bicycle-riding robot.

youtube.com

Photo: 70 years ago today General Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri, ending WW2.

i.imgur.com

01 September 2015

How food coloring and water droplets help scientists understand how living cells work.

qz.com

31 August 2015

SubTropolis: The sprawling multipurpose underground complex below Kansas City.

bloomberg.com

Photo: Marathon Valley on Mars, as seen by NASA’s Opportunity rover, July 2015.

i.imgur.com

30 August 2015

Video: “The Bomb,” a new PBS documentary on the nuclear bomb with restored/enhanced historical footage.

youtube.com

Quantum weirdness proved real in first loophole-free experiment.

newscientist.com

Subatomic particles that appear to defy Standard Model points to undiscovered forces.

uk.news.yahoo.com

We will miss you deeply, Oliver Sacks.

nytimes.com

29 August 2015

Update on the found Nazi loot train: Its location is “near or under the famed Ksiaz Castle.”

forbes.com

Beautiful animation of the New Horizons Pluto flyby assembled from its images.

vimeo.com

NASA’s New Horizons Team Selects Potential Kuiper Belt Flyby Target.

nasa.gov

28 August 2015

“Needle ice” forms when capillary action draws water from above-freezing soil into below-freezing air.

en.wikipedia.org

270+ international researchers replicate 100 recent psychology experiments, only 36% show “significant results”.

osf.io

More details emerge regarding the found Nazi train: found via deathbed confession, confirmed via ground-penetrating radar.

irishtimes.com

27 August 2015

Officials in Poland confirm explorers’ claimed discovery of a lost Nazi loot train; contents currently unknown.

popularmechanics.com

26 August 2015

Researcher Demonstrates How to Suck Carbon from the Air, Make Stuff from It

technologyreview.com

Beautiful image from Hubble: M92, a globular cluster of 330,000 stars orbiting the core of the Milky Way.

esa.int

Successful detection of intergalactic high-energy neutrinos heralds a new form of astronomy.

earthsky.org

25 August 2015

Video: How to make lightning in laboratory with lasers and lenses.

youtube.com

Project Megaroc: The plan that could have made Britain the first spacefaring country as early as 1951.

bbc.com

24 August 2015

Video: Demonstration of Acceleration Inside the International Space Station During a Reboost.

youtube.com

Readers/listeners! It’s almost our birthday. You should click this link and do the thing. For our birthday.

damninteresting.com

23 August 2015

Documentary video: An in-depth look at the design and manufacture of Rolls Royce jet engines.

youtube.com

Video, 1979: Archeologists carefully unwrap and examine an ancient Egyptian mummy.

youtube.com

New drug protects against the deadly effects of nuclear radiation 24 hours after exposure.

medicalxpress.com

19 August 2015

Superconductivity record sparks wave of follow-up physics.

nature.com

Illustration of how the planned dirigible mooring mast atop the Empire State Building was intended to work.

cdn.damninteresting.com

Animated GIF: A nifty demonstration of the Dzhanibekov effect in microgravity.

i.imgur.com

A tale of lost confederate treasure, fugitives, and lawsuits.

thedailybeast.com

18 August 2015

30 years ago this month (August 1985) was the worst month in history for commercial air disasters.

bbc.com

Short video: USAF Bioastronautics Research, ca. 1960s. Includes footage of cats in zero G.

youtube.com

17 August 2015

The story of Thomas Silverstein, a prisoner who has been kept in solitary confinement since 1983.

peteearley.com

16 August 2015

The story of how Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975, failed to see its potential, and thus bankrupted themselves.

brw.com.au

15 August 2015

Nautilus Live: Livestreaming from underwater ROVs performing oceanic studies.

nautiluslive.org

14 August 2015

Artist Alex Garant paints portraits that confound the human facial perception system.

alexgarant.com

India’s Mars Orbiter has sent home some beautiful new images.

isro.gov.in

13 August 2015

Caltech astronomers have discovered a protogalaxy forming from cool primordial gas tracing back to the Big Bang.

cmarchesin.blogspot.co.uk

Sources of US petroleum: Common belief versus reality.

randalolson.com

Hi-res photos of the damage from the Tianjin disaster.

theatlantic.com

12 August 2015

A letter from the City Manager of Trenton, NJ to the FCC, sent the day after the infamous War of the Worlds broadcast.

i.imgur.com

11 August 2015

Photo: Nice new self-portrait from the Curiosity rover.

farm1.staticflickr.com

09 August 2015

Photo: The Curiosity rover on Mars as seen by the orbiting MRO satellite (the blue area is an artifact of color enhancement).

static.uahirise.org

This week astronauts on the ISS will taste-test space-grown vegetables for the first time.

nasa.gov

Boontling: n. An unusual dialect of English used from about 1880-1920 in a relatively isolated Northern California town called Boonville.

theparisreview.org

06 August 2015

Neat: New interactive map of Mars from NASA: Mars Trek.

marstrek.jpl.nasa.gov

MIT claims to have found a “language universal” that ties all languages together.

arstechnica.co.uk

05 August 2015

Physicist proposes an experiment to quantum entangle two “massive” (0.1kg) objects.

dx.doi.org

04 August 2015

Research: Fish in the family Mormyridae intercommunicate via electric discharges.

sciencedaily.com

These strange, slow-moving, deep-dwelling, mostly-blind sharks may be quite common.

bbc.com

Physicists have succeeded in producing stanene, a sheet of tin one atom thick with potentially remarkable properties.

nature.com

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Newly discovered 13.2 billion-year-old galaxy is the most distant galaxy ever seen, and theoretically should not be visible to us.

Researchers at Google and MIT have developed an algorithm to remove obstructions from photos.

The curious organisms and ecosystem of the long-isolated Movile Cave.

In new study, 100 percent of participants taking HIV prevention pill Truvada remained infection-free.

Men claiming they found Nazi train reveal themselves on Polish TV; claim it is buried, not in abandoned tunnel.

The Secret Story Of How Bubonic Plague Nearly Broke Out In New York City.

Video: Live interview interrupted by a blue whale.

Mathematician Alex Bellos demonstrates Loop, a variant of pool played on an elliptical table.

The Case for Complex Dark Matter.

Video: Self-balancing bicycle-riding robot.

Photo: 70 years ago today General Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri, ending WW2.

How food coloring and water droplets help scientists understand how living cells work.

SubTropolis: The sprawling multipurpose underground complex below Kansas City.

Photo: Marathon Valley on Mars, as seen by NASA’s Opportunity rover, July 2015.

Video: “The Bomb,” a new PBS documentary on the nuclear bomb with restored/enhanced historical footage.

Quantum weirdness proved real in first loophole-free experiment.

Subatomic particles that appear to defy Standard Model points to undiscovered forces.

We will miss you deeply, Oliver Sacks.

Update on the found Nazi loot train: Its location is “near or under the famed Ksiaz Castle.”

Beautiful animation of the New Horizons Pluto flyby assembled from its images.

NASA’s New Horizons Team Selects Potential Kuiper Belt Flyby Target.

“Needle ice” forms when capillary action draws water from above-freezing soil into below-freezing air.

270+ international researchers replicate 100 recent psychology experiments, only 36% show “significant results”.

More details emerge regarding the found Nazi train: found via deathbed confession, confirmed via ground-penetrating radar.

Officials in Poland confirm explorers’ claimed discovery of a lost Nazi loot train; contents currently unknown.

Researcher Demonstrates How to Suck Carbon from the Air, Make Stuff from It

Beautiful image from Hubble: M92, a globular cluster of 330,000 stars orbiting the core of the Milky Way.

Successful detection of intergalactic high-energy neutrinos heralds a new form of astronomy.

Video: How to make lightning in laboratory with lasers and lenses.

Project Megaroc: The plan that could have made Britain the first spacefaring country as early as 1951.

Video: Demonstration of Acceleration Inside the International Space Station During a Reboost.

Readers/listeners! It’s almost our birthday. You should click this link and do the thing. For our birthday.

Documentary video: An in-depth look at the design and manufacture of Rolls Royce jet engines.

Video, 1979: Archeologists carefully unwrap and examine an ancient Egyptian mummy.

New drug protects against the deadly effects of nuclear radiation 24 hours after exposure.

Superconductivity record sparks wave of follow-up physics.

Illustration of how the planned dirigible mooring mast atop the Empire State Building was intended to work.

Animated GIF: A nifty demonstration of the Dzhanibekov effect in microgravity.

A tale of lost confederate treasure, fugitives, and lawsuits.

30 years ago this month (August 1985) was the worst month in history for commercial air disasters.

Short video: USAF Bioastronautics Research, ca. 1960s. Includes footage of cats in zero G.

The story of Thomas Silverstein, a prisoner who has been kept in solitary confinement since 1983.

The story of how Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975, failed to see its potential, and thus bankrupted themselves.

Nautilus Live: Livestreaming from underwater ROVs performing oceanic studies.

Artist Alex Garant paints portraits that confound the human facial perception system.

India’s Mars Orbiter has sent home some beautiful new images.

Caltech astronomers have discovered a protogalaxy forming from cool primordial gas tracing back to the Big Bang.

Sources of US petroleum: Common belief versus reality.

Hi-res photos of the damage from the Tianjin disaster.

A letter from the City Manager of Trenton, NJ to the FCC, sent the day after the infamous War of the Worlds broadcast.

Photo: Nice new self-portrait from the Curiosity rover.

Photo: The Curiosity rover on Mars as seen by the orbiting MRO satellite (the blue area is an artifact of color enhancement).

This week astronauts on the ISS will taste-test space-grown vegetables for the first time.

Boontling: n. An unusual dialect of English used from about 1880-1920 in a relatively isolated Northern California town called Boonville.

Neat: New interactive map of Mars from NASA: Mars Trek.

MIT claims to have found a “language universal” that ties all languages together.

Physicist proposes an experiment to quantum entangle two “massive” (0.1kg) objects.

Research: Fish in the family Mormyridae intercommunicate via electric discharges.

These strange, slow-moving, deep-dwelling, mostly-blind sharks may be quite common.

Physicists have succeeded in producing stanene, a sheet of tin one atom thick with potentially remarkable properties.

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