This week: Clam silk, sweating paint, prehistoric zombies, and more!

Tomatoes in The Galapagos Islands Appear to Be Evolving in Reverse

How the Binding of Two Brain Molecules Creates Memories That Last a Lifetime

Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn

Cramps, fatigue and hallucinations: paddling 200km in a Paleolithic canoe from Taiwan to Japan

Math’s Block-Stacking Problem Has a Preposterous Solution

Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban

How Smell Guides Our Inner World

It’s a holiday weekend in the USA, please stand by.

The Stilt Walking Farmers of Landes, France

How a Deadly Circus Fire on the ‘Day the Clowns Cried’ Traumatized a Community—and Led to Lasting Safety Reforms

Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland

A Fusion Rocket Could Soon Reach a World We Haven’t Seen Since the Stone Age

Japan islanders sleepless after 900 earthquakes in two weeks

Rare Blanket of Snow Falls in Chile’s Atacama, the World’s Driest Desert

Evidence of Planet 9 in IRAS and AKARI surveys

Gene Therapy Restores Hearing in Those with Deafness

Video: We Almost Ruined a $270 Million Dollar Mission [18:51]

How Was the Wheel Invented?

Get Up Close to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unrealized Buildings with David Romero’s Digital Models

Tardigrades May Still Be Living on the Moon After Lunar Lander Crash

Video: This Mother Hen Talks To Her Eggs – And They Chirp Back [3:54]

The impressive science behind Agatha Christie’s poisons

Skeleton found in pot is first ancient Egyptian to undergo whole genome analysis

A study reveals beverages hydrating better than water

5-Year-Old and Father Rescued After Going Overboard on Disney Cruise

‘A completely new phenomenon’: Astronomers spot a planet causing its star to constantly explode

How AI Wreaked Havoc on the Lo-Fi Beat Scene

Emoji use may impact relationship outcomes, study reveals

Astronomers spot potential ‘interstellar visitor’ A11pl3Z shooting through the solar system toward Earth

Video: This is Europe’s Most Remote Construction Site [14:13]

The Surprising Reason Rural Hospitals [in America] Are Closing

‘Vietnam was insane, Apocalypse Now only slightly less so’: The inside story of the wildest shoot in film history

See a Stunning Photo of New York City From Above in 1932

A barrage of radiation couldn’t kill this hardy life-form

Video: Chuck Jones’s 1949 Oscar-Winning Animation About the Virtues of Universal Health Care [10:19]

Why Can’t Americans Sleep?

Can the music industry make AI the next Napster?

The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long

Titan is the Perfect Benchmark for Studying Exoplanet Atmospheres

Double detonation: New image shows remains of star destroyed by pair of explosions

‘They took shrapnel from my heart’ – the magnets saving lives in Ukraine

Could Your Nightmares Come From Cheese? Maybe, If You’re Lactose Intolerant

Climate change is changing the geography of infectious disease

Scientists capture slow-motion earthquake in action