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Was everything brighter 40 years ago? How color perception changes as we age
theguardian.com

The Gulf World That Air Conditioning Wrought
noemamag.com

‘My teeth told me’: What it was like aboard the Enola Gay
washingtonpost.com • Mirror

The Tech That Keeps Planes Flying for Ultra-Long-Haul Flights
wired.com • Mirror

An icy supervolcano eruption on Pluto may have left a massive crater on the frozen world
space.com

Enormous rogue waves don’t come out of nowhere
popsci.com • (see also)

‘We had no idea of what it would become’: How Keep Calm and Carry On became a divisive 21st-Century phenomenon
bbc.com

Video: The Cartoon That Knew Too Much: Rocky and Bullwinkle [10:47]
youtube.com • (see also)

‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain
theguardian.com

Survivors’ voices 80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki sound a warning and a call to action
theconversation.com

The Ancient Art and Intimate Craft of Artificial Eyes
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Gigantic ‘Walking Stick’ Discovered in Australia Might Be the Continent’s Heaviest Insect
smithsonianmag.com

Spaceship that could send humans on a 250-year trip into the unknown
thetimes.com

80 years ago today, residents of Hiroshima bore horrified witness to the first atomic bomb used in war
damninteresting.com

Rogue Planets Can Spawn Their Own Planetary Systems
universetoday.com

US research station staff evacuated from Antarctica in high-risk operation
theguardian.com

The Pain of Perfectionism
newyorker.com • Mirror

The Blood of Exceptionally Long-Lived People Suggests Key Differences
sciencealert.com

Body of man missing for 28 years found in melting glacier
bbc.com

‘The story of “Cathy,” my scammer.’
slate.com

“Earth 2.0?” Breakthrough Discovery Reveals Potentially Habitable Super-Earth
scitechdaily.com

Simulating Ice Worlds in the Lab
universetoday.com

Titan sub implosion caused by absolutely bonkers “toxic workplace environment”
arstechnica.com

Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time
wired.com

Video: How an NSA Spyhub Works [17:30]
youtube.com

Silicon Valley’s Dream Tech Job Is Disappearing
nytimes.com

Whiteouts, Ice Roads, and Wolverines: What Working at a Diamond Mine in the Far North Is Like
thewalrus.ca

‘It’s a reminder of childhood’: How Pac-Man changed gaming
bbc.com

Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New Skills
nasa.gov

The Mostly True Story of America’s First Black Private Detective
magazine.atavist.com

A Massive Fault Line Was Supposed to Be ‘Dead’. It Sure Seems Like It’s Stirring Again.
popularmechanics.com

Terrifying video shows flash flood engulfing riverside village in India [00:53]
bbc.com

On this day in 1931 an antiquated submarine set off for the North Pole
damninteresting.com

Video: Why Are There No Short Arch Dams? [16:39] #DamInteresting
youtube.com

James Webb Space Telescope revisits a classic Hubble image of over 2,500 galaxies
space.com

Hiroshima and the End We Refuse to Imagine
nytimes.com

3I/ATLAS Has No Visible Tail or Spectral Fingerprints of Gas Around It
avi-loeb.medium.com

Some Mathematicians Don’t Believe in Infinity
scientificamerican.com

The US Military Is Raking in Millions From On-Base Slot Machines
wired.com

Disfigured, shamed and forgotten: The BBC visits the Korean survivors of the Hiroshima bomb
bbc.com

‘Is Cola With Cane Sugar Actually Better? We Did a Taste Test.’
nytimes.com • (see also)

The Engines and Empires of New York City Gambling
newyorker.com • Mirror

Centuries-Old Hawaiian Petroglyphs Emerge From the Sand for the First Time in Nine Years
smithsonianmag.com

Space hurricanes are real — and they wreak more havoc than we thought
space.com

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia
nytimes.com

14 beautiful wildlife images from the 2025 Mangrove Photography Awards
popsci.com

The mystery of Winston Churchill’s dead platypus was unsolved – until now
bbc.com

Video: ‘I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird’ [30:52]
youtube.com

Scientists just recreated the Universe’s first molecule and solved a 13-billion-year-old puzzle
sciencedaily.com

A Cancer Patient Chose Assisted Death. That Wasn’t the Last Hard Choice.
nytimes.com

On this day in 1997 the capital of Montserrat was buried by a volcano
damninteresting.com

The quest to make an ice cream that doesn’t melt
bbc.com

Scientists Shine a Laser Through a Human Head
spectrum.ieee.org

NASA’s New Radar Just Pulled Off Something Impossible on Earth
scitechdaily.com

Scientists have solved the mystery of what killed over 5 billion sea stars
apnews.com

Video: The Problem with Bottled Water [26:34]
youtube.com

Before Deep Blue: the Automaton Chess Player
daily.jstor.org

The forgotten Canadian film bureaus that cranked out morality tales about being a good worker
cbc.ca • Direct link

Something Massive Could Still Be Hiding in The Shadows of Our Solar System
sciencealert.com

Woman Faked Being 4 Different Nurses at Once in Complex Identity Theft Scheme
vice.com