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After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis
arstechnica.com

Oldest black hole ever seen is 300 million times bigger than our sun
yahoo.com

The Great Sword Heist of 2025
buttondown.com

‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party
quantamagazine.org

A new reading of Sherman’s march shows how enslaved people sought to free themselves
theguardian.com

The universe’s secret harvest: Shedding light on ‘the cosmic grapes’
phys.org

New signs found of giant gas planet in ‘Earth’s neighbourhood’
bbc.com

Feathered friend’s fried feast sparks fishy fire near Ashcroft
ashcroftcachecreekjournal.com

Big-Game Hunter Is Killed by Buffalo During Safari
nytimes.com

Video: This Battery Was Almost Too Dangerous to Exist [34:41]
youtube.com

Laser-Cut Steel Forms Radiate Ornate Patterns in Anila Quayyum Agha’s Immersive Installations
thisiscolossal.com

The Internet Wants to Check Your I.D.
newyorker.com • Mirror

AI Took on the Math Olympiad—But Mathematicians Aren’t Impressed
scientificamerican.com

Watch the Moment a NHL Mascot Is Charged by a Grizzly Bear While Shooting a Promotional Video
mymodernmet.com

Living with the face-clawing sloth bear that scares tigers
bbc.com

Nobelium becomes heaviest element with identified compounds
chemistryworld.com • (see also)

ChatGPT gave alarming advice on drugs, eating disorders to researchers posing as teens
cbsnews.com

Italy gives final approval for world’s longest suspension bridge to Sicily
bbc.com

Mangrove Photography Awards 2025 Reveals Winning Images Celebrating the Wonders of Mangroves
mymodernmet.com

Bear Freed After Being Stuck in a Cheese Balls Container for a Week
vice.com

Video: ‘What I’ve learned from 10 years on YouTube’ [11:07]
youtube.com

The Counterfeit Scandal That Rocked the Multimillion Dollar Pokémon Collectibles World
popularmechanics.com

Solar Powered Moon Brick Factory Could Build Future Lunar Cities
universetoday.com

Home Depot and Lowe’s Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops
404media.co • Mirror

As temperatures spike, so do reports of domestic violence
thenarwhal.ca • (see also)

Here’s how deepfake vishing attacks work, and why they can be hard to detect
arstechnica.com

Invasive species: Bullfrogs are eating endangered species in the US West
vox.com

On this day in 1978, US President Jimmy Carter called upon the FDAA for assistance at Love Canal
damninteresting.com

Why you might not know that 2024 was America’s safest year since the 1960s
popular.info

Video: Japan is (Literally) Dying Out [31:47]
youtube.com

Scientists Crack Earth’s Magnetic Field Puzzle
universetoday.com

Video: Interstellar Visitor is Fastest Comet Ever Recorded [4:05]
youtube.com

Genomics Uncovers How Insect Pests Crept Across the World
the-scientist.com

‘It shocked white middle America’: How the Mississippi Burning murders sparked landmark change in the US
bbc.com

Who’s to blame when AI agents mess up? We urgently need a new system of ethics
nature.com

The Speed of Earth’s Rotation Is 1,000 Miles Per Hour – Here’s Why We Don’t Feel a Thing
discovermagazine.com

Hubble Space Telescope Shows a Diffuse Glow Ahead of 3I/ATLAS
avi-loeb.medium.com

Two Stars Contribute to Irregular Shape of NGC 6072, Webb Observations Show
sci.news

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
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‘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]
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‘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