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Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source code disks
gamehistory.org

The First Global Geologic Map of the Moon
eos.org

Researchers develop viable sodium battery
techxplore.com

Here’s how plants became meat eaters
livescience.com

How a Pandemic and an Earthquake Shaped the Mafia’s Coldest Killer
crimereads.com

Ancient trees reveal the secret to their virtual immortality
massivesci.com

How Much Color Do We Really See?
discovermagazine.com

On this day in 1857 a singularly gifted Frenchman was born
damninteresting.com

Everyone in Pompeii Got Takeout, Too
daily.jstor.org

This Bot Hunts Software Bugs for the Pentagon
wired.com

Video: Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time [29:20]
youtube.com

The surfaces that kill bacteria and viruses
bbc.com

Who Will Own the Cars That Drive Themselves?
nytimes.com

Novel patterns are emerging in the Arctic, where people and wildlife are adapting to a world irrevocably altered by the climate crisis
thenarwhal.ca

The Deep Sea: Scroll to explore the organisms that inhabit various depths of Earth’s oceans
neal.fun

Some Japanese Whiskies Aren’t From Japan. Some Aren’t Even Whisky.
nytimes.com

Buried in Sand for a Millennium: Africa’s Roman Ghost City
messynessychic.com

Video: Moonlight – a peaceful and up-close look at the surface of the moon [4:47]
youtube.com

Unlocking Bryson’s brain: Why this 13-year-old can’t walk or talk
newsinteractives.cbc.ca

Florence Baker: the polyglot slave girl turned intrepid explorer
theguardian.com

Crew Dragon docks with ISS
spacenews.com

Video: FRONTLINE: Policing the Police [53:16]
youtube.com

Archaeologists Find Roman Iron Age Board Game in Norway
lifeinnorway.net

Oldest ‘nearly complete’ HIV genome found in forgotten tissue sample from 1966
livescience.com

The Quest to Purge New Zealand of Invasive Predators
wired.com

This virologist saved millions of children—and stopped a pandemic
nationalgeographic.com

The Conspiracy Theories That Fueled the Civil War
theatlantic.com

About That Time Whitey Bulger “Won” the Mass Millions Lottery
crimereads.com

Here’s every spaceship that’s ever carried an astronaut into orbit
livescience.com

What Do You Do With a Stolen van Gogh? This Thief Knows
nytimes.com

How weapons manufacturers are preparing for climate change
unearthed.greenpeace.org

‘I Was OJ Simpson’s Accomplice (on His Hidden-Camera Prank Show)’ (2014)
vice.com

Rethinking Easter Island’s Historic “Collapse”
sapiens.org • (see also)

Cells inside cells: the bacteria that live in cancer cells
medicalxpress.com

Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed Beneath Italian Vineyard
smithsonianmag.com

This see-through worm offers new insights into the gut-brain axis
massivesci.com

She Gets Calls And Texts Meant For Elon Musk. Some Are Pretty Weird
npr.org

Disrupting death: Could we really live forever in digital form?
cnet.com

The Children’s Crusade set out for the Holy Land in 1212. It never arrived.
nationalgeographic.com

Why Artificial Brains Need Sleep
discovermagazine.com

‘Oumuamua Might Be a Giant Interstellar Hydrogen Iceberg
wired.com

Video: An entire engine rebuild filmed in stop-motion [9:35]
youtube.com

The latest episode of the Damn Interesting Week podcast is out now: Licky Vape Pen
damninteresting.com

Why Titanic’s first call for help wasn’t an SOS signal
nationalgeographic.com

The Business of Building Utopia
outsideonline.com

Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order
quantamagazine.org

How Napoleon Bonaparte’s delayed funeral came to be
laphamsquarterly.org

Lessons From Operation “Denver,” the KGB’s Massive AIDS Disinformation Campaign
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Venus Exploration Starts in the Lab
eos.org

Funerals in space: The people who send their ashes into orbit
cnet.com

Why NASA Set up Shop in Russia’s Forbidden Star City
messynessychic.com

Mining Company Blows Up 46,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Site, Expresses No Regrets
earther.gizmodo.com

Gold rush, mercury legacy: Small-scale mining for gold has produced long-lasting toxic pollution, from 1860s California to modern Peru
theconversation.com

Scientists confirm the presence of a roughly Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, our sun’s nearest stellar neighbor
unige.ch

World’s largest all-electric aircraft set for first flight
theguardian.com

How America’s Proxy Wars in Indonesia and Brazil Set the Stage for the Next 50 Years
lithub.com • (see also)

How the free press worldwide is under threat
theguardian.com

Why did a loon stab a bald eagle through the heart?
nationalgeographic.com

Mysterious ‘Fermi Bubbles’ may be the result of black hole indigestion 6 million years ago
livescience.com

Mice on Acid
nautil.us