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Video: How Carbon Nanotubes Will Change the World [19:34]
youtube.com

The Taxi Driver Who Took On Uber
thewalrus.ca

When Will We Know Where the Chinese Rocket Will Crash?
gizmodo.com

Goodwill Doesn’t Want Your Broken Toaster
npr.org

Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?
nytimes.com

‘Spaghettified’ star wrapped around a black hole spotted for the first time
space.com

Coveted by Russian royalty, the jewel-studded Amber Room was stolen by Nazis during World War Two
bbc.com

‘A dirty business’: how one drug is turning Syria into a narco-state
theguardian.com

Photos: Robots Are Everywhere
theatlantic.com

Sharks Use the Earth’s Magnetic Field Like a Compass
wired.com

2,000-year-old marble head of Rome’s first emperor discovered
cnn.com

Homing in on the smallest possible laser
phys.org • (see also)

Why Isn’t Anyone Seriously Challenging The Big Bang?
forbes.com

Bats Raised in Helium-Rich Air Reveal a Key to Echolocation
wired.com

Video: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Hears Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Flight [2:44]
youtube.com

90 years ago today, a famous Kentucky colonel was involved in a shootout over an ad blocker
damninteresting.com

This week: VHS embezzlement, liquid paper origins, pandemic pet positives, and more
damninteresting.com

Saturn’s fuzzy core spreads over more than half the planet’s diameter
sciencenews.org

No, NASA photos are not evidence of fungus growing on Mars, sorry
cnet.com

In December 1959, Popular Mechanics spent a week with the Mercury 7 astronauts and witnessed the beginning of U.S. human spaceflight
popularmechanics.com

A Giant Sequoia Is Still Burning From Last Summer’s California Wildfires
earther.gizmodo.com

Texting patients to get a flu shot increased vaccination rates — but some messages worked better than others
academictimes.com

A Lot of Animals in the U.S. Are About to Be Uncomfortably Full
realclearscience.com

Video: The deadly secret of the humble grapefruit [05:01]
bbc.com

Ruby Bridges: the six-year-old who defied a mob and desegregated her school
theguardian.com

On this day in 1937 the Hindenburg burned
damninteresting.com

Trillions of cicadas about to emerge from underground in 15 US states
theguardian.com

Scientists Claim to Spot Fungus Growing on Mars in NASA Rover Photos
futurism.com

The Lithium Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Power Electric Vehicles
nytimes.com

Dark Energy Experiment 16 Years in the Making Could Illuminate Origin, Evolution, Fate of Universe
scitechdaily.com

Is there a pattern to the universe?
space.com

Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs
newyorker.com

‘It’s like the embers in a barbecue pit.’ Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl
sciencemag.org

Uniting the mysterious worlds of quantum physics and music
aeon.co

Quantum Double-Slit Experiment Offers Hope for Earth-Size Telescope
quantamagazine.org

The Largest Cells on Earth
nautil.us

Can you eat cicadas? Yes, and here’s how to catch, cook and snack on them.
washingtonpost.com

Tracing our past: six timelines that tell the story of the Guardian
theguardian.com

Peloton’s leaky API let anyone grab riders’ private account data
techcrunch.com

Royal Marines test Gravity jet suit in ship boarding exercise
newatlas.com

The Man Struck By a Particle Accelerator Beam
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Shipwreck reveals surprising racial diversity of Henry VIII’s England
nbcnews.com

Researchers Create Free-Floating Animated Holograms That Bring Us One Step Closer to Star Trek’s Holodecks
gizmodo.com

Scientists Find That Cats Love to Sit Inside Squares—Even Fake Ones
gizmodo.com

3,000-Year-Old Submerged Settlement Discovered in Switzerland
smithsonianmag.com

Video: The First Time We Landed on Mars [5:21]
youtube.com

How Gravity Is a Double Copy of Other Forces
quantamagazine.org

Video: Escaping Eritrea (full documentary) [53:16]
youtube.com

Mali woman has given birth to nine babies, says health ministry
theguardian.com

Mammoth moth which can have 25cm wingspan found by builders working on Queensland primary school
theguardian.com

Hoopoes’ Stinky Eggs Are Actually a Humblebrag
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A rare glimpse of a star before it went supernova defies expectations
sciencenews.org

Video: How an Amateur Built the World’s Biggest Dome [3:49]
youtube.com

They Told Their Therapists Everything. Hackers Leaked It All
wired.com

Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned
gizmodo.com

Out-of-control Chinese rocket expected to fall to Earth in the coming days
cbc.ca

Is “Catch Me If You Can” a true story? This book suggests it isn’t
whyy.org

In a First, People Had Their Brain Activity Tracked Remotely During Everyday Life
gizmodo.com

Ice microneedle patches deliver drugs, then melt away
newatlas.com

How the ‘Queen of Thieves’ Conned French Riviera Wealthy
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