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This week: Nuclear re-action, electromagnetic sharks, spaghettified stars, and more!
damninteresting.com

Astronomers Discover What Could Be One of The Oldest Stars in The Known Universe
sciencealert.com

On this day in 1939 a five-year-old girl gave birth to a healthy baby boy
damninteresting.com

New curio by J. A. Macfarlane: A Taste of Italy
dam.mn

New immunotherapy double-crosses cancer to kill it from within
newatlas.com • (see also)

A Brief History of People Losing Their Minds in Antarctica
gq.com

No visitors but teeming with life: what’s going on inside the Natural History Museum?
theguardian.com

The Profound Potential of Elon Musk’s New Rocket
nautil.us

In 1.3 Million Years, a Star Will Come Within 24 Light-Days of the Sun
universetoday.com

There’s Only One Way To Beat The Speed Of Light
forbes.com

Space weather is difficult to predict, with only an hour to prevent disasters
theweathernetwork.com • (see also)

The strange deal that created a ghost town
bbc.com

Experimental gene therapy points to cure for rare immune disease
newatlas.com

The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
wired.com

Video: When Trees Took Over the World [8:11]
youtube.com

The [Remarkable] World Of Whiteboards
tedium.co

How clothing and climate change kickstarted agriculture
aeon.co

New Black Hole Math Closes Cosmic Blind Spot
quantamagazine.org

That Time Hitler’s Girlfriend Visited Iceland and the British Invaded
hakaimagazine.com

Paralysed man uses ‘mindwriting’ brain computer to compose sentences
theguardian.com

The Untold Story of the NFT Boom
nytimes.com

Scientists Catch Jumping Genes Rewiring Genomes
quantamagazine.org

Inside Pictet, the Secretive Swiss Bank for the World’s Richest People
bloomberg.com

Earths orbit is running out of real estate — but physicists are looking to expand the market
academictimes.com

‘My Bizarre Reign as New York’s King of “Virgin Russian Hair”’
narratively.com

Should We Terraform Mars? Let’s Recap
nautil.us

When the Line Between Life and Death Is ‘a Little Bit Fuzzy’
undark.org

What You May Not Know About Poison Ivy
nytimes.com

Diamond liquid impurities provide new insights into ancient Earth
newatlas.com

Meet America’s Newest Chess Master, 10-Year-Old Tanitoluwa Adewumi
npr.org

‘He knew something’: The 1962 flight of Army Rangers that vanished into thin air
sfgate.com • (see also)

Nearly a fifth of Earth’s surface transformed since 1960
phys.org

The Mysterious Wobble Of Muons
hackaday.com

Goldman Sachs executive quits after making millions from Dogecoin
theguardian.com

Searching for Signs of Life on Mars: Perseverance’s Robotic Arm Starts Conducting Science
scitechdaily.com

What’s the minimum number of people needed to survive an apocalypse?
livescience.com

One of the World’s Longest-Running Experiments Sends Up Sprouts
nytimes.com • (seed also)

Why Do Older Individuals Have Greater Control of Their Feelings?
smithsonianmag.com

Video: Imaging Asteroid Bennu [2:53]
youtube.com

Joe Ligon: America’s ‘longest juvenile lifer’ on 68 years in prison
bbc.com

The Aqueduct of Constantinople: Managing the longest water channel of the ancient world
phys.org

George Blake and the Prison Escape Story Hitchcock Spent The Last Decade of His Life Trying to Make
crimereads.com

When the Push Button Was New, People Were Freaked
daily.jstor.org

Colonial pipeline cyberattackers are state-sanctioned pirates
qz.com

Detonation-based engine could propel jets to Mach 17, paving way for interplanetary travel
academictimes.com • (see also)

On this day in 1944 the Allies began their final assault on Monte Cassino with the assistance of a 500-pound brown bear
damninteresting.com

Experiment Uses CRISPR To Edit Genes While They Are Still Inside A Person’s Body
npr.org

London’s centre of intrigue and scandal
bbc.com

Awesome, Hypnotic Photos of Swirling, Crystal Chemistry
wired.com

Video: TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross [11:40]
youtube.com

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample
nasa.gov

Voyager 1 hears the hush of interstellar plasma
astronomycommunity.nature.com • (see also)

Did Life on Earth Come From Outer Space?
discovermagazine.com

A Field Guide to the Long History of Skyjackings
crimereads.com

Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved?
newyorker.com

Man Caught Three Whole Diseases From a Single Tick Bite
gizmodo.com

Broadband companies paid for 8.5M fake net neutrality comments, New York AG says
nbcnews.com

Laying Ice: Inside the Legendary Legacy of the Zamboni
popularmechanics.com

How Did a Self-Taught Linguist Come to Own an Indigenous Language?
newyorker.com

A metropolis arose in medieval Cambodia – new research shows how many people lived in the Angkor Empire over time
theconversation.com