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Video: The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve [22:08]
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Physicists at CERN Just Discovered a Brand New Particle
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‘Climate change has become real’: extreme weather sinks prime US tourism site
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How Did Hitler Succeed? And Why Wasn’t He Stopped?
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How to give a Neanderthal a blood transfusion
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Russia rocket mishap briefly nudges International Space Station out of position
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This Cyclic Model of the Universe Has Cosmologists Rethinking the Big Bang
discovermagazine.com

Scientists Are Working to Decipher the Puzzle of ‘Broken Heart Syndrome’
leaps.org

The Incredible Fig
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Video: The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths [8:45]
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Hyenas Left a Massive Pile of Bones in a Saudi Arabian Lava Tube
gizmodo.com

The Search for Alien Artifacts Begins
discovermagazine.com

How NBC Packed an Entire 1950s TV Studio Into a Cadillac
popularmechanics.com

Facebook’s Broken Vows
newyorker.com

Murder in Whip City
medium.com

Video: The Spring Paradox [9:29]
youtube.com

The largest news agency in the US changes crime reporting practices to ‘do less harm and give people second chances’
theconversation.com

Gallery: 2021 Minimalist Photography Awards
newatlas.com

She exposed how Facebook enabled global political manipulation. Now she’s telling her story.
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‘It’s a Miracle That We Are Still Alive’: Inside Sardinia’s Terrifying Firestorm
gizmodo.com

Energy Dome uses carbon dioxide as a grid-scale battery
newatlas.com

Were Black GIs Killed in a World War II–Era Race Riot?
atlasobscura.com

Water transformed into shiny, golden metal
nature.com

Was Lord Kelvin wrong? A 3D-printed shape casts doubt on his 150-year-old theory
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How the Airline Industry Got Wise to Seat Belts
airspacemag.com

The Tragic Case of the Wrong Thomas James
gq.com

The Fine Line Between Reality and Imaginary
nautil.us

Man v food: is lab-grown meat really going to solve our nasty agriculture problem?
theguardian.com

The curious link between motherhood and dental problems
theatlantic.com

2 Red Objects Were Found in the Asteroid Belt. They Shouldn’t Be There.
nytimes.com

First detection of light from behind a black hole
news.stanford.edu

On this day in 1866, following a monumental effort, the first trans-Atlantic communication cable was completed
damninteresting.com

Photos of California’s Dixie Fire
theatlantic.com

How do ‘Tatooine’ planets survive with 2 suns?
space.com

Canadian Arctic fossils may be the oldest animal ever found, study suggests
cbc.ca

On this day in 1945 a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building
damninteresting.com

Bats are born knowing the speed of sound
massivesci.com

Mergers, twists, and pentagons: The architecture of honeycombs
arstechnica.com

Life in Lava Caves Ignores Food from the Surface, Eats Rock Instead
insidescience.org

The strange 19th-Century sport that was cooler than football
bbc.com

What Einstein Meant By “Time is an Illusion”
interestingengineering.com

3.42-billion-year-old fossil threads may be the oldest known archaea microbes
sciencenews.org

German X-ray space telescope captures most complete map of black holes ever
space.com

What comes next after the International Space Station ends
news.yahoo.com

Fractons, the ‘Weirdest’ Matter, Could Yield Quantum Clues
quantamagazine.org

This medical pioneer deplored the devastating effects of leaded petrol when it was first introduced
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Exhibition tells story of Spanish children used as vaccine ‘fridges’ in 1803
theguardian.com

Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk
reuters.com

Surprise find in Halifax harbour anchors diver’s theory on 1917 explosion
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False Positive: Why Thousands of Patients May Not Have Asthma after All
thewalrus.ca

Bacteria discovered on the International Space Station may help grow food on Mars
studyfinds.org

The true story of how Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” stiffed, then caught fire
keithyates.com

Snow can disappear straight into the atmosphere in hot, dry weather
theconversation.com

5% of Earth’s Power Plants Create 73% of the Energy Sector’s Emissions
vice.com

This Kamikaze Impact Mark On A British Cruiser Is A Testament To The Brutality Of The Pacific War
thedrive.com

Spiral shark intestines work like Nikola Tesla’s water valve, study finds
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Eyes wide shut: How newborn mammals dream the world they’re entering
news.yale.edu

Small climate changes can have devastating local consequences
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Tunnel Discovered With Aztec Carvings Will Be Reburied After Museum Loses Funding
gizmodo.com

Ancient brains: a look inside the extraordinary preservation of a 310-million-year-old nervous system
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