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New Orleans’ billion-dollar levees survived Hurricane Ida. Can they handle what’s coming?
popsci.com

Details of rare bronze age coffin found in golf course pond revealed
theguardian.com

The Dark Asteroid Ryugu Finally Comes Into the Light
wired.com

The manager of Windows on the World survived 9/11, while 79 of his employees died. He’s still searching for permission to move on.
theatlantic.com

Quantum gas free fall experiment creates coldest temperature ever recorded
newatlas.com • (see also)

A Single Laser Fired Through a Keyhole Can Expose Everything Inside a Room
gizmodo.com

NASA is going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid. Things might get pretty chaotic.
technologyreview.com

What Astronomers Thought Pluto Looked Like Before They Saw It Up Close
gizmodo.com

The lost generation of ancient trees
bbc.com

Google’s New AI Photo Upscaling Tech is Jaw-Dropping
petapixel.com

Video: How Noiseless Props Are Made For Movies And TV Shows [7:09]
youtube.com

On this day in 1942 the continental United States was attacked by Japanese aircraft
damninteresting.com

World’s largest carbon capture plant opens up in Iceland
zmescience.com

When Your Favorite Songs Were Banned in the Wake of 9/11
thedailybeast.com

MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
news.mit.edu

What the world’s most accurate clock can tell us about Earth and the cosmos
phys.org

20 Years After 9/11, Surveillance Has Become a Way of Life
wired.com

T. Rex Wasn’t Always at The Top of The Food Chain. Meet What Came Before
sciencealert.com

Video: NASA Psyche Mission: Charting a Metallic World [2:28]
youtube.com

Bizarre ‘Bone’ Asteroid Is Even Weirder Than We Imagined
gizmodo.com

Smoke and fire alarms go off on International Space Station
theguardian.com

No Margarine for Error
saturdayeveningpost.com

How one foil-wrapped home survived the Caldor Fire as everything around it burned
sfchronicle.com

Accordion-inspired supercapacitor blends flexibility and high capacity
newatlas.com

On this day in 1890 Harland Sanders was born—the man who would one day become the iconic Colonel Sanders
damninteresting.com

America’s hidden empire: the USA’s forgotten imperial expansion
historyextra.com

Video: The Standard Model might be the most successful theory in science. But what is it, exactly? [16:24]
aeon.co

Radioactive snakes help scientists monitor fallout from Fukushima nuclear disaster
theguardian.com

Who Wrote ‘The Falling Man?’ Story Behind Esquire’s Falling Man Article
esquire.com

Wonderland Abandoned: The Swift Fall of “Europe’s Biggest Theme Park”
theatlantic.com

The ‘megacomet’ Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade. Here’s the discovery explained.
space.com

Video: America After 9/11 (full documentary) [1:53:15]
youtube.com

Something Unexplained Is Sending Radio Signals From Our Galaxy’s Center
vice.com

Is gravity truly a quantum force?
techexplorist.com

How someone becomes a torturer
theconversation.com

90-year-old video of extinct thylacine colorized in stunning 4K scan
newatlas.com

What happens when your prescription drug becomes the center of covid misinformation
technologyreview.com

‘Hour After Hour After Hour On the Air’: Inside the CBS Control Room on 9/11
esquire.com

NASA will finally launch the James Webb Space Telescope on December 18th
engadget.com

Video: Mexico earthquake: Lights seen in sky during tremor near Acapulco [01:05]
bbc.com

‘I was sliding towards the drop and couldn’t stop’ – the writer who fell from a mountain
theguardian.com

The Plan to Stop Every Respiratory Virus at Once
theatlantic.com

Zero-emission freight ship uses swappable containers as its batteries
newatlas.com

The Code That Controls Your Money
wealthsimple.com

‘I don’t care’: text shows modern poetry began much earlier than believed
theguardian.com

3D Printing Helps Ultracold Quantum Experiments Go Small
wired.com • (see also)

One Lab’s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles
quantamagazine.org

A Huge, Unknown Cambrian Bug Fossil Has Been Found in The Eerie Burgess Shale
sciencealert.com

Will we ever get a clear idea about what foods we should eat?
aeon.co

The Air Force Is (Almost) Ready to Unveil Its Secret New Space Weapon
popularmechanics.com

Video: How to Pull Off a Bank Heist [7:59]
youtube.com

Wildfire burn scars can intensify and even trigger thunderstorms, leading to catastrophic flooding
theconversation.com

Inside Skunk Works, Lockheed’s super-secret weapons facility
politico.com

White dwarfs slow aging by burning hydrogen on their surface
techexplorist.com

The worldview-changing drugs poised to go mainstream
bbc.com

Did the First Americans Arrive by Land or by Sea?
theatlantic.com

One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia
wired.com

Worms found to share “memories” by swapping RNA to warn of danger
newatlas.com

The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship
theguardian.com

Novel Metal Discovered Where Electrons Flow in the Same Way Water Flows in a Pipe
scitechdaily.com