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Alien hunters have an update on a mysterious signal from the nearest exoplanet
cnet.com

The Technologies That Could Finally Make Space Elevators a Reality
interestingengineering.com

When a Witness Recants
newyorker.com

MLMs [in the US] might not be able to get away with their shady promises much longer
vox.com

Video: How to Lie Your Way to $34 Billion [Nikola Motors Fraud] [25:50]
youtube.com

When People Carved Turnips Instead of Pumpkins for Halloween
smithsonianmag.com

Why Disney buried Runaway Brain, the monstrous Mickey short
polygon.com • (see also)

Why the Belowground Ecosystem Matters
daily.jstor.org

How jumping spiders’ senses capture a world beyond our perception
sciencenews.org

Observations of Exploding Star in ‘Real Time’ Deemed a Major Step Towards Predicting Supernovas
gizmodo.com

An Atomic Clock Promises Link Between Quantum World and Gravity
quantamagazine.org

Discovery Points to a Crucial Role Red Blood Cells Play in Our Immune Systems
sciencealert.com

Could this be a planet in another galaxy?
esa.int

Baby octopuses grow hundreds of temporary organs, then lose them without a trace
livescience.com

Technosignatures are a sea change in the search for alien life
aeon.co • (see also)

Living with the world’s oldest mummies
bbc.com

Facebook Papers: ‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’
theatlantic.com • (see also)

Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Peculiar Pair of Galaxies
digitaltrends.com

Europeans Once Drank Distilled Human Skulls as Medicine
atlasobscura.com

A newly discovered planet orbiting a dead star offer a glimpse of Earth’s future
popsci.com

The Animal Kingdom Is Full of Genetic Screwballs
theatlantic.com

Scientists Say They’ve Created a “Strange” New State of Matter
futurism.com

What the giant James Webb telescope will see that Hubble can’t
mashable.com

2.5 billion-year-old traces of life locked inside primeval ruby
livescience.com

Scientists have found a way to harden wood to make a knife that rivals steel
cbc.ca

New Brunswick’s Mystery Disease
thewalrus.ca

In 2014, the FBI discovered an entire museum—and thousands of human remains—in the home of a 90-year-old Indiana man
archive.vanityfair.com

Have Sumatran fishing crews found the fabled Island of Gold?
theguardian.com

Shape-shifting materials with infinite possibilities
phys.org

Physicists Created a Supernova Reaction on Earth Using a Radioactive Beam
sciencealert.com • (see also)

‘I was terrified’: the vet sterilizing Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos
theguardian.com

Harvesting ‘true cinnamon’: The story of the Ceylon spice
aljazeera.com

Astronomers Discover Infant Planet – One of the Youngest Exoplanets Ever Observed
scitechdaily.com

NASA Plans February Moon Launch With Giant Rocket
nytimes.com

On this day in 1975, the USSR’s Venera 9 became the first probe to return images from the surface of another planet: Venus. It lasted 23 minutes.
damninteresting.com

Born Knowing: Baby Chicks and Baby Humans
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Solving a 100-Year Mystery: Astronomers Locate Source of High-Energy Cosmic Rays
scitechdaily.com

Remembering ‘Witch Cakes,’ the Evil-Fighting Baked Goods of the 1600s
atlasobscura.com

This week: 📚 Steinbeck’s slurs, 🚁 organ drones, 🌠 meteorite bedfellows, and more!
damninteresting.com

Lockheed Martin plans to build Starlab commercial space station by 2027
newatlas.com

Plants Use RNA to Talk to Neighbors
the-scientist.com

Jaw-Dropping New Images Of Jupiter And Its ‘Wet Moon’ Europa Taken This Week By NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
forbes.com

The Accident That Led to Machines That Can See
nautil.us

Video: Water, salt and music form a mesmerising visualisation of sound waves [6:46]
aeon.co

‘Never sold a painting in his life – but died worth $100m’: the incredible story of Boris Lurie
theguardian.com

Photos: The Ongoing Volcanic Eruption in the Canary Islands
theatlantic.com

The Untold Story of the Portuguese Diplomat Who Saved Thousands From the Nazis
smithsonianmag.com

The Brain Processes Speech in Parallel With Other Sounds
quantamagazine.org

Venus Might Have Oceans of Water Trapped Inside Its Crust
interestingengineering.com • (see also)

The History and Mystery of Yemen’s ‘Well of Hell’
atlasobscura.com

Ivory poaching has led to evolution of tuskless elephants, study finds
theguardian.com

Vikings settled in North America in 1021AD, study says
bbc.com

Here’s the physics of why ducklings swim in a row behind their mother
sciencenews.org

Check out this working prototype lunar electric motorcycle for NASA’s moon exploration
electrek.co

The coming battle over space
harpers.org

On the origin of minds
aeon.co

One of the Most Egregious Ripoffs in the History of Science
nautil.us

Your Facebook News Feed Sucks Because That’s How Advertisers Like It
gizmodo.com • (see also)

Brain implant bypasses the eyes to help blind users “see” images
newatlas.com

There are 6×10^80 Bits of Information in the Observable Universe
universetoday.com