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What Happens to Caves When Wildfires Scorch the Surface?
atlasobscura.com

Sharpest ever images of live bacteria unravel the secrets of superbugs
newatlas.com

The Bizarre Cultural History of Saliva
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Video: Why Rust Batteries May Be the Future of Energy [12:01]
youtube.com

Quantum Cyberattacks Are Coming. This Math Can Stop Them
popularmechanics.com

Type of ultraviolet light most effective at killing coronavirus is also the safest to use around people
theconversation.com

Pupil size found to vary based on number of objects you’re looking at
newatlas.com

Deepest earthquake ever detected struck 467 miles beneath Japan
nationalgeographic.com

Mars helicopter Ingenuity soars through Red Planet’s summer air after radio blackout (video)
space.com

This Groundbreaking Simulator Generates a Huge Indoor Ocean
wired.com

A “singing” endangered animal reveals the evolutionary origins of music
inverse.com

How to Map a Fly Brain in 20 Million Easy Steps
nytimes.com

How did ancient people store food before refrigeration?
livescience.com

New long-form from Damn Interesting: In 1958, one heavily modified airplane flew out of Las Vegas with a single objective: Don’t land.
dam.mn

Tackling a 40 million-year-old conundrum
phys.org

The marvel of China’s multi-generational rice terraces
bbc.com

Seattle police bust lucrative Lego trafficking scheme
theguardian.com

Blue Origin says it will build an orbiting mixed-use business park in space
npr.org

Video: Jupiter Rotates [1:07]
youtube.com

‘My Father, the Hitman’
dmagazine.com

Project Stardust: A Photographer Scours Rooftops Across the Globe for Minuscule Cosmic Particles
thisiscolossal.com

Video: TV From the Moon – Apollo’s Live TV cameras [14:37]
youtube.com

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