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What’s Down the Road for Silicon?
nytimes.com

Video: How Engineers Widened The Suez Canal For Bigger Ships [51:25]
youtube.com

Why scientists think physics could be in for a reckoning
inverse.com

Explosion on a White Dwarf Star Observed for the Very First Time
scitechdaily.com

Video: How Do Airports Keep Birds From Striking Planes? A Wildlife Expert Explains [7:03]
youtube.com

New US lab to create versions of atoms never recorded on Earth
theguardian.com • (see also)

If You Stand Like Superman or Wonder Woman, Would You Feel Stronger?
neurosciencenews.com

The Rich Are Not Who We Think They Are. And Happiness Is Not What We Think It Is, Either.
nytimes.com

Caesar’s favourite herb was the Viagra of ancient Rome. Until climate change killed it off
theguardian.com • (see also)

Several Mysterious Human-Made Pits Have Been Revealed Near Stonehenge
sciencealert.com

Rikhter R-23: The cannon the Soviet Union sent into space
interestingengineering.com

Potentially Alive 830-Million-Year-Old Organisms Found Trapped in Ancient Rock
sciencealert.com

How America Reached One Million Covid Deaths
nytimes.com • (see also)

Poisoned legacy: why the future of power can’t be nuclear
theguardian.com

On this day in 1939 a five year old became the youngest mother in recorded history
damninteresting.com

Why Ukraine’s undersized military is resisting supposedly superior Russian forces
theconversation.com

Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of open migration. But who qualified as a refugee?
laphamsquarterly.org

Amalthea: Facts about Jupiter’s unusual inner moon
space.com

Explaining the Mechanics of a Bird’s Nest
physics.aps.org

An Alaskan Volcano Is Overdue to Erupt, And We May Finally Know What’s Stopping It
sciencealert.com

This week: 🐛Debugging an urban legend, ⏳sand in the hourglass, 🧬quantum evolution, and more!
damninteresting.com

Video: The woman who brought female representation to games [15:00]
youtube.com

Dogs, the Four-Legged Crime-Fighters of Paris
daily.jstor.org

Promising early results from largest-ever trial testing LSD for anxiety
newatlas.com

Have Scientists Designed the Perfect Chocolate?
smithsonianmag.com

Video: The world’s biggest wave, explained [17:25]
youtube.com • (see also)

Doomed To Collide: Astronomers Announce Discovery of Supermassive Binary Black Holes
scitechdaily.com

The people who ‘danced themselves to death’
bbc.com

The Biggest Potential Water Disaster in the United States
newyorker.com

No sea serpents, mobsters but Tahoe trash divers strike gold
apnews.com • (see also)

Couple in India sue son for not giving them a grandchild
bbc.com

This Lead-Lined Locomotive Hauled Experimental Nuclear Reactors
thedrive.com

Why are there continent-sized ‘blobs’ in the deep Earth?
bbc.com

Spot the difference: the invincible business of counterfeit goods
theguardian.com

‘I met the most famous bomb-sniffing dog in Ukraine.’
youtube.com

Video: An in-depth explanation of how radio astronomers imaged the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole [19:46]
youtube.com

Remembering the Unsung Egyptians Who Helped Discover King Tut’s Tomb
smithsonianmag.com

Twenty-year search for Rwanda genocide suspect ends in Zimbabwe grave
theguardian.com

DeafBlind Communities May Be Creating a New Language of Touch
newyorker.com • (see also)

We Were Here: How advanced civilizations could leave us a message of their presence
nautil.us • (see also)

‘How My Fitness Tracker Turned Me Against Myself’
fivethirtyeight.com

Computer Scientists Prove Certain Problems Are Truly Hard
quantamagazine.org • (see also)

Video Shows Houses Collapsing Into the Ocean as North Carolina’s Coastline Erodes
gizmodo.com

Young brain fluid improves memory in old mice
nature.com

Fastest-ever logic gates could make computers a million times faster
newatlas.com

Researchers Grew Tiny Plants in Moon Dirt Collected Decades Ago
wired.com

Iron Age arrow found on Norway mountain still has feather fletching on it
livescience.com

So You Want to Be a Bootlegger
saturdayeveningpost.com

China finds world’s best-preserved duck-billed dinosaur embryos
globaltimes.cn

Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded
theguardian.com • (see also)

Astronomers capture first image of black hole at center of Milky Way
axios.com

Why Are Watches Usually Set to 10:10 in Advertisements?
realclearscience.com

Video: Why LA Destroyed Its World-Class Transit System [8:34]
youtube.com

The UK landscape that hid a criminal enterprise
bbc.com • (see also)

‘Machine Scientists’ Distill the Laws of Physics From Raw Data
quantamagazine.org

Spider uses film of air to hide underwater for over half an hour
newatlas.com

A Pair of Twins Grew Up in Different Countries, Then Scientists Compared Them
sciencealert.com

The revealing junk of abandoned Soviet nuclear bases
bbc.com

Today’s H1N1 flu–commonly known as the swine flu–appears to be a direct descendent of the flu virus that caused the 1918 pandemic
upi.com

A passenger with no flying experience landed a plane at a Florida airport after the pilot became incapacitated
edition.cnn.com