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The great 16th-Century black composer erased from history
bbc.com • (see also)

Most frogs can jump and land with the precision and grace of an Olympic gymnast. And then there’s the pumpkin toadlet.
theatlantic.com

Particle Hunters Can Spend a Lifetime Searching for Answers
wired.com • (see also)

‘Stunning’ Anglo-Saxon burial site found along HS2 route
theguardian.com

Old not Other: Why do we neglect and disdain the one vulnerable group we all eventually will join?
aeon.co

Plants Appear to Be Breaking Biochemistry Rules by Making ‘Secret Decisions’
sciencealert.com • (see also)

Video: Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years [10:48]
youtube.com • (see also)

‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplace
theguardian.com

Sorry, But New Signal Is Definitely Not Aliens, Says Scientist Working on Project
futurism.com

The Curious Case of Charles Osborne, Who Hiccupped for 68 Years Straight
smithsonianmag.com

Eighteenth-century cockroach found in slave-trading ship ledger
theguardian.com

Happy the elephant is not a person, New York court rules
bbc.com

Mystery of Black Death’s origins solved, say researchers
theguardian.com

The Last Class, 28 Years Later
daily.jstor.org

Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill
quantamagazine.org

Internet Explorer Is Dead—It’s the End of an Era
gizmodo.com

How Did People Get to Britain 950,000 Years Ago?
lithub.com

Why chemists can’t quit palladium
nature.com

Physicists build an atom laser that can stay on forever
phys.org

Russia Is Taking Over Ukraine’s Internet
wired.com

China Says Giant Telescope May Have Detected Signals From Alien Civilizations
bloomberg.com

Video: The Final Images We Will Ever See of Pluto and Arrokoth [30:57]
youtube.com

Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else
science.org

Extreme Flooding Devastates Yellowstone, Forcing the Closure of All Park Entrances
smithsonianmag.com • (see also)

Why can’t the ISS operate forever?
planetary.org

Canada and Denmark end decades-long dispute over barren rock in Arctic
theguardian.com

Wreck of Long-Lost Royal Battleship Discovered Off English Coast
smithsonianmag.com • (sea also)

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Tomb Marker Cursing All Who Enter In Israel
vice.com

A huge Atlantic ocean current is slowing down. If it collapses, La Niña could become the norm for Australia
theconversation.com

The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses
quantamagazine.org

Zhurong Rover Spots Evidence of Recent Liquid Water on Mars
eos.org

Gaia maps two billion Milky Way objects in unprecedented detail
newatlas.com

The World’s Largest Liquid-Mirror Telescope Comes Online
universetoday.com

The transcript used as evidence that a Google AI was sentient was edited and rearranged to make it ‘enjoyable to read’
msn.com

Two years of journalists scrambling to make sense of an ever-changing pandemic
pandemic.cjr.org

Cryptocurrency scam: Man swindled out of pension and life savings
bbc.com

The world’s carbon dioxide battery is here and needs only steel and water
interestingengineering.com

The Prehistoric weapons made from crystal
heritagedaily.com

Gallery: Winners of the 2022 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition
theatlantic.com

A Black Army vet spent 16 months in solitary. Then a jury heard the evidence against him.
archive.ph

Revenge of the Earthworms
thewalrus.ca

First Dinosaur Belly Button Discovered in Fossil From China
smithsonianmag.com

That Time they Stripped the White House Down to its Bones
messynessychic.com

Years after finding it, archeologists enter chamber under a Peruvian temple
arstechnica.com

Could steam-powered cars decrease the CO2 in the atmosphere?
theconversation.com • (see also)

Early Modern Medicine, Poison & Apothecary
crimereads.com

The smile: a history
aeon.co • (see also)

Mass frog burial baffles experts at iron age site near Cambridge
theguardian.com

Healthy human brains are hotter than previously thought
ukri.org

Who Will Remember the Horrors of Ukraine?
nytimes.com

Ozette: The US’ lost 2,000-year-old village
bbc.com

Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient
theguardian.com

How Animals Perceive the World
theatlantic.com

80 years ago today a squad of Nazi spies infiltrated the United States via submarine
damninteresting.com

Gaia probe reveals stellar DNA and unexpected ‘starquakes’
theguardian.com

Cloned crayfish accidentally created in an aquarium are conquering the world
syfy.com

The lucrative economics of expert witnesses
thehustle.co

Researchers run a gas turbine on pure hydrogen in world first
newatlas.com

Found: the ‘how to draw’ books Pablo Picasso created for his daughter
theguardian.com

‘We Asked an AI to Draw a Self-Portrait’
vice.com