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On this day in 1934, a fire started aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle. But that was far from the end of the story.
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The ‘walking’ statues of Easter Island
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How a Fake Billionaire Scammed Rich Buyers for Millions With Bogus Ferrari Build Slots: FBI
thedrive.com

Scientists Reveal How Tardigrades Can Survive Decades Without Water
vice.com

Rare Scarab Beetle in Costa Rica Looks Like It’s Made from Chrome
mossandfog.com

Why the Pygmy Mammoth Stood at Just 5-Feet Tall
discovermagazine.com

ZOO8: The forgotten story of the UK’s own ‘Woodstock 99’ moment, featuring a zoo in Kent
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Escaped chimpanzee returns to Kharkiv zoo on keeper’s bicycle
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How Eliot Ness Wound Up Hunting a Serial Killer in Cleveland
crimereads.com

17 years ago today we at Damn Interesting posted our first story
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With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again
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What’s Causing These Geological Formations on the Great Salt Lake?
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A memory prosthesis could restore memory in people with damaged brains
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Hawaii’s ancient land management system
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How the Inside of a Black Hole Is Secretly on the Outside
scientificamerican.com

Latest image from JWST: Tarantula Nebula
webbtelescope.org

Science and mathematics may never fully capture the physical universe. Are there hard limits to human intelligence?
aeon.co

How many people can Earth handle?
bbc.com

America’s Surprisingly Gentle War on Rabid Raccoons
theatlantic.com

Red Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Was A Different Color Just 2,000 Years Ago
sciencealert.com

India to design, build reusable rocket for global market: ISRO
financialexpress.com

Scientists Just Found a New Kind of Synapse Hiding in The Brains of Mice
sciencealert.com

Scientists hope ‘world’s loneliest tree’ will help answer climate questions
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Years after shuttle, NASA rediscovers the perils of liquid hydrogen
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App detects COVID-19 in people’s voices with help of AI
scienceblog.com

This nanoparticle could be the key to a universal covid vaccine
technologyreview.com

WarWilding: a new word to describe the startling effects of using nature as a weapon
theguardian.com

New Details Emerge About NASA’s Lab to House Martian Samples
futurism.com

Is the Psychedelic Therapy Bubble About to Burst?
wired.com

The Hunt for Big Hail
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A New, Non-Addictive Pain Killer With Fewer Side Effects
scitechdaily.com

Russia’s war on Wikipedia
restofworld.org

The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
theguardian.com

X-ray laser converts plastic into diamonds, recreating Uranus rain
newatlas.com

Video: This is the most interesting roof in London. [6:11]
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Ferns Are Super Weird – And Their Genomes Are Even More Chaotic Than We Thought
sciencealert.com

Not a wonderful world: Louis Armstrong tapes reveal how racism scarred his life and career
theguardian.com

NASA’s Perseverance Found Green Sand on Mars — Here’s What That Means
screenrant.com

Video: Where does the name “black hole” come from? [7:20]
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These ant queens live 500% longer than workers. Now we know why.
livescience.com

Australian Signals Directorate 50-cent coin code cracked by Tasmanian 14yo in ‘just over an hour’
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On this day in 1859 the Earth experienced the largest geomagnetic storm on record
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Eats, hops and breeds: New Zealand’s worsening wallaby plague
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New fur for the quantum cat: Entanglement of many atoms discovered for the first time
phys.org

Can We Predict Which Viruses Will Spread from Animals to Humans?
newyorker.com

A Volcano Erupted Without Warning. Now, Scientists Know Why.
nytimes.com

This week: ✈️Electric flight, 🪨asteroid smashing, 🧬doppelganger genetics, and more!
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What Happened to Anne Boleyn’s Heart?
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Frank Drake, astronomer famed for contributions to SETI, has died
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Pakistan’s Trucks Are Vibrant, Bedazzled Works of Art
atlasobscura.com

What Happened to “America’s Stonehenge”?
newyorker.com • (see also)

Video: The Ominous Reason Phobos Has Lines on It [5:36]
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The Paradox of Fermi’s Paradox
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What Canada’s Largest Art Heist Reveals about the Art World’s Shady Side
thewalrus.ca

Mice in the Andes grow bigger on the rainier side of the mountains — and this could be a law of nature
zmescience.com

The dangers of being over-confident
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Monkees’ Micky Dolenz sues FBI over ‘secret dossier’ on band
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Mysterious rings in new Webb image puzzle astronomers
space.com

Video: This massive truck makes artificial earthquakes [3:47]
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Can Tree Rings Solve the Mystery of a 19th-Century American Shipwreck?
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