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How Silk Helped the Armies of Genghis Khan Conquer Asia
lithub.com • (see also)

Man Finds John Lennon’s Forgotten Guitar in His Father’s Attic
smithsonianmag.com

The Revenge of the Home Page
newyorker.com • (see also)

A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium
spectrum.ieee.org

Aging Hubble Space Telescope Roars Back To Life After Glitch
forbes.com

Lab mice might be doing their own experiments
popsci.com

Tokyo takes top spot: Highest telescope observatory opens in Chile
interestingengineering.com

The Animals That Turn Bodily Fluids into Weapons
nautil.us

The Last Shall Be First
magazine.atavist.com

Video: An amazing thing about 276 [15:38]
youtube.com

Swimming Beneath Sand, It’s ‘the Hardest of All Animals to Find’
nytimes.com • (see also)

Astronauts could run round ‘Wall of Death’ to keep fit on moon, say scientists
theguardian.com

Video: To be able to not feel pain has become a tacit agreement between doctor and patient — but at what price? [54:47]
youtube.com

Internet Horrified at AI App for Cloning Dead Family Members
futurism.com

The Soviet Rebel of Music
nautil.us • (see also)

Scientists show that there is indeed an ‘entropy’ of quantum entanglement
phys.org

Image: An eclipse of the Sun taken from the Apollo 12 spacecraft, November 1969.
science.nasa.gov

Missing Satellite Found After 25 Years of Being Lost in Space
gizmodo.com

How UFOs almost killed the search for life in the Universe
aeon.co

Scientists Find a Fast Way to Describe Quantum Systems
quantamagazine.org

China set to blast off to the far side of the Moon – here’s what it could discover
theconversation.com • (see also)

Akiya houses: why Japan has nine million empty homes
theguardian.com

Astronomers finally know why stars born from the same cloud aren’t identical twins
space.com

China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle
space.com

The big idea: what if dreaming is the whole point of sleep?
theguardian.com

Video: How do gas masks actually work? [4:30]
youtube.com

Robot bee swarms fly collision-free in close formation
newatlas.com

The California man who hid for 6 months in a secret room inside Circuit City
sfgate.com

Delacroix’s Liberty shows her true colours after Louvre restoration
theguardian.com

Video: Dining on the Luxury Liner Lusitania [37:46]
youtube.com • (sea also)

Therapists report significant psychological risks in psilocybin-assisted treatments
psypost.org

Video: How Communists Made Unbreakable Glass [15:01]
youtube.com

Boeing’s crewed Starliner launches Monday. Here’s why it’s a big deal
newatlas.com

How ECMO Is Redefining Death
newyorker.com

Video: AI Just Ended Music (Now it’s Personal) ft. Rick Beato [25:45]
youtube.com

Archaeologists Discover ‘Unique’ Artificial Body Part in 18th Century Skull
newsweek.com

Video: We should use this amazing mechanism from the grasshopper’s leg [19:18]
youtube.com

Scientists Fused Two Methods to Contain Nuclear Plasma
popularmechanics.com

Video: A Series of Headaches: Shakespeare’s First Folio meets the London Review of Books [18:34]
youtube.com

New Antivenom Knocks Out Wide Range of Snake Toxins
discovermagazine.com

NASA lays out how SpaceX will refuel Starships in low-Earth orbit
arstechnica.com

How a NASA Probe Solved a Scorching Solar Mystery
quantamagazine.org

Scientists racing to solve the mystery of why pilot whales lose their bearings
abc.net.au

Millionaire Becomes Poor To Prove You Can Earn $1M In A Year: Fails At 10 Months With Only $64K
ibtimes.co.uk

Mind-bending maths could stop quantum hackers, but few understand it
theconversation.com

AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With ‘Parasite SEO’
404media.co

NASA Space Laser Beams Home Data From 140 Million Miles Away
extremetech.com

A little girl said monsters were in her bedroom. It was 60,000 bees
bbc.com • (see also)

Video: Something Strange Happens When You Follow Einstein’s Math [37:02]
youtube.com • (see also)

Plato’s final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash
theguardian.com

Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in The Lab. Then It Began to Glow.
sciencealert.com

People swear the Coke can in this optical illusion is red
upworthy.com • (see also)

The failed promise of egg freezing
vox.com

Roman object that baffled experts to go on show at Lincoln Museum
bbc.com

New DNA Analysis Unravels the Marriage Practices of an Ancient Warrior People
smithsonianmag.com

Pando, The Trembling Giant of Utah is the World’s Biggest Organism
mossandfog.com

Video: You need $500. How should you get it? [6:44]
youtube.com

China’s Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made
nature.com

‘An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary’
technologyreview.com

Did Vesuvius bury the home of the first Roman emperor?
phys.org