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Meet the ‘Wooly Devil,’ the First New Plant Genus Discovered in a National Park Since 1976
smithsonianmag.com

New clues to the ‘nailed head ritual’ uncovered in Spain
popsci.com

Video: The Flu May Cause Alzheimer’s [12:01]
youtube.com

Watch: World’s first front-flippin’ humanoid robot
newatlas.com

Tracing America’s Obsession With Conspiracy Theories Back to Its Founding
lithub.com

Video: This Is NOT An Anti Meat Video [15:29]
youtube.com

A Fusion Machine Maintained Plasma for an Astonishing 22 Straight Minutes
popularmechanics.com

What one scientist discovered when she lived without light for 10 days
vox.com

How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history
arstechnica.com

Brewing tea removes heavy metals from water, study finds
theguardian.com • (see also)

‘It stirred the people to breathless wonder and scalding abuse’: The tumultuous history of the Sydney Opera House
bbc.com

Researchers Thought It Was Just a Fortress. It Turned Out to Be a Lost Zapotec City
smithsonianmag.com

Laser-powered device tested on Earth could help detect microbial fossils on Mars
phys.org

Lab mice may give ‘first aid’ to unconscious mates
npr.org

Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses significant impact risk
esa.int

Hydrogen becomes a superfluid at nanoscale, confirming 50-year-old prediction
phys.org • (see also)

Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they really liked snacks, model suggests
livescience.com

The Shrouded, Sinister History Of The Bulldozer
noemamag.com • (see also)

NASA to Launch Long-Awaited SPHEREx Space Telescope This Week
extremetech.com

Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried?
newyorker.com

Ambitious “super sewer” finally complete after decade of construction
newatlas.com

Playing with the Page by Toon Joosen
mossandfog.com

What happens if Istanbul’s water supplies run dry?
bbc.com

Man Vandalizes Famed 12-Angled Stone, an Inca Engineering Marvel in Peru
smithsonianmag.com

Two Hikers Found a Backpack in Utah. It Helped Them Stay Alive.
outsideonline.com

How Ukraine’s Defense at Hostomel Airport Crushed Russia’s Blitzkrieg Plan
united24media.com

“Bouncing” winds damaged Houston skyscrapers in 2024
arstechnica.com

New Study Proposes that Cosmic Radiation Altered Virus Evolution in Africa
universetoday.com

Video: Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and switch to a superior audio signal ggwave [01:10]
xcancel.com

Dragging dead fish around reveals super power of mucus
popsci.com

The ones who need little sleep
english.elpais.com

Can you forget your native language?
livescience.com

Video: The Beach Boys Fall After Smile [28:07]
youtube.com

Scientists Successfully Revived Brain Tissue from Suspended Animation
popularmechanics.com

On this day in 1942, anti-aircraft guns in Los Angeles shot at something–or nothing.
damninteresting.com

Are planes crashing more often?
bbc.com

The Leaning Tower of New York
newyorker.com • (see also)

22,000-year-old tracks are earliest evidence of transport vehicles
newscientist.com

Reinforcement Learning Triples Spot’s Running Speed
spectrum.ieee.org

What sparked the COVID pandemic? Mounting evidence points to raccoon dogs
nature.com

The seemingly indestructible fists of the mantis shrimp can take a punch
arstechnica.com

Electric Propulsion Magnets Ready for Space Tests
spectrum.ieee.org

Somali Pirates Are Back on the Hunt After a Decade of Peace
vice.com

Winners of the 2025 World Nature Photography Awards
theatlantic.com

The entrepreneurs who took Hollywood’s favorite surgery mainstream
thehustle.co

Video: A real-life flying car takes to the skies [01:56]
bbc.com • (see also)

Video: Bird Flu Should Have Killed One Billion People [39:00]
youtube.com • (see also)

Unexpected shape of lead-208 nucleus prompts reevaluation of atomic nuclei models
phys.org • (see also)

‘I think we brought the wrong one home’: one mother’s search to find her lost son
theguardian.com

How Little Richard Brought Black and Queer Culture to American Airwaves
lithub.com

40 years ago today, KGB agent Vladimir Vetrov was executed for cooperating with the CIA
damninteresting.com

‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones
theguardian.com

‘Everybody is looking at their phones,’ says man freed after 30 years in prison
news.sky.com

Reckoning in the Sun: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali in Miami
crimereads.com

Thieves used a stolen card to buy a $523,000 lottery ticket. The victim wants to share the winnings
apnews.com

AI Designed an Alien Chip That Works, But Experts Can’t Explain Why
yahoo.com • (see also)

What if a giant asteroid had not wiped out the dinosaurs?
livescience.com

‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism
theguardian.com

Video: Algorithms are breaking how we think [37:51]
youtube.com

A Fugitive Businessman, Done In by One Law He Couldn’t Dodge
nytimes.com