Mahatma Gandhi’s letter to Adolf Hitler, December 24, 1940

This week: Plastic clouds, Michelangelo’s bunker, chimpanzee stage fright, and more!

A Mysterious Image Was Supposed to Be Amelia Earhart’s Plane. Searchers Found Only an Illusion.

‘I was a fool’: Art Garfunkel describes tearful reunion with Paul Simon

A century before Zoom, the AIEE connected over 5,000 engineers in 8 cities for a live meeting via telephone

Caltech Astrophysicists Flip Black Hole Theories With Stunning New Simulations

Video: Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change [16:53]

Our link curation will be on hold for the week of November 10-16. But we’ll be back.

Emperor penguin arrives on WA beach thousands of kilometres from home

This week: Cheese heist, Shakespearean monkeys, alcoholic fauna, and more!

Elephants can wash with a hose – and sabotage shower time, scientists say

Video: Inside the ‘most sophisticated’ drug lab in Canadian history [10:31]

Chimpanzees perform better on challenging computer tasks when they have an audience, research reveals

The Webb Telescope Found A Planet Orbiting A Star 35 Light Years Away — Its Data Is Just Plain Odd

Mysterious, city-size ‘centaur’ comet gets 300 times brighter after quadruple cold-volcanic eruption

Cells have more mini ‘organs’ than researchers thought − unbound by membranes, these rogue organelles challenge biology’s fundamentals

How Our Brain Stabilizes Vision Amid Constant Eye Movement

On this day in ’73, workers removed the remains of an extraordinary tree: The Lonely Tree of Ténéré

Chimney Sweeps and the Turn Against Child Labor

Video: The Periodic Table in a 2D World [4:21]

Bank Manager Headed to Prison After Stealing a Fortune From His Customer

‘The first thing I did was poke it’: Canada beach blobs mystery solved by chemists

Hubble watches neutron stars collide and explode to create black hole and ‘birth atoms’

Christmas Island’s red crab migration back to bumper levels after dry 2023

85 years ago today a German handyman (and/or time traveler) almost succeeded in assassinating Hitler

Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released

Identity of casts of victims at Pompeii not all they seem, research suggests

Teeny tardigrades can survive space and lethal radiation. Scientists may finally know how

Over 40 monkeys escape from South Carolina research facility

The Shipwreck Detective

How water flowed on ancient Mars

Ticker-tape synaesthesia – when real life comes with subtitles

Are there health benefits to eating turmeric and other spices?

New Discovery Paves The Way to Generating Energy From Body Heat

A World Without Men: Inside South Korea’s 4B Movement

Mysterious circular DNA found in more than half of patients with certain types of cancer

Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers

Plants Really Do ‘Scream’. We’ve Simply Never Heard Them Until Now.

Video: The Change from Roman Numerals [13:00]

Airborne microplastics aid in cloud formation

A Cloned Ferret Has Given Birth for the First Time in History, Marking a Win for Her Endangered Species

Chemistry Lesson for a Farmer

Video: A new kind of mitochondria [4:18]

Baghdad Battery: The 2000-year-old artifact and its timeless mystery

Smashing atomic nuclei together reveals their elusive shapes

Video: The Unbelievable True Story Of The Apollo 13 Rescue [1:43:58]

Bach, Mozart or jazz: Scientists provide a quantitative measure of variability in music pieces

New Homeowners Find Skeleton in Attic 15 Years After Previous Owner Vanished

‘Ridiculously smooth’: James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega

In Denmark, an Ancient Army Met a Mysterious End in a Lake

Carl Sagan’s scientific legacy extends far beyond ‘Cosmos’

Physicists Spot Quantum Tornadoes Twirling in a ‘Supersolid’

Life-seeking, ice-melting robots could punch through Europa’s icy shell

Video: The real reason polio is so dangerous [6:34]

See the Breathtaking 14th-Century Sienese Artworks That Helped Set the Italian Renaissance in Motion

Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit

Hiker finds strange cart-like item at glacier in Switzerland

Will Plants Grow on the Moon?

Habitable Worlds are Found in Safe Places

A Brief History of the Most Famous Swear Word in the World