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The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
theguardian.com

On this day in 1957, a nuclear reactor in the UK started on fire
damninteresting.com

Here’s the real reason Endurance sank
arstechnica.com

Robin Williams’ daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad
bbc.com

Archaeologists unlock secrets of 4,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian temple
independent.co.uk

Astronomers Are Sounding the Alarm Over Dangerous Space Weather. Are We Prepared?
gizmodo.com • (see also)

On this day in 1959, a secret Canadian flying saucer was sent to NASA for testing
damninteresting.com

As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
theguardian.com

Scientists Finally Found Phosphine on a Brown Dwarf. Here’s What That Means for the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
smithsonianmag.com

The search for Cleopatra’s long-lost tomb leads to sunken seaport
popsci.com

Video: Guédelon Castle: How to Build a Real Fortress with 800-Year-Old Tools [53:11]
youtube.com

This is a real image of an alien world forming around a star. And scientists think they may have found a second
skyatnightmagazine.com

Sneaky asteroid zooms past Antarctica closer than a satellite
livescience.com

Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
vgel.me

Video: How Doomsday Bunkers Became Luxury Status Symbols [18:19]
youtube.com

Renewables overtake coal as world’s biggest source of electricity
bbc.com

Mathematicians Discover Prime Number Pattern in Fractal Chaos
scientificamerican.com

The before and after images showing glaciers vanishing before our eyes
bbc.com

The neurons that let us see what isn’t there
arstechnica.com

Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle
quantamagazine.org

Video: Brutal End of Nazi Collaborator & France’s Car King: Louis Renault [14:08]
youtube.com

Did NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover just see interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in the Martian night sky?
space.com

Wildlife Rehabilitation Staff Wear Masks So Orphaned Wild Birds Don’t Imprint on Humans
mymodernmet.com

Video: We’ve Finally Seen Jupiter’s Core [20:08]
youtube.com

The Deadliest Spider in the World Ends Lives in Hours, But Its Venom May Inspire Medical Miracles
discovermagazine.com

How Peppermint Candy Caused One of Britain’s Deadliest Mass Poisonings
mentalfloss.com

‘One rule for the rich’: the Salzburg mansion, the Porsche heir and the writer Stefan Zweig
theguardian.com

The epic hunt for a planet just like Earth
bbc.com

Video: Why Did These Ancient People Abandon Copper? [13:44]
youtube.com

Explore a bird database with 11,500 species
popsci.com

‘I thought dad lied about illness, but he was victim of an NHS scandal’
bbc.com

The exoplanet revolution at 30: 1st alien world was found around a sun-like star three decades ago
space.com

The great butterfly heist: how a gentleman collector stole thousands of butterflies from Australian museums
theguardian.com

Virtual particles: How physicists’ clever bookkeeping trick could underlie reality
theconversation.com

Video: Why Some Things Just Look Beautiful [24:38]
youtube.com

Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says
france24.com

‘I was called an enemy of the people’: how the US Senate went to war with the biggest rock stars of the 1980s
theguardian.com

Why world records seem to be getting harder to beat
bbc.com

Video: Why does Britain’s mapping agency have a box of spiders? [9:36]
youtube.com

‘All the trees are dead’: An ancient California forest has been wiped out
sfchronicle.com

Researchers are reanimating 40,000-year-old microbes
yahoo.com

Riders on the storm: The birds that fly into hurricanes
bbc.com • (see also)

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
theguardian.com

NASA’s Voyager 1 Revealed A Stunning Discovery At The Edge Of Our Solar System
bgr.com • (see also)

A Veteran Reporter Was Branded as a Russian Spy. The Proof Didn’t Hold Up
thewalrus.ca

Your Brain Creates Its Own Version of Reality—And It’s the Version that Keeps You Alive
popularmechanics.com • (see also)

Interstellar comet swinging past Mars as a fleet of spacecraft looks on
apnews.com

Subminiature Vacuum Tube History: Letting The Better Tech Win
tedium.co

Stunning Double Ring System Is The Most Powerful Odd Radio Circle Found So Far
sciencealert.com • (see also)

What happens to the kids? Fearing deportation, immigrant parents make contingency plans.
npr.org

California may be at risk of a lesser-known, violent type of earthquake. Scientists fear we aren’t ready
sfchronicle.com

The day Return became Enter
aresluna.org • (see also)

The strangest letter of the alphabet – The rise and fall of yogh
deadlanguagesociety.com

Science costs money – research is guided by who funds it and why
theconversation.com

Lifting the ‘constant black cloud’: how a smog-bound city cut dangerous levels of air pollution
theguardian.com

Video: A Day in the Life of a 102-Year-Old French Yogi [3:16]
youtube.com

The City-Killer Asteroid May Hit the Moon in 2032 — What Would Happen If We Blasted It With Nukes First?
discovermagazine.com

Germany’s Munich the latest European airport forced to close after wave of drone sightings
cnn.com

‘I was kidnapped by Russia at 16 — like so many Ukrainian kids’
thetimes.com

Record-Smashing Rogue Planet Caught Growing at 6 Billion Tons Per Second
sciencealert.com