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From sleeping lions to spitting snakes: a year in the life of London zoo vets

theguardian.com·3w

Stop asking AI for life advice

Does exiting the United States mean you’ve given up? Not necessarily.

bittersoutherner.com·3w

An asteroid extinguished all the dinosaurs except for birds. Here’s why

Did King Arthur really exist?

livescience.com

·4w

Why Do Humans Have Clear White Eyes While Most Apes Have Dark Ones?

zmescience.com·4w

Chernobyl's last wedding: The couple who married as a nuclear disaster unfolded

bbc.com·3w·Hacker News

It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad.

One of the Universe’s Largest Stars May Be Getting Ready To Explode

scitechdaily.com·4w

Quantum ‘Jamming’ Explores the Truly Fundamental Principles of Nature

quantamagazine.org·4w·Hacker News, Hacker News

This week: Warring chimpanzees, psychedelic MRIs, static pareidolia, and more!

damninteresting.com·4w

Fortress Yellowstone The ultra-rich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological sacrifice zone...

inthesetimes.com·4w·r/longform

There Are Signs of a Massive AI Backlash

futurism.com·4w

Eyeing the Richat Structure

science.nasa.gov·4w

TIL all 12 astronauts that have stepped on the Moon have experienced "lunar hay fever" due to the highly abrasive moon dust, which is said to smell like burnt g...

esa.int·4w·Hacker News, Hacker News, r/todayilearned

This Metal Melts in Your Hand – and Scientists Just Discovered Something Strange

scitechdaily.com·4w

Pigs Could End the Transplant Waiting List

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu·4w

Astronomers crack a decades-old mystery, catching gas morphing into planet-building disks around newborn stars

Entire Animal Kingdom Communicates at the Same Tempo

neurosciencenews.com·4w

Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

archive.org·4w·Hacker News, r/programming

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