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This 4,000-year-old city defied the rules of history Science Daily (Kevin W) Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery? Construction Physics (Micael T) This…

Sam Enright works on innovation policy at Progress Ireland, an independent policy think tank in Dublin, and runs a publication called The Fitzwilliam. Most relevant to…

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast Science Advances An island has been waging war on rats. They think they’ve finally won…

The rise of ‘safety fatigue’ among parents CNN Did medieval people love their children? Works in Progress Origin of Human Eyes Traced to 560-Million-Year-Old One-Eyed ‘Cyclops’…

Mathematicians Reveal Why Humans Keep Becoming Cannibals ScienceAlert (Chuck L) The Secret Lives of Insects JSTOR (Micael T) The myth of medieval childhood Works in Progress…

Insect ‘submariners’ don’t implode at depth, leaving oceanic mystery unsolved University of British Columbia Working memory rapidly updates its priorities after distractions, study finds Medical Xpress…

In 2016, 18-year-old Andrej Ciesielski secretly climbed the Great Pyramid of Giza with a GoPro, filming the whole thing. Halfway up the 146-meter pyramid, police noticed…

Dear patient readers, In lieu of an Iran war post, you are getting extra Links with an Iran War section. The short version of the state…

Long Presumed Dead, a West African Reef Is Found Thriving Yale Environment 360 Deadly Snail Venom Could Lead to Pain Relief Without Opioids, Study Shows StudyFinds…

The Largest Operating Steam Locomotive in the World Weighs 1.2 Million Pounds. Now, the Historic Train May Be Coming to Your Town Smithsonian Magazine The missing…