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Mattoon Daily Journal-Gazette headlines as they appeared on the front-page.

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The ‘Mad Gasser of Mattoon’ is one of history’s most bizarre unsolved mysteries

By Popular Science Staff

An illustration, drawn and engraved, of an eastern whip-poor-will, by Richard Polydore Nodder.

What happened to this iconic bird of American horror?

By Jared Del Rosso / The Conversation

cut oranges, grapefruits, limes, and lemon together in a group

Yes, you can still get scurvy

By Laura Baisas

A technician inspects a prototype LISA telescope.

NASA unveils model of LISA, a satellite array for studying ripples in space-time

close up of nose

People who can’t smell breathe differently

By Lauren Leffer

Woman throwing disc golf disc in park

How to improve your disc golf game with a little physics

orange and yellow leaves on the ground of a forest

Why 60 degrees in fall feels different than in the spring

By Laura Baisas

The fascinating, rocky history of the ubiquitous Xerox

By Bill Gourgey

Alone with dementia

Millions of aging Americans are facing dementia by themselves

By Judith Graham / KFF Health News

Gila monster spit inspired a new way to detect rare pancreatic tumors

smallest dinosaur egg fossil

These are the smallest fossilized dinosaur eggs ever found

yellow pollen shooting out of a red flower

Plants could be manipulating sperm in completely new ways

By Laura Baisas

A monkey carrying dead offspring.

How animals react to death: From vigils to cannibalism

By Lauren Leffer

Still from Armageddon (1998).

What Hollywood gets wrong—and surprisingly right—about saving the world from killer asteroids

By Robin Andrews

As the tide of invasive Pacific pink salmon threatens to overwhelm Norway’s rivers, the locals—above on the Vestre Jakobselv—net or trap as many possible before the fish spawn and die, potentially changing the ecology of the region.

Where the rivers run pink

By Jude Isabella/Hakai Magazine

two stalk-eyed flies fight on a stick. these flies have long antennae with eyeballs on the tips

Flies with shorter eye-stalks act aggressively because females are less attracted to them

By Laura Baisas

two rocks in foreground, milky way in background

12 breathtaking images from the 2024 Astrophotography Prize Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

A fusion experiment ran so hot that the wall materials facing the plasma retained defects.

How can we make nuclear fusion a reliable energy source one day?

By Sophie Blondel / The Conversation

Stop using Arial: How to change the default fonts in Google Docs

three photos: a rat holding orange string, a woman with a robot rat on her head and a robot rat with wires coming out of it

Meet the engineer who crafted a genius animatronic ‘Ratatouille’ Halloween costume

Equipment including an electrochemical reactor where seawater is split via electrolysis to capture carbon on a barge for UCLA's SeaChange climate change carbon removal project at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California on April 12, 2023. The project is now known as Equatic.

Marine carbon dioxide removal is about to go big

By Ramin Skibba / Hakai Magazine

The Winchcombe meteorite sits on display at the Natural History Museum on May 13, 2021 in London, England. The meteorite is a rare type, the first to fall in 30 years.

When a meteor smashes into your driveway

By Robin Andrews

HMS Trooper submarine wreckage

WWII submarine discovered 81 years after vanishing on a secret mission

Close up of FBI windbreaker jacket

Bitcoin bro searched ‘how can I know for sure if I am being investigated by the FBI’ before FBI arrest

How to use Gemini AI to ask questions about your Gmail inbox

First responders and residents alike are using drones to assess hurricane damage and search for missing persons.

Drones are playing a critical role in Milton and Helene recovery

By Mack DeGeurin

Migraine pain, a leading cause of disability, is now thought to start in the membranes surrounding the brain.

Studies of migraine’s many triggers offer paths to new therapies

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

several orange and black monarch butterflies dot large green leaves

Endangered Species

Scientists build rest stops for monarch butterflies on a volcano

By Laura Baisas

Ai-Da robot standing in front of two of its paintings at the United Nations

A humanoid robot’s painting called ‘AI God’ may sell for over $120,000

a close up of four pieces of sliced bread

Our love of delicious carbs may go back 800,000 years

By Laura Baisas

This photo taken during a media tour on October 11, 2024 shows the neutrino detector, a stainless steel and acrylic sphere around 35 meters in diameter, at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (Juno) in Kaiping, in southern China's Guangdong province.

Particle Physics

China races to unlock one of the biggest mysteries in particle physics

A photograph showing two big and two little Pyrocystis noctiluca.

Why these plankton puff up to 6x bigger than normal

By Laura Baisas

A US Navy officer releases a weather balloon over the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. Today, the United States launches around 76,600 balloons annually to gather high-altitude weather data on air temperature, pressure, and humidity.

Weather forecasting is deadly for marine wildlife

By Danielle Beurteaux / Hakai Magazine

Could Ozempic and similar drugs be used to treat substance use disorders?

surgical equipment on table

Autopsy of 78-year-old man reveals he had three penises

a blue whale skeleton on display at a museum

Blue whale skeleton still leaking oil, 26 years after death

By Laura Baisas

Axiom and Prada designed a custom white fabric that can protect astronauts from extreme heat and dangerous lunar dust.

How Prada’s fancy Artemis III spacesuits work

By Mack DeGeurin

Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell scaling Devil's Climb in Alaska

Rock climbing legend Alex Honnold talks his Devil’s Climb, Google Maps, and biking with wild horses

a musuem exhibit with a dinosaur skeleton. a picture of actor jeff goldblum saying "that is a one big pile of poop" is in the lower left.

The Poozeum: Fossilized bug farts, T. rex poop, and more ancient coprolites

By Laura Baisas

A farmer promotes taro through a live webcast in a field in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China, on Sept. 9, 2024.

Farms to fame: How China’s rural influencers are redefining country life

By Mitchell Gallagher / The Conversation

Sierra Space TCPS machine

International Space Station

ISS astronauts to test trash compactor that’s basically WALL-E

Researcher testing sensors and weights for fatigue monitoring

Wearable sensors monitor factory worker fatigue in real time

An architect's rendering of what Kairos' first demonstration mini nuclear reactor will look like when it's completed.

Google bets big on ‘mini’ nuclear reactors to feed its AI demands

By Mack DeGeurin

Moflin robot pet

Casio thinks an AI-powered furball can replace your pet

An illustration showing an imposing fully-grown male Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus wandering India’a Kashmir Valley, 400,000 years ago, towering over a herd of Central Asian red deer. In the distance, a small band of prehistoric humans set up a campfire to cook their meal.

Mysterious elephant species uncovered with 87 prehistoric stone tools

By Laura Baisas

The surface of Europa – one of Jupiter’s moons – is a thick layer of solid ice.

Europa Clipper is one of two missions on their way to see if Jupiter’s moons could support life

By Mike Sori / The Conversation

a small frog with light green coloring and dark spots sits on a green leaf

Seven new frog species named for their ‘Star Trek’-esque calls

By Laura Baisas

man stands behind large pumpkin with scarecrow

Gargantuan pumpkin could flavor 74,794 pumpkin spice lattes

By Laura Baisas

green old car parked on the street

Bentley used original design drawings to meticulously recreate its 1930 Speed Six

By Kristin Shaw

Armenian sapphire (muscari armeniacum) flowers closeup. Shallow depth of field.

How to revamp your lawn’s reputation with bulbs

By Debbie Wolfe

Why wildfires started by human activities can be more destructive and harder to contain

By Virginia Iglesias / The Conversation

screenshot of iphone with 'esim' set up open

eSIMs explained: What they are, and how you can set one up

High-rise buildings made of mass timber are appearing in skylines around the world, including, from left, the Ascent skyscraper in Milwaukee, and others in Skellefteå, Sweden; Brumunddal, Norway; Vienna; and Vancouver, Canada.

Sustainable building effort reaches new heights with wooden skyscrapers

By Kurt Kleiner/Knowable Magazine

a grey squirrel climbs out of a jack-o-lantern

How to squirrel-proof your pumpkins

By Debbie Wolfe

Migrating birds introduce forever chemicals into the food chain.

Migrating seabirds are bringing forever chemicals into the Arctic

By William von Herff / Hakai Magazine

This baby toque macaque was happily suckling milk from it's mother. It was so relaxed it almost fell asleep.

13 memorable and metal Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners

By Popular Science Team

Fungi growing on circle and cross arrangement wood blocks

A simple experiment revealed the complex ‘thoughts’ of fungi

An iron meteorite from the core of a melted planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a ‘primitive’, unmelted planetesimal (right).

Building blocks of life on Earth originate from a relatively small amount of source material

Dragonfly wing on black background in neon light. Close-up.

To build a better dome, look to dragonfly wings

a lion skull with a close up on its teeth. one of the bottom teeth has a large black cavity.

These lions devoured 28 humans, wildebeest, and more in 1898

By Laura Baisas

The night sky in Wisconsin glows with the Northern Lights as a geomagnetic storm brings vibrant pink and green colors to a majority of the northern states.

Northern Lights dazzle in stunning photos from Key West to NYC to China

By Popular Science Staff

Concept art depicting the X-37B space plane aerobraking above Earth

Space Force’s mysterious X-37B is testing its ‘aerobraking’

Collecting arm hanging from drone.

Drone discovers hidden Hawaiian plant species

By Mack DeGeurin

a finch with a sharp beak and dark plumage holds a round seed in its beak

Scientists simulate calls of ‘future finches’

By Laura Baisas