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The Artemis II mission is slingshotting around the moon today, and the images being returned from NASA's Orion ship are exquisite. Here's just a few of the latest, showing the moon eclipsing the sun. Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar ...

Charcuterie is a perfectly-named visual exploration tool for finding the exact Unicode character you want. Whichever one you click on, it'll fill the screen with similar sigils. You can also sketch one that came to you in a fever dream, and it will ...

JA Westenberg -- a writer, commentator, and self-described autistic person -- argues that AI writing detection is junk science, and that the writers most harmed by it are often those with autism and other neurodivergent conditions whose natural prose ...

A UK woman conceived a child after sleeping with two brothers -- identical twins -- within a four-day window. DNA testing confirmed that either man could be the biological father. Since identical twins share the same genetic sequence, no test can ...

Hasbro, the company behind Transformers, Dungeons & Dragons, Monopoly, Magic: The Gathering, and My Little Pony, confirmed a cyberattack after detecting unauthorized network access on March 28 and disclosed the incident to the SEC on April 1. The ...

If you like bread, this annual bread cathedral might be your dream vacation destination. Every year, the Sicilian town of San Biagio Platani fills its streets with arches and sculptures built from bread, dried grains, and laurel branches. Residents ...

I recently watched this funny animation by Natural Habitat Shorts featuring a jellyfish named Bennett who is stressed out at work because he has to give an important presentation. Before he heads to the boardroom, his coworker urges him, "please don ...

When I was 5 years old, I was obsessed with the childrens' cartoon series Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, a charming anthropomorphic interpretation of Alexandre Dumas' famous novels. Fortunately for little me, the show did not depict what became ...

Playwright Jeremy O. Harris -- Slave Play, Daddy -- was in Okinawa last year to make a film when Japanese customs found MDMA in his toiletry bag. He spent 23 days in a Japanese detention facility. He went through 23 books and submitted a movie ...

For 29 years, Baltia Air Lines -- later renamed USGlobal Airways -- existed as a real company with real investors, real Boeing 747s, and real executives. It never carried a single paying passenger. According to Wikipedia, it also "never generated any ...