Rare golden sword pommel acquired by Scottish museum

The pommel, which is about 1,300 years old, was found in 2019 by a metal detectorist near Stirling.
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Man who plays dead on TikTok gets new life as corpse on TV crime show

Josh Nalley specialized in pretending to be a lifeless body on social media – then CSI: Vegas came calling.
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Cache of 19th-Century Blue Jeans Discovered in Abandoned Arizona Mineshaft

The seven pairs of pants open a portal into life in the Castle Dome mining district
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Axon evidence-storing system full of flaws, lawyer says, as police consider expansion

A defence lawyer says police's private American-provided evidence storing system is derailing criminal trials and letting in the wrong people.
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The scary sound of Earth’s magnetic field

scientists in Denmark have taken magnetic signals measured by ESA’s Swarm satellite mission and converted them into sound – and for something that protects us, the result is pretty scary.
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Raising the drawbridge: why are so many Australians creating their own countries?

By some estimations, Australia hosts around a third of the world’s self-declared mini-kingdoms. There are three good reasons for that
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"Dirty" cows are destroying the Amazon rainforest

The beef industry is flattening the Amazon, even when companies tell you it’s not.
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Bush Stone-Curlew chick hatching from its egg

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Adapting Sesame Street for Russian TV — What Could Go Wrong?

“Our preschoolers are much smarter than American children,” a professor insisted. “We will need a more advanced curriculum for the show.”
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Where to Find Tienda Mexicana cerca de mí in USA

Tienda mexicana cerca de mí: A guide showing you where to find Mexican stores in the USA that sells Mexican products.
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The Instagram capital of the world is a terrible place to be

Just because you can (sort of) afford to go somewhere doesn’t mean you’ll enjoy it.
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Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

The first in The Nameless Republic trilogy. A complex world with a very un-European civilization. Very readable.
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How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails

America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.
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When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Opened a Psychic Bookstore

A considerable mess greeted the station sergeant who peered into London's The Psychic Bookshop in the early morning hours of February 6, 1928. Books and papers
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More than half of Silicon Valley residents want to leave: ‘The mood is darkening’

A whopping 64% of residents in Silicon Valley are worried the region is on the wrong track.
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Google discontinues Google Translate in mainland China

Google has discontinued its Google Translate services in mainland China, removing one of the company’s few remaining services that it had provided in a country where most Western social media platforms are blocked
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Walled Culture – a compact, non-technical history of digital copyright and its problems over the last 30 years, and the social, economic and technolog

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Finland wants to transform how we make clothes

Firms behind innovative fibres says they can make fashion a more sustainable business.
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Netherlands researchers break the 30 percent barrier in solar cells

Using perovskite with existing solar cell technologies can increase their energy conversion efficiencies. It is only about scaling it up reliably now
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