music Watch the US premiere of this concerto for orchestra and ping pong Andrea James

fast food KFC launches incense that smells like fried chicken David Pescovitz

New lunar landers, spacesuits, electric airplanes, space medicine and other reasons NASA is stoked for 2023 David Pescovitz

Games Microsoft loses $100 an Xbox, or more Rob Beschizza

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

who WHO renames 2 Monkeypox "clades" Andrew Yi

Space South Korea is about to go to the moon Devin Nealy

moon 2022 is a good year for this Sunday's "Super Flower Blood Moon" Mark Frauenfelder

Space First ever plants grown in soil from the Moon David Pescovitz

animals More shark attacks happen during the full moon David Pescovitz

Space China's lunar rover to investigate mysterious cube on the dark side of the Moon David Pescovitz

tabloids Absence of evidence is evidence of a cover-up, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

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Boing Boing Gadgets Xeric has fashioned an ultra-cool NASA Apollo 15 watch that brings the wonder of space to your wrist Boing Boing's Shop

Science Tardigrades can survive being shot out of guns at up to 2,000 mph Thom Dunn

astronauts RIP Michael Collins, "Third Man" of the first Moon landing Mark Frauenfelder

moon How to build a cryogenic Ark that could survive inside of lunar lava tubes Thom Dunn

social media 404ever is a cool new serialized cyberpunk story about social media influencers Thom Dunn

retro gaming In 1974 I played the Lunar Lander game on a pocket calculator for hours on end Mark Frauenfelder

moon The moon is mysteriously rusting, and scientists think it's our fault Thom Dunn