Scientists finally learn what makes plants grow faster and stronger  Earth.com

best practices around mosquitoes, with nancy lawson  A Way To Garden

Mysteriously Perfect Sphere Spotted in Space by Astronomers  ScienceAlert

1. Voyager 1’s Long-Dead Thrusters Fire Again After 20 Years – Just in Time  SciTechDaily
2. NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead'  Space
3. Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again  CNN
4. Hackaday Links: May 18, 2025  Hackaday
5. NASA just performed a 'miracle save' for its farthest spacecraft  Mashable

1. Thousands of enormous holes discovered on the seafloor, evenly-spaced with "eerie regularity"  Earth.com
2. Off The Coast Of California Strange And Regular Circular Structures Line The Ocean Floor  IFLScience
3. Giants of the deep  cambridgenews.nz
4. Thousands of Mysterious Holes Found on the Seafloor – Scientists Uncover Surprising Cause  The Daily Galaxy

1. 4 Tiny DNA Tweaks That Supercharged the Human Brain  SciTechDaily
2. A human-specific enhancer fine-tunes radial glia potency and corticogenesis  Nature
3. Silent Switches in DNA Gave Rise to Human Intelligence  Neuroscience News
4. What genetic changes made us uniquely human? -- The human intelligence evolved from proximal cis-regulatory saltations  EurekAlert!
5. What Makes Us Human  Duke University School of Medicine

1. All living beings emit a subtle light that fades after death  Earth.com
2. We Emit a Visible Light That Vanishes When We Die, Says Surprising New Study  ScienceAlert
3. Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, according to a new study  Phys.org
4. All living things emit an eerie glow that is snuffed out upon death  New Scientist
5. Every Human Body Gives Off an Invisible Glow. Here’s What It Means.  Popular Mechanics

Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95  The New York Times

Archaeologists Uncover a 12,000-Year-Old Monument That Might Be the World’s Oldest Calendar Humans Ever Made  Indian Defence Review

1. The Universe Is 'Suspiciously' Like a Computer Simulation, Physicist Says  ScienceAlert
2. Is space a cosmic computer?  The Federal
3. Could Gravity Be a Glitch? New Study Fuels Debate That the Universe Is One Massive Computational System  Blanquivioletas

94-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Fossil Unearthed in Argentina Shakes Up the Evolutionary Timeline  Indian Defence Review

A massive hidden ocean was just discovered 700 km beneath Earth’s surface  Glass Almanac

1. Scientists Find Mysterious New Microbe on Tiangong Space Station With Surprising Abilities  The Daily Galaxy
2. New strain of bacteria found on China’s Tiangong space station  South China Morning Post
3. Chinese team discovers a new microbial species aboard its space station  news.cgtn.com
4. China reports Tiangong space-station microbe discovery for first time, naming bacterium ‘Niallia tiangongensis’  Global Times
5. New strain of bacteria found on Chinese space station | Study published in IJSEM | Inshorts  Inshorts

1. Not-so-clean rooms: Scientists discover 26 new microbe species in NASA spacecraft facility  Space
2. KAUST Discovers 26 New Bacterial Species  وكالة الأنباء السعودية
3. Bacteria found invading cleanroom can heal itself and survive space radiation  WION
4. Extremotolerant Bacteria Identified In The NASA Mars Phoenix Cleanroom  astrobiology.com
5. NASA's Cleanrooms Discover 26 New Types Of Bacteria That Could Survive Space  NDTV

1. Mystery of Amber Layer in Sea Floor 115 Million Years Ago Is Solved  Haaretz
2. Amber in the Cretaceous deep sea deposits reveals large-scale tsunamis | Scientific Reports  Nature
3. Dinosaur age tsunami revealed from tiny chunks of Japanese amber, study finds  Live Science
4. This mass of amber traps evidence of an ancient tsunami  Science | AAAS
5. Scientists discover possible evidence of a 116-million-year-old tsunami recorded in amber  The Independent

Nanoparticle-cell interface enables electromagnetic wireless programming of mammalian transgene expression  Phys.org

NASA Scientists Uncover Giant Glowing Life Form in Ocean, Visible From Space  The Daily Galaxy

1. Scientists Track Methane Clouds Wafting Over Titan’s Lakes for the First Time  Gizmodo
2. The atmosphere of Titan in late northern summer from JWST and Keck observations  Nature
3. Webb’s Titan Forecast: Partly Cloudy With Occasional Methane Showers  NASA Science (.gov)
4. Webb discovers a distant moon has an intriguing similarity to Earth  Mashable
5. Weather Report from Saturn’s Moon Titan: Partly Cloudy with Occasional Methane Showers  Sci.News

1. May's best stargazing week is about to begin. How to see a lion, an upside-down bear, a mini 'planet parade' — and more.  Live Science
2. This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 16 – 25  Sky & Telescope
3. May 16-22, 2025 Sky Watch: Moon-Jupiter, Asteroid Vesta & More  The Weather Channel
4. Four planets, a new star and a meteor shower. What else will you see in the May sky?  Erie Times-News

A Massachusetts Student Accidentally Broke the Laws of Thermodynamics—and No One Can Explain How  The Daily Galaxy

1. Earth’s Secret Hydrogen Jackpot: Enough Clean Power for 170,000 Years  SciTechDaily
2. Hidden source of clean energy could power Earth for 170,000 years  ABC News
3. Scientists think a hidden source of clean energy could power Earth for 170,000 years — and they've figured out the 'recipe' to find it  Live Science
4. Natural hydrogen resource accumulation in the continental crust  Nature
5. Could Easy Access to Hydrogen Boost Our Clean Energy Options?  InsideHook

Astronomers discover ancient ‘twin’ of the Milky Way, challenging what we know about the Universe  BBC Sky at Night Magazine

1. Mars: Why The Red Planet’s Skies Will Turn Green This Week  Forbes
2. NASA Observes First Visible-light Auroras at Mars  NASA Science (.gov)
3. NASA rover Perseverance observes first aurora at Mars visible to the human eye  PBS
4. The Martian Night Sky Was Seen Turning Green in a Stunning First  ScienceAlert
5. Astronauts Could See Auroras on Mars with their Eyes  Universe Today

Amateur astrophotographer catches a cosmic sunflower in bloom  Space

1. 'Cotton candy clouds' shine in one of Hubble's most beautiful images ever: Space photo of the week  Live Science
2. Hubble captures the Large Magellanic Cloud  Phys.org
3. 6 Very Beautiful Space Images By NASA Hubble Space Telescope  Times Now
4. Hubble captures 'candyfloss' clouds photo of the day for May 13, 2025  Space
5. Explore the universe from your screen with stunning NASA images  Hindustan Times