The US is seeing stronger storms, so why are droughts getting worse?
https://theconversation.com/the-us-is-seeing-stronger-storms-so-why-are-droughts-getting-worse-282571?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Video: We Might Be Completely Wrong About Black Holes [1:56:21]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj3rV8R63Sc&utm_source=DamnInteresting

Severed sea cucumber appendages don't seem to die
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/severed-sea-cucumber-appendages-dont-seem-to-die/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

This Javelin Thrower Looks Like He is Impaling Himself in Crazy Optical Illusion Photo
https://petapixel.com/2026/05/29/this-javelin-thrower-looks-like-he-is-impaling-himself-in-crazy-optical-illusion-photo/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

See also: https://www.damninteresting.com/better-call-sol/

How We See the Beautiful, Violent Sun
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-see-the-beautiful-violent-sun-20260528/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written By AI
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/how-to-tell-ai-writing/687345/?gift=bvuTbSP0DiE7IfOqMxT7BNZaqaJFSE3icP7CaCPt2UY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Nato condemns Russian 'recklessness' after drone hits Romanian residential block
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93x4nxlkjeo?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Looking Back at Lewis and Clark
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/01/this-vast-enterprise-craig-fehrman-book-review?utm_source=DamnInteresting

The Great Salt Lake is in crisis
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/great-salt-lake-snowpack?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Video: The Big Secret Behind Math's Greatest Discovery [13:42]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jITZ_lIlpH8&utm_source=DamnInteresting

Related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaR6yEE-Myo

Here's why the failure of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/heres-why-the-failure-of-blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-is-so-catastrophic/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Something Just Passed Between Us and a Distant Star.
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/something-just-passed-between-us-and-a-distant-star?utm_source=DamnInteresting

See also: https://www.damninteresting.com/fifteen-years-forsaken/

Introducing Argus, a robot with 20 legs and eyes built to move and see in any direction instantly
https://apnews.com/article/robot-duke-argus-6ba9651ba6553ebc4405ffc07a26afed?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Everything We Know About the 2,300-Year-Old Beer Found Inside an Ancient Tomb
https://www.vice.com/en/article/everything-we-know-about-the-2300-year-old-beer-found-inside-an-ancient-tomb/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Video: We Saw What AI Data Centers Don't Want You to See [21:44]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p426fSlYH4&utm_source=DamnInteresting

Forget LASIK: Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or surgery
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260528074032.htm?utm_source=DamnInteresting

How an enslaved, shipwrecked African became the US's first great explorer
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260527-estevanico-the-african-explorer-who-crossed-north-america?utm_source=DamnInteresting