The Wild

GovTech’s FirstDate pilot, open first to public servants aged 21–35, verifies users with Singpass, gives one match per cycle using the Gale-Shapley stable matching algorithm, and shares contact details only on a mutual yes.

The Drawn World overlays every border and coastline drawn from memory by players of a geography game onto the real map, country by country.

Two Science Advances studies with Freie Universität Berlin scientists find the ocean under Enceladus’s ice easier to sample from orbit than assumed, and that some microorganisms tolerate its conditions better than thought.

Researchers at the Terasaki Institute report a "lab on a contact lens" that measures serotonin in tears, a possible non-invasive way to track stress.

Researchers led by evolutionary biologist Julia Van Etten turned a motel room in Nags Head, N.C., into a lab and identified two new photosynthetic Paulinella species, published in the Journal of Phycology. Paulinella is the only known organism besides plants and algae to acquire photosynthesis by engulfing a bacterium.

Lex Friedman recounts the 2011 Apple Cards letterpress app, codenamed Speed Racer, including an account from the print partner’s program lead describing it as a pinnacle of mismanagement.

56k.rip recreates 1997 dial-up in the browser: the modem handshake, pages that load at the speed you "dialed", and the call dropping when someone picks up the phone.

In Works in Progress, Patrick Fitzsimmons examines why the eastern Mediterranean’s great powers—Egyptians, Hittites, Mycenaeans and others—collapsed within a few centuries of the Battle of Kadesh.

Quanta reports on how researchers who once sought quantum effects in photosynthesis now find quantum-style mathematics useful for describing classical biology.

Archaeologists found the first two intact burials at Göbeklitepe in Turkey (8,700–8,000 BCE); comparing them with loose bone fragments suggests many came from ordinary burials that later eroded downslope into the monumental buildings.

A Space Weather paper argues that an anonymous 1871 report of a magnetic disturbance disrupting rail travel in Exeter in October 1841—thought to be the earliest space-weather effect on technology—most likely has a typo in its date.

The Moving Image Archive makes short public-domain film clips, from 1915 onward, searchable.