Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10
Lunar: paying undergraduates to pursue slow science
Lunar is a summer research fellowship offering undergraduates $5,000–$10,000 to work in university labs on clean power, aging biology, and long-horizon neuroscience.
Why it surfacedIts unusual premise is also its clearest argument: some important science has no immediate business case, while unpaid research excludes students without financial cushion. The page is still visibly under construction—with placeholders for a fourth field, dates, and even the fellowship length—but the funding model and application rules are concrete enough to merit a callback.
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Ham Is Specifically Discouraged
August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-10 Domain Arrivals issue.