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03 November 2016

Video: Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?

youtube.com

02 November 2016

First discovery of 50,000-year-old human settlements in Australian interior

arstechnica.com

The Dairy Industry Lost $420 Million From a Flaw in a Single Bull

theatlantic.com

The audacious plan to bring back supersonic flight

vox.com

The Simpsons by the Data

toddwschneider.com

The Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical We Are

nautil.us

01 November 2016

‘Post-Fire London was a magnificent, beautiful compromise’

apollo-magazine.com

How liars create the ‘illusion of truth’

bbc.com

31 October 2016

Insects Are Scary Because Your Brain Confuses Disgust With Fear

nymag.com

The pyramid at the end of the world

fusion.net

The Tragedy That Boston Forgot

bostonglobe.com

The secret of how life on Earth began

bbc.com

The FBI’s years-long investigation into a fictional anti-goth cult

muckrock.com

The Legend of What Actually Lived in the “No Man’s Land” Between World War I’s Trenches

smithsonianmag.com

30 October 2016

Beautiful photo from today’s Expedition 49 Soyuz MS-01 Landing

m.flickr.com

NASA’s new Scout ‘intruder alert’ system scans for small nearby asteroids that could strike the Earth

npr.org

‘They’re not human’: How 19th-century Inuit coped with a real-life invasion of the ‘walking dead’

news.nationalpost.com

29 October 2016

Starfish are dying out in the Pacific – and no-one is quite sure why

independent.co.uk

How the Brown Rat Conquered New York City (and Every Other One, Too)

nytimes.com

28 October 2016

Iron-munching microbe discovered

mpg.de

Video: Ultra HD fisheye fly-through of the International Space Station

youtube.com

Inside the ‘Frozen Zoo’ That Could Bring Extinct Animals Back to Life

gq.com

Video: Beautiful Chemical Reactions

youtube.com

Plano surgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies. The shocking story of a madman with a scalpel.

dmagazine.com

A $100m initiative to listen for alien signals from a star with an unusual dimming pattern

bbc.com

Into the Storm: The True Story of a Harrowing Ocean Rescue

gq.com

Worms seen farming plants to be eaten later for the first time

newscientist.com

27 October 2016

Scientists identify 1st fossilized dinosaur brain tissue

cbc.ca

Scientists “Switch Off” Self-Control Using Brain Stimulation

scientificamerican.com

Could an astronaut’s corpse bring new life to another world? (aka panspermia)

astronomy.com

The Big League Prospect Who Became a Mob Hit Man

nytimes.com

26 October 2016

Scientists think the common cold may at last be beatable

statnews.com

The spy who couldn’t spell: how the biggest heist in the history of US espionage was foiled

theguardian.com

Video, 1946: German WW2 helmets getting a second life as pots, pans, and colanders

youtube.com

‘It’s Transformative’: Māori Women Talk About Their Sacred Chin Tattoos

broadly.vice.com

King-Killers in America (and the American Who Avenged the King)

blog.longreads.com

25 October 2016

When High Rollers Get Screwed Over by Vegas Casinos, They Call This Guy

thrillist.com

New Bacteria Groups, and Stunning Diversity, Discovered Underground

newscenter.lbl.gov

Rebelling Against the Void

outsideonline.com

Unlocking the secrets of bacterial biofilms – to use against them

theconversation.com

Shhh! My Not-So-Quiet Life as a Librarian with Tourette’s

narrative.ly

Behind This Plant’s Blue Leaves Lies a Weird Trick of Quantum Mechanics

popularmechanics.com

24 October 2016

The world’s knowledge is being buried in a salt mine

bbc.com

Video: Beautiful HD footage of the Arctic from Colonel Chris Hadfield’s recent expedition

youtube.com

Pagan god ‘caught’ in river by fisherman confirmed as being up to 4,200 years old and ‘unique’

siberiantimes.com

The 19th Century Yoruba repatriation

orishaimage.com

Cracking the Cranial Vault: What It Feels Like to Perform Brain Surgery

vice.com

23 October 2016

Computer scientists can now prove software to be error-free with same certainty that mathematicians prove theorems

quantamagazine.org

Russian scientists in the Arctic have discovered ruins of a secret WW2 German military base

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Spiders can ‘tune’ their webs to sound out plucky potential mates

theguardian.com

Video: The science behind the stereogram craze of the 1990s

youtube.com

22 October 2016

“I spent 28 years on death row”

theguardian.com

Tardigrades Can Survive Almost Anything, and Now We Know How

secondnexus.com

Was the [US] Declaration of Independence ‘defaced’? Experts say yes.

washingtonpost.com

21 October 2016

Weird Extragalactic X-Ray Flares Baffle Astronomers

scientificamerican.com

Scientists find a storm on Jupiter that towers above the planet’s pole

arstechnica.co.uk

New construction techniques make it possible to build skyscrapers made of wood

economist.com

Aberfan: The mistake that cost a village its children

bbc.co.uk

20 October 2016

Evidence mounts for the existence of ‘Planet Nine’ beyond Pluto

nytimes.com

Those Ancient Stone Tools — Did Humans Make Them, Or Was It Really Monkeys?

npr.org

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