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NASA’s ‘space poop challenge’ is over, and it went boldly beyond the diaper
washingtonpost.com

Woolly mammoth on verge of resurrection, scientists reveal
theguardian.com

Geologists claim to have discovered a previously unrecognized continent off the coast of Australia
telegraph.co.uk

Why can 12-year-olds still get married in the United States?
washingtonpost.com

A Striking New View of the Pacific “Blob”
news.nationalgeographic.com

A moderately harrowing first-hand account of near-drowning
smh.com.au

Researchers succeed in producing triangulene, a magnetic, highly reactive cousin of graphene
arstechnica.com

Join the effort to detect the elusive “Planet 9” in this new citizen science project
zooniverse.org

Rich People Literally See the World Differently
nymag.com

Fossil gives first evidence of live birth in ancient reptile thought to only lay eggs
cbc.ca

NASA considering putting astronauts on the very first launch of its new SLS rocket
popsci.com

Winston Churchill’s views on aliens revealed in lost essay
bbc.com

The ‘almost human’ gorilla who drank tea and went to school
theguardian.com

Indian Space Research Organisation deploys 104 satellites from a single rocket
economictimes.indiatimes.com

This Beetle Bites an Ant’s Waist and Pretends to be Its Butt
theatlantic.com

Researchers discover how the brain turns chronic stress into pathological anxiety
psypost.org

An Enormous Exoplanet Is Having a Strange Influence on Its Star
gizmodo.com

Honeybees let out a ‘whoop’ when they bump into each other
newscientist.com

What if the purpose of love is to get us out of relationships, not into them?
qz.com

NASA considering three sites for its first-ever sample-return from Mars
nature.com

We now know why mosquitoes find malaria victims so tasty
arstechnica.com

Why the falling cost of light matters
bbc.com

‘Extraordinary’ levels of toxic pollution found in 10km deep Mariana trench
theguardian.com

Hubble Has Found the Ancient Galaxies That Gave the Universe Its First Light
space.com

The Curious Case of Cockroach Magnetization
technologyreview.com

Hubble finds big brother of Halley’s Comet ripped apart by white dwarf
spacetelescope.org

Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t.
story.californiasunday.com

‘I thought I was smarter than almost everybody’: my double life as a KGB agent
theguardian.com

After A Stroke At 33, A Writer Relies On Journals To Piece Together Her Own Story
npr.org

Bias in the ER: Doctors suffer from the same cognitive distortions as the rest of us.
nautil.us

The Forgotten ‘China Girls’ Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films
atlasobscura.com

Image: A closeup of a recent crater on Mars in infrared (8m wide, 1-4 years old) via HiRISE
i.imgur.com

Geoglyphs in Amazon rainforest a mystery to scientists
cbc.ca

High efficiency ultra-thin planar lens could replace heavy, bulky lenses in smart phones, cameras and telescopes
seas.harvard.edu

Samples of personal ads from the past two centuries
laphamsquarterly.org

There is a way to find fossils of Martian life
bbc.com

Does an Octopus Have an Inner Life?
newrepublic.com

A startup says a 50-trillion-pixel image of Earth, refreshed daily, is coming later this year
theatlantic.com

American Food Science Is Broken
gizmodo.com

A Danish astronaut has captured the best-ever images of rare blue flashes
arstechnica.com

“…in the United States young children have close to a one in two chance of living on the brink of poverty”
eurekalert.org

Ultrasound dramatically accelerates the process of aging liquor
pbs.org

‘It was as if I had peered into hell’: the man who brought the Nazi death squads to justice
theguardian.com

Who Started the First Fire?
sapiens.org

Giant winged Transylvanian predators could have eaten dinosaurs
theguardian.com

The Darkest Town In America
fivethirtyeight.com

We finally have a computer that can survive the surface of Venus
arstechnica.com

Total recall: the people who never forget
theguardian.com

Astronomers discover the first white dwarf pulsar in history, ending half a century of searching
zmescience.com

Sweden’s ‘latte pappas’ are dads with lowered testosterone and elevated hormones of attachment
aeon.co

Why Dragonfly Wings Kill Bacteria
acsh.org

Why the Higgs Boson Found at the Large Hadron Collider Could Be an ‘Impostor’
motherboard.vice.com

Searching for California’s lost Viking treasure ship
europe.newsweek.com

This Crab Clones Its Allies by Ripping Them in Half
theatlantic.com

Your Personality Changes When You Move to a New Place
nymag.com

At the Rock Springs massacre, 28 people were killed because white miners feared Chinese immigrants
timeline.com

Study: School shootings “significantly correlated to increases in economic insecurity”
arstechnica.com

The hidden history of Nasa’s black female scientists
theguardian.com

Calculating what it would take to park a solar sail at Alpha Centauri
arstechnica.com

Photo: Saturn, rings edge-on, with the moon Enceladus near the bottom center
damninteresting.com