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A crusading attorney helped free a man framed for murder. They both ended up dead.
bridgemi.com

‘Frankenstein dinosaur’ mystery solved
bbc.com

On this day in 1984, a lake in Cameroon exploded
damninteresting.com

How the neutrino went from ghost particle to vital physics tool – a tale of bombs, espionage and subtle flavours
aeon.co

Plants ‘hijacked’ to make polio vaccine
bbc.com

Inside Kim Jong-un’s Bloody Scramble to Kill Off His Family
esquire.com

Photo gallery: Voyager’s 40th Anniversary
theatlantic.com

Saudi Arabia’s missing princes
bbc.com

‘Magic mushroom’ enzyme mystery solved
cen.acs.org

Rodents help NASA take the next step to Mars
phys.org

How Big is the Biggest Possible Planet?
blogs.discovermagazine.com

40 years ago today, SETI detected a still unexplained radio burst from space
damninteresting.com

One year after Rio: What’s left behind after the flame goes out
espn.com

Behind the Hype of ‘Lab-Grown’ Meat
gizmodo.com

Cassini skims Saturn’s atmosphere
bbc.com

The Mystery of Sylvia Plath’s Lost Novel
thedailybeast.com

Hint of Relativity Effects in Stars Orbiting Supermassive Black Hole at Centre of Galaxy
eso.org

The Secret History Behind England’s Deadly Sarin Gas Plant
narrative.ly

Your Brain Really Can Form New Memories While You Sleep
sciencealert.com

NASA Reignites Program for Nuclear Thermal Rockets
universetoday.com

Scientists have decoded the secrets behind a goldfish’s ability to survive in ice-covered lakes: alcohol
bbc.com

Angels & Demons (true crime, 1997)
reprints.longform.org

Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheet
theguardian.com

The Incredible Shrinking Sears
nytimes.com

What could it be? Islanders puzzled over mysterious beach debris
cbc.ca

TRAPPIST-1 twice as old as our solar system
upi.com

Feeling bad about feeling bad can make you feel really, really bad, new research says
edmontonsun.com

This Newly Excavated Underground Tunnel Reveals How 83 German Officers Escaped a World War II Prison Camp
smithsonianmag.com

‘Atomic Bill’ Laurence, The New York Times, and the Birth of the Bomb
undark.org

The Invisible Poems Hidden in One of the World’s Oldest Libraries
theatlantic.com

100-year old fruit cake found in Antarctica’s oldest building
nzaht.org

Look Up! 2017 Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend
space.com

Bees are first insects shown to understand the concept of zero
newscientist.com

How your mind protects you against hallucinations
sciencemag.org

Mayak ‘Lighthouse in the Sky’ Fails to Deploy Solar Reflector
spaceflight101.com

Wipe Out: When the BBC Kept Erasing Its Own History
mentalfloss.com

Forced Into the City After 9,000 Years in the Jungle
bloomberg.com

The Extraordinary Nazca Prehistoric Balloon
nott.com

When Beethoven Met Goethe
theamericanscholar.org

Earliest-Known Winged Mammal Relatives Discovered In China
npr.org

What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity
nytimes.com

The Moon’s Origin Story Is in Crisis
theatlantic.com

How Ice Cream Helped America at War
theatlantic.com

New Dinosaur Species Was Largest Animal Ever to Walk the Earth
news.nationalgeographic.com

Unlearning the myth of American innocence
theguardian.com

Meet Alex, the Russian Casino Hacker Who Makes Millions Targeting Slot Machines
wired.com

German woman pockets ‘amber’ stone that turns out to be explosive WW2-era white phosphorous
telegraph.co.uk

I think I know where babies come from, therefore I am human
aeon.co

Video: The tiny island in New York City that nobody is allowed to visit
youtube.com

‘He should be as well known as Schindler’: Documents reveal Canadian citizen Julius Kuhl as Holocaust hero
theglobeandmail.com

Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star
phys.org

The 1920 peace plan for Europe that divided up the continent like a pie
bigthink.com

On this day in 1945, 29-year-old Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived another atomic bomb
damninteresting.com

Video: NASA Curiosity rover’s 5-year time-lapse
youtube.com

‘Quite a treasure’: Scientists find 4,200-year-old bird preserved in glacial ice
cbc.ca

Multilevel-marketing companies like LuLaRoe are forcing people into debt and psychological crisis
qz.com

1,000-year-old German dinner reveals long-distance Viking trade routes
arstechnica.com

The Hippies Who Hated the Summer of Love
longreads.com

Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes
nautil.us

Why Germans pay cash for almost everything
qz.com