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Satellites spy Antarctic ‘upside-down ice canyon’
bbc.com

How the CIA Staged Sham Academic Conferences to Thwart Iran’s Nuclear Program
propublica.org

My sudden synaesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colours
mosaicscience.com

Genetic Struggles Within Cells May Create New Species
quantamagazine.org

The Man Who Forgot He Was a Rap Legend
gq.com

Kids Who Don’t Laugh Might Grow up to Be Psychopaths, Researchers Find
bigthink.com

A Life on the Line: Cecilia Lam
projects.sfchronicle.com

Doomsday Pattern – Life in the pre-apocalypse
reallifemag.com

Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’
nytimes.com

Offshore wind farms have powerful advantage over land-based turbines, study finds
sciencemag.org

Gallery: Winners of Nikon’s 2017 Microphotography Competition
nikonsmallworld.com

New Clues Emerge for the Existence of Planet 9
universetoday.com

Elusive stick insect thought extinct for 80 years is still alive and kicking
zmescience.com

Who you marry might be the most important decision of your life, but it can also be the least rational
latimes.com

Six Nobel prizes – what’s the fascination with the fruit fly?
theguardian.com

On this day in 1871 the deadliest fire in US history burned a small Wisconsin logging town
damninteresting.com

Protein injection could prevent hair loss during chemotherapy
newscientist.com

You ain’t heard nothin’™ yet: the moment Al Jolson sounded the birth of the talkies
theguardian.com

Dentists Find Tooth Root Pulp Can Become an Alternative Source of Stem Cells
futurism.com

How Elizabeth Wettlaufer became one of Canada’s worst serial killers
cbc.ca

Why We Miss Objects That Are Right in Front of Us
nytimes.com

60 years ago today a disaster began to unfold at the Windscale Nuclear plant in Cumberland, England
damninteresting.com

Astronaut Scott Kelly on the devastating effects of a year in space
theage.com.au

The most powerful magnets in the Universe — Magnetars
medium.com

What’s the ultimate way to defy depression, disease and early death? Exercise
theguardian.com

Proton-size puzzle deepens
nature.com

Interactive video: Russian cosmonauts on ISS film spacewalk in 360º video
youtube.com

Study: ​Perpetrators of genocide say they’re ‘good people’
news.osu.edu

New NASA study shows Moon once had an atmosphere
newsroom.usra.edu

Loaded with lead: Lead poisoning is a major threat at America’s shooting ranges (2014)
projects.seattletimes.com

How A Pair Of Orange Scissors Made Design History
fastcodesign.com

Did Teddy Evans fatally undermine Scott of the Antarctic?
eurekalert.org • more info

Volcanic Eruptions Gave the Ancient Moon a Temporary Atmosphere
space.com

The world’s oldest scientific satellite is still in orbit
bbc.com

Special Investigation: How America’s Biggest Bank Paid Its Fine for the 2008 Mortgage Crisis—With Phony Mortgages!
thenation.com

The Last Invention of Man
nautil.us

What Happens When We Give up Control of Our Cars?
caranddriver.com

Why We’ll Have Evidence of Aliens—If They Exist—By 2035
nautil.us

Humans Today Have Even More Neanderthal DNA Than We Realized
gizmodo.com

Santa Claus’s tomb may have been uncovered beneath Turkish church
theguardian.com

The Egalitarian Community New York Pushed Out For Central Park
citylab.com

Researchers observe unexpected behavior from rare element berkelium
sciencealert.com

Why does divorce run in families? The answer may be genetics
news.vcu.edu

Death at a Penn State Fraternity
theatlantic.com

Ancient Viruses Are Buried in Your DNA
nytimes.com

What America Taught the Nazis
theatlantic.com

They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants
revealnews.org

Ice in space might flow like honey and bubble like champagne
sciencenews.org

Tabby’s Star, famous for strange dimming, likely circled by a cloud of dust with ~700-day orbital period
arstechnica.com

The Touch of Madness: How culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness
psmag.com

What time capsules for the future say about our present selves.
slate.com

Two strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the gunshots started.
washingtonpost.com

NIH researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains
nih.gov

What Would Flying From New York to Shanghai in 39 Minutes Feel Like?
theatlantic.com

When you split the brain, do you split the person?
aeon.co

Canadian pilot’s family finds closure after Hurricane Irma washes up debris 59 years later
cbc.ca

The Plan to Clone an Extinct Horse
hakaimagazine.com

How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
newyorker.com

The Prison Guards Who Stole a Salvador Dalí Painting
thedailybeast.com

Diary of a concussion: what I learned about head injuries by having one
theverge.com