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Experimental Drug Promises to Kill the Flu Virus in a Day
wsj.com • Summary

Inside the desperate fight to keep old TVs alive
theverge.com

Scientists studying psychoactive drugs accidentally proved the self is an illusion
qz.com

‘All of a sudden my world would flip’: the woman who is permanently lost
theguardian.com

Is social media causing childhood depression?
bbc.com

Discovery of Windsor Neolithic monument excites archaeologists
theguardian.com

Continuous low doses of far ultraviolet C (far-UVC) light can kill airborne flu viruses without harming human tissues
newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu

Five major psychiatric disorders have overlapping patterns of genetic activity, new study shows
washingtonpost.com

Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read
theatlantic.com

The Death of Clothing
bloomberg.com

The Michigan town where only Christians are allowed to buy houses
theguardian.com

Voyager disaster: ‘The coxswain said “Sorry lads, we’re done for” and sang Abide With Me’
theguardian.com

Linguists Discover Previously Unidentified Language In Malaysia
npr.org

The Curiously Elastic Limits of Endurance
outsideonline.com

Clever crows have learnt how to make a meal of cane toads
australiangeographic.com.au

Researchers who made praying mantises wear glasses discover a new type of vision
washingtonpost.com

Are happy lab animals better for science?
sciencemag.org

No one told Babe Ruth he had cancer, but his death changed the way we fight it
popsci.com

On this day in 1912 workers discovered the forgotten remains of a pneumatic subway experiment in Manhattan
damninteresting.com

How Americans preserved British English
bbc.com

The red and green specialists: why human colour vision is so odd
aeon.co

Crushed wood is stronger than steel
nature.com

Billions of Viruses Are Falling to Earth Right Now (But That Isn’t Why You Have the Flu)
livescience.com

Economic collapse: The real message of the fall of Troy
bbc.com

We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated
nautil.us

Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society
ncase.me

The most badass photograph ever taken in New Zealand
thespinoff.co.nz

CERN May Have Evidence of a Quasiparticle We’ve Been Hunting For Decades
sciencealert.com

The Epic Journeys of Migratory Birds
nationalgeographic.com

How New Zealand made Edmund Hillary, the man who conquered Everest
sbnation.com

The surprisingly sophisticated lives of rats
anthropocenemagazine.org

Image: Galaxy NGC 474: Shells and Star Streams
apod.nasa.gov

Toads Eat Beetles. Sometimes, Beetles Make Them Regret Their Meal Choice. (autoplay video)
nytimes.com

The oddities that paved the way for man to fly in space
news.com.au

The Difference a Meal Makes: On Losing the Ability to Eat Solid Food
catapult.co

We’re Killing Our Lakes and Oceans. The Consequences Are Real.
undark.org

A Brain Implant Improved Memory, Scientists Report
nytimes.com

Planets of TRAPPIST-1: Complex atmospheres, probably lots of water
arstechnica.com

A combination of imaging techniques allows researchers to observe subcellular processes within organisms
the-scientist.com

Talk is cheap: the myth of the focus group
theguardian.com

Video: Britain’s Giant Airship: R.101
youtube.com

Video: The Greatest Leap, part 5: Saving the crew of Apollo 13
arstechnica.com

Tutu’s return: missing Nigerian masterpiece found in London flat
theguardian.com

This Mutant Crayfish Clones Itself, and It’s Taking Over Europe
nytimes.com

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Megarocket Gets 1st Test Launch Today: Watch It Live
space.com

‘Superionic water ice’: Scientists create strange new form of matter that may be found inside Uranus and Neptune
independent.co.uk

Elon Musk says the Falcon Heavy has a 50-50 chance of success
arstechnica.com

As Germans celebrate the absence of the Berlin Wall, a new piece of it is discovered
washingtonpost.com

‘Extraordinary’ fossil sheds light on origins of spiders
bbc.com

An ‘Iceberg’ of Unseen Crimes: Many Cyber Offenses Go Unreported
nytimes.com

AI didn’t decode the cryptic Voynich manuscript — it just added to the mystery
theverge.com

An Ancient Virus May Be Responsible for Human Consciousness
livescience.com

London’s fatberg on show: ‘We thought of pickling it’
theguardian.com

The Three Meanings Of E=mc², Einstein’s Most Famous Equation
medium.com

Today, the Berlin Wall will have been down as long as it was up
nationalpost.com

Imaging Without Lenses
americanscientist.org

The White Darkness: A Journey Across Antarctica
newyorker.com

Look at me: why attention-seeking is the defining need of our times
theguardian.com

Brains of woodpeckers contain protein found in humans with brain damage
cbc.ca

How Cape Town is running out of water
theguardian.com