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Video: Stars orbiting the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way
youtube.com

Here’s What Earth’s Shadow Actually Looks Like
gizmodo.com

Home Sweet Homer: The Strange Saga of the Real-Life Simpsons House in Nevada
mentalfloss.com

A Pregnant Dolphin. A Fatal Gunshot. A Disturbing Trend.
nytimes.com

Axes of Evil: Four days, two murders, and one poplar tree that almost ignited World War III
magazine.atavist.com

Ancient Greek music: now we finally know what it sounded like
theconversation.com

How to Make Friends, According to Science
theatlantic.com

Hubble Takes Portrait of Opulent Ring World
nasa.gov

45 years ago today Uri Geller failed to impress Johnny Carson
damninteresting.com

Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
nytimes.com • Rebuttal

‘Spectacular’ ancient public library discovered in Germany
theguardian.com

Petrichor: why does rain smell so good?
bbc.co.uk

Exoplanet detectives create catalog of ‘light-fingerprints’ of our own Solar System
as.cornell.edu

How a U.S. Military Contractor Wanted to Use Jetpacks in the Vietnam War
paleofuture.gizmodo.com

What Do Wild Animals Do in Wildfires?
news.nationalgeographic.com

Do bacteria ever go extinct? New research says yes, bigtime
science.ubc.ca

The Sunspot Cycle Is More Intricate Than Previously Thought
scientificamerican.com

Evolving Floorplans
joelsimon.net

Enormous penguin population crashes by almost 90%
nature.com

Off Your Mental Game? You Could Be Mildly Dehydrated
npr.org

The ISS Doesn’t Have a Way to Crash Safely
popularmechanics.com

An unsolved murder at Italy’s most notorious tower block
theguardian.com

A Math Theory for Why People Hallucinate
quantamagazine.org

It’s Tough Being a Right Whale These Days
theatlantic.com

MH370 Was ‘Manipulated’ Off Course to Its End, Report Says
bloomberg.com

The structure of the Milky Way
phys.org

‘Global Greening’ Sounds Good. In the Long Run, It’s Terrible.
nytimes.com

How Liquefying Brains Changed the Story of the Human Mind
theatlantic.com

A Flower in the Debris: The Legacy of Benihana, Rocky Aoki’s All-American Empire
theringer.com

Is neuroscience getting closer to explaining evil behaviour?
aeon.co

How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister
newyorker.com

Why Gala Dalí—Muse, Model and Artist—Was More Than Just Salvador’s Wife
smithsonianmag.com

TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program
apps.bostonglobe.com

Iran’s Wolf Wall, Second-longest in the World, is Still Shrouded in Mystery
blogs.discovermagazine.com

Weaponized information seeks a new target in cyberspace: Users’ minds
theconversation.com

This Parasite Drugs Its Hosts With the Psychedelic Chemical in Shrooms
theatlantic.com

The commas that cost companies millions
bbc.com

The Large Hadron Collider Just Successfully Accelerated Its First Atoms
sciencealert.com

NASA’s Space-Suit Drama Could Delay Our Trip to the Moon
thedailybeast.com

What Can NASA Do to Better Protect the Planets It Probes?
eos.org

Why do we listen to our favourite music over and over again? Because repeated sounds work magic in our brains
aeon.co

Why Do People Want to Drink the Sarcophagus Water?
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Motherhood in the Age of Fear
nytimes.com

The ‘Scutoid’ Is Geometry’s Newest Shape, and It Could Be All Over Your Body
gizmodo.com

Journey Into the World’s First Underwater Farm
atlasobscura.com

Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them
bbc.co.uk

NASA’s New Planet Hunter Begins Its Search for Alien Worlds
space.com

What If Only Females Could See Color?
nautil.us

Idaho prisoners hack iPads and transfer $225,000 worth of credits to themselves
theguardian.com

Whale-dolphin hybrid species discovered off coast of Hawaii
independent.co.uk

How NASA was born 60 years ago from panic over a ‘second moon’ (autoplay video)
cnet.com

How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
thedailybeast.com

How the Scent of Angry Bees Could Protect Elephants
smithsonianmag.com

This Is What It’s Like to Be Kidnapped by Pirates
gq.com

Violent crime is like infectious disease – and we know how to stop it spreading
mosaicscience.com

Video: NASA’s Cold Atom Lab: The Coolest Experiment in the Universe
youtube.com

On this day in 1945 a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building
damninteresting.com

Swarming Bacteria Create an ‘Impossible’ Superfluid
quantamagazine.org

Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet
theguardian.com

Dead man found at Adelaide house with a fruit cake on his head, court hears
mobile.abc.net.au