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How Scotland’s 35-Year Kilt Ban Backfired in Spectacular Fashion
mentalfloss.com

DNA Analysis Reveals a Genus of Plants Hiding in Plain Sight
quantamagazine.org

How a growing market for citrus fruit spawned the mafia
aeon.co

Plane Quarantined at JFK Airport After Passengers Mysteriously Fall Ill
gizmodo.com

A Once-Captive Dolphin Has Introduced Her Friends to a Silly Trend
theatlantic.com

Too Good to Be True? A Nonaddictive Opioid without Lethal Side Effects Shows Promise
scientificamerican.com

First known omnivorous shark species identified
theguardian.com

A supernova secret may be hidden inside meteorites
astronomy.com

Scientists take samples in bid to clone extinct ancient foal as ‘first step’ to restoring woolly mammoth
siberiantimes.com

Saturn Sprouts Another Weird Hexagon, Puzzling Scientists
livescience.com

Brazil’s Biggest Meteorite Survives Museum-Destroying Fire
space.com

Ten Things I Never Knew About Las Vegas Until I Ran a High-Roller Suite
bloomberg.com

Stolen Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz Recovered
fbi.gov

The vagina is self-cleaning – so why does the ‘feminine hygiene’ industry exist?
theguardian.com

98.6 Degrees Is A Normal Body Temperature, Right? Not Quite
wired.com

Airport security trays carry more viruses than toilet surfaces, scientists find
theguardian.com

Hearing Aids Are Finally Entering the 21st Century
scientificamerican.com

The First Floridians
bittersoutherner.com

Deer antlers are a dual-use technology
economist.com

What Does Science Tell Us About Sex Ed?
fivethirtyeight.com

Fast-Tracking Drug Approvals at the FDA
undark.org

EU and national funders launch plan for free and immediate open access to journals
sciencebusiness.net

Forgotten heroes of the Enigma story
nature.com

Accretion disk detected around 10,000 year old protostar, by far the ‘youngest’ ever seen
sites.google.com

Double Blow to Brazil Museum: Neglect, Then Flames
nytimes.com

Humans can withstand stronger gravity found on distant exoplanets, say physicists
physicsworld.com

Do dropping sperm counts mean we’re headed toward extinction?
gq.com

Russia says space station leak could be deliberate sabotage
phys.org

Scientists pioneer a new way to turn sunlight into fuel
joh.cam.ac.uk

Loopholes and the ‘Anti-Realism’ of the Quantum World
wired.com

How a surrogate twin pregnancy turned into a custody battle over unrelated babies
cbc.ca

Why the world is full of buttons that don’t work
cnn.com

What Artifacts Were in the National Museum of Brazil?
nytimes.com

Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It’s a Long Story.
citylab.com

How to Use the Large Hadron Collider to Search for Dark Matter
nautil.us

A Doom II Secret From 1994 Has Been Unlocked
kotaku.com

Scientists hunt mysterious ‘dark force’ to explain hidden realm of the cosmos
theguardian.com

Gallery: The village where families must have surgery to move in
bbc.com

It’s the Biggest Oyster Found in New York in 100 Years. And It Has Stories to Tell.
nytimes.com

The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040
forbes.com

Japan starts space elevator experiments
electronicsweekly.com

The Brotherhood of Killers and Cops
occrp.org

Egypt says village found in Nile Delta predated pharaohs
phys.org

Brazil’s national museum hit by huge fire
bbc.com

Where the animals go: wildlife tracking secrets revealed
theguardian.com

The New Science of Seeing Around Corners
quantamagazine.org

LocoL was supposed to be the answer to food deserts. What went wrong?
theguardian.com

How close is a cure for baldness?
theguardian.com

Fruit flies found to navigate using celestial markers
newatlas.com

Why Revealing Uncontacted Tribes May Help Save Them
nationalgeographic.com

On this day in 1859 humans experienced the largest geomagnetic storm in recorded history
damninteresting.com

See Leonardo da Vinci’s Genius Yourself in These Newly Digitized Sketches
smithsonianmag.com

How Atlantic Readers Reacted to Watergate
theatlantic.com

The Silence After the Hit-and-Run
nytimes.com

Hot Debate Over Renaming Hubble’s Law –“Not the First to Discover the Expansion of the Universe”
dailygalaxy.com

Is there a mysterious Planet Nine lurking in our solar system beyond Neptune? (new info)
washingtonpost.com

A Surprisingly Disgusting History of Lemonade Stands
mentalfloss.com

First ever trials on the effects of microdosing LSD set to begin
theguardian.com

Why Hasn’t Science Solved Acne Yet?
theatlantic.com

Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers
nytimes.com