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A Breakthrough for U.S. Troops: Combat-Ready Pizza
nytimes.com

Video: Animated short: One Small Step
vimeo.com

The Bizarre Scheme Using Viral Abuse Stories and Stolen Pics to Sell Diet Pills on Twitter
gizmodo.com

Inside the eight desperate weeks that saved SpaceX from ruin
arstechnica.com

Unknown Signal from Andromeda -“There’s Something Out There That We Can’t Sense Yet”
dailygalaxy.com

New Microscope Shows the Quantum World in Crazy Detail
wired.com

Alan Abel, Hoaxer Extraordinaire, Is (on Good Authority) Dead at 94
nytimes.com

The outrageous plan to haul icebergs to Africa
bbc.com • (see also)

The microbial menagerie in the air
cosmosmagazine.com

Scientists have finally confirmed that weird 558-million-year-old ribbed oval fossils are from animals
theatlantic.com

Scientists Gave MDMA to Octopuses—and What Happened Was Profound
gizmodo.com

The Brash Genius Who Built a Railway Empire
thewalrus.ca

The Palmdale Bulge: A Geo-Crisis That Likely Never Existed
blogs.discovermagazine.com

Worms, water fleas and bacteria could bring clean water to remote areas
horizon-magazine.eu

Build walls on seafloor to stop glaciers melting, scientists say
theguardian.com

New species of blind eel that burrows through the soil discovered
nhm.ac.uk

Golf Digest helped vacate this man’s murder conviction after 27 years [autoplay video]
golfdigest.com

NASA’s Curiosity Rover on Mars Sidelined by Glitch
space.com

How the octopus got its smarts
cosmosmagazine.com

A tiny galaxy almost collided with the Milky Way and astronomers can see the effects
popsci.com

Giant spiderweb cloaks land in Aitoliko, Greece
bbc.com

In China’s far north, a once-proud tradition of reindeer herding breathes its last
interaction.sixthtone.com

Hayabusa2 Prepares to Drop Rovers on Asteroid Ryugu
nytimes.com

NASA’s TESS Space Telescope Has Spotted Its First Exoplanet
gizmodo.com

Umber: The colour of debauchery
bbc.com

How Puerto Rico Became the Newest Tax Haven for the Super Rich
gq.com

The trick to learning when to cut your losses
bbc.com

New AI Strategy Mimics How Brains Learn to Smell
quantamagazine.org

Nudibranchs: Armed and Fabulous
hakaimagazine.com

Who’s a Good Archaeologist? Dog Digs Up Trove of Bronze Age Relics
smithsonianmag.com

A new antenna using single atoms could usher in the age of atomic radio
arstechnica.com

Why Your DNA Is Still Uncharted Territory
nytimes.com

Why do we hate wasps and love bees?
bbc.com

RemoveDebris: UK satellite nets ‘space junk’
bbc.com

Woman Rides Bicycle To 183.9 MPH — A World Record
npr.org

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume
longreads.com

Early tests pave the way for a giant neutrino detector
sciencenews.org

A super-Earth orbits the star named by Star Trek’s creator as the host of the planet Vulcan.
nature.com

Microplastics may enter foodchain through mosquitoes
phys.org

The caribou guardians
thenarwhal.ca

Freddie Oversteegen, Teenage Resistance Fighter Who Assassinated Nazis, Has Died at 92
smithsonianmag.com

The Future of Fish Farming May Be Indoors
scientificamerican.com

Video: Every Number is the Sum of Three Palindromes
youtube.com

Astronomers Spot Unprecedented Glow Around Neutron Star, and Whatever It Is, It’s Important
gizmodo.com

Massive trove of centuries-old undelivered mail seized by British warships going online
cbc.ca

Bomb squad warning over magnet fishing
bbc.co.uk

Sailor’s rape confession uncovered in 17th-century journal
theguardian.com

“Eat More Onions!”: Desperate and massively debatable medical advice from 1918
laphamsquarterly.org

Isolated Nomads Are Under Siege in the Amazon Jungle
nationalgeographic.com

Ice volcanoes have likely been erupting for billions of years on Ceres
arstechnica.com

What 13,000 Patents Involving the DNA of Sea Life Tell Us About the Future
nytimes.com

‘For me, this is paradise’: life in the Spanish city that banned cars
theguardian.com

In 1968, computers got personal: How the ‘mother of all demos’ changed the world
theconversation.com

The U.S. Nuked This Warship in 1946. Now America Is Trying To Save Its Oil Before It’s Too Late.
popularmechanics.com

After Mysterious Closure, Solar Observatory In New Mexico Reopens
npr.org

The Hotel in Afghanistan That Refuses to Close Its Doors
nytimes.com

Tiny Satellites Headed to Mars Likely Are First of Many
space.com

A giant crawling brain: the jaw-dropping world of termites
theguardian.com

First light! TESS shares first science image in hunt to find new worlds
exoplanets.nasa.gov

Mysterious great white shark lair discovered in Pacific Ocean
sfchronicle.com