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The culprit’s name remains unknown. But he licked a stamp, and now his DNA stands indicted.
washingtonpost.com

Gallery: Some of this year’s best microscopy images
arstechnica.com

The Butterflies That Hear With Their Wings
theatlantic.com

Finland: ‘Silence is gold, talking is silver’
bbc.com

Physicist describes the shape of a wormhole
phys.org

Scientists Discover a Weird Noise Coming From Antarctic Ice Shelf
earther.gizmodo.com

Man Dies from Extremely Rare Disease After Eating Squirrel Brains
livescience.com

Why George Aldrich’s nose is so important to Nasa’s success
chemistryworld.com

A short history of spacetime from Euclid to LIGO
cosmosmagazine.com

NASA Wants to Send Humans to Venus, to Live in Airships Floating on Clouds
livescience.com

How scientists are fighting infection-causing biofilms
theconversation.com

The FBI of the National Park Service
outsideonline.com

‘Broadband’ Networks of Viruses May Help Bacteria Evolve Faster
quantamagazine.org

On this day in 1964 China detonated its first atomic bomb
damninteresting.com

A Century Ago, Wood-Eating Worms Devastated San Francisco Bay
atlasobscura.com

Sears’s ‘radical’ past: How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow
washingtonpost.com

Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought
blogs.scientificamerican.com

The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting
nytimes.com

Can Trauma Be Inherited Between Generations?
theatlantic.com

Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property?
newyorker.com

Why Diving Tectonic Plates Get Stuck 400 Miles beneath Earth’s Surface
scientificamerican.com

The Night Watch: Rembrandt painting to be restored under world’s gaze
theguardian.com

The Dawn of Television Promised Diversity. Here’s Why We Got “Leave It to Beaver”

How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer’s Brain
scientificamerican.com

What Happens When Humans Fall In Love With An Invasive Species
fivethirtyeight.com

Coffee Rust Threatens Latin American Crop; 150 Years Ago, It Wiped Out An Empire
npr.org

Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets form
phys.org

NASA’s Flagship X-Ray Telescope Back Online After Last Week’s Safe Mode
gizmodo.com

The Employer Surveillance State
theatlantic.com

Neanderthals Suffered a Lot of Traumatic Injuries. So How Did They Live So Long?
theatlantic.com

‘Hyperalarming’ study shows massive insect loss
washingtonpost.com

On mana: why we bestow certain objects with unearthly powers
aeon.co

Are Black Holes Actually Dark Energy Stars?
nautil.us

A Naturalist With a Checkered Past Rediscovered a Long-lost Parrot…Then Things Got Interesting
audubon.org

Trees and plants reached ‘peak carbon’ 10 years ago
cosmosmagazine.com

How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations
nytimes.com

Male Gorillas Love Hanging Around With Infants
theatlantic.com

10 stomachs, 32 brains and 18 testicles – a day inside the UK’s only leech farm
theguardian.com

The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world
theguardian.com

Sensational find of Viking ships and Viking village in Halden, Norway (machine translated)
navva.org

Sears, the Original Everything Store, Nears a Bankruptcy Filing
nytimes.com

If You Traveled Far Enough Through Space, Would You Return To Your Starting Point?
forbes.com

The Da Vinci mystery: why is his $450m masterpiece really being kept under wraps?
theguardian.com

When Pop-Up Books Taught Popular Science
theatlantic.com

How the ‘blues’ of polar heroes throws light on Sad syndrome
theguardian.com

Sprayable antennas turn surfaces into ultra-thin, transparent transmitters
newatlas.com

Study: Most of the Arctic’s permanent ice is gone
cosmosmagazine.com

Elaborate and ‘exceptionally well-preserved’ ancient Roman shrine uncovered by Pompeii excavators
independent.co.uk

Scientists say that more than 100 thousand varieties of rice have been safeguarded for the future
bbc.com

Hubble’s Hardware Woes and the Painful Era of Aging Spacecraft
theatlantic.com

The least-gifted children of high-income parents graduate from college at higher rates than the most-gifted children of low-income parents
washingtonpost.com

Fifth-century child’s skeleton shows evidence of “vampire burial”
arstechnica.com

Essays reveal Stephen Hawking predicted race of ‘superhumans’
theguardian.com

Lab-Grown Human Retinas Illuminate How Eyes Develop Color Vision
scientificamerican.com

This Is The Real Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter
medium.com

Thinking outside the box: Adults with ADHD not constrained in creativity
news.umich.edu

Decades After Taking Henrietta Lacks’s Cells Without Consent, Johns Hopkins Names Building After Her
democracynow.org • (see also)

Researchers identify a “looming eyes” optical illusion that frightens birds away from airports
gizmodo.com

At 10 trillion frames per second, this camera captures light in slow motion
techcrunch.com

‘Lifeboats’ Amid the World’s Wildfires
nytimes.com