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‘The Day I Set Myself On Fire’
narratively.com

‘Little Foot’ hominin emerges from stone after millions of years
nature.com

On this day in 1996 a professor published a groundbreaking paper on evolvable hardware
damninteresting.com

Should We Be Worried About Computerized Facial Recognition?
newyorker.com

Data analysis could help locate the missing Malaysian MH370 plane
technologyreview.com

Image: Saturn’s moons Dione and Rhea look like conjoined twins in this newly released image from Cassini
space.com

Why Victorians feared modern technology would make everyone blind
theconversation.com

4,000-Year-Old Game Board Carved into the Earth Shows How Nomads Had Fun
livescience.com

Nearly half of women murdered in the past decade were killed by an intimate partner
washingtonpost.com

Infectious Outbreaks Threaten the Last Asiatic Lions
scientificamerican.com

Can We Really Inherit Trauma?
nytimes.com

Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms
theguardian.com

A ‘Honking Big’ Cave in Canada Lures Geologists to Its Mouth
nytimes.com

South America’s other ‘Easter Island’
bbc.com

Beavers return to Italy after more than 500 years
cbc.ca

Russian ex-cop jailed for 56 more murders
bbc.com

Where is the boundary between your phone and your mind?
theguardian.com

In 1982, a 10-year-old American wrote to the head of the U.S.S.R. He wrote back and she became our youngest diplomat.
avclub.com

It’s Official: Voyager 2 Has Entered Interstellar Space
gizmodo.com

50 years ago, Douglas Engelbart’s ‘Mother of All Demos’ changed personal technology forever
mashable.com

A satellite screw-up reaffirms Einstein’s theory of gravity
sciencenews.org

The Race to Understand Antarctica’s Most Terrifying Glacier
wired.com

A startup is developing a 100-gigawatt laser to propel a probe to another star system. That may be powerful enough to ‘ignite an entire city.’
businessinsider.com

This map lets you hear what the world sounds like without humans
theverge.com

Researchers are ready to test pig skin transplants on humans for the first time
qz.com

The Rise and Fall of the Women’s Restroom Lounge
citylab.com

How to Save the Web
nytimes.com

How Alaska fixed its earthquake-shattered roads in just days
theverge.com

This Galaxy Pic from the Hubble Telescope Shows How Astronauts Fixed Its Vision 25 Years Ago
space.com

Why is nuclear fusion so hard?
blog.sigfpe.com

Egypt investigating couple pictured nude on top of Khufu pyramid
cnn.com

Image: The Complete Galactic Plane: Up and Down
apod.nasa.gov

How the iPhone health app helped police identify a murderer
theguardian.com

On this day in 1921, leaded gasoline was unfortunately invented
damninteresting.com

Iron Age chariot burial found in East Yorkshire with horses ‘leaping out of the grave’
yorkshirepost.co.uk

James Nasmyth’s Fake Lunar Photographs From 1874
amusingplanet.com

Tiny ‘Blueberries’ on Mars Continue to Baffle Scientists
livescience.com

The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything.
nytimes.com

The US Military Is Genetically Engineering New Life Forms To Detect Enemy Subs
defenseone.com

How NASA’s Mission to Bennu Will Keep Earth Safe from Asteroids
gizmodo.com

360º interactive video: He Served the Longest Sentence of Any Innocent U.S. Inmate
theatlantic.com

How Did Mary Queen of Scots Send Secret Messages?
paleofuture.gizmodo.com

The Ghosts of Highway 20
projects.oregonlive.com

Gut bacteria may offer a treatment for autism
economist.com

Forty Years Ago, 12.6 Million Feet of History Went Up in Smoke
smithsonianmag.com

Sounds of Mars: NASA’s InSight Senses Martian Wind
mars.nasa.gov

Here’s Our First Look at the Sun’s North Pole
popularmechanics.com

Why Eric Larsen Is Skiing to the South Pole Alone
outsideonline.com

Rare World War II maps reveal Japan’s Pearl Harbor strategy
nationalgeographic.com

Polonium: A Rare and Highly Volatile Radioactive Element
livescience.com

On this day in 1941 a Japanese fighter pilot was shot down over the Hawaiian island of Niihau, sparking an incident
damninteresting.com

The World’s First Space Telescope
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Chinese spacecraft to attempt first landing on far side of the moon
theguardian.com

Humans Made Drones by Copying Birds. Birds Are Fighting Back.
theatlantic.com

The rocket tower being built in tropical jungle
bbc.com

Too Much UV Light Could Turn Gas Planets Into Sad Rocky Cores
gizmodo.com

Spooky Apollo: Apollo 8 and the CIA
thespacereview.com

The boy left behind in Nazi Vienna
bbc.co.uk

Two images of the miners’ strike, an instant apart: so which is the classic?
theguardian.com

How a Huge Blood Clot Took the Shape of a Lung Passage
theatlantic.com