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The Final Adventure of a Pioneer Scientist
undark.org

Scientists Are Fighting For The Stricken Pickle Against This Tricky Disease
npr.org

The technology that could end traffic jams
bbc.com

Lost in the Valley of Death
outsideonline.com

Special Report: J&J knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder
reuters.com

Sorry, your data can still be identified even if it’s anonymized
fastcompany.com

‘Smoking Gun’ Planet: This Neptune-Size Alien World Is Evaporating in Record Time
space.com

First Dutch bananas could help tackle worldwide fungal threat
theguardian.com • (see also)

The animal that lives forever (autoplay video)
bbcearth.com

Minnette de Silva: the brilliant female architect forgotten by history
theguardian.com

Image: On this day in 1972 humans last set foot on the moon
damninteresting.com

What Lies Beneath the Transylvanian Castle That Imprisoned ‘Dracula’?
livescience.com

When will electric airliners make sense?
arstechnica.com

One of Nature’s Smallest Flowering Plants Can Survive Inside of a Duck
nytimes.com

Spacesuits for Spiders (And what they tell us about the difficulty of keeping people alive in space)
theatlantic.com

Martian Satellite Spots NASA’s InSight Lander From Space
gizmodo.com

A boy tried to kill himself by jumping from a highway bridge. He killed someone else instead.
washingtonpost.com

The Viruses That Eavesdrop on Their Hosts
theatlantic.com

Two Stalagmites Found in Chinese Cave Are a ‘Holy Grail’ for Accurate Radiocarbon Dating
gizmodo.com

Narrower Skulls, Oblong Brains: How Neanderthal DNA Still Shapes Us
nytimes.com

The Parker Solar Probe takes its first up-close look at the sun
sciencenews.org

Ebola-Fighting Protein Discovered
news.feinberg.northwestern.edu

Gallery: Not for the faint-hearted: Gruesome medical illustrations from the 19th-century
dangerousminds.net

ALMA’s high-resolution images of nearby protoplanetary disks
public.nrao.edu

This insect’s ‘pee droplets’ accelerate faster than a cheetah
cbc.ca

Exploding Stars Helped Kill Earth’s Ancient Sea Monsters, New Study Suggests
livescience.com

Dracula ants possess fastest known animal appendage: The snap-jaw
eurekalert.org

Susan Potter gave her body to science. Her cadaver became immortal.
nationalgeographic.com

He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There.
nytimes.com

A Math Function Describes How Whole Societies Remember—and Forget
scientificamerican.com

You may not even need a telescope to see Comet 46P/Wirtanen in the night sky this month
theconversation.com

How the First World War gave medicine a new body of evidence
aeon.co

He was told his father walked out in 1961. Then he started digging up the basement
thestar.com

Mystery Blast Sank The USS San Diego in 1918. New Report Reveals What Happened
npr.org

The Worst Fire Ever—Until the Next One
outsideonline.com

Meet the Safecracker of Last Resort
theatlantic.com

Scientists Virtually Reconstruct Magnificent Pre-Incan Temple
gizmodo.com

Art made by AI is selling for thousands – is it any good?
bbc.com

Forever prisoners: were a father and son wrongly ensnared by America’s war on terror?
theguardian.com

Russian cosmonauts spend nearly eight hours cutting into their spacecraft
arstechnica.com

Antarctic Scientists Are About to Drill Into One of the Most Isolated Lakes on Earth
gizmodo.com • (see also)

Researchers Create First Ever Honey Bee Vaccine
smithsonianmag.com

The Unlikely New Generation of Unabomber Acolytes
nymag.com

John Lethbridge’s Diving Machine
amusingplanet.com

In the Universe of Equations, Virtually All Are Prime
quantamagazine.org

We Have Ways To Stop Rogue Scientists. They Don’t Always Work.
fivethirtyeight.com

An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have
aeon.co

Physicists Create Incredible ‘Quark Soup’ Droplets That Expand Like Little Big Bangs
gizmodo.com

Apollo 8 Astronauts Reflect on Historic Moon Voyage 50 Years Later
time.com

How This Supercolony of 1.5 Million Penguins Stayed Hidden for Nearly 3,000 Years
livescience.com

Finding Alien Life May Require Giant Telescopes Built in Orbit
scientificamerican.com

The Colossus of Rhodes, the bronze wonder of the ancient world
nationalgeographic.com

What’s eating this 400-year-old painting? A whole ecosystem of microbes
arstechnica.com

Chaos and the chocolate factory as leak smothers German street
theguardian.com

It Could Be the Age of the Chicken, Geologically
nytimes.com

The Recurring Dread of a Paralyzing Illness
theatlantic.com

NASA’s New Mars Lander Takes 1st Selfie, Scopes Out Workspace
space.com

Demon Underneath: John DeLorean and the invention of the future
theoutline.com

The Grim Future of Urban Warfare
theatlantic.com

Technical tour-de-force traps positrons
arstechnica.com