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Girl, 2, survives ‘drastic’ surgery to reconstruct her skull
cbc.ca

NASA Doesn’t Have Enough Nuclear Fuel For Its Deep Space Missions
forbes.com

Time travel is possible – but only if you have an object with infinite mass
theconversation.com

50 years have passed since NASA’s Apollo 8 mission circled the moon for the first time — here is every Apollo mission explained
businessinsider.com

How the CIA Trains Spies to Hide in Plain Sight
wired.com

Parrot Uses Alexa to Order Watermelon, Lightbulbs While Owner Is Out
newsweek.com

Video: Dive over Jupiter’s cloud-tops with Nasa’s Juno craft [0:35]
youtube.com

What it’s like to work in the biggest building in the world
bbc.com

Ancient bird fossils have ‘the weirdest feathers I have ever seen’
sciencemag.org

Einstein’s most effective life hack wasn’t about productivity
qz.com

The Bite of the Sabertooth
blogs.scientificamerican.com

A New Year message from the edge of the solar system
theguardian.com

Video: Tiny ‘Zombies’ Rising from the Tundra [9:06]
theatlantic.com

Well-preserved’ Royal priest tomb uncovered in Saqqara
egypttoday.com • Another article

GE Powered the American Century—Then It Burned Out
wsj.com

What Chewed-Up Gum Reveals About Life in the Stone Age
theatlantic.com

Meet IceWorm: NASA’s New Ice-Climbing Robot
eos.org

Viking cat skeletons reveal a surprising growth in the size of felines over time
sciencemag.org

A young star caught forming like a planet
phys.org

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)