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Why exercise alone won’t save us
theguardian.com

Code-Name ‘Corona’: Earliest Spy-Satellite Images Reveal Secrets of Ancient Middle East
livescience.com

Teen’s round-the-world yacht Wild Eyes found floating eight years after boat abandoned
theguardian.com

DIY Organ Removal, Pain, and Bloody Miracles: The Grisly World of First Surgeries
gizmodo.com

China’s Moon Landing: ‘New Chapter in Humanity’s Exploration of the Moon’
nytimes.com

Scientists Have Been Studying Cancers in a Very Strange Way for Decades
theatlantic.com

Some Hummingbird Beaks Are Better Suited for Combat Than Nectar Feeding
gizmodo.com

The periodic tables we almost had
qz.com

A new implant uses light to control overactive bladders
sciencenews.org

The Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu
amusingplanet.com

NASA’s New Horizons Mission Releases Snowman-like Picture of Ultima Thule
nytimes.com

Hopes of melanoma breakthrough from cells that ‘put cancer to sleep’
smh.com.au

Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years’ worth of sugar
theguardian.com

A strange museum at the ‘centre of the world’
bbc.com

Why Two People See the Same Thing But Have Different Memories
neurosciencenews.com

Rare Flying Reptile with Mouthful of Fangs Trolled Jurassic Skies
livescience.com

According to police, a passerby raised the alarm after hearing a “screaming” toddler and a man repeatedly shouting “Why don’t you die?”
bbc.com

What Would Childbirth in Space Be Like?
theatlantic.com

No, you can’t eat your way out of a hangover
bbc.com

The 99 best things that happened in 2018
qz.com

Why Is The Music Of 1968 So Enduring? ‘It Was Allowed To Be Art’
npr.org

New Horizons Reaches Ultima Thule
nytimes.com

The Secret World of Doctors Who Love Whippits
melmagazine.com

In Screening for Suicide Risk, Facebook Takes On Tricky Public Health Role
nytimes.com

Castro Takes Manhattan: Vintage Pictures of the Cuban Conqueror as Tourist
nytimes.com

NASA spacecraft confirms successful flyby of distant Solar System object
theverge.com

Venice, Italy to Charge Entrance Fee for Tourists
thedailybeast.com

How an Undercover Oil Industry Mercenary Tricked Pipeline Opponents Into Believing He Was One of Them
theintercept.com

On an island famous for wild ponies, a dangerous infection is killing horses
washingtonpost.com

When Shoes Were Fit with X-Rays
daily.jstor.org

NASA spacecraft enters orbit around asteroid, sets records
apnews.com

Cane toads snake ride on python’s back to escape storm in northern Australia
theguardian.com

Is there lightning on Mars?
astroquizzical.com

Earth is missing a huge part of its crust. Now we may know why.
nationalgeographic.com

Ultracold atoms can make strange and beautiful quantum fireworks
newscientist.com

ESA sets clock by distant spinning stars
esa.int

Scientists Just Melted a Hole Through 3,500 Feet of Ice to Reach a Mysterious Antarctic Lake
earther.gizmodo.com

Elucidating Cuttlefish Camouflage
maxplanck.nautil.us

Finally declassified: Swedish pilots awarded US Air Medals for saving SR-71 spy plane
airforcetimes.com

How to Memorize the Largest Known Prime
blogs.scientificamerican.com

How mountains of U.S. plastic waste ended up in Malaysia, broken down by workers for $10 a day
latimes.com

Woman Develops Donor’s Peanut Allergy After Lung Transplant
livescience.com

New Horizons heads for flyby of space rock 4bn miles from Earth
theguardian.com • More informative article

Teddy Roosevelt’s Critique of Ostrich Science
theatlantic.com

Your Brain Rewards You Twice When You Eat
forbes.com

Scientists Got Fruit Flies Drunk and Maybe Figured Out Why We Get Buzzed
gizmodo.com

What Kinds of Food Do You Serve at a Funeral?
topic.com

Cyber-attack disrupts distribution of multiple US newspapers
bbc.com

The world should update its laws on outer space
ft.com

‘For 30 years I’ve been obsessed by why children get leukaemia. Now we have an answer’
theguardian.com

Arborists Have Cloned Ancient Redwoods From Their Massive Stumps
e360.yale.edu

Second explorer completes Antarctic crossing
nationalgeographic.com

A Single Cell Hints at a Solution to the Biggest Problem in Computer Science
popularmechanics.com

How Hawaii’s Volcanoes Could Help Us Find Life on Saturn’s Icy Moon
gizmodo.com

How to Dump 3,000 Pounds of Confetti on Times Square
nytimes.com

Scientists model Mercury’s glaciers
phys.org

The breakthroughs that could save our lives
bbc.com

How a pair of men in St. John’s survived the last duel fought on Canadian soil
cbc.ca

This Napoleonic Soldier Survived For Two Months With Horrific Facial Wound Following 1812 Battle
forbes.com

Nancy Grace Roman, astronomer celebrated as ‘mother’ of Hubble, dies at 93
washingtonpost.com