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Marine Electric: The Wreck that Changed the Coast Guard Forever
maritime-executive.com

New Map of Dark Matter Spanning 10 Million Galaxies Hints at a Flaw in Our Physics
sciencealert.com

A prison nurse said her husband died in a fire. Then police discovered her relationship with a murderer.
washingtonpost.com

Inside the world of treehoppers, mini-marvels of the rainforest
nationalgeographic.com

Helle’s toilet: 12th-century three-person loo seat goes on display
theguardian.com

Left to Their Own Devices, Pricing Algorithms Resort to Collusion
popularmechanics.com

You know kilo, mega, and giga. Is the metric system ready for ronna and quecca?
sciencemag.org

Life probably exists beyond Earth. So how do we find it?
nationalgeographic.com

Monster Magnetar Pinpointed as Trigger of Ultrabright Stellar Detonation
scientificamerican.com

Female human body blocks weak sperm, scientists find
theguardian.com

Moving artificial leaves out of the lab and into the air
today.uic.edu

Most Americans don’t realize what companies can predict from their data
theconversation.com

Strep A bacteria kill half a million a year. Why don’t we have a vaccine?
mosaicscience.com

Shopping in Pyongyang, and Other Adventures in North Korean Capitalism
nytimes.com

A new study finds that small teams of researchers do more innovative work than large teams do
nytimes.com

50 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1969
theatlantic.com

How 18th-Century Writers Created the Genre of Popular Science
smithsonianmag.com

Video: False Positive: When forensic science fails [32:42]
youtube.com

Love, Sex, and Cyanide—The Private Life of a Toxic Butterfly
daily.jstor.org

The Secret History of Women in Coding
nytimes.com

New clue in curious case of cassowary casque
phys.org

New study suggests possibility of recent underground volcanism on Mars
news.agu.org

Digging up the past: 40,000 skeletons being exhumed to make room for London train station
cbc.ca

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope discovers flare 10 billion times more powerful than those on the sun
phys.org

Inside the decadent love affair of Cleopatra and Mark Antony
nationalgeographic.com

Rare African black leopard captured by camera trap’s extraordinary photos
theguardian.com

No One Really Knows What to Do With All of America’s Unclaimed Corpses
theatlantic.com

Nasa makes final attempt to communicate with Mars rover
theguardian.com • Update

Parkland: A Year After the School Shooting That Was Supposed to Change Everything
nytimes.com

The Bizarre Planets That Could Be Humanity’s New Homes
theatlantic.com

Decolonizing Science Writing in South Africa
theopennotebook.com

El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown
nytimes.com

How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past
quantamagazine.org

Explorers Discover the Wreck of the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, Sunk in World War II
popularmechanics.com

Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile
nautil.us

“Eskimos Have Fifty Words for Snow” is an amazing phrase, because every word in it is wrong.
popula.com

How a 25-Inch Plot of Land in Greenwich Village Embodied ‘a Resistance’
nytimes.com

Fossilized Tubes Point to Super-Ancient Mobile Organisms
the-scientist.com

America’s Pistachio Industry Came From a Single Seed
atlasobscura.com

Skeleton of Teen Girl Found Buried Next to Mysterious Pyramid in Egypt
livescience.com

An earthquake lasted 50 days, but no one felt it. Here’s why.
nationalgeographic.com

Study Details How Phone Companies Prey on Families of Inmates in Local Jails
gizmodo.com

Hong Kong, Crossroads of the Criminal Wildlife Trade
nytimes.com

The Swiss town obsessed with the number 11
bbc.com

Stonehenge, other ancient rock structures may trace their origins to monuments like this
sciencemag.org

The Tiny Swiss Company That Thinks It Can Help Stop Climate Change
nytimes.com

Heineken claims its business helps Africa. Is that too good to be true?
theguardian.com

Photos: 40 years since the Iranian Revolution
qz.com

Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent
theguardian.com

‘I tried to keep my unborn child secret from Facebook and Google’
wired.co.uk

The Long, Weird History of Strobe Weapons
popularmechanics.com

Everywhere in the Animal Kingdom, Followers of the Milky Way
nytimes.com

Global insect decline may see ‘plague of pests’
bbc.com

People Who Are Most Fearful Of Genetically Modified Foods Think They Know The Most About Them, But Actually Know The Least
digest.bps.org.uk • (see also)

Mouse toes partially regrown after amputation thanks to two proteins
newscientist.com

Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize
theconversation.com

Edwin Smith Papyrus: The 3,600-Year-Old Textbook of Surgery
amusingplanet.com

The Rude, Cruel, and Insulting ‘Vinegar Valentines’ of the Victorian Era
atlasobscura.com

Mars One is dead
engadget.com

How this animal’s adorable face mask keeps it safe
nationalgeographic.com