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Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment
bbc.com

Muons reveal the whopping voltages inside a thunderstorm
sciencenews.org

Ancient Earth’s Weakened Magnetic Field May Have Driven Mass Extinction
scientificamerican.com

Moon photos from the 1960s were developed in space—here’s how
nationalgeographic.com • (see also)

Why America’s Northernmost City Is Having a Weird, Hot Winter
earther.gizmodo.com

How the US has hidden its empire
theguardian.com

Antarctica’s most extreme rescue mission
bbc.com

‘I Fell Under the Spell of NASA’s Most Notorious Thief’
theatlantic.com

Algorithmically generated images of human faces based on “deep learning” (refresh page for new image)
thispersondoesnotexist.com • Twitter thread

Photos From the Opportunity Rover’s Mission on Mars
nytimes.com

Images From Antarctica
theatlantic.com

Pompeii: Narcissus fresco uncovered by archaeologists
bbc.com

Two Satellites Almost Crashed. Here’s How They Dodged It
wired.com

‘This Land Is Meant Only for Saffron. Without It, It Means Nothing.’
eater.com

Step inside this massive cave labyrinth hidden under Borneo
nationalgeographic.com

Mysterious Quantum Rule Reconstructed From Scratch
quantamagazine.org

When Divorce Was Off the Table, English Couples Dissolved Their Marriages With Beer
atlasobscura.com

Video: Identical twins navigating life in South London with neurofibromatosis, a rare genetic disorder [11:24]
vimeo.com

Meet the Amateur Astronomers Hunting for Spy Satellites
supercluster.com

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