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Can America Still Build Big? A California Rail Project Raises Doubts
nytimes.com

Mount Vesuvius Didn’t Kill Everyone in Pompeii. Where Did the Survivors Go?
livescience.com

Is Japan losing its umami?
bbc.com

How Grand Canyon National Park Will Look in 100 Years
outsideonline.com

Inside the Secret Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics
nytimes.com • (see also)

New parents face up to six years of sleep deprivation, study says
theguardian.com

How Much a Dementia Patient Needs to Know, by Oliver Sacks
newyorker.com

Meet the skier who made the ‘impossible’ first solo descent of K2
nationalgeographic.com

Split-Sex Animals Are Unusual, Yes, but Not as Rare as You’d Think
nytimes.com

Is the World’s Largest Animal Too Reliant on the Past?
theatlantic.com

The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
theverge.com

Never before seen Nasa photos show the majesty of space travel
wired.co.uk

One in 200 people is a slave. Why?
theguardian.com

Image: Juno Exposes Dramatic Atmospheric Features of Jupiter
scitechdaily.com

Science history: Elektro the smoking robot
cosmosmagazine.com

In violent Manila, another body and another cold case amid war on drugs
washingtonpost.com

It’s not termites: new study gives fresh take on how “fairy circles” form
arstechnica.com

ESA Seeks New Spacesuit Material for Lunar Astronauts. But It Has to Be the Right Stuff.
space.com

‘FarFarOut’: Nasa astronomer finds potential furthest object in solar system
theguardian.com

Hayabusa 2: Asteroid image shows touchdown marks
bbc.com

An Archaeologist Says He’s Figured Out The Secret of The Pyramids’ Peculiar Alignment
sciencealert.com

The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future
newyorker.com

The $15 Minimum Wage Doesn’t Just Improve Lives. It Saves Them.
nytimes.com

Sergei Krikalev: The Man Who Went Up a Soviet And Came Down a Russian
amusingplanet.com

107 Years, 2.5 Million Outfits, Countless Characters: Inside Hollywood’s “Magical” Mecca of Costumes
hollywoodreporter.com

Failed 1970s Venus Probe Could Crash to Earth This Year
space.com

Ming Dynasty Skeletons Reveal Secrets of Foot-Binding
livescience.com • (see also)

Where are all the aliens? Struggling and hustling, just like us
popsci.com • (see also)

Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth
theguardian.com

A Japanese Illustrated History of America (1861)
openculture.com

Great Glass Coffin Scam: When Hucksters Sold the Fantasy of Death Without Decay
collectorsweekly.com

Seven Black Inventors Whose Patents Helped Shape American Life
nytimes.com

The Fishy Mystery of Lake Malawi
smithsonianmag.com

The blind climbers of Kilimanjaro
bbc.com

Inside the Rise and Fall of a Multimillion-Dollar Airbnb Scheme
nytimes.com

Trove of Letters Reveal Charles Dickens Tried to Lock His Wife Away in an Asylum
smithsonianmag.com

Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked
technologyreview.com

Physics explains how pollen gets its stunning diversity of shapes
sciencenews.org

The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes
theguardian.com

New Ultima Thule Photos Were Made in a Flash
nytimes.com

Why We Think Cats Are Psychopaths
theatlantic.com

Navy files for patent on room-temperature superconductor
phys.org

This Perpetual Calendar Hidden in an Italian Chapel Is a Mathematical Marvel
atlasobscura.com

China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced
technologyreview.com

Don’t Let Robots Pull the Trigger
scientificamerican.com

480-Million-Year-Old Mystery Creature Finally Identified from Its Preserved Guts
livescience.com

NASA is testing a new submarine that will hunt for undiscovered sea life — and scientists eventually want it to look for aliens on Europa
businessinsider.com

Do volcanoes or an asteroid deserve blame for dinosaur extinction?
eurekalert.org

Lights! Camera! Action! How the Lumière brothers invented the movies
nationalgeographic.com

Stunning New View of Mars Shows Where Ancient Flowing Water Once Carved Its Surface
gizmodo.com

A lunar lander launches from Florida for the first time since Apollo 17
arstechnica.com

Climate Change Enters Its Blood-Sucking Phase
theatlantic.com

Could a Space Helicopter Find Life on Saturn’s Moon Titan?
blogs.scientificamerican.com

The Russian Sleuth Who Outs Moscow’s Elite Hackers and Assassins
wired.com

Japanese spacecraft successfully touches down on an asteroid, grabbing a sample of dust
theverge.com

Paper: Researchers have observed a single-celled algae evolve into a multicellular organism
nature.com

Scientists Have Created Synthetic DNA with 4 Extra Letters
livescience.com

Asteroid Mission Attempts Touchdown, Sample Grab
eos.org

The Impossible Mathematics of the Real World
nautil.us

Scientists say every animal needs sleep. These fruit flies didn’t get the memo
sciencemag.org