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Dutch art detective recovers stolen Picasso painting after 20 years
theguardian.com

A New List of Stars Shows Us Where to Look for Earth-Like Planets
gizmodo.com

“The Big Error Was That She Was Caught”: The Untold Story Behind the Mysterious Disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the World’s Biggest Movie Star
vanityfair.com

How Psychedelic Drugs Create Such Weird Hallucinations
livescience.com • (see also)

Ancient River Discovery Confirms Mediterranean Nearly Dried Up in the Miocene
eos.org • (see also)

‘Scuba-diving’ lizard can stay underwater for 16 minutes
phys.org

A Colonial-Era Cemetery Resurfaces in Philadelphia
nytimes.com

The Woman Who Found the Earth’s Inner Core
daily.jstor.org

Quaker Guns of The American Civil War
amusingplanet.com

‘Horror, fear, despair’: Venezuela’s oil capital shattered by ‘tsunami’ of violent looting
theguardian.com

This Stone Age settlement took humanity’s first steps toward city life
nationalgeographic.com

Adventurous. Alone. Attacked.
nytimes.com

Bacteria May Travel Thousands of Miles Through the Air Globally
news.rutgers.edu

The amateur sleuth who searched for a body – and found one
bbc.com

What happened before the Big Bang?
phys.org

Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast
newyorker.com

Could ‘alcosynth’ provide all the joy of booze – without the dangers?
theguardian.com

The Underground Railroad of North Korea
gq.com

Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33
quantamagazine.org

This drug can stop mothers bleeding to death in childbirth – so why can’t more women get it?
mosaicscience.com

The Daily Miracle: Finding Magic Inside The Times’s Printing Plant
nytimes.com

Smart talking: are our devices threatening our privacy?
theguardian.com

Year of the Mad Bomber
narratively.com • (see also)

1,500-year-old garbage dumps reveal city’s surprising collapse
nationalgeographic.com

Why Twisted Graphene Is One of the Most Exciting Physics Stories of the Year
gizmodo.com

Want to Buy a Private Railroad Car? This Might Be the End of the Line
citylab.com

Who keeps buying California’s scarce water? Saudi Arabia
theguardian.com

Confessions of a Professional Fake Shopper
narratively.com

Crime Scene Shutterbugs of the 20th Century
topic.com

Conspiracy Theories Can’t Be Stopped
fivethirtyeight.com

NASA Discovers a Pulsar Shot Out of a Supernova at 2.5 Million MPH
interestingengineering.com

Why Do Medicines Have Expiration Dates?
livescience.com

Hubble captures birth of giant storm on Neptune
phys.org

A Clever New Strategy for Treating Cancer, Thanks to Darwin
wired.com

How 3D-Printing Could Break into the Building Industry
scientificamerican.com

John Lennon and Yoko Ono shared their bed with the world 50 years ago — a plea for peace
washingtonpost.com

Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)
nytimes.com

The planet’s prodigious poo problem
theguardian.com

Why Would an Animal Trade One Body for Another?
nytimes.com

Computer model suggests that Jupiter formed much further from the sun and migrated inwards over a period of 700,000 years
lunduniversity.lu.se

Inside the Surveillance Program IBM Built for Rodrigo Duterte
theintercept.com

‘A State of Emergency’: Native Americans Stranded for Days by Flooding
nytimes.com

On the Trail of the Robocall King
wired.com

‘A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations
penntoday.upenn.edu

How Filmmakers Created Fake Newsreels in the 1920s
paleofuture.gizmodo.com

An Elusive Whale Is Found All Around the World
nytimes.com

Ketamine: can it really be an antidepressant?
theguardian.com

A Peek Inside the Extremely Metal Life of Lava Crickets
atlasobscura.com

Passengers recount harrowing hours aboard stranded cruise ship facing 26-foot swells off Norway’s coast
washingtonpost.com

Lithuanian Pleads Guilty to Stealing $100 Million From Google, Facebook
bleepingcomputer.com

Survivor of Guatemalan massacre seeks justice
newsinteractives.cbc.ca

The lemonade enema
thomas-morris.uk

One of the Worst Earthquakes in Korea’s History Was Caused by Humans
popularmechanics.com

Dear MESSENGER: How unmasking Mercury brought art to life
nationalgeographic.com

Drugged orangutan found in Russian’s airline luggage
theguardian.com

Exoplanet tally set to pass 4,000 mark
bbc.com

There’s a reason England was able to harness geniuses like Isaac Newton
popsci.com

Bug Scientists Squash ‘Insect Apocalypse’ Paper
earther.gizmodo.com

Astronomers Find Fossils of Early Universe Stuffed in Milky Way’s Bulge
livescience.com

What was the Cold War?
nationalgeographic.com