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Inmates deemed ‘dead’ using century-old law in Rhode Island
thestar.com

Exoplanet observations reveal unexpected atmosphere
cosmosmagazine.com

Experiment: Some organisms that exist on Earth can survive even under Martian conditions
dlr.de

A Male Birth Control Pill Passed Safety Tests — Here’s How It Works
livescience.com

Researchers estimate it takes approximately 1.5 megabytes of data to store language information in the brain
medicalxpress.com

Emergency declared in NY over measles, unvaccinated barred from public spaces
arstechnica.com

‘Space Butterfly’ Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars
jpl.nasa.gov

What Termites Can Teach Us About Cooling Our Buildings
nytimes.com

The Untold History of Lynching in the American West
daily.jstor.org

Why America Wants to Send Astronauts to the Moon’s South Pole
wired.com

Why the USDA Hired Artists to Paint Thousands of Fruits
atlasobscura.com

A Friendship Turned to Rivalry. A Feud That Changed the New York Skyline.
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This city bans cars every Sunday—and people love it
nationalgeographic.com

The drugs don’t work: what happens after antibiotics?
theguardian.com

Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem
theatlantic.com

He won the lottery 14 times using math. But his biggest jackpot still came down to luck.
washingtonpost.com • (see also)

EU aims to put speed limit technology on cars
apnews.com

Dog Suicide Bridge’: Why Do So Many Pets Keep Leaping Into a Scottish Gorge?
nytimes.com

The Original Sin of NASA Space Suits
theatlantic.com

Entebbe pilot Michel Bacos who stayed with hostages dies
bbc.com

Belief in aliens could be America’s next religion
theoutline.com

How Annoyed Hollywood Concertgoers Sparked The Idea For Freeway Soundwalls
laist.com

India shoots down satellite, declares itself a space power
washingtonpost.com

This is the World’s First Trans Supermodel that Didn’t Get Her Moment
messynessychic.com

Are we close to solving the puzzle of consciousness?
bbc.com

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