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The Hotshots of Helltown
gq.com

What Happened Before the Big Bang?
livescience.com

“Global measles crisis” as WHO reports cases up 300% from last year
newatlas.com

Peru ex-president Garcia shoots himself as police try to arrest him
reuters.com

Engineers create ‘lifelike’ material with artificial metabolism
news.cornell.edu

‘When the Glaciers Disappear, Those Species Will Go Extinct’
nytimes.com

20 years ago today a glider was struck by ‘positive lightning’, an unusual, powerful meteorological phenomenon
damninteresting.com

‘Calling bullshit’: the college class on how not to be duped by the news
theguardian.com

Liquid Blood Extracted From 42,000-Year-Old Foal Found Frozen in Siberia
gizmodo.com

You Can Now Smell a Flower That Went Extinct a Century Ago
popularmechanics.com

In Notre Dame fire, echoes of the 1837 blaze that destroyed Russia’s Winter Palace
theconversation.com

Sex-selective abortions may have stopped the birth of 23 million girls
newscientist.com

The Dreams You Can’t Remember Might Never Have Occurred
theatlantic.com

In a battle for readers, two media barons sparked a war in the 1890s
nationalgeographic.com

Notre-Dame Attic Was Known as ‘the Forest.’ And It Burned Like One.
nytimes.com

‘Why I write fake online reviews’
bbc.com

Dentistry is much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think
theatlantic.com

LIGO Is Up and Running Again and Already Spotted Two Possible Black Hole Mergers
space.com

First U.S. Patients Treated With CRISPR As Gene-Editing Human Trials Get Underway
npr.org

The Children of the Children of Columbine
theatlantic.com

How 5G is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
hackaday.com

The Quest for the Most Elusive Material in Physics
gizmodo.com

What’s New About Conspiracy Theories?
newyorker.com

Selfie Deaths Are an Epidemic
outsideonline.com

Exploding Aphids Plaster Holes in Their Home With Bodily Fluids
theatlantic.com

Astronomers discover third planet in the Kepler-47 circumbinary system
phys.org

How air pollution is doing more than killing us
bbc.com

Weatherwatch: the science behind lightning’s crackle
theguardian.com • (see also)

When Doctors Thought ‘Wanderlust’ Was a Psychological Condition
atlasobscura.com

1,060-hour image of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) captured by Amateur Astronomers
astrospace-page.blogspot.com

Low-intensity ultrasound can change decision-making process in the brain, research shows
plymouth.ac.uk

Stonehenge: DNA reveals origin of builders
bbc.com

Investors are using real-time satellite images to predict the performance of companies like Walmart, Starbucks, and Whole Foods
theatlantic.com

How long do neutrons live? Physicists close in on decades-old puzzle
nature.com

The Coming Obsolescence of Animal Meat
theatlantic.com

Notre-Dame fire: Paris surveys aftermath of cathedral blaze
bbc.com • More info/images

Abundance of information narrows our collective attention span
eurekalert.org

How Scotland erased Guyana from its past
theguardian.com

Photos: The Devastation of Notre Dame Cathedral
theatlantic.com

‘We’re back together’: Honouring his dying wishes, wife preserves husband’s tattoos
cbc.ca

The End Of Empathy
npr.org

Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people
mcdreeamiemusings.com

The moon releases surprising amounts of water during meteor showers
nationalgeographic.com

Several years ago a historian used laser scanners to measure every detail of Notre Dame…at least we still have that
news.nationalgeographic.com • (Context)

How Whiskey and Taxes Helped Create the United States
saturdayeveningpost.com

How a $1,000 Art-Auction Bet Turned Into a $450 Million ‘Da Vinci’
vulture.com

In defence of disorder
aeon.co

Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life
quantamagazine.org

One side of your brain might be giving you nightmares
cosmosmagazine.com

TESS finds its first Earth-sized planet
phys.org

Leonardo Da Vinci Was Ambidextrous, Handwriting Analysis Shows
livescience.com

NASA’s Cassini Reveals Surprises with Titan’s Lakes
jpl.nasa.gov

A Harvard physicist has shown that wormholes can exist, and that travel through them is possible, but slow
sciencedaily.com

I’m a scientist studying laughter – and it’s funnier than you might think
theguardian.com • (see also)

New Orleans Apologizes for 1891 Lynching of Italian-Americans
smithsonianmag.com

“Snowball chamber” would detect dark matter using supercooled water
newatlas.com

When wildfires break out, this elite team of ‘smokejumpers’ parachute in
nationalgeographic.com

Unraveling why some people get not one, not two, but many cancers
washingtonpost.com

A frenemy fungus provides clues about a new deadly one
theconversation.com

Team finds tiny fragment of a comet inside a meteorite
asunow.asu.edu