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Edison and Tesla’s cutthroat ‘Current War’ ushered in the electric age
nationalgeographic.com • (see also)

We Should Deliberately Contaminate Mars With Our Microbes, Controversial Study Argues
gizmodo.com

A Murder in Berlin: The Untold Story of a Chechen ‘Jihadist’ Turned Secret Agent
thedailybeast.com

NASA Wants to Send Nuclear Rockets to the Moon and Mars
wired.com • (see also)

What life might be like in alien oceans
bbc.com

The blockbuster that wasn’t: inside an alleged $14m scam to make the next Netflix hit
theguardian.com

Murder in the Amazon heightens fears for isolated tribes
nationalgeographic.com

Found: Three Black Holes On Collision Course
chandra.harvard.edu

Otherworldly worms with three sexes discovered in Mono Lake
phys.org

Five years after 43 students disappeared in Mexico, their case remains a grim, unsolved mystery
pri.org

Astrophysicists: gamma-ray jets exceed the speed of light
bigthink.com

Big world around tiny star puts new spin on planet formation
phys.org

Did Francis Drake Really Land in California?
smithsonianmag.com

The Storm of the Century Could Soon Happen Every Year
citylab.com • (see also)

‘Even After Two Lung Transplants, I’m Still Waiting to Die’
melmagazine.com

Inside the Four-Year Forensic Search to Give One Migrant Family an Answer
esquire.com

Ted Bundy Was a Father Figure to Molly Kendall. Now, She’s Speaking Out For the First Time.
esquire.com • (see also)

When Smoking Was Just What the Doctor Ordered
saturdayeveningpost.com • (see also)

Do you know a good prison consultant?
1843magazine.com

We’ve Been Fighting The Vaping Crisis Since 1937
fivethirtyeight.com

Big Question About Primes Proved in Small Number Systems
quantamagazine.org

The Harrowing Hours and Defiant Aftermath of the New Zealand Mosque Shootings
gq.com

A Glacier In the Alps Is Facing Imminent Collapse, Prompting Evacuation
vice.com

The Swift and Merciless Execution of Corrine Sykes
narratively.com

Your guide to the battle of Thermopylae
historyextra.com

‘Abbey Road’ at 50: Inside the Beatles’ Glorious Farewell
thedailybeast.com

‘The Day I Found Out My Father Was a Spy’
lithub.com • (see also)

Fanny Burney’s Gruesome Mastectomy
amusingplanet.com

What the Apps That Bring Food to Your Door Mean for Delivery Workers
nybooks.com

Why Are Rich People So Mean?
wired.com

The tiny kingdom fighting an epidemic
bbc.com

In the last 500 million years, life has had to recover from five catastrophic blows
nationalgeographic.com

How The NSA And U.S. Cyber Command Hacked ISIS’s Media Operation
npr.org

Stressed out: Americans making themselves sick over politics
news.unl.edu

Language Is the Scaffold of the Mind
nautil.us

‘A cure so poisonous that, if I survived, I could lose my eyesight, speech and memory’
theguardian.com

How a globe-trotting, adventure-seeking socialite became the first American woman in uniform captured by the Nazis
washingtonpost.com

Revisiting Disney’s America: The Theme Park That Never Was
popularmechanics.com

Another grim climate report on oceans – what will it take to address the compounding problems?
theconversation.com

A T. rex bite could have crushed a car. Here’s how.
nationalgeographic.com

NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World
nasa.gov

A Fairy-Tale Mission: The Folklore Behind Japan’s Visit to the Asteroid Ryugu
space.com

Nobody Knows What Made the Gargantuan Crater on the Dark Side of the Moon
livescience.com • (see also)

Prehistoric People Used Pottery Baby Bottles
nytimes.com

The Moon as a Fishing Net for Extraterrestrial Life
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Video: TESS Catches its First Star-destroying Black Hole [1:46]
youtube.com

Scientists invent new technology to print invisible messages
theguardian.com

Bitcoin Has Crashed–What Now?
forbes.com

‘Follow Us to the Ends of the Earth’
nytimes.com

Millions of dollars are missing. The sheriff is dead. A small Virginia town wants answers.
washingtonpost.com

The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
rollingstone.com

Researchers find lead in turmeric
phys.org • (see also)

Hotter than the sun: The mysterious solar corona
knowablemagazine.org

NASA wants to build a new space telescope to spot dangerous asteroids
technologyreview.com

Plant-based meat and the knock-down, drag-out fight for the American diet
vox.com

Just How Feasible is a Warp Drive?
universetoday.com

Astrophysicists Devised Clever New Way to Measure a Black Hole’s Mass
scitechdaily.com

How Amateur Video Is Helping Us Understand Deadly Tsunamis
wired.com

Brothers Grimm fairy tales were never meant for kids
nationalgeographic.com

Why the Myth of Period Syncing Won’t Go Away
theatlantic.com