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Why You Keep Dreaming About Being Naked
nautil.us

New seismic phenomenon discovered, named stormquakes
nationalgeographic.com

Why Did This Man’s Taste Buds Disappear?
livescience.com

The Exquisite Precision of Time Crystals
scientificamerican.com

How gambling built baseball – and then almost destroyed it
theconversation.com

What a Warrior’s Lost Toolkit Says About the Oldest Known Battle in Europe
smithsonianmag.com

The US military is trying to read minds
technologyreview.com

J.S. Bach the Rebel
laphamsquarterly.org • (see also)

Meet the super robots that are about to lap the world’s fastest humans
popularmechanics.com

Why the guillotine may be less cruel than execution by slow poisoning
theconversation.com • (see also)

Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet
hubblesite.org • Video

55 years ago today China detonated its first a-bomb, so US spies installed a spy camera atop the Himalayas
damninteresting.com

“A person’s lifetime chance of having been arrested, the study found, is directly proportional with the darkness of their skin.”
qz.com

The curious case of the house with no knocker
newatlas.com

Faster-Than-Light Travel Could Explain Mysterious Signals Beaming Through the Cosmos
livescience.com

People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct
edition.cnn.com

The Stereotype Of The Narcissistic Only Child Is Widespread — But It’s Wrong
digest.bps.org.uk

Million-Degree Experiment Complicates Solar Science
eos.org

NASA’s New Spacesuits Unveiled, for Trips to the Moon and Beyond
nytimes.com

How Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick The Habit
npr.org

A royal obsession with black magic started Europe’s most brutal witch hunts
nationalgeographic.com

“You Are to Stand Down”: Ronan Farrow’s Producer on How NBC Killed Its Weinstein Story
vanityfair.com

Scenes From the Aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Japan
theatlantic.com

How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries
quantamagazine.org

The Lines of Code That Changed Everything
slate.com

Are cloth diapers really any better for the environment, your wallet, or your baby?
vox.com

Bootleg film shows Florida prison in all its danger, squalor. An inmate shot it on the sly
miamiherald.com

Six freed after years living in Dutch cellar ‘waiting for end of time’
theguardian.com

The flu virus treats the altered immune systems of pregnant individuals as its training ground to get stronger
massivesci.com

A robot hand taught itself to solve a Rubik’s Cube after creating its own training regime
technologyreview.com

Mind the Secret Bunker
laphamsquarterly.org

Malware That Spits Cash Out of ATMs Has Spread Across the World
vice.com • (see also)

Before Disneyland Paris, there was Human Roulette and Drag Balls at the Lost “Magic City”
messynessychic.com

Struggling Americans are haunted by zombie debt
theguardian.com

Astronomers Zoom in on a Galaxy 9 Billion Light-years Away Thanks to Gravitational Lensing
blogs.discovermagazine.com

How the US census kickstarted America’s computing industry
theconversation.com

Listen to an Underwater Volcano Burp 750-Foot Bubbles
wired.com • (see also)

Riding the Emotional Roller Coaster of Being a Science Writer
theopennotebook.com

The World’s First Skyscraper
amusingplanet.com • (see also)

No One Really Knows Why Humans Can Walk
lithub.com

A British family on vacation accidentally drove into the U.S. They’ve spent days detained with their 3-month-old baby.
washingtonpost.com

Ice patch archeologists are racing against the clock to find ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change
gen.medium.com

Study reveals how mucus tames microbes
news.mit.edu

UK to deport academic to Democratic Republic of Congo – which she has never visited
theguardian.com

Is it wrong to keep octopuses in captivity?
nationalgeographic.com

The Mystery of Moon Water
theatlantic.com

Until the 17th century, high heels were mainly worn by men
1843magazine.com • (see also)

What it feels like to swim in sub-zero waters
1843magazine.com

Life after Life: Why parole in America in just another prison
harpers.org

How Randomness Can Arise From Determinism
quantamagazine.org

The Day the Native Americans Drove the KKK Out of Town
narratively.com

They lived on the porous border between haves and have-nots. They died in a double murder-suicide
latimes.com

‘The FBI Lost Our Son’
msn.com

Meet the wounded veteran who got a penis transplant
technologyreview.com

Massive, AI-Powered Robots Are 3D-Printing Entire Rockets
wired.com

The hunt for Asia’s El Chapo
reuters.com

The Wall Street Crash: the day the bubble burst
historyextra.com • (see also)

Unraveling the mystery of a stack of WWII love letters
washingtonpost.com

Scientists Speed Up Yeast Evolution to Create All New Alcohol
realclearscience.com

Ghost Towers: The view from Iran’s housing crisis
newyorker.com