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What caused this great warship to sink?
bbc.com

The Photographer Who X-Rayed Chernobyl
atlasobscura.com

Why Mammals Are So Good at Hearing (And Chewing)
theatlantic.com

Cities Around the Globe Are Eagerly Importing a Dutch Speciality—Flood Prevention
smithsonianmag.com • (see also)

This Meteorite-Munching Microbe Might Explain How Life Emerged on Earth
gizmodo.com

What We Just Learned About the Sun from the Fastest Spacecraft Ever
popularmechanics.com

Once-a-month birth control pill? Experiment works in animals
apnews.com

The Chinese City Famous for Eggs With Two Yolks
atlasobscura.com

How the U.S. hydrogen bomb secrets disappeared
phys.org

New study hints at complex decision making in a single-cell organism
hms.harvard.edu

‘I’ve seen death in this city, but nothing as sad as this’: how a ferry disaster exposed the corruption devastating Iraq
theguardian.com

This Is Why Scientists Will Never Exactly Solve General Relativity
forbes.com

Making Beauty Amid the Ugliness of WWII Japanese American Camps
collectorsweekly.com

The Gruesome and Heroic Afterlife of Peter the Dog
narratively.com

The Case of the Felonious Bread
whatever.scalzi.com • More info

‘How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music’
nautil.us

A Deadly Day of Chaos at the Top of Mount Everest
gq.com

Landslides Work Differently on Mars, and Now We Might Know Why
universetoday.com

Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts-Hughes and the Eidophone
publicdomainreview.org

Buried Treasures: Researching the History of the Time Capsule
historians.org • (see also)

Gallery: A Day In The Life Of Pennsylvania Miners – November 1942
flashbak.com

Dating on dopamine
wellcomecollection.org

How Microbiomes Affect Fear
quantamagazine.org

Giant planet found around tiny white dwarf star, a first
astronomy.com

First results from close to the Sun
cosmosmagazine.com

Concussions Damage the ‘Bridge’ Between the Two Halves of the Brain
livescience.com

Scientists are growing mini-intestines that stretch and bulge just like the real thing
massivesci.com

Using viruses to help control an agricultural pathogen
arstechnica.com

Abandoned as a newborn and called ‘dumpster baby,’ he’s now an entrepreneur worth millions
washingtonpost.com

Scientists Made Working Fiber Optic Cables Out of Wood
gizmodo.com

Inside India’s Lost Temple City Where Monkeys Rule
thedailybeast.com

Why Do People Cheat? (Because They Often Win)
lithub.com

This Isn’t the First Baby Bust
daily.jstor.org

NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Mission Catches a Natural Comet Outburst in Unprecedented Detail
nasa.gov

The Pure Chaos of Magnetic Fields May Explain The Intense Shine of Black Holes
sciencealert.com

Archeologists Accidentally Stumble Upon 1,000-Year-Old Ship Buried on a Norwegian Farm
popularmechanics.com

Did a million years of rain jump-start dinosaur evolution?
nature.com

China gene-edited baby experiment ‘may have created unintended mutations’
theguardian.com

He’s a Serial Con Artist. His Word Might Soon Send a Man to His Death.
nytimes.com

Harmful Bacteria Masquerade as Red Blood Cells to Evade the Immune System
smithsonianmag.com

Where cats get their own staircases
nationalgeographic.com

Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong?
washingtonpost.com

The Wonder of Fire Without Gravity
theatlantic.com

John Wheeler’s H-bomb blues
physicstoday.scitation.org

Video: Every Kind of Thing In Space [13:00]
youtube.com

Bionic neurons could enable implants to restore failing brain circuits
theguardian.com

How One Family Makes a Living Operating an Underground Ambulance Service in Mexico City
melmagazine.com

The Sixth Victim: A Murder in Small-Town Japan
crimereads.com

The Radical Mister Rogers
theparisreview.org

Astronomers Have a New Way to Spot Earth-Like Worlds With Atmospheres
gizmodo.com

The tricky ethics of Google’s Project Nightingale, an effort to learn from millions of health records
theconversation.com

Video: Surprises from Asteroid Bennu [2:19]
youtube.com

On the Eve of WWII: Three Days Before the Bombing of Paris
lithub.com

Why the paper on the CRISPR babies stayed secret for so long
technologyreview.com

How life survived Snowball Earth, the planet’s most severe ice age
cnn.com • (see also)

Hoag’s Object Is a Galaxy Within a Galaxy Within a Galaxy (and Nobody Knows Why)
livescience.com

Alexander the Great’s warrior mom wielded unprecedented power
nationalgeographic.com

Britain’s Secret War With Russia
theatlantic.com

Dark energy might not exist after all
backreaction.blogspot.com

With ultracold chemistry, researchers get a first look at exactly what happens during a chemical reaction
chemistry.harvard.edu • (see also)