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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
washingtonpost.com

New engine tech could get us to Mars faster
bbc.com

Hackers Are Breaking Into Websites And Adding Links To Game Google
buzzfeednews.com • (see also)

Breakthroughs in exoplanet discovery tech mean we could find proof of extraterrestrials in our lifetime
freethink.com

Scientists chilled Lego bricks to near absolute zero and discovered something cool
cnet.com • (see also)

The lost portrait of Charles Dickens
bbc.com

36 Corvettes, Hidden for Years in a Garage, Will Be Given Away
nytimes.com

Science Confirms That the Vagus Nerve Is Key to Well-being
elemental.medium.com

The Field Guide to Tyranny
newyorker.com

Supertrees: Meet the Amazonian giant that helps the rainforest make its own rain
vox.com

How Santa Survived the Soviet Era
atlasobscura.com

Why the Next Lunar Astronauts May Have to Worry About Electric Shocks
gizmodo.com

Prehistoric Parents Let Their Babies Teethe On These Bone Spoons
forbes.com

The Secret Afterlife of Lost German Luggage
nytimes.com

First active fault zone found on Mars
nationalgeographic.com

Sleuths Are Haunted by the Cold Case of Julie Doe
theatlantic.com

The story of the world’s loneliest tree
nationalgeographic.com • (see also)

What Happens to Meat When You Freeze It for 35,000 Years
theatlantic.com

Scientists Gene-Edited Tomatoes to Make Them Grow Like Grapes
popularmechanics.com

Building a rocket is hard. But building a parachute is boggling
latimes.com

Don’t panic! Betelgeuse is (almost certainly) not about to explode
syfy.com

Researchers make new discoveries set to reveal the geology of planets outside our solar system
phys.org

Uncovering of cathedral’s spectacular murals reveals Halifax’s tragic past
thestar.com • (see also)

The Human Brain Evolved When Carbon Dioxide Was Lower
theatlantic.com

The Pull Of The Past: How We All Got Hooked On Nostalgia In The 2010s
esquire.com

Will the United States Lose the Universe?
nytimes.com

‘Advertising breaks your spirit’: the French cities trying to ban public adverts
theguardian.com

Let’s Go Gift Shopping in the ’80s
messynessychic.com

Is Nuclear Power Worth the Risk?
newyorker.com

Why so many Japanese children refuse to go to school
bbc.com

Video: Places for OSIRIS-REx to Touch Asteroid Bennu [0:23, no audio]
youtube.com

The Termite Mounds of Okavango Delta
amusingplanet.com

Inside the Plot to Murder Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres
theintercept.com

The Dying American Prisoner
theatlantic.com

‘The closest thing on Earth to interplanetary travel’
bbc.com

It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool.
nytimes.com

In a first, scientists use CRISPR to disrupt both latent and active herpes virus in human cells
hms.harvard.edu

Black Holes Were Already Feasting Just 1.5 Billion Years After the Big Bang
universetoday.com

At a holiday feast, remember the foods we lost, from extinct animals to fleshy pears
thestar.com

Video: How to Escape a Super Nova: Stellar Engines [9:00]
youtube.com

How will California prevent more mega-wildfire disasters?
nationalgeographic.com

Video: The true story of how the Israeli secret agent Zvi Aharoni hunted down one of the highest-ranking Nazi war criminals [14:37]
theatlantic.com

A Superbug STD Is on the Loose in Australia
gizmodo.com

Special Report: Why big business can count on courts to keep its deadly secrets
reuters.com • (see also)

Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward
news.stanford.edu

Researchers produce first laser ultrasound images of humans
news.mit.edu

They’ve fed the elite for decades — Nazis included
thestar.com

How murder, kidnappings and a miscalculation set off Hong Kong revolt
reuters.com

80 years ago today Simo Häyhä—better known as “White Death”—set his personal record sniping Soviet invaders
damninteresting.com

The Navy Installed Touch-screen Steering Systems To Save Money. Ten Sailors Paid With Their Lives.
features.propublica.org

Sweet sentiment: 141-year-old fruitcake represents love
thestar.com

Video: Star Citizen: Is this £200m game too ambitious? [12:00]
bbc.com

The Christmas Eve plot to blow up Napoleon
nationalgeographic.com

China expects its “artificial sun” to be operational in 2020
futurism.com

A Genetic Test Led Seven Women in One Family to Have Major Surgery. Then the Odds Changed.
wsj.com

Why Your Brain Needs Exercise
scientificamerican.com

Weird electron-positrons from decaying beryllium and helium hint at new boson
arstechnica.com

The Hacker Who Took Down a Country
bloomberg.com

Once, America Had Its Own Parrot
nytimes.com • (see also)

Boeing astronaut ship stalls in orbit
bbc.com