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Tower of human skulls reveals grisly scale to archaeologists in Mexico City
theguardian.com

Treasure Washes Up on Venezuela’s Shore, Bringing Gold and Hope to a Village
nytimes.com

Survival of the Luckiest
theatlantic.com

Magic Mushrooms Are Expanding Minds and Advancing an Emerging Field of Science
discovermagazine.com

The benefits of embracing ‘deep time’ in a year like 2020
bbc.com • (see also)

What was electricity up to before we discovered it?
zmescience.com

Here’s what happens when a bee stings you directly in your eyeball
arstechnica.com

Exquisite Creatures That Once Roamed the Earth
smithsonianmag.com

Zodiac ‘340 Cipher’ cracked by code experts 51 years after it was sent to the S.F. Chronicle
sfchronicle.com

On this day in 1937 the greyhounds at Romford Stadium had their first race against cheetahs
damninteresting.com

What the World’s First Medical Records Tell Us About Ancient Life
lithub.com

How our hearing can be influenced by our eyes
newatlas.com

Experience: ‘I was abandoned as a baby’
theguardian.com

How Did Madagascar Become the World’s Biggest Producer of Vanilla?
atlasobscura.com

How scientists plan to protect Earth from extraterrestrial germs
nationalgeographic.com

Space Station Spiders Found a Hack to Build Webs Without Gravity
gizmodo.com

This week: Lab grown meat, Christmas tree economics, deep sea blob portraits, and more
damninteresting.com

Hubble Discovers a Strange Exoplanet That Resembles the Long-Sought “Planet Nine”
scitechdaily.com

Japan to fund AI matchmaking to boost birth rate
bbc.com

Mathematician Solves Centuries-Old Grazing Goat Problem Exactly
quantamagazine.org

They’re Among the World’s Oldest Living Things. The Climate Crisis Is Killing Them.
nytimes.com

‘Electronic amoeba’ finds approximate solution to traveling salesman problem in linear time
phys.org

Tomatoes engineered to produce vital Parkinson’s disease medicine
newatlas.com

Researchers identify a new personality construct that describes the tendency to see oneself as a victim
psypost.org

The Military Wants to Hide Covert Messages in Marine Mammal Sounds
hakaimagazine.com

Thieves Break Into Russia’s Doomsday Plane: Il-80 Nuclear War Jet
popularmechanics.com

Oregon just decriminalized all drugs – here’s why voters passed this groundbreaking reform
theconversation.com

Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can
herts.ac.uk

On this day in 1996 a professor published a groundbreaking paper on ‘evolvable’ computer hardware
damninteresting.com

What can different cultures teach about boredom?
bbc.com

This is what NASA wants to do when it gets to the moon
technologyreview.com

Stunning dark ages mosaic found at Roman villa in Cotswolds
theguardian.com

Observations of our closest neighboring star dampen hopes of a potentially habitable planet
cnn.com

The Hidden Fruits of the Deep
oceans.nautil.us

The Obsessive Life and Mysterious Death of the Fisherman Who Discovered The Loch Ness Monster
narratively.com

Tudor coins dedicated to three of Henry VIII’s wives found in family garden
theguardian.com

Physicists solve 150-year-old mystery of equation governing sandcastle physics
arstechnica.com

99 years ago today leaded gasoline was unfortunately invented
damninteresting.com

Honey Bees Use Animal Dung to Fend Off Giant “Murder” Hornets
scitechdaily.com

The Radical Spacecraft That Could Send Humans to a Habitable Exoplanet
popularmechanics.com

‘Cat Scratch’ Bacteria Linked to Psychiatric Symptoms in People
gizmodo.com

Livestreaming now: SpaceX Starship high altitude test flight
youtube.com

Did the Wow! signal come from this star?
earthsky.org • (see also)

Can sting rays and electric rays help us map the ocean floor?
eurekalert.org

Our Sun Has Entered a New Cycle, And It Could Be One of The Strongest Ever Recorded
sciencealert.com • (see also)

Fragments of energy – not waves or particles – may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe
theconversation.com

Sound waves in fermionic superfluid are studied in a ‘beautiful’ experiment
physicsworld.com • (see also)

That Time General Patton Bombed a Live Volcano
popularmechanics.com

Cracking the meat-allergy mystery with the tick-bite link
nature.com

”They demolished my house for this?’ Residents outraged by the Foxconn factory that fizzled’
theguardian.com

Chasing Soviet Missiles In The Cobra Ball From A Desolate Rock In The Aleutian Islands
thedrive.com

How the Late Flying Legend Chuck Yeager Broke the Sound Barrier
popularmechanics.com

To Restore Remote Palmyra Atoll, Getting Rid of Rats Was Just the First Step
atlasobscura.com

Christian Picciolini: The neo-Nazi who became an anti-Nazi
bbc.com

The curse of ‘white oil’: electric vehicles’ dirty secret
theguardian.com

Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot Who Broke the Sound Barrier, Is Dead at 97
nytimes.com

2020: The year in pictures
nationalgeographic.com

Why We’ve Failed to Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness
psychologytoday.com

Experts are sounding the alarm about the dangers of gas stoves
qz.com

The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn’s Treasure
outsideonline.com • (see also)