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The Hidden History of the First Black Women to Serve in the U.S. Navy
atlasobscura.com

A newfound feathered dinosaur sported fuzz and weird rods on its shoulders
sciencenews.org

The New History of the Milky Way
quantamagazine.org

New curio by Alan Bellows: A Day on Venus
dam.mn

What the Dippin’ Dots ‘cold chain’ can teach us about COVID-19 vaccines
popsci.com

Scientists find two new species of fungi that turn flies into ‘zombies’
theguardian.com

St. Edward’s University Study Finds a Manly Beard May Help Drive Sales
stedwards.edu

New NASA website lets you look inside Apollo lunar samples and meteorites
ares.jsc.nasa.gov

What the Pandemic Christmas of 1918 Looked Like
smithsonianmag.com

Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
theatlantic.com

We may have seen a huge explosion in the oldest galaxy in the universe
newscientist.com

The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men
sixthtone.com

Japanese scientists get first peek inside Hayabusa2 asteroid sample-return capsule
space.com

When Italian Futurists Tried to Ban Pasta
mentalfloss.com

Humans have dogs, fish have shrimp
cosmosmagazine.com

Death Dust: The Little-Known Story of U.S. and Soviet Pursuit of Radiological Weapons
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

When Usually Solitary Octopuses Get Together, Odd Things Happen
atlasobscura.com

Murder in Malta
newyorker.com

He may have found the key to the origins of life. So why have so few heard of him?
nationalgeographic.com

Is There a way to Detect Strange Quark Stars, Even Though They Look Almost Exactly Like White Dwarfs?
universetoday.com

Tome raiders: solving the great book heist
theguardian.com

If We Used the Sun as a Gravitational Lens Telescope, This is What a Planet at Proxima Centauri Would Look Like
universetoday.com

Physicists Prove Anyons Exist, a Third Type of Particle in the Universe
discovermagazine.com

She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One
nytimes.com

World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster
graphics.reuters.com

Here’s How Much Deadlier Today’s Nukes Are Compared to WWII A-Bombs
popularmechanics.com

Fit for a king: true glory of 1,000-year-old cross buried in Scottish field is revealed at last
theguardian.com

Endless Creation Out of Nothing
scientificamerican.com

Hackers spied on U.S. Treasury emails for a foreign government
reuters.com

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