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Remember That Time a Nuclear Weapons Bunker Blew Up in San Antonio?
texasmonthly.com • (see also)

This ‘Unusual Star’ Is Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Seen Before
gizmodo.com

The Autonomous-Car Chaos of the 2004 Darpa Grand Challenge
wired.com

Inside the C.I.A., She Became a Spy for Planet Earth
nytimes.com

Astronomers Find a Beautiful 6-Planet System in Almost Perfect Orbital Harmony
sciencealert.com

Rise of the Clones: The ways cloning is already happening
sciencefocus.com

The story of a secret CIA spyplane, a long-hidden crash, and the man who had to find it
popsci.com

Liquid glass discovered as new state of matter
newatlas.com

Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903
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Salty Seas Make Lightning Brighter
hakaimagazine.com

NASA suspects sunquakes are coming from deep beneath the sun’s surface
cnet.com

The six numbers that define the entire Universe
sciencefocus.com

Chatting With the Dead
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Why We’re Prone to Denial
discovermagazine.com • (see also)

Inside the U.S. Army’s Warehouse Full of Nazi Art
newyorker.com

To Make Japan’s Original Sushi, First Age Fish for Several Months
atlasobscura.com

The people who want to send smells through your TV
bbc.com

The antique tools used to keep timeless timepieces ticking
nationalgeographic.com

Leaving the Grace of This World
outsideonline.com

It Spied on Soviet Atomic Bombs. Now It’s Solving Ecological Mysteries.
nytimes.com • (see also)

Why the world’s biggest mammal migration is crucial for Africa
theguardian.com

Scientists discover how mother-of-pearl self-assembles into a perfect structure
phys.org

Largest canyon in the solar system revealed in stunning new images
livescience.com

199 years ago today a man named Beale signed a cryptic letter that marked the beginning of a still-unsolved mystery
damninteresting.com

These spiders may sew leaves into fake shelters to lure frogs to their doom
sciencenews.org

Video: An album in the style of The Beatles, generated by OpenAI Jukebox [15:07]
youtube.com

Video: ProTactile: Touch Language Techniques [4:50]
youtube.com

‘I lived like an astronaut for months in isolation’
theguardian.com

What Does History Smell Like?
nytimes.com

Astronauts got to eat a crop of space radishes on the ISS
slashgear.com

How Curtis Flowers, tried six times for the same crime, was saved from death row
cbsnews.com

Do we have to age?
theguardian.com

This Drone Sniffs Out Odors With a Real Moth Antenna
wired.com

Astronomers Improve Their Distance Scale for the Universe. Unfortunately, it Doesn’t Resolve the Crisis in Cosmology
universetoday.com

Video: Sprite Lightning at 100,000 Frames Per Second
apod.nasa.gov

New Research Reveals Exercising One Arm Has Twice the Benefits
scitechdaily.com • (see also)

Tiny Nuclear Reactors Can Save American Energy
popularmechanics.com

Gravitational wave signals may reveal dark energy hidden in the universe
syfy.com

The Anti-Spitting Campaigns Designed to Stop the Spread of Tuberculosis
mentalfloss.com

Quasars Rip Across Galaxies Like Tsunamis – The Most Energetic Outflows Ever Witnessed in the Universe
scitechdaily.com

Squatters issue death threats to archaeologist who discovered oldest city in the Americas
theguardian.com

The Milky Way Gets a New Origin Story
wired.com

Video: Amazing: The Rebuilding the MacArthur Maze [26:53]
youtube.com

An unexpected journey: hiker who spent lockdown in a hobbit hole
theguardian.com

Puerto Rico government supports rebuilding Arecibo
spacenews.com

60 years ago today, Caltech students hacked the halftime show of a neighboring college
damninteresting.com

A Harvard professor says we were visited by an alien life form in 2017
nypost.com

What a Victorian Disease Detective Proved About Urban Health
wired.com

These Are 7 of The Strangest Experiments Humans Have Ever Done in Space
sciencealert.com

Anesthesia Works on Plants Too, and We Don’t Know Why
medium.com

Yawning Is One of the Greatest Mysteries of the Human Body
discovermagazine.com

SR-71 Blackbird: Pilot Reveals What It Was Like to Fly the Plane
popularmechanics.com

The Pyramid of Djoser: The World’s Oldest Pyramid Is Often Overshadowed
discovermagazine.com

Inscription Leads Archaeologists to Tomb of One of the Last Han Emperors
smithsonianmag.com

This week: Musical hips, Brilliant birds, Pompeiian snacks, Martian parliament, and more
damninteresting.com

The surface of the moon is a galactic time capsule
space.com

Insecure wheels: Police turn to car data to destroy suspects’ alibis
nbcnews.com

MSG Isn’t Bad For You, According to Science
discovermagazine.com

That time physicist John Wheeler left classified H-bomb documents on a train
arstechnica.com

The Mystery of Mistletoe’s Missing Genes
quantamagazine.org