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Kati Kariko Helped Shield the World From the Coronavirus
nytimes.com

The rice of the sea: how a tiny grain could change the way humanity eats
theguardian.com

Video: Donut-Shaped Planets [13:24]
youtube.com

More than 5,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall to Earth each year
cnrs.fr

What 250 Years of Innovation History Reveals About Our Green Future
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

The Women of the OSS: On The Pioneering American Spies of WWII
crimereads.com

This week: Anti-atoms, moonwalking, gene-swapping plants, and more
damninteresting.com

Behold Brine Shrimp, the Livestock of Utah’s Great Salt Lake
atlasobscura.com

Prince Philip: A life in pictures
bbc.com

Man’s body was found after lying in Norway flat for nine years, say police
theguardian.com

Tiny Sea Creatures Plague South Korean Nuclear Plant Operations
bloomberg.com

How to Survive a Killer Asteroid
wired.com

3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’ of ancient Egypt discovered
theguardian.com

Why a landmark experiment into dimming the sun got canceled
grist.org

War Under the Sea (1915)
popularmechanics.com • (sea also)

The Myth of Negative Calorie Foods
discovermagazine.com

Found: Page 25 of the CIA’s Gateway Report on Astral Projection
vice.com

Inside the Dirty Business of Hit Songwriting
variety.com

Researchers develop blood test for depression, bipolar disorder
scienceblog.com • (see also)

The hydrogen revolution in the skies
bbc.com

SpaceX landed a rocket on a boat five years ago—it changed everything
arstechnica.com

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Completes Final Tour of Asteroid Bennu Before Its 180,000,000 Mile Trip Back to Earth
scitechdaily.com

The Real Book: The illegal jazz bible of the 1970s
99percentinvisible.org

Video: After losing his sight, a skateboarder takes an unexpected path to realising his dreams [11:39]
aeon.co • (see also)

The Quest for a Floating Utopia
hakaimagazine.com • (sea also)

Among the Covid sceptics: ‘We are being manipulated, without a shadow of a doubt’
theguardian.com

‘Last Hope’ Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles
quantamagazine.org

Scientists Discover Huge and Mysterious Jellyfish-Shaped Structure In Space
vice.com

Video: How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn) [10:14]
youtube.com

The Direct Fusion Drive That Could Get Us Past Neptune in 10 Years
popularmechanics.com

‘This is not an easy treasure hunt’: puzzle book offers readers chance to win €750,000 golden casket
theguardian.com

Physics Mystery Gets Even Deeper After Long-Awaited Muon Reveal
gizmodo.com

Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation
lithub.com

How India’s ‘Mango Man’ Grew a Tree With 300 Flavors
atlasobscura.com

Woman Gets New Trachea In Groundbreaking Transplant Surgery
npr.org

Bronze Age stone slab discovered in France is oldest map in Europe, say archaeologists
independent.co.uk

On this day in 1994 a “deadhead” attempted to hijack a FedEx flight
damninteresting.com

Scientists find out what causes these strange ‘spiders’ on Mars
theweathernetwork.com

How Russia’s cosmonauts trained for space
bbc.com • (see also)

Searching for New Physics in the Subatomic World
scitechdaily.com

Why the First Time You Hear a Song Is Special, According to Science
complex.com

The Space Telescope That Could Find a Second Earth
airspacemag.com

Does consciousness come from the brain’s electromagnetic field?
aeon.co

Weekends in Space
supercluster.com

New earthquake-detecting app may give people more time to evacuate
massivesci.com

Many experiencing strange and vivid dreams during the pandemic, sleep researchers say
cbc.ca

Scientists Created a Video Game That Makes People Hear Sounds That Aren’t Real
vice.com • (see also) • (see also)

New Study Reveals Fireflies Have Musical Armor Protecting Them Against Predators
natureworldnews.com

‘We found a baby on the subway – now he’s our son’
bbc.com

The 17th-century cloth merchant who discovered the vast realm of tiny microbes
theconversation.com

Studies in Mice Help to Explain Why Redheads Have Different Pain Thresholds
genengnews.com

The enduring allure of lost cities
bbc.com

He Led Hitler’s Secret Police in Austria. Then He Spied for the West.
nytimes.com

10 years of Nyan Cat: The famed GIF’s creator on hitting the meme jackpot
inputmag.com

The California Klan’s Anti-Asian Crusade
theatlantic.com

‘I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget’
wired.com

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter survives first night alone on Mars
phys.org

Some zebras are developing odd stripes, and humans could be to blame, says biologist
cbc.ca

Siberia’s sacred lake
newsinteractives.cbc.ca

Marwa Elselehdar: ‘I was blamed for blocking the Suez Canal’
bbc.com