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Mysterious Birds Dive in Sync During a Lunar Eclipse
gizmodo.com

Giant New Zealand potato is not in fact a potato, Guinness World Records rules
theguardian.com • (see also)

A Brief History of Fugitives In America
crimereads.com

‘The Day I Decided to Walk Into a Psych Ward’
slate.com

Ancient tombs and sarcophagus unearthed beneath Paris’ Notre Dame
theguardian.com

Machine Learning Reimagines the Building Blocks of Computing
quantamagazine.org

2 geomagnetic storms will lash Earth, but don’t worry (too much)
space.com • (see also)

Grunts, boops, chatters and squeals — fish are noisy creatures
theconversation.com

Beware the Ides of March. (But Why?)
daily.jstor.org

Four Reasons Why Our Solar System Is Really Weird
realclearscience.com

How big can giant hailstones grow?
bbc.com • (see also)

Cosmic Ray Scans Could Reveal Hidden ‘Voids’ in The Great Pyramid of Giza
sciencealert.com

Meet the woman who builds the world’s most unique Airbnbs
thehustle.co

Ancient humans lost their penis bone for a counterintuitive reason
inverse.com

Still searching for Planet 9
phys.org

Scientists Use 196 Lasers To Recreate the Conditions Inside Gigantic Galaxy Clusters
scitechdaily.com

Scientists propose a new mechanism by which oxygen may have first built up in the atmosphere
phys.org • (see also)

What Were Humans Doing in the Yukon 24,000 Years Ago?
smithsonianmag.com

Could Cancer Cells’ Iron Addiction Be Their Achilles Heel?
technologynetworks.com

Scientists Want to Trap Murder Hornets With the Pests’ Own Sex Pheromones
cnet.com

This Colombian Toad Is the Ultimate Clingy Boyfriend
theatlantic.com

Groundbreaking X-Ray Lens Provides Incredible Glimpse Into the Nanoworld
scitechdaily.com

What’s the Appeal of Deep Voices In Men?
discovermagazine.com

What the science says: Could humans survive a nuclear war between NATO and Russia?
allianceforscience.cornell.edu • (see also)

On this day in 1720 a history-making man named Charles Bonnet was born
damninteresting.com

Hopes raised for once-a-week pills for range of conditions
theguardian.com

Antarctica’s volatile ‘Deception Island’
bbc.com

How in the World Did We Get Venus Flytraps?
theatlantic.com

If energy cannot be created or destroyed, where does it come from?
newscientist.com

Plant species that humans don’t need are going towards extinction
zmescience.com

Video: How Old Movies Are Professionally Restored [8:40]
youtube.com

How a Plucky Robot Found Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ Shipwreck
wired.com

How would an Earth-like planet look in Alpha Centauri?
arstechnica.com

The ‘Tylenol Murders’ Changed the Way We Take Medicine
discovermagazine.com

Guns, not roses – here’s the true story of penicillin’s first patient
theconversation.com

World’s longest car is found, restored, and made even longer
newatlas.com

Endurance captain Frank Worsley, Shackleton’s gifted navigator, knew how to stay the course
theconversation.com

Cancer-sniffing ants prove as accurate as dogs in detecting disease
newatlas.com

Astrolab Tests Its Flexible Moon Buggy Concept in California Desert
gizmodo.com

Sandy Hook and the Troubling Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
wired.com • (see also)

No, Russia has not threatened to leave an American astronaut behind in space
arstechnica.com

How Economic Warfare Backfired in Rome
zocalopublicsquare.org

On this day in 1944, police in occupied Paris were alerted to a foul-smelling smoke emerging from a fine arrondissement
damninteresting.com

Florence tomb by Michelangelo restored with aid of bacteria
theguardian.com

Josef Koudelka: The Soviet Invasion Of Prague In Photos, August 1968
flashbak.com

Japan’s little-known seafaring past
bbc.com • (sea also)

What Google Search Isn’t Showing You
newyorker.com

The Dramatic Life and Mysterious Death of Theodosia Burr
atlasobscura.com

Why daylight saving time is unhealthy
theconversation.com

Lead Exposure in Last Century Shrunk IQ Scores of Half of Americans
neurosciencenews.com • (see also)

Elizabeth Keckley’s Memoir ‘Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four in the White House’
daily.jstor.org

2 Billion Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Cleared for Release in California and Florida
gizmodo.com

A Socialite’s Plot to Assassinate a Corrupt Official in Occupied Shanghai
atlasobscura.com

Chinese Spies Hacked a Livestock App to Breach US State Networks
wired.com

Artworks may not have genomes, but they do contain information
inference-review.com

Video: The movement that inspired the Holocaust [4:56]
youtube.com • (see also)

‘I was a nuclear missile operator. There have been more near-misses than the world knows’
theguardian.com • (see also)

Spiders Use Electric Fields to Fly, And We May Finally Know How
sciencealert.com

The First Photos of Chernobyl After The Nuclear Disaster
flashbak.com

Video: Walk like a Roman in this digital reconstruction of the ancient city [09:16]
aeon.co