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Image: A mosaic of the north pole of the Moon assembled from photos from ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft.
imgur.com

Chromoscope: The milky way at different wavelengths.
chromoscope.net

NASA has released their “Journey to Mars” three-phase plan report (PDF)
nasa.gov

How To Get Away With (the Perfect) Murder.
gq.com

Video: Every photo taken by the Apollo 11 crew in one minute.
youtube.com

New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto.
nasa.gov

Documentary, 1 hour: The story of the 1955 Le Mans disaster.
youtube.com

Watch Two People With Brain Implants Control Computers With Their Thoughts
bloomberg.com

Study: This carnivorous pitcher plant uses power from falling raindrops to eat ants.
bbc.com

Study: DNA from neuron cells in normal human brains contain around 1,500 unique mutations, far more than expected.
theatlantic.com

Photo: A pair of hexagonal craters on dwarf planet Ceres imaged by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft.
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov

Short Video: National Geographic’s drone footage of 3,000-year-old Nubian Pyramid ruins.
youtube.com

Photo, 1976: Student Danny Finegood temporarily modified the Hollywood sign to celebrate marijuana decriminalization.
i.imgur.com

8,400 hi-res pictures from the Apollo mission are now up on Flickr
flickr.com

A tumor stole every memory I had. This is what happened when it all came back.
qz.com

Image: Our best views of Pluto’s moon Charon over the years.
i.imgur.com

The Untold Story of the Texas Biker Gang Shoot-Out
gq.com

Ansel Adams’s photographs from America’s WW2 Japanese internment camps.
mashable.com

Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road.
bbc.com

Phonovision: Experimental 1920s tech for capturing TV broadcasts on shellac records.
tvdawn.com

A new camera developed at MIT can photograph a trillion frames per second.
magazine.good.is

If there is life in the newly discovered Mars saltwater, it could look something like this.
astrobio.net

NASA scientists find very strong evidence of flowing saltwater (“hydrated salts”) on Mars.
theguardian.com

Image series: A light echo traveling through the dust cloud surrounding star V838 Monocerotis (May 2002 – Oct 2004).
i.imgur.com

Boeing publishes photos of secret 1960s stealth plane experiment
arstechnica.com

New Horizons: Pluto displays rippling terrain (new hires photos downloaded from probe)
bbc.com

Paraplegic man walks on his own legs thanks to computer system that reroutes brain signals to electrodes on his knees
theguardian.com

NASA visualizes the supersonic shockwave of a jet eclipsing the sun
washingtonpost.com

Photo, WW2: As Allies advanced on Florence, Italy, locals encased priceless art pieces (including Michelangelo’s David) in bricks to keep them safe.
i.imgur.com

Video: Flyover of Pluto generated from New Horizons still images.
space.com

Egypt Gives Green Light to Search for Nefertiti’s Burial Chamber in King Tut’s Tomb
news.artnet.com

Video: Cities, storms, and aurorae–HD time lapse footage from the ISS.
youtube.com

Palmerston: One of the most isolated island communities in the world. Population: 62
bbc.com

Image: US government mockups of how Hitler could have disguised himself to escape capture toward the end of the war.
i.imgur.com

They donut make them like they used to.
i.imgur.com

Meet Sir Vival, the safety car from a future that wasn’t.
autoweek.com

Ligo begins “listening” for the gravitational waves flowing through the Earth when violent events occur in space.
bbc.com

Giraffes spend their evenings humming to each other
newscientist.com

How Wasps Use Viruses to Genetically Engineer Caterpillars
theatlantic.com

What Happened When We Tried To Publish a Real Paper Investigating Time Travel
thewinnower.com

More on the ‘Fallen Astronaut’ sculpture
slate.com

‘Fallen Astronaut’, a 3″ aluminum sculpture left on the moon by Apollo 15 astronauts to memorialize their fallen comrades.
i.imgur.com

Another batch of beautiful Pluto photos downloaded from NASA’s New Horizons
nasa.gov

Video: What spoken English sounded like 500 years ago, prior to the Great Vowel Shift.
youtube.com

Using technology to attempt basic communication with dolphins.
ngm.nationalgeographic.com

Related to last: Reddit AMA with two of the “slender spelunkers” who excavated the cave where Homo naledi was found.
reddit.com

Documentary: The story of the recent discovery of Homo naledi deep in a cave in South Africa.
pbs.org

Extinct tree grows anew from ancient jar of seeds unearthed by archaeologists
treehugger.com

Gallery: George Washington’s Annotated Copy of a Draft of the U.S. Constitution
research.archives.gov

Study: Vision comes at a surprising cost–5%-15% of an animal’s total energy budget.
theguardian.com

Gigantic Ice Slab Found on Mars Just Below the Planet’s Surface.
news.yahoo.com

Patient receives 3D-printed titanium sternum and rib cage.
gizmag.com

Image gallery: Hi-res photos of Pluto, freshly downloaded from New Horizons probe.
pluto.jhuapl.edu

New species of human relative, Homo naledi, discovered deep in a cave in South Africa.
washingtonpost.com

Study: Whale vocalizations have varying dialects, and they are not innate, they must be learned.
bbc.com

NIST Physicists Show ‘Molecules’ Made of Light May Be Possible.
nist.gov

Ceres’ Bright Spots Seen in Striking New Detail.
jpl.nasa.gov

Ancient Roman tag for a dog or slave: “Hold me, lest I flee, and return me to my master…”
britishmuseum.org

New prion disease raises questions about whether Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s could be infectious.
theconversation.com

Image: Ground penetrating radar that purportedly shows the buried armored Nazi train in Poland.
i.imgur.com