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Artificial Intelligence Program Passes College Entrance Exam
blogs.wsj.com

These Bouncing Droplets Could Help Resolve a 90-Year Mystery of Quantum Mechanics
gizmodo.com

Video: A beautiful, unofficial advertisement for NASA featuring Carl Sagan.
youtube.com

CRISPR : The New Gene-Editing Technique That Reveals Cancer’s Weaknesses
theatlantic.com

An exceptionally well-written first-person account of serving in a jury at a murder trial.
medium.com

Video: Always-interesting Bill Hammack explains how plastic injection molding works.
youtube.com

Data Mining Reveals How Smiling Evolved During a Century of Yearbook Photos
technologyreview.com

In 1972 NASA smashed part of the Apollo 16 rocket into the moon. Researchers have finally found the impact site.
leonarddavid.com

Study: Anti-Alzheimer’s gene may have led to the rise of grandparents.
news.sciencemag.org

Scans prove there’s no such thing as a ‘male’ or ‘female’ brain.
newscientist.com

Magnetic protein may provide animals with navigation information.
arstechnica.co.uk

Researchers find new phase of carbon, make diamond at room temperature.
phys.org

Fossils Reveal How Giraffe Got Its Long Neck
news.discovery.com

The Serial Swatter: How Internet trolls use SWAT teams to move harassment into meatspace.
nytimes.com

Chris Hadfield meets Randall Munroe: ‘Are we alone in the universe?’
theguardian.com

Our article “The Zero-Armed Bandit” has been nominated for a Golden Giraffe. Voting is open here until December 1
polldaddy.com

Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions
theatlantic.com

Officials now 90% sure radar scan shows a secret chamber behind a wall of King Tut’s tomb.
independent.co.uk

Nifty new photos of Mars from Curiosity rover.
earthsky.org

Video: Frontline’s “The Real CSI” reveals the pseudoscience that informs forensic science.
pbs.org

Has progress in science and technology come to a halt?
aeon.co

Why English is weirder than pretty much every other language.
aeon.co

Epigenetics: Scientists induce flatworm to grow head and brain of another flatworm species without altering DNA.
genengnews.com

3,500-Year-Old Sunken Town Discovered In Croatia
techtimes.com

Video: BBC Horizon’s short documentary on finding the proof for Fermat’s Last Theorem.
vimeo.com

Gallery: Galaxies and nebulae run through a tilt-shift filter to make them appear tiny.
behance.net

Video: 14-year-old Lucas Etter solving a randomized Rubik’s cube in under 5 seconds, setting a new world record.
youtube.com

Video: Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft executing a historic controlled vertical landing after visiting space.
youtube.com

Video: ACROSS THE SKY – a world record slackline in the Utah desert (acrophobics beware).
vimeo.com

Mesmerizing video: 11 Years of Cassini Saturn Photos in 3 hrs 48 min
youtube.com

Study: Individual differences in bitter taste preferences are associated with antisocial personality traits
sciencedirect.com

Astronomers detect neutrinos released just one second after the birth of the universe
scientificamerican.com

The surprising truth about pirates and parrots.
atlasobscura.com

Video: Short documentary on aircraft carriers from 1967. Includes footage of first, wooden-decked US carrier.
youtube.com

Ornate, 2,000-year-old secret cult worship chamber open to public for the first time.
telegraph.co.uk

Yikes: If a tapeworm in a human gut contracts cancer, it can be transmitted to the host.
nejm.org

Surgery Could Give Men Wombs of Their Own Within 5 Years.
yahoo.com

Bosch is developing a robot that can identify & destroy weeds in crops based on leaf shape.
fwi.co.uk

Archeologists have found a lost ancient island posing as a modern peninsula.
qz.com

Video: Asteroid discoveries from 1980 to 2012 (HD recommended).
youtube.com

The Time Republicans Helped Build an All-Black Town Called ‘Soul City’
citylab.com

The messy reality of science revealed by the long hunt for a missing planet
arstechnica.com

Later this month a €1 billion nuclear fusion reactor will be switched on for testing.
gizmodo.com

MIT and Stanford neuroscientists develop method for turning brain cells on and off with pulses of light.
salon.com

Scientists have found that great apes may be able to remember and anticipate memorable on-screen events.
livescience.com

MIT team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water.
news.mit.edu

Video: Simulation of the expected collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies in 4 billion years.
youtube.com

New Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System May Be The Farthest One Yet
space.com

NASA’s Cassini Finds Monstrous Ice Cloud in Titan’s South Polar Region
nasa.gov

New Study Explores Link Between Climate Change and Kangaroo Farts
magazine.good.is

On this day in 1918, WW1 ended abruptly, as illustrated by the silencing of artillery in this sound ranging tape.
i.imgur.com

Scientists predict object WT1190F will enter Earth’s atmosphere and burn up on 13 Nov, 1:20 a.m. EST.
earthsky.org

Stonehenge Begins to Yield Its Secrets.
nytimes.com

“Thermal anomalies” detected in the pyramids of Giza, Egyptian antiquities officials say.
bbc.com

In 5 Minutes, He Lets the Blind See (note: Autoplaying embedded video)
nytimes.com

Toronto doctor successfully treats a brain tumor through the blood/brain barrier.
inquisitr.com

Data Saved in Quartz Glass Might Last 300 Million Years.
scientificamerican.com

The UCSB Library online archive of digitized wax cylinders.
cylinders.library.ucsb.edu

Thomas Quick: The extraordinary story of the serial killer who wasn’t.
telegraph.co.uk

“Non-invasive stimulation of the brain reduces calorie intake and increases weight loss in obese adults”
thelatestnews.com