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1858: The Code of Honor; or Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling
archive.org

British woman with ‘bionic eye’ speaks of joy after reading clock for first time in years
theguardian.com • Demo

Declassified documents reveal secret US Cold War project known as the Manned Orbiting Laboratory.
news.discovery.com

Hubble Views Two Galaxies Merging
nasa.gov

Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues. Now, they are testing whether it works for humans.
nature.com

Microbes may be a forensic tool for time of death.
sciencenews.org

Royal Astronomical Society: Giant comets could pose danger to life on Earth.
ras.org.uk

Meet the woman leading the race to build the world’s first quantum computer.
theguardian.com

With four new elements, the seventh row of the periodic table is officially full.
sciencenews.org

In 1844, the Philippines Skipped a Day, And It Took Decades for the Rest of the World to Notice
atlasobscura.com

Randomized, blinded study: Maternal kisses are not effective in alleviating minor childhood injuries (boo-boos)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Excellent longform history from the Lapsed Historian: The Long Way Round.
lapsedhistorian.com

4000+ artifacts from the British Museum can now be explored online.
google.com

The curious story of the Cold-War-era microcars of Hungary.
jalopnik.com

Video: Incredibly Rare Underwater Footage of a Stray Giant Squid Swimming Around Toyama Bay in Japan.
laughingsquid.com

Photo: A view down onto a hurricane from the International Space Station.
i.imgur.com

Skoda’s car of the future from 1935.
car24news.com

Video: How cats use their whiskers.
youtube.com

Photo, 1931: Rockefeller Center’s first Christmas tree.
imgur.com

“Octopus” fungus invades England.
atlasobscura.com

Image: NGC133 + NGC2264
imgur.com

Wild seahorse birth caught on camera in ‘surreal’ video.
cbc.ca

A new study shows that we are far better at remembering what we see and touch than what we hear.
news.nationalgeographic.com

SpaceX has successfully returned the Falcon 9 first stage to the Earth with a safe vertical landing!
twitter.com

NYTimes interactive: Mapping Saturn’s Moons (drag each moon to rotate)
nytimes.com

Photo, 1971: Hair sculpted into a Christmas tree, including decorations and colored lights.
i.imgur.com

NASA Releases New High-Resolution Earthrise Image.
nasa.gov

Two atoms make quantum memory, processing gate, and test of entanglement.
arstechnica.co.uk

Photo gallery: The 2015 winners of The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
comedywildlifephoto.com

Video: Jet fuel and steel beams.
youtube.com

Astronomers Discover a Potentially Habitable Planet Just 14 Light Years Away.
popularmechanics.com

New Technology Lets Us Hear Famous Voice from 1880s.
learningenglish.voanews.com

An Unbelievable Story of Rape
themarshallproject.org

Some of history’s biggest and most ambitious engineering projects are being built right now.
theworldin.com

Study: Parrots use pebble tools to grind up own mineral supplements.
newscientist.com

Update on Poland’s supposed “Nazi gold train”: Geo-magnetic model shows no evidence for it.
theguardian.com

The Last Mission to the Moon: A real-time journey through the Apollo 17 mission.
apollo17.org

Photo: The Apollo 17 lunar rover in its final resting place on this day in 1972; the day humans last set foot on the moon.
i.imgur.com

Death By Coconut: A Story Of Food Obsession Gone Too Far.
npr.org

Study: Text messages (SMS) ending with a period perceived as less sincere.
sciencedirect.com

Computer shows human-like learning for writing characters.
cbc.ca

80-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Blood Vessels Never Fossilized.
news.discovery.com

Ceres Is Cloudy, with a Chance of Cryovolcanoes.
scientificamerican.com

Video explaining the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device
youtube.com

The Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is now in operation, good results.
ipp.mpg.de

Can You Own Part of an Asteroid? How Asteroid Mining Is Changing Space Law.
singularityhub.com

How being left-handed changes your perception of the world. #sinister
vox.com

Photo: The Spacelander Electric Bicycle (1946) used a dynamo to store downhill energy for uphill use. Only 522 produced.
i.imgur.com

New composite image of Titan from NASA, showing Earth-like surface of Saturn’s largest moon
abc.net.au

NASA/Google test early quantum computer, find it 100,000,000 faster than normal computers for a certain problem type.
9to5google.com

Large, detailed, downloadable map of the mythical creatures of Europe.
tandfonline.com

Texas Astronomer Solves Mystery of ‘Born Again’ Stars with Hubble Space Telescope.
mcdonaldobservatory.org

Why one lake contains more than 1000 species of the same fish.
newscientist.com

Colombian authorities confirm finding the galleon San Jose, “the holy grail of shipwrecks.”
news.com.au

Time-lapse video: 1,200 engineers conduct major upgrade of Shibuya Station in the heart of Tokyo in a single night.
youtube.com

Poster: Hires scan of 1944 “Chart of Electromagnetic Radiations” by W.M. Welch (10000×6958)
flickr.com

Japan’s Akatsuki orbiter has entered orbit around Venus, five years after its initial try.
nature.com

‘Outsiders’ Crack a 50-Year-Old Math Problem
wired.com

New Horizons Returns First of the Best Images of Pluto
nasa.gov

Animals found living in rock deep, deep underground (~1.4km).
cbc.ca