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Study: Flashing lights and music turn rats into problem gamblers.
news.ubc.ca

NASA’s latest class of astronauts is 50 percent female, and could be heading to Mars.
nytlive.nytimes.com

“He was no ordinary man. For 13 years, he was the custodian of the dead.”
thestatesman.com

Video: Crash test between a ’59 Chevy Bel Air and a ’09 Malibu demonstrates improvements in car safety systems.
youtube.com

Lake Poopo, once the second largest lake in Bolivia, has completely dried up; declared disaster zone.
widerimage.reuters.com

Prehistoric massacre in Kenya may be oldest evidence of warfare
cbc.ca

The alarming threat of Zika virus
bbc.com

A Neuroscientist Explains the Phrase ‘I Just Snapped’
nymag.com

Beautiful 17th century scientific illustrations by Maria Sibylla Merian
theatlantic.com

Astronomers claim high probability of a new, unseen gas giant in far orbit around the sun.
sciencemag.org

New prime number discovered at 22 million digits
cbc.ca

Study: Altruistic men are more attractive to women
theweek.com

Quantum bonds connect distinct moments in time, suggesting quantum links are fundamental structure of the universe.
quantamagazine.org

Star’s bizarre optical antics go back at least a century
arstechnica.co.uk

American Homes Are Filled With Bugs
theatlantic.com

And the world record for worst gig ever goes to…
matricardo.blogspot.co.uk

Image/engraving, ca. 1812: The octopus and its organs.
digitalcollections.nypl.org

Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
npr.org

Video: HD tour of the various modules of the International Space Station
youtube.com

Video: New Spider Species Found, Plays Peekaboo to Attract Mates
news.nationalgeographic.com

Titanosaurs: the largest animals ever to walk the Earth
theguardian.com

These Victorian-Era Diseases Are Making a Comeback in a City Near You
citylab.com

When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages
thestar.com

Scientist Resurrects Ancient Creatures by 3D-Printing Them in Metal
nerdist.com

Video: A robotic cat which is designed to be a companion pet for the elderly.
bbc.com

How Police Officers Seize Cash From Innocent Americans
priceonomics.com

The Dragnet: How a man accused of million-dollar fraud uncovered a never before seen, secret surveillance device
theverge.com

The Injustice System: a depressing true story alongside depressing statistics.
theguardian.com

Hints of vast canyons under Antarctic ice, including one bigger than the Grand Canyon
bbc.com

Scientists Discover How We Play Memories in Fast Forward
cns.utexas.edu

Found: The Most Powerful Supernova Ever Seen
scientificamerican.com

Researchers pinpoint site of Salem witch hangings.
bostonglobe.com

Prehistoric Human-Neanderthal interbreeding may be the root cause of modern allergies.
theguardian.com

NASA’s newly-formalized Planetary Defense Coordination Office
gizmodo.com

Newly discovered ancient crocodile would have been 30+ feet long and weighed over 3 tons.
news.nationalgeographic.com

Rumors Are Flying That We Finally Found Gravitational Waves
gizmodo.com

Geologists Found a Rock That’s ‘Older Than Earth’ in the Australian Outback
gizmodo.com

This Immaculately Preserved Beetle Walked with the Dinosaurs
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Found: The 600-million-year-old mutation that allowed ancient protozoa to evolve into multi-cellular organisms.
washingtonpost.com

Photo: A handwriting sample from Helen Keller, the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.
i.imgur.com

Now you see it, now you don’t: The quasar that just disappeared.
news.psu.edu

Research Confirms a Link between Intelligence and Life Expectancy
scientificamerican.com

Australia House’s 900-year-old ‘holy well’ in basement holds water fit to drink.
abc.net.au

Electron microscope slow-motion video of needle reading an LP (and images of other media).
youtube.com

How Credit Cards Tax America
priceonomics.com

‘X’ Marks a Curious Corner on Pluto’s Icy Plains.
nasa.gov

Canadians more polite than Americans on Twitter, study says.
cbc.ca

A nuanced look at how our relationship with food has become disordered and obsessive.
theguardian.com

WHO report (PDF): Providing health care in rural and remote areas: lessons from the international space station
who.int

What a growing body of research reveals about the biology of human happiness.
theatlantic.com

Video: Evidence of ice volcanoes spotted in New Horizons’ images of Pluto.
space.com

The strange, sad quest to match a severed, embalmed head with its story
washingtonpost.com

Scientists have succeeded in crushing hydrogen atoms into an entirely new state of matter: phase V hydrogen.
livescience.com

The Celebrity Surgeon Who Used Love, Money, and the Pope to Scam an NBC News Producer
vanityfair.com

Piebald mystery solved: scientists discover how animals develop [white] patches.
theguardian.com

New York Public Library puts 180,000 public domain images online.
nypl.org

Black hole near Earth ‘burps’ gas
cnn.com

Study: A mathematical analysis of the ‘paradox of unanimity’
phys.org

The man who can only say yes and no.
bbc.com

A logarithmic map of the entire observable Universe
sciencealert.com