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We Are One Step Closer to Destroying Bedbugs Forever
citylab.com

Study: Wasps fly backwards to make sure they can find their way home
abc.net.au

A short history of underwater firearms
warisboring.com

Mineralogists finish catalog of rarest minerals, some so scarce that only a few grams exist
bbc.com

Video: Spider-like ‘tailless whip scorpions’ (not actually a spider or scorpion, order amblypigi)
youtube.com

Study: Touch typists no faster or more accurate than those who developed their own methods.
thestar.com

Why did the half-plane, half-helicopter not work?
bbc.com

New photos released of the inside of Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia
blog.nasm.si.edu

Cute and cuddly dolphins are secretly murderers
bbc.com

Why is it so hard to squash a cockroach?
sciencemag.org

Inside Titanic II: Images reveal incredible replica of ill-fated ship
ctvnews.ca

How the Microscope Redefined the Fact
theatlantic.com

Ontario man missing 30 years suddenly remembers own identity
cbc.ca

Study: Unconscious sighing every 5 minutes or so is necessary for survival.
sciencealert.com

Video: Physicists at LIGO have detected gravitational waves, proving General Relativity
nytimes.com

Study: How competition increases cheating in sports, wealth, etc.
washingtonpost.com

The mystery that spans every feline, from tabby house cats to Siberian tigers.
theatlantic.com

The boiling-acid-water extremophiles of Kamchatka
bbc.com

NASA releases more of its excellent “space tourism” artwork
jpl.nasa.gov

Flies reared in the dark for 60 years give up their genetic secrets
nature.com

Photo: A newly formed star illuminating reflection nebula IC 2631
eso.org

Researchers Just Discovered Hundreds of Galaxies Hidden Behind the Milky Way
gizmodo.com

Bacteria ‘see’ like tiny eyeballs
bbc.com

Study: Sleep deprivation linked to false confessions
newscientist.com

Stealing White: How a corporate spy swiped plans for DuPont’s billion-dollar color formula
bloomberg.com

The Lives and Lies of a Professional Impostor
nytimes.com

The FBI and the Internet can’t crack this dead man’s code
kernelmag.dailydot.com

Taser shock disrupts brain function, has implications for police interrogations
eurekalert.org

Indian man could be first recorded human fatality due to a meteorite
arstechnica.com

Trauma prompts the brain to focus on survival, not ‘peripheral details’
cbc.ca

Trees, regardless of diameter, tend to break when wind speeds reach about 42 m/s (94 mph)
sciencemag.org

Documentary: Attempting to excavate a preserved WW1 underground complex.
youtube.com

The shortest physically meaningful length of time may be several orders of magnitude longer than the Planck time
phys.org

Three-parent babies may get US go-ahead, but only for sons
newscientist.com

Digging Out: The story of a man who survived an avalanche that killed 7 of his classmates.
sportsnet.ca

In 2018 NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Scout will use a solar sail to visit nearby 1991 VG.
news.nationalgeographic.com

Biogenic carbon in 4.1 billion-year-old zircon suggests life began ∼300 million years earlier than thought. (PDF)
pnas.org

The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever
dmagazine.com

The Walter White of Wichita
interactive.fusion.net

The Devil at 37,000 Feet
vanityfair.com

Snowed in at NASA, Keeping Watch Over a Space Colossus
theatlantic.com

China releases more true-color HD photos of the moon from the Yutu rover.
planetary.org

Dutch police train raptors to attack robots.
cbc.ca

Steamboat Arabia sunk in the Missouri River in 1865; found beneath a Kansas field in 1989.
messynessychic.com

Inside the Eye: Nature’s Most Exquisite Creation
ngm.nationalgeographic.com

Terror birds: The prehistoric apex predators of South America for 60 million years.
bbc.co.uk

How the Smithsonian is restoring the original USS Enterprise to full 1967 glory
arstechnica.com

A dictionary of the extinct language of ancient Mesopotamia has been completed after 90 years of work.
bbc.com

Photo: The moon’s surface in true color and high resolution via China’s Yutu Rover
i.imgur.com

Stalin ‘used secret laboratory to analyse Mao’s excrement’
bbc.com

Genetic study provides first-ever insight into biological origin of schizophrenia
broadinstitute.org

On This Spot: Modern photos compared to famous historical photos of the same locations.
onthisspot.ca

Gas cloud could form 2 million new stars when it collides with our galaxy in ~30 mil years.
independent.co.uk

Babylonians used geometry on cuneiform tablets to track Jupiter 1400 years before Europeans
redorbit.com

Six months before the Challenger disaster an engineer notified his management of the flaw
lettersofnote.com

Essay: Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle, by Richard Feynman (6 months after the Challenger disaster)
science.ksc.nasa.gov

Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
phys.org

Why submarines are demagnetized
qi.epfl.ch

NASA to hold al Day of Remembrance today, the Challenger disaster’s 30th anniversary.
engadget.com

Google achieves AI ‘breakthrough’ by beating Go champion
bbc.com