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World’s oldest known ground-edge stone axe fragments found in Western Australia
abc.net.au

How Typography Can Save Your Life
propublica.org

Swarm A.I. correctly predicts the four winning horses at the Kentucky Derby (540 to 1 odds)
finance.yahoo.com

Nine years of science censorship finally comes to an end in Canada.
nature.com

This Philosopher Helped Ensure There Was No Nobel for Relativity
nautil.us

Video: Indoor security camera captures Fort McMurray home burning to the ground
youtube.com

The Spitfires that nearly broke the sound barrier
bbc.com

How Do You Put Out A Subterranean Fire Beneath A Mountain Of Trash?
fivethirtyeight.com

The Locksmith Who Picked Two “Unbeatable” Locks and Ended the Era of “Perfect Security”
slate.com

NASA’s Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets–the largest finding of planets to date.
nasa.gov

A crack in the mystery of non-Newtonian ‘Oobleck’ substances
nist.gov

Josiah Zayner’s gut was making his life hell, so he embarked on a DIY fecal transplant
theverge.com

Searching for Signs of Hannibal’s Route in DNA from Horse Manure
newyorker.com

Sparkly polar bear poo shines a light on research at Winnipeg zoo
cbc.ca

Stretchable, contractable, self-healing polymer could lead to artificial muscle
ucrtoday.ucr.edu

World’s longest insect discovered in China
news.xinhuanet.com

Scientists Discover The First Ever Safe Way To Send Medication Into the Placenta
sciencenewsjournal.com

Woman falls over at home and regains sight after 20 years of blindness (has autoplay video)
independent.co.uk

Geologists Find Clues In Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
npr.org

The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies
theguardian.com

The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community
nytimes.com

Study: 99.999% of Earth’s Species Are Still Undiscovered
mic.com

The Subtle Design Features That Make Cities Feel More Hostile
atlasobscura.com

People who are jerks on Facebook tend to be popular in real life – study
telegraph.co.uk

Pyramid Interior Revealed Using Cosmic Rays
news.discovery.com

How Jogging in Burundi Became an Act of War
outsideonline.com

The Nazi Underground – on the search for buried Nazi treasure.
newyorker.com

Peru’s mysterious ‘boiling river’ that burns animals to death
telegraph.co.uk

My Dinner With Rasputin
blog.longreads.com

The Racist Origins Of The Word ‘Caucasian’
good.is

‘Sudden oak death’ has killed a million trees in California, unlikely to be stopped
washingtonpost.com

Australia’s ‘Carpageddon’ to unleash herpes on invasive killer
phys.org

Lab-grown meat is in your future, and it may be healthier than the real stuff
washingtonpost.com

UAE to build artificial mountain to improve rainfall
abudhabi2.com

Interactive Garden of Earthly Delights (audio, slightly NSFW)
tuinderlusten-jheronimusbosch.ntr.nl

How cost-benefit analysis might save America’s criminal-justice system
economist.com

Dead could be brought ‘back to life’ in groundbreaking project
telegraph.co.uk

Scientists discover potentially habitable planets
news.mit.edu

After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight
nytimes.com

Scientists have discovered a radical new way to treat our most traumatic memories.
newrepublic.com

Prions (proteins best known for causing mad cow disease) may be mechanism of plant memory.
newscientist.com

A large genetic study has identified genes associated with feelings of well-being, depression, and neuroticism
medicalnewstoday.com

The Geographical Oddity of Null Island
blogs.loc.gov

360 View video of SpaceX first stage landing on droneship (click and drag to look around)
youtube.com

A Positive Life: How a Son Survived Being Injected with HIV by His Father
gq.com

This is how it feels to learn your memories are fiction
bbc.com

Ancient Roman coins unearthed by Spanish construction workers
abc.net.au

Mile-long “Band of Holes” in Peru may be remains of Inca tax system
arstechnica.co.uk

Studies on “mansplaining,” the “manologue,” and other gender-based conversation tendencies.
daily.jstor.org

Re-examining Monica, Marcia, Tonya and Anita, the ‘scandalous’ women of the ’90s
fusion.net

Ride Along With the Cow Police
oxfordamerican.org

A natural wonder lost to a volcano has been rediscovered
bbc.com

Huge [new] subglacial lake discovered underneath Antarctica’s ice
mnn.com

SpaceX plans to send a spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018
theverge.com

No Brain? No Problem! Slime Mold Can Learn
news.discovery.com

Persian Philosophers Text Describes A Supernova In 1006 AD
sciencenewsjournal.com

New imaging technique brings Mars into focus
cosmosmagazine.com

Study: 1 Minute of All-Out Exercise May Have Benefits of 45 Minutes of Moderate Exertion
well.blogs.nytimes.com

Study: Half of Western European men descended from one Bronze Age ‘king’
telegraph.co.uk

Super high-resolution photos of tiny insects
kottke.org