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How Vera Rubin discovered dark matter
astronomy.com

The Curious Case of Bermuda’s Mysterious Turtle
hakaimagazine.com

A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors. The results are concerning.
vox.com

Huge 3D scanning project lets you walk around a large Pompeii house before the volcano
3ders.org

Long-abandoned 1920s-era fire station found preserved under a UK factory
thelondoneconomic.com

How Hollywood Gets Its Old-School Tech
theringer.com

Scientists Trace Society’s Myths to Primordial Origins
scientificamerican.com

Interactive 3d comet exploration from ESA’s Rosetta
sci.esa.int

A home invasion, torture session, and high speed chase that ended with a suspect in nothing but an adult diaper
washingtonian.com

Our Part of the Milky Way Is Four Times Bigger Than We Thought
news.nationalgeographic.com

Space Art Propelled Scientific Exploration of the Cosmos—But Its Star is Fading Fast
blog.longreads.com

The Golden Suicides
vanityfair.com

Video: The Art of Making a Nixie Tube (long, but interesting)
youtube.com

Does gum disease have a link to cancer, dementia, stroke?
washingtonpost.com

“even organizations staffed by smart, seemingly moral people can slowly slide into dangerous and unethical behavior”
slate.com

Yes, Beautiful People Have a Totally Different Experience of Life
nymag.com

Implication of sabotage adds intrigue to SpaceX investigation
washingtonpost.com

NASA’s Fermi has found a binary system that breaks the record for luminosity
nasa.gov

Photo: Shot taken by the Rosetta space probe shortly before intentionally crashing onto Comet 67p/c-g today
damninteresting.com

The cat that ate Thomas Hardy’s heart
westdorsetconfidential.wordpress.com

Findings suggest insects have more complex brains than previously thought
cbc.ca

Mission complete: Rosetta’s journey ends in daring descent to comet
esa.int

The Jones Project: Smuggling Nikita Khrushchev’s memoirs out of the USSR
laphamsquarterly.org

Explorers Say They’ve Found the World’s Deepest Underwater Cave
popularmechanics.com

Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget
chicagoreader.com

Happy ‘Galactic Tick Day’!
space.com

Natural born killers: humans predisposed to murder, study suggests
theguardian.com

How being alone may be the key to rest
bbc.com

Researchers find that riding a roller coaster can help dislodge kidney stones
livescience.com

Image: Nifty new photo of Saturn from the Cassini probe
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov

The Man Who Almost Missed Puberty
esquire.com

For First Time, Destruction Of Cultural Sites Leads To War Crime Conviction
npr.org

First ‘three person baby’ born using new method
bbc.com

Celebrity molecules promised to transform our health, but haven’t always lived up to their billing
science.sciencemag.org

Video: SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System proposal for colonization of Mars
youtube.com

The Month That Killed the Sixties
blog.longreads.com

The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All
nasa.gov

Further evidence that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa throws jets of water out into space
bbc.com

Three Working Stuntmen, Battle-Tested With the Scars to Match
features.wearemel.com

On the high-risk, poorly regulated police practice of enlisting young offenders as confidential informants
newyorker.com

In San Francisco, a Sinking Skyscraper and a Deepening Dispute
nytimes.com

China begins operating world’s largest radio telescope
bigstory.ap.org

The untold stories of Japanese war brides
washingtonpost.com

Photographer Nicky Bay Documents Mirror Spiders Adjusting their Silver Plates to Appear More Reflective
thisiscolossal.com

Cheese in a healthy diet could actually protect against cardiovascular and metabolic diseases
deccanchronicle.com

When Nazis held mass rallies in Madison Square Garden
mashable.com

‘Hangover-free alcohol’ could replace all regular alcohol by 2050, says David Nutt
independent.co.uk

Fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds
newscientist.com

Women of the CIA: The Hidden History of American Spycraft (autoplay video)
newsweek.com

The Medical Mystery of Hair That Whitens Overnight
theatlantic.com

Scientists use ‘virtual unwrapping’ to read ancient burned scrolls
theguardian.com

Online sleuth solves perplexing mystery of identity thief Lori Ruff
seattletimes.com

The story of ‘Big Lonely Doug,’ a solitary, towering survivor of logging in a Canadian old-growth forest
thewalrus.ca

Video: The Hubble Deep Field, explained by the man who made it happen
youtube.com

Documentary (2000): People living in an abandoned Amtrak tunnel under Manhattan (strong language, drug use)
youtube.com

Neandertals made their own jewelry, new method confirms
sciencemag.org

The secret lives of long-lived particles
symmetrymagazine.org

Man v rat: could the long war soon be over?
theguardian.com

China’s space agency confirms the Tiangong space station will burn up sometime late next year.
popularmechanics.com

BBC Interactive: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
bbc.com