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Grappling With the Truth: Uganda’s Amateur Wrestling ‘Orphans’
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Planetary alignment provides NASA rare opportunity to study Uranus
phys.org

40 years ago today, Coca-Cola announced the reformulation of its flagship soft drink, leading to much public drama
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Getting Trapped in Quicksand Won This Guy a Girlfriend
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Odd new tricks from a massive black hole
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‘You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain
theguardian.com

Astronomers discover dark matter ‘bridge’ linking colliding galaxies: ‘This is the missing piece we’ve been looking for.’
space.com

‘A Restaurant Ruined My Life’
torontolife.com

Scientists Identify Specific Bacteria Linked to Multiple Sclerosis
sciencealert.com

Video: Everything We Know About ‘Oumuamua [31:12]
youtube.com

Wild chimpanzees filmed by scientists bonding over alcoholic fruit
theguardian.com

Dopamine ‘gas pedal’ and serotonin ‘brake’ team up to accelerate learning
thetransmitter.org

These Massive Monuments Hosted Community Gatherings Where Prehistoric People Mingled, Feasted and Buried Their Dead
smithsonianmag.com

The Secret Lives of Moths
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Video: How Hoover Dam Works [1:05:59]
youtube.com

How 50 years of climate change has changed the face of the ‘Blue Marble’ from space
bbc.com

Video: Your Time Machine Broke – At The Worst Time In History [11:32]
youtube.com

Scientists finally confirm vitamin B1 hypothesis from 1958
news.ucr.edu

Why Isn’t 1 a Prime Number?
scientificamerican.com

Friends at First Sniff: Smell Preferences Predict People’s Friendship Potential
discovermagazine.com

NASA spacecraft zooms by strange asteroid, beams back images
mashable.com

‘A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data’
theconversation.com

Secret Tunnels, Bunkers and Arsenals: The ‘Panic Industry’ Is Booming
nytimes.com

Breakthrough Drug Restores Vision: Researchers Successfully Reverse Retinal Damage
scitechdaily.com

Glowing gunshot residue: New method illuminates crime scene clues
phys.org

Chicken-or-egg evolutionary problem solved by missing link molecule
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The baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
bbc.com

Colorful Eagle Nebula glows in stunning new image from Hubble Telescope
space.com

Winner, winner, lab-made dinner! Team grows nugget-sized chicken chunk
nature.com • Mirror

Saturn’s Moon Titan Has Flowing Methane Rivers – So Where Are the Deltas?
scitechdaily.com

Ghostly galaxy without dark matter baffles astronomers
space.com

Why do cats bring their owners dead animals?
livescience.com

The Wacky Packy Kid: The Forgotten 1970s Sticker Craze Created by Art Spiegelman
crimereads.com

How climate change could affect arsenic in rice
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Scientists Confirm Existence Of First Lone Black Hole In Milky Way
ndtv.com

NASA’s Curiosity rover finds major clue that Mars was once habitable
space.com

‘It blew us away’: how an asteroid may have delivered the vital ingredients for life on Earth
theguardian.com

99% Effective: First Hormone-Free Male Birth Control Pill Enters Human Trials
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Physicists Found an Entirely New Way to Measure Time
sciencealert.com

NASA’s oldest active astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday
phys.org

Olympic Gold Medalist Dominates the 100m at Her Kid’s Sports Day Event
kottke.org

Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs
theatlantic.com • Mirror

Stock Ticker History: The Rainstorm That Changed Information Forever
tedium.co

Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars
arstechnica.com

Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing
wired.com

How the Cherokee Nation Used Diplomacy to Resist Subordination
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Bell Labs Turns 100, Plans to Leave Its Old Headquarters
spectrum.ieee.org

Hue new? Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before
theguardian.com • (see also)

Where did this extremely magnetic, dense and dead star come from? Scientists aren’t quite sure
space.com

This week: Black hole theft, Loch Ness portraits, urinal improvements, and more!
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Video: The Hunt for America’s Smartest Serial Killer [28:09]
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How does your brain create new memories? Neuroscientists discover ‘rules’ for how neurons encode new information
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British rebellion against Roman legions caused by drought, research finds
theguardian.com

New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks
quantamagazine.org

Video: What if the sun suddenly went out? [3:11]
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Gold Nanoparticles Restore Vision in Macular Degeneration
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Indicators of alien life may have been found – astrophysicist explains what the new research means
theconversation.com

Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s Disease Is Helping To Pave the Way for a Medical Breakthrough
mymodernmet.com

Unidentified Falling Object Smashed Into US Auto Shop, Then Disappeared
vice.com

Where bees won’t go: The unloved pollinators of the underworld
bbc.com