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Study: Rhythm of breathing affects memory and fear
news.northwestern.edu

Image: Astronomical object NGC2264 + astronomical object NGC1333 =
damninteresting.com

How the body of an Arizona great-grandmother ended up as part of a U.S. Army blast test
reuters.com

Short video: Life Lessons From 100+ Year Olds
youtube.com

Study: Challenging someone’s political beliefs activates brain areas that govern personal identity
news.usc.edu

2016 will be one second longer
sciencebulletin.org

How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail
scientificamerican.com

3D Map of Distant Galaxies Completed
eso.org

Frog murder and boiled children: ‘Merry Christmas’ Victorian style
bbc.com

It’s a good day for medicine: New Ebola Vaccine Gives 100 Percent Protection
nytimes.com

New blood test is the first to detect a prion disease (human form of Mad Cow Disease) with 100% accuracy
the-scientist.com

Why are clouds on Saturn’s moon Titan visible in some images, but not in others?
nasa.gov

Octopuses are “probably the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien”
theatlantic.com

The Man Who Saved 200 Syrian Refugees
torontolife.com

The Man Who Cleans Up After Plane Crashes
gq.com

Design In The Darkest, Coldest, Most Remote Places On Earth
fastcodesign.com

The Baby in the Plastic Bag: A true story in 9 parts (warning: auto-play audio throughout)
dagbladet.no

Famed poker pro with ‘remarkable’ $9.6 million scheme has to pay it back, judge rules
washingtonpost.com

Study: Sauna use may reduce the risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia
nytimes.com

Pregnancy alters woman’s brain ‘for at least two years’
bbc.com

Chilling Firsthand Report From the 1955 Emmett Till Murder Trial
thenation.com

Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s Stunning 19th-Century Astronomical Drawings of Celestial Objects and Phenomena
brainpickings.org

ALPHA experiment observes the light spectrum of antimatter for the first time
home.cern

New Theory of Gravity Doesn’t Need Dark Matter
motherboard.vice.com

Was Anne Frank’s family betrayed? After 72 years, historians have a new theory.
washingtonpost.com

How Rudolf Diesel’s engine changed the world
bbc.com

Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That Conducts Electricity
futurism.com

Scientists have identified that mysterious, metallic sound coming from the Mariana Trench
sciencealert.com

Video: Ice crystals forming in soap bubbles
vimeo.com

The Obsessed, Feuding Searchers Still Looking for Amelia Earhart
atlasobscura.com

The CIA Is Celebrating Its Cartography Division’s 75th Anniversary by Sharing Declassified Maps
smithsonianmag.com

Dr. Heimlich, The Man Behind The Life-Saving Maneuver, Dies
npr.org

Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay
quantamagazine.org

The Godfather Wars
vanityfair.com

Mechanical Movements of the Cold War: How the Soviets Revolutionized Wristwatches
collectorsweekly.com

A Possible Break in One of Evolution’s Biggest Mysteries
theatlantic.com

The Great A.I. Awakening
nytimes.com

The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic
nautil.us

Scientists Say the Clock of Aging May Be Reversible
nytimes.com

A treasure hunter found 3 tons of sunken gold — and can’t leave jail until he says where it is
washingtonpost.com

Our Automated Future: How long will it be before you lose your job to a robot?
newyorker.com

Did ‘dark stars’ help form the Universe?
bbc.com

The borderline fraudulent world of cruise ship art auctions
bloomberg.com

To Fight Malaria, Scientists Try Genetic Engineering To Wipe Out Mosquitoes
npr.org

Arctic Is Warming At ‘Astonishing’ Rates, Researchers Say
npr.org

Finding North America’s lost medieval city
arstechnica.com

Behind the Scenes With the World’s Top Feather Detective
audubon.org

What Really Happens After You Die? Death in L.A. can be an odd undertaking
lamag.com

Viruses may have evolved to hit men hard but go easy on women
newscientist.com

LIGO black hole echoes hint at general-relativity breakdown
nature.com

Winds of rubies and sapphires strike the sky of giant planet
www2.warwick.ac.uk

This man’s skull was ritualistically transformed 9,000 years ago in Jericho
arstechnica.com

Million-Year-Old ‘Hero Bug’ Emerges From Cave
npr.org

An Enemy of the Kremlin Dies in London: Who killed Alexander Perepilichny?
theatlantic.com

The Untold Story of Napoleon Hill, the Greatest Self-Help Scammer of All Time
paleofuture.gizmodo.com

How Sugar Helped Hook America on Cigarettes
bloomberg.com

Study: Monkey Mouths And Throats Are Equipped For Speech
npr.org

You look familiar: on patrol with the Met’s super-recognisers
theguardian.com

Japan Sends Long Electric Whip Into Orbit, To Tame Space Junk
npr.org

Chimpanzees recognize each other’s butts the way we recognize faces
theverge.com