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This Beetle Bites an Ant’s Waist and Pretends to be Its Butt
theatlantic.com

Researchers discover how the brain turns chronic stress into pathological anxiety
psypost.org

An Enormous Exoplanet Is Having a Strange Influence on Its Star
gizmodo.com

Honeybees let out a ‘whoop’ when they bump into each other
newscientist.com

What if the purpose of love is to get us out of relationships, not into them?
qz.com

NASA considering three sites for its first-ever sample-return from Mars
nature.com

We now know why mosquitoes find malaria victims so tasty
arstechnica.com

Why the falling cost of light matters
bbc.com

‘Extraordinary’ levels of toxic pollution found in 10km deep Mariana trench
theguardian.com

Hubble Has Found the Ancient Galaxies That Gave the Universe Its First Light
space.com

The Curious Case of Cockroach Magnetization
technologyreview.com

Hubble finds big brother of Halley’s Comet ripped apart by white dwarf
spacetelescope.org

Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t.
story.californiasunday.com

‘I thought I was smarter than almost everybody’: my double life as a KGB agent
theguardian.com

After A Stroke At 33, A Writer Relies On Journals To Piece Together Her Own Story
npr.org

Bias in the ER: Doctors suffer from the same cognitive distortions as the rest of us.
nautil.us

The Forgotten ‘China Girls’ Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films
atlasobscura.com

Image: A closeup of a recent crater on Mars in infrared (8m wide, 1-4 years old) via HiRISE
i.imgur.com

Geoglyphs in Amazon rainforest a mystery to scientists
cbc.ca

High efficiency ultra-thin planar lens could replace heavy, bulky lenses in smart phones, cameras and telescopes
seas.harvard.edu

Samples of personal ads from the past two centuries
laphamsquarterly.org

There is a way to find fossils of Martian life
bbc.com

Does an Octopus Have an Inner Life?
newrepublic.com

A startup says a 50-trillion-pixel image of Earth, refreshed daily, is coming later this year
theatlantic.com

American Food Science Is Broken
gizmodo.com

A Danish astronaut has captured the best-ever images of rare blue flashes
arstechnica.com

“…in the United States young children have close to a one in two chance of living on the brink of poverty”
eurekalert.org

Ultrasound dramatically accelerates the process of aging liquor
pbs.org

‘It was as if I had peered into hell’: the man who brought the Nazi death squads to justice
theguardian.com

Who Started the First Fire?
sapiens.org

Giant winged Transylvanian predators could have eaten dinosaurs
theguardian.com

The Darkest Town In America
fivethirtyeight.com

We finally have a computer that can survive the surface of Venus
arstechnica.com

Total recall: the people who never forget
theguardian.com

Astronomers discover the first white dwarf pulsar in history, ending half a century of searching
zmescience.com

Sweden’s ‘latte pappas’ are dads with lowered testosterone and elevated hormones of attachment
aeon.co

Why Dragonfly Wings Kill Bacteria
acsh.org

Why the Higgs Boson Found at the Large Hadron Collider Could Be an ‘Impostor’
motherboard.vice.com

Searching for California’s lost Viking treasure ship
europe.newsweek.com

This Crab Clones Its Allies by Ripping Them in Half
theatlantic.com

Your Personality Changes When You Move to a New Place
nymag.com

At the Rock Springs massacre, 28 people were killed because white miners feared Chinese immigrants
timeline.com

Study: School shootings “significantly correlated to increases in economic insecurity”
arstechnica.com

The hidden history of Nasa’s black female scientists
theguardian.com

Calculating what it would take to park a solar sail at Alpha Centauri
arstechnica.com

Photo: Saturn, rings edge-on, with the moon Enceladus near the bottom center
damninteresting.com

She Received 65 Proposals, but Never Married
nytimes.com

This robot flies by mimicking the flight of bats
popularmechanics.com

Misophonia: Scientists crack why eating sounds can make people angry
bbc.com

Heisenberg’s Astrophysics Prediction Finally Confirmed After 80 Years
forbes.com

The Brain’s Connections Shrink During Sleep
theatlantic.com

The surgeon giving his patients VR instead of sedatives
bbc.com

On the “self-enhancement” effect, and how it can have negative consequences for all of us
scientificamerican.com

Indirectly detecting black holes via “tails” of gas
nro.nao.ac.jp

Monitoring Post-Mortem Gene Transcription in Mice and Zebrafish
the-scientist.com

Is Willpower a Finite Resource, or a Myth?
nautil.us

The unimaginable, infamous case of Pam Hupp
stlmag.com

How Psychologists Determine Whether Someone Is Faking Insanity
nymag.com

Documentary: The story of Kevin Mitnick, infamous 80s-era computer hacker
youtube.com

“Science curious” more likely to explore data contradicting their world view
arstechnica.com