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Why more highly educated people are less into conspiracy theories
digest.bps.org.uk

After almost 20 years in space, NASA’s Cassini begins its Grand Finale
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov

How a Phony Online Boyfriend Scammed a 75-Year-Old Widow Out of $1 Million
time.com

The U.S. joined the ‘Great War’ 100 years ago. America and warfare were never the same.
washingtonpost.com

Building In the Shadow of Our Own Destruction
longreads.com

Medieval villagers mutilated the dead to stop them rising, study finds
theguardian.com

The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl
newyorker.com

The kingdom of women: the Tibetan tribe where a man is never the boss
theguardian.com

Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish?
smithsonianmag.com

Brain cancer patients live longer wearing electric cap designed to zap tumors
arstechnica.com

Dirty Birds: What it’s like to live with a national symbol
story.californiasunday.com

For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her
theguardian.com

Why is it so hard to study anti-matter?
askamathematician.com

1,000-Year-Old Toy Viking Boat Unearthed in Norway
livescience.com

The tricks that help some animals live for centuries
bbc.com

Tunnels in South America believed to have been dug by extinct giant sloths
blogs.discovermagazine.com

NASA’s $1 billion Jupiter probe just sent back breathtaking new images of the gas giant
businessinsider.com

Most of Mars’ air was ‘lost to space’
bbc.com

Little Tropical Fish With a Big, Venomous Bite
nytimes.com

FBI Arrests Hacker Who Hacked No One
thedailybeast.com

Everyone hates April Fools’ Day — so why does it endure?
theverge.com

Filming mosquitoes reveals a completely new approach to flight
arstechnica.com

A mysterious X-ray source became 1,000 times brighter over a few hours before fading dramatically in about a day
chandra.si.edu

Forcing People At Vending Machines To Wait Nudges Them To Buy Healthier Snacks
npr.org

Video: A full rotation of the moon, something we don’t get to see from here on Earth
youtube.com • see also

The Trauma of Facing Deportation
newyorker.com

After Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact, Life Re-Emerged Quickly
space.com

Why You Feel the Urge to Jump: The science and philosophy of looking down from a high place
nautil.us

The Genius of Pinheads: When Little Brains Rule​
scientificamerican.com

Video: North Korean Defectors Struggle to Master Money
wsj.com

Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?
nber.org

For the first time, we know what Tyrannosaur faces really looked like
arstechnica.com

Gruesome Wasp Named After Shape-Shifting ‘Star Trek’ Character
livescience.com

Sands of Titan may dance to their own static electricity
arstechnica.com

New Exoskeletons Will Harness the Subtle Anatomy of Human Balance
nautil.us

How a Floating Bale of Cocaine Led to the Florida Keys’ Worst Murder in Decades
miaminewtimes.com

After 100 years, a key postulate of the third law of thermodynamics has been proven
chalkdustmagazine.com • see also

New study shows how impacts generated Martian tsunamis
blogs.agu.org

Reader beware: Science covered in the news is pretty likely to be overturned
statnews.com

Bad Luck Causes Most Cancer, New Study Finds
popularmechanics.com

The Great Nevada Lithium Rush to Fuel the New Economy
bloomberg.com

Encounters with Jupiter send asteroid on a bizarre backward spin
arstechnica.com

A world without retirement
theguardian.com

Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things
unenumerated.blogspot.com

Photo: Nebula with Laser Beams
apod.nasa.gov

Paralysed man feeds himself with help of implants
bbc.com

What Really Turned the Sahara Desert From a Green Oasis Into a Wasteland?
smithsonianmag.com

Planet-sized ‘waves’ spotted in the Sun’s atmosphere
nature.com

221-pound Canadian “coin” known as the Big Maple Leaf stolen from the Bode Museum in Berlin
nytimes.com

SpaceX is about to make history by relaunching a used Falcon 9 rocket
theverge.com

3,800+ year old tomb found undisturbed in Aswan, Egypt
english.ahram.org.eg

ESA discovers supersonic plasma jets high in the atmosphere at temperatures up to almost 10,000°C.
esa.int

There’s Mysteriously Large Amounts of Methane on Mars
nautil.us

On the inexplicable surge of enormous, poisonous cane toads in South Florida
outsideonline.com

The Strange History of Ransomware: Floppy disks, AIDS research, and a Panama P.O. Box
medium.com

New insights into mitochondria reveal how life expends energy
aging.nautil.us

Pores Inside Bacteria Are Eerily Familiar
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Who Killed the Iceman? Clues Emerge in a Very Cold Case
nytimes.com

Inside the open-source investigations into North Korea’s missile tests
theverge.com

In Search Of Humanity’s Oldest Words
vocativ.com