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The complicated truth about a cat’s purr
bbc.com

Is This Fungus Using a Virus To Control An Animal’s Mind?
theatlantic.com

Fool’s gold: what fish oil is doing to our health and the planet
theguardian.com

Liquid water ‘lake’ revealed on Mars
bbc.com

The $3 Billion Plan to Turn Hoover Dam Into a Giant Battery
nytimes.com

Go Inside the Magical Life of Europe’s Family Circuses
nationalgeographic.com

A Breakthrough Way to See Distant Planets
theatlantic.com

In pictures: Wildfires devastate Greek region
bbc.com

The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
quantamagazine.org

Assignment Baghdad: Did a Group of Grad Students Really Help Plan the Gulf War?
thedailybeast.com

The Fish That Gave Too Much
hakaimagazine.com

What the Mystery of the Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Could Reveal
nytimes.com

Should we treat crime as something to be cured rather than punished?
theguardian.com

On this day in 1915 the fully-loaded passenger steamer SS Eastland capsized
damninteresting.com

Copy of Ben Franklin’s newspaper with ‘Join or Die’ political cartoon up for auction
philly.com

Beavers reintroduced to English forest 400 years after being hunted to extinction there
theguardian.com

Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M
krebsonsecurity.com

In Mozambique, a Living Laboratory for Nature’s Renewal
nytimes.com

When ‘Concierge Medicine’ Came to Town, I Had Some Questions. I Still Do.
undark.org

Radiation maps of Jupiter’s moon Europa—key to future missions
phys.org

Signs of Life on Europa May Be Just beneath the Surface
scientificamerican.com

The Ambien Diaries
popula.com

Climate Change May Cause 26,000 More U.S. Suicides by 2050
theatlantic.com

Earth’s Moon Could Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago
airspacemag.com

35 years ago today a passenger plane ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet
damninteresting.com

The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage
gq.com

Physicists demonstrate new method to make single photons
phys.org

New Clues About Why the Confederate Submarine H.L. Hunley Sank
smithsonianmag.com

Remembering Antarctica’s nuclear past with ‘Nukey Poo’
theconversation.com

Discovered: Milky Way’s long-lost galactic sibling
theguardian.com

The scientific reason paper cuts hurt so much
qz.com

The black detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan
theguardian.com

What 24 Hours in Prison Is Really Like
themarshallproject.org

The city that lit the world
bbc.com

Rome’s Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancient Past
npr.org

Fear of dystopian change should not blind us to the potential of gene editing
theguardian.com

Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium
theatlantic.com

Suspicious Minds: Mingling with wariness and wonder at a conference devoted to “Ancient Aliens.”
nytimes.com

If you want to know what money is, don’t ask a banker. Take a leap of faith and start your own currency
aeon.co

Why there’s finally a drug for smallpox even though the disease no longer exists
cbc.ca

While We Sleep, Our Mind Goes on an Amazing Journey
nationalgeographic.com

A historian explains how people of the past imagined the future
theverge.com

Did a rogue star change the makeup of our solar system?
phys.org

You’re living in a new geologic age, the Meghalayan
cbc.ca

I got a hoax academic paper about how UK politicians wipe their bums published
theconversation.com

The Space Race in the Context of the Cold War
historyarch.com

Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide
texasmonthly.com

Seeing Titan with Infrared Eyes
jpl.nasa.gov

Fight for ‘World’s Richest Shipwreck’ Heats Up
nationalgeographic.com

Big-data statistics have revealed, among other things, that our own solar system is kind of an oddball
blogs.scientificamerican.com

India’s street magic once captivated the world, including Houdini himself
qz.com

This Language Is Only Used When Collecting Nuts in New Guinea
atlasobscura.com

See How Apollo-Era Scientists Thought We’d Live On The Moon
nationalgeographic.com

A $1.5 Million Plan to Count Every Cat in Washington, House Cats Included
nytimes.com

Who owns the moon? A space lawyer answers
theconversation.com

The Secret Desert Home of a Tiny, Lonely Seabird
theatlantic.com

Complete fly brain imaged at nanoscale resolution
phys.org

Extremely high-res outtakes from Apollo 11’s 1969 moon landing
qz.com

Study: Beef jerky and other processed meats associated with manic episodes
psypost.org

‘Storm Chasers’ on Mars Searching for Dusty Secrets
jpl.nasa.gov