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Globus Pharyngeus Is That Bizarre Lump in Your Throat—Even if You’re Not Crying
thedailybeast.com

How 2,000-year-old roads predict modern-day prosperity
washingtonpost.com

Canary Girls: The World War One Women Who Turned Yellow
amusingplanet.com

Historic Cat Photos on International Cat Day
theatlantic.com

Something Digs Intricate Tunnels in Garnets. Is It Alive?
nytimes.com

Yellowstone Supervolcano Could Be an Energy Source. But Should It?
nationalgeographic.com

These Twenty-Somethings Got Heart Transplants on the Very Same Day. And then They Fell in Love.
washingtonian.com

Inside the Very Big, Very Controversial Business of Dog Cloning
vanityfair.com

War Without End
nytimes.com

Altered images: New research shows that what we see is distorted by what we expect to see
eurekalert.org

Blue crystals in meteorites show that our Sun went through the “terrible twos”
fieldmuseum.org

Video: When Birds Had Teeth
youtube.com

Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of Antarctica’s Blood Falls
motherboard.vice.com

How hormones went from theoretical to overhyped in one century
theverge.com

“I Don’t Believe in Aliens Anymore”
theatlantic.com

These half-billion-year-old creatures were animals—but unlike any known today
sciencemag.org

What can defend against off-the-shelf drone weapons?
dw.com

Photos of Abandoned Russia
theatlantic.com

Video: Manchester The Night of The Bomb [59:00, graphic content]
youtube.com

Just what’s happened to our neighborhood’s most violent star, η Carinae?
arstechnica.com

How to edit a human
1843magazine.com

The Ultra-Pure, Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible
wired.com

Facebook Wanted Us to Kill This Investigative Tool
gizmodo.com

Gene editing technique allows silkworms to produce spider silk
phys.org

All Reproduction Is Assisted
bostonreview.net

Since the sinking of the Titanic, the patrol has been on the lookout for rogue skyscrapers of ice
topic.com

40 years ago today President Jimmy Carter called upon the FDAA for assistance at Love Canal
damninteresting.com

Plants Are the World’s Dominant Life-Form
scientificamerican.com

A French village committed to deception
bbc.com

Creating goosebumps at will may be more interesting than it sounds
arstechnica.com

New in School: AI-Driven Gun Detection Systems
undark.org

Designing the Death of a Plastic
nytimes.com

Millennium bug – was it a myth?
bbc.com

Strange metals are even weirder than scientists thought
sciencenews.org

Study: People with strong self-control experience less intense bodily states like hunger and fatigue
digest.bps.org.uk

Video: World’s Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam [46:08]
youtube.com

Scientists Have Uncovered a Disturbing Climate Change Precedent
theatlantic.com

Can You Remember Being a Baby?
gizmodo.com

The Utter Failure of Fictional Time Travel
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Study finds more spending on fire suppression may lead to bigger fires
news.mit.edu

Police violence, cliques, and secret tattoos: fears rise over LA sheriff ‘gangs’
theguardian.com

Interactive: See what the Earth looked like 50, 200, 500 million years ago
dinosaurpictures.org

How a taste for sweetness, developed for survival, became a stand-in for everything good — and evil — about our culture
eater.com

Brains keep temporary molecular records before making a lasting memory
theconversation.com

Angry people are more likely to overestimate their intelligence, study finds
psypost.org

On this day in 1945 the USA dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
damninteresting.com

6 arrests in failed plot to assassinate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
cbsnews.com

On this day in 1931 the antique submarine Nautilus set out for the North Pole
damninteresting.com

The art of stealing: The tragic fate of the masterpieces stolen from Rotterdam
nrc.nl

Planet-hunting Kepler Telescope Wakes up, Phones Home
scientificamerican.com

That Newfound Mineral Isn’t Harder Than Diamond — But It Is from Space
livescience.com

What ‘M*A*S*H’ Taught Us
newyorker.com

Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig
bbc.co.uk

The Draconian Dictionary is Back
theatlantic.com

‘You just lived for the moment’: Meet one of the last surviving female pilots who served in Second World War
cbc.ca

The reporter who has seen over 400 executions: ‘The job is to tell the story’
theguardian.com

Canadian radio telescope records mysterious low-frequency bursts from outside our galaxy
globalnews.ca

Image: Merging spiral galaxies NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 (by Juan Carlos Muñoz on VIMOS)
damninteresting.com

If other members of the animal kingdom can shut down their bodies over winter, then why can’t we?
lateralmag.com

Scientists get a rare glimpse of the brain reorganizing itself after a lobectomy
cbc.ca