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Boudica the warrior queen
aeon.co

These Flatworms Can Regrow A Body From A Fragment. How Do They Do It And Could We?
npr.org

Inside the booming business of background music
theguardian.com

Scientists Want to Use Lasers to Guide Aliens to Earth. What Could Go Wrong?
livescience.com

How the Jumping Spider Sees Its Prey
nytimes.com

Argentina’s mega-storms attract army of meteorologists
nature.com

Bill Gates brandishes poo to showcase reinvented toilet tech
bbc.com

Why the Long Face, Extinct Dolphin?
theatlantic.com

Scientists Weighed the Earth Using Ghostly Particles From Space
gizmodo.com

Former Nazi SS camp guard, 94, goes on trial in Germany
apnews.com

New discovery throws light on mystery of pyramids’ construction
theguardian.com

Video: How optical tweezers work
youtube.com

Using Wi-Fi to “see” behind closed doors is easier than anyone thought
technologyreview.com

Ambitious Project to Sequence Genomes of 1.5 Million Species Kicks Off
smithsonianmag.com

Man Dies 8 Years After Swallowing a Live Slug That Left Him Paralyzed
livescience.com

Llama “nanobodies” might grant universal flu protection
arstechnica.com

Mystery in a Small Town: A Quiet Couple Shot Dead, Their Daughter Missing
nytimes.com

The Mysteries of Animal Movement
nytimes.com

13.5 billion year old star was born just after the Big Bang – and it’s in our neighborhood
newatlas.com

Even a few bots can shift public opinion in big ways
theconversation.com

Voting Booths Were a Radical 19th-Century Reform to Stop Election Fraud [in the US]
atlasobscura.com

China still having trouble staffing up its mega-telescope
arstechnica.com

‘How I became friends with an octopus’
bbc.com

How a trippy 1980s video effect might help to explain consciousness
theconversation.com

Cheesy music: Swiss experiment with sound to make cheese tastier
phys.org

Welcome to the world’s northernmost science lab
nationalgeographic.com

Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility
motherboard.vice.com

The True Story of the Fugitive Drug Smuggler Who Became an Environmental Hero
outsideonline.com

Why does sadness inspire great art when happiness cannot?
aeon.co

For Close-Knit Planets, Sharing Life Could Be Easy
space.com

The secret of Viking success? A good coat of tar.
theguardian.com

More Evidence Points to China as Source of Ozone-Depleting Gas
nytimes.com

RIP the Kilogram, Which Will Never Be the Same Again
inverse.com

What Is an “Almost Prime” Number?
blogs.scientificamerican.com

An astronaut explains why you can’t burp in space
qz.com

Meet the Serial-Killer Whisperer
medium.com

College Athlete Dies of Rare Bacterial Illness Called ‘Forgotten Disease’
livescience.com

Who was Guy Fawkes, the man behind the mask?
nationalgeographic.com

The Incredible Shrinking Planet
theatlantic.com

How a Tiny Flightless Bird Ended Up on an Island in the Middle of the Ocean
gizmodo.com

The Man Who Turns Back New York City’s Clocks, Hand by Hand
nytimes.com

1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scientific Fraud
acsh.org

SpaceX’s ‘Starman’ and Its Tesla Roadster Are Now Beyond Mars
space.com

A new measurement bolsters the case for a (slightly) smaller proton
sciencenews.org

How to Encode a Secret Message in a Fingerprint
spectrum.ieee.org

Can Science Bring Extinct Animals Back to Life?
thewalrus.ca

30 years ago, the world’s first cyberattack set the stage for modern cybersecurity challenges
theconversation.com

Why do we have daylight saving time? 100 years of history
news.nationalgeographic.com

The Galactic Collision That Reshaped Our Milky Way
scientificamerican.com

Japanese island disappears, without anyone noticing
theguardian.com • (see also)

An Unfinished Orson Welles Film Finally Gets a Debut
theatlantic.com

The CIA’s communications suffered a catastrophic compromise. It started in Iran.
yahoo.com

Slightly heavier than a toothpick, the first wireless insect-size robot takes flight
cnbc.com

How Aladdin’s story was forged in Aleppo and Versailles
theguardian.com

NASA Has a Wild Idea to Send 1 Probe to 7 Different Asteroids and It Could Launch In 2021
space.com

A journey to a Moroccan village frozen in time
bbc.com

Livestream: The naked mole-rat cam from Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
nationalzoo.si.edu • (see also)

Watch a Famous Supernova Change Over 25 Years
gizmodo.com

The Violent Deaths of Giant Blue Stars May Spawn Exotic Matter
space.com

NASA’s Dawn Mission to Asteroid Belt Comes to End
jpl.nasa.gov