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The Psychological Challenges of Just Getting to Mars
nautil.us

What is behind the spread of a mysterious allergy to meat?
theguardian.com

These spiders feed their leftovers to carnivorous plants
nationalgeographic.com

Super-solid helium state confirmed in beautiful experiment
arstechnica.com • (see also)

The downing of CP Flight 21, one of the largest unsolved mass murders on Canadian soil, is a real-life whodunit
newsinteractives.cbc.ca

Forgotten statue kept in a margarine tub is 2,000-year-old treasure
theguardian.com

Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
nytimes.com

Women were written out of science history – it’s time we put them back in
thenextweb.com

The Scary History of Therapeutic Showers
theatlantic.com

Watch a Russian Spacewalk That Aims to Solve a Space Station Mystery
nytimes.com

The key to cracking long-dead languages?
bbc.com

A Murder Over a Monsanto Chemical
newrepublic.com

A NASA Probe Just Found Evidence of Water on a Distant Asteroid
futurism.com

We’re Finally Learning the Lesson of Y2K — and It’s Too Late
medium.com

‘The Day I Set Myself On Fire’
narratively.com

‘Little Foot’ hominin emerges from stone after millions of years
nature.com

On this day in 1996 a professor published a groundbreaking paper on evolvable hardware
damninteresting.com

Should We Be Worried About Computerized Facial Recognition?
newyorker.com

Data analysis could help locate the missing Malaysian MH370 plane
technologyreview.com

Image: Saturn’s moons Dione and Rhea look like conjoined twins in this newly released image from Cassini
space.com

Why Victorians feared modern technology would make everyone blind
theconversation.com

4,000-Year-Old Game Board Carved into the Earth Shows How Nomads Had Fun
livescience.com

Nearly half of women murdered in the past decade were killed by an intimate partner
washingtonpost.com

Infectious Outbreaks Threaten the Last Asiatic Lions
scientificamerican.com

Can We Really Inherit Trauma?
nytimes.com

Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms
theguardian.com

A ‘Honking Big’ Cave in Canada Lures Geologists to Its Mouth
nytimes.com

South America’s other ‘Easter Island’
bbc.com

Beavers return to Italy after more than 500 years
cbc.ca

Russian ex-cop jailed for 56 more murders
bbc.com

Where is the boundary between your phone and your mind?
theguardian.com

In 1982, a 10-year-old American wrote to the head of the U.S.S.R. He wrote back and she became our youngest diplomat.
avclub.com

It’s Official: Voyager 2 Has Entered Interstellar Space
gizmodo.com

50 years ago, Douglas Engelbart’s ‘Mother of All Demos’ changed personal technology forever
mashable.com

A satellite screw-up reaffirms Einstein’s theory of gravity
sciencenews.org

The Race to Understand Antarctica’s Most Terrifying Glacier
wired.com

A startup is developing a 100-gigawatt laser to propel a probe to another star system. That may be powerful enough to ‘ignite an entire city.’
businessinsider.com

This map lets you hear what the world sounds like without humans
theverge.com

Researchers are ready to test pig skin transplants on humans for the first time
qz.com

The Rise and Fall of the Women’s Restroom Lounge
citylab.com

How to Save the Web
nytimes.com

How Alaska fixed its earthquake-shattered roads in just days
theverge.com

This Galaxy Pic from the Hubble Telescope Shows How Astronauts Fixed Its Vision 25 Years Ago
space.com

Why is nuclear fusion so hard?
blog.sigfpe.com

Egypt investigating couple pictured nude on top of Khufu pyramid
cnn.com

Image: The Complete Galactic Plane: Up and Down
apod.nasa.gov

How the iPhone health app helped police identify a murderer
theguardian.com

On this day in 1921, leaded gasoline was unfortunately invented
damninteresting.com

Iron Age chariot burial found in East Yorkshire with horses ‘leaping out of the grave’
yorkshirepost.co.uk

James Nasmyth’s Fake Lunar Photographs From 1874
amusingplanet.com

Tiny ‘Blueberries’ on Mars Continue to Baffle Scientists
livescience.com

The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything.
nytimes.com

The US Military Is Genetically Engineering New Life Forms To Detect Enemy Subs
defenseone.com

How NASA’s Mission to Bennu Will Keep Earth Safe from Asteroids
gizmodo.com

360º interactive video: He Served the Longest Sentence of Any Innocent U.S. Inmate
theatlantic.com

How Did Mary Queen of Scots Send Secret Messages?
paleofuture.gizmodo.com

The Ghosts of Highway 20
projects.oregonlive.com

Gut bacteria may offer a treatment for autism
economist.com

Forty Years Ago, 12.6 Million Feet of History Went Up in Smoke
smithsonianmag.com

Sounds of Mars: NASA’s InSight Senses Martian Wind
mars.nasa.gov