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Rare African black leopard captured by camera trap’s extraordinary photos
theguardian.com

No One Really Knows What to Do With All of America’s Unclaimed Corpses
theatlantic.com

Nasa makes final attempt to communicate with Mars rover
theguardian.com • Update

Parkland: A Year After the School Shooting That Was Supposed to Change Everything
nytimes.com

The Bizarre Planets That Could Be Humanity’s New Homes
theatlantic.com

Decolonizing Science Writing in South Africa
theopennotebook.com

El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown
nytimes.com

How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past
quantamagazine.org

Explorers Discover the Wreck of the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, Sunk in World War II
popularmechanics.com

Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile
nautil.us

“Eskimos Have Fifty Words for Snow” is an amazing phrase, because every word in it is wrong.
popula.com

How a 25-Inch Plot of Land in Greenwich Village Embodied ‘a Resistance’
nytimes.com

Fossilized Tubes Point to Super-Ancient Mobile Organisms
the-scientist.com

America’s Pistachio Industry Came From a Single Seed
atlasobscura.com

Skeleton of Teen Girl Found Buried Next to Mysterious Pyramid in Egypt
livescience.com

An earthquake lasted 50 days, but no one felt it. Here’s why.
nationalgeographic.com

Study Details How Phone Companies Prey on Families of Inmates in Local Jails
gizmodo.com

Hong Kong, Crossroads of the Criminal Wildlife Trade
nytimes.com

The Swiss town obsessed with the number 11
bbc.com

Stonehenge, other ancient rock structures may trace their origins to monuments like this
sciencemag.org

The Tiny Swiss Company That Thinks It Can Help Stop Climate Change
nytimes.com

Heineken claims its business helps Africa. Is that too good to be true?
theguardian.com

Photos: 40 years since the Iranian Revolution
qz.com

Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent
theguardian.com

‘I tried to keep my unborn child secret from Facebook and Google’
wired.co.uk

The Long, Weird History of Strobe Weapons
popularmechanics.com

Everywhere in the Animal Kingdom, Followers of the Milky Way
nytimes.com

Global insect decline may see ‘plague of pests’
bbc.com

People Who Are Most Fearful Of Genetically Modified Foods Think They Know The Most About Them, But Actually Know The Least
digest.bps.org.uk • (see also)

Mouse toes partially regrown after amputation thanks to two proteins
newscientist.com

Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize
theconversation.com

Edwin Smith Papyrus: The 3,600-Year-Old Textbook of Surgery
amusingplanet.com

The Rude, Cruel, and Insulting ‘Vinegar Valentines’ of the Victorian Era
atlasobscura.com

Mars One is dead
engadget.com

How this animal’s adorable face mask keeps it safe
nationalgeographic.com

Russian islands declare emergency after mass invasion of polar bears
theguardian.com

Why China is obsessed with numbers
bbc.com

Scientists Are Totally Rethinking Animal Cognition
theatlantic.com

The barefoot engineers of Malawi – in pictures
theguardian.com

Franco refugees still haunted by the past: ‘We were cold, hungry and scared’
theguardian.com

SOFIA Observations of Supernova 1987A Surprise Astronomers
scitechdaily.com

How a fungus can cripple the immune system
eurekalert.org

When Victorians Scientists Caught Ballomania
daily.jstor.org

Lightning’s electromagnetic fields may have protective properties
phys.org

There Is a Market for Artworks by Hitler. Many of Them Are Fakes
smithsonianmag.com

Earth Once Swallowed Its Own Superocean. Could It Happen Again?
space.com

The Dark Side of Original Thinking
theatlantic.com

The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight
blog.longnow.org

A Photo Trip to China’s Daocheng County
theatlantic.com

We were covering the Iranian revolution. A single gunshot still haunts me.
washingtonpost.com

Hubble Observes Ice Giant Vortexes and Polar Storms on Neptune and Uranus
popularmechanics.com

From Columbine to Parkland: how we got the story wrong on mass shootings
theguardian.com

A Princess Vanishes. A Video Offers Alarming Clues.
nytimes.com

The Book of the Dead was Egyptians’ inside guide to the underworld
nationalgeographic.com

Hidden world of microscopic life revealed in extraordinary pictures
nationalgeographic.com

Wayward Satellites Test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
scientificamerican.com

New images of the distant Ultima Thule object have surprised scientists
arstechnica.com

Yellowstone’s Steamboat Geyser Is Gushing at a Record Pace
nytimes.com

These Award-Winning Botanical Photos Belong in Alice in Wonderland
earther.gizmodo.com

Danish Workers Unearth ‘Still-Sharp’ Medieval Sword While Digging Out Sewer
gizmodo.com