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Failed 1970s Venus Probe Could Crash to Earth This Year
space.com

Ming Dynasty Skeletons Reveal Secrets of Foot-Binding
livescience.com • (see also)

Where are all the aliens? Struggling and hustling, just like us
popsci.com • (see also)

Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth
theguardian.com

A Japanese Illustrated History of America (1861)
openculture.com

Great Glass Coffin Scam: When Hucksters Sold the Fantasy of Death Without Decay
collectorsweekly.com

Seven Black Inventors Whose Patents Helped Shape American Life
nytimes.com

The Fishy Mystery of Lake Malawi
smithsonianmag.com

The blind climbers of Kilimanjaro
bbc.com

Inside the Rise and Fall of a Multimillion-Dollar Airbnb Scheme
nytimes.com

Trove of Letters Reveal Charles Dickens Tried to Lock His Wife Away in an Asylum
smithsonianmag.com

Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked
technologyreview.com

Physics explains how pollen gets its stunning diversity of shapes
sciencenews.org

The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes
theguardian.com

New Ultima Thule Photos Were Made in a Flash
nytimes.com

Why We Think Cats Are Psychopaths
theatlantic.com

Navy files for patent on room-temperature superconductor
phys.org

This Perpetual Calendar Hidden in an Italian Chapel Is a Mathematical Marvel
atlasobscura.com

China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced
technologyreview.com

Don’t Let Robots Pull the Trigger
scientificamerican.com

480-Million-Year-Old Mystery Creature Finally Identified from Its Preserved Guts
livescience.com

NASA is testing a new submarine that will hunt for undiscovered sea life — and scientists eventually want it to look for aliens on Europa
businessinsider.com

Do volcanoes or an asteroid deserve blame for dinosaur extinction?
eurekalert.org

Lights! Camera! Action! How the Lumière brothers invented the movies
nationalgeographic.com

Stunning New View of Mars Shows Where Ancient Flowing Water Once Carved Its Surface
gizmodo.com

A lunar lander launches from Florida for the first time since Apollo 17
arstechnica.com

Climate Change Enters Its Blood-Sucking Phase
theatlantic.com

Could a Space Helicopter Find Life on Saturn’s Moon Titan?
blogs.scientificamerican.com

The Russian Sleuth Who Outs Moscow’s Elite Hackers and Assassins
wired.com

Japanese spacecraft successfully touches down on an asteroid, grabbing a sample of dust
theverge.com

Paper: Researchers have observed a single-celled algae evolve into a multicellular organism
nature.com

Scientists Have Created Synthetic DNA with 4 Extra Letters
livescience.com

Asteroid Mission Attempts Touchdown, Sample Grab
eos.org

The Impossible Mathematics of the Real World
nautil.us

Scientists say every animal needs sleep. These fruit flies didn’t get the memo
sciencemag.org

Mauritania’s Iron Ore Train
amusingplanet.com

How to catch a catfisher
theguardian.com

Could Earth’s Oceans Ever Boil Away?
livescience.com

NASA Set to Demonstrate X-ray Communications in Space
nasa.gov

Researchers peer inside the mind of the worm for clues on how memories form
eurekalert.org

This is the loneliest road in America
nationalgeographic.com

Zombie Stars Shine on after Mystery Detonations
scientificamerican.com

Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real
gizmodo.com

A diminutive new species of T. rex fills an important gap
theatlantic.com

The World’s Largest Bee Is Not Extinct
nytimes.com

A town where most speak sign language
bbc.com

High risk: anti-vaxxers in the delivery ward
theguardian.com

How Drug Company Ads Downplay Risks
scientificamerican.com

Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon
seti.org

The Surprising Reason Zebras Have Stripes
theatlantic.com • (see also)

Supreme Court Limits Police Powers to Seize Private Property
nytimes.com

The Language of Your Love Life
daily.jstor.org

‘Our little brown rat’: first climate change-caused mammal extinction
smh.com.au

The Big Money: How Cherokee Teenagers Prepare for a Financial Windfall
topic.com

Scientists have discovered that grasses are able to short cut evolution by taking genes from their neighbours
sheffield.ac.uk

Should We Kill Off Disease-Causing Pests?
scientificamerican.com

The term “Miscegenation” was coined in an 1864 pamphlet by an anonymous author
daily.jstor.org

Hot, Small, or Couch, Why Potatoes Make Great Idioms
atlasobscura.com • (see also)

Earth’s atmosphere stretches out to the moon – and beyond
phys.org

Four-day week: trial finds lower stress and increased productivity
theguardian.com