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Gallery: Big spiders eating small vertebrates
cosmosmagazine.com

Here’s what happens when your body tissues turn to bone
nationalgeographic.com

This is your brain on bungee jumping: Cliff divers take the leap for science
arstechnica.com

Scientists can read the ‘rust’ on a person’s DNA to predict when they’ll die
cbc.ca

The Fake Sex Doctor Who Conned the Media Into Publicizing His Bizarre Research on Suicide, Butt-Fisting, and Bestiality
gizmodo.com

Spain logs hundreds of shipwrecks that tell story of maritime past
theguardian.com

Israel’s Secret Founding Fathers
nytimes.com

Is DNA Left on Envelopes Fair Game for Testing?
theatlantic.com

On this day in 1943 a team of Norwegian commandos sabotaged the Nazi effort to build an A-bomb
damninteresting.com

The bizarre and brilliant rules for naming new stuff in space
thestar.com

How the Icefish Got Its Transparent Blood and See-Through Skull
nytimes.com

The Secrets of the World’s Greatest Art Thief
gq.com

The Hidden History of the Nutmeg Island That Was Traded for Manhattan
atlasobscura.com

These Mice Sing to One Another — Politely
nytimes.com

The Deadly Plant Sneeze
nautil.us

With a Second Repeating Radio Burst, Astronomers Close In on an Explanation
quantamagazine.org

Bone Records: Soviet-Era Bootlegged Music on X-Rays
amusingplanet.com

Rembrandt in the Blood: An Obsessive Aristocrat, Rediscovered Paintings and an Art-World Feud
nytimes.com

When Pan Am Promised to Fly Us to the Moon
popularmechanics.com

The Minnesota Murderess
magazine.atavist.com

The Helicopter Pilots Who Carpet-Bomb Islands to Battle Invasive Rats
earther.gizmodo.com

FBI finds 2,000 human bones at Indiana home: ‘Unlike anything we’d ever seen’
theguardian.com

Can You Be Executed for a Crime You Don’t Remember?
theatlantic.com

Kifafa: The mystery of East Africa’s ‘nodding disease’
bbc.com • (see also)

Nanotech Injections Give Mice Infrared Vision
theatlantic.com

The Master of Spin
cjr.org

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damninteresting.com

Making sense of how the blind ‘see’ color
news.harvard.edu

Siberia’s ancient ghost clan starts to surrender its secrets
nature.com

More support for Planet Nine
phys.org

Astronomers have detected a stealthy black hole from its effects on an interstellar gas cloud
nao.ac.jp

Simulated Mission in Chilean Desert Shows How a Rover Could Detect Life on Mars
gizmodo.com

Out in the Cold: Four mentally disabled men died in woods. But what happened to the fifth?
sacbee.com

Rare Australian Twins Are “Semi-Identical,” Sharing 78 Percent of Their DNA
inverse.com • (see also)

The Unsolved Mystery of the Earth Blobs
eos.org

Meet the super climbers who came to the rescue on the ‘Killer Mountain’
nationalgeographic.com

Physicists Propose Hunting for Signs of Dark Matter in Ancient Minerals
gizmodo.com

A Man’s Trouble Smelling Was Caused By a Tooth Growing in His Nose
livescience.com

In 1930s Tunisia, French Doctors Feared a ‘Tea Craze’ Would Destroy Society
atlasobscura.com

Known as the Kayak Killer, she is out on parole and looking to clear her name.
elle.com

Astronomers Have Scanned The Weird ‘Megastructure’ Star For Signs of Alien Lasers
sciencealert.com

The Wild Conspiracy That the Titanic Never Sank
popularmechanics.com

Revealed: the physics of sticky tape
cosmosmagazine.com

Why Do We Crave Sweets When We’re Stressed?
scientificamerican.com

A Troubling Discovery in the Deepest Ocean Trenches
theatlantic.com

How your language reflects the senses you use
bbc.com

Science: You’re Definitely Worrying About the Wrong Things
lithub.com

‘We donte want to hurt anney one’: Bonnie and Clyde’s poetry revealed
theguardian.com

When Does an Accident Become a Crime?
texasmonthly.com

Scientists Are 99.9999 Percent Sure Humans Caused Climate Change
futurism.com

Ancient Angkor’s mysterious decline may have been slow, not sudden
sciencenews.org

NASA Study Reproduces Origins of Life on Ocean Floor
jpl.nasa.gov

‘House of Tomorrow,’ Futuristic Marvel from the 1933 World’s Fair, Is Available to Lease
smithsonianmag.com

Man’s Radioactive Remains Spread Radiation All Over Cremation Chamber
livescience.com

The Jim Crow Car: The North, the South and the forgotten origins of racial separation
washingtonpost.com

How a one-handed champion is reinventing rock climbing
nationalgeographic.com

Humpback Whale Washes Ashore in Amazon River, Baffling Scientists in Brazil
nytimes.com

The Mystery of Antarctica’s Missing Meteorites
theatlantic.com

Vandals decapitate 800-year-old ‘crusader’
bbc.com

Red-meat allergies might be caused primarily by ticks, not the deer blood they transmit
qz.com