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Inside the High-Stakes Race to Make Quantum Computers Work
wired.com

Houseplants Don’t Actually Clean the Air
theatlantic.com

Why the sleep industry is keeping us awake at night
theguardian.com

Stolpersteine: The ‘Stumbling Stones’ of Holocaust Victims
amusingplanet.com

How Driving is Encouraged and Subsidized — By Law
usa.streetsblog.org

This Ghostly Galaxy May Be a ‘Living Fossil’ from the Dawn of the Universe
livescience.com

Still Waiting For a Savior: Before GM Left, Avanti Sold an Ohio Town an Impossible Dream
jalopnik.com

It Took Two Months and Nearly a Million Dollars to Save an Unvaccinated 6-Year-Old From Tetanus
gizmodo.com

Stalkers and Debt Collectors Impersonate Cops to Trick Big Telecom Into Giving Them Cell Phone Location Data
motherboard.vice.com

Medieval Diseases Are Infecting California’s Homeless
theatlantic.com

Thyroid hormone helped our ancestors survive but left us susceptible
medicalxpress.com

Image: Hubble’s dazzling display of two colliding galaxies
phys.org

New cell-sized micro robots might make incredible journeys
eurekalert.org

How Heavy Is the Milky Way?
gizmodo.com

Gallery: The Women Who Are Clearing the Minefields in Sri Lanka
theatlantic.com

The Coffin Business Is Booming in Central America Due to Gang Violence
bloomberg.com

Squid Share a Colorful Trick With Peacocks
nytimes.com

Death by Civilization
theatlantic.com

Effie’s wedding photo mystery solved
bbc.com

Life, Death, and PTSD as a Ranger in the Tetons
outsideonline.com

America’s Light Bulb Revolution
nytimes.com

The Man with an Elephant’s Nose
earlymodernmedicine.com

‘It’s Kind of Crazy in a Developed Country’: Inside the Amputation Crisis in the Rio Grande Valley
texasobserver.org

Gamma ray telescopes could detect starships powered by black hole
phys.org

Cloudy With a Chance of War
nautil.us

Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox
quantamagazine.org • (see also)

The girl who was never meant to survive
bbc.co.uk

What is seafood fraud? Dangerous—and running rampant, report finds
nationalgeographic.com

The Clothes of the Future Were Supposed to Be Set on Fire
paleofuture.gizmodo.com

The Mad Science Plan to Power the World With Poop
earther.gizmodo.com

The $200,000 Toy Heist That Tore the ‘Star Wars’ World Apart
popularmechanics.com

Experts Think This ‘Nude Mona Lisa’ Could Have Been Drawn by Leonardo da Vinci
smithsonianmag.com

Mechanics of coronal mass ejections revealed
cosmosmagazine.com • (see also)

How three rebel queens of Egypt overthrew an empire and gave birth to a new kingdom
nationalgeographic.com

America’s school students exposed to water tainted by toxic lead
theguardian.com

14-foot fish spotted in river, giving hope to vanished giant’s return
nationalgeographic.com

Nasa astronauts to carry out first all-female spacewalk
theguardian.com

Massacre of Children in Peru Might Have Been a Sacrifice to Stop Bad Weather
nytimes.com

Bad Dreams Are Good
theatlantic.com

The Bloody Baron’s Crazy, Mixed-Up Robbery
thedailybeast.com

Why ‘ji32k7au4a83’ Is a Remarkably Common Password
gizmodo.com

Archeologists discover series of tunnels below famed Alcatraz prison
cbc.ca

Alabama Tornado Devastation in Photos
theatlantic.com

What Not to Wear: The Deadliest Hats, Scarves, and Skirts in History
collectorsweekly.com • (see also)

Looking for economic prosperity without growth
knowablemagazine.org

Mining the Moon
theconversation.com

Animal with an anus that comes and goes could reveal how ours evolved
newscientist.com

Israel’s first moon mission spacecraft sends back selfie
theguardian.com

There’s an arms race going on in this bird nest. Scientists are uncovering how each side fights back
sciencemag.org

A Giant and Long-Contested Civil War Painting Returns to Its Former Glory
newyorker.com

Ball lightning: weird, mysterious, perplexing, and deadly
nationalgeographic.com

NASA visualizes supersonic shockwaves in a new, awe-inspiring way
arstechnica.com

Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Can’t stand the rain? How wet weather affects human behaviour
theguardian.com

Huawei: The story of a controversial company
bbc.com

How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all
latimes.com

The Tinder Swindler
vg.no

How Scientists Made a Laser Beam That Can Pass Through White Paint
gizmodo.com

This spider slingshots itself at extreme speeds to catch prey
sciencenews.org

Crypto Exchange Says Its Founder Died With Clients’ $180 Million—But the Money Is Missing
gizmodo.com