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Gravitational waves hint at detection of black hole eating star
nature.com

Robots that Learn to Use Improvised Tools
bair.berkeley.edu • (see also)

A Small Town Takes a Stand: It Banned Gossip
msn.com

How Physicists Measured the Rarest Event Ever Directly Observed
gizmodo.com

Plight of the Platypus
biographic.com

From ‘consent football’ to ‘pin the organ on the body’: sex education around the world
theguardian.com

USA: Arsonist Starts Fire at National Archives
archives.gov

Automation Transformed How Pilots Fly Planes. Now the Same Must Happen With Cars
jalopnik.com

Could Your Immune System Be Making You Impulsive?
digest.bps.org.uk • (see also)

Ocean waves and winds are getting higher and stronger
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au

And all who sail in … it? The language row over ‘female’ ships
theguardian.com

Secrets of Tiniest Star Ever Measured Revealed by Passing Asteroids
space.com

The plastic pink flamingo: A weird symbol of American optimism
bbc.com

Mysterious Rings Around Reefs Have No Simple Explanation
theatlantic.com

Her ‘Prince Charming’ Turned Out to Be a Crazed Hit Man on the Run
nytimes.com

Scientists Discover Nearly 200,000 Kinds of Ocean Viruses
quantamagazine.org

Is the Immediate Playback of Events Changing Children’s Memories?
nytimes.com

Did a vigilante ROM leaker go too far to “preserve” a lost Atari ROM?
arstechnica.com

Why are so many people getting rare cancers in this small Georgia town?
atlantamagazine.com

Into the pharaoh’s chamber: ‘how I fell in love with ancient Egypt’
theguardian.com

For just the second time, physicists at LIGO have detected the gravitational waves of two neutron stars colliding
blogs.discovermagazine.com

The universe seems to be expanding faster than all expectations
nationalgeographic.com

Scientists create never-ending livestream of AI-generated death metal
businessinsider.com

The Real Story of the First Sighting of Jesus in a Tortilla in 1977
eater.com

JT LeRoy: The US’s greatest literary scam
bbc.com

Police seize ‘super obedient’ lookout parrot trained by Brazilian drug dealers
theguardian.com

The English vegetable picked by candlelight
bbc.com

Nuremberg Trials audio recordings: saving the original records of Nazi atrocities
theverge.com

Glomar Explorer – the CIA and Howard Hughes’ Attempt to Raise a Sunken Russian Submarine
interestingengineering.com

Scientists discover what powers celestial phenomenon ‘STEVE’
news.agu.org

The Search for the Severed Head of the Himalayas
eos.org

NASA, FEMA, International Partners Plan Asteroid Impact Exercise
jpl.nasa.gov

New type of plastic is a recycling dream
arstechnica.com

Five years on, the Flint water crisis is nowhere near over
nationalgeographic.com

The best day to get married is a Tuesday in January
qz.com

Synthetic Speech Generated from Brain Recordings
ucsf.edu

Life May Have Evolved Before Earth Finished Forming
space.com

DNA as you’ve never seen it before, thanks to a new nanotechnology imaging method
theconversation.com

Just how hard is it to fight a parking ticket in L.A.? Here’s one Angeleno’s story
latimes.com

A pod of orcas is starving to death. A tribe has a radical plan to feed them
theguardian.com

Bursting the Aquarium Bubble
theatlantic.com

Opera singer with transplanted lungs dies
bbc.com

The Affluent Homeless: A Sleeping Pod, A Hired Desk And A Handful Of Clothes
npr.org

The History Behind Baseball’s Weirdest Pitch
lithub.com • (see also)

Kidnapping: A Very Efficient Business
nybooks.com

Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions?
harvardmagazine.com

The second largest emperor penguin colony in Antarctica disappears, satellite images show
bbc.com

Japan succeeds in creating world’s 1st man-made crater on asteroid
mainichi.jp

The Man Who Solved ‘Jeopardy!’
fivethirtyeight.com • (see also)

‘It’s not play if you’re making money’: how Instagram and YouTube disrupted child labor laws
theguardian.com

‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’
wired.com

The Portly Victorian Undertaker Who Launched the World’s First Low-Carb Craze
narratively.com

Why a Traffic Flow Suddenly Turns Into a Traffic Jam
nautil.us

The need for an ending
aeon.co

Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats
nytimes.com

Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands
theguardian.com

R.D. Laing’s Radical Method for Treating Schizophrenia
topic.com

Seeing the quantum
aeon.co

Stockholm Syndrome: What really happened that summer day in 1973?
daily.jstor.org • (see also)

This is the slowest radioactive decay ever spotted
sciencenews.org