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How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
nytimes.com • (see also)

Your Cosmetics May Be Killing You
thewalrus.ca

Leonardo da Vinci’s lost masterpieces
bbc.com

Are the hyper-specialist shops of Berlin the future of retail?
theguardian.com

The Race to Develop the Moon
newyorker.com

The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined
quantamagazine.org

Machine, Learning, 1951
the-scientist.com

Gas That Makes a Mountain Breathe Fire Is Turning Up Around the World
nytimes.com

Blaming Women for Infertility in the 1940s
daily.jstor.org

The Short-Lived Airline That Shuttled Sightseers to America’s National Parks
atlasobscura.com

Mysterious ancient human found on the ‘roof of the world’
nationalgeographic.com

Star unlike any found in the Milky Way appears to be an intergalactic intruder
newatlas.com

The tricks of airport design
bbc.com

How scientists traced a uranium cube to Nazi Germany’s nuclear reactor program
sciencenews.org • (see also)

The Spycraft Revolution
foreignpolicy.com • (see also)

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Author
crimereads.com

Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers
nytimes.com • (see also)

Scientists find cocaine in shrimps in Suffolk rivers
bbc.com

A ‘miracle’ healing gel, a cult-like following, and a fiercely protected empire
theguardian.com

When Your Amazon Purchase Explodes
theatlantic.com

NASA Says Metals Fraud Caused $700 Million Satellite Failure
bloomberg.com

Sex and the Cosmic City
discovermagazine.com

Box jellyfish: Australian researchers find antidote for world’s most venomous creature
theguardian.com

The Case of the Stolen Ruby Slippers
washingtonpost.com

New research takes deeper look at Venus’s clouds
phys.org

How Language Shapes the Brain
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Astronomers identify the remains of a supernova recorded by Chinese observers in 48 BCE
uni-goettingen.de

Scientists Planning Now for Asteroid Flyby a Decade Away
jpl.nasa.gov • (see also)

Chronicles of the Rings: What Trees Tell Us
nytimes.com

New giant virus may help scientists better understand the emergence of complex life
eurekalert.org

How Alcoholics Anonymous lied to the American people
nypost.com

Collecting the Bizarre Homemade Cars of Russia’s Soviet Past
jalopnik.com

The Book Thief of Monastery Mountain
narratively.com

Hackers Steal and Ransom Financial Data Related to Some of the World’s Largest Companies
motherboard.vice.com

Around The World In Kodachrome – A Nobel Laureate’s Outstanding Travel Photographs
flashbak.com

What If Air Conditioning Could Help Stop Climate Change Instead of Causing It?
citylab.com

Man vs. Beast: Inside India’s Hunt for a Man-Eating Tiger
vanityfair.com

The $5 Billion Army Camouflage That Failed to Hide its Soldiers
warhistoryonline.com

Dutch queen planned deal with Nazis to help rescue Belgian king
theguardian.com

Tech firm apologizes after job ad seeks ‘preferably Caucasian’ candidates
theguardian.com

Dark Matter Gets a Reprieve in New Analysis
quantamagazine.org

Indians Are Roasting Their Army for Posting ‘Evidence’ of a One-Footed Yeti on Twitter
gizmodo.com

Color-Changing LEDs Pave the Way to Impossibly High Screen Resolutions
gizmodo.com

Why these countries are building new capitals from scratch
qz.com

Spinning black hole sprays light-speed plasma clouds into space
phys.org

These Ads Think They Know You
nytimes.com

Welcome To Titan, Saturn’s ‘Deranged’ Earth-Like Moon Beginning To Show Signs Of Life
forbes.com

She was captured and enslaved 400 years ago. Now Angela symbolizes a brutal history.
washingtonpost.com

Freddy the parrot makes it back to zoo after being stolen, shot and bitten by snake
theguardian.com

Who Killed Atlanta’s Children?
nytimes.com

The Meme Terrorists
theatlantic.com

The Grid Might Survive an Electromagnetic Pulse Just Fine
wired.com

How to Land a Plane in ‘Non-Normal’ Situations
wired.com • (see also)

Human Decomposition in Japanese Artwork
amusingplanet.com • (see also)

The Remarkable Story of a Woman Who Preserved Over 30 Years of TV History
atlasobscura.com

Busting the myth that depression doesn’t affect people in poor countries
theguardian.com

60 years ago, an Air Force pilot flew his B-47 bomber under a Michigan bridge
taskandpurpose.com

Learn about the history—and future—of the Japanese monarchy
nationalgeographic.com

As Nuclear Waste Piles Up, Private Companies Pitch New Ways To Store It
npr.org • (see also)

Health warning: social rejection doesn’t only hurt – it kills
aeon.co