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Surgeons opened her skull to remove a cancerous tumor. Instead, they found a tapeworm.
sfgate.com

41 years ago this month an architect recognized a grave error in the construction of a New York City skyscraper
damninteresting.com

How the ‘good guy with a gun’ became a deadly American fantasy
theconversation.com

Attempt to plug a wasp nest sparked the biggest wildfire in California history
latimes.com

Interactive: Save Our Food. Free the Seed.
nytimes.com

Drug makes tumors more susceptible to chemo
news.mit.edu

Photos: Honey Hunting on the Cliffs of China’s Yunnan Province
theatlantic.com

El Chapo: what the rise and fall of the kingpin reveals about the war on drugs
theguardian.com

Astronomers Spot Mysterious, 10-Million-Light-Year-Long Magnetic Field Connecting Two Galaxy Clusters
gizmodo.com

Venus is Earth’s evil twin — and space agencies can no longer resist its pull
nature.com

Accumulated Mutations Create A Cellular Mosaic In Our Bodies
npr.org

Cool Gas Circles the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
scientificamerican.com

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Testing Enters Final Phase
jpl.nasa.gov

Why Have the Revered Crocodiles of This Island Nation Suddenly Started Killing People?
nytimes.com

Forensic pollen scientists are helping the US track opioids
qz.com

The Grindr Grifter
observer.com

How the Cosby Story Finally Went Viral — And Why It Took So Long
longreads.com • (see also)

Most-detailed-ever simulations of black hole solve longstanding mystery
phys.org

Dutch teen Noa Pothoven wasn’t euthanised this weekend. So why did the media say she was?
newstatesman.com

Artificial Photosynthesis
daily.jstor.org

Telefon Hírmondó, The Telephone Newspaper
amusingplanet.com

The Extraordinary ‘Cookbooks’ Left Behind by Prisoners of War and Concentration Camp Victims
atlasobscura.com

What jumpstarted Earth’s plate tectonics? New clues point to ancient glaciers.
nationalgeographic.com

How Scientists Use Nuclear Fallout to Identify Art Forgeries
nytimes.com

After more than 40 years, FBI drops lab report on supposed Bigfoot hairs
sfgate.com

The Historian Who Invented 22 Holocaust Victims
spiegel.de

The tell-tale clue to how meteorites were made, at the birth of the solar system
theconversation.com

When Your Final Exam Is Surviving the Wilderness
theatlantic.com

What Has The Moon Got To Do With D-Day? As It Turns Out, Everything
forbes.com

The Inside Story of Europe’s First Narco-State
vice.com

Photos: The Battle for Women’s Suffrage in the U.S.
theatlantic.com • (see also)

Ultimate limit of human endurance found
bbc.com

Extinct Russian Volcano Has Woken up and Could Unleash ‘Pompeii-size’ Eruption, Scientists Warn
newsweek.com

40 years ago today Soviet drillers penetrated more deeply into the Earth than any humans before them
damninteresting.com

History’s Greatest Horse Racing Cheat and His Incredible Painting Trick
narratively.com

Metal Foam Stops .50 Caliber Rounds as Well as Steel – At Less Than Half the Weight
news.ncsu.edu

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft grabs epic close-up just 30 feet above asteroid
cnet.com

A $4 Million Apartment With No Doorknobs: Inside the Plaza’s Lawsuit-Plagued Luxury Renovation
vanityfair.com

Why It Pays to Play Around
nautil.us • (see also)

‘Socialism for the rich’: the evils of bad economics
theguardian.com

Hershey, Nestle and Mars broke their pledges to end child labor in chocolate production
washingtonpost.com

Martian sands move in unearthly ways
earthsky.org

How is That Diamond Moving? This Optical Illusion Is Important for Science
interestingengineering.com

Exposure to influential bacteria begins before we are born, new evidence confirms
medicalxpress.com

Who Were the Ancestors of Native Americans? A Lost People in Siberia, Scientists Say
nytimes.com

Chandra Detects a Coronal Mass Ejection From Another Star
nasa.gov

The Not So Dead Sea: Traces of Ancient Bacteria Found in the Lake’s Sediments
scientificamerican.com

Meet the Deep-Sea Dragonfish. Its Transparent Teeth Are Stronger Than a Piranha’s.
nytimes.com

Physicists Search for Monstrous Higgs Particle. It Could Seal the Fate of the Universe.
livescience.com

How to survive in the world’s largest refugee camp
mosaicscience.com

On the hunt for the Universe’s biggest galaxies far, far away
aeon.co

How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America
newyorker.com • (see also)

Wildfire Smoke Is Here to Stay
outsideonline.com

Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time
quantamagazine.org

On June 6, 1944, a lone C-47 led the Normandy invasion. Seventy-five years later, the plane will do it again.
popularmechanics.com • (see also)

Hackers seek ransoms from Baltimore and communities across the US
theconversation.com

50 years ago this month, the US Army Corps of Engineers switched off a sizable portion of Niagara Falls
damninteresting.com

Pfizer had clues its blockbuster drug could prevent Alzheimer’s. Why didn’t it tell the world?
washingtonpost.com

Everest Is Over
theatlantic.com

Bees can link symbols to numbers, study finds
phys.org