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Hubble Captures Cosmic Fireworks in Ultraviolet
spacetelescope.org

The No. 1 Ladies’ Defrauding Agency
longreads.com

Melting Greenland Is Awash in Sand
nytimes.com • (see also)

Dive beneath the pyramids of Egypt’s black pharaohs
nationalgeographic.com

Chinese border guards put secret surveillance app on tourists’ phones
theguardian.com

On this day in 1881 a mentally disturbed individual shot US President James Garfield
damninteresting.com

A once-classified anomaly nearly killed NASA’s first moon astronauts, a new book reveals
insider.com

The Long, Slow Death of Venice
bloomberg.com

How Should Space Settlers Keep Track of Time?
slate.com

Deer antlers are a ‘controlled’ form of bone cancer growth
bigthink.com

The Woman Who Sneaked Into George Washington’s Army
nytimes.com

What happened when my flight was invaded by ants
theguardian.com

Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon?
theconversation.com

Plane stowaways: Do any survive?
bbc.com

When pirates studied Euclid
aeon.co

Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong?
nytimes.com

Speed kills: are police chases out of control?
theguardian.com

The Sheriff Lost Reelection. Then the Spending Spree Began.
propublica.org

Psychologists Have Identified The Creatures We Find Most Scary And Revolting
digest.bps.org.uk

The First Responders
magazine.atavist.com

The Pitfalls of Searching for Alien Life
undark.org

Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures
quantamagazine.org

Researchers reach milestone in use of nanoparticles to kill cancer with heat
today.oregonstate.edu

Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid: ‘We Have an Electric Planet’
nytimes.com

60 years ago today a social psychologist brought together three mental patients who all thought they were Jesus Christ
damninteresting.com

The death of the sidewalk
washingtonpost.com

AI Created a 3D Replica of Our Universe. We Have No Idea How It Works.
livescience.com • (see also)

White Holes: Do Black Holes Have Mirror Images?
blogs.discovermagazine.com

On Titan, Dragonfly Will Peer at the “Chemistry That Led to Life” on Earth
inverse.com

How collapsing civilizations have helped the world
theweek.com

First Army battalion with mini drones heading to Afghanistan
stripes.com

10 Medical Myths We Should Stop Believing. Doctors, Too
nytimes.com

Interstellar Mold Is Becoming a Problem for Space Travel
vice.com

For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes
atlasobscura.com

The Second Coming of the Robot Pet
wired.com

‘It’s getting warmer, wetter, wilder’: the Arctic town heating faster than anywhere
theguardian.com

The Troubling Business of Bounty Hunting
gq.com

Why plants don’t die from cancer
pbs.org

Sugar substitutes: Is one better or worse for diabetes? For weight loss? An expert explains
theconversation.com

Ice 1.5m thick as Mexican city hit by freak hail
bbc.com

‘We all suffer’: why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed
theguardian.com

On this day in 1971 a Soyuz spacecraft decompressed, exposing 3 cosmonauts to near-vacuum
damninteresting.com

Northern Ireland man Norman Surplus completes first round-the-world autogyro flight
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Secrets of Chernobyl spill out more than three decades after the nuclear disaster
latimes.com

Officials Warn of Wasp ‘Super Nests’ in Alabama
nytimes.com

An Unlikely Solution to Germany’s East-West Divide
theatlantic.com • (see also)

The Great Model Train Robbery
bloomberg.com

Physicists discover croissant-shaped twists of light
nationalgeographic.com

‘Save your money’: no evidence brain health supplements work, say experts
theguardian.com

Hellburner: The 16th Century Weapon of Mass Destruction
amusingplanet.com

The Infrastructure Mess Causing Countless Internet Outages
wired.com

Why Weather Forecasting Keeps Getting Better
newyorker.com

Why the “Random Transiter” is now the most mysterious star in the Galaxy
hughosborn.co.uk

Atari Centipede’s Hidden Code Trap
arcadeblogger.com

What Is the Human Microbiome, Exactly?
nautil.us

A year after Thai cave rescue, a fight over the story
si.com

For More Than 111 Years, Scientist Puzzled Over The Tunguska Event
forbes.com

Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding. And It’s Only Going to Get Worse.
elemental.medium.com

How Historians Can Now See Invisible Text on Ancient Manuscripts
gizmodo.com

In Montreal, 70,000 Households Move On the Same Day
citylab.com