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The universe might be acting weird. Cosmic ‘lenses’ may help reveal why.
nationalgeographic.com

A Woman’s AncestryDNA Test Revealed a Medical Secret
theatlantic.com

The ancient world teemed with birds; now we think with them
aeon.co

The SR-71 Blackbird’s Predecessor Created “Plasma Stealth” By Burning Cesium-Laced Fuel
thedrive.com

Google Maps shows sunken car where missing man’s body was found
bbc.com

Who were the ruthless warriors behind Attila the Hun?
nationalgeographic.com

Why Are American Homes So Big?
theatlantic.com

Detecting patients’ pain levels via their brain signals
medicalxpress.com

Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io May Not Have a Magma Ocean After All
space.com

Fight or Flight May Be in Our Bones
scientificamerican.com

The average menstrual cycle is not 28 days
qz.com

Transformative? New Device Harvests Energy in Darkness
nytimes.com

Hello From the Year 2050. We Avoided the Worst of Climate Change — But Everything Is Different
time.com

A woman who ran for president in 1872 was compared to Satan and locked up
beta.washingtonpost.com

Turkey prepares to flood 12,000-year-old city to build dam
theguardian.com

The Life Changing Linguistics of… Nigerian Scam Emails
daily.jstor.org

The 1979 BART tunnel fire nightmare: 5 minutes from ‘catastrophe’
sfgate.com

A space elevator is possible with today’s technology, researchers say (we just need to dangle it off the moon)
technologyreview.com

Giant Bubbles Spotted Rushing Out from Milky Way’s Center
blogs.discovermagazine.com

Seal ‘helps’ bust alleged international drug ring in Australia
bbc.com

The Most Powerful Lightning Bolts Occur in the Weirdest Places
gizmodo.com • (see also)

The Woman Who Beat the Nazis in Europe’s Deadliest Horse Race
lithub.com • (see also)

How Wi-Fi Almost Didn’t Happen
wired.com

John Dillinger Is Long Dead and Somehow Still a Troublemaker
atlasobscura.com

Spilled coffee forces plane to divert over Atlantic
bbc.com

When False Claims Are Repeated, We Start To Believe They Are True
digest.bps.org.uk

The Great Everywoman Outfit Contest of 1915
narratively.com

Can Physicists Rewrite the Origin Story of the Universe?
undark.org

The Great Flood of 2019: A Complete Picture of a Slow-Motion Disaster
nytimes.com

‘Red mercury’: why does this strange myth persist?
bbc.com

How spider silk is one of the most versatile materials on Earth
nationalgeographic.com

Another Interstellar Visitor Is Headed Our Way
skyandtelescope.com

The Communication We Share with Apes
nautil.us

New article/podcast episode by Alan Bellows: Dead Reckoning
damninteresting.com

The Amazon’s tallest tree just got 50% taller – and scientists don’t know how
theconversation.com

Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seas
theguardian.com

Why Talking to Strangers Is the Best Thing You Can Do for Your Mental Health
melmagazine.com

The Shootings that Shook Malibu Creek State Park
outsideonline.com

Research redefines lower limit for planet size habitability
phys.org

Long After Historic Flybys, NASA’s New Horizons Is Still Pioneering Science in the Kuiper Belt
space.com

Quantum Physics Is Fine, Human Bias About Reality Is The Real Problem
forbes.com

A teen fractured her thumb. Doctors botched the surgery and replaced it with her big toe.
beta.washingtonpost.com

Researchers are getting close to manufacturing viable human embryos from stem cells in their labs
technologyreview.com

Someone Just Moved a Billion Dollars in Bitcoin and No One Knows Why
vice.com

The big question: has terrorism ever achieved its aims?
historyextra.com

The Continuing Legacy of 9/11
newyorker.com

Water vapor — and maybe even rain — found on distant world twice the size of Earth
theverge.com • More info

On the History of the Artificial Womb
daily.jstor.org

The Humble Origins of the Man Who Discovered Dark Matter
lithub.com

Hugh Everett blew up quantum mechanics with his Many-Worlds theory in the 1950s. Physics is only just catching up
aeon.co

When the Pianos Went to War
atlasobscura.com

The CIA’s Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A ‘Poisoner In Chief’
npr.org

‘This tape rewrites everything we knew about the Beatles’
theguardian.com • (see also)

There’s a Lost Continent Hiding Beneath Europe
livescience.com

On this day in 1973 an ambitious cybernetic experiment was prematurely terminated
damninteresting.com

Ghost crabs use teeth in stomachs to ‘growl’ at predators
theguardian.com

People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their “Skeletons”
scientificamerican.com

Marco Polo’s odyssey spawned one of the world’s first best sellers
nationalgeographic.com

Modern Life Has Made It Easier for Serial Killers to Thrive
theatlantic.com

It’s later than you think
linkedin.com