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Deep Throat’s identity was a mystery for decades because no one believed this woman
washingtonpost.com

Please Relax to This Video of an Octopus Changing Colors As It Naps
vice.com

High-speed microscope illuminates biology at the speed of life
phys.org

What If Planet Nine Is a Bowling Ball-Size Black Hole?
gizmodo.com

How Many Humans Could the Moon Support?
livescience.com

The Balloon Boy Hoax—Solved!
5280.com

The Spycraft Revolution
foreignpolicy.com

Russia’s Circular Warships
amusingplanet.com

This Terrible Mammoth Drawing Was a Giant Help to 19th-Century Naturalists
atlasobscura.com

The Race to Name New Species
daily.jstor.org

Google Says Google Translate Can’t Replace Human Translators. Immigration Officials Have Used It to Vet Refugees.
propublica.org

Inside the massive effort to tackle one of America’s greatest rabies threats
nationalgeographic.com

When The Beatles met Muhammad Ali in Miami (1964)
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France Banned This Common Food Additive the FDA Says Is Safe – Who Is Right?
scitechdaily.com

Was Queen Mary, wife of George V, a kleptomaniac?
historyextra.com

Study: Teenagers less likely to respond to mothers with controlling tone of voice
medicalxpress.com

New frontier for science as astronomers detect gas molecules in comet from another star
phys.org

Conundrum: Why People Do Not Listen to Evacuation Orders
scientificamerican.com

All 59 people name-dropped in Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’: Where are they now?
latimes.com

Why Germany is a blank spot on Google’s Street View
bigthink.com

The ‘Infortunate’ Dictionary Scam
merriam-webster.com

Yes, there will be macaroni and cheese on Mars
thenextweb.com

The Intelligence of Plants
theparisreview.org

NASA is testing a shape-shifting robot that could explore Saturn’s moon Titan
technologyreview.com

Before the East India Company
laphamsquarterly.org

Inside the most brutal dictatorship you’ve never heard of
gq-magazine.co.uk

Edison and Tesla’s cutthroat ‘Current War’ ushered in the electric age
nationalgeographic.com • (see also)

We Should Deliberately Contaminate Mars With Our Microbes, Controversial Study Argues
gizmodo.com

A Murder in Berlin: The Untold Story of a Chechen ‘Jihadist’ Turned Secret Agent
thedailybeast.com

NASA Wants to Send Nuclear Rockets to the Moon and Mars
wired.com • (see also)

What life might be like in alien oceans
bbc.com

The blockbuster that wasn’t: inside an alleged $14m scam to make the next Netflix hit
theguardian.com

Murder in the Amazon heightens fears for isolated tribes
nationalgeographic.com

Found: Three Black Holes On Collision Course
chandra.harvard.edu

Otherworldly worms with three sexes discovered in Mono Lake
phys.org

Five years after 43 students disappeared in Mexico, their case remains a grim, unsolved mystery
pri.org

Astrophysicists: gamma-ray jets exceed the speed of light
bigthink.com

Big world around tiny star puts new spin on planet formation
phys.org

Did Francis Drake Really Land in California?
smithsonianmag.com

The Storm of the Century Could Soon Happen Every Year
citylab.com • (see also)

‘Even After Two Lung Transplants, I’m Still Waiting to Die’
melmagazine.com

Inside the Four-Year Forensic Search to Give One Migrant Family an Answer
esquire.com

Ted Bundy Was a Father Figure to Molly Kendall. Now, She’s Speaking Out For the First Time.
esquire.com • (see also)

When Smoking Was Just What the Doctor Ordered
saturdayeveningpost.com • (see also)

Do you know a good prison consultant?
1843magazine.com

We’ve Been Fighting The Vaping Crisis Since 1937
fivethirtyeight.com

Big Question About Primes Proved in Small Number Systems
quantamagazine.org

The Harrowing Hours and Defiant Aftermath of the New Zealand Mosque Shootings
gq.com

A Glacier In the Alps Is Facing Imminent Collapse, Prompting Evacuation
vice.com

The Swift and Merciless Execution of Corrine Sykes
narratively.com

Your guide to the battle of Thermopylae
historyextra.com

‘Abbey Road’ at 50: Inside the Beatles’ Glorious Farewell
thedailybeast.com

‘The Day I Found Out My Father Was a Spy’
lithub.com • (see also)

Fanny Burney’s Gruesome Mastectomy
amusingplanet.com

What the Apps That Bring Food to Your Door Mean for Delivery Workers
nybooks.com

Why Are Rich People So Mean?
wired.com

The tiny kingdom fighting an epidemic
bbc.com

In the last 500 million years, life has had to recover from five catastrophic blows
nationalgeographic.com

How The NSA And U.S. Cyber Command Hacked ISIS’s Media Operation
npr.org

Stressed out: Americans making themselves sick over politics
news.unl.edu