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Beyond quantum supremacy: the hunt for useful quantum computers
nature.com

‘I Worked at Capital One for Five Years. This Is How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers.’
newrepublic.com

Paid Child Care for Working Mothers? All It Took Was a World War
nytimes.com

New Organic Compounds Found in Enceladus Ice Grains
jpl.nasa.gov

Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say
nytimes.com

How Much Longer Will the Hubble Space Telescope Last?
blogs.discovermagazine.com

Would Finding Life on Mars Really Change Anything?
gizmodo.com

The Beatles’ revolutionary use of recording technology in ‘Abbey Road’
theconversation.com

The first message sent through the ARPANET was “LO.” It was supposed to be “LOGIN,” but the network crashed after the first two letters
daily.jstor.org • (see also)

Feeling Lucky? A Brief History of Gambling with Dice
lithub.com

The bias that can cause catastrophe
bbc.com

Amazing fossil shark skeleton is the first of its kind
nationalgeographic.com

What Makes People So Gullible?
psychologytoday.com

The Evolution of the Hard Hat
nytimes.com

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody and predictions
nature.com

What we talk about when we talk about █████: Secrecy, overclassification, and the the CIA’s hidden history
muckrock.com

How Scientists Finally Got Americans to Worry About the Climate
bloomberg.com

The German WWII captain who scuttled his own ship
dw.com

Most Postal Trucks Don’t Have Air Conditioning. That’s Bad News for Birth Control
vice.com

Decades-Old Code Is Putting Millions of Critical Devices at Risk
wired.com

Astronomers Detect a ‘Hot Jupiter’ With a Staggering 18-Hour-Short Orbit
sciencealert.com

A metronome for quantum particles
phys.org

Crowded Space Station: There Are 9 People from 4 Different Space Agencies in Orbit Right Now
space.com

Red to Green: The stark evolution of a city’s abandoned acres
interactives.stuff.co.nz

Scientists have shown the perfect way to make pancakes, and that has huge implications
massivesci.com

A gel that makes trees fire-resistant could help prevent wildfires
technologyreview.com

From ‘moon-germs’ to motion sickness: health and safety on NASA’s 1969 lunar landing mission
historyextra.com

Medieval skeleton puts a face on accounts of torture and violence
arstechnica.com

Bugs: A Self-Driving Car’s Worst Nightmare
popularmechanics.com

‘Magic Mushroom’ Chemical Harvested From Bacteria For the First Time
gizmodo.com

What Would It Be Like to Live in an Era of Geoengineering?
earther.gizmodo.com

If a medicine is too expensive, should a hospital make its own?
mosaicscience.com

Babies in the womb have lizard-like hand muscles
bbc.com

Just 10 men are permitted to hunt and pickle 2,000 young seabirds on a desolate island each year
atlasobscura.com

The monstrous Minotaur riveted ancient Greece and Rome
nationalgeographic.com

The Future of Silk
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Artificial blood developed for patients of any blood type
asahi.com

250 years ago today a young Peruvian woman set off into the jungle to find her long-missing husband
damninteresting.com

Bad ancestors: does the climate crisis violate the rights of those yet to be born?
theguardian.com

‘That Time I Conducted an Autopsy Without Any Medical Training’
narratively.com

Your Brain Chooses What to Let You See
quantamagazine.org

“Everything That You’re Feeling Is Okay”
gq.com

‘My favourite Nobel prize: Raman scattering is a universal fingerprint’
physicsworld.com

Climate change is changing the flavor of French wine
nationalgeographic.com

A Summer without Sunspots
spaceweatherarchive.com

How War Made the Cigarette
newrepublic.com

Swedish navy returns to vast underground HQ amid Russia fears
theguardian.com

Direct evidence finally found of 3.5-billion-year-old microscopic life
newatlas.com

China’s new 500-megapixel ‘super camera’ can instantly recognize you in a crowd
thenextweb.com

The Tragically All-Too-Common Suicide of Derrick Rose’s Investigator
melmagazine.com

The World’s Largest Refugee Camp Is Becoming a Real City
citylab.com

Hot-Air War Machine
laphamsquarterly.org

The Missouri Monster ‘Momo’ Is the Cryptid Time Forgot
vice.com

Why Your Dog Likes Sticking Its Head Out the Car Window
blogs.discovermagazine.com

The true tale of a bona fide, one-of-a-kind “Lobster Girl”
vox.com

A terrible crime, a patient waiting for a transplant: The tragic, redemptive journey of one heart.
washingtonpost.com

Antibiotic resistance: researchers have directly proven that bacteria can change shape inside humans to avoid antibiotics
theconversation.com

The Man Who Went to War With Canada
atlasobscura.com • (see also)

How the Nazis Rose to Power as an Extremist Coalition of the Discontented
lithub.com

Unraveling the Mystery of a Mannequin From the Movie Mannequin, Now on Display at a Philadelphia Mall
jezebel.com