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Haunted by a Gene
nytimes.com

Satanic Panic: How a tiny town was swept up in a wave of accusations
newsinteractives.cbc.ca

How South Jersey Keeps Muskrat on the Menu
atlasobscura.com

How Soviet Science Magazines Fantasized About Life in Outer Space
atlasobscura.com

Ask Ethan: It’s Absurd To Think Dark Matter Might Be Made Of Hexaquarks, Right?
forbes.com

How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?
lithub.com

There’s a New Hypothesis For How Uranus Ended Up Tipped on Its Side
sciencealert.com

Mercury’s 400 C heat may help it make its own ice
phys.org

A rare find: An eclipsing binary brown dwarf in a triple brown dwarf system
syfy.com

300 years ago today Charles Bonnet was born, later to become the namesake for a strange phenomenon
damninteresting.com

These microbial communities have learned to live at Earth’s most extreme reaches
nature.com

Salty space rock helps to solve longstanding comet mystery
space.com

A tiny ‘country’ between France and Switzerland
bbc.com

Why the MOSAiC Expedition’s Research Is So Vital to Climate Change Research
smithsonianmag.com

Censoring Anne Frank: how her famous diary has been edited through history
historyextra.com

Germany’s Most Important Informant Tells His Story
spiegel.de

Why plague doctors wore those strange beaked masks
nationalgeographic.com

Why is the Palace of Westminster falling apart?
bbc.com

The Last Giraffes on Earth
theatlantic.com

Why the Second Wave of the 1918 Spanish Flu Was So Deadly
history.com

We All Learned Physics’ Biggest Myth: That Projectiles Make A Parabola
forbes.com

Something strange is going on with the North Star
livescience.com

The latest episode of Damn Interesting Week is up now: Portable Ultrasounds
damninteresting.com

Researchers create focus-free camera with new flat lens
phys.org

Confessions of a call-centre scammer
bbc.com

How to Make Sense of Quantum Physics
nautil.us

Disney World and Disneyland closing amid Covid-19 fears
vox.com

The Solar System Is Full of Volcanoes
theatlantic.com

The science of the adolescent brain
theweek.com

Why AI will make your video games better
expmag.com

The seizure dog
wellcomecollection.org • (see also)

The Myth of ‘Bloody Mary’
smithsonianmag.com

Food Poisoning Linked to Eating Fish Is on the Rise — Leaving Some Victims With Strange Neurological Effects
discovermagazine.com

Photos: Large-Scale Disinfection Efforts Against Coronavirus
theatlantic.com

Alan Alda would like your attention
washingtonpost.com

Should Earthlings Chase ‘Oumuamua Into Interstellar Space?
wired.com

The Killing of a Colorado Rancher
theatlantic.com

Tea Boy to Tattooed Trader: A Secret Tipster’s Life and Death
bloomberg.com

The universe may have been filled with supermassive black holes at the dawn of time
livescience.com

Ideal Glass Would Explain Why Glass Exists at All
quantamagazine.org

Listening for Aliens with Laser Light
supercluster.com

Contagion’s Screenwriter on Watching His Movie Go Viral
slate.com

Astronomers Just Found More Than 100 Minor Planets at The Edge of Our Solar System
sciencealert.com

Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70 million years ago
news.agu.org

The Uncanny Keyboard
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak
theguardian.com

How Your Body Knows What Time It Is
nautil.us

Physicists solved decades-old puzzle with huge implications for quantum computers
zmescience.com

Our own Jennifer Lee Noonan has co-written a memoir with the legendary game designer Sid Meier!
sidmeiersmemoir.com

How China’s “Bat Woman” Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus
scientificamerican.com

Dr. Lise Meitner: The Mystery of the Disappearing Physicist
crimereads.com

It Could Rain Iron on This Hellish Exoplanet
gizmodo.com

Where have all the black cowboys gone?
theguardian.com

Ancient bird skull found in amber was tiny predator in the time of giant dinosaurs
theconversation.com

The end of high-tech war
technologyreview.com

The Biased Ways We Praise “Smart Kids”
thewalrus.ca

Egypt’s oldest pyramid reopens to public after 14-year restoration
abcnews.go.com

The Fraught and Risky Business of Spotting a Historical Fake
lithub.com

In an Italian Town, Red Wine Briefly Flowed From Faucets and Taps
atlasobscura.com

The Secret History of a Cold War Mastermind
wired.com