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Turkey’s unique hand-sanitising method
bbc.com

How do we know what dinosaurs looked like?
popsci.com

The Most Important Image Ever Taken By NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope
forbes.com

Video: There’s a Lever in Your Ear and It Does Something Amazing [11:45]
youtube.com

Apollo 13: Enhanced images reveal life on stricken spacecraft
bbc.com

New, larger wave of locusts threatens millions in Africa
apnews.com

How Infectious Disease Defined the American Bathroom
citylab.com

The Hunt for Hazardous Asteroids Continues, Even After Most Telescopes Have Closed
discovermagazine.com

We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time
newscientist.com

What did people do before toilet paper?
nationalgeographic.com

What was the best year for music?
bbc.com

Stunning Images Show The Rings of Uranus Are Like Nothing Else in The Solar System
sciencealert.com

‘It’s positively alpine!’: Disbelief in big cities as air pollution falls
theguardian.com

Nasal vaccine for Alzheimer’s cuts atrophied brain matter in mice
asahi.com

Are Plants Listening to Us? It Depends Who You Ask
thewalrus.ca

Video: 3 Times We Captured Physical Pieces of the Sun [6:43]
youtube.com

The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic
nytimes.com

Black Hole Appears to Break Laws of Physics, But It’s an Optical Illusion
ign.com

Awakening volcanic region in Iceland ‘could cause disruption for centuries’
theguardian.com

A Spacecraft On Its Way To Mercury Just Captured Some Amazing Images Of Earth
forbes.com

Scientists ponder how jugglers seem to defy limits to human reaction times
arstechnica.com

The abandoned city of Ani was once the ‘City of 1,001 Churches’
nationalgeographic.com

How boredom can inspire adventure
bbc.com

Why Do We Even Listen to New Music?
pitchfork.com

Are Plants Quantum?
gizmodo.com

New episode of Damn Interesting Week: Basil Pepper Stew
damninteresting.com

Shine On Till Tomorrow: The Beatles’ Breakup at 50
rollingstone.com

Earth Is Spiraling Away From The Sun For Now, But Will Eventually Crash Into It
forbes.com

NASA’s Plan to Turn the Moon Into a Telescope Looks Like the Death Star
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World’s most complex microparticle: A synthetic that outdoes nature’s intricacy
phys.org

Astronomers clock extremely high winds on an object outside of our solar system
cnn.com

How Did England Get Its Bizarro Street Names?
lithub.com

Bird alarm calls help rhinos avoid people–and possibly poachers
nationalgeographic.com

New search methods are ramping up the hunt for alien intelligence
sciencenews.org

World of Warcraft experienced a pandemic in 2005. That experience may help coronavirus researchers.
washingtonpost.com

The Digital Afterlife: The ongoing legal battle to decide who owns our data after we die
thewalrus.ca

The silence of the owls: How owls fly without making a sound
knowablemagazine.org

Forgotten Blueprints Reveal a Late Tweak to the Statue of Liberty’s Torch Arm
gizmodo.com

What Submarine Crews and Astronauts Can Teach Us About Isolation
newyorker.com

This weird black hole is bending light back on itself like a boomerang
space.com

‘Houston, we’ve had a problem’: Remembering Apollo 13 at 50
apnews.com

Mysteries of decorated ostrich eggs in British Museum revealed
bbc.com

New images reveal fine threads of million-degree plasma woven throughout the Sun’s atmosphere
uclan.ac.uk

Newly engineered enzyme can break down plastic to raw materials
arstechnica.com

World’s oldest yarn fragment shows Neanderthals were smarter than we thought
cnn.com

First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
phys.org

The True Story of Star Trek’s Guinan
zocalopublicsquare.org

A six-foot long thermometer? The surprising history of a vital medical tool
expmag.com

‘Tiger King’ Is a Wild Ride. And Largely Misleading.
outsideonline.com

The future is nano, and it will revolutionise medical science
aeon.co

Where Do New Genes Come From?
quantamagazine.org

The Black Widow Bank Robber’s Web of Secrets
narratively.com

‘The sound of icebergs melting: my journey into the Antarctic’
theguardian.com

Map Shows Where the U.S. Power Grid Would Be Hit Worst by a Solar Storm
gizmodo.com • (see also)

Appreciating America’s Overlooked, Forgotten, and Discarded Post Office Murals
atlasobscura.com

How to Escape From a Sunken Submarine
wired.com

How to See the Invisible Universe
daily.jstor.org

After 50 Years of Effort, Researchers Made Silicon Emit Light
wired.com

Trespassing, vandalism, arson: a glimpse of national parks affected by coronavirus
nationalgeographic.com

Archaeologists Discover Paintings of Goddess in 3,000-Year-Old Mummy’s Coffin
smithsonianmag.com