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Livestream: The first-ever launch of astronauts from a private company, and the first launch of astronauts from US soil since 2011
youtube.com • Postponed

Where Do Eels Come From?
newyorker.com

The Museum Director Who Defied the Nazis
smithsonianmag.com

Video: The Cosmic Lasers That Form in Outer Space [6:25]
youtube.com

The Curious Saga of the Ukulele
saturdayeveningpost.com

One mystery solves another: Fast radio bursts detect missing matter
newatlas.com

In the 1950s, Hundreds of People Started Hallucinating Visions of Hell
vice.com • (see also)

America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
theatlantic.com

How polar explorers survived months of isolation without cracking
nationalgeographic.com

New material could be used to make a liquid metal robot
physicsworld.com

Strange New Class of Cosmic Explosions Discovered by Astronomers
scitechdaily.com

Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Hint at New Particles
quantamagazine.org

How Dynamite Shaped The World
popularmechanics.com • (see also)

The Strange Saga of the Rogue Kentucky Constables Who Arrested an FBI Agent
thedailybeast.com

When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
obscuritory.com

Dinosaur asteroid’s trajectory was ‘perfect storm’
bbc.com

‘The big show’: US poised to return to human spaceflight with historic launch
theguardian.com

Why astronomers now doubt there is an undiscovered 9th planet in our solar system
phys.org

‘Vigorous’ magnetic field oddity spotted over South Atlantic
livescience.com

The ghetto and the mansion
the-tls.co.uk

The man in the iron lung
theguardian.com

The haunting of Girlstown
vox.com

The Comedy Culture War: A new wave of comics is rejecting stand-up’s tired tropes
thewalrus.ca

Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of ‘black goo’
blog.britishmuseum.org

From homeless refugee to chess prodigy, 9-year-old dreams of becoming youngest grandmaster
espn.com

Scratching the surface: drones cast new light on mystery of Nazca Lines
theguardian.com

80 years ago today the ‘Crypt of Civilization’ was sealed, scheduled to be opened again in 6,177 years
damninteresting.com

The Astronaut Wives Know Exactly What to Expect
theatlantic.com

Maybe a Fleet of Tiny Spacecraft Could Help Detect a Primordial Black Hole Planet 9
universetoday.com

The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism
aeon.co

A gallery of the almost alien organisms living among us
sciencenorway.no

Gina DeJesus has come a long way in the seven years since she was freed from nearly a decade of captivity
missingkids.org

Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network
wired.com

A new artificial eye mimics and may outperform human eyes
sciencenews.org

This Classic Calculator Was Literally Reverse Engineered From the Bare Metal
spectrum.ieee.org

‘There are too many’: bones of 60 mammoths found in Mexico
theguardian.com

The extreme parkour team whose death-defying jumps caught the attention of Hollywood
edition.cnn.com

Scientists Detect a Flickering Signal Coming From The Heart of Our Galaxy
sciencealert.com

Leonardo da Vinci transformed mapping from art to science
nationalgeographic.com

How Cosmic Rays May Have Shaped Life
astrobiology.com

“Thin gene” discovered and scientists already know how to target it
newatlas.com

The Things Inside This 105-Year-Old Time Capsule Have Hardly Aged a Day
atlasobscura.com • (see also)

How Loners Are an Evolutionary Insurance Policy
theatlantic.com

Astronomers May Have Spotted a Tiny Moon in The Outer Solar System
sciencealert.com

‘The Weird American Story of Why My Hometown Is Underwater’
slate.com

Fuzzy Green ‘Glacier Mice’ Move In Groups And Puzzle Scientists
npr.org

The U.S. Is Getting Shorter, as Mapmakers Race to Keep Up
nytimes.com

Disappearances, danger and death: what is happening to fishery observers?
theguardian.com

Eat Rat, Make New Body: Easy Stuff for Pythons
nytimes.com

This Lickable Screen Can Recreate Almost Any Taste or Flavor Without Eating Food
gizmodo.com

A brief history of human spaceflight—1961 to present
nationalgeographic.com

Wandering stars pass through our solar system surprisingly often
astronomy.com

The game that ate the world: 40 facts on Pac-Man’s 40th birthday
theguardian.com

A new episode of the Damn Interesting Week podcast is now available: Stash Wig
damninteresting.com

Underground Chambers Discovered Near Jerusalem’s Western Wall
smithsonianmag.com

Nature: Bumblebees’ ‘clever trick’ fools plants into flowering
bbc.com

What the ‘trolly-lolly’ of gibberish means for language
aeon.co

Why ancient pandemics may hold the key to our future survival
newstatesman.com

Jurassic bug: Researchers find 151-million-year-old Morrisonnepa Jurassica insect fossil in Utah
usatoday.com

Death mask of King Henry VII is brought to astonishing life in a digital restoration
livescience.com