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A New System for Cooling Down Computers Could Revolutionize the Pace of Innovation
smithsonianmag.com

ESA moves forward with Hera planetary defense mission
newatlas.com

Uncovered: the WW2 ‘Scallywag Bunkers’ that were Britain’s last-ditch line of defence
theconversation.com

Passing for White to Escape Slavery
daily.jstor.org

A New Algorithm for Graph Crossings, Hiding in Plain Sight
quantamagazine.org

Shoots and leaves: the shotgun scientist who hunts moving trees
theguardian.com

King Tut’s grandparents were Egypt’s royal power couple
nationalgeographic.com

What Happened Inside Ed Buck’s Apartment?
nytimes.com

How Much Should We Spend to Avert Our Own Extinction?
realclearscience.com

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
projects.propublica.org

In a first, astronomers detect giant planet orbiting a dead star
cnet.com

Scientists Discover How Drugs Like Ketamine Induce An Altered State Of Mind
npr.org

The Untold Story of Hurricane Harvey’s First Urban Air Rescue Mission
esquire.com

When Plants Go to War
nautil.us

Video: The Nuclear Fallout They Kept Secret [13:19]
youtube.com

Lessons from how the polio vaccine went from the lab to the public that Americans can learn from today
theconversation.com

Spending a Night Alone in Mount Everest’s Death Zone
lithub.com

Acorn Woodpeckers Have Multi-Day Wars, and Birds Come From All Around to Watch
atlasobscura.com

Buying Myself Back: When does a model own her own image?
thecut.com

To find a vaccine for COVID-19, will we have to deliberately infect people?
nationalgeographic.com

He buried a treasure in the mountains, and someone found it. Or did they?
theguardian.com • See also

Coffee Is Under Attack
theatlantic.com • See also

The True Origins of Gold in Our Universe May Have Just Changed, Again
sciencealert.com • See also

When Math Gets Impossibly Hard
quantamagazine.org

The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke . . . Is Now Officially Broke
forbes.com

100 years ago today, during the lunch rush on New York City’s Wall Street, a massive bomb exploded
damninteresting.com

The world’s first fully automated autonomous 3D design influencer
mwinckelmann.com

Lost humpback whale abandoned by friends in croc-infested river in Australia
livescience.com

A Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were In Prison. They Could Only Find 1 Answer: Systemic Racism
theroot.com

The Long, Strange History of Los Angeles’ Coldest Cold Case
delacortereview.org

The people living in the world’s most extreme habitats
sciencefocus.com

When changing a light bulb is a really big deal
bbc.com

Who Invented the Lightbulb?
theness.com

Carnival’s Ruby Princess Cruise Ship Spread Coronavirus Around the World
bloomberg.com

The Mozart Effect: Study affirms classical music reduces epileptic seizures
newatlas.com

Where Did the Term “Hispanic” Come From?
daily.jstor.org

See how we’re reimagining dinosaurs in today’s ‘golden age’ of paleontology
nationalgeographic.com

In Guatemala, the Maya world untouched for centuries
bbc.com

Inside Florida’s alleged flying squirrel smuggling operation
nationalgeographic.com

Pluto Has a Surprising Similarity to The 5 Biggest Moons of Uranus
sciencealert.com

Deep beneath the high seas, researchers find rich coral oases
sciencemag.org

How to Leave Space and (Safely) Crash Back Down to Earth
wired.com • (see also)

2,600-year-old wine ‘factory’ unearthed in Lebanon
nationalgeographic.com

The True Story of the Married Woman Who Smuggled Her Boyfriend Out of Prison in a Dog Crate
theatlantic.com

Discovering—and Preserving—the Earliest Known Stereo Recordings
prosoundnetwork.com

Did a Solar Ejection Hinder the Titanic?
hakaimagazine.com

The Man Who Refused to Spy
newyorker.com

Why gender reveals have spiraled out of control
theconversation.com

The Countess Who Wanted to be the Most Photographed Woman in the World
lithub.com

The End of Centralia’s Abandoned, Colorful, Anarchic ‘Graffiti Highway’
atlasobscura.com • (see also)

Phosphine on Venus: Possible sign of life stirs up heated debate
nationalgeographic.com

On this day in 1979 two families escaped East Germany via unconventional means
damninteresting.com

To protect this rare underground orchid, researchers are keeping its location top secret
abc.net.au

Livestream: The Royal Astronomical Society’s announcement of possible signs of life detected in the atmosphere of Venus
youtube.com • News conference

Growing gold nanoparticles inside tumors can help kill cancer
newatlas.com

The movements that betray who you are
bbc.com

New curio: During the Dark Times
dam.mn

‘I’ve never seen or heard of attacks’: scientists baffled by orcas harassing boats
theguardian.com

Mathematicians Open a New Front on an Ancient Number Problem
quantamagazine.org

On this day in 1848 a man survived a steel rod through the skull
damninteresting.com