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We Finally Know What a Dinosaur’s Butthole Looks Like
slate.com

Video: Slow Motion Sneeze in 4K [15:50]
youtube.com

The Dawn of Transatlantic Flight
airspacemag.com

The contested legacy of the anti-fascist International Brigades
theguardian.com

How Ted Bundy’s Killing Spree Launched a Legion of Feminist Karate Masters
narratively.com

‘Literally, We Crushed It’: Video Shows NASA Space Probe Touch an Asteroid
nytimes.com

The Booming Call of De-extinction
the-scientist.com

This Italian town has just two residents, but they still insist on wearing masks
cnn.com

Crested cacti show medicine the possibility of adapting to cancer
aeon.co

The Inside Story of Flying Against the Air Force’s Secret Soviet Fighter Jets
popularmechanics.com

Can Placebos Work—Even When Patients Know They’re Fake?
wired.com

How This Uncrushable Beetle Can Survive Being Run Over by a Car
gizmodo.com

Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis
nautil.us • (see also)

What Even Is Friction, Anyway?
wired.com

Quantum Tunnel Shows Particles Can Break the Speed of Light
quantamagazine.org

Curiosity and Hunger Are Driven by the Same Brain Regions
the-scientist.com

How long can you survive without water
bbc.com

Neutron Stars Create Gold and Platinum in Their Wake
nasa.gov

NASA’s OSIRIS-REX Mission Completes Quick Touch of Bennu Asteroid
nytimes.com

SSC Tuatara sets 316-mph record to become world’s fastest production car
newatlas.com

What Ancient Toilets Reveal About the History of the Human Gut
atlasobscura.com

Danish submarine killer Madsen caught in prison escape
bbc.com

Starting in 3 minutes: NASA’s first asteroid sample collection attempt (OSIRIS-Rex TAG)
nasa.gov

Dragon snakeheads—strange new underground fish—discovered in India
nationalgeographic.com

The Right to Escape From Prison
slate.com

The Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion
gq.com

Doctors May Have Found Secretive New Organs in the Center of Your Head
nytimes.com

Ice Melt in Alaska Threatens to Unleash Unprecedented ‘Mega-Tsunami’, Scientists Warn
sciencealert.com • (see also)

‘Happy ending effect’ can bias future decisions, say scientists
medicalxpress.com

NASA’s Osiris-Rex set to grab a piece of asteroid Bennu: How to watch live
cnet.com

The body fires ‘blobs of fat’ packed with toxic proteins to fight bacteria
livescience.com

Do you like cheese? You can thank the Indus Valley Civilization for it
zmescience.com

Antarctic ozone hole is one of the largest and deepest in recent years
esa.int

Slow Lorises Are Adorable but They Bite With Flesh-Rotting Venom
nytimes.com

Unusual Aussie spider builds one-of-a-kind nest with super strong silk
upi.com

The protein Klotho could extend the life of the brain. Is that a good thing?
massivesci.com

How to Stop Innovation From Breaking America
theatlantic.com

The Great Space Collision That Wasn’t
vice.com

The Life of Genghis Khan, the Ruthless Warlord Who Created the World’s Largest Empire
discovermagazine.com • (see also)

This Molten Salt Reactor Is the Next Big Thing in Nuclear
popularmechanics.com

Coronavirus: The place in North America with no cases
bbc.com

‘Virtual’ studios could offer a real alternative to green screen special effects
engadget.com

Three Places That Will Actually Benefit From Climate Change
realclearscience.com

Princeton study suggests that monkeys, like humans, may have ‘self-domesticated’
princeton.edu

Self-healing weak spots could boost aluminum’s longevity by 25 times
newatlas.com

Voyager Spacecraft Detect an Increase in The Density of Space Outside The Solar System
sciencealert.com

New curio by Alan Bellows: Half a Thought
dam.mn

360º video: NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, will make a daring attempt to “TAG” asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20 [3:32]
youtube.com • More info

NASA’s Next Moonsuit Is Going to Be Damned Impressive
gizmodo.com

Heat Is the Human-Rights Issue of the 21st Century
theatlantic.com

Why the world’s passports look different
bbc.com

Operation Chinchilla Is a Go
theatlantic.com

Large 2,000-year-old cat discovered in Peru’s Nazca lines
bbc.com

On this day in 1959 Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 transmitted humanity’s first grainy glimpse of the far side of the moon back to Earth
damninteresting.com

Video: Ed White’s Spacewalk on Gemini 4 Enhanced [8:55]
youtube.com

T Cells and Neurons Talk to Each Other
the-scientist.com

How to See What’s on the Other Side of a Wormhole Without Actually Traveling Through it
universetoday.com

The Town That Went Feral
newrepublic.com

How many people would a modern nuke kill?
zmescience.com

Airbus to build spacecraft that will return first Mars samples to Earth
newatlas.com