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First GMO Mosquitoes to Be Released In the Florida Keys
undark.org

Mathematician Disproves 80-Year-Old Algebra Conjecture
quantamagazine.org

The Spacewalk From Hell
airspacemag.com

Video: Earthrise in 4k UHD [11:12]
youtube.com

Yuri Gagarin: the spaceman who came in from the cold
bbc.com

Here’s What It Takes to Fly a Drone on Mount Everest
wired.com • (see also)

Video: Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change? [10:42]
youtube.com

Planetary Scientists Discover That Mars Underwent a Great Oxygenation Event Billions of Years Ago
scitechdaily.com • (see also)

Why Do Cats Have Belly ‘Pouches’?
realclearscience.com

The Nature You See in Documentaries Is Beautiful and False
theatlantic.com

Historians Pinpoint the Very ‘Worst Year’ to Ever be Alive
accuweather.com • (see also)

Researchers create light waves that can penetrate even opaque materials
phys.org

Human Taste Buds Can Tell The Difference Between Normal And ‘Heavy’ Water
sciencealert.com • (see also)

What causes trypophobia? The neuroscience behind the fear of closely-packed holes
sciencefocus.com

What Happened to the Actors Who Were Performing the Night Lincoln Was Shot?
crimereads.com

Video: Leeuwenhoek: The First Master of Microscopes [10:23]
youtube.com

A Mysterious Suicide Cluster
newyorker.com

How Do Scientists Build the Best Diet for Astronauts?
discovermagazine.com

What Would Raindrops be Like on Other Worlds?
universetoday.com

Video: Why South Africa is still so segregated [10:15]
youtube.com

Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens
theguardian.com

Camille Pissarro: Transatlantic struggle for painting stolen by Nazis
bbc.com

How ‘agromining’ — farming plants that contain metal — could help power the future
abc.net.au

The healthy child who wouldn’t wake up: the strange truth of ‘mystery illnesses’
theguardian.com

The Permian Basin is ground zero to billions of dollars in zombie oil wells
grist.org

Haunting New Hubble Photo Reveals The Wisps of a Dying Galaxy
sciencealert.com

Video: Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space [2:57]
bbc.com

45,000-year-old human genomes reveal extent of Neanderthal interbreeding
newatlas.com

Las Vegas pushes to become first to ban ornamental grass
apnews.com

Why Targeted Ads Are a Disaster for Democracy
lithub.com

Upward Lightning Takes Its Cue from Nearby Lightning Events
eos.org • (see also)

New Genomic Study of Placenta Finds Deep Links to Cancer
quantamagazine.org

How Do We Exit the Post-Truth Era?
thewalrus.ca

Navy Still Has No Idea What Mysterious Drones That Stalked Its Ships for Days Were
gizmodo.com

These fish stole an antifreeze gene from another fish and became natural GMOs
cbc.ca

How the Criminal Justice System Deploys Mass Surveillance on Innocent People
vice.com

Iceland’s Erupting Volcano Is a Window Into Life on Mars
theatlantic.com

NASA detects rare ‘double quasar’ in ancient corner of the universe
livescience.com

Atlantic Dawn: The Ship from Hell
britishseafishing.co.uk

How a speedrunner broke Super Mario Bros.’ biggest barrier
arstechnica.com

Revolutionary technique produces injection-molded glass objects
newatlas.com

A 17th Century Bishop Was Mysteriously Buried With a Fetus. We Finally Know Why
sciencealert.com

‘Explosive Eruption’ Rocks St. Vincent as Soufriere Volcano Spews Ash Across the Caribbean
earther.gizmodo.com

Kati Kariko Helped Shield the World From the Coronavirus
nytimes.com

The rice of the sea: how a tiny grain could change the way humanity eats
theguardian.com

Video: Donut-Shaped Planets [13:24]
youtube.com

More than 5,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall to Earth each year
cnrs.fr

What 250 Years of Innovation History Reveals About Our Green Future
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

The Women of the OSS: On The Pioneering American Spies of WWII
crimereads.com

This week: Anti-atoms, moonwalking, gene-swapping plants, and more
damninteresting.com

Behold Brine Shrimp, the Livestock of Utah’s Great Salt Lake
atlasobscura.com

Prince Philip: A life in pictures
bbc.com

Man’s body was found after lying in Norway flat for nine years, say police
theguardian.com

Tiny Sea Creatures Plague South Korean Nuclear Plant Operations
bloomberg.com

How to Survive a Killer Asteroid
wired.com

3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’ of ancient Egypt discovered
theguardian.com

Why a landmark experiment into dimming the sun got canceled
grist.org

War Under the Sea (1915)
popularmechanics.com • (sea also)

The Myth of Negative Calorie Foods
discovermagazine.com

Found: Page 25 of the CIA’s Gateway Report on Astral Projection
vice.com