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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample
nasa.gov

Voyager 1 hears the hush of interstellar plasma
astronomycommunity.nature.com • (see also)

Did Life on Earth Come From Outer Space?
discovermagazine.com

A Field Guide to the Long History of Skyjackings
crimereads.com

Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved?
newyorker.com

Man Caught Three Whole Diseases From a Single Tick Bite
gizmodo.com

Broadband companies paid for 8.5M fake net neutrality comments, New York AG says
nbcnews.com

Laying Ice: Inside the Legendary Legacy of the Zamboni
popularmechanics.com

How Did a Self-Taught Linguist Come to Own an Indigenous Language?
newyorker.com

A metropolis arose in medieval Cambodia – new research shows how many people lived in the Angkor Empire over time
theconversation.com

The Origins of the Mug Shot
daily.jstor.org

The Source of the Nile River: A Mystery That Spanned Three Millennia
discovermagazine.com

Sophie Scholl: Student who resisted Hitler and inspires Germany
bbc.com

New study finds no link between teen tech use and mental health problems
newatlas.com

This Odd Early Flying Machine Made History but Didn’t Have the Right Stuff
smithsonianmag.com

Meet The Man Who Escaped Slavery And Made A Fortune In The Old West—Again And Again
forbes.com

The Untold Story of How Jeff Bezos Beat the Tabloids
bloomberg.com

Do other animals get heart attacks?
livescience.com

Interactive: How the internal combustion engine works
ciechanow.ski

Animals ‘rarely avoid’ mating with relatives, new study says
cbc.ca • (see also)

A Milwaukee Suburb Is Full of Ultrarare Fossils
theatlantic.com

The Colonial Pipeline Hack Is a New Extreme for Ransomware
wired.com

NASA criticizes China’s handling of rocket re-entry as debris lands near Maldives
cnn.com

Gargantuanisation: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula
lrb.co.uk

Remains of nine Neanderthals found in cave south of Rome
theguardian.com

Did this message in a bottle really come from the Titanic? Quebec researchers are trying to find out
cbc.ca

Can Thucydides Teach Us Why We Go to War?
daily.jstor.org • (see also)

Minuscule drums push the limits of quantum weirdness
nature.com

Chinese dreams on Native American land: A tale of cannabis boom and bust
bbc.com

On this day in 1963 scientists gave Earth a temporary ring using 480 million tiny copper needles
damninteresting.com

How Bowhead Whales Live for 200 Years
theatlantic.com • (see also)

What’s the Point of Wasps, Anyway?
wired.com

Fungus-like organisms in deep time and deep rock
natureecoevocommunity.nature.com • (see also)

How cities will fossilise
bbc.com

Can Plants Feel Pain?
discovermagazine.com

Video: How Carbon Nanotubes Will Change the World [19:34]
youtube.com

The Taxi Driver Who Took On Uber
thewalrus.ca

When Will We Know Where the Chinese Rocket Will Crash?
gizmodo.com

Goodwill Doesn’t Want Your Broken Toaster
npr.org

Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?
nytimes.com

‘Spaghettified’ star wrapped around a black hole spotted for the first time
space.com

Coveted by Russian royalty, the jewel-studded Amber Room was stolen by Nazis during World War Two
bbc.com

‘A dirty business’: how one drug is turning Syria into a narco-state
theguardian.com

Photos: Robots Are Everywhere
theatlantic.com

Sharks Use the Earth’s Magnetic Field Like a Compass
wired.com

2,000-year-old marble head of Rome’s first emperor discovered
cnn.com

Homing in on the smallest possible laser
phys.org • (see also)

Why Isn’t Anyone Seriously Challenging The Big Bang?
forbes.com

Bats Raised in Helium-Rich Air Reveal a Key to Echolocation
wired.com

Video: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Hears Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Flight [2:44]
youtube.com

90 years ago today, a famous Kentucky colonel was involved in a shootout over an ad blocker
damninteresting.com

This week: VHS embezzlement, liquid paper origins, pandemic pet positives, and more
damninteresting.com

Saturn’s fuzzy core spreads over more than half the planet’s diameter
sciencenews.org

No, NASA photos are not evidence of fungus growing on Mars, sorry
cnet.com

In December 1959, Popular Mechanics spent a week with the Mercury 7 astronauts and witnessed the beginning of U.S. human spaceflight
popularmechanics.com

A Giant Sequoia Is Still Burning From Last Summer’s California Wildfires
earther.gizmodo.com

Texting patients to get a flu shot increased vaccination rates — but some messages worked better than others
academictimes.com

A Lot of Animals in the U.S. Are About to Be Uncomfortably Full
realclearscience.com

Video: The deadly secret of the humble grapefruit [05:01]
bbc.com

Ruby Bridges: the six-year-old who defied a mob and desegregated her school
theguardian.com