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Jeanne Baret: Following The First Known Woman To Circumnavigate The Globe
historyextra.com

Archaeologists Open Frozen Wooden Box Found on Viking Mountain Pass
gizmodo.com

This week: Watermelon ancestors, monkey dialects, edible buildings, and more
damninteresting.com

EVA robot identifies and copies people’s facial expressions
newatlas.com • (see also)

A herd of 15 elephants bangs on doors and hoovers up food as experts ponder its destination
bbc.com

Government Report Finds No Evidence U.F.O.s Were Alien Spacecraft
nytimes.com

Collapsing star produces one of the most fantastic explosions ever seen
cnet.com

On this day in 2004 the Killdozer emerged
damninteresting.com

Electronic nose sniffs out cancer in blood samples with over 90% accuracy
newatlas.com

How to Make Sense of Contradictory Science Papers
nautil.us

Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921
publicdomainreview.org

Something Wiped Out Nearly All Sharks 19 Million Years Ago, New Research Suggests
gizmodo.com

Ancient tsunami could have wiped out Scottish cities today, study finds
theguardian.com

Pupil Size Is a Marker of Intelligence
scientificamerican.com

Engineers Have Created a Simple Slide Coating That Can Impressively Boost the Resolution of a Microscope
gizmodo.com

The Fiddly Business of Tracking Australia’s Most Venomous Spider
atlasobscura.com

Right whales born in 1981 grew a metre longer than they do today
newscientist.com

‘Mind-blowing’: tenth of world’s giant sequoias may have been destroyed by a single fire
theguardian.com

When Men Get Pregnancy Symptoms
theatlantic.com

Our Universe’s Earliest State of Matter Was Like an Ocean of Perfect Liquid
sciencealert.com

Mysterious protein makes human DNA morph into different shapes
livescience.com

Why NASA Is Blasting Water Bears And Bobtail Squid Into Space
npr.org

Venus: Nasa announces two new missions
bbc.com

First Car on the Moon
airspacemag.com

Samantha Azzopardi: Australia’s notorious con artist sentenced for child theft
bbc.com

Experimental vaccine forces bacteria down an evolutionary dead end
newatlas.com

What do you want to dream about? Soon, you may be able to choose.
expmag.com • (see also)

Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit
flashbak.com

Fifteen Years of Radar Reveal Venus’s Most Basic Facts
eos.org

If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist
nautil.us

The Disease Detective
nytimes.com

The empty office: what we lose when we work from home
theguardian.com

New article/episode by Alan Bellows: The Traveler and His Baggage
dam.mn

Sick of dangerous city traffic? Remove left turns
theconversation.com

Scientists recreate Jupiter’s possible helium rain in the lab
newatlas.com

The hugest dinosaurs may have been clumsy on land, because they probably evolved in water
syfy.com

South Africa’s language spoken in 45 ‘clicks’
bbc.com

Video: Why the US government murdered Fred Hampton [18:12]
youtube.com

Encoding, Storing, Retrieving: How Memory Works
lithub.com

What the Heck Is a Pneumonia Front?
atlasobscura.com

Did Paying a Ransom for a Stolen Magritte Painting Inadvertently Fund Terrorism?
vanityfair.com

Record-breaking entanglement project brings us closer to a quantum internet
academictimes.com

A Journey to the Northernmost Tree in Alaska
smithsonianmag.com • (see also)

43 years ago, a skyscraper architect realized that a terrible mistake had been made
damninteresting.com

The US military is starting to get really interested in Starship
arstechnica.com

Winners of the 2021 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition
theatlantic.com

Emma Coronel Aispuro: The rise and fall of a drug kingpin’s wife
bbc.com

Home Security Systems: Are They Really Helpful, or Security Theater?
tedium.co

A pandemic upside: The flu virus became less diverse, simplifying the task of making flu shots
statnews.com

“African-elephant noses, the team found, can inhale air at speeds of more than 335 miles per hour”
theatlantic.com

Video: Can you be awake and asleep at the same time? [5:21]
youtube.com

Curiosity rover searches for salt on Mars
cnn.com

The truth about lying
knowablemagazine.org

How the ‘Wandering Meatloaf’ Got Its Rock-Hard Teeth
nytimes.com

Video: The truth behind the €1 houses from Italy [08:33]
bbc.com

The FBI thought it had found a high-value informant who could help solve big cases. What it got instead was lies, betrayal, and murder.
magazine.atavist.com

Banks’ Own Private Currencies in 19th-Century America
daily.jstor.org

How Big Tobacco Set the Stage for Fake News
thewalrus.ca • (see also)

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Shows Us What Cloudy and Colorful Days on Mars Look Like
gizmodo.com

The fascinating science of pleasure goes way beyond dopamine
psyche.co