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What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?
quantamagazine.org

ISS Artificial Gravity Study Shows Promise For Long Duration Spaceflight
hackaday.com

The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the run
theguardian.com

New tech cheaply produces lithium and H2, while desalinating seawater
newatlas.com

Bitcoin: El Salvador makes cryptocurrency legal tender
bbc.com

Just Seeing Another Sick Bird Can Jump-start a Bird’s Immune System
theatlantic.com

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures astonishing views of icy moon Ganymede
cnet.com

Deciphering the Mysterious Minoan Language of Ancient Crete
discovermagazine.com

Blaming Our Genes: The Heritability of Behavior
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Trojan Shield: How the FBI Secretly Ran a Phone Network for Criminals
vice.com

Mademoiselle Marie-Marguerite Biheron’s extremely accurate wax anatomical models (ca. 1762)
laphamsquarterly.org

Influenza viruses self-propel to roll around like wheels in the human body
academictimes.com

Video: How radical gardeners took back New York City [12:36]
youtube.com

Astronomers Find Secret Planet-Making Ingredient: Magnetic Fields
quantamagazine.org

Huge two-day underwater avalanche sent mud 1,000km into ocean
theguardian.com

Many People Have a Vivid ‘Mind’s Eye,’ While Others Have None at All
nytimes.com • (see also)

The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
propublica.org

Is Earth’s Core Lopsided? Something Strange Is Going On in Our Planet’s Interior
scitechdaily.com

New dinosaur species discovered in Australia, one of world’s biggest
news.yahoo.com

Video: Flinching Saves Lives in the Microcosmos [11:02]
youtube.com

MIT Engineers Have Discovered a Completely New Way of Generating Electricity
scitechdaily.com

Aurora created in a lab
cosmosmagazine.com

Video: The Battle of May Island [1:00:25]
youtube.com • (see also)

How UFO Sightings Went From Conspiracy Theory To A Serious Government Inquiry
npr.org

Signs of Ancient Microbial Life Abundant in Earth’s Crust: Study
the-scientist.com • (see also)

These ferns may be the first plants known to share work like ants
sciencenews.org

We’ve identified a gene variant that seems to make people immune to the effects of COVID
zmescience.com

Interactive: Click this map to watch the path of a raindrop to the sea anywhere in the contiguous United States
river-runner.samlearner.com

Scientists Simulate Alien Volcanoes Here on Earth
supercluster.com

Who were the Illuminati?
historyextra.com

China’s Artificial Sun Just Smashed a Fusion World Record
popularmechanics.com

On this day in 1837 Alois Schicklgruber was born
damninteresting.com

How virus detectives trace the origins of an outbreak – and why it’s so tricky
theconversation.com

Weird “wheel animals” wriggle back to life after 24,000 years frozen
newatlas.com

The rise and fall of the world’s largest lake
sciencemag.org

A new material made from carbon nanotubes can generate electricity by scavenging energy from its environment
phys.org

Is Earth’s Core Lopsided? Something Strange Is Going On in Our Planet’s Interior
scitechdaily.com

Shackled skeleton identified as rare evidence of slavery in Roman Britain
theguardian.com

People have abandoned hundreds of cats on a deserted Brazilian island. Officials aren’t sure how to save them.
washingtonpost.com

Photographer captures ‘odd but exciting’ crow behaviour known as anting
cbc.ca

David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98
rte.ie

A day in the life of a flavour inventor
bbc.com

How a ghostly outline revealed the secret of Modigliani’s lost lover
theguardian.com

Will a Volcanic Eruption Be a Burp or a Blast?
wired.com

Why Cuba couldn’t control the internet
restofworld.org

Video: No one can figure out how eels have sex [6:01]
youtube.com

How ‘One Hundred and One Dalmatians’ Saved Disney
smithsonianmag.com • (see also)

Video: ‘We found a fortune in the belly of a whale’ [03:09]
bbc.com

Declassified Cold War code-breaking manual has lessons for solving ‘impossible’ puzzles
phys.org • (see also)

The Psychology of Panic
the-scientist.com

Caffeine fail: New study shows it can keep you awake, but can’t keep you functional
cbc.ca

At Pizza Pacaya, the Oven Is an Active Volcano
atlasobscura.com

FDA Approves ‘Game Changer’ Weight Loss Drug, Likely First in a New Era of Obesity Treatment
gizmodo.com

Could the alleged black hole in the center of our galaxy be a ginormous glob of dark matter?
syfy.com

Where Gender-Neutral Pronouns Come From
theatlantic.com • (see also)

NASA’s Juno to get a close look at Jupiter’s moon Ganymede
phys.org

Somersham headless bodies were victims of Roman executions
bbc.com

Second world war through the lenses of German soldiers – in pictures
theguardian.com

How a scientist in a potato field founded the field of radio astronomy
massivesci.com

Bing Censors Image Search for ‘Tank Man’ Even in US
vice.com