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This Weight-Changing Cup Alters Your Perception of Flavor
gizmodo.com

Genealogists say Leonardo da Vinci has 14 living relatives
arstechnica.com

New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry
quantamagazine.org

Video: The Secret Things Living In Your Drains [9:50]
youtube.com

Physicists Get a Unique View of a Destroyed Comet
gizmodo.com

What did the ancient Romans eat?
bbc.com

LA bomb squad ‘grossly miscalculated’ weight of fireworks in huge explosion
theguardian.com

Extreme Drought Could Shut Down a Hydroelectric Power Plant In California
vice.com

Using plastic waste to help solve sand shortages
bbc.com

Studebaker Still Advertises Its Defunct Company with 8,000-Tree Monument
thedrive.com

Why do identical twins have different fingerprints?
sciencefocus.com

Maybe It’s Aliens, or Maybe It’s Volcanoes
theatlantic.com

Solving a 100-Year-Old Mystery About a Pigeon
smithsonianmag.com • (see also)

What if an RNA molecule could do it all over again?
massivesci.com

The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles
newyorker.com

50 Years Later, the Soviet Union’s Luna Program Might Get a Reboot
popularmechanics.com • (see also)

Mercury Redstone 4: A close shave for America’s second man in space
newatlas.com

Europe’s unluckiest train station gets new lease of life as hotel
theguardian.com

A Brief History of Perfume: Visiting an Archive of Ancient Scents
lithub.com

Photos: Catastrophic Flooding Across Western Europe
theatlantic.com

What Causes Gamma-Ray Bursts? Their Ultrabright Flashes Hold Clues
wired.com • (see also)

The Race to Leave Planet Earth
newyorker.com

With all these planets, why haven’t we found any exomoons?
space.com

New Images of Mars From China’s Rover
universetoday.com

Secrets and pies: the battle to get lab-grown meat on the menu
theguardian.com

Neutron Stars Make Ant Hills Out of Mountains
zmescience.com

Video: Student Pilot Loses Engine [2:30] (via Digg)
youtube.com • (see also)

He Thought He Could Outfox the Gig Economy. He Was Wrong
wired.com

Video: Ride With Juno As It Flies Past the Solar System’s Biggest Moon and Jupiter [4:00]
jpl.nasa.gov

Snake venom-based surgical “super glue” plugs bleeding in seconds
newatlas.com

Secrets of rebel slaves in Barbados will finally be revealed
theguardian.com

These stunning new images of nearby galaxies will blow you away
cnet.com

‘They got out of hand’: Auckland street wrestles with fate of 400 pet rabbits
theguardian.com

Why the history of the vast early America matters today
aeon.co

On this day in 1917 the residents of Clipperton Island decided to overthrow their brutal dictator
damninteresting.com

Rome’s Accidental Lake Is an Urban Refuge and Catalyst for Activism
atlasobscura.com

Is the Universe a Fractal?
universetoday.com

Jumping Spiders Seem to Have a Cognitive Ability Only Previously Found in Vertebrates
sciencealert.com

On this day in 1962 an extremely portable nuclear weapon was tested in the Nevada desert
damninteresting.com

Shoplifting, for Fun and Profit
daily.jstor.org

Designing less addictive opioids, through chemistry
theconversation.com

Derinkuyu: the ancient underground city, once home to 20,000 people
zmescience.com

What is the smallest particle in the universe? (What about the largest?)
livescience.com

‘No One is Safe’: How The Heatwave Has Battered the Wealthy World
nytimes.com

Pay secrecy: Why some workers can’t discuss salaries
bbc.com

How the Moon ‘Wobble’ Affects Rising Tides and Flooding
nytimes.com

Living on Earth while your dad walks on the moon
cnn.com

Human Genome Mostly Overlaps With Neanderthals, Other Human Ancestors
businessinsider.com

The lion in the London black cab: the remarkable story of Singh, and the boy who loved him
theguardian.com

This week: 👂 Auditory lenses, 🌎 planetary tilt benefits, 🐟 meth-addicted fish, and more!
damninteresting.com

Newly-Discovered ‘Borg’ DNA Is Unlike Anything Scientists Have Ever Seen
vice.com

When did humans start experimenting with alcohol and drugs?
theconversation.com

Human Protein Dissolves Bacterial Membranes
the-scientist.com

Big bang: how we are trying to ‘listen’ to it – and the new physics it could unveil
theconversation.com

The online data that’s being deleted
bbc.com

Climate scientists shocked by scale of floods in Germany
theguardian.com

Scientist Creates a Revolutionary Map of All Forces in the Universe
interestingengineering.com

To catch deep-space neutrinos, astronomers lay traps in Greenland’s ice
sciencemag.org

On this day in 1969 the first manned mission to the moon launched, the spacecraft’s occupants insured through an inventive scheme
damninteresting.com

Physicists Levitate a Glass Nanosphere, Pushing It Into The Realm of Quantum Mechanics
sciencealert.com