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Nuking an Asteroid to Prevent Armageddon Could Actually Work, Study Shows
sciencealert.com

Elite Wildland Firefighters Sew Their Own Gear
theatlantic.com

Researchers have found an effective solution to the famous age-old, three-body problem in physics
scitechdaily.com

Journey to the Surface of Venus
airspacemag.com • (see also)

The Disneyfication of Atomic Power
nautil.us

Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change?
newyorker.com

Former cops claim to have identified Zodiac Killer and linked him to another victim
independent.co.uk

What Happened to the Secret Bunker beneath the Eiffel Tower?
messynessychic.com

Scientists Just Created the Coldest Temperature Ever Recorded in the Lab
popularmechanics.com • (see also)

Researchers Record the Breaking of a Single Chemical Bond – “Amazing”
scitechdaily.com

Perseverance Rover spotted from space in striking new satellite image
space.com

Sunlight affects whether languages have a word for ‘blue’
science.org

Archaeologists Extract 1,300-Year-Old Wooden Ski From Norwegian Ice
smithsonianmag.com

Birds Have a Mysterious ‘Quantum Sense’. Scientists Have Now Seen It in Action
sciencealert.com • (see also)

2,700-Year-Old Private Toilet Found in Jerusalem
smithsonianmag.com

Chhurpi: The world’s hardest cheese?
bbc.com

‘Dystopian world’: Singapore patrol robots stoke fears of surveillance state
theguardian.com

Astronomers Get Ready to Probe Europa’s Hidden Ocean for Life
wired.com • (see also)

Tardigrade discovered in 16-million-year-old amber a ‘once in a generation’ find
cnet.com

Is it an asteroid or comet? This strange solar system object is actually both.
space.com

Video: The mystery of the “same sky” postcards [9:01]
youtube.com

Reports of mysterious Mossad operation to find Israeli airman confirmed
theguardian.com

The 50-Year Evolution of Walt Disney World in Maps
visualcapitalist.com

‘People arrived for work and got vaporised’: how Kikuji Kawada captured the trauma of Hiroshima
theguardian.com • (see also)

Is Your Brain Wired for Numbers?
the-scientist.com

Once Upon a Time in a Real “Westworld” Hoax Town
messynessychic.com

Video: The genes you don’t get from your parents (but can’t live without) [5:02]
youtube.com

Fatty Arbuckle and the Birth of the Celebrity Scandal
newyorker.com

The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history
theconversation.com • (see also)

Tiny worms ‘hear’ without an eardrum, surprising scientists
nationalgeographic.com

This ‘Extraordinary Gamma-Ray Burst’ Likely Came From Something Much Closer to Earth
sciencealert.com

NASA’s DART mission will deliberately crash into an asteroid’s moon
cnn.com

Yemen’s ancient, soaring skyscraper cities
bbc.com

Using theory and experiments, researchers show how apples get their shapes
phys.org

Video: Designing Lucy’s Path to the Trojan Asteroids [6:27]
youtube.com

Henrietta Lacks’s estate sues biotech firm over ‘stolen’ immortal cancer cells
cbc.ca • (see also)

18,000 years ago, late Pleistocene humans may have hatched and raised the “World’s Most Dangerous Bird.”
arkeonews.net

The 41 Mile Abandoned Tunnel Hiding in New York
messynessychic.com • (see also)

Video: How Apple Tried to Make the iPhone in 1993 [17:16]
youtube.com

Facebook “is tearing our societies apart,” whistleblower says in interview
arstechnica.com • (see also)

The Ship That Became a Bomb
newyorker.com

William Shatner Will Ride Jeff Bezos’s Rocket to Space
gizmodo.com

‘We wanted to make history’: Michael Jackson’s bizarre year in Bahrain
theguardian.com

Video: The Insane Engineering of the 787 [31:47]
youtube.com

Can You Hear the Northern Lights?
realclearscience.com • (see also)

The rise of ‘citizen sleuths’: the true crime buffs trying to solve cases
theguardian.com

Simulations suggest an Earth or Mars size planet may be lurking out beyond Neptune
phys.org

Pandora papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful
theguardian.com

Tylenol during mother’s pregnancy linked to ADHD and other developmental disorders in children
theconversation.com

Rogue Planets Could be Habitable
universetoday.com

Researchers Have Developed a New Kind of ‘Unbreakable’ Glass
interestingengineering.com

Hubble telescope spots celestial ‘eye,’ a galaxy with an incredibly active core
space.com

This Parasite Turns Plants Into Zombies
nytimes.com • (see also)

That stinky armpit smell? It’s not you, it’s your microbiome
massivesci.com

Why DARPA’s new hypersonic weapon could pack such a devastating punch
popsci.com

Bach to the future …. how the cello suites survived obscurity to capture the world
theguardian.com • (see also)

The Martians of Budapest
privatdozent.co

Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding
newatlas.com

Who scams the scammers? Meet the scambaiters
theguardian.com

Special ops troops ‘hunkered down’ in California airport hangar after nighttime ninja attack
stripes.com