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NASA scientists find very strong evidence of flowing saltwater (“hydrated salts”) on Mars.
theguardian.com

Image series: A light echo traveling through the dust cloud surrounding star V838 Monocerotis (May 2002 – Oct 2004).
i.imgur.com

Boeing publishes photos of secret 1960s stealth plane experiment
arstechnica.com

New Horizons: Pluto displays rippling terrain (new hires photos downloaded from probe)
bbc.com

Paraplegic man walks on his own legs thanks to computer system that reroutes brain signals to electrodes on his knees
theguardian.com

NASA visualizes the supersonic shockwave of a jet eclipsing the sun
washingtonpost.com

Photo, WW2: As Allies advanced on Florence, Italy, locals encased priceless art pieces (including Michelangelo’s David) in bricks to keep them safe.
i.imgur.com

Video: Flyover of Pluto generated from New Horizons still images.
space.com

Egypt Gives Green Light to Search for Nefertiti’s Burial Chamber in King Tut’s Tomb
news.artnet.com

Video: Cities, storms, and aurorae–HD time lapse footage from the ISS.
youtube.com

Palmerston: One of the most isolated island communities in the world. Population: 62
bbc.com

Image: US government mockups of how Hitler could have disguised himself to escape capture toward the end of the war.
i.imgur.com

They donut make them like they used to.
i.imgur.com

Meet Sir Vival, the safety car from a future that wasn’t.
autoweek.com

Ligo begins “listening” for the gravitational waves flowing through the Earth when violent events occur in space.
bbc.com

Giraffes spend their evenings humming to each other
newscientist.com

How Wasps Use Viruses to Genetically Engineer Caterpillars
theatlantic.com

What Happened When We Tried To Publish a Real Paper Investigating Time Travel
thewinnower.com

More on the ‘Fallen Astronaut’ sculpture
slate.com

‘Fallen Astronaut’, a 3″ aluminum sculpture left on the moon by Apollo 15 astronauts to memorialize their fallen comrades.
i.imgur.com

Another batch of beautiful Pluto photos downloaded from NASA’s New Horizons
nasa.gov

Video: What spoken English sounded like 500 years ago, prior to the Great Vowel Shift.
youtube.com

Using technology to attempt basic communication with dolphins.
ngm.nationalgeographic.com

Related to last: Reddit AMA with two of the “slender spelunkers” who excavated the cave where Homo naledi was found.
reddit.com

Documentary: The story of the recent discovery of Homo naledi deep in a cave in South Africa.
pbs.org

Extinct tree grows anew from ancient jar of seeds unearthed by archaeologists
treehugger.com

Gallery: George Washington’s Annotated Copy of a Draft of the U.S. Constitution
research.archives.gov

Study: Vision comes at a surprising cost–5%-15% of an animal’s total energy budget.
theguardian.com

Gigantic Ice Slab Found on Mars Just Below the Planet’s Surface.
news.yahoo.com

Patient receives 3D-printed titanium sternum and rib cage.
gizmag.com

Image gallery: Hi-res photos of Pluto, freshly downloaded from New Horizons probe.
pluto.jhuapl.edu

New species of human relative, Homo naledi, discovered deep in a cave in South Africa.
washingtonpost.com

Study: Whale vocalizations have varying dialects, and they are not innate, they must be learned.
bbc.com

NIST Physicists Show ‘Molecules’ Made of Light May Be Possible.
nist.gov

Ceres’ Bright Spots Seen in Striking New Detail.
jpl.nasa.gov

Ancient Roman tag for a dog or slave: “Hold me, lest I flee, and return me to my master…”
britishmuseum.org

New prion disease raises questions about whether Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s could be infectious.
theconversation.com

Image: Ground penetrating radar that purportedly shows the buried armored Nazi train in Poland.
i.imgur.com

Newly discovered 13.2 billion-year-old galaxy is the most distant galaxy ever seen, and theoretically should not be visible to us.
caltech.edu

Researchers at Google and MIT have developed an algorithm to remove obstructions from photos.
petapixel.com

The curious organisms and ecosystem of the long-isolated Movile Cave.
bbc.com

In new study, 100 percent of participants taking HIV prevention pill Truvada remained infection-free.
washingtonpost.com

Men claiming they found Nazi train reveal themselves on Polish TV; claim it is buried, not in abandoned tunnel.
globalnews.ca

The Secret Story Of How Bubonic Plague Nearly Broke Out In New York City.
foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com

Video: Live interview interrupted by a blue whale.
bbc.co.uk

Mathematician Alex Bellos demonstrates Loop, a variant of pool played on an elliptical table.
bbc.com

The Case for Complex Dark Matter.
quantumnittygritty.wordpress.com

Video: Self-balancing bicycle-riding robot.
youtube.com

Photo: 70 years ago today General Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri, ending WW2.
i.imgur.com

How food coloring and water droplets help scientists understand how living cells work.
qz.com

SubTropolis: The sprawling multipurpose underground complex below Kansas City.
bloomberg.com

Photo: Marathon Valley on Mars, as seen by NASA’s Opportunity rover, July 2015.
i.imgur.com

Video: “The Bomb,” a new PBS documentary on the nuclear bomb with restored/enhanced historical footage.
youtube.com

Quantum weirdness proved real in first loophole-free experiment.
newscientist.com

Subatomic particles that appear to defy Standard Model points to undiscovered forces.
uk.news.yahoo.com

We will miss you deeply, Oliver Sacks.
nytimes.com

Update on the found Nazi loot train: Its location is “near or under the famed Ksiaz Castle.”
forbes.com

Beautiful animation of the New Horizons Pluto flyby assembled from its images.
vimeo.com

NASA’s New Horizons Team Selects Potential Kuiper Belt Flyby Target.
nasa.gov

“Needle ice” forms when capillary action draws water from above-freezing soil into below-freezing air.
en.wikipedia.org