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Scientists build heat engine from a single atom
news.sciencemag.org

“It’s like a ghostly lawnmower, whose presence is inferred by looking at a field of freshly shorn grass.”
theatlantic.com

Astronomers identify the hottest, heaviest touching double star ever discovered.
eso.org

New photo from Cassini: The Fractured North Pole of Saturn’s Enceladus
apod.nasa.gov

Video: How hand-made contact lenses worked in 1948
youtube.com

Life on Earth may have begun 300m years earlier than previously thought
theguardian.com

Study: Ingredient in sunscreens responsible for “dramatic worldwide coral bleaching event”
washingtonpost.com

Study: Only 8% of the universe’s habitable worlds have formed so far
news.sciencemag.org

Large, recently discovered asteroid will will fly past Earth at 126,000km/h on Oct 31
ibtimes.co.uk

The top speeds of animals, from bacteria to blue whales, is roughly proportional to length.
kottke.org

Parkinson’s patients ‘walk and talk again’ after receiving cancer drug in trial
independent.co.uk

The Lonely Death of George Bell
nytimes.com

Image gallery: “You and the Atomic Bomb”, a pamphlet from the 1950s.
imgur.com

Study: Different Brain Regions are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease
nature.com

Cassini’s Close Flyby of Enceladus Yields Surprising, Perplexing Imagery
universetoday.com

$2 photo bought in Fresno turns out to be $5 million image of Billy the Kid.
sfgate.com

For 126 years, science’s “reference kilogram” has been a specific platinum/iridium cylinder in a vault outside Paris, but not for much longer.
nature.com

Researchers make synthetic, self-replicating “protocells” to mimic early life.
popsci.com

Long-form: Inside an FBI Hostage Crisis
graphics.wsj.com

Video: The first 30 seconds of the Apollo 11 Saturn V launch in 8 minutes of HD super slow motion.
youtube.com

‘99.99 percent air’: Boeing releases video of revolutionary lightweight metal
rt.com

The Nobel-Winning Malaria Drug Won’t Work For Much Longer
fivethirtyeight.com

Excellent 2-part article from the BBC: The tragic tale of Mt Everest’s most famous dead body
bbc.com

Image: A mosaic of the north pole of the Moon assembled from photos from ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft.
imgur.com

Chromoscope: The milky way at different wavelengths.
chromoscope.net

NASA has released their “Journey to Mars” three-phase plan report (PDF)
nasa.gov

How To Get Away With (the Perfect) Murder.
gq.com

Video: Every photo taken by the Apollo 11 crew in one minute.
youtube.com

New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto.
nasa.gov

Documentary, 1 hour: The story of the 1955 Le Mans disaster.
youtube.com

Watch Two People With Brain Implants Control Computers With Their Thoughts
bloomberg.com

Study: This carnivorous pitcher plant uses power from falling raindrops to eat ants.
bbc.com

Study: DNA from neuron cells in normal human brains contain around 1,500 unique mutations, far more than expected.
theatlantic.com

Photo: A pair of hexagonal craters on dwarf planet Ceres imaged by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft.
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov

Short Video: National Geographic’s drone footage of 3,000-year-old Nubian Pyramid ruins.
youtube.com

Photo, 1976: Student Danny Finegood temporarily modified the Hollywood sign to celebrate marijuana decriminalization.
i.imgur.com

8,400 hi-res pictures from the Apollo mission are now up on Flickr
flickr.com

A tumor stole every memory I had. This is what happened when it all came back.
qz.com

Image: Our best views of Pluto’s moon Charon over the years.
i.imgur.com

The Untold Story of the Texas Biker Gang Shoot-Out
gq.com

Ansel Adams’s photographs from America’s WW2 Japanese internment camps.
mashable.com

Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road.
bbc.com

Phonovision: Experimental 1920s tech for capturing TV broadcasts on shellac records.
tvdawn.com

A new camera developed at MIT can photograph a trillion frames per second.
magazine.good.is

If there is life in the newly discovered Mars saltwater, it could look something like this.
astrobio.net

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