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“Even a five-year age difference makes a couple 18 percent more likely to get divorced.”
theatlantic.com

Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months.
theguardian.com

New Horizons has performed its targeting maneuvers to set it on course for a January 2019 encounter with 2014 MU69.
pluto.jhuapl.edu

Harvard has digitized thousands of rare documents from early colonial America.
news.harvard.edu

Meet the ‘Dakotaraptor,’ the freaky feathered dinosaur that once roamed South Dakota.
washingtonpost.com

Gallery: NASA Releases Harrowing New Photos of Last Year’s Antares Rocket Explosion
gizmodo.com

About 2,600 undelivered letters found in a chest belonging to a Dutch postmaster from late 17th/early 18th century.
news.yale.edu

“For the first time ever, a person’s life has been saved by gene editing.”
newscientist.com

NASA mission reveals rate of Mars atmosphere loss from solar wind; suggests warm, wet past.
nasa.gov

Centuries-old documents found in bird nests during restoration of Russian cathedral.
en.metkere.com

Evidently “The Zero-Armed Bandit” by Alan Bellows is long-listed for Golden Giraffes 2015. Did you know giraffes chew cud? That’s a LONG round trip.
thebrowser.com

Video: 30 minutes of footage of the sun in Ultra-HD (4K) from NASA.
youtube.com

Image gallery: NASA’s early concept art for the Space Shuttle.
imgur.com

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)
cia.gov

22 ancient shipwrecks discovered around one Greek island chain of Fourni.
independent.co.uk

New species emerges from interbreeding wolves, coyotes and dogs in eastern North America.
economist.com

Video: First-ever field observations of Earth’s rarest whales – Omura’s whales.
theguardian.com

1958 Curtiss-Wright “Air Car” for sale, needs a little TLC.
barnfinds.com

Vintage video: The 1958 Curtiss-Wright “Air Car”
youtube.com

“Dead comet” making close Halloween pass of Earth resembles a skull.
nasa.gov

Peer-reviewed study: Researchers develop blood test that can diagnose cancer with 96% certainty for most types.
thelatestnews.com

NASA releases new, clearer satellite photos of Kazakhstan’s ancient “Steppe Geoglyphs”
nytimes.com

Rosetta finds oxygen on comet 67P in ‘most surprising discovery to date’.
theguardian.com

The ‘driest place on Earth’ is covered in pink flowers after a crazy year of rain.
washingtonpost.com

Astronomers discover previously unknown band of young stars hidden behind thick dust in the center of the Milky Way.
gizmodo.com

Cassini Seeks Insights to Life in Plumes of Enceladus, Saturn’s Icy Moon
nytimes.com

US allegedly ordered 32 nuclear missiles launched from secret sites in Okinawa during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
thebulletin.org

The “Green Books” that helped keep black travelers safe on US roads in the Jim Crow years.
digitalcollections.nypl.org

NASA’s last original Voyager engineer is retiring.
money.cnn.com

Greenland Is Melting Away (interesting, concerning, and beautifully presented).
nytimes.com

The Golden Dream (interesting article if you can stomach the mystical dream nonsense)
bbc.co.uk

If a Pulitzer-finalist 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web, anything can.
theatlantic.com

Photo, 17 July 1975: Americans and Soviets assembled this plaque in space after docking their two spacecraft in orbit (Apollo-Soyuz Test Project).
spaceflight.nasa.gov

The story of Slava, a meteorologist who works at the most remote weather station on Earth.
theguardian.com

Harvard entomologist discovers “puppy-sized spider” in rainforest
abc7chicago.com

Lenin Statue in Ukraine Turned Into Darth Vader
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

Tolkien’s annotated map of Middle-earth discovered inside copy of Lord of the Rings
theguardian.com

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