New Study Explores Link Between Climate Change and Kangaroo Farts

On this day in 1918, WW1 ended abruptly, as illustrated by the silencing of artillery in this sound ranging tape.

Scientists predict object WT1190F will enter Earth’s atmosphere and burn up on 13 Nov, 1:20 a.m. EST.

Stonehenge Begins to Yield Its Secrets.

“Thermal anomalies” detected in the pyramids of Giza, Egyptian antiquities officials say.

In 5 Minutes, He Lets the Blind See (note: Autoplaying embedded video)

Toronto doctor successfully treats a brain tumor through the blood/brain barrier.

Data Saved in Quartz Glass Might Last 300 Million Years.

The UCSB Library online archive of digitized wax cylinders.

Thomas Quick: The extraordinary story of the serial killer who wasn’t.

“Non-invasive stimulation of the brain reduces calorie intake and increases weight loss in obese adults”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NASA’s last original Voyager engineer is retiring.

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

The Golden Dream (interesting article if you can stomach the mystical dream nonsense)

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

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

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

Harvard entomologist discovers “puppy-sized spider” in rainforest

Lenin Statue in Ukraine Turned Into Darth Vader

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

Scientists build heat engine from a single atom

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

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

New photo from Cassini: The Fractured North Pole of Saturn’s Enceladus

Video: How hand-made contact lenses worked in 1948

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

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

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

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

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

Parkinson’s patients ‘walk and talk again’ after receiving cancer drug in trial

The Lonely Death of George Bell