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Bosch is developing a robot that can identify & destroy weeds in crops based on leaf shape.
fwi.co.uk

Archeologists have found a lost ancient island posing as a modern peninsula.
qz.com

Video: Asteroid discoveries from 1980 to 2012 (HD recommended).
youtube.com

The Time Republicans Helped Build an All-Black Town Called ‘Soul City’
citylab.com

The messy reality of science revealed by the long hunt for a missing planet
arstechnica.com

Later this month a €1 billion nuclear fusion reactor will be switched on for testing.
gizmodo.com

MIT and Stanford neuroscientists develop method for turning brain cells on and off with pulses of light.
salon.com

Scientists have found that great apes may be able to remember and anticipate memorable on-screen events.
livescience.com

MIT team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water.
news.mit.edu

Video: Simulation of the expected collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies in 4 billion years.
youtube.com

New Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System May Be The Farthest One Yet
space.com

NASA’s Cassini Finds Monstrous Ice Cloud in Titan’s South Polar Region
nasa.gov

New Study Explores Link Between Climate Change and Kangaroo Farts
magazine.good.is

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

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

Stonehenge Begins to Yield Its Secrets.
nytimes.com

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

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

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

Data Saved in Quartz Glass Might Last 300 Million Years.
scientificamerican.com

The UCSB Library online archive of digitized wax cylinders.
cylinders.library.ucsb.edu

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

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

“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