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Epigenetics: Scientists induce flatworm to grow head and brain of another flatworm species without altering DNA.
genengnews.com

3,500-Year-Old Sunken Town Discovered In Croatia
techtimes.com

Video: BBC Horizon’s short documentary on finding the proof for Fermat’s Last Theorem.
vimeo.com

Gallery: Galaxies and nebulae run through a tilt-shift filter to make them appear tiny.
behance.net

Video: 14-year-old Lucas Etter solving a randomized Rubik’s cube in under 5 seconds, setting a new world record.
youtube.com

Video: Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft executing a historic controlled vertical landing after visiting space.
youtube.com

Video: ACROSS THE SKY – a world record slackline in the Utah desert (acrophobics beware).
vimeo.com

Mesmerizing video: 11 Years of Cassini Saturn Photos in 3 hrs 48 min
youtube.com

Study: Individual differences in bitter taste preferences are associated with antisocial personality traits
sciencedirect.com

Astronomers detect neutrinos released just one second after the birth of the universe
scientificamerican.com

The surprising truth about pirates and parrots.
atlasobscura.com

Video: Short documentary on aircraft carriers from 1967. Includes footage of first, wooden-decked US carrier.
youtube.com

Ornate, 2,000-year-old secret cult worship chamber open to public for the first time.
telegraph.co.uk

Yikes: If a tapeworm in a human gut contracts cancer, it can be transmitted to the host.
nejm.org

Surgery Could Give Men Wombs of Their Own Within 5 Years.
yahoo.com

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