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A new study shows that we are far better at remembering what we see and touch than what we hear.
news.nationalgeographic.com

SpaceX has successfully returned the Falcon 9 first stage to the Earth with a safe vertical landing!
twitter.com

NYTimes interactive: Mapping Saturn’s Moons (drag each moon to rotate)
nytimes.com

Photo, 1971: Hair sculpted into a Christmas tree, including decorations and colored lights.
i.imgur.com

NASA Releases New High-Resolution Earthrise Image.
nasa.gov

Two atoms make quantum memory, processing gate, and test of entanglement.
arstechnica.co.uk

Photo gallery: The 2015 winners of The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
comedywildlifephoto.com

Video: Jet fuel and steel beams.
youtube.com

Astronomers Discover a Potentially Habitable Planet Just 14 Light Years Away.
popularmechanics.com

New Technology Lets Us Hear Famous Voice from 1880s.
learningenglish.voanews.com

An Unbelievable Story of Rape
themarshallproject.org

Some of history’s biggest and most ambitious engineering projects are being built right now.
theworldin.com

Study: Parrots use pebble tools to grind up own mineral supplements.
newscientist.com

Update on Poland’s supposed “Nazi gold train”: Geo-magnetic model shows no evidence for it.
theguardian.com

The Last Mission to the Moon: A real-time journey through the Apollo 17 mission.
apollo17.org

Photo: The Apollo 17 lunar rover in its final resting place on this day in 1972; the day humans last set foot on the moon.
i.imgur.com

Death By Coconut: A Story Of Food Obsession Gone Too Far.
npr.org

Study: Text messages (SMS) ending with a period perceived as less sincere.
sciencedirect.com

Computer shows human-like learning for writing characters.
cbc.ca

80-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Blood Vessels Never Fossilized.
news.discovery.com

Ceres Is Cloudy, with a Chance of Cryovolcanoes.
scientificamerican.com

Video explaining the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device
youtube.com

The Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is now in operation, good results.
ipp.mpg.de

Can You Own Part of an Asteroid? How Asteroid Mining Is Changing Space Law.
singularityhub.com

How being left-handed changes your perception of the world. #sinister
vox.com

Photo: The Spacelander Electric Bicycle (1946) used a dynamo to store downhill energy for uphill use. Only 522 produced.
i.imgur.com

New composite image of Titan from NASA, showing Earth-like surface of Saturn’s largest moon
abc.net.au

NASA/Google test early quantum computer, find it 100,000,000 faster than normal computers for a certain problem type.
9to5google.com

Large, detailed, downloadable map of the mythical creatures of Europe.
tandfonline.com

Texas Astronomer Solves Mystery of ‘Born Again’ Stars with Hubble Space Telescope.
mcdonaldobservatory.org

Why one lake contains more than 1000 species of the same fish.
newscientist.com

Colombian authorities confirm finding the galleon San Jose, “the holy grail of shipwrecks.”
news.com.au

Time-lapse video: 1,200 engineers conduct major upgrade of Shibuya Station in the heart of Tokyo in a single night.
youtube.com

Poster: Hires scan of 1944 “Chart of Electromagnetic Radiations” by W.M. Welch (10000×6958)
flickr.com

Japan’s Akatsuki orbiter has entered orbit around Venus, five years after its initial try.
nature.com

‘Outsiders’ Crack a 50-Year-Old Math Problem
wired.com

New Horizons Returns First of the Best Images of Pluto
nasa.gov

Animals found living in rock deep, deep underground (~1.4km).
cbc.ca

Artificial Intelligence Program Passes College Entrance Exam
blogs.wsj.com

These Bouncing Droplets Could Help Resolve a 90-Year Mystery of Quantum Mechanics
gizmodo.com

Video: A beautiful, unofficial advertisement for NASA featuring Carl Sagan.
youtube.com

CRISPR : The New Gene-Editing Technique That Reveals Cancer’s Weaknesses
theatlantic.com

An exceptionally well-written first-person account of serving in a jury at a murder trial.
medium.com

Video: Always-interesting Bill Hammack explains how plastic injection molding works.
youtube.com

Data Mining Reveals How Smiling Evolved During a Century of Yearbook Photos
technologyreview.com

In 1972 NASA smashed part of the Apollo 16 rocket into the moon. Researchers have finally found the impact site.
leonarddavid.com

Study: Anti-Alzheimer’s gene may have led to the rise of grandparents.
news.sciencemag.org

Scans prove there’s no such thing as a ‘male’ or ‘female’ brain.
newscientist.com

Magnetic protein may provide animals with navigation information.
arstechnica.co.uk

Researchers find new phase of carbon, make diamond at room temperature.
phys.org

Fossils Reveal How Giraffe Got Its Long Neck
news.discovery.com

The Serial Swatter: How Internet trolls use SWAT teams to move harassment into meatspace.
nytimes.com

Chris Hadfield meets Randall Munroe: ‘Are we alone in the universe?’
theguardian.com

Our article “The Zero-Armed Bandit” has been nominated for a Golden Giraffe. Voting is open here until December 1
polldaddy.com

Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions
theatlantic.com

Officials now 90% sure radar scan shows a secret chamber behind a wall of King Tut’s tomb.
independent.co.uk

Nifty new photos of Mars from Curiosity rover.
earthsky.org

Video: Frontline’s “The Real CSI” reveals the pseudoscience that informs forensic science.
pbs.org

Has progress in science and technology come to a halt?
aeon.co

Why English is weirder than pretty much every other language.
aeon.co