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Are you a grammar pedant? This might be why
theguardian.com

Hmmm: KFC going back to the Colonel’s fried chicken ways, reoutfitting stores and kitchens
bizjournals.com

When Missing Persons Cases Go Cold
columbusmonthly.com

Human sacrifice helped ancient societies entrench class divide, study suggests
cbc.ca

Video: Space Elevator – Science Fiction or the Future of Mankind?
youtube.com

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 first stage has successfully landed on a floating barge for the first time
youtube.com

19th-Century Storm Chasers Took the First Tornado Photographs
hyperallergic.com

Vanishing Languages, Reincarnated as Music
nytimes.com

We Finally Know Why the North Pole Is Moving East
gizmodo.com

Unexplained Tug on Cassini’s Orbit May Betray the Long Reach of Planet Nine
futurism.com

The Brain That Wasn’t Supposed to Heal
theatlantic.com

Renting hell in New York City: how my hoarder landlady ruined my life
theguardian.com

X-ray laser analysis has been used to identify the scene of a cold-case murder.
cosmosmagazine.com

Language Loss in a Time of War
daily.jstor.org

Why Nature Prefers Hexagons: Geometric rules behind fly eyes, honeycombs, and soap bubbles.
nautil.us

Inside the Elaborate Web Presence of the Government’s Fake University
chronicle.com

The Future of Technology Is Hiding on the Ocean Floor
gizmodo.com

The Race to Turn Gassy Hydrogen into Solid Metal
scientificamerican.com

Bullet indicates Lawrence of Arabia was no liar
phys.org

Rage Disorder Linked with Parasite Found in Cat Feces
scientificamerican.com

Bizarre fossil hauled its offspring around ‘like kites’
bbc.com

Study: Blacks with no criminal record have same success getting job offers as whites just out of prison.
nytimes.com

Previously unseen video of an infamous British spy describing his career as a Soviet agent.
bbc.com

Study: Lack of sunlight not the important causal mechanism in ‘seasonal affective disorder.’
cbc.ca

Why Google Maps Shows You Different Borders, Depending On Where You Are
fastcoexist.com

Gastroenterologists create tiny sensor to analyze flatulence to monitor health.
bbc.com

Only one Norse settlement known in North America, but archaeologists may have found another.
news.nationalpost.com

A strange, sad story: The ballad of Fred and Yoko
arktimes.com

Photo: Curiosity rover looks back and captures an image of a Martian dust devil.
i.imgur.com

Rats learn to sense infrared in hours thanks to brain implants
newscientist.com

New body parts 3D printed for damaged corpses by funeral home
telegraph.co.uk

Where might Planet Nine be hiding?
klotza.blogspot.com

Newly Discovered Star Has an Almost Pure Oxygen Atmosphere
popularmechanics.com

Why are we eternally fascinated by serial killers?
bbc.com

How to Hack an Election – the story of Andrés Sepúlveda
bloomberg.com

What life is like after police ransack your house — then the charges are dropped
washingtonpost.com

Ancient fossil was ‘nearly a spider’
bbc.com

Study: Ant antennae are both receivers and broadcasters.
news.discovery.com

Researchers Identify Virus and Two Types of Bacteria as Major Causes of Alzheimer’s
neurosciencenews.com

Wound healing could be enhanced with modified maggots
medicalnewstoday.com

Extinct ‘Siberian unicorn’ may have lived alongside humans, fossil suggests
theguardian.com

Study: Moon Moved from Its Original Axis 3 Billion Years Ago
sci-news.com

In 1961, the Beatles played a show for just 18 people.
mashable.com

Animation illustrating the tiny speck of sky represented in the famous Hubble Deep Field
i.imgur.com

Video: “Horrible Jargon We Got Used To” gives examples of the evolution of language.
youtube.com

Woodpeckers carry wood-eating fungi that may help them dig holes
newscientist.com

Two men entered the ring for their first professional fight. Then something went wrong.
nytimes.com

The Deadly Consequences of Solitary With a Cellmate
themarshallproject.org

When a fishing boat sank in the middle of the night, 47 were stranded in 32-degree swells.
gq.com

From daredevil to chicken: Scientists find off-switch for risky behavior
arstechnica.com

Moons of Saturn may be younger than the dinosaurs
astronomynow.com

Scientists say Shakespeare’s skull may be missing from grave
washingtonpost.com

Three Cool Things We’ve Learned From NASA’s Mars Gravity Map
news.nationalgeographic.com

Study: People with similar mental behaviors tend to move their bodies in similar ways.
rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org

The Enduring Mystery Of ‘Jawn’, Philadelphia’s All-Purpose Noun
atlasobscura.com

After 95 years, a Navy ship lost at sea with all hands is finally discovered
washingtonpost.com

The Story Behind GM’s Celebrated ‘Damsels of Design’
core77.com

Animation: High contrast image of the hexagonal storm on Saturn’s north pole.
i.imgur.com

Scientists have created a synthetic organism that has only the genes it needs to survive.
quantamagazine.org

Why watching comb jellies poop has stunned evolutionary biologists
sciencemag.org