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The Rocket That Took Humans to the Moon Will Be Projected on the Washington Monument Next Week
paleofuture.gizmodo.com

DNA-Repairing Sunscreen: Legit or Not?
wired.com

Julius Caesar came. He saw. He conquered. Here’s how Rome celebrated.
nationalgeographic.com

The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning
newyorker.com

Interpreting the Beasts of the Middle Ages
hyperallergic.com

The Curious Case of the Socialite Who Sterilized Her Daughter
narratively.com • (see also)

“I Did Not Die. I Did Not Go to Heaven.”
slate.com

On this day in 1908, scientists first liquefied helium
damninteresting.com

AI Trained on Old Scientific Papers Makes Discoveries Humans Missed
vice.com

At least 2% of US public water systems are like Flint’s – Americans just don’t hear about them
theconversation.com

A man was swept over the largest waterfall at Niagara Falls, police say. He survived.
washingtonpost.com

Siberian lake loved by Instagrammers is toxic, power plant says
bbc.com

One giant … lie? Why so many people still think the moon landings were faked
theguardian.com • (see also)

Light-sensing system could show distant galaxies in unprecedented detail
newsroom.ucla.edu

It Would Take This 50-Year-Old NASA Computer More Than a Quintillion Years to Mine a Single Bitcoin Block
gizmodo.com

The Atlas of Moons
nationalgeographic.com

Cities from scratch: watch new cities rise from the desert, jungle and sea
theguardian.com

The sinkhole that saved the internet
techcrunch.com

The Psychedelics Evangelist: A German Financier Wants to Turn Magic Mushrooms into Modern Medicine
scientificamerican.com

H. G. Wells and the Uncertainties of Progress
publicdomainreview.org • (see also)

An Eight-Second Film of 1915 New Orleans and the Mystery of Louis Armstrong’s Happiness
newyorker.com

The city that launched the publishing industry
bbc.com

Reliving the Apollo 11 Moon Landing in Pictures
nytimes.com

The Discouraging Way Doctors Are Just Like Their Patients
theatlantic.com

On this day in 1958 the highest tsunami in recorded history occurred
damninteresting.com

What It’s Like to Deal Drugs in a Country with the Harshest Penalties in the World
vice.com

She urged her boyfriend to die. Now she’s asking the Supreme Court to call it free speech.
washingtonpost.com

The Bizarre Ways America’s First Spy Agency Tried to Overthrow Hitler
theatlantic.com

Remembering the 20th Century’s Leading Female Arctic Explorer
saturdayeveningpost.com

How one idealistic fisheries observer may have collided with criminals and desperate migrants–and paid for it with his life
hakaimagazine.com

Our behaviour in bulk is more predictable than we like to imagine
aeon.co

Zoos Called It a ‘Rescue.’ But Are the Elephants Really Safe?
nytimes.com

‘You’ll miss me when I’m gone’: the murder of social media star Qandeel Baloch
theguardian.com

Cellular Life, Death and Everything in Between
quantamagazine.org

Inside Starshot, the audacious plan to shoot tiny ships to Alpha Centauri
technologyreview.com

Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has spotted a kilometer-size asteroid that orbits the sun every 151 days
caltech.edu • (see also)

The Moon Is a Hazardous Place to Live
nytimes.com

Randomly dimming star can’t be explained by usual theories
newatlas.com

Science history: Fritz Zwicky and the whole dark matter thing
cosmosmagazine.com

Does the Universe Rotate?
livescience.com

The Amoral Scientist
daily.jstor.org

The Meat-Allergy Tick Also Carries a Mystery Killer Virus
wired.com

Scientists Study Headbanging Parrot to Learn Why Music Makes Us Dance
gizmodo.com

Trees that traveled to space now live on Earth. Here’s where to find them.
nationalgeographic.com

Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921)
publicdomainreview.org

The celebrity cruise to celebrate the end of the Moon landings was a delightful train wreck
fastcompany.com

Anatomy of the Moon Landing
news.sky.com

Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon, and Its First Great Geologist
nytimes.com

Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost
washingtonpost.com

Without parking, thousands of Americans who live in vehicles have nowhere to go
theconversation.com

The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim
latimes.com

Why Do Gravitational Waves Travel Exactly At The Speed Of Light?
forbes.com

The Faults That Ruptured in Twin California Quakes Are Very, Very Weird, Geologists Say.
livescience.com

Texas A&M Chemists Develop Nanoscale Bioabsorbable Wound Dressing
today.tamu.edu

If You Thought Quantum Mechanics Was Weird, You Need to Check Out Entangled Time
sciencealert.com

A new old home for the nation’s dinosaurs
washingtonpost.com

How to Tell If Someone Is Bugging or Tracking You
popularmechanics.com

The science behind California’s two big earthquakes
nationalgeographic.com

‘How a video game community filled my nephew’s final days with joy’
theguardian.com • Longer version

Why you shouldn’t feed wild animals (except maybe birds)
nationalgeographic.com