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Fruit flies found to move their retinas, instead of moving their eyes
newatlas.com

Hubble telescope peeks through ‘cosmic keyhole’ in stunning photo
space.com

Why Mathematicians Study Knots
quantamagazine.org

The mysterious Viking runes found in a landlocked US state
bbc.com

The death of the American shopping mall – in pictures
theguardian.com

Destroyed Observatory Issues Final Asteroid Warning After Fatal Collapse
sciencealert.com

The Spooky Science of How Undead Spores Reanimate
wired.com

Why Switzerland built a 2-kilometer-long train
cnn.com

Sorry, Prey. Black Widows Have Surprisingly Good Memory
wired.com

A dormant volcano is waking up after sleeping for more than 800 years
bgr.com • (see also)

Scientists Just Discovered an Entirely New Way of Measuring Time
sciencealert.com

What if the ancient Carboniferous forests hadn’t created the oil and gas fields we exploit for fossil fuels?
sciencefocus.com

A colossal meteorite struck Mars. Then NASA made an even bigger discovery.
mashable.com

Will we ever… live in city-sized buildings?
bbc.com

Earthrise as seen from Japans’s Kaguya spacecraft, 2009
reddit.com

Spooky.
damninteresting.com

Astonishing Experiment Shows Bumble Bees “Play” With Objects
scitechdaily.com

Listen to the haunting audio of Earth’s magnetic field released by the European Space Agency
yahoo.com

What causes armies to lose the will to fight? Here’s what history tells us
cnn.com • (see also)

Nose Picking Could Increase Risk for Alzheimer’s and Dementia
neurosciencenews.com • (see also)

We Thought These Animals Were Silent. Scientists Just Found Their Voices
sciencealert.com

Expedition finds cache of cameras on remote Yukon glacier, 85 years after mountaineer left them behind
cbc.ca • (see also)

Rare T. Rex Skeleton Expected to Sell for Over $25 Million at Christie’s Auction
mymodernmet.com

‘It’s got nasty’: the battle to build the US’s biggest solar power farm
theguardian.com

Here’s How Earthquakes Cause Tsunamis
discovermagazine.com • (see also)

Sacheen Littlefeather and ethnic fraud – why the truth is crucial, even it it means losing an American Indian hero
theconversation.com

Video: Mechanical circuits: electronics without electricity [19:21]
youtube.com • (see also)

Garlic May Have Saved Rasputin From Just One Assassination
discovermagazine.com • (see also)

During Sleep, One Brain Region Teaches Another, Converting Novel Data Into Enduring Memories
neurosciencenews.com

Why does the US allow a controversial weedkiller banned across the world?
theguardian.com

We now have satellite traffic jams in space
astronomy.com

Inside a family’s $400k quest to stop their son’s psychosis
nowthisnews.com

Photos: Drought Conditions Drop the Mississippi River to Historic Lows
theatlantic.com

This week: ♻️Liver recycling, 🌿plant lightning, 💪muscle pills, and more!
damninteresting.com

Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years
theguardian.com

Something spooky is happening at the edge of the solar system
space.com

Cuban missile crisis, 60 years on: new papers reveal how close the world came to nuclear disaster
theguardian.com

NASA’s InSight Lander Detects Stunning Meteoroid Impact on Mars
jpl.nasa.gov

New original Damn Interesting article/episode by Jennifer Lee Noonan: The Rube’s Dilemma
dam.mn

Why More and More Girls Are Hitting Puberty Early
newyorker.com

Can the Latest M1 Abrams Tank Outgun China’s and Russia’s Most Advanced Battle Tanks?
popularmechanics.com

NASA Engineers Are Building an Ingenious Heat Shield That Inflates in Space
gizmodo.com • (see also)

Scientists Manipulate Dreams With Sound to Help Nightmare Sufferers
gizmodo.com

Magnetic bacteria steered into tumors to plant anti-cancer drugs
newatlas.com

Walking Streetlamps for Hire in Seventeenth-Century London
daily.jstor.org

How the California Gold Rush Destroyed Whatever Peace Existed in the American West
lithub.com

Archaeologists unearth 2,700-year-old rock carvings in Iraq
theguardian.com

How Genes Can Leap From Snakes to Frogs in Madagascar
quantamagazine.org

New Discovery Expands Tree of Life
scitechdaily.com

“Spontaneous Revolutions”: Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement
publicdomainreview.org

Aastha Arora: Where is India’s billionth baby now?
bbc.com

London woman found guilty of decapitating friend over inheritance
theguardian.com

Go inside the Great Pyramid at Giza
giza.mused.org

Enheduanna: The world’s first named author
bbc.com

A history of twins in science
wellcomecollection.org • (see also)

Should We Really Be Messing with Asteroid Orbits?
nautil.us

Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century
theguardian.com

When is a lynching a lynching?
theguardian.com

Thumb-sized microscope captures images deep inside the brains of active animals
nature.com

The Young Woman Behind a Last Mystery of the Green River Killer
nytimes.com