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The Climate Crisis Gives Sailing Ships a Second Wind
newyorker.com

Video: Why did the British Empire burn, sink, and hide these documents? [4:58]
youtube.com

AI and Politics: How Will We Know What—and Who—Is Real?
thewalrus.ca

Hackers Take Control of Government-Owned Satellite in Alarming Experiment
gizmodo.com

Take a look inside the largest house in the US — a Vanderbilt’s 130-year-old private mansion with 35 bedrooms, 43 bathrooms, and 65 fireplaces
businessinsider.com • (see also)

Lab-made lungs fast-track drug testing, can replace animal test subjects
newatlas.com

Video: Why Engineers Can’t Control Rivers [15:52]
youtube.com

Why Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to college graduates still matters today
theconversation.com

Governors Island: The uninhabited isle that birthed NYC
bbc.com

Someone buried treasure 2,000 years ago and never returned. A hiker just found it
news.yahoo.com

Scientists discover gene in the brain that puts the brakes on anxiety
zmescience.com

How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking
theguardian.com

Like viewing in FM vs. AM: New black hole image reveals “fluffier” ring
arstechnica.com

How You Can See Tens of Thousands of Fireflies Flash in Unison
smithsonianmag.com

The Comet Year
nautil.us

When Deadly Steamboat Races Enthralled America
smithsonianmag.com

Video: How Corporate Consolidation is Killing Ski Towns [25:51]
youtube.com

A New Blue Hole In the Ocean Extends Almost as Far as the Eiffel Tower
discovermagazine.com

A Black Hole Star Could Be the Trippiest Object in Space
gizmodo.com

Video: Tetris’ creators reveal the game’s greatest unsolved mysteries [17:42]
arstechnica.com

Video: The Race to Map The North Pole and its Ugly Truth [27:01]
youtube.com

Can lucid dreaming be harmful?
bbc.com • (see also)

Underwater Espionage: Everything We Know So Far About the Navy’s New Seabed-Warfare Sub
popularmechanics.com

Why Mathematicians Re-Prove What They Already Know
quantamagazine.org

How to Recreate the Deepest, Darkest Ocean
atlasobscura.com

Whatever happened to the theory of everything?
symmetrymagazine.org

Fake Hitler diaries to go on public display in Germany
theguardian.com

Marfa, Texas, became a famed art haven. Now locals can’t afford it
axios.com

Inside the Struggle to Make Lab-Grown Meat
archive.is

‘My Life with the Penguins’
nautil.us

Asteroid’s comet-like tail is not made of dust, solar observatories reveal
phys.org

Why scientists are making fake Moon dust
bbc.com

The boozy story of how we decided alcohol was a health boon in the ’90s—and how it all fell apart
slate.com

Academics find twist in tale of Rosalind Franklin, DNA and the double helix
theguardian.com

A Brief History of America Freaking Out About Horror Comics
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A Heat Shield for the Most Important Ice on Earth
newyorker.com

Japan’s Private Lander Appears to Have Crashed on the Moon
gizmodo.com

The first babies conceived with a sperm-injecting robot have been born
technologyreview.com

Ranking the Pain of Stinging Insects, From ‘Spicy’ to ‘Shockingly Electric’
atlasobscura.com

Why some people wake up unable to move
bbc.com

Emirates Mars Mission takes first high-resolution images of Mars’ moon Deimos
physicsworld.com

‘I was the sole survivor of a plane crash. This is what I learned in eight days alone in the jungle’
theguardian.com

This Amphibious Fish May Hold The Secret to The Evolutionary Origins of Blinking
sciencealert.com

Japan’s ispace attempts world’s first commercial moon landing
cnn.com • Livestream

Riddle of ancient Egypt’s ‘impossible’ sculpture is finally solved—in Scotland
theartnewspaper.com

Webb Reveals Early-Universe Prequel to Huge Galaxy Cluster
webbtelescope.org

Link Found Between Common Ear, Nose, and Throat Infections in Preschoolers and Increased Risk of Autism
neurosciencenews.com

What it takes to make a suit fit for the Moon
bbc.com

Colorado chili pepper fossil discovery may upend evolutionary timeline
newatlas.com

Experimental Gel Killed 100% of Brain Tumors in Mice
gizmodo.com

In an Incredible First, Scientists Have Discovered What’s at The Core of Mars
sciencealert.com

Lizard Remains Found Inside 2,500-Year-Old Coffins from Ancient Egypt
smithsonianmag.com

Windshield Wiper Inventor Mary Anderson Never Profited From Her Invention
thedrive.com

Celiac disease is on the rise. Why?
salon.com

A Japanese Company Is Attempting the First Successful Private Moon Landing. Here’s How to Watch.
vice.com

Hollywood’s First Professional Stuntwoman Jumped From Planes and Swung Onto Trains
smithsonianmag.com • (see also)

NASA’S Chandra identified a new stellar danger to planets
techexplorist.com

Remembering That Time the U.S. Tried to Drill the World’s Deepest Hole
popularmechanics.com • (see also)

Video: Hubble’s 33rd Year in Orbit [4:30]
youtube.com

What Did Cleopatra Look Like? Was She Really So Beautiful?
historyextra.com