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Watch Sierra Space Blow Up Its Inflatable Space Station In The Name Of Science
jalopnik.com • Video

Video: The Clever Way to Count Tanks [16:44]
youtube.com

NASA Retires Asteroid-Hunting Telescope
scientificamerican.com

Video: Water powered timers hidden in public restrooms [13:11]
youtube.com

That Time Arthur Conan Doyle Tried to Stump Harry Houdini with a Stop-Motion Dinosaur Film Clip
crimereads.com • Related video

Silicon Valley’s Trillion-Dollar Leap of Faith
theatlantic.com • Without paywall

‘My ex was brutally murdered. Then his killer was hailed a national hero’
theguardian.com

New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive
phys.org • (see also)

Parasites Are Everywhere. Why Do So Few Researchers Study Them?
smithsonianmag.com • (see also)

Will the Higgs boson give us “new physics”?
cosmosmagazine.com

The Wisdom of Fish Schools
nautil.us

The Confessions of Lieutenant Calley
esquire.com

Video: The $64M Race to Save the Eiffel Tower [12:45]
youtube.com

Scientists propose lunar biorepository to defy Earth-life extinction
interestingengineering.com

How Great was the “Great Oxidation Event”?
eos.org • (see also)

On this day in 1761 a French ship crashed on a lost and hostile island. The survivors were remarkably resourceful.
damninteresting.com

Trees don’t like to breathe wildfire smoke, either – and they’ll hold their breath to avoid it
theconversation.com

Space-junk scout captures amazing fly-around footage of discarded rocket in orbit (video)
space.com

Astronomers find anomalies in star V889 Herculis’s rotation
phys.org

NASA’s DART Mission Snapped Pictures Until It Crashed Into An Asteroid. Here’s What Those Images Reveal
inverse.com

World’s largest telescope continues taking shape on Chilean mountain (photos)
space.com

Yes, Helen Keller Was Deafblind
mcgill.ca

100 Years Ago, Leopold and Loeb Killed for Thrills
saturdayeveningpost.com

Why Some Olympic Swimmers Think About Math in the Pool
nytimes.com

A new theory on why fireflies glow—and why they need help
popsci.com

Can Thunderstorms Spoil Milk?
atlasobscura.com

Art Historian Discovers Long-Lost Portrait of Henry VIII in Background of Social Media Post
smithsonianmag.com

Missing in the wild and praying for survival
bbc.co.uk

Video: Medicine Cabinets Shouldn’t Exist [8:27]
youtube.com

How dispute over £30 ended in ‘gruesome’ murder
bbc.com

‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Test Hidden Assumptions About Reality
quantamagazine.org

Cassini’s First Years at Saturn
daily.jstor.org

What Don’t We Know?
newyorker.com

These Backpack-Wearing Dogs Have an Important Job to Do
smithsonianmag.com • (see also)

Quantum information theorists are shedding light on entanglement, one of the spooky mysteries of quantum mechanics
theconversation.com

Ancient Roman Sandals Discovered in Germany
mymodernmet.com

Hybrids between two species can produce “swarms” that flourish
arstechnica.com

It’s Oil That Makes LA Boil
noemamag.com

Does Jupiter protect Earth from asteroids and comets?
planetary.org

Tiny But Not Timid, Maria Fernanda Cardoso’s ‘Spiders of Paradise’ Show Their True Colors
thisiscolossal.com

William L. Calley Jr., Convicted in My Lai Massacre, Is Dead at 80
nytimes.com

Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers
theguardian.com

Why the solar corona is so much hotter than sun’s surface
phys.org

The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe
wired.com • Without paywall

How epigenetics influence memory formation
medicalxpress.com

Rosalind Franklin’s Methods of Discovery
daily.jstor.org

‘Sensational breakthrough’ marks step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers
science.org

Are Electric Cars Worth the Money?
nytimes.com

Why do we see colors that aren’t there?
livescience.com • (see also)

What GoFundMe conceals: The campaigns that fail
theconversation.com

The Chimps Who Learned to Say ‘Mama’
nytimes.com

Being in Space Mimics Age-Related Muscle Loss
universetoday.com

New study reveals people’s faces evolve to match their names
phys.org

Did You Know That Poetry Used to Be an Actual Olympic Sport?
lithub.com

Video: Is Black Widow Silk Stronger Than Steel? [8:09]
youtube.com

The Unspoken Risks Of Quantum Computing Could Come Back To Bite Us
inverse.com

Latest solar superstorm blinded the systems that prevent satellites from crashing in space
english.elpais.com

How the Vampire Finch Developed a Taste for Blood
atlasobscura.com

Nashville Museum Returns Hundreds of Pre-Columbian Artifacts to Mexico
smithsonianmag.com

Video: Biopixels and Nanoscapes, two breathtaking studies of butterfly wings [03:28]
thekidshouldseethis.com