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‘Experience: I tracked down my impostor’
theguardian.com

How mRNA Technology Could Change the World
theatlantic.com

70 years ago today a pipe bomb exploded in Grand Central Terminal. It was but the first of many.
damninteresting.com

A remnant of a protoplanet may be hiding inside Earth
livescience.com • (see also)

Suez Canal traffic resumes after cargo ship Ever Given is moving again
cnbc.com

The Vampire Ship
newrepublic.com

Gallery: Suez Canal crisis from space: see shipping backlog in satellite images
thenationalnews.com

His Plane Crashed in the Amazon. Then Came the Hard Part.
nytimes.com • (see also)

Bioplastic made from wood powder entirely degrades in three months
newatlas.com

Stalin statue site reveals chilling remains of Prague labour camp
theguardian.com

This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection
smithsonianmag.com

How Mary Wortley Montagu’s bold experiment led to smallpox vaccine – 75 years before Jenner
theguardian.com

Ancient Rocks Reveal When Earth’s Plate Tectonics Began
wired.com

How can some planets be hotter than stars? We’ve started to unravel the mystery
theconversation.com

NASA Says Asteroid Apophis Isn’t A Risk To Earth For 100 More Years
npr.org • (see also)

The Bombs That Never Went Off
theatlantic.com

The Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal: The 2700-year-old ‘fake news’
bbc.com

The Actress, the Steward and the Ocean Liner: What Really Happened in Cabin 126?
crimereads.com • (see also)

Is there such thing as a maximum temperature?
sciencefocus.com • (see also)

Buildings made with fungi could live, grow — and then biodegrade
cbc.ca

Merck’s Little Brown Pill Could Transform the Fight Against Covid
bloomberg.com

The Mathematical Pranksters behind Nicolas Bourbaki
daily.jstor.org • (see also)

The U.S. Is One Step Closer to Establishing a Research Program to Block the Sun
earther.gizmodo.com

Video: This is why we can’t have nice things [17:29]
youtube.com

The truth about lying
knowablemagazine.org

Video: Metric Paper & Everything in the Universe [8:43]
youtube.com

This week: Rainbow science, Einstein’s paparazzi, new layers of the Earth, and more!
damninteresting.com

How humans became the best throwers on the planet
theconversation.com

The Rise and Fall of the Jet Pack
daily.jstor.org

It looks like a saxophone but plays 512 notes — many you’ve never heard before
expmag.com

World War II in Color
airspacemag.com • (see also)

The forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name
bbc.com

What Killed These Bald Eagles? After 25 Years, We Finally Know.
theatlantic.com

NASA planet hunter spied 2,200 candidate worlds in its first 2 years
space.com

The scientists releasing cats in Australia
bbc.com

GCHQ releases ‘most difficult puzzle ever’ in honour of Alan Turing
theguardian.com

The Deepest Diver in the History of Free Diving Goes Below the Ice
nytimes.com

The Ancient Method That Keeps Afghanistan’s Grapes Fresh All Winter
atlasobscura.com

Lava, floating rocks and the Blob: the mystery behind the deaths of millions of seabirds
theguardian.com

A brief history of the Suez Canal
independent.co.uk

‘My father, the killer’
bbc.com

Video: How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed [9:59]
youtube.com

The Solution of the Zodiac Killer’s 340-Character Cipher
blog.wolfram.com • (see also)

Octopus sleep includes a frenzied, colorful, ‘active’ stage
sciencenews.org

Lunar cave explorer
phys.org

The ‘sheep’ that can photosynthesise
bbc.com

A Man Demanded His Final Paycheck. The Auto Shop Delivered 91,500 Greasy Pennies.
nytimes.com

How to Land on an Alien World
airspacemag.com

Scratching the surface: the use of sheepskin parchment to deter textual erasure in early modern legal deeds
heritagesciencejournal.springeropen.com

A missing part of the universe has been found
academictimes.com

Skylab: The myth of the mutiny in space
bbc.com

It’s hard to imagine how truly full of dentists Los Algodones is. They are everywhere.
hazlitt.net

Cracking the Case of London’s Elusive, Acrobatic Rare-Book Thieves
vanityfair.com

The Lost Prince of Yacht Rock
narratively.com

The Near-Magical Mystery of Quasiparticles
quantamagazine.org

NASA Reveals Its Plan for First Helicopter Flight on Mars
gizmodo.com

Dr Kathy Sullivan: it’s important the first Mars crew contains a woman
sciencefocus.com

A Hong Kong journalist is on trial for using a public database
restofworld.org

The Nazi in the family
bbc.com

‘Our biggest challenge? Lack of imagination’: the scientists turning the desert green
theguardian.com