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Camille Pissarro: Transatlantic struggle for painting stolen by Nazis
bbc.com

How ‘agromining’ — farming plants that contain metal — could help power the future
abc.net.au

The healthy child who wouldn’t wake up: the strange truth of ‘mystery illnesses’
theguardian.com

The Permian Basin is ground zero to billions of dollars in zombie oil wells
grist.org

Haunting New Hubble Photo Reveals The Wisps of a Dying Galaxy
sciencealert.com

Video: Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space [2:57]
bbc.com

45,000-year-old human genomes reveal extent of Neanderthal interbreeding
newatlas.com

Las Vegas pushes to become first to ban ornamental grass
apnews.com

Why Targeted Ads Are a Disaster for Democracy
lithub.com

Upward Lightning Takes Its Cue from Nearby Lightning Events
eos.org • (see also)

New Genomic Study of Placenta Finds Deep Links to Cancer
quantamagazine.org

How Do We Exit the Post-Truth Era?
thewalrus.ca

Navy Still Has No Idea What Mysterious Drones That Stalked Its Ships for Days Were
gizmodo.com

These fish stole an antifreeze gene from another fish and became natural GMOs
cbc.ca

How the Criminal Justice System Deploys Mass Surveillance on Innocent People
vice.com

Iceland’s Erupting Volcano Is a Window Into Life on Mars
theatlantic.com

NASA detects rare ‘double quasar’ in ancient corner of the universe
livescience.com

Atlantic Dawn: The Ship from Hell
britishseafishing.co.uk

How a speedrunner broke Super Mario Bros.’ biggest barrier
arstechnica.com

Revolutionary technique produces injection-molded glass objects
newatlas.com

A 17th Century Bishop Was Mysteriously Buried With a Fetus. We Finally Know Why
sciencealert.com

‘Explosive Eruption’ Rocks St. Vincent as Soufriere Volcano Spews Ash Across the Caribbean
earther.gizmodo.com

Kati Kariko Helped Shield the World From the Coronavirus
nytimes.com

The rice of the sea: how a tiny grain could change the way humanity eats
theguardian.com

Video: Donut-Shaped Planets [13:24]
youtube.com

More than 5,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall to Earth each year
cnrs.fr

What 250 Years of Innovation History Reveals About Our Green Future
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

The Women of the OSS: On The Pioneering American Spies of WWII
crimereads.com

This week: Anti-atoms, moonwalking, gene-swapping plants, and more
damninteresting.com

Behold Brine Shrimp, the Livestock of Utah’s Great Salt Lake
atlasobscura.com

Prince Philip: A life in pictures
bbc.com

Man’s body was found after lying in Norway flat for nine years, say police
theguardian.com

Tiny Sea Creatures Plague South Korean Nuclear Plant Operations
bloomberg.com

How to Survive a Killer Asteroid
wired.com

3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’ of ancient Egypt discovered
theguardian.com

Why a landmark experiment into dimming the sun got canceled
grist.org

War Under the Sea (1915)
popularmechanics.com • (sea also)

The Myth of Negative Calorie Foods
discovermagazine.com

Found: Page 25 of the CIA’s Gateway Report on Astral Projection
vice.com

Inside the Dirty Business of Hit Songwriting
variety.com

Researchers develop blood test for depression, bipolar disorder
scienceblog.com • (see also)

The hydrogen revolution in the skies
bbc.com

SpaceX landed a rocket on a boat five years ago—it changed everything
arstechnica.com

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Completes Final Tour of Asteroid Bennu Before Its 180,000,000 Mile Trip Back to Earth
scitechdaily.com

The Real Book: The illegal jazz bible of the 1970s
99percentinvisible.org

Video: After losing his sight, a skateboarder takes an unexpected path to realising his dreams [11:39]
aeon.co • (see also)

The Quest for a Floating Utopia
hakaimagazine.com • (sea also)

Among the Covid sceptics: ‘We are being manipulated, without a shadow of a doubt’
theguardian.com

‘Last Hope’ Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles
quantamagazine.org

Scientists Discover Huge and Mysterious Jellyfish-Shaped Structure In Space
vice.com

Video: How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn) [10:14]
youtube.com

The Direct Fusion Drive That Could Get Us Past Neptune in 10 Years
popularmechanics.com

‘This is not an easy treasure hunt’: puzzle book offers readers chance to win €750,000 golden casket
theguardian.com

Physics Mystery Gets Even Deeper After Long-Awaited Muon Reveal
gizmodo.com

Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation
lithub.com

How India’s ‘Mango Man’ Grew a Tree With 300 Flavors
atlasobscura.com

Woman Gets New Trachea In Groundbreaking Transplant Surgery
npr.org

Bronze Age stone slab discovered in France is oldest map in Europe, say archaeologists
independent.co.uk

On this day in 1994 a “deadhead” attempted to hijack a FedEx flight
damninteresting.com

Scientists find out what causes these strange ‘spiders’ on Mars
theweathernetwork.com