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December 31, 2015

Daily Mail:
Flying high! Stunning remote control plane that is an EXACT replica of a Virgin 747

Gizmag:
Drone School 1: Choosing a beginner quadcopter

Gizmag:
Drone School 2: Know your transmitter

Gizmag:
Drone School 3: Your first quadcopter flight

Gizmag:
Drone School 4: Orientation and precision exercises

Daily Mail:
Drone-jamming equipment to be deployed at public events to stop terrorists using cheap unmanned aircraft in killer attacks

Daily Mail:
A hypersonic jet that can soar from London to New York in half an hour, a flying car and a plane that can land almost anywhere: The year's most radical aircraft concepts revealed

Space Daily:
Sky is Not the Limit: Inside Look Into Russia's Long-Range Aviation

Gizmodo:
Watch 60 Years of Space Junk Accumulate Around Earth

io9:
What really happened to cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, who died crashing to Earth in 1967?

Atlas Obscura:
Myanmar's 'Firemasters' Strap Fireworks to Hot Air Balloons for Annual Festival

December 30, 2015

News.com Australia:
The only man to ever shoot at a UFO

Atlas Obscura:
Photographing the Tiny Upstate New York Town Obsessed with UFOs

Atlas Obscura:
Object of Intrigue: The X-Files' 'I Want to Believe' Poster

Spaceflight Now:
Launch of NASA's next Mars mission delayed until at least 2018

Sputnik News:
Russia Postpones Plans on Extensive Moon Exploration Until 2025

Gizmodo:
What the moon will look like for each day in 2016

Sky and Telescope:
Meteor Showers in 2016

Universe Today:
The Top 101 Astronomical Events for 2016

IEEE Spectrum:
Armada of Martian Probes Will Study the Planet, Inside and Out

December 29, 2015

Discovery News:
Sun Blasts Flare at Earth: New Year's Eve Storm?

Phys.org:
Radar images of a Christmas Eve asteroid - an early gift for astronomers

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
SpaceX Releases New Photos of the Booster Landing

Discovery News:
Lesson of SpaceX Rocket Landing: Try, Try, Try Again: Photos

Daily Mail:
The ultimate Martian selfie: Nasa teaches Curiosity to use 'mastcam' to create stunning colour 360 degree picture of itself

io9:
Saturn Dominates Dione in this Striking New Photo From NASA

Daily Mail:
A rare glimpse at Saturn's dark moon Phoebe: Cassini captures incredible shot of the pockmarked satellite and makes it closest fly-by of Enceladus

io9:
When We Discovered Pluto, It Changed How We Saw The Solar System

IEEE Spectrum:
$100 Million Breakthrough Listen Initiative Starts Searching for E.T.

December 28, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
What Ever Happened to the "Flying Saucer" Shaped UFOs?

Mysterious Universe:
Strange Rumblings Strike Again in the American Southwest

Christian Today:
NASA's radar images of Christmas Eve asteroid show object 3,600 feet in length

Los Angeles Times:
That light show in the night sky? Thank Russia

Discovery News:
Space Junk Reenters Atmosphere, Dazzles Las Vegas

Daily Express:
WATCH: NASA video of 'mystery fireball' hurtling towards Earth at 29,000 miles an hour

The Guardian:
Tim Peake says sorry for dialling wrong number from space

BBC News:
What could possibly go wrong on a spacewalk?

Sputnik News:
'We Have Contact!' First Progress MS-01 Ship Automatically Docks With ISS

Sputnik News:
Russia to Deliver 20 RD-180 Engines to US for Atlas 5 Carrier Rockets

Spaceflight Now:
Launch of NASA's next Mars mission delayed until at least 2018

Discovery News:
Earth-Smashing Space Rocks Undercounted

Daily Mail:
Scientists warn of danger from rogue 60-mile-wide comets that could wipe all life on earth instantly

Discovery News:
Look Up! Comet Catalina to Dazzle New Year Skies

CHRISTMAS WEEKEND EDITION: December 25 through December 27, 2015

Smithsonian Magazine:
Test Your Smarts With the British Spy Agency's Christmas Card Puzzle

The Guardian:
Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a Victorian at Yuletide? [Click here for answer.]

Gizmodo:
Robots Are Making Adorable Paper Snowflakes To Give Us a False Sense of Security

Gizmodo:
Boston Dynamics' Robo-Dogs Pulling a Sleigh Is a Terrifying Glimpse of Christmas Future

Daily Mail:
What's pine is yours! Squirrels seem to be getting in the festive spirit as one hands a cone to its friend

Daily Mail:
Arthur's white Christmas: Stray dog who was adopted by Swedish adventure team on Amazon trek enjoys first Christmas in his very snowy new home

Mysterious Universe:
Reindeer May Get Their Lift From Mushrooms

Atlas Obscura:
Reindeer May Not Be Able to Fly, But They Do Have Ultraviolet Vision

Ancient Origins:
Gliding Over 5,000 Years of Frozen Waters: A History of Ice Skating

Ancient Origins:
Saturnalia: The December Festival of Joy and Merriment in Ancient Rome

Atlas Obscura:
How The World Looked When Jesus Was Born, According to Roman Geographers

Smithsonian Magazine:
What Exactly Was the Christmas Star?

BBC News:
What did Jesus really look like?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Unearthing the World of Jesus

The Atlantic:
Your Christmas Nativity Scene Is a Lie

Ancient Origins:
The Mysterious Veil of Veronica: Masterpiece or Miracle?

Ancient Origins:
Does First-of-its-Kind Hebrew Inscription give Evidence for New Testament Account of Jesus Miracles?

Forbes:
Bones Of Saint Nicholas Reveal What Santa Claus Really Looked Like

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Origin of Krampus, Europe's Evil Twist on Santa

Ancient Origins:
Santa's Horned Helper: The Fearsome Legend of Krampus, Christmas Punisher

Ancient Origins:
Beautiful, Decorative, and Sometimes Crude: Illuminated Manuscripts and Marginalia

Ancient Origins:
The Hidden Origins of Il Separatio: Manuscripts Deemed Dangerous and Banned

The History Blog:
Lost Caravaggio Nativity recreated

The History Blog:
Update on Vasari's Last Supper

CDN:
All that is merry and bright: A history of Christmas lights

St. George Daily Spectrum:
What's the deal with mistletoe?

National Geographic:
How Mistletoe Became Everyone's Favorite Parasite

Napa Valley Register:
How evergreens became Christmas Trees

BBC Music:
A Brief History of Christmas Music

Bustle:
The Origins Of 7 Christmas Carols and Songs

Ancient Origins:
The Story of Silent Night

The Week:
How The Nutcracker became so wildly popular

Huffington Post:
A Visual History Of 'The Nutcracker' In 100 Photos

Gizmodo:
Video: How Nutcrackers Are Made from Blocks of Wood

SMithsonian Magazine:
A Brief History of Figgy Pudding

The Daily Express:
Christmas tradition that always goes with a bang: The history of crackers

Smithsonian Magazine:
The History of the Christmas Card

Creative Review:
Dear Santa: the history of writing to Father Christmas

Slate:
Saving Santa's Mail Bag

Smithsonian Magazine:
Have Bad Handwriting? The U.S. Postal Service Has Your Back

The Independent:
What is a pantomime? 'Snow White' explains the history behind this Christmas tradition

The History Blog:
Santa Claus enters the fray on the side of the Union

Timmins Press:
HISTORY: Hard sell at Christmas dates back to 1800s

Atlas Obscura:
'What a Christmas Present! Deportation!': The Revealing History of Ellis Island's Holiday Parties

Consortium News:
A Brief Moment of Christmas Peace

The Guardian:
Soldier's letters bring first world war Christmas truce to life

Atlas Obscura:
Vintage Photos of People Mesmerized by Holiday Windows

Bustle:
The History Of Popular Toys At Christmas From Teddy Bears To iPod Shuffles

The History Channel:
Don't Forget Santa's Cookies and Milk: The History of a Popular Christmas Tradition

Illinois Times:
The happy history of Santa Claus

Daily Mail:
How a little boy accidentally phoned NORAD's Soviet nuclear missile attack hotline to ask for Santa - and inspired the military to track Father Christmas

The History Channel:
Remembering the Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Broadcast

The Decider:
Today in TV History: Rankin-Bass Delivered the Most Underrated Christmas Special Ever

San Francisco Chronicle:
Remembering Santa's Village

Atlas Obscura:
The Uncertain Future of Santa's Village, An Abandoned 1950s Christmas Park

Atlas Obscura:
Talking to the Visionary Who Made Santa a Business Man

Smithsonian Magazine:
Behold: The World's Largest (Three-Ton) Gingerbread Village

Gizmodo:
I Hope No One Tries to Hack This Shining-Inspired Gingerbread Hotel to Pieces

Atlas Obscura:
Golden Pigs, Jesus-Shaped Bread, and 5 Other Delightful European Christmas Customs

Ancient Origins:
Meet Father Frost and his Fairy Goddaughter Snow Maiden: Magical Characters of Winter from Russia

Ancient Origins:
The Snow Maiden of Slavic Folklore: Magical Characters of Winter from Russia

Ancient Origins:
Danila Prepeleac - The Man Who Tricked the Devil

Ancient Origins:
Revealing the True Nature of Elves: Dangerous Beauties and Diabolical Fiends

Atlas Obscura:
Does Mrs. Claus Have a Life of Her Own?

December 24, 2015

NORAD Tracks Santa
Newsweek:
Mammoth Asteroid Will Waltz Past Earth on Christmas Eve

Daily Mail:
Rare Full Cold Moon will brighten the sky on Christmas day: Lunar event is the first in 38 years and it won't happen again until 2034

BBC News:
Could a war in space really happen?

Jalopnik:
Draken's A-4K Skyhawks Provide Private Aggressor Duties At Nellis Air Force Base

Jalopnik:
Watch These Troubled Navy Jets Careen Into Aircraft Carrier Barricades

Daily Mail:
The best seat on the plane! Mesmerising footage filmed from the cockpit reveals what it's like to fly a jumbo jet

Jalopnik:
This Picture Of A Bombed-Up And Dirty F-35C Is The Best Joint-Strike Fighter Photo Yet

Daily Mail:
US military developing radical 'tailsitter' drone that can land anywhere and carry as much weaponry as a Predator

Daily Mail:
The 'Transformer' flying drone that's also a SUBMARINE: Navy funds research into robot that can swim as well as it flies

Sputnik News:
The Power of Thought: Russian Scientists Develop Mind-Controlled Quadcopter

IEEE Spectrum:
A Gyroscope Jetpack for Astronauts

IEEE Spectrum:
Finally, the Jetpack We've Always Wanted

Air & Space Magazine:
Spirit of St. Louis Replica Soars Over New York

Jalopnik:
Celebrate The 51st Anniversary Of The SR-71 Blackbird's First Flight With These Crazy Stats

io9:
Mercury Redstone 1A Launched Into Space On This Day In 1960

The Guardian:
Soviet dreams: the tough, toylike beauty of Russian space relics

The Guardian:
Cosmonauts v astronauts: with these Space Race treasures, everyone wins

Air & Space Magazine:
A One-of-a-Kind Gift from Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve

December 23, 2015

Ars Technica:
The best ride in the galaxy - coming back to Earth in a Soyuz

Daily Mail:
'Feel' the FORCE of Nasa's 3D-printed rocket engine: Spectacular test brings prospect of building blasters in space a step closer

Gizmag:
SpaceX's new high-res images get up close and personal with historic rocket landing

Daily Mail:
Nasa axes next Mars mission: Agency gives up on fixing InSight lander that was due to delve deep beneath the red planet's surface

Ars Technica:
Highly anticipated Mars lander will be delayed or even canceled, NASA says

The Guardian:
New type of moon rock discovered by Chinese lunar lander

New Scientist:
New kind of moon rock found by Chinese Yutu rover

Gizmodo:
What China's Yutu Rover Learned on the Moon

Daily Mail:
Mars' gullies were created by dry ice and NOT water: Scientists dash hopes that ancient streams carved the strange features

Astrobiology Magazine:
Rocks Rich in Silica Present Puzzles for Mars Rover Team

Gizmag:
Dawn delivers its closest-ever view of Ceres

Astrobiology Magazine:
Cassini Completes Final Close Enceladus Flyby

Discovery News:
All Hail Mimas: Our 'Death Star' Moon

New Scientist:
High-res movie lets you float by a comet with Rosetta spacecraft

Gizmag:
ESA launches website dedicated to sharing newly-snapped Rosetta images

December 22, 2015

CBC:
Meteor or Santa's sleigh? Mystery ball of light over N.L. identified

Daily Mail:
Elon Musk makes space travel history: Billionaire's SpaceX rocket blasts into orbit, launches 11 satellites then makes an amazing landing back on Earth

The Atlantic:
Musk's Triumph: A Falcon 9 Rocket Lands Upright in Florida

Gizmodo:
Despite Landing In Once Piece, SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Won't Fly Again

Spaceflight Now:
Successful spacewalk frees up robot arm transporter

Spaceflight Now:
Modernized Russian cargo ship heads for space station

Spaceflight Insider:
Progress MS-1 cargo ship launches on two-day trek to ISS

Ars Technica:
After protests, construction equipment removed from giant telescope site

Smithsonian Magazine:
Two Sparkling Meteor Showers Will Bookend the New Year

December 21, 2015

Washington Post:
Monday night marks the winter solstice and the shortest day of the year

Daily Mail:
Ground control from Major Tim: British astronaut tweets for the first time since boarding the ISS as stunning pictures emerge of his craft lighting up the Russian night sky

Spaceflight Now:
Unscheduled spacewalk on tap Monday

Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9's return-to-flight launch delayed 24 hours

Spaceflight Now:
Rocket landing at Cape Canaveral planned after SpaceX launch

Spaceflight Insider:
Space Coast residents may hear sonic boom during SpaceX landing attempt

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Taller, souped-up Falcon 9 on the launch pad

Gizmodo:
Boeing Gets a Second Order to Ferry Astronauts to the ISS

Scientific American:
Astronomers Skeptical Over "Planet X" Claims

Astrobiology Magazine:
Nearby star hosts closest alien planet in the "habitable zone"

Scientific American:
The Hunt for Alien Molecules

Ancient Origins:
Ancient Egyptians Discovered the Period of Algol Three Millennia Before Previously Thought and Used the Information for Divination

WEEKEND EDITION: December 19 through December 20, 2015

Gizmodo:
Electron "Lifespan" is at Least 5 Quintillion Times the Age of the Universe

Universe Today:
What Is The Big Bang Theory?

Forbes:
What Are Quantum Gravity's Alternatives To String Theory?

Universe Today:
What Are The Parts Of An Atom?

Scientific American:
Biggest Mystery in Mathematics in Limbo after Cryptic Meeting

Gizmag:
Robot future: Highlights from iREX 2015

Sputnik News:
US Rushing to Keep Up with Russian, Chinese Killer Robots

CBC:
HitchBOT, hitchhiking robot, settles down at Canada Science and Technology Museum

Gizmag:
Mid-air holograms respond to human touch

Gizmag:
3D animation tech puts other peoples' words in celebrities' mouths

Gizmag:
Disney software lets directors change actors' expressions in post-production

Universe Today:
How Are Igneous Rocks Formed?

Science Magazine:
Greenland was once ice free

Gizmodo:
The Bizarre Reason Earth's Rotation Will Slow Down This Century

Daily Mail:
Inside Devils Hole: First study of Nevada cave reveals million years of climate change data and fish found nowhere else in the world

BBC News:
The mysterious trees that walk

Daily Mail:
Solving the mystery of how ancient reptiles swam: Animation reveals plesiosaurs flapped like PENGUINS to 'fly' through water

Daily Mail:
Palaeontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur related to but much older than Triceratops called Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis in Xinjiang Province in China

Stuff NZ:
Unusual 'sail-backed' dinosaur roamed Spain 125 million years ago

Daily Mail:
Asteroid strike gave birds a helping hand: Modern fliers share a 95 million-year-old ancestor that flourished after the dinosaurs were wiped out

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Moby-Dick Emerges from the Smithsonian Collections

Stuff NZ:
Dogs go back 33,000 years, study finds

ABC Australia:
Rising temperatures could put saltwater crocodiles in hot water

ABC Australia:
Penguin-cam reveals how little penguins team up to spot their dinner

BBC News:
The dogs that protect little penguins

Daily Mail:
Parrots use tools too! Birds are filmed grinding and breaking calcium-rich shells using pebbles and date pips

Ancient Origins:
Paleolithic Stone Slab Discovered in Spain May be the First Map of a Hunter-Gatherer Campsite

The Guardian:
Thigh bone points to unexpectedly long survival of ancient human ancestors

Gizmodo:
6,000 Year Old Death Pit Points to One Hell of a Brawl

Ancient Origins:
Oldest Known Lead Artifact was Found with Skeletons, Suggesting Mystical Significance

BBC News:
Orkney's number of Stone Age sites implies that the remote Scottish islands once may have been at the centre of it all.

Ancient Origins:
Enigmatic Phaistos Disc may be Ancient Hymn to Astarte, Goddess of Love

The History Blog:
Tutankhamun's restored gold mask back on display

Ancient Origins:
New Study Shows Some Greek Temples Were Oriented to the Moon or Stars, Rather than the Sun

Ancient Origins:
Unlooted Etruscan Tomb Complete with Sarcophagi and Treasures Unearthed in Italy

Ancient Origins:
DNA tests reveal rare golden horse buried in 2,000-year-old Chinese tomb

The History Blog:
Farmer stumbles on intact Etruscan tomb

The History Blog:
Caesar fought here? 1st c. B.C. battlefield found in Kessel

Atlas Obscura:
The Lonely Castle

Ancient Origins:
Divers locate 2,000-year-old Roman wreck with cargo of fermented, salted fish intestines

The History Blog:
6th century foot prosthesis found in Austria

Daily Mail:
A real cliff hanger: Archaeologists discover hundreds of mysterious wooden tombs suspended on rock face in rural China

Ancient Origins:
Discovery of sphinx in northern China tomb presents something of a riddle

The History Blog:
Alfred the Great-era hoard found in Oxfordshire

Ancient Origins:
Massive Viking Hoard Unearthed by Treasure Hunter Publicly Revealed for First Time

The History Blog:
Viking skeleton, wood coffin on display in York

Ancient Origins:
New discoveries redefine history of Angkor Wat

Ancient Origins:
Medieval Wild Man relic discovered by treasure hunters has roots in ancient history

Ancient Origins:
The War of the Two Brothers: The Division and Downfall of the Inca Empire

Ancient Origins:
Lavish banquet hall where Henry VIII entertained visiting royalty is discovered beneath playground

The History Blog:
Site of first multi-year European settlement in the U.S. found

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Renowned, But Forgotten, 17th-Century Japanese Artist Is Once Again Making Waves

The History Blog:
Stolen Dutch Golden Age paintings in the hands of Ukrainian nationalist militia

The History Blog:
Met acquires Crown of the Andes

Live Science:
'Lost' Treasure Ship Is Also a War Grave

BBC News:
A rare find in the City of London

BBC News:
The Star-Spangled Banner's surprising origins

Smithsonian Magazine:
Did John Deere's Best Invention Spark a Revolution or an Environmental Disaster?

Ancient Origins:
Puebloans in Treeless Chaco Canyon Hauled 240,000 Trees over 75 KM for House Construction

BBC News:
The end of a much-loved railway

The History Blog:
120-year-old astronomy photo plates found in Niels Bohr Institute basement

The History Blog:
Cake baked for Empress Sisi 118 years ago on display

Smithsonian Magazine:
American Children Faced Great Dangers in the 1930s, None Greater Than "Little Orphan Annie"

Atlas Obscura:
How 1940s Prisoners of War Escaped Through Their Dreams

Smithsonian Magazine:
Restored Photos From Shackleton's Antarctic Wreck Reveal New Details

The Guardian:
How Rudolf Nureyev danced to freedom

Gizmag:
Lockheed Martin's Marlin Mk3 AUV is on its way to production

Gizmag:
The 6 best DSLR cameras for beginners (2015)

Gizmag:
The "Broughs of Bodmin Moor" - another major barnfind

Gizmag:
Fangio's Mille Miglia Ferrari 290 sells for $28 million

Ancient Origins:
Ten Precariously Situated Cliffside Constructions from the Ancient World

Gizmag:
Sweden's coolest hotel opens for business

December 18, 2015

Smithsonian Magazine:
Airplane Contrails May Be Creating Accidental Geoengineering

Gizmag:
US government announces mandatory drone registration

Gizmag:
Drone School 1: Choosing a beginner quadcopter

Gizmag:
Best drones on a budget: Buying guide

Gizmag:
Fleye could be your personal autonomous robot drone

Gizmag:
2015's most stunning drone shots raise the bar for aerial photography

Gizmodo:
Watch the truly extreme stunts and tricks that this helicopter does

Jalopnik:
This Is Northrop Grumman's Idea Of A Sixth-Generation Fighter, But Is It Feasible?

Jalopnik:
Keeping Stealth Stealthy: The F-117's Secret Life At Tonopah Test Range Airport

Jalopnik:
A Herculean Accomplishment: Lockheed Delivers Its 2,500th C-130 Hercules

BBC News:
America's iconic war machine

Gizmodo:
These Boots Took the Final Steps on the Moon

io9:
The Real Story Of Apollo 17... And Why We Never Went Back To The Moon

Ars Technica:
Why we're going back to the Moon - with or without NASA

December 17, 2015

Daily Mail:
'The first sunrise was spectacular!' Major Tim Peake is awe-struck as he makes space history by joining the crew on the International Space Station and reveals he's had a 'great first day in the office'

Spaceflight Insider:
Dec. 19 launch for SpaceX Falcon 9 unlikely

Space Daily:
Satellite's Last Days Improve Orbital Decay Predictions

New Scientist:
NASA probe to visit Jupiter to look for water and map clouds

Astrobiology Magazine:
Study finds evidence for more recent clay formation on Mars

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Catch Comet Catalina Before It's Gone Forever

New Scientist:
Public vote renames planets after gods, monsters and scientists

December 16, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Three crew members trek from Earth to space station

Discovery News:
Space Station Welcomes its First British Astronaut

Spaceflight Now:
Watch a replay of Soyuz crew's blastoff from Kazakhstan

Gizmag:
NASA completes critical design review for Kennedy Space Flight Center overhaul

Discovery News:
Life-Friendly Chemistry Revealed Inside Saturn Moon

Discovery News:
Saturn Moons Align (Almost) to Perfection: Photo

Discovery News:
Neighboring Earth-like Planets Could Share Alien Life

December 15, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz, with crew of three, set for launch to station

Daily Mail:
Great British Take Off: Astronaut begins his six-month odyssey to the International Space Station today...after spending the evening having a massage and watching a cult Russian film

Wired UK:
What you need to know about Tim Peake's ISS mission

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Zenit rocket soars on perhaps its last launch

Spaceflight Now:
Asteroid probe confirmed on good trajectory after Earth flyby

Gizmodo:
For the First Time Ever, a Rover Has Ventured Onto a Martian Sand Dune

Discovery News:
Asteroid-Bound Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Earth Photos

Discovery News:
Saturn Moons Align (Almost) to Perfection: Photo

Discovery News:
DNews: Would a Solar Superstorm Be the End of the World?

Daily Mail:
Massive asteroid will pass Earth on Christmas Eve (but don't worry, it WON'T trigger earthquakes, say experts)

Discovery News:
Full Moon to Rise on Christmas

December 14, 2015

KOAT:
Witness recalls 1950 Farmington UFO Armada

Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz TMA-17M and crew return home after five months aboard ISS

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX eyes Dec. 19 for first launch since June

Discovery News:
Curiosity Plays in Sandy Martian Dunes: Photos

Discovery News:
Asteroid-Bound Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Earth Photos

Spaceflight Now:
With widespread salts and ices, Ceres in a class of its own

New Scientist:
Dwarf planet Ceres looks like an asteroid but acts like a comet

Spaceflight Now:
Rugged swath of Pluto now resolved in color

WEEKEND EDITION: December 12 through December 13, 2015

Ars Technica:
General relativity: 100 years of the most beautiful theory ever created

Daily Mail:
Good news, we DON'T live in a hologram: Radical experiment dismisses bizarre theory that our world is an illusion

Universe Today:
What are the Earth's Layers?

The Guardian:
Sky lights up over Sicily as Mount Etna's Voragine crater erupts

Daily Mail:
Is there life hidden in the Earth's mantle? Mission to drill into our planet's crust will search for samples in the super-hot rock

Daily Mail:
Tracing our 'tree of life' to its roots: 3.8 billion-year-old molecule reveals clues about how life on Earth began...and it could help us find aliens on other planets

Astrobiology Magazine:
Ocean toxicity hampered the rapid evolution of complex life

Daily Mail:
Early dinosaurs are 10 MILLION years younger than first thought: Fossils reveal the creatures lived during the Late Triassic

The Guardian:
Are mammals 30 million years older than previously thought?

Daily Mail:
Jurassic car park: Fossils of TWO 180 million-year-old dinosaurs unearthed beneath road in China

Daily Mail:
Who's a pretty boy then? Heavily armoured parrot beaked dinosaur with bones in its skin and the ears of a turtle revealed

Daily Mail:
The dog-sized dinosaur that could answer questions about their evolution: 100million-year-old fossil proves evidence of an east-west split in the development of the beasts

Daily Mail:
Cheetahs are from NORTH AMERICA: Iconic African hunter actually migrated to the continent during the last Ice Age

Smithsonian Magazine:
What Killed the Mammoths of Waco?

Daily Mail:
Posing for a Polar-oid: Amazing pictures capture the moment a curious polar bear got a bit too close for comfort to photographer through a ship's porthole

Daily Mail:
Video captures spitting war between a man and one VERY cheeky dolphin

The Guardian:
Stonehenge may have been first erected in Wales, evidence suggests

Daily Mail:
Did these carriages belong to an Emperor? Chinese experts believe the 2,500-year-old tomb with full horse skeletons and chariots hold the key to a little known ancient kingdom

Daily Mail:
A mark of power! Tiny 2,700-year-old royal seal of Judah's 'greatest king' Hezekiah found in ancient rubbish dump in Jerusalem

The History Blog:
Farmer stumbles on intact Etruscan tomb

Daily Mail:
Found, where Caesar decimated the Dutch: Archaeologists pinpoint site of battle that left 150,000 dead

Daily Mail:
Solving the mystery of the Chaco Canyon houses: Ancient people of New Mexico carried wood for 50 miles to build mini-city

The History Blog:
Viking skeleton, wood coffin on display in York

Daily Mail:
Even the cold was no match for the Vikings! Warriors battled freezing conditions to conquer Greenland and may NOT have been wiped out by the Little Ice Age

Atlas Obscura:
FOUND: A 17th Century Map Stolen from a Library by a Notorious Art Thief

Daily Mail:
Shakespeare armed himself and a band of actors with daggers and swords to steal a WHOLE THEATRE and re-build it as The Globe, court document from 1601 reveals

Daily Mail:
$1.5BILLION treasure found on sunken Spanish galleon: First look at the wreck of the San Jose, 300 years after it was sunk by a British warship near Colombia

Smithsonian Magazine:
An Intern Saved a Museum by Finding This Revolutionary War Treasure in the Attic

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Twitching Frog Legs Helped Inspire 'Frankenstein'

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Brief History of Sending a Letter to Santa

Atlas Obscura:
Santa Claus House

Daily Mail:
From a submarine dragged by a WHALE to a hyperloop under New York in 1870: The historic ideas for the future of commuting

Daily Mail:
Coney Island in its heyday: Fascinating images show the New York seaside retreat jammed with city revellers lining the beaches and enjoying elephant rides

Atlas Obscura:
The Sex-Obsessed Poet Who Invented Fascism

Atlas Obscura:
The Hidden World of Tenement Fortune Tellers in 19th Century Manhattan

Gizmodo:
The Long Lost 1929 Science Fiction Movie That Predicted the Second World War

Gizmodo:
Badass Historical Chemists: Alice Hamilton Versus Absolutely Everyone

Gizmodo:
81-Year-Old Time Capsule Discovered Inside Artillery Shell (But It's Missing Some Brandy)

Daily Mail:
Operation Long Jump: New book claims Hitler plotted to assassinate Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt in one go at Tehran summit

Atlas Obscura:
How the Military Ran Its 1970s Psychic Intelligence Program - Many Memos, Naturally

San Francisco Chronicle:
Once cool tech gadgets

San Francisco Chronicle:
Hottest RadioShack tech gifts of 1984 holiday season laughable now

Daily Mail:
The $4.3 billion war ship: Largest hi-tech 'stealth' destroyer ever built for the Navy heads out to sea for final rounds of testing

Daily Mail:
From 0 to £75m in moments: Motoring world prepares for auction of classic cars including a 1956 Ferrari and an Aston Martin dubbed 'the greatest of all time'

Gizmag:
The 6 best mirrorless cameras for beginners (2015)

Smithsonian Magazine:
Visit Machu Picchu With Google Street View

Smithsonian Magazine:
Go Down the Rabbit Hole in This Fantastical French Park

Daily Mail:
Have you done something illegal without realising? Infographic reveals 34 of the most surprising laws tourists should be aware of when travelling abroad

Daily Mail:
Away in the manger, an undead baby Jesus: Man ordered to take down his zombie-themed nativity scene or face $500 fine

December 11, 2015

Jalopnik:
Here's Russia's S-400 Missile System In Action, And How The U.S. Would Deal With It

Daily Mail:
Has China created the satellite of the future? Test of nation's first near-space aircraft is a success after solar-powered blimp floats at 65,000 feet for 22 hours

Daily Mail:
Virgin Galactic to fling rockets into space from a JUMBO JET: Boeing 747 'Cosmic Girl' will be the mothership for LauncherOne

Gizmag:
Students create a human-carrying multicopter

Gizmag:
March of the drones: 10 ideas that moved flying robots forward in 2015

Jalopnik:
These Stunning Photos Capture Night Ops Aboard The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jalopnik:
This Massive Hangar Bay Is Where The USAF Gives Its Biggest Jet A Tune-Up

Gizmodo:
Blasting Off Is Anticlimactic When It's Entirely Indoors

Gizmodo:
Gorgeous video shows just how incredible the Apollo missions were

Air & Space Magazine:
The MOL-Men Come Into the Light

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Dreaming a Different Apollo, Part Three

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Space Station Resupply: The 1963 Plan to Turn the Apollo Spacecraft Into a Space Freighter

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Space Station Gemini (1962)

Gizmag:
Sending a letter to Mars would need a £11,602.25 stamp

December 10, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Akatsuki probe relays its first images from Venus orbit

Spaceflight Now:
U.S. resupply of space station successfully resumes

Spaceflight Now:
Long March lofts communications craft for Chinese government

Spaceflight Now:
Russian reconnaissance satellite re-enters atmosphere

Sputnik News:
Japan Will Continue Using ISS Until 2024

Gizmodo:
Why the World's Most Powerful Telescope Has Just Been Ruled Unlawful

Discovery News:
Sun Could Unleash Devastating 'Superflare'

Discovery News:
Rocket Smash! Apollo 16 Booster Crater Found

December 9, 2015

Aberdeen Press and Journal:
Dashcam footage captures moment meteor tears through sky above Scottish town

Global News Canada:
WATCH: Meteor lights up sky above Edmonton

Toronto Star:
Rocket booster fireball captured in digital image by Halifax astronomer

New Scientist:
Japanese Akatsuki probe enters Venus orbit after inspired hack

Daily Mail:
This is Major Tim to ground control: I'm scared of heights... and I'm not only counting down to become Britain's first man in space - I will be planet's first ever GINGER astronaut!

Space Daily:
British astronaut Tim Peake to run marathon from space

Astrobiology Magazine:
Peering Through Titan's Haze

Gizmag:
Astronomers detect ultra faint galaxy dating back to the early universe

Universe Today:
What are Wormholes?

Space Daily:
Twin civilisations? How life on an exoplanet could spread to its neighbour

Scientific American:
A Tale of Two Habitable Planets

December 8, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Video: Liftoff of Atlas 5 on space station cargo mission

Gizmag:
Akatsuki probe enters orbit around Venus

Discovery News:
Orbit Success! It's a New Dawn for Japan's Venus Mission

Spaceflight Now:
Japanese probe fires rockets to steer into orbit at Venus

Spaceflight Now:
New Russian military satellite declared lost

Space Daily:
Russia loses advanced military satellite after launch

Daily Mail:
Houston, we have a leak! Nasa's InSight mission to Mars could be delayed after a puncture is found in an on-board instrument

Smithsonian Magazine:
Venus May Have Surprisingly Youthful Skin

Universe Today:
Mars Compared to Earth

io9:
Toolmarks on Mars Leave a Trail of Robotic Graffiti

Discovery News:
7 Facts About Mars' Doomed Moon: Photos

Gizmodo:
A Glorious New Cassini Image Shows Enceladus Floating Above Saturn's Rings

Daily Mail:
Vast blocks of ice, dramatic craters and strange patterns on the surface: Stunning new images reveal Pluto's 'badlands' in unprecedented detail

Astrobiology Magazine:
What Kinds of Stars Form Rocky Planets?

Gizmodo:
Solar Panel is a Glittering Blue Mosaic Against the Blackness of Space

December 7, 2015

Space Daily:
Russia flies strategic space warfare missile

Sputnik News:
Russia Launches Soyuz-2.1b Rocket Carrier With Two Defense Satellites

Spaceflight Now:
Russian military satellites orbited by stripped-down Soyuz rocket

Sputnik News:
Russian Satellite Fails to Separate From Upper Stage - Source

Scientific American:
Japan Orbiter Seeks Second Shot at Venus

Spaceflight Now:
Japanese space probe to steer into orbit around Venus

Gizmag:
ESA's LISA Pathfinder experiment launches to explore Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

Discovery News:
Gravitational Wave Pathfinder Mission Launches

Spaceflight Now:
Take a last look at the Vega rocket's middle-of-the-night liftoff

Gizmodo:
SUCCESS! Cygnus Launches in First Mission Since Antares Rocket Explosion

Florida Today:
Atlas V, Cygnus blast off from Cape Canaveral to ISS

Motherboard:
Cygnus Spacecraft Launches with Christmas Presents for ISS Astronauts

Aviation Week:
Cygnus Launch Advances ISS Recovery from Mishaps

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX aims to resume Falcon 9 flights in mid-December

Daily Mail:
What HAS New Horizons spotted in the 'twilight zone'? Nasa reveals image of mysterious 'JR1' object captured passing through the Kuiper Belt 3.3 BILLION miles from the sun

Discovery News:
Pluto Probe Spies Object Lurking in the Kuiper Belt

Gizmag:
Scientists capture a black hole swallowing a star for the first time ever

Gizmodo:
Without Unity, Astronauts Couldn't Get Anywhere on the Space Station

WEEKEND EDITION: December 5 through December 6, 2015

Universe Today:
Timeline of the Universe, From the Big Bang to the Death of Our Sun

Scientific American:
Einstein's Unfinished Dream: Marrying Relativity to the Quantum World

Daily Mail:
Large Hadron Collider smashes energy record: Breakthrough means engineers can recreate the first moments of the universe

New Scientist:
How to encrypt a message in the afterglow of the big bang

Daily Mail:
The rifle-wielding robots that can launch grenades: China reveals deadly 'attack machines' to combat terrorism

Live Science:
How Earth's Hidden Magma Ocean Formed

Daily Mail:
The island that came out of nowhere: Incredible images reveals how volcanic island of Nishinoshima has become TWELVE times bigger since if first erupted from the Earth just two years ago

Live Science:
Nicaragua's Momotombo Volcano Erupts for 1st Time in 110 Years

Astrobiology Magazine:
Earth's first ecosystems were more complex than previously thought, study finds

Astrobiology Magazine:
Looking Back 3.8 Billion Years into the Root of the "Tree of Life"

Daily Mail:
World's oldest peach pit reveals juicy secrets: 2.5 million-year-old fruit originated in China BEFORE the arrival of humans

Live Science:
Bizarre Ancient Sea Creature Was Well-Armed for Feeding

Daily Mail:
The spiky 'mud dragon' that lived half a BILLION years ago: Fossils of strange species may reveal how worms evolved

New Scientist:
Hundreds of giant dinosaur footprints found in Scottish lagoon

The Guardian:
Sauropod footprint find makes Skye Scotland's largest dinosaur site

Daily Mail:
The dog-sized dinosaur that could answer questions about their evolution: 100million-year-old fossil proves evidence of an east-west split in the development of the beasts

Daily Mail:
How the snake lost its legs: Scans of 90 million-year-old skull reveal serpent evolved to live and hunt in burrows NOT the sea

Daily Mail:
Bizarre horny beast is named after Padme Amidala from Star Wars: 16 million-year-old 'giraffe' had a T-shaped bone on its head that resembles the character's hat

The Guardian:
Extinct thinking: was the hapless dodo really destined to die out?

Air & Space Magazine:
This Bizarre Rock Creature Has Minerals for Eyes

Live Science:
Why So Blue? Tarantula's Cool Color Is Still a Mystery

Daily Mail:
Rare Amazonian butterfly named after Sir David Attenborough: Insect takes the number of species in his honour up to 11

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Oldest Known Seabird Is About to Lay Another Egg

Smithsonian Magazine:
Impalas Hang Out With Baboons for Sausage Fruits and Safety

Daily Mail:
Why are whales flocking to underwater mountains? Experts are mystified about why humpbacks spend so long visiting seamounts during migrations

Daily Mail:
Is this the world's oldest 'picture of home'? 13,800-year-old drawing of a prehistoric campsite discovered carved into rock

Daily Mail:
Mysterious geoglyphs in Jordan could be 8,500 years old: 'Wheels' drawn into the Black Desert are 6,000 years older than Peru's Nazca lines

Live Science:
Huge Geometric Shapes in Middle East May Be Prehistoric

ABC Australia:
Europeans developed ability to tolerate milk thousands of years later than previously thought

Ancient Origins:
Sarcophagus of Egyptian High Priest Unearthed with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions and Scenes of Offerings

News Corp Australia:
Nefertiti: Inside the hunt for a heretic queen

Adelaide Advertiser:
Whose face really belongs behind Tut's famous gold mask?

Daily Mail:
Splendours of Egypt's 'Atlantis': Lost treasures of sunken cities to go on show after more than 1,000 years submerged in the waters of the Nile delta

Daily Mail:
Hoard of Roman coins dating back to Mark Antony are discovered in Welsh field: 91 pieces of 2,000-year-old silver could be worth 'tens of thousands of pounds'

The History Blog:
Pre-Inca mummy remains found in Lima temple

The History Blog:
Frescoes torn from Paestum tomb walls found

The History Blog:
7th century tavern with plates still on shelf found in Ephesus

Daily Mail:
Mystery of the sitting 'mummies': 1,000-year-old skeletons from a pre-Incan civilisation were buried looking out to sea

Daily Mail:
Decapitated children found in passage leading to mysterious sealed chambers: Ancient Mexican tunnel could be the gateway to secret tomb of Aztec royalty

Daily Mail:
Maybe that's where Shakespeare cooked up his plays! Bard's kitchen is found in the ruins of New Place complete with hearth and cold storage pit 'fridge'

Daily Mail:
Diaries reveal how Shakespeare posed as rival actor to 'entertain' a fan who had seen him perform in Richard III

Mysterious Universe:
Annabelle Lee, and the Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe

Slate:
The Road Trip That Made the Modern American Highway Possible

Daily Mail:
The voice of Hitler: Only known recording of the Nazi leader's normal speaking voice - secretly taped by a Finnish sound engineer in 1942 - emerges

Daily Mail:
Holocaust survivor reunited with the Polish woman who saved him as a child from the Nazis after his parents were killed 68 years ago

Wired:
Movies of Cold War Bomb Tests Hold Nuclear Secrets

New York Daily News:
Meteorite strikes Elizabeth Hodges, a woman from Alabama in 1954

Gizmodo:
14 Exquisite Clandestine Cameras From The Golden Age of Espionage

BBC News:
The world's last truly awful car?

Daily Mail:
Car Wars: Bugatti reveals new Chiron that could take the title for the world's fastest car

Jalopnik:
Watch Europe's Borders Change Rapidly Over 1,000 Years In This Awesome Animation

The Guardian:
The 10 best cities in the world to be a student in 2016 - in pictures

Universe Today:
What If We Dug a Tunnel Through the Earth?

Gizmag:
2015 Mid-Range and Enthusiast DSLR Comparison Guide

Gizmodo:
This moving 3D scan of life in Paris is truly stunning

Metro UK:
The nation's favourite Christmas advert has been revealed - and it's bad news for John Lewis

December 4, 2015

Sputnik News:
Cygnus Spacecraft Launch to ISS Cancelled Over Bad Weather

Daily Mail:
Look up! Interactive map reveals the satellites and space junk soaring above your head right now

Gizmodo:
The Forgotten History Behind Some of America's Busiest Airports

Gizmodo:
An Up-Close Look at The Exclusive Engine for The Next Airbus

Daily Mail:
The future of commuting? Electric 16 rotor 'megadrone' can transform to a plane in mid air and reach 200mph

Gizmag:
Mantis lets your drone pluck things from the earth

Sputnik News:
Amazon Unveils Super-Fast Delivery Drone Prototype

Gizmag:
The Phantom 3, 3DR Solo and Parrot Bepop 2: Comparing today's topflight consumer drones

Sputnik News:
Explosive: Pentagon Scraps Plans to Launch Satellites with Fighter Jets

Sputnik News:
Smoke and Mirrors: Russian Aircraft Get a Sleek New Countermeasure

Gizmodo:
The Graceful Moment When a Commando Boat Goes Airborne

Jalopnik:
These Aussie Hornets Pull Away From This Prop Plane Like It Was Sitting Still

Space Daily:
Cryogenic testing from 1964 to the James Webb Space Telescope

io9:
Always Suit Up Before Firing a Rocket Indoors

io9:
This is One Extremely Large, Impressive Wind Tunnel

Universe Today:
Spotting Asterix: France Marks 50 Years of Space Exploration

Smithsonian Magazine:
How NASA's Flight Plan Described the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Gizmodo:
Stunning video captures rocket separation in space like never before

Jalopnik:
Russia Reportedly Plans To Build A Lunar Base By The 2030s

Gizmodo:
Awesome time-lapse shows the complete disassembly of a U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane

Jalopnik:
The Tale Of When A Marine Mechanic Stole An A-4 Skyhawk For A Joyride Over California

Gizmodo:
Watching this guy in a wingsuit fly impossibly close to the ground almost made me faint

December 3, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Readiness confirmed for Thursday's Atlas 5 cargo launch to space station

Spaceflight Insider:
ISS crew gear up for visiting vehicle traffic

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Atlas 5 rocket moves to pad with space station cargo ship

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5/Cygnus OA-4 launch timeline

Daily Mail:
LISA Pathfinder launch countdown restarts: Mission to detect Einstein's gravitational waves given go-ahead after 'technical issue'

Daily Mail:
Have barge landings been scrapped? SpaceX eyes up Cape Canaveral for next rocket booster landing attempt

Spaceflight Now:
ExoMars nears launch, thanks to nonstop work in factory

Spaceflight Now:
Finely-crafted experimental space probe ready for launch

Discovery News:
The Hunt Is On For Long-Lost Soviet Moon Lander

December 2, 2015

BBC News:
Fireball spotted in skies above Armagh

Spaceflight Now:
Radar spy satellite launched by China

Spaceflight Now:
International Space Station and crew awaiting Atlas 5 launch of Cygnus

Spaceflight Now:
ExoMars orbiter and lander on display

New Scientist:
Chinese satellite to shine a light on mysterious dark matter

Discovery News:
Saved Japanese Probe Gets Final Chance to Orbit Venus

Discovery News:
Mars' Ancient Atmosphere Wasn't Very Thick After All

Discovery News:
Earth Pulled a Heist on the Moon's Water

Daily Mail:
Impact of Apollo 16's booster is spotted on the moon: Crash site of historic rocket part revealed after 43 years of mystery

December 1, 2015

Universe Today:
First Mirror Installed on NASA's Webb Telescope, Final Assembly Phase Starts

Gizmodo:
Watch the Cygnus Get Ready for Its First Post-Explosion Cargo Run to the Space Station

Gizmodo:
SpaceX's Launch Escape System Looks Totally Badass

New Scientist:
Flying gold knocked the moon off course and ruined eclipses

Discovery News:
NASA's Europa Mission Will Hunt Down Moon Dust

Universe Today:
How Long is a Day on Pluto?

New Scientist:
Weirdly tilted planet knocks formation theory out of line

Akron Press Beacon:
Astronomy for December: Comet Catalina brightening in morning sky

Portland Press Herald:
What's Up in December: Bring on the solstice, and so much more

KCBS:
Grab Some Binoculars, Go Outside And Look For The Catalina Comet... It'll Be Good Your Health

November 30, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
UFOs: Invasion at Oak Ridge

Daily Mirror:
'Britain's first alien abduction victim' recalls encounter with 'diamond-shaped UFO' 35 years after incident

KLAS:
I-Team: Author details UFO incidents over Nevada

Smithsonian Magazine:
Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion

Daily Mail:
Are these mystery signals messages from ALIENS? Strange radio waves could be coming from a distant planet, say scientists

WLEX:
Reports Of Sonic Boom In Boyle, Lincoln And Garrard Counties

Petersburg Pilot:
NASA scientist cites evidence for meteor plummeting over Petersburg

Spaceflight Insider:
Blue Origin lands New Shepard spacecraft after flight to edge of space

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Blue Origin Milestone: Rocket Lands Safely After Trip to Space

Universe Today:
Blue Origin Completes Successful Test Flight and Nails the Landing of New Shepard Rocket

Spaceflight Now:
Bezos-backed Blue Origin achieves rocket landing

Discovery News:
Blue Origin Nails Rocket Landing

Air & Space Magazine:
Blue Origin Sticks the Landing

New Scientist:
Spacecraft that will put Einstein to the test ready for lift-off

Spaceflight Now:
Sporting new upgrades, H-2A rocket readied for flight

Gizmodo:
How the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will bring us back to space

Sputnik News:
Russia Enters ExoMars Program to Save Mission After US Exit

Engadget:
Debris from SpaceX's Falcon 9 washes up in England

THANKSGIVING WEEKEND EDITION: November 26 through November 29, 2015

The Guardian:
Maxwell's equations: 150 years of light

The Guardian:
Video: 100 years of Einstein's General Relativity

Daily Mail:
How Einstein changed the world with his theory of general relativity...and why you would literally be lost without it

Discovery News:
100 Years of General Relativity: Thought and Action

Discovery News:
Einstein's General Relativity Still Put to Test

The Guardian:
Satellite launch accident provides unexpected test of Einstein's theory

Live Science:
Spooky Action Is Real: Bizarre Quantum Entanglement Confirmed in New Tests

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Many Ways to "Dance Your Ph.D"

International Business Times:
Robot solves Rubik's cube in record 2.39 seconds

Popular Science:
Weird Wheels Move Robot In Four Directions Without Twisting

BBC News:
China robot event showcases service, sport and dancing robots

Singapore Today:
Robot expo shows ambitions, limits of Chinese innovation

Smithsonian Magazine:
RoboBees Can Fly and Swim. What's Next? Laser Vision

Daily Mail:
Fossilised FOREST found in Norway: 380-million-year-old trees were so large and leafy they 'triggered climate change and helped animals to flourish'

Daily Mail:
The ice that will never melt: Incredible images show a frozen world deep inside the Canadian Rockies

Gizmodo:
What the Hell Caused This California Road to Suddenly Rise Up and Crumble?

Daily Mail:
Rare 'Little Al' skeleton of a baby Allosaurus FAILS to sell at auction: Remains of the ferocious predator didn't hit the reserve

Smithsonian Magazine:
Big Baby Dinosaur Finally Goes Home

Smithsonian Magazine:
Your Thanksgiving Turkey Is a Quintessentially American Bird: An Immigrant

Ancient Origins:
Oldest known Gold Jewelry in Europe Discovered at Bronze Age Bulgarian site

The History Blog:
Pendant found in Bulgaria is among oldest known gold jewelry

National Geographic:
King Tut: The Teen Whose Death Rocked Egypt

Ancient Origins:
1,700-Year-Old Ancient Gold and Onyx Ring Depicts Cupid, God of Love

Live Science:
Ancient Board Game Found in Looted China Tomb

The History Blog:
Rich Western Han Dynasty cemetery unearthed

Ancient Origins:
One of the Oldest Known Paintings of Confucius found in Tomb of Disgraced Ex-Emperor

Ancient Origins:
Underground Pagan Basilica with Dark History Revealed to the Public for the First Time

The History Blog:
Roman coin hoard found in Swiss cherry orchard

Ancient Origins:
Ikea-style flat-pack church that sunk in a shipwreck around 500 AD to be revived

The History Blog:
Staedtler erasers help solve mystery of ultra-thin 13th c. parchment

Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists find medieval teenage witch burial in Italian town

Daily Mail:
Forget the turkey: Researchers claim Spanish sailors celebrated the first Thanksgiving in Florida 50 years before the Pilgrims in 1621 - with salted pork and red wine

Atlas Obscura:
See a 400-Year-Old Book Made Entirely from Feathers

Slate:
Masters of the Atlantic

The History Blog:
Speaking of the Rijksmuseum...

The History Blog:
Vermeer's Little Street discovered

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Drone Encounters Two Eagles, and the Birds Win

Gizmodo:
An Illustrated History of American Money Design

Smithsonian Magazine:
Try Out George Washington's Own Craft Beer Recipe

The Guardian:
Unique watercolour of Darwin on HMS Beagle tipped to fetch upwards of £50,000 at auction

The History Blog:
Historical archive found in Russian birds nests

io9:
The Physicist Who Defied the Temperance Laws of 1905 Berkeley

Daily Mail:
Life in the freezer: Previously-unseen images of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1915 expedition to the Antarctic give an new insight into his men's fight for survival

Gizmodo:
90 Years Ago, the Los Angeles Subway Was Born in This Lost Tunnel

io9:
The Bizarre Disappearance (And Bizarre Return) of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson

The History Blog:
Movie posters found under old linoleum sell for more than $200,000

Smithsonian Magazine:
The U.S. Government Turned Away Thousands of Jewish Refugees, Fearing That They Were Nazi Spies

Smithsonian Magazine:
The World's First Nuclear Reactor was Built in a Squash Court

Daily Mail:
How Hitler built a SUPERGUN: Researcher reveals how megaweapon carved into a French hillside to bomb London worked

Mysterious Universe:
Jack Parsons: Secrets and Files

Gizmodo:
Time Capsule For The Year 2957 Discovered at MIT

Air & Space Magazine:
What Ever Happened to the Men of Hawk Hill?

Ars Technica:
War Games for real: How one 1983 exercise nearly triggered WWIII

BBC News:
The abandoned buildings of the Eastern bloc

Daily Mail:
Rare vintage sports car 'the Birdcage' is expected to fetch more than 軸,000 at auction and even its '180' numberplate could sell for a small fortune

Daily Mail:
Extreme beauty: The breathtaking images of an award-winning photographer's journey through the Antarctic (at - 90°C)

Smithsonian Magazine:
Visit the Only Village Inside the Grand Canyon

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Old-World Charm of Venice's Windy Sister City

The Guardian:
Why has this Amazonian tribe suddenly started to make contact with outsiders?

io9:
This Sad Short About a Woman Who Can't Find Anything at a Lost and Found Has a Happy Ending

November 25, 2015

Air & Space Magazine:
Almost Like Being on Mars

Gizmodo:
Video: An airplane fuselage gets transformed into a stunning interstellar light show

Daily Mail:
Northern Thai airports forced to cancel 150 flights during three-day festival to avoid the risk of planes colliding with thousands of LANTERNS

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Drone Encounters Two Eagles, and the Birds Win

Jalopnik:
Watching This Squirrelly B-1 Bomber Trying To Refuel Is Nerve Wracking As Hell

Ars Technica:
Three high-flying birds soar together for the first time since the 1970s

Air & Space Magazine:
One Mustang, Three Awards

Air & Space Magazine:
The Panther That Flew Itself

Air & Space Magazine:
The Man Who Named the Martian Day

Air & Space Magazine:
Spying on the Soviets, With Graph Paper and a Calculator

Air & Space Magazine:
The Best-Built Airplane That Ever Was

November 24, 2015

Forbes:
Amateur Astronomers Solve Mystery Of Unidentified Fireball And Weird Space Junk Found In Spain

KFSK:
Petersburg wakes up to mysterious loud booming noise

Daily Mail:
Seeing treble! Breathtaking footage captures rare optical illusion over Russia as THREE suns appear in the sky

Sputnik News:
New Crew to Stay Aboard ISS for 7 Months Instead of 6

Daily Mail:
China begins testing world's largest radio telescope as construction of the £124 MILLION project enters final stage

Spaceflight Insider:
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs Apollo landing sites

Astrobiology Magazine:
A Witness to a Wet Early Mars

Discovery News:
Mars Will Become a Ringed Planet When Phobos Dies

Universe Today:
Comet Catalina Grows Two Tails, Soars at Dawn

Jalopnik:
You Can Now Watch The Last 11 Years Of Photos Taken Of Saturn And Its Moons

io9:
Here's Our First Ever Look At The North And South Poles Of Ceres

Air & Space Magazine:
Mystery Star

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
The Milky Way, in 46 Billion Pixels

Astrobiology Magazine:
Retro Exo and Its Originators

November 23, 2015

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Back when you couldn't ignore it ...

WLTV:
Meteor fireball lights up Tri-State skies

WLKY:
Here's what we know about Thursday's meteor sightings

WDRB:
NASA confirms fireball meteor responsible for sonic boom, flash of light overnight

Iceland Monitor:
Meteor shoots through Northern Lights

Spaceflight Insider:
NASA orders first crewed mission to ISS from SpaceX

Universe Today:
NASA Orders First Commercial Crew Mission to Space Station from SpaceX

Spaceflight Now:
China launches first satellite for Laos

Spaceflight Insider:
Ooh shiny! NASA's Orion spacecraft gains new coating

Spaceflight Now:
Tiny thrusters to do heavy lifting as Japanese probe approaches Venus

Discovery News:
Winter Is Coming: Giant Ice Cloud Appears On Titan

Discovery News:
This Is What a Day on Pluto and Charon Looks Like

Gizmodo:
This Is How We Know a Supernova Is Coming in 2016

Universe Today:
It's Finally Here! Comet Catalina Greets Dawn Skywatchers

Scientific American:
Graphic: A World of Exoplanet Discoveries

WEEKEND EDITION: November 21 through November 22, 2015

Universe Today:
Cosmologist Thinks a Strange Signal May Be Evidence of a Parallel Universe

Gizmodo:
Physicists Prove That Spooky Action At a Distance Is Real

Live Science:
Spooky Action Is Real: Bizarre Quantum Entanglement Confirmed in New Tests

Gizmag:
University of Tehran unveils Surena III humanoid robot

Inverse:
This Robot Has Learned How to Say 'No' to Human Demands

The Guardian:
Megabots v Kuratas: US and Japan battle it out for robot supremacy

Ars Technica:
Past mass extinctions preferentially wiped out large species

Live Science:
Triassic Reptile Skewered Clams with Teeth on Roof of Its Mouth

Smithsonian Magazine:
Ancient Bees Were Voracious Snackers on Their Pollen-Gathering Treks

BBC News:
What did the Neanderthals do for us?

Daily Mail:
Modern Europeans descend from FOUR groups of hunter-gatherers: New strand of DNA discovered in the Caucasus is the 'missing piece in the ancestry puzzle'

Daily Mail:
First Americans arrived 6,000 years earlier than believed and survived the ICE AGE

Daily Mail:
'Hobbits' were a separate species: Study of 18,000-year-old teeth contradicts theory creatures were deformed modern humans

Inside Science:
Ancient Farmers Made Pumpkins Possible

Daily Mail:
Tsunami devastated Europe 8,150 years ago: Huge waves swept hundreds of miles down the North Sea after the last Ice Age

Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists in Sicily excavate an ancient Greek city remarkably preserved beneath earth and sand

Ancient Origins:
Researchers locate Submerged Lost Ancient City where Athens and Sparta Fought a Battle

Ancient Origins:
Mysterious board game found in ancient Chinese tomb, along with suspected dead looter

Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists Discover 2,000-Year-Old Smoke Absorbing Lamps in Chinese Tomb

The History Blog:
Two pieces of Roman sign found 122 years apart

The History Blog:
Roman amphitheater found in Volterra

Daily Mail:
Archaeologists find stunning Roman-era mosaic in Israel - while building a visitor's centre for ANOTHER Roman mosaic

Gizmodo:
These Huge Roman Mosaics Were Hidden Under City Streets For 1,700 Years

The History Blog:
Second Lod mosaic found during construction of visitor center for first

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Brief History of British Pub Signs

The History Blog:
The First Book of Fashion

Smithsonian Magazine:
The World's Oldest Zoo Is a Modern Attraction With a Storied Past

Gizmodo:
Australia's Secret History as a White Utopia

The History Blog:
Giving Andrew Ellicott his due

Atlas Obscura:
The Forgotten Midwest Craze for Building Palaces Out of Grain

Mysterious Universe:
The Mysterious Lost Expedition of Dr. Leichhardt

Daily Mail:
Fascinating images of the Panama Canal's construction show the incredible task facing the 44,000 workers who spent 33 years hacking through mountains and redirecting rivers

Universe Today:
Who was Albert Einstein?

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Classic Coca-Cola Bottle Turns 100 Today

Gizmodo:
The Secret WWII Club That Healed Burned Pilots and Revolutionized Plastic Surgery

Gizmodo:
The Reservoir That Made the World Pay Attention to California's Drought

Smithsonian Magazine:
History and Culture of the 1960s to 1980s Is Disintegrating With the Tapes That Recorded It

Gizmodo:
These Classic Macintosh Peripherals Are Absolutely Bonkers

Gizmag:
Extremely rare Nikon lens which can see behind itself goes to auction

BBC News:
The last perfumer of Belgrade

November 20, 2015

Sputnik News:
Awesome Science: Did China Just Turn All Fighter Jets Invisible?

Gizmag:
New stealth material could defeat latest radar systems

Jalopnik:
Brand New AC-130 Ghostrider A Total Loss After Going Inverted While Out Of Control

Gizmag:
Cobalt's Valkyrie: Bruce Wayne's new private plane?

Daily Mail:
'Son of Concorde' gets the go ahead: Craft that can go from London to New York in THREE HOURS will fly in 2021 at speeds of over 1,200mph, reveals Airbus

Aviation Week:
Aerion's Supersonic Bizjet Finding a Market

Daily Mail:
World's biggest aircraft 'takes off' for the first time after being filled with 1.3million cubic feet of helium - but it's not ready to leave the hangar just yet

Gizmodo:
Watching how airplanes used to aerial refuel is totally incredible

Air & Space Magazine:
In a Remote Forest, Traces of a 50-Year-Old Mystery

Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: The shocking launch of Apollo 12

io9:
How did the First Crewed American Spaceflight get its Name?

Gizmodo:
What Is The Farthest Human-Made Object?

Air & Space Magazine:
The Watches That Went to the Moon

November 19, 2015

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Lapdog journalism at the NY Times

Universe Today:
Hunting Unicorns: Is an Alpha Monocerotid Outburst Due in 2015?

University of Hawaii:
Main-belt asteroid shows evidence of March collision

Phys Org:
Observing distinctive geologic features on asteroid Toutatis

Spaceflight Now:
Tiny thrusters to do heavy lifting as Japanese probe approaches Venus

Spaceflight Now:
Explained: Why Atlas 5 will have longer windows for station flights

Air & Space Magazine:
Japan's Co-Op Lunar Mission

Daily Mail:
Did Earth steal water from a young moon? Study suggests our planet would be a barren world without its satellite

Discovery News:
Is This the Loneliest Galaxy in the Universe?

Daily Mail:
Will this be the first humanoid on Mars? Nasa gives 'superhero robots' to universities to train for deep space missions

Inside Science:
How To Pack For A Space Mission

November 18, 2015

Spaceflight Insider:
ISS encounters power failure, can't be fixed until 2016

Spaceflight Now:
First satellite launched for Russia's new missile warning network

Space Daily:
China's satellite expo opens

Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Heads Toward Active Dunes

Discovery News:
Superflares Spell Doom For Life on 'Habitable' Exoplanet

Discovery News:
To Find Alien Worlds, First Look at Our Sun

BBC News:
To find aliens, we need to build a giant space parasol

November 17, 2015

Wired:
Last Week's Downed UFO? A Rocket, But No One Knows Which

Space Fellowship:
A Blazing Fireball between the Orion Nebula and Rigel

Spaceflight Insider:
Russian Soyuz 2.1b to launch first satellite for EKS early warning system

New Scientist:
Origin of Earth's water traced back to the birth of our planet

Ars Technica:
New model explains how the Earth stole the Moon's lighter elements

New Scientist:
Our moon would be a planet under new definition of planethood

Gizmag:
New study reveals that Mercury experiences yearly meteor showers

Discovery News:
Mars Rover Finds Rich Mineral Stew in Fractured Rock

Discovery News:
When Voyager 1 Buzzed Saturn 35 Years Ago: Photos

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Alan Stern Brought Pluto to Earth

Daily Mail:
What REALLY happened to Philae: Researchers reconstruct the lander's flight across a comet in stunning new video a year after touchdown

Discovery News:
Look Up! The Hunt for Leonid Meteors Is On

November 16, 2015

White Mountain Independent:
40 years later: Most documented UFO sighting, abduction still draw interest

Daily Express:
WATCH: Massive GREEN meteor explodes in burst of lights over skies of Russian city

Upper Michigan Source:
November 13, 1833: Spectacular Meteor Shower

Daily Mail:
Phew! Mysterious UFO dubbed 'WTF' burns up in the atmosphere as it reaches Earth - but we may never know what it was

Universe Today:
Spectacular Breakup of WT1190F Seen by Airborne Astronomers

Forbes:
Mysterious Space Debris Hit Earth On Friday 13th

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Update: Whatever WT1190F Was, It Isn't Any More

Spaceflight Now:
U.S.-Russian talks on Venus mission resume

Spaceflight Now:
Station-bound cargo ship shown to press before launch

Discovery News:
Exoplanet's Global Winds Let Rip at 5,400 MPH

Scientific American:
Little Galaxy Keeps Churning Out Stars

Discovery News:
Could 'Pale Orange Worlds' Lead Us to Alien Life?

Air & Space Magazine:
SETI: Shortcut or Longshot?

WEEKEND EDITION: November 14 through November 15, 2015

Smithsonian Magazine:
Seven Simple Ways We Know Einstein Was Right (For Now)

Gizmodo:
A New Way of Thinking About Spacetime That Turns Everything Inside Out

Live Science:
'Mirror Universes' Might Look and Behave Like Ours, Study Finds

Daily Mail:
Robot toddler 'learns' to walk: Humanoid 'imagines' a movement before trying it out in real life just like a young child

Gizmag:
Record breaking robot walks 83 miles in 54 hours

Daily Mail:
Earth's tectonic plates formed when 'massive molten plumes' ripped the crust apart: Tears formed and spread across the planet three billion years ago

Daily Mail:
The biggest continental collision in Earth's history: Scientists pinpoint crashing together of continents that created the Himalayas 50 million years ago

Daily Mail:
Lost to the sands of time: Hidden ancient river network that once flowed through the SAHARA is revealed by satellite images

Gizmodo:
Mount Saint Helens May Share Magma with an Entire Field of Volcanoes

Smithsonian Magazine:
New Insights Behind the Sand Dunes That Swallowed a Boy

Daily Mail:
Ancient amphibian 'vampire' discovered in Brazil: Fanged creature looked like a cross between a salamander and an eel 278 million years ago

The Guardian:
South African scientists piece together 'new dinosaur species'

Smithsonian Magazine:
New Winged Dinosaur May Have Used Its Feathers to Pin Down Prey

Daily Mail:
Lizard fossils may reveal how dinosaurs got their crests: Skull of 80-million-year-old creature is the 'missing link' in the evolutionary tree

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Long-Necked Marine Reptile Is the First Known to Filter Feed Like a Whale

Atlas Obscura:
Cephalopod Science is Even Weirder and More Mysterious Than You Imagined

San Francisco Chronicle:
Biggest great white shark ever filmed? (VIDEO)

Ancient Origins:
3,500-Year-Old Unplundered Warrior Tomb with Huge Treasure Hoard found in Greece

Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Tomb of Chinese Emperor and 7 Nobles Full of Riches

Ancient Origins:
Entire Family Executed by First Female Emperor of China: Tomb Reveals Bloody Past

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Centuries-Old History of Venice's Jewish Ghetto

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Man Who Changed Reading Forever

Daily Mail:
Fall and rise of the estate that gave Napoleon's sword its diamond but fell into ruin - until tragic High Sheriff restored it to its former glory

Universe Today:
Who Was Galileo Galilei?

Gizmodo:
This Rediscovered Leather Trunk Contains Thousands of Letters From the 17th Century

Universe Today:
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Extraordinary photos of Italy's abandoned 365-room mesmeric 'magic eye' mosaic mansion on sale at a snip for £10.6million

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Renwick: Finally The Gem It Was Meant to Be

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Telegram That Broke News of the Civil War

National Geographic:
133 Years Later, Gaudi's Cathedral Nears Completion

The History Blog:
"World's greatest cat painting" sells for $826,000

The History Blog:
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo reopens in Florence

Smithsonian Magazine:
When Kids Played With Alligators in Los Angeles

Atlas Obscura:
FOUND: 1912 Titanic Distress Telegram Suggests Owner Knew About The Iceberg

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Woman Who Built the Waldorf of the Catskills

The Guardian:
Modigliani's Reclining Nude fetches second-highest ever art auction price

Daily Mail:
See historic discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in COLOUR for the first time: Stunning new images show boy king's burial chamber in a new light

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Look Inside Howard Carter's Tutankhamun Diary

The History Blog:
Lost Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film found in BFI archive

Smithsonian Magazine:
When the Empire State Building Was Just an Architect's Sketch

Ancient Origins:
Mummified Hand from Yorkshire May Be Last Hand of Glory Still in Existence

Smithsonian Magazine:
Watch Rarely Seen Footage of Life in Nazi Austria, Thanks to a New Video Archive

Atlas Obscura:
The Government-Funded Tourist Guide Written by Poets and Pulitzer Winners

Atlas Obscura:
The Early Spy Manual That Turned Bad Middle Management Into An Espionage Tactic

Universe Today:
Who was Gerard Kuiper?

Gizmodo:
The Secret Origins of an Infamous, Polonium-Filled Kids Toy

Gizmodo:
The Unlikely Story of One of the Biggest Blackouts In US History

Smithsonian Magazine:
When New York City Lost Power in 1965, Radio Saved the Day

Daily Mail:
Sony FINALLY kills off Betamax: Electronics giant to cease production of cassettes 40 years after its 'format war' with VHS

Gizmag:
"World's first personal computer" sells for €34,000

Daily Mail:
Inside the frozen Soviet Ghost Town: Abandoned mining settlement 800 miles from the North Pole is seeking visitors (that don't have four legs or fur)

BBC News:
Why don't people see the yeti any more?

November 13, 2015

Gizmag:
World's first jet-powered, 3D-printed UAV debuts at Dubai Airshow

Jalopnik:
Take A Virtual 360 Tour Of The Amazing XB-70 Valkyrie's Cockpit

Gizmodo:
The flight of a U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane from beginning to end

Air & Space Magazine:
Another Way to Land on the Moon

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Touring Titan By Blimp & Buoy (1983)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
The 1991 Plan to Turn Space Shuttle Columbia Into a Low-Cost Space Station

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Making Rocket Propellants from Martian Air (1978)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Apollo's End: NASA Cancels Apollo 15 & Apollo 19 to Save Station/Shuttle (1970)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
An Alternate Station/Shuttle Evolution: The Spirit of '76 (1970)

Jalopnik:
The Unlikely Struggle Of The Family Whose Neighbor Is Area 51

Gizmodo:
How to go to space, explained in the simplest and funniest way possible

November 12, 2015

Curbed Los Angeles:
A Brief History of UFO Sightings in Los Angeles

Mysterious Universe:
Roswell's UFO - The "Victims of the Wreck"

Space Daily:
New rocket readies for liftoff in 2016

Space Daily:
Galileo satellites set for year-long Einstein experiment

Discovery News:
Finding 'Spooky': Why Hunting Asteroids is Hard

Daily Mail:
Mercury is being pummelled by meteoroids: Planet is pelted with debris every time its orbit cross the trail of comet Encke

Scientific American:
Pandemonium! Motion of Pluto's Moons Perplexes Scientists

New Scientist:
Most distant solar system object yet could hint at hidden planet

Scientific American:
Astronomers Find the Farthest-Out Solar System Object Ever Seen

Discovery News:
Venus Exoplanet Twin Found in Nearby Star System

Daily Mail:
Earth-like world spotted just 39 light years away could be 'most important planet ever found outside the solar system'

Sky and Telescope:
Comet Catalina Sails Into Northern Skies

Forbes:
Comet Catalina To Pass By Earth For The Final Time

November 11, 2015

Metro UK:
Incredible green meteor pictured off coast of Yorkshire

Daily Mail:
ANOTHER missile launch soars over California: The Navy launches a second nuclear-capable Trident on day two of dramatic war games that have sparked a host of conspiracy theories

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Update: Spectacular Photos and Time Lapse of the Trident Missile Launch

Daily Mail:
What man will REALLY wear on Mars: Nasa reveals 'Tron' spacesuit that will glow so astronauts can be easily spotted

Universe Today:
Opportunity Rover Driving Between 'Lily Pads' in Search of Martian Sun and Science

Discovery News:
Mars' Moon Phobos is Double-Doomed

Universe Today:
Mars' Moon Phobos Undergoing 'Structural Failure'

Daily Mail:
What happened to Pluto's moons? Weird spin of dwarf planet's satellites suggest it once had many more than it does today

Discovery News:
Ceres Delights: Dawn's Latest Dwarf Planet Views: Photos

Discovery News:
This is Why Some Asteroids Act Like Comets: Photos

Discovery News:
Most Powerful Explosion Since Big Bang Seen

November 10, 2015

Daily Express:
Police thought colleagues murdered me but I was 'abducted by aliens and fought my way out'

Daily Mail:
No wonder California freaked out! New pictures show spectacular launch of nuclear-capable Trident missile over Golden Gate Bridge that sparked UFO scare - and a host of conspiracy theories

Global News Canada:
Fireball lights up night sky over much of Saskatchewan

Stuff NZ:
Man captures meteor in Invercargill night sky photo

Irish Independent:
WATCH: Did you see the giant meteor that passed over Ireland last night?

South Africa Times:
Was that big boom in the Eastern Cape a meteor strike?

Kent Messenger:
Sonic boom heard over Mersham, near Ashford, after two jets fly over village

Spaceflight Now:
Intelligence-gathering satellite launched by China

Discovery News:
Weird Pluto Mountains Are Evidence of Ice Volcanoes

New Scientist:
Pluto surprises with ice volcanoes and alien weather

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
When the Sun Went Medieval on Our Planet

November 9, 2015

Daily Mail:
What exactly is the Navy doing off the coast of California? Alarm on the West coast as a submarine fires a nuclear-capable missile within sight of cities and LA flights are diverted around top secret exercise

Discovery News:
Mapping Mars' Ripples Unveils Dune Mysteries

New Scientist:
NASA probe shows how solar burps may have stripped Mars of water

Discovery News:
The Sun Will Blast Mars' Entire Atmosphere Into Space

Daily Mail:
Did our solar system once contain DOZENS of Earth-like planets? Simulations suggest these rocky worlds may have been kicked out by the gas giants billions of years ago

Smithsonian Magazine:
In a Rare Pairing, a Venus-Like Planet Has Been Found Around a "Failed Star"

io9:
That Time a Chunk of the Moon Went to the Space Station

WEEKEND EDITION: November 7 through November 8, 2015

New Scientist:
Mystery bright spots could be first glimpse of another universe

ABC Australia:
Einstein was wrong: 'Spooky' quantum entanglement is real

Mysterious Universe:
Do New Observations Cast Doubt on Einstein's Theory of Relativity?

Gizmag:
Talking-Ally robot works to keep your attention

Gizmag:
Insect-sized RoboBee robot can now fly and swim

Ars Technica:
The future is the Internet of Things - deal with it

Daily Mail:
Remnants of an ancient magma ocean in the deep Earth revealed: Study finds our planet's mantle had a LIQUID layer

The Atlantic:
The Most Destructive Wave in Earth's (Known) History

Daily Mail:
The gigantic 'crack in the earth' in Wyoming: Landslide in the Big Horn Mountains causes canyon-like gash - and it could get even bigger

Daily Mail:
Seattle, Vancouver and Portland are at risk of a MEGAQUAKE: Risk revealed in first detailed map of Pacific Northwest fault line

Daily Mail:
Would yew believe it! Britain's oldest tree is 'CHANGING SEX' after 5,000 years

Daily Mail:
Did ancient animals REGROW their limbs? Fossils suggest the ability to regenerate was widespread 300 million years ago

Daily Mail:
Ancient amphibian 'vampire' discovered in Brazil: Fanged creature looked like a cross between a salamander and an eel 278 million years ago

Daily Mail:
Dinosaurs emerged from a baptism of FIRE: High oxygen levels meant massive wildfires swept the world 250 million years ago

Live Science:
Giant Pterosaur Sported 110 Teeth (and 4 Wicked Fangs)

Daily Mail:
Think the velociraptor is scary? Meet Dakoraptor, the biggest winged raptor in the world: 17 foot long 'missing link' was as agile and vicious as Jurassic Park stars

Gizmodo:
Fossil With Preserved Tail Feathers and Skin Reveals Dinosaur Plumage Patterns

Stuff NZ:
Giant megalodon shark teeth wash up on US beach

Gizmodo:
This Extinct Species is Changing What We Know About Early Ape Evolution

Daily Mail:
The world's rarest whale is captured on film for the FIRST time

BBC News:
What is the sleepiest animal on Earth?

National Geographic:
Here Are 7 Cats You Never Knew Existed

The Dodo:
Baby Deer Doesn't Want To Leave The Man Who Saved Her Life

Ancient Origins:
A delicacy now, snails in the human diet may have meant survival 150,000 years ago

Daily Mail:
Is this the oldest artwork in the British Isles? Ice Age discovery in Jersey could date back at least 14,000 years

ABC Australia:
Black Death infected Bronze Age Europeans 5000 years ago

Daily Mail:
Ancient warrior's tomb that has laid untouched for 3,500 years discovered in Greece alongside huge hoard of treasure including gold jewellery and signet rings

Ancient Origins:
Scholar deciphers oldest known alphabet primer, in ancient Egyptian

Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists identify Temple of Hatshepsut, the female Pharaoh the ancients tried to erase

Ancient Origins:
2,400-Year-Old Healing Temple dedicated to Asclepius, God of Healing, Excavated in Greece

Daily Mail:
Is this the legendary lost Acra of Jerusalem? Ancient fortress built by Greek king Epiphanes discovered under a car park

Daily Mail:
The 'Pompeii of the New World': ancient Salvadoran village perfectly preserved by ash reveals Mayan life 1,400 years ago

The History Blog:
1000-year-old silver hoard found on Danish island

The History Blog:
Carlo Crivelli: the best Renaissance painter you've never heard of

Daily Mail:
What REALLY killed Oliver Cromwell? Civil War leader died of a lethal combination of malaria and typhoid rather than a poisoning plot

BBC News:
Did this sleepy village stop the Black Death?

Universe Today:
Who was Christiaan Huygens?

Daily Mail:
Revealed: Mozart's sister was just as talented as the great composer - but had to stop playing so she could learn to sew and find a husband

Atlas Obscura:
Places You Can No Longer Go: Joe Mulliner's Grave

Smithsonian Magazine:
That Time When Alexander Hamilton Almost Dueled James Monroe

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Real-Life Places That Inspired Frankenstein

Gizmodo:
The World's First Bus Service Was Pulled by Horses

Daily Mail:
The very first Photoshopped picture? How image of General Ulysses S. Grant during Civil War battle was cleverly mocked up... but can you spot how?

Daily Mail:
Posing for the camera, stunning colored images show the lives of Native Americans in the 19th century, from tribal chiefs to dancers and medicine men

Daily Mail:
Painting the town red: Fascinating historic pictures reveal the exotic cabaret life inside the Moulin Rouge

Daily Mail:
The huddled masses who made America great: Ellis Island clerk's fascinating photos of immigrants who passed through his books

Atlas Obscura:
The Many Lives of Maria Rasputin, Daughter of the 'Mad Monk'

The History Blog:
Photo of iceberg that may have sunk the Titanic for sale

Daily Mail:
Cracker that survived the sinking of the Titanic is sold for $22,968 at auction in England as it's dubbed the 'most valuable' cracker in the world'

Daily Mail:
The real Winnie the Pooh: Only photograph of the cuddly toy that inspired AA Milne's creation is uncovered in a family archive

The History Blog:
Totem pole looted by John Barrymore returns home

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Town Founded By Nazis Was Just Sued for Housing Discrimination

BBC News:
The 13-year-old girl sent on a 'day-trip' to Australia

The Atlantic:
The Clash of Italian Neorealism and Classical Hollywood

Gizmodo:
The Futuristic Comic That Turned the Sunday Funnies into a Cold War Weapon

Gizmodo:
This Heroic Captain Defied His Orders and Stopped America From Starting World War III

The Atlantic:
The Room Where the Internet Was Born

BBC News:
The day Iceland's women went on strike

Gizmodo:
George Orwell's Estate Is Issuing Copyright Takedowns for the Number '1984'

Jalopnik:
This Is How The Royal Marines Will Kick The Crap Out Of You Without Ever Touching A Gun

Gizmag:
Louis Moinet? Vertalor wins Grand Prix of watches

Gizmag:
2015 Full Frame DSLR Comparison Guide

Gizmag:
In pictures: Concepts and more from the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show

Gizmag:
The 60 most valuable guitars ever sold at auction

io9:
Even the Smallest Movie Props Can Have a Huge Impact

Smithsonian Magazine:
Where Dinosaurs Walked: Eight of the Best Places to See Prehistoric Footprints

Daily Mail:
Portraits of a dying breed: Intimate pictures document the beauty and skill of the ancient art of eagle hunting in remote Kazakhstan

November 6, 2015

Universe Today:
Ion Propulsion: The Key to Deep Space Exploration

Daily Mail:
Nasa conducts MORE secret tests of its 'impossible engine': Study reveals fuel-free thrusters do work, but no one knows why

Daily Mail:
Superjet made-in-China: First look inside the C919 passenger plane as the country's home-made airliner makes its worldwide debut

Popular Science:
How Many Years Does The Space Station Have Left?

Sputnik News:
5 Reasons Why Blimps May Yet Rule the Skies

Gizmag:
World View completes major flight test of Voyager spacecraft scale replica

Sputnik News:
US Army's Black Hawk Chopper May Soon Fly Without a Pilot

Daily Mail:
Watch the drone with a mind of its OWN: Self-flying craft dips, darts and dives through trees at 30mph

Daily Mail:
Could we soon fly London to Sydney in FOUR HOURS? BAE invests in 4,000mph hybrid rocket jet engine firm

Gizmodo:
Watch how supersonic Russian bombers drop their giant cruise missiles

Jalopnik:
For Sale: 1964 Saab, Grey Import, $425,000

Jalopnik:
Vintage Vulcan Bomber's Maneuvers Being Investigated By Authorities In The UK

Gizmodo:
Newly Declassified Photos Show The Crewed USAF Spy Spacecraft That Almost Was

Gizmodo:
The New Home of the Most Exotic Bomber Ever Built Is Aerospace Heaven

Daily Mail:
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Jetman! Incredible video captures the moment two daredevils fly at speeds of up to 120mph beside the world's largest passenger plane

November 5, 2015

Daily Mail:
White House is preparing for catastrophic solar flares which could wipe out power around the world for months - bringing an end to modern civilization as we know it

Ars Technica:
1859's "Great Auroral Storm" - the week the Sun touched the earth

Discovery News:
Innovative Rail-Launched Rocket Flubs First Flight

Spaceflight Now:
Air Force declares failure on Super Strypi test launch

Spaceflight Now:
Video clips show rocket anomaly high above Hawaii

Gizmag:
ESA shortlists CubeSat concepts to accompany its Asteroid Impact Mission

Ars Technica:
Red Mars? Discovery of surface water spurs Chinese interest in lander

Daily Mail:
Where did all Mars's atmosphere go? Nasa to reveal 'key findings' on mystery of what happened to the red planet's air

Daily Mail:
Rosetta probe to 'crash land' on comet at end of its mission but spacecraft will make a softer touch down on 67P than its ill-fated Philae lander

Scientific American:
Historic Rosetta Mission to End with Crash into Comet

Daily Mail:
The biggest thing in the universe: Astronomers spot gigantic 'galaxy gathering' 8.5bn light years away

The Weather Network:
Taurid meteor shower sends fireballs shooting across the sky

AccuWeather:
Taurid Fireball Swarm in Full Swing; Big Solar Flare, Crescent Moon Joins Morning Planets; Aurora Pictures

November 4, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
Roswell: The Curious Story of Sheridan Cavitt Pt. 1

Mysterious Universe:
Roswell: The Curious Story of Sheridan Cavitt Pt. 2

Daily Mail:
Great balls of fire! Awe-inspiring dashcam footage captures the moment a huge, glowing meteor flashes across the night sky in Thailand

Gizmodo:
Photographer Caught Stunning Meteor Instead of Spooky Asteroid

Spaceflight Now:
Military communications craft likely aboard Chinese launch

Sputnik News:
Russia to Create New Space Launches Using Satan Ballistic Missiles by 2017

Space Daily:
Signs of Acid Fog Found on Mars

Astrobiology Magazine:
Probing the Mysteries of Europa, Jupiter's Cracked and Crinkled Moon

Universe Today:
Saturn's Moon Dione

Universe Today:
Uranus' "Sprightly" Moon Ariel

Universe Today:
Uranus' "Frankenstein Moon" Miranda

Universe Today:
New Visualization Shows Incredible Variety of Extraterrestrial Worlds

November 3, 2015

WCCO:
Finding Minnesota: Deputy's UFO Encounter

Space Daily:
China's first moon rover sets record for longest stay

Universe Today:
International Space Station Achieves 15 Years of Continuous Human Presence in Orbit

Universe Today:
Artificial Object in Trans-lunar Orbit to Impact Earth on November 13

Spaceflight Insider:
Russia postpones maiden flight of its Progress-MS spacecraft

Gizmag:
New analysis of Apollo lunar samples solves decades-old mystery

Universe Today:
Dawn Starts Steep Descent to Most Dazzling Orbit of Ceres

New Scientist:
First images of Enceladus's icy breath from closest ever fly-by

Discovery News:
Behold the Backlit Beauty of Distant Pluto

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Pluto's Moon Charon Has an Ammonia Leak

Discovery News:
Why Comet Oxygen is Bad for the Search for Aliens

Gizmag:
Magnetic anomaly that cast doubt on Voyager 1's entry of interstellar space explained

Astrobiology Magazine:
Voyager 1 Helps Solve Interstellar Medium Mystery

New York Times:
NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks

November 2, 2015

The Packet:
Retired RCMP officer remembers Clarenville UFO experience

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Very Bright Fireball Over Europe Last Night

EarthSky:
Watch for Taurid fireballs this week

The Guardian:
WTF is that?! The space debris and asteroids hurtling towards Earth

Sputnik News:
WTF to Careen Into Earth on Friday the 13th

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Halloween Asteroid Is Bigger Than Expected, And Also a Giant Dead Comet Skull

Discovery News:
DNews: Have Our Germy Robots Contaminated Mars?

New Scientist:
Mars is ripping its beanbag moon Phobos apart

Daily Mail:
This space isn't big enough for the both of us! Jupiter bumped giant planet OUT of the solar system four billion years ago

New Scientist:
Salt flats on Europa mean moon's ocean may come to surface

Spaceflight Insider:
Young crater discovered on Charon; Pluto crescent image released

Discovery News:
Massive Impact Mystery Revealed in Moon Gravity Maps

Air & Space Magazine:
Could the Colorado Plateau Be an Ancient Impact Scar?

HALLOWEEN WEEKEND EDITION: October 31 through November 1, 2015

Gizmag:
It's alive! Zombie-proof cabin hits Kickstarter

San Bernardino Sun:
Report: San Bernardino, Los Angeles counties doomed in zombie apocalypse

Ancient Origins:
Ten Creepy Images of the Shrunken Heads of Ecuador

Mysterious Universe:
Engulfed in Blue Flames: When Spontaneous Human Combustion Strikes

C-Net:
Wolves among us: Five real-life werewolves from history

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Brief History of the Haunted House

Los Angeles Times:
Digging up the ghosts of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion ride

Atlas Obscura:
Are There Still Real Skeletons In Disneyland's "Pirates of the Caribbean"?

Atlas Obscura:
Why Can't Ghosts Let Go of the Victorian Era?

Jezebel:
How the Inventions of the 19th Century Brought People Closer to Talking with the Dead

Atlas Obscura:
The Teen Girls Who Talked to the Dead

Ancient Origins:
Edgar Allan Poe: Was Mary Rogers his Muse or his Murder Victim?

io9:
5 Gruesome Real-Life Murders That Inspired Spooky Ghost Stories

Live Science:
10 of the Spookiest Haunted Houses in America

Business Insider:
The 13 scariest real haunted houses in America

The Pioneer-Press:
10 haunted St. Paul sites to tingle your spine this Halloween

Playbill:
Scandals and Secrets of the Supernatural: The Stories Behind Broadway's Haunted Theatres

Atlas Obscura:
The Fin-de-Siecle Paris Theater Whose Performances Were Literally Torturous

The Guardian:
Inside the world's most haunted theatre

Daily Mail:
Inside the REAL haunted houses: From aggrieved murder victims to phantom monks, Britain's spookiest homes revealed (and unsurprisingly most are up for sale)

Evening Standard:
London's most haunted pubs

Wales Online:
9 haunted places in Wales where you can stay overnight

Domain News:
The stories behind Australia's most haunted houses

Royal Central:
Ghosts of Glamis: tales from Glamis Castle

The Scotsman:
Where to find Scotland's most notorious ghosts

Irish News:
Northern Frights at Halloween - Gateway to Hell in Co Antrim

Irish News:
Northern Frights at Halloween - The Coalisland Hitchhiker

Irish News:
Northern Frights at Halloween - The Cooneen Poltergeist

Irish News:
Northern Frights at Halloween - The Vampire of Co Derry

Bournemouth Echo:
Ghost stories: The "vampire" of Tarrant Gunville

Royal Central:
Stories of the Stuarts: The Pendle Witches

The Scotsman:
Five of Scotland's infamous witchcraft trials

The Atlantic:
How Satan Came to Salem

Tewksbury Town Crier:
Salem Witch Trials touched Tewksbury and Wilmington lives

Smithsonian Magazine:
Unraveling the Many Mysteries of Tituba, the Star Witness of the Salem Witch Trials

Atlas Obscura:
The Decapitated Saints Who Still Managed to Hold Their Heads Up

Atlas Obscura:
The Story Behind the World's Most Terrifying Haunted Doll

Ancient Origins:
The Disturbing True Story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin

Bournemouth Echo:
Ghost stories: Who was the mystery pilot of RAF Warmwell?

October 30, 2015

Daily Mail:
Military blimp CRASHES into Pennsylvania woodland after breaking free in Maryland, dragging 6,700 feet of cable north and taking out 30,000 people's power on the way

Daily Mail:
Palace in the skies that can swallow a YACHT: Plans unveiled for luxury blimp big enough to lug a 55-tonne ship across the oceans - and still fit in 20 beds and a ballroom

Space Daily:
Chinese Helium Airships to Hunt for Enemy Aircraft

Daily Mail:
Project Loon gets ready for global lift off: Google plans to have a 'ring' of internet balloons encircling the Earth by next year

Daily Mail:
London to New York in half an hour? Skreemr concept could travel FIVE times faster than Concorde

Daily Mail:
The plasma engine that could take humans to Mars on a single tank: Breakthrough in Hall thrusters could see them power deep space missions

Daily Mail:
The $80 billion bomber that will replace the B-2: Air Force picks Northrop Grumman to build next generation stealth aircraft that could even fly without a pilot

The Aviationist:
Never before seen High Definition air-to-air footage of a USAF B-2 stealth bomber

Jalopnik:
Image Emerges Of What Could Be A Chinese Knock-Off Of Russia's Su-34 Fullback

Gizmodo:
Here's what it's like to rent a MiG-29 to fly you above the clouds in the stratosphere

Air & Space Magazine:
The Fastest Man Alive -- in 1934

The Aviationist:
Impressive video shows a B-36 strategic bomber buzzing Forth Worth roofs

Gizmodo:
Watch the Last Flight of a Legendary British Bomber Plane

io9:
For Sale: Two Satellites, Lightly Used

io9:
These Metal Spiders Taught Astronauts to Land the Lunar Module on the Moon

Gizmodo:
This Globe-Within-a-Globe is Essential to Navigating in Space

October 29, 2015

New Scientist:
Rosetta's comet has oxygen made before the solar system's birth

Daily Mail:
Rosetta's 'Most surprising discovery so far': Researchers stunned to find comet surrounded by OXYGEN

Discovery News:
Rosetta's Comet Spews Molecular Oxygen Surprise

Universe Today:
How to See the Spooktacular Halloween Flyby of Asteroid 2015 TB145

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
A Piece of Cosmic Debris Will Hit Earth on Nov. 13 ... but A) We're Safe, and 2) It's One of Ours

The Guardian:
The final countdown: British space pioneer ready for blast-off

Spaceflight Now:
Cassini survives daring flight through plumes of Enceladus

Spaceflight Now:
Dawn spacecraft moves in for a close-up of Ceres

Universe Today:
New Horizons Maneuvers Toward Potential Kuiper Belt Target

Astrobiology Magazine:
The Exoplanet Era

Daily Mail:
Extreme solar storms battered Earth 1,000 years ago - and if they strike again they could cause widespread blackouts

October 28, 2015

MPR News:
The real-life UFO story behind this season of 'Fargo'

Sputnik News:
Russia Slates Manned Moon Landing for 2029

Spaceflight Now:
Bags are packed inside Cygnus commercial cargo freighter

Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's Orion moves on to full-scale assembly and testing

Daily Mail:
Monkeys are heading to MARS: Russian scientists are training macaques to solve puzzles so they can travel to space in 2017

Discovery News:
Could a Moon Fuel Stop Make Mars Missions Cheaper?

Discovery News:
Cassini Zeros in on Daring Dive into Enceladus' Plumes

Astrobiology Magazine:
Seven Key Facts About Cassini's Oct. 28 'Plume Dive'

io9:
This Clever Short Film Reveals the "Truth" About Crop Circles

October 27, 2015

Scientific American:
Mysterious Space Junk Will Plunge to Earth in November

The Inquistr:
WTF UFO: Unknown Space Object Dubbed WT1190F On Collision Course With Earth

Spaceflight Now:
Assembly complete for NASA's asteroid sample return spacecraft

Space Daily:
Maneuver directs New Horizons towards next potential target

Universe Today:
Saturn's Moon Rhea

Universe Today:
Saturn's Moon Tethys

Universe Today:
Saturn's "Death-Star" Moon Mimas

Space Daily:
Watch worn by US astronaut on Moon sells for $1.6 mn

October 26, 2015

YLE News:
Huge fireball sighted over western Finland

Discovery News:
Halloween Asteroid May Actually Be a Comet

Discovery News:
Russia starts moon base collaboration with European Space Agency

Discovery News:
To Get to Mars, Pit Stop at the Moon

Discovery News:
Hubble Sees 'First Light' Galaxies at Dawn of Time

Daily Mail:
Pluto's family portrait is complete: New Horizons captures image of tiny double-lobed moon of Kerberos

Discovery News:
Comet Lovejoy Holds Building Blocks of Life

Scientific American:
Computers Would Never Have Found "Alien Superstructure" Star--It Required Citizen Science

Daily Mail:
Is ET a ROBOT? Astronomer Royal believes aliens have transitioned from organic forms to machines - and humans will do the same

WEEKEND EDITION: October 24 through October 25, 2015

Scientific American:
How Einstein Revealed the Universe's Strange "Nonlocality"

Daily Mail:
Einstein was wrong: Groundbreaking test reveals spooky 'quantum entanglement' phenomenon IS real

Universe Today:
Will Minds Appear in the Cosmos?

Discovery News:
Wormhole Wonders: Hunting Down Spacetime Shortcuts

Gizmodo:
The Earthworm's Surprising Superpowers Inspired This Biomimetic Worm-Bot

Smithsonian Magazine:
Big Quakes Can Trigger Other Shakes Thousands of Miles Away

Gizmodo:
Satellite Images Reveal a Massive 60 Million-Ton Avalanche in Canada

Daily Mail:
Life on Earth began 'almost instantaneously' 300 MILLION years earlier than we thought, claim scientists

Daily Mail:
Bacteria 'TALK' to each other: Microbes communicate by exchanging electrical signals like brain cells

Smithsonian Magazine:
These Are the Oldest Known Flowers in the World

Daily Mail:
Triassic park! Researchers find dozens of weird dinosaurs in Utah including giant fanged pterosaur that would 'freak you out of your mind'

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Long-Necked Dinosaurs Pumped Blood to Their Brains

Live Science:
Dinosaur's Tail Whips Could Have Cracked Sound Barrier

Live Science:
Meet Jane, the Most Complete Adolescent T. Rex Ever Found

National Geographic:
New Giant Tortoise Species Found on Galapagos Islands

Gizmodo:
These Are the First Baby Giant Squid Ever Discovered

io9:
Bears are Not Subtle

Daily Mail:
Prehistoric man dined on SNAIL PORRIDGE: Molluscs were on the menu at least 150,000 years ago and special 'drills' were used to extract the meat from shells

Ancient Origins:
The Lady of Arlanpe: First Paleolithic Venus of the Iberian Peninsula?

Smithsonian Magazine:
What the Heck is Cuneiform, Anyway?

Daily Mail:
Can you crack the INDUS CODE? Scientists baffled by ancient carvings of mysterious civilisation that invented the toilet - and had no army

Ancient Origins:
4,000-Year-Old Hidden Tunnel Discovered in Ancient Castle in Turkey

Daily Mail:
1,200-year-old Viking sword is found lying at the side of the road in Norway - in such good condition it could be used today

The History Blog:
Bronze Age weapon cache found on Scottish island

Daily Mail:
Ancient tombs in Cyprus reveal stunning treasures: Luxury items shed light on trade routes in Europe 2,400 years ago

The History Blog:
Imperial ramp of Domitian opens to public

Smithsonian Magazine:
Drink in History at the World's Oldest Court

The History Blog:
Florida's only prehistoric saltwater canoe goes on display

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Genius of Venice

Smithsonian Magazine:
There's an Elephant Buried Underneath the Vatican

Ancient Origins:
330 Years of Unknown History: The Oldest Road in America Finally Surfaces

The History Blog:
Jefferson-era chemistry hearth found in UVA's Rotunda

Smithsonian Magazine:
Retracing Slavery's Trail of Tears

The History Blog:
Dutch Royal Barge restored and on display

Smithsonian Magazine:
For Sale: Edith Wharton's $16,500 Baby Rattle

Smithsonian Magazine:
That Time When Custer Stole a Horse

Daily Mail:
America's Million Dollar Princesses: The real-life Downton-style unions with English aristocracy that produced Princess Diana, Churchill and put the Queen on the throne

Daily Mail:
Take a tour through New York... in 1910: Astonishing images show how different life used to be in the Big Apple

Daily Mail:
Mystery of who killed the Red Baron is finally solved: Final moments of fearsome German flyer are described for the first time in an eye-witness account that has come to light after almost 100 years

io9:
Watch The 1939 World's Fair Come To Life In This Documentary

Smithsonian Magazine:
Disney's "Fantasia" Was Initially a Critical and Box-Office Failure

Gizmag:
Original Apple 1 computer up for grabs at auction

Kotaku:
Happy 30th Birthday, Nintendo Entertainment System

Smithsonian Magazine:
Thirty Years Later, We Still Don't Truly Know Who Betrayed These Spies

Smithsonian Magazine:
Jacques Pepin Donates a Hand-Painted Menu From His Last Supper With Julia Child

Smithsonian Magazine:
An Exclusive Look at the Greatest Haul of Native American Artifacts, Ever

Gizmag:
1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB sells for $10 million

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Art and Design Behind Pixar's Animation

Gizmodo:
Fantastically edited video combines Hitchcock and Kubrick films into one world (NSFW)

Atlas Obscura:
The Hollow Earth Is Filled With Giants, Germans, and A Little Sun

October 23, 2015

Daily Mail:
The Martian gets a step closer: Nasa gives go ahead to world's biggest rocket that will put man on the red planet

Daily Mail:
The final frontier for HACKERS: Experts reveal hi-tech extra-terrestrial cyberbattles to control surveillance satellites

Daily Mail:
Lockheed Martin reveals it has been secretly testing 'supersonic' laser turret for fighter jets

Daily Mail:
The new Air Force One kitted out with improved nuclear defenses to fend off heat-seeking missiles and resist nuclear blasts under plans being finalized with Boeing

Air & Space Magazine:
Airplanes Seeking Good Home

Air & Space Magazine:
Aviation Town, USA

Jalopnik:
The F-4 Phantom's Manufacturer Wanted To Give It Swing-Wings

Spaceflight Insider:
Celebrating a storied history in the heavens: 10th anniversary of the final Titan

io9:
NASA Considered an Inflatable Donut for a Space Habitat

io9:
This Crazy Patchwork of Restraints Ultimately Led to Modern Pressurized Spacesuits

October 22, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
Planning For Man-Made Flying Saucers, Pt. 1

Mysterious Universe:
Planning For Man-Made Flying Saucers, Pt. 2

Space Daily:
US and Russia bicker over satellite positioning in Earth's orbit

Universe Today:
Scientists Want ExoMars Rover to Land at Oxia Planum

Universe Today:
Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus

New Scientist:
First Earth-mass planet around nearest star may be an illusion

Daily Mail:
Our galaxy in one 46BILLION pixel picture: Explore the biggest ever interactive image of the Milky Way ever made

National Geographic:
China's Floating City and The Science of Mirages

National Geographic:
Space Archaeologists Search For Dead Alien Civilizations

October 21, 2015

Daily Mail:
Remnants of Halley's Comet set to light up the night: Orionid shooting stars will blaze across the world's skies this week

Space Daily:
New Details Emergy About China's Military Space Program

Sputnik News:
Europe-Russia Lunar Mission Will Make Them Friends Again - German Media

Spaceflight Now:
NASA to post new 'blue marble' pictures every day

Astrobiology Magazine:
Most Earth-Like Worlds Have Yet to Be Born, According to Theoretical Study

Discovery News:
Earth Bloomed Early: A Fermi Paradox Solution?

Discovery News:
DNews: Kepler 'Alien Megastructure': What We Know and What We Don't

October 20, 2015

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
For the cost of a New Year's Eve bash ...

Baltimore Post:
The Presidents and UFOs: A Secret History from FDR to Obama

Daily Mail:
Nasa predicts 'near miss' with scary asteroid on Halloween (but don't panic, it will still be 310,000 miles away)

Wired - Bad Astronomy:
An American Record in Space

Space Daily:
The Last Tiangong

Universe Today:
SpaceX Sets Ambitious Falcon 9 'Return to Flight' Agenda with Dual December Blastoffs

Universe Today:
Why Don't We See the Curiosity Rover's Arm When it Takes a Selfie?

Universe Today:
Opportunity Rover Prospecting for Water Altered Minerals at Crater Rim in Marathon Valley

Universe Today:
Jupiter's Moon Ganymede

Universe Today:
Jupiter's Moon Callisto

Discovery News:
These Bacteria Could Live in Europa's Ocean

Spaceflight Now:
Cassini transmits home first views of Enceladus' north pole

AccuWeather:
'Popular' Orionid Meteor Shower to Peak in the Night Sky This Week

Universe Today:
The 2015 Orionids: Watch the Meteors Fly from the Club of Orion

October 19, 2015

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Radar's great, but we want Reptilians

Gizmodo:
This Is Europe's First Mercury-Bound Mission Craft, Due to Launch 2017

Air & Space Magazine:
ExoMars: A Crabwalking Rover With a Chance to Find Life

Popular Science:
What Will The Next Chinese Spaceship Look Like?

Astrobiology Magazine:
Study questions dates for cataclysms on early moon, Earth

Discovery News:
Curiosity's Ancient Wet Mars Adventure: Photos

Universe Today:
Curiosity Snaps 'Big Sky' Drill Site Selfie at Martian Mountain Foothill

io9:
Everything That Could go Wrong for Hayabusa Did, and Yet it Still Succeeded

Astrobiology Magazine:
What smacks into Ceres stays on Ceres

Universe Today:
Cassini's Close Flyby of Enceladus Yields Surprising, Perplexing Imagery

Discovery News:
Cassini Buzzes Enceladus, Captures Stunning Photos

Spaceflight Insider:
Cassini studies activity on Enceladus in three separate flybys

Universe Today:
Thousands of Pits Punctuate Pluto's Forbidding Plains in Latest Photos

New Scientist:
Icy plains and snakeskin terrain among Pluto's lingering puzzles

Discovery News:
Kepler's 'Bizarre' Signal Sparks Alien Intelligence Speculation

WEEKEND EDITION: October 17 through October 18, 2015

Forbes:
The Science Of Alternate Worlds

Universe Today:
How Are Galaxies Moving Away Faster Than Light?

Gizmodo:
Scientists Shove Robots Off Their Feet to Teach Them How to Fall With Grace

Gizmag:
Drone plots a map through uneven terrain, which walking robot then follows

Atlas Obscura:
These Fairytale Trees Only Grow at Incredible Altitudes

Daily Mail:
Dinosaurs sunned themselves for bursts of energy and were both warm AND cold blooded, researchers say

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?

Daily Mail:
The prehistoric hoover: 23 million-year-old fossils reveal how giant hippo-like creature used its snout to suck up food

Daily Mail:
Save our hedgehogs! Numbers have plummeted from 36.5 million to less than 1 million in just 65 years

BBC News:
The bird that's more valuable than ivory

Stuff NZ:
Beasts like the auroch released to wild

BBC News:
The polar bears are coming to town

Daily Mail:
Koko and her kittens: Watch the extraordinary moment a gentle gorilla adopts two tiny cats and showers them with cuddles - because she doesn't have babies of her own

Daily Mail:
Ancient tools suggest people lived in Scotland 3,000 years EARLIER than first thought and inhabited the region during the Ice Age

Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists Claim to have Discovered the Location of the Biblical City of Sodom

Ancient Origins:
Vast Eurasian Migration Back to Africa Revealed by Bones of 4,500-year-old Ethiopian Man

Ancient Origins:
2,400-Year-Old Aristocrat Family Tomb Uncovered in Cyprus Sheds Light on Ancient Soloi

Ancient Origins:
13th century rock carving of yogi in self-realization pose discovered in India

The History Blog:
Agincourt thank-you sceptre to go on display

Daily Mail:
The hunt for the Holy Ghost: One of Henry V's four 'great' warships is found buried in mud in Hampshire river after historian spotted it in an aerial photograph

The History Blog:
16th c. canvas mural restored to original splendor

Atlas Obscura:
FOUND: The Earliest Known Draft of the King James Bible

The History Blog:
Woman executed for witchcraft 299 years ago may get new trial

Atlas Obscura:
Meet the Self-Appointed King of Victorian Rat-Catchers

Daily Mail:
Never-before-seen eye-witness account of the iceberg that sank the Titanic which talks of the 'red-paint' scraped onto the floe from the doomed liner

Atlas Obscura:
Wehrmann in Eisen Nail Man

Outside Online:
The Cursed, Buried City That May Never See The Light of Day

The History Blog:
Spitfire excavation suspended when human remains found

Atlas Obscura:
How The Army Handled Cultural Sensitivity Training in WWII

Daily Mail:
The top secret facility buried 300-feet below Grand Central that held the key to WW2: How Hitler tried and failed to destroy the room known as M42...which was only de-classified in the 1980s

Gizmodo:
The US Issued Special Banknotes in Case Japan Invaded Hawaii

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story of the First Mass Murder in U.S. History

Gizmodo:
Time Capsule Found at 1950s Mental Hospital, Contains Film With Message For the Future

Slate:
A Farmer's Powerful Advice to His Gay Son in 1959: "Don't Sneak."

Smithsonian Magazine:
Gary Powers Kept a Secret Diary With Him After He Was Captured by the Soviets

Slate:
Alcatraz inmates escaped alive and fled to Brazil: family

Daily Mail:
India's technicolor temples: Dazzling pyramids that are an explosion of vibrant shades and 33,000 sculptures

Atlas Obscura:
Places You Can No Longer Go: The Navigation Trees

Gizmag:
2015 Action Camera Comparison Guide

Gizmag:
October collectible motorcycle auction preview

Gizmag:
Bonhams scientific instruments sale preview includes rare Enigma machine

October 16, 2015

Popular Science:
5 Exciting Technologies NASA's Developing So We Can Make It To Mars And Back

Daily Mail:
Is this the future of hypersonic travel? Designer firm reveals vision for Airbus' Concorde 2 that could fly from New York to London in just one hour

Daily Mail:
The end of heavy metal: Boeing shows off material that is 99.99% AIR and could lead to new generation of planes and spaceships

Gizmodo:
How the US Air Force reloads the largest combat jet gun on the planet

Gizmodo:
Watch Teddy Roosevelt's First Aeroplane Flight, 105 Years Ago Today

Gizmodo:
The amazingly difficult landings of the U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane

Air & Space Magazine:
More than Half a Century After Bridge of Spies, the U-2 Is Still Flying

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
If an Apollo Lunar Module Crashed on the Moon, Could NASA Investigate the Cause? (1967)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
North American Aviation's 1965 Plan to Rescue Apollo Astronauts Stranded in Lunar Orbit

Atlas Obscura:
The World Wingsuit Grand Prix Will Determine Who Is The Greatest Human Bird

October 15, 2015

Spaceflight Insider:
India's first space observatory in good shape, performing science operations

Daily Mail:
Astronaut trials gravity-mimicking SkinSuit on ISS: Next-generation clothing inspired by Olympics could prevent backache in space

New Scientist:
First pocket rockets take tiny satellites for a spin

Daily Mail:
Mars' South Pole captured on camera: Stunning image reveals rarely seen ice cap of frozen water and carbon dioxide

Discovery News:
Did Comets Spark Alien Life in Europa's Oceans?

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Did Astronomers Find Evidence of an Alien Civilization? (Probably Not. But Still Cool.)

October 14, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
The Something That Fell To Earth: 1965

Hallifax Chronicle Herald:
DEMONT: The mystery of Shag Harbour, 48 years on

Spaceflight Now:
Proton rolled out for launch of Turkish satellite

Sputnik News:
Russian Rocket Engine Delivery to China May Be Agreed by December

Discovery News:
Mars Pebbles Carried for Miles by River

Discovery News:
Hubble's Stunning Jupiter Maps Reveal Weird Structures

Space Daily:
Cassini Begins Series of Flybys of Enceladus

October 13, 2015

Sioux Falls Argus Leader:
Dozens say a meteor fell over S.D. Sunday night

Spaceflight Insider:
Vulcan's hammer: United Launch Alliance lofts secretive NROL-55 mission

Spaceflight Insider:
International docking standard receives update

New Scientist:
China has had a telescope on the moon for the past two years

Discovery News:
NASA: What We Have To Do To Get to Mars

Discovery News:
Is Stephen Hawking Right About Hostile Aliens?

October 12, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
The Kelly-Hopkinsville Aliens ... and the CIA

Mysterious Universe:
The Cash-Landrum Incident: Was a Nuclear Aircraft Involved?

Spaceflight Insider:
Skywalking: Did UFOs visit STS-80 Columbia?

Daily Express:
Near miss: Giant asteroid TWO MILES wide travelling at 40,000mph zooms past Earth

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: California's predawn liftoff of Atlas 5 rocket

Daily Mail:
Curiosity rover finds crater it is exploring was once a giant Martian LAKE that may have been teeming with life

Universe Today:
Curiosity Rover Confirms Ancient Lake Filled Gale Crater, Boosting Chance of Life

Discovery News:
Mars Rover Finds Gale Crater was Once a Big Lake

Gizmodo:
Ancient Mars Was Wetter and Warmer Than We Ever Realized

Astrobiology Magazine:
New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto

Spaceflight Now:
Skies are blue and water ice is red on Pluto

Discovery News:
Pluto: A World of Blue Skies and Red Ice

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Pluto: An Alternate History

Smithsonian Magazine:
Space Rock Hunters Are About to Invade Antarctica

io9:
This Lovely Claymation Video Will Help You Make Sense of Asteroids, Comets and Meteorites

WEEKEND EDITION: October 10 through October 11, 2015

Daily Mail:
Was the early universe a LIQUID? Atom smasher creates smallest ever droplets... and gives clues about the primordial soup created by the Big Bang

Discovery News:
Our Universe: It's the 'Simplest' Thing We Know

National Geographic:
Nobel Dissed and Dismissed. 10 Huge Discoveries Denied a Nobel Prize

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Not to Win a Nobel Prize

Scientific American:
12 Surprising Facts about Nobel Prizes

National Geographic:
Nobel Lauriates We'd Like To Forget

Daily Mail:
Earth's solid iron core formed a BILLION years ago and is still growing: Inner-most part of our planet was created when it 'froze'

Daily Mail:
How algae turned the world green: Ancient slime knew how to survive on land before it left water and evolved into the first plant

Astrobiology Magazine:
Discovery of Earliest Jurassic Corals

Stuff NZ:
Post-apocalyptic 'beaver' thrived after dinosaurs died

Gizmodo:
A 125-Million-Year-Old Fossil Indicates Birds Lived (And Flew) Like This

Astrobiology Magazine:
Largest dinosaur population growth study ever shows how Maiasaura lived and died

Daily Mail:
How the giraffe got its long neck: Bizarre-looking African mammal's spine stretched in bursts millions of years apart

Popular Science:
Hundreds Of New Species Found Within The Eastern Himalayas

Daily Mail:
The mystery of 'crow funerals' solved: Researchers say birds are trying to learn about potential dangers to their own lives - and remember threats for years

Daily Mail:
Did Homo naledi walk on two feet AND swing from trees? Mysterious species of man had uniquely adapted hands and feet, analysis reveals

National Geographic:
New Human Ancestor Walked Like Us, Climbed Like an Ape

ABC Australia:
Newly identified human ancestor Homo naledi handy with tools, walked like a person, scientists say

Ancient Origins:
The Feet and Hands of Homo Naledi were Similar to those of Modern Humans - Could this be the Evolutionary Link Paleontologists Were Waiting for?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Back to Africa: Ancient Human Genome Reveals Widespread Eurasian Mix

Ancient Origins:
Shrine dedicated to King Nectanebo I unearthed in Egypt

Ancient Origins:
Dig uncovers gladiatorial ring in an ancient Cilician city of Turkey

Smithsonian Magazine:
Ancient Romans in Pompeii Had 'Perfect Teeth'

Atlas Obscura:
Giant 7 - 8 Foot Skeletons Uncovered in Ecuador sent for Scientific Testing

Atlas Obscura:
Les Fetes de Gayant

Ancient Origins:
Lost Kingdom of Saguenay: Did 16th Century Canadian Indians hoax Frenchmen with Tales of Gold and Riches?

Atlas Obscura:
When The Pope Made 10 Days Disappear

Atlas Obscura:
The Scrappy Female Paleontologist Whose Life Inspired a Tongue Twister

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Train Station That Has Been Housing the World's Refugees for More Than a Century

Smithsonian Magazine:
Alexander Gardner Saw Himself as an Artist, Crafting the Image of War in All Its Brutality

Washington Post:
Lincoln assassination emerges in painting from 150 years of grime

Daily Mail:
A humble wooden chair that was gifted to a photographer by Abraham Lincoln and subsequently used to snap five U.S. presidents has emerged for sale for $250,000

Smithsonian Magazine:
How the U.S. Army Saved Our National Parks

Jezebel:
How Harry Houdini and Scientific American Fought the Fake Mediums of the 1920s

The History Blog:
Tintin drawing earns $1.23 million at Hong Kong auction

Gizmodo:
Yale Just Released 170,000 Incredible Photos of Depression-Era America

The History Blog:
Original drawings of Nazi booby trap bombs found

Mysterious Universe:
Operation Mincemeat and the Man Who Never Was

Air & Space Magazine:
Happy Birthday, Dummies

Jalopnik:
What It's Like To Drive The Worst Car Ever Built

Atlas Obscura:
The American Government's Sears-for-Spying Payment Plan

Atlas Obscura:
These Atomic Tourists Have Visited 160 Forgotten Nuclear Sites Across the U.S.

Jalopnik:
Countdown To Zero Day Reveals The Terrifying World Of Cyber Warfare, Past, Present And Future

BBC News:
London's Underground languages

Atlas Obscura:
A Monster Auction of Ray Harryhausen's Cinematic Objects

Atlas Obscura:
A Hot Take on the Steamy History of the Jacuzzi

io9:
How Pixar Changed All The Rules To Make The Good Dinosaur A Stunning Masterpiece

October 9, 2015

Air & Space Magazine:
Need a Satellite Link? Call the 117th Space Battalion

Sputnik News:
Deadly Illusions: Holographic Missiles and Laser Camouflage Coming Soon

Daily Mail:
Pilots who eject from new $350billion stealth fighter 'will break their necks' in chilling echo of Top Gun scene

Jalopnik:
These Riveting Photos Show How Russia's Su-34 Fullback Fighter-Bombers Get Built

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Rise and Fall of the Plane "Anyone Could Fly"

io9:
This Wind Tunnel Tested Everything from WWII Fighters to Moon Rockets

io9:
All Hail Sputnik, the First Robotic Overlord to Orbit our Planet

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Re-Purposing Mercury: Recoverable Space Observatory (1964)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
The Martian Adventure: Dyna-Soar's Martian Cousin (1960)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
The Martian Adventure: Gumdrops on Mars (1966)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
The Martian Adventure: Peeling Away the Layers of Mars (1966)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
The Martian Adventure: To Mars by Way of Eros (1966)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
The Martian Adventure: Humans on Mars in 1995 (1980-1981)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Failure Was an Option: Lunar Accident Site Investigation (1967)

Atlas Obscura:
Object of Intrigue: The Falcon Feather on the Moon

Gizmodo:
All the rockets that have carried humans to space in history

October 8, 2015

Inverse:
What the 1965 UFO Sighting at Edwards Air Force Base Means 50 Years Later

Daily Mail:
US East Coast glows red, green, and blue after Nasa launches a sounding rocket to study the ionosphere

Spaceflight Now:
Quartet of Earth imaging satellites launched from China

Spaceflight Insider:
China launches four Jilin-1 Earth-observing satellites into space

Spaceflight Insider:
ULA prepares to send classified NROL-55 spacecraft to orbit

Universe Today:
The Next Generation of Exploration: Back to Venus with VERITAS

Spaceflight Insider:
NASA Glenn developing enhanced communications for future Mars missions

Popular Science:
U.S. May Continue Riding Russian Rockets To Space

Gizmodo:
Something Strange Is Going On With the Shadows in This Picture of the Moon's Pole

Popular Science:
Should We Search For Life On Mars Before Sending Astronauts?

Scientific American:
Astronomers Spy Unexplained Ripples Racing Through Infant Solar System

Accuweather:
First of Two October Meteor Showers to Peak Thursday as Draconids Shimmer in the Night Sky

National Geographic:
Spectacular Meteor Shower This Week: How to See It

October 7, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Intel-gathering spacecraft launch on Atlas 5 scheduled for Thursday

Discovery News:
DNews: Earth is Ever So Slowly Crushing the Moon

Discovery News:
Why Haven't we Returned to Venus' Hellish Surface?

Discovery News:
Could This Tough Bacteria Survive on Mars?

Discovery News:
DNews: Water on Mars: Everything You Need to Know

New Scientist:
Craters and canyons hint at violent past of Pluto's moon Charon

Discovery News:
Pluto's Moon Charon is Battered, Bruised and Beautiful

Universe Today:
Is Jupiter Our Friend Or Enemy?

Daily Mail:
One giant glimpse into the Apollo missions: Nasa releases almost 10,000 stunning never-before-seen images to Flickr

October 6, 2015

Fremont County 10:
Last weekend's "Bright Green Flash" was an exploding meteor, astronomy buff said

Universe Today:
The Next Generation of Exploration: The DAVINCI Spacecraft

Scientific American:
NASA Considers New Robotic Missions to Venus and Asteroids

Scientific American:
Human Missions to Mars Will Look Completely Different from The Martian

Scientific American:
How Our View of Mars Has Changed from Lush Oasis to Arid Desert

Discovery News:
Mars Water: Follow the Toxic Stream to Find Alien Life

Discovery News:
Oxygen-Rich Exoplanets Doesn't Equal Alien Life

Universe Today:
More livable than Earth? New index sizes up the habitability of alien exoplanets

Scientific American:
Interstellar Travel as Delusional Fantasy [Excerpt]

October 5, 2015

National Public Radio:
Boyhood Encounter With UFO Inspired Art That Soared Around The World

New York Times:
Ionel Talpazan, Whose U.F.O. Art Had Sightings All Over, Dies at 60

Vulture:
Ionel Talpazan, Master UFO Painter, 1955-2015

The Bend Bulletin:
UFO encounter inspired Ionel Talpazan's artwork

Stuff NZ/Southland Times:
Southland man spots possible meteor strike

Spaceflight Insider:
U.S. and Russia to resume talks on joint mission to Venus

Spaceflight Now:
Russian resupply vessel blasts off from Kazakhstan

Spaceflight Insider:
Progress M-29M launches, docks to ISS with fresh supplies

Discovery News:
Where is it Possible for Alien Life in the Solar System? Photos

Air & Space Magazine:
Don't Let Oxygen Fool You

Air & Space Magazine:
"Hi! I'm from Earth!"

WEEKEND EDITION: October 3 through October 4, 2015

Quanta Magazine:
A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics

The Atlantic:
Standing the Test of Time (and Space)

Daily Mail:
Was Einstein WRONG? Astronomers spend 11 years hunting for gravitational waves...but find nothing

The New Yorker:
Two Paths Toward Our Robot Future

Quartz:
Robots are about as bad as humans at assembling IKEA furniture

CNN:
This robotic chimp could one day roam the moon

Popular Science:
Ancient Volcano Collapse Caused A Tsunami With An 800-Foot Wave

Stuff NZ:
Scientists worried about cold 'blob' in the North Atlantic Ocean

Nature World Report:
It took both an asteroid and volcanoes to knock out dinosaurs

Astrobiology Magazine:
Study adds to evidence that viruses may be alive

Gizmodo:
Climate Change Killed Earth's Crocodilians, and It Could Bring Them Back, Too

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Biggest Dinosaur to Walk the Earth Will Soon Be in a Museum

Daily Mail:
What ancient animals REALLY looked like: Fossilized fur reveals colour of 49-million-year-old bats

National Geographic:
Fish Can Recognize Faces, a Surprisingly Human Skill

Stuff NZ:
First sighting of glowing sea turtle

io9:
Watch an octopus instantly make quicksand and then completely disappear in it

National Geographic:
What's Next For Yellowstone's Grizzlies?

The History Blog:
New clay tablet adds 20 lines to Epic of Gilgamesh

National Geographic:
Inspection of King Tut's Tomb Reveals Hints of Hidden Chambers

Daily Mail:
Tutankhamun's tomb could contain TWO hidden rooms: Secret doors may lead to his mother's burial chamber, claims study

National Geographic:
Photo Album: King Tut, Queen Nefertiti, and One Tangled Family Tree

Daily Mail:
Massive underground complex in Greece WASN'T Alexander the Great's tomb: Huge monument was tribute to his closest friend and trusted general

Smithsonian Magazine:
Antikythera Shipwreck Yields New Cache of Ancient Treasures

Atlas Obscura:
Uncloaking the Origins of Collegiate Secret Societies

Smithsonian Magazine:
Gold Rush California Was Much More Expensive Than Today's Tech-Boom California

Houston Chronicle:
Lost photo of Jesse James, assassin Robert Ford is found, authenticated

Atlas Obscura:
Seeing Double: Extraordinary Stereographs From the 1800s

National Geographic:
A Look at the Titanic Artifacts Going to Auction This Week

Daily Mail:
The Queen's uncle and the bravest last stand: Choking on gas, blown up, riddled with bullets... heroics of the Queen Mum's brother revealed 100 years after his death

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Helen Keller Experienced Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Nazis Wanted to Beat the British With Exploding Chocolate Bars

Oregon Public Broadcasting:
My Grandfather And The Plane That Changed Seattle

BBC News:
Why Warhol painted Barbie

BBC News:
The Vocabularist: How the word paparazzi was chosen

Smithsonian Magazine:
When Art Fought the Law and the Art Won

Gizmag:
110 year-old electric car sells for $95,000

Atlas Obscura:
The Duke, the Landscape Architect and the World's Most Ambitious Attempt to Bring the Cosmos to Earth

October 2, 2015

Daily Mail:
Thunderbirds are go! Boeing designs cargo plane that looks remarkably like the TV show's famous green heavy-lifting aircraft

Jalopnik:
Everyone Who Wanted More F-22s Is Being Proven Right

Scientific American:
Aircraft Communication, 1915

Jalopnik:
The Navy Finally Says Goodbye To The Tubby Little T-2 Buckeye Jet Trainer

Jalopnik:
The Time A Tanker Saved A Fighter That Was Falling Apart Over The Atlantic

Air & Space Magazine:
Meet the Howards

io9:
More Sad Remains Of The Soviet Buran Space Shuttle Program

Air & Space Magazine:
The Evolution of Space Art

Gizmodo:
This totally crazy wingsuit video made me stop breathing

October 1, 2015

Stuff NZ:
Mars' water kills rover's curiosity

Space Daily:
Rover's Current Location Makes Communications a Challenge

Universe Today:
Mobile Launcher Upgraded to Launch NASA's Mammoth 'Journey to Mars' Rocket

Stuff NZ:
Scientists to test Earth-saving theory by crashing into asteroid

Scientific American:
Chelyabinsk Meteor Played 4.5 Billion Years of Cosmic Pinball

Collect Space:
Only privately-owned astronaut wristwatch worn on the moon heads to auction

September 30, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
The Curious Caper of the Charlton Crater, Pt. 1

Mysterious Universe:
The Curious Caper of the Charlton Crater, Pt. 2

Mysterious Universe:
5 Reasons Why the Discovery of Water on Mars Changes Everything

Discovery News:
So Liquid Water Flows on Mars -- Now What?

io9:
This is Video Highlights How Incredibly Slowly Philae Landed on its Comet

Discovery News:
Rosetta's Comet is Actually 2 Comets Glued Together

New Scientist:
Rosettawatch: Onion layers prove 67P is a slow-mo comet mash-up

Universe Today:
Jupiter's Moon Europa

September 29, 2015

Daily Mail:
Mars mystery SOLVED: Nasa confirms bizarre 'dark finger' marks on the red planet ARE signs of water flowing beneath the surface of the planet that once had seas bigger than the Arctic Ocean

New Scientist:
Salty water seen flowing on Mars, not far from Curiosity rover

Spaceflight Now:
NASA confirms intermittent water flows on Mars

Universe Today:
NASA Discovers Salty Liquid Water Flows Intermittently on Mars Today, Bolstering Chance for Life

Discovery News:
When Liquid Water Gushes on Mars: Photos

Spaceflight Now:
Second new Chinese launcher flies in a week

Spaceflight Now:
India's first astronomy satellite launched into space

Spaceflight Now:
HTV supply ship sets course for re-entry

Astrobiology Magazine:
Opportunity Mars Rover Preparing for Active Winter

Universe Today:
The Sun

Discovery News:
Stunning Supermoon Eclipse Wows the World: Photos

Daily Mail:
Blood moon paints the sky red: Stargazers around the world look to the heavens to witness lunar spectacle for first time in 33 years

September 28, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
A Crashed UFO And Telephone Weirdness

York Press:
Meteor or 'space junk' spotted over York - expert says it is more likely "illuminated contrails" from a plane

Daily Mail:
Has NASA discovered an ocean on Mars? Space agency poised to announce 'major science finding' from the Red Planet

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Mars News: "Major Science Finding" To Be Announced Monday

Spaceflight Now:
Modified missile launches three Russian satellites

Gizmodo:
NASA Is Sending Bacteria to the Edge of Space to See if They Can Hitchhike to Mars

Discovery News:
How Our Lunar Understanding Has Changed Since Apollo: Photos

The Atlantic:
Moonquakes and Marsquakes

Universe Today:
India's Historic 1st Mission to Mars Celebrates 1 Year in Orbit at Red Planet

Sputnik News:
Russians to Get Rocket Fuel, Water, Oxygen from Ice on the Moon

Discovery News:
Sublime Surprise: Rosetta's Comet Cycles its Ice

Spaceflight Now:
Secrets behind Pluto's pastels far from being answered

WEEKEND EDITION: September 26 through September 27, 2015

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Theory of Relativity, Then and Now

Scientific American:
Einstein's Parable of Quantum Insanity

The Stute:
Will there ever be another Einstein?

Gizmag:
Scientists break distance record for quantum teleportation

Daily Mail:
A soldier's best friend? Marines put Google's robo-dog 'Spot' through its paces, tackling tough terrain and scouting buildings

New York Magazine:
A New Study of Robot Faces Suggests the 'Uncanny Valley' Is Real

The Daily Dot:
A robot made this painting via a series of eye gestures

Gizmag:
Vacheron Constantin creates world's most complicated watch

Quanta Magazine:
How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds

Daily Mail:
Giant 30 foot long duck billed dinosaur found in Alaska is a new species, researchers reveal (and don't worry, it was a vegetarian)

The Guardian:
Fossils of new duck-billed, plant eating dinosaur found in Alaska

Scientific American:
The Secret Lives of Horses

Daily Mail:
Giant 20-foot killer lizards roamed Australia during the last Ice Age alongside Aborigines

Scientific American:
Ancient Human Ancestors Heard Differently

National Geographic:
The World's Oldest Papyrus and What It Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids

Daily Mail:
Radar to search for Queen Nefertiti: Egypt gives go ahead to look behind King Tutankhamun's tomb to try and find grave of woman who may have been his mother

The History Blog:
Intact 4th c. B.C. Samnite tomb found in Pompeii

The History Blog:
Getty and Armenian Church reach agreement over stolen Bible pages

BBC News:
A delayed tribute to France's most famous woman artist

BBC News:
The vivid paintings that record a Briton's love of Delhi

Smithsonian Magazine:
After Giving Us a New Spin on Oz, Gregory Maguire Takes on Wonderland

The History Blog:
Garfield's terrible doctors and Alexander Graham Bell's metal detector

Daily Mail:
Now THAT's an impulse buy! Cecil Chubb bought Stonehenge for £6,600 at auction as present for his wife 100 years ago

Daily Mail:
Inside a killing machine: The ghostly century-old images of a German First World War U-Boat raised from the depths of the North Sea after it was rammed and sunk by a British warship

Daily Mail:
How Gestapo thugs waltzed into plum jobs after the war: Their horrors are well chronicled, but new book reveals a deeply shocking twist

Atlas Obscura:
How a Fake Typhus Epidemic Saved a Polish City From the Nazis

Atlas Obscura:
How a Concentration Camp Survivor and an American Huckster Created the Magic Crystals of Miracle-Gro

Smithsonian Magazine:
The History of the Bar Code

Daily Mail:
How Walt Disney helped 'blacklist' his own staff as Communists at the height of the Cold War is revealed in FBI file

Smithsonian Magazine:
Hemingway in Love

Daily Mail:
La Dolce Vita: Oozing timeless glamour, STUNNING photographs of Italy's golden era reveal why the country has been an A-lister favourite since the 1950s

BBC News:
The US defectors who became film stars in North Korea

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Twisted History of the Gateway Arch

National Geographic:
The Main Road Through the Heart of Africa Is the Congo River - For Those Who Dare to Take It

National Geographic:
Lure of the Lost City

Atlas Obscura:
Diamonds are this Park's Best Friend

Gizmag:
Rare Harley-Davidson barn find breaks auction record in Australia

Gizmag:
In pictures: SUVs, vans and other big boys of the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show

Gizmag:
In pictures: Concept cars of the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show

Gizmag:
More famous cars and bikes up for auction

Gizmag:
Life's a beach at the SandHotel

September 25, 2015

Atlas Obscura:
These Photos Will Change How You Look at Airport Towers

Daily Mail:
The glider that plans to hitch a ride to the edge of SPACE using nothing but polar air currents and 'stratospheric mountain waves'

Daily Mail:
Prototypes of new U.S. long range stealth bombers may already have been flown as spending on secret project jumps to $1bn

Daily Mail:
Lockheed Martin reveals the replacement for the iconic U-2 spy plane and says the TR-X WON'T require a pilot

Air & Space Magazine:
The Next X-Plane

Jalopnik:
This F-15E Squad's Pacific Detachment Highlight Reel Is Air Force Awesomeness

Universe Today:
Remembering the Vela Incident

Air & Space Magazine:
Have Gun, Will Dogfight

Air & Space Magazine:
Blackbird Down

Jalopnik:
Never-Seen Photos Of Boeing's 1960s Stealth Jet Concept That Predicted The Future

The Atlantic:
Moon Bloopers, a NASA Study

New Scientist:
Cosmonauts are stars of the Soviet space age show

September 24, 2015

Inverse:
What To Know About The First Alien Abduction

Fresno Bee:
Super Hornet jet's sonic boom rattles Lemoore

Space Daily:
China to rehearse new carrier rocket for lunar mission

New Scientist:
Rosettawatch: Comet 67P's weather revealed as sun melts ice

Universe Today:
Take an Astounding Aerial Flyover Tour Soaring Above Pluto's Wondrous Heart, Icy Flow Plains and Majestic Mountains

Daily Mail:
Massive meteorite shower pummeled Earth for 100 MILLION years and it changed the planet's chemistry forever, claims study

National Geographic:
The Autumn Equinox is Here! Wait, What's the Autumn Equinox?

Daily Mail:
How to watch the SUPERMOON eclipse: Rare phenomenon will be seen throughout most of the world this weekend (and some say it could spell the end of the world)

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Watch the Lunar Eclipse on Sept. 27-28!

September 23, 2015

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Hello? We're probably not here

Spaceflight Now:
Debut launch of Long March 6 deploys 20 satellites

Spaceflight Now:
China aims for landing on moon's far side by 2020

Daily Mail:
Is the Earth causing the moon to SHRINK? Gravitational pull of our planet is creating thousands of cracks on the lunar surface

Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA's MAVEN Celebrates One Year at Mars

Universe Today:
What Are The Moons of Jupiter?

Universe Today:
What Was the WOW Signal?

September 22, 2015

Space Daily:
China launches new type of carrier rocket: state media

Spaceflight Now:
Launch of European Mars mission delayed two months

Universe Today:
Construction of Crew Access Tower Starts at Atlas V Pad for Boeing 'Starliner' Taxi to ISS

Discovery News:
Killer Radiation: How to Protect Martian Astronauts

New Scientist:
Saturn's largest moon Titan could have sun-warmed swirling seas

Discovery News:
Stunning Supermoon Lunar Eclipse is Coming

Universe Today:
Rare 'Harvest Supermoon' Makes for a Super Eclipse September 27

September 21, 2015

Cincinnati Enquirer:
Column: Boone County's had its share of UFO sightings

Portsmouth Herald:
The Exeter UFO enigma

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Wanted: a refereed journal

Mysterious Universe:
New Booms Over Britain and British Columbia

Spaceflight Insider:
Chinese Long March 6 rocket orbits swarm of small satellites on maiden flight

Spaceflight Now:
Orion spacecraft may not fly with astronauts until 2023

Spaceflight Insider:
Chinese Chang'e-4 to be the first probe to land on the Moon's far side

Universe Today:
Curiosity Investigates Petrified Martian Sand Dunes, Contemplates Next Drill Campaign

Daily Mail:
Rosetta spacecraft captures dramatic changes happening on its comet's surface and scientists are baffled

Discovery News:
Fire and Ice: Tides Drive Jupiter's Ocean Moons: Photos

Discovery News:
Pluto: A Very Different Beast to Neptune's Moon Triton

Daily Mail:
From a beautiful sunset to majestic mountains: Stunning new images of Pluto reveal its 'Earth-like' landscape in incredible detail

Universe Today:
This is a Scale Model of the Solar System Like You've Never Seen Before

Sputnik News:
Robotic Snowden Says Aliens May Be Hiding Something From Us

Daily Mail:
Super-intelligent aliens could be trying to contact Earth, but humans are too stupid to pick up the signals, says Seti's top scientist

WEEKEND EDITION: September 19 through September 20, 2015

Daily Mail:
Could we PROVE parallel universes exist? Cosmologists say other dimensions may create 'signatures' that are visible in space

Scientific American:
How to See the Universe Through Neutrino Eyes

Scientific American:
2 Accelerators Find Particles That May Break Known Laws of Physics

BBC News:
Intelligent Machines: The truth behind AI fiction

BBC News:
Could you love a robot?

BBC News:
Intelligent machines: Call for a ban on robots designed as sex toys

Daily Mail:
Australia has the world's longest chain of continental volcanoes, scientists have discovered

Astrobiology Magazine:
Metal-eating microbes in African lake could solve mystery of the planet's iron deposits

io9:
It Took Seventy Years From Its Discovery for this Element to Be Isolated

Daily Mail:
Hideous knobby-faced beast was the first to stand on all fours: 260 million-year-old fossils reveal creature walked like a cow

Daily Mail:
King of clubs: Researchers reveal how the 'tank' dinosaur got its killer tail weapon (and it was actually a vegetarian)

Daily Mail:
The missing skink: Amateur wildlife photographer captures first ever pictures of snake-like lizard with tiny legs that was assumed extinct

Daily Mail:
'Living fossil' fish has a LUNG in its abdomen: Organ has no purpose and is a leftover from the bizarre creature's evolution

ABC Australia:
Rare Kimberley death adder a unique species, genetic testing reveals

Daily Mail:
Are dolphins PSYCHIC? Their complex social intelligence suggests the animals may share a 'collective consciousness'

Daily Mail:
How an early human diet changed the course of evolution: Ancient ancestors who expanded their choice of food 3.76 million years ago helped the species to thrive

Daily Mail:
Is this the first human? Extraordinary find in a South African cave suggests man may be up to 2.8million years old

Daily Mail:
Neanderthals are almost TWICE as old as first thought: DNA suggests extinct human species emerged 700,000 years ago

Daily Mail:
Inside the cave that was home to Denisovans, Neanderthals AND Homo sapiens: Different species of early man used the same shelter for thousands of years

Science Magazine:
Siberian cave was home to generations of mysterious ancient humans

Ancient Origins:
First Pictorial Representation of Gobekli Tepe Found

Scientific American:
Surprising New Finds from Ancient Egyptian Star Charts

Scientific American:
Surprising New Finds from Ancient Egyptian Star Charts [Slide Show]

Ancient Origins:
4,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian manuscript measuring more than 8ft has been rediscovered in Cairo

Daily Mail:
Caverns littered with prehistoric children's decapitated heads are found in grounds of Prince Charles's old school in remote Scotland

Ancient Origins:
Lost for 2 700 years: Tomb of the Serpent Jaguar Priests Uncovered in Peru

National Geographic:
Ancient Script Spurs Rethinking of Historic 'Backwater'

Daily Mail:
Offerings to the god Osiris found hidden beneath ancient Sudanese pyramids: 2,000-year-old structures marked Kushite graves

Ancient Origins:
Double Medieval child burial, one Pagan, one Christian, mystifies German researchers

Ancient Origins:
Monks Mound at Cahokia built in decades, not 250 years as previously thought

io9:
10 Historical People Who Were Real-Life Magicians

The History Blog:
1813 shipwreck survivors' camp found in Alaska

Ancient Origins:
Hundreds of Bodies of Napoleonic Soldiers Unearthed in Germany

Smithsonian Magazine:
Global Diplomacy Was in Theodore Roosevelt's Hands, But His Daughter Stole the Show

The History Blog:
When Emily Post drove from sea to shining sea

Atlas Obscura:
The Arizona Trash Castle With a Heartbreaking Secret

WIVB:
Rare 'Citizen Kane' scripts going to auction in California

Mysterious Universe:
The Mysterious Real Superhero of WWII

Smithsonian Magazine:
That Time When Ansel Adams Posed for a Baseball Trading Card

Sputnik News:
Cisco Routers Worldwide Were Under Hackers Control for Years

Daily Mail:
Pentagon may SCRAP $3.5 billion state-of-the-art warship that was tipped to transform US Navy fleet (...despite having already built half of it)

Gizmodo:
The 25th Ig Nobel Awards Were The Greatest Moment In The History of (Silly) Science

BBC News:
Sergey Ananov: Two days on ice with three polar bears

Gizmodo:
Video: The process of hand making a book the old fashioned way is a lost magical art

Gizmag:
14 "Million Dollar Cars" sell at six auctions in eight days

Smithsonian Magazine:
Sunken Treasures From Ancient Egypt Are Now on Display in France

Ancient Origins:
Ten Spectacular Golden Treasures of the Ancient World

September 18, 2015

Scientific American:
Are We on the Cusp of War - in Space?

Sputnik News:
Anti-Drone Defense System That Can Fight Micro-UAVs Revealed in London

Daily Mail:
Striker II takes to the skies: Advanced helmet uses a night vision camera to help fighter pilots fly under the cover of darkness

Sputnik News:
Pentagon Wants Robots to Build Spaceships at High-Orbiting Transport Hub

Gizmag:
DARPA demonstrates robotic landing gear for helicopters

Sputnik News:
There's No One Controlling Air Traffic at This Swedish Airport

Jalopnik:
A Fantastic Behind-The-Scenes Look At The RAF's Quick Reaction Alert Crew

The Aviationist:
These are probably the best F-22 Raptor air-to-air images we have ever seen!

The Aviationist:
These Unique Photographs Show Some of The Coolest Radom Airshow 2015 Participants At Night

The Aviationist:
Fantastic photos of the Russian Tu-160 Blackjack bombers intercepted by RAF Typhoons yesterday

Jalopnik:
Cessna's Defunct Jet Trainer Was A Dream Machine For Rich Wannabe Fighter Pilots

Popular Science:
Lockheed's New U-2 Successor Will Be Built For War

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Failure Was an Option: What If a Crew Became Stranded On Board the Skylab Space Station? (1972)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
He Who Controls the Moon Controls the Earth (1958)

Gizmodo:
The First Spacewalker Created The Best Soviet Cosmic Landscapes

September 17, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
1947: Crashed UFOs That Weren't

Coming Soon:
Famous Alien Abduction Report Heads to the Big Screen

Gizmag:
SpaceX shows off Crew Dragon interior

Daily Mail:
A Dragon on Mars! Elon Musk backs Nasa plan to send SpaceX capsule on sample return mission in 2020

Scientific American:
NASA Struggles over Deep-Space Plutonium Power

Discovery News:
Mercury's Speedy Spin Hints at Planet's Insides

Astrobiology Magazine:
'Bathtub Rings' Suggest Titan's Dynamic Seas

Spaceflight Now:
Saturn Geyser Moon Hiding Global Ocean

Astrobiology Magazine:
Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus

Universe Today:
10 Years of Haumea

Daily Mail:
The truth is NOT out there: Astronomer uses highly sensitive telescope to search for alien civilisations...but finds nothing

Nature:
Newfound meteor showers expand astronomical calendar

Discovery News:
Watch Sunday's Partial Solar Eclipse Live in Webcast

September 16, 2015

Ghost Theory:
A Strange Visit In 1954

Epoch Times:
Historical Crop Circles, Before People Knew What 'Crop Circles' Were

Spaceflight Now:
China conducts two space launches in short span

Discovery News:
Two Meteors Hit Ancient Earth at Same Time

Astrobiology Magazine:
Underground Magma Ocean Could Explain Io's 'Misplaced' Volcanoes

Universe Today:
What Are The Moons of Jupiter?

Astrobiology Magazine:
Rocky planets may be habitable depending on their 'air conditioning system'

New Scientist:
Earth's composition might be unusual for a planet with life

Astrobiology Magazine:
SETI reborn: The New Search for Intelligent Life

Astrobiology Magazine:
Advanced Alien Civilizations Rare or Absent in the Local Universe

Daily Mail:
Could humans accidentally send aliens a COMPUTER VIRUS? Scientists warn of dangers of insterstellar spam

September 15, 2015

IEEE Spectrum:
NASA Commissions Ultra High Temp Chips for Venus Landsailing Rover

Universe Today:
Curiosity Investigates Petrified Martian Sand Dunes, Contemplates Next Drill Campaign

Universe Today:
The Moons of Saturn

Universe Today:
The Gas (and Ice) Giant Neptune

Universe Today:
Global Pluto Mosaic From New Hi Res Imagery Reveals Bewildering Diversity and Complexity

Sputnik News:
Giant Crater Reveals Double Impact Meteor Strike That Rocked Sweden

Daily Mail:
Arizona students who lost their GoPro after sending it 100,000ft high attached to a balloon get it back TWO YEARS later when hiker finds it filled with incredible footage of the Grand Canyon from the edge of space

September 14, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
The Flatwoods Incident: Decades Later, Critical Examination Continues

Mansfield News Journal:
UFO witnesses come forward decades later

CBS News:
West Virginia fireball caught on camera

Washington Post:
Washington Monument camera catches bright meteor streaking over Virginia

Sputnik News:
Soyuz Capsule With 3 ISS Crew Members Lands in Kazakhstan

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz lands safely in Kazakhstan

Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz TMA-16M returns with Roscosmos' most experienced veteran

New Scientist:
Moonquakes unearthed in data from 1970s Apollo mission

Spaceflight Now:
Scientists revel in latest Pluto close-ups

IEEE Spectrum:
Experiments Show How Lasers Can Despin Asteroids by Turning Them Into Rockets

Universe Today:
What Are Asteroids Made Of?

Gizmodo:
A Lava Ocean on Io Could Mean Better Prospects for Alien Life

WEEKEND EDITION: September 12 through September 13, 2015

Universe Today:
Will the Big Bang Go Backwards?

Science Alert:
Scientists think they know how to test the parallel universes theory - for real

Quanta Magazine:
Einstein's Parable of Quantum Insanity

Daily Mail:
Star Trek-style teleportation IS possible: Theoretical physicist believes we could be beaming to other planets 'within decades'

IEEE Spectrum:
Six Recent Trends in Robotics and Their Implications

Daily Mail:
Core of North American continent is 'extremely deformed': Researchers find mysterious event caused shift of 850 kilometers over billions of years

Air & Space Magazine:
Remnants of Life Found Half a Mile Below the Seafloor

Scientific American:
Archimedes, 3 Trillion Trees and Life in the Universe

Atlas Obscura:
100 Wonders: Last Tree of Tenere

Smithsonian Magazine:
Tiny Terror: Controversial Dinosaur Species Is Just an Awkward Tween Tyrannosaurus

Daily Mail:
'Lightning claw' dinosaur found in Australia: 23-ft long predator is the largest carnivore ever to be found in the region

Daily Mail:
World's oldest fossilised turtle discovered: Enormous specimen is at least 25 million years older than previous record holder

Stuff NZ:
Prehistoric 'Frankenvirus' Mollivirus sibericum uncovered in Siberian permafrost

Daily Mail:
Woolly rhinoceros baby is three times older than thought: Autopsy reveals 18-month-old calf roamed Siberia 34,000 years ago

Live Science:
The Rare and Exotic Animals of Russia's Far East (Photos)

Daily Mail:
How you doing? Researchers find sperm whales speak to each other in local dialects

National Geographic:
What Happens to Problem Bears That Go to Rehab?

Daily Mail:
The 'missing link' was more ape than man: Shoulders shed new light on human evolution and our common ancestor

Atlas Obscura:
FOUND: A New Species of Hominin, Homo Naledi

National Geographic:
This Face Changes the Human Story. But How?

Ancient Origins:
Astonishing new species of ancient human ancestor found in burial chamber

Smithsonian Magazine:
What Makes a Fossil a Member of the Human Family Tree?

Ancient Origins:
Stone Age people were eating porridge 32,000 years ago

Stuff NZ:
Unearthed, Stonehenge's giant big brother

Daily Mail:
Stonehenge II is found! Radar search reveals giant line of standing stones from 4,500 years ago - buried three feet down, just one mile from famous Wiltshire site

Mysterious Universe:
Monolith Near Stonehenge Has Different Shape and Purpose

Melbourne Herald Sun:
Excavation of Rome home shows city bigger than thought

Daily Mail:
Archaeologists discover 2,800-year-old 'burial jars' in Turkey... but what gruesome find lies inside?

Ancient Origins:
Builders Uncovered Unique Sarcophagus in Israel... and Hid It

Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists unearth marble sarcophagus from ancient Thracian burial mound

The History Blog:
Roman coin hoard with name on pot found in Sofia

Ancient Origins:
Kongo Gumi: Oldest Continuously Operating Company survives 1,400 Years before Crash

National Geographic:
Mega Copper Deal in Afghanistan Fuels Rush to Save Ancient Treasures

Ancient Origins:
Rare and Enigmatic Zbruch Idol: 4-Headed Slavic God Pulled from a River

Atlas Obscura:
The Dunce Cap Wasn't Always So Stupid

Daily Mail:
Tudor fisherman cast their nets as far away as CANADA: Research shows 16th century ships were travelling 2,000 miles for catch

The History Blog:
Scottish soldiers found in Durham mass grave

The History Blog:
The long, strange tale of The 120 Days of Sodom

Smithsonian Magazine:
Liverpool, England Has a Mysterious Network of Tunnels

Stuff NZ:
Wellington's Mana Island packs huge history into small size - 150 years of news

The History Blog:
Ventnor artifacts seek owner

Ancient Origins:
Piltdown Man: The scandal that delayed the study of human origins by decades

Live Science:
Titanic's Last Lunch Menu Up for Auction

Atlas Obscura:
Places You Can No Longer Go: Pickfair

The Atlantic:
The International Fight Over Marcel Duchamp's Chess Set

io9:
Diary of Soviet Ambassador to London Rewrites History of World War II

Daily Mail:
Two Russians who discovered a rare 1943 Disney film featuring Donald Duck dressed as a Nazi then broadcast it on the internet are given a £100 fine…That's all folks

io9:
Why the Somerton Man Endures As One of Australia's Most Fascinating Cold Cases

Gizmodo:
Archaic Bell System Pitch Video Offers Topical Branding Advice

BBC News:
Seva Novgorodsev: The DJ who 'brought down the USSR'

ABC Australia:
Queen Elizabeth II 'never aspired' to be Britain's longest-reigning monarch, cheering crowds mark historic milestone

CBC News:
Queen Elizabeth becomes longest-reigning British monarch

Washington Post:
How Britain came to revere Elizabeth II

BBC News:
Queen Elizabeth II, 63 years in 63 pictures

BBC News:
The hurling heroes of Ireland

Atlas Obscura:
The Grand Canyon Luxury Suite That Is Also A Cave

National Geographic:
7 Ancient Mysteries Archaeologists Will Solve This Century

Science Magazine:
Unusual 'relic language' comes from small group of farmers isolated for thousands of years

CBC News:
Watch: Welsh weatherman nails pronouncing 58-letter village name on live TV

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Strange, Giant "Beach Animals" That Are About to Invade America's Shores

San Francisco Chronicle:
Burning Man 2015, a stunning visual diary from professional photographer

September 11, 2015

Daily Mail:
Boeing reveals its biggest plane yet: $400m 777-9X has a wingspan so big the tips have to be folded up so it can fit into airports

Sputnik News:
When Fantasy Meets Reality: Russia Develops Heavy 'Flying Ship'

Sputnik News:
Expansion of Drone Warfare and Killer Robots Could Lead to 'New Arms Race'

Jalopnik:
The Pointy End Of Northrop's Flying Wings Then And Now

Jalopnik:
A New Angle On This Shadowy Stealth F/A-18 Hornet Concept Is Intriguing

Jalopnik:
Mysterious Stealth F/A-18 Test Article Is Indeed A Fully Formed Specimen

The Aviationist:
This epic video shows a WWII Spitfire helping out a Cold War Vulcan bomber during nose wheel emergency

The Aviationist:
Here's a stunning video (including cockpit footage) of the awesome Sukhoi Su-30SM

Jalopnik:
Is The PZL M-15 "Belphegor" The Ugliest Production Jet Airplane Of All Time?

io9:
How NASA Created a Flight Simulator For The First Astronauts Landing on the Moon

Gizmodo:
Failure Was an Option: What If Apollo Astronauts Could Not Ride the Saturn V Rocket? (1965)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Failure Was an Option: What If Apollo Astronauts Became Marooned in Lunar Orbit? (1968)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Failure Was an Option: What If Apollo Astronauts Became Marooned in Lunar Orbit? (1968)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Failure Was an Option: What If an Apollo Lunar Module Ran Low on Fuel and Aborted its Landing? (1966)

September 10, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
What Fuels Conspiracy Theories? Ask a Former Government UFO Investigator

Daily Mail:
One small step for a robot, one giant leap for mankind: Astronaut on the ISS remotely controls a rover on Earth - and it could let us build cities on other planets

Daily Mail:
Nasa to send Orion capsule around dark side of the moon on biggest rocket in history in key test for Mars mission

Popular Science:
China Wants To Be First To Land On Lunar Far Side

Sputnik News:
China to Land First-Ever Rover on Dark Side of Moon Before 2020

Spaceflight Now:
Russian rocket erected for this week's Galileo launch

Sputnik News:
New Life for Old Buddy: Russia Tests Renewed Soyuz-MS Spacecraft

Gizmag:
New image release represents highest resolution view of Occator crater to date

Sputnik News:
Forget Flybys: Now NASA Wants to Land on Jupiter Moon to Look for Aliens

Universe Today:
The Moons of Neptune

io9:
Saturn Dominates Dione in this Striking New Photo From NASA

Universe Today:
What are Asteroids?

Universe Today:
Kicking Off Eclipse Season: Our Guide to the September 13th Partial Solar Eclipse

September 9, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Enter the Starliner: Boeing names its commercial spaceship

Daily Mail:
The Starliner is set for blast off! Boeing opens massive facility to build spacecraft that will see US return to manned spaceflight

Universe Today:
Boeing 'Starliner' Crew Spaceship; America's Next Ride to Space Takes Shape

Space Daily:
Russia Eyes Moon for Hi-Tech Lunar Base

Space.com:
SpaceX's 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Set for Spring 2016

Gizmag:
New study casts doubt on Mars valley formation theory

Spaceflight Insider:
NASA team designing sub to explore Titan's seas

Discovery News:
Robo-Hedgehogs Could Hop Across the Solar System

Daily Mail:
That really IS a galaxy far, far away: Astronomers confirm star system 13.2 billion light-years away is the most distant known in the universe

Ghost Theory:
Maitland UFO Lights: A Close Encounter In 1926

September 8, 2015

Manchester Union-Leader:
Festival marks 50th anniversary of 'Exeter Incident'

Mansfield News Journal:
Investigators seek UFO witnesses

Mysterious Universe:
NASA Predicts Many UFO Sightings in New Mexico This Month

Mysterious Universe:
Family Claims Lives Ruined From Living Next to Area 51

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Video of an Extremely Bright Fireball over Bangkok

Sputnik News:
Manned Soyuz Spacecraft Docks at International Space Station

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz docks with space station, boosts crew to nine

Sputnik News:
US Navy to Launch Folding-Fin Ground Attack Rocket on Scientific Mission

Spaceflight Now:
Russian rocket erected for this week's Galileo launch

Spaceflight Now:
Radar on NASA's SMAP Earth observing satellite declared lost

Spaceflight Now:
Japanese X-ray observatory completes decade-long mission

Spaceflight Insider:
Orion spacecraft arrives in Colorado for post-flight testing

Astrobiology Magazine:
At Saturn, One of These Rings is not like the Others

Universe Today:
Get Ready for More Pluto Pics from New Horizons

Universe Today:
Pluto's Moon Nix

Discovery News:
Alien Oceans' Glint Could Reveal Habitable Worlds

LABOR DAY WEEKEND EDITION: September 5 through September 7, 2015

New Scientist:
Knotty network could have powered universe's early growth spurt

Daily Mail:
The experiment that could let us find ripples in space-time: Scientists find a way to see and manipulate 'quantum motion'

Discovery News:
Particle Collider Spits Out Tiny Drops of Primordial Goo

Discovery News:
Chaos Tamed with New Math Definition

IEEE Spectrum:
What Boston Dynamics Is Working on Next

IEEE Spectrum:
Robots With Smooth Moves Are Up to 40% More Efficient

MIT Technology Review:
Robots Lay Three Times as Many Bricks as Construction Workers

IEEE Spectrum:
Chinese 'Unmanned Factory' Replaces 600 Humans With 60 Robots

Consumerist:
Want A Clean-Cut Lawn? A Robot Mower Might Not Be For You

Inverse:
MegaBots Are the Fighting Robots of the Future: a Q%A with Brinkley Warren

IEEE Spectrum:
Ban or No Ban, Hard Questions Remain on Autonomous Weapons

IEEE Spectrum:
Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics?

Calaveras Enterprise:
Mother Lode Geology: An old world becomes new

Calaveras Enterprise:
Mother Lode Geology: Mighty Sierra begins to rise

Calaveras Enterprise:
Mother Lode Geology: An ocean trench

Calaveras Enterprise:
Mother Lode Geology: The Gold Belt

Calaveras Enterprise:
Mother Lode Geology: Buildings of stone

Daily Mail:
Holiday hotspots could be devastated by a Mediterranean tsunami. Maps reveal 130 million lives at risk from once-a-century phenomenon

Stuff NZ:
Alpine Fault spreads across South Island, researchers say

Astrobiology Magazine:
Oxygen oasis in Antarctic lake reflects Earth in the distant past

New Scientist:
Continental break-up set the stage for life in Earth's mantle

Daily Mail:
The GREATER Barrier Reef: Underwater robot discovers massive new reef even bigger than Australia's famous landmark

Daily Mail:
Did critters cause Earth's first mass extinction? Fossils suggest animals and not a meteorite wiped out planet's first microbes

Stuff NZ:
'Bizarre' giant sea scorpion may have been the world's first big predator

Daily Mail:
King of clubs: Researchers reveal how the 'tank' dinosaur got its killer tail weapon (and it was actually a vegetarian)

Daily Mail:
New 'missing link' species of dolphin reveals how the animal moved from seas to rivers

Daily Mail:
Octopuses under fire! Cephalopods seen to hurl shells and debris at rivals during fights to protect their territory

Gizmodo:
Video: The metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a monarch butterfly

io9:
Raccoon Sibling Looking Out For His Brother Is Just Too Cute

Daily Mail:
Man versus HYENA: Giant prehistoric scavenger species may have prevented the spread of early humans into Europe

Daily Mail:
Neanderthals liked their creature comforts too! Spanish cave suggests ancient man had HOT WATER and bedrooms

Daily Mail:
World's oldest wooden statue is TWICE as old as the pyramids: New analysis reveals Shigir Idol is more ancient than first thought

Daily Mail:
Who lived on Britain's Atlantis? Scientists are set to uncover the secrets of Doggerland, the huge North Sea island lost to the waves 7,500 years ago

Daily Mail:
Not such Philistines after all: Ancient culture introduced cumin, bay leaves and opium poppies into the Middle Eastern diet

Daily Mail:
Was this the first 'lost property' office? 2,000-year-old stone podium that may have been Jerusalem's Stone of Claims is unearthed

BBC News:
The mysterious origins of punctuation

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Oldest City in the United States Turns 450

Daily Mail:
Do the Spanish Armada's lost sailors lie buried in this cemetery? Unmarked plot in Northern Ireland may be a mass grave

The History Blog:
New technology reveals Rembrandt hidden portrait

The Atlantic:
America's Company Towns, Then and Now

The Guardian:
Britain's most important historic laboratory is under threat

The Atlantic:
How The Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive

Atlas Obscura:
The Socialite Who Stopped at Nothing to Hunt Down Ancient Music

Forbes:
Geology And Ancient Fossils Inspired H.P. Lovecraft To Write His Best Horror Story

Smithsonian Magazine:
There's new Hope for Preserving the Wreck of the Titanic

BBC News:
William Ash: The cooler king

San Francisco Chronicle:
Historic war photos uncovered near 70th anniversary of WWII end

Daily Mail:
Sozzled seducer who was Stalin's SUPERSPY: Debauched and indiscreet, Old Etonian Guy Burgess was a very unlikely KGB spy. But as a major biography reveals, that's what made him deadly

Smithsonian Magazine:
Emmett Till's Open Casket Funeral Reignited the Civil Rights Movement

Atlas Obscura:
The Alternate Universe of Soviet Arcade Games

Smithsonian Magazine:
Six American States Have Official Guns

The Atlantic:
A Conversation With Koko the Gorilla

Smithsonian Magazine:
Take a Historic Ride Along California's Famous Route 1

BBC News:
Six lesser-known wonders of the ancient world

Gizmodo:
How to Build a Globe From Scratch

Stuff NZ:
Question order may manipulate witness testimony

Sputnik News:
Brand New Russian SUV and Crossover Dominate at Moscow Off-Road Expo

Fast Company:
It's Hard To Believe This Gorgeous 9-Minute Robot Animation Is a Student Thesis

September 4, 2015

ABC News:
Why It's Taking Astronauts So Long to Get to the International Space Station

Daily Mail:
The 'Son of Concorde' comes closer to reality: Drone that will use flexible wings could reduce sonic booms on future aircraft

Daily Mail:
Watch Boeing test radical new 'silent strike' laser weapon small enough to fit in a suitcase but powerful enough to blast a drone out of the air

Gizmodo:
Video: This dancing drone is a beautiful painter of light

Daily Mail:
Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's a SUPER DRONE! 54-propeller Swarm flying machine launches man into the skies

Sputnik News:
True 'Eye' View: Russia Unveils New Surveillance Drone at MAKS Air Show

Popular Science:
Russia Shows Off Concept Drone That Hunts F-35s

The Aviationist:
Europe's new stealth combat drone has successfully completed 12 highly sensitive test sorties in Italy

Sputnik News:
DARPA's Next Generation Drone Will Launch and Land on Moving Airplanes

Daily Mail:
US military is developing 'Gremlin' drones to overwhelm enemy defenses and conduct missions too dangerous for manned aircraft

Jalopnik:
Go Dogfighting In An F-15 In This Crazy Video

Jalopnik:
Historic Photo Shows 3rd, 4th and 5th Generation Combat Jets In Formation

Jalopnik:
Russia's Stealthy New Fighter Was OK, But The Su-35 Stole The Show At MAKS

Sputnik News:
USAF Next-Gen Long-Range Bomber Prototypes 'Mature' But Haven't Flown Yet

Jalopnik:
What It's Like To Fly America's Biggest Jet, The Gargantuan C-5 Galaxy

io9:
Watch a Soyuz "Soft Landing" from Gentle Detachment to Brutal Controlled Crash

Air & Space Magazine:
A Race to the Stratosphere in 1933

Air & Space Magazine:
Love Letter to the 747

Atlas Obscura:
Glorious Photos of TWA Terminal from the Golden Age of Air Travel

September 3, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
The Glowing Car of Rendlesham Forest

Daily Express:
UK town 'invaded by UFOs and eerie noises that killed flocks of birds and stopped cars'

Daily Express:
Warminster: Read 1965 report of bizarre public meeting after eerie UFO events shocked town

Daily Express:
Warminster: Patrick Moore 'saw UFO get filmed but BBC edited it out', claims alien hunter

San Francisco Chronicle:
Whatever happened to UFO sightings?

Universe Today:
A Fiery End for Kosmos 1315 Over Hawaii

Sputnik News:
Russia Launches New Soyuz Mission to ISS With Denmark's First Astronaut

io9:
The A Successful Launch Means It's About to Get Crowded on the Space Station

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Rare Look at the Russian Side of the Space Station

Gizmag:
Danish astronaut to control earthbound rover from ISS

Atlas Obscura:
Fleeting Wonders: Watch the Atlas V Rocket Scribble All Over The Florida Sky

Space Daily:
Progress for Tiangong 2

Air & Space Magazine:
Life Detection Experiment Might Be Added to Europa Mission

Gizmag:
Planetoid a billion miles beyond Pluto selected as New Horizons' next destination

Universe Today:
The (Possible) Dwarf Planet 2007 OR10

Space.com:
The Brightest Planets in September's Night Sky: How to See Them (and When)

Daily Mail:
Behold! The supermoon total lunar eclipse beckons: Rare event will give the night sky an eerie glow later this month

September 2, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
Government Files on Alien Abductees?

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Boeing schmoeing, gimme Aguadilla

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Satellite Re-Entry Surprises Hawaii

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz booster in position for crew launch

Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 rocket to be grounded longer than expected

Discovery News:
Curiosity's Epic First Year on a Mars Mountain: Photos

Spaceflight Now:
Distant ice ball to become farthest object ever visited

September 1, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Proton back in action with successful launch for Inmarsat

Daily Mail:
Look familiar? Russia reveals its next generation Soyuz replacement spacecraft that set to launch in 2021 - and it looks a lot like Nasa's Orion

Gizmodo:
Here's an Early Look at Russia's New Manned Spacecraft

Sputnik News:
New Russian Spaceship to Be Ready Ahead of Schedule

Gizmag:
NASA tests Orion parachutes to breaking point

Daily Mail:
Nasa tests Orion capsule that will take man to Mars: Craft successfully gets through parachute failure (but it lands upside down)

Air & Space Magazine:
15 Years of Living in Space

Universe Today:
The Gas Giant Jupiter

Universe Today:
The Gas (and Ice) Giant Uranus

Universe Today:
The Dwarf Planet Quaoar

Universe Today:
The Dwarf Planet Orcus

Popular Science:
Scientists Find A Double Black Hole Inside A Nearby Quasar

August 31, 2015

The Yuma Sun:
UFOs in Yuma? Incident at YPG has gone unexplained for 60-plus years

Minnesota Public Radio:
Whatever happened to the Marshall County cop who hit a UFO?

Sky Valley Chronicle:
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Heflin UFO case revisited

Mysterious Universe:
UFO Disclosure: Heard It All Before

St. George News:
Early morning fireball attracts attention

Spaceflight Now:
Chinese spy payload fired into orbit

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz relocation clears way for launch of new station crew

Spaceflight Now:
Preview: Launch to complete Navy satellite fleet's reach

Spaceflight Now:
Tropical weather postpones Monday's Atlas 5 rocket launch

Gizmodo:
NASA Just Sealed Six People In a Dome For a Year to Practice Mars

Spaceflight Now:
Beyond Sunday's 'Supermoon': Lunar Perigee Science

Universe Today:
August Full Moon Anticipates September's Total Lunar Eclipse

Spaceflight Now:
Scientists eager for restart of Pluto photo pipeline

New Scientist:
NASA picks post-Pluto destination for New Horizons spacecraft

Universe Today:
NASA and New Horizons team pick post-Pluto target ... and serve up an awesome video

Astrobiology Magazine:
Interstellar Seeds Could Create Oases of Life

Smithsonian Magazine:
Life May Have Spread Through the Galaxy Like a Plague

National Geographic:
A Guide to Detecting an Alien Apocalypse

WEEKEND EDITION: August 29 through August 30, 2015

Nature:
Quantum 'spookiness' passes toughest test yet

Daily Mail:
Black holes aren't 'eternal prisons': Stephen Hawking claims information CAN escape and is then stored in alternate universes

Gizmag:
Extreme pressure reveals new phenomenon in atomic nuclei

IT Business Edge:
Must-See Robotics at RoboBusiness 2015

Times of India:
Robot 'mother' builds babies that can evolve on their own

Wall Street Journal:
We're Fighting Killer Robots the Wrong Way

Wired:
How Life and Luck Changed Earth's Minerals

Wired:
How We Tell if a Volcano Is Active, Dormant, or Extinct

Forbes:
The Geology Of Star Trek: From Extraterrestrial Minerals To Alien Life-Forms

The Independent SA:
New dinosaur unearthed on SA farm

Daily Mail:
Foot of T-Rex's 'mini ancestor' found on a Welsh beach: Earliest Jurassic era dinosaur hunted prey 200 million years ago

Tech Times:
Chemical Traces In Fossilized Dinosaur Feathers Shed Light On Their True Color

Rapid City Journal:
Dinosaur skull found in Buffalo likely a new species

Daily Mail:
Seashell search finds giant tooth from the mouth of a 18m long megalodon SUPERSHARK that terrorised oceans 100 million years ago

Daily Mail:
'Missing link' in the evolution of lizards found in Brazil: 80-million-year-old fossils reveal clues about the spread of the reptiles

Daily Mail:
Earliest ever baboon discovered: 2 million-year-old skull reveals the monkeys lived alongside our early human ancestors

io9:
This is the First Time This Creature Has Been Seen in Over 30 Years

Daily Mail:
Did Stone Age man invent 'church bells' 15,000 years ago? Ceremonial boulders were hit like 'gongs' to call the community to funerals

Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists discover Mycenaean palace and treasure trove of artifacts in southern Greece

Ancient Origins:
7th century BC inscription in Georgia may rewrite history of written language

Daily Mail:
Warrior king found in ancient Russian tomb: Scythian ruler was buried with riches, weapons and even his HORSE

Archaelogy Magazine:
Golden House of an Emperor

Ancient Origins:
Marble slab inscribed with 1,900-year-old Water Law unearthed in Turkey

Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists in Scotland investigate the mystery of the Rhynie Man

Atlas Obscura:
How Money in Politics Worked in 1519

Daily Mail:
A masterpiece: Michelangelo's sprawling eight-bedroom Italian villa can now be your holiday home... for £5MILLION

Smithsonian Magazine:
Execution Ballads Once Spread the News of Punishment to the Public

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Strange Saga of George Washington's Bedpan

Forbes:
This 1831 Geological Journey Was Decisive For Darwin's Scientific Career

Smithsonian Magazine:
Big Ben is Running Fast

Atlas Obscura:
From Pony Express to Amazon Drone: The Strange History of Delivering Packages

Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Pledge of Allegiance Went From PR Gimmick to Patriotic Vow

National Geographic:
Century-Old Message in a Bottle Returned to Sender

Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet Mr. Wizard, Television's Original Science Guy

The Guardian:
Letters reveal Alan Turing's battle with his sexuality

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Guinness Book of World Records: A Promotional Stunt That Became an International Phenomenon

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Abandoned Theme Park That Finally Got a Storybook Ending

New Scientist:
The Making of 2001: How Kubrick and Clarke designed the future

io9:
In 1979, An Entire Science Class Went "Berserk" After Being Hypnotized

Time Magazine:
10 Essential Stories About Hurricane Katrina

Washington Post:
Ten years after Katrina: The science behind the most damaging hurricane in U.S. history

Washington Post:
On Mississippi's Gulf Coast, what was lost and gained from Katrina's fury

BBC News:
The Hurricane Station

USA Today:
After Katrina: Biloxi wears face of progress, pain

For The Win:
Refuge of last resort: Five days inside the Superdome for Hurricane Katrina

Jalopnik:
This Puny Wheel Will Be Used To Steer The Royal Navy's Largest Warship Ever

Daily Mail:
Military bosses reveal the $400,000 vehicle that will replace the Humvee: JTLV has as much armour as a tank yet can outrun a jeep

Inside Science:
Hitchcock Flicks Give Your Brain Tunnel Vision

Atlas Obscura:
A Ruined French City, Resuscitated In a Garden

Gizmag:
2015 Monterey Car Week and Pebble Beach Concours Pictorial

Gizmag:
Monterey Car Week Auctions: the cars that fetched more than a million

August 28, 2015

Daily Mail:
The supersonic images that could pave the way for the 'son of Concorde': Incredible photos captures the sonic boom of aircraft

Sputnik News:
Is Lockheed Building a Stealthy New U-2 Spy Plane?

Jalopnik:
Lockheed Goes For Global Hawk's Feathers With Stealthy Optionally-Manned U-2

Sputnik News:
Europe to Australia in 90 Minutes? German Aviation Agency Eyes Suborbital Passenger Jet

Popular Science:
Boeing Patented A Drone That Flies, Submerges, And Swims

Popular Science:
Boeing Sony's New Drone Is A Helicopter In A Plane's Body

Sputnik News:
US Government Works on Establishing Anti-Drone System

Gizmag:
Bugatti airplane replica makes its first flight

Jalopnik:
Russia's New Fighter Uses Long-Range Weapons To Overcome Its Weaknesses

Sputnik News:
25 Countries Defy Sanctions to Attend MAKS-2015 Air Show

Sputnik News:
Rosoboronexport's Order Portfolio for Aviation Equipment Tops $18 Bln

Daily Mail:
What lies beneath: Amazing footage of the U.S. Navy's 'flying aircraft carrier' that sunk off the California cost in the 1930s

Air & Space Magazine:
Mementos of the Balloon Age

Air & Space Magazine:
The Last Piston-Engine Dogfights

Air & Space Magazine:
The Cult of the Sonic Cruiser

Gizmodo:
All the US Navy combat jets in history

Ars Technica:
NASA versus Katrina: August 29, 2005

Air & Space Magazine:
The Search for Luna 9

Atlas Obscura:
See Fascinating Relics From the Secret Soviet Space Program

August 27, 2015

WTEN:
Witness: UFO abductee honored with monument

The Inquistr:
UFO Reportedly Stalking Boy 'For Weeks' Captured On Film By Both Child And Neighbor [Video]

KRMG:
U.S. astronaut says he was told there were UFO's at Roswell

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: HTV supply ship glistens on approach to ISS

Spaceflight Now:
Countdown begins for launch of Indian military satellite

Stuff NZ:
Roger Hanson: Sir Bernard Lovell - the father of Jodrell Bank Observatory

August 26, 2015

Sputnik News:
Russia to Test World's First Carbon Fiber Spacecraft Command Module in 2016

Sputnik News:
First Manned Launch From Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome Delayed Until 2025

Spaceflight Now:
Uranus, Neptune in NASA's sights for new robotic mission

Discovery News:
Carbon Monoxide 'Fire Fountains' Erupted on the Moon

Astrobiology Magazine:
Dawn Sends Sharper Scenes from Ceres

Discovery News:
Cassini Watches Enceladus Fizz into Space

The History Channel:
The Great Moon Hoax, 180 Years Ago

Scientific American:
Alien Transit Systems May Be a Giveaway in the Search for ET

August 25, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Japanese HTV supply carrier reaches space station

Discovery News:
Second Cosmic Ray Detector Delivered to Space Station

Discovery News:
Japan Sends Minibar to the Space Station

Space.com:
The Great American Total Solar Eclipse Is Coming 2 Years from Today

Air & Space Magazine:
15 Years of Living in Space

Air & Space Magazine:
The Future of Construction in Space

Air & Space Magazine:
The Extraterrestrial Commodities Market

Air & Space Magazine:
The Next Jamestown

August 24, 2015

WIVB:
The Cherry Creek Sightings remain a mystery after 50 years

Spaceflight Insider:
China successfully tests power system of Long March 5 rocket

Sputnik News:
Back on Track: Russia to Revive Its Reusable Space Shuttle Program

Sputnik News:
Russian Space Agency Mulls New, Reusable Carrier Rocket

Spaceflight Insider:
Russia to build new eco-friendly Soyuz-5 rocket by 2022

Discovery News:
Meet the Space Station's Resupply Fleet: Photos

Spaceflight Now:
Mountain-climbing Mars rover sends back low-angle selfie

Discovery News:
Good News from NASA: Asteroid WON'T Kill Us Next Month

Universe Today:
What is the Asteroid Belt?

Daily Mail:
Did a supernova trigger the birth of the solar system? Shockwaves may have triggered formation and rotation of planets

Gizmodo:
What Would Happen if a Massive Solar Storm Hit the Earth?

WEEKEND EDITION: August 22 through August 23, 2015

Scientific American:
Relativity's Influence Is Still Going Strong On Its 100th Birthday

Scientific American:
Relativity's Reach [Interactive Graphic]

Scientific American:
Just How Resilient Is Spacetime?

New Statesman:
Is there such thing as the beginning and end of time?

Gizmodo:
Watch Boston Dynamics' Robot Run Outside Oh God They're Coming For Us

ABC Australia:
Drummer with robotic arm returns to music as 'fastest drummer in the world' after amputation

Daily Mail:
'Rainbow' vein of legendary Blue John Stone that has graced tables at Buckingham Palace discovered: Unique sample is the first of its kind to be found in 150 years

Daily Mail:
World's first 'flower' revealed: 130-million-year-old aquatic plant may have been eaten by dinosaurs

NBC News:
Long-Necked 'Rain Lizard' Dinosaur Was Early Ancestor of Brontosaurus

The Local:
Giant dinosaur tracks found near Hannover

Stuff NZ:
'Flying Spaghetti Monster' caught on video

Daily Mail:
Oldest modern hand found to be 1.85 million-years-old: Little finger bone suggests unknown 'giant' ancestors came down from the trees earlier than thought

National Geographic:
Did Chucking Stones Make Us More Human?

Stuff NZ:
Roger Hanson: The origins of the number 60 as a counting method

National Geographic:
The 5,000-Year Secret History of the Watermelon

Daily Mail:
Men in ancient Egypt were given 8ft-long prenups: 2,480-year-old papyrus reveals rights of women during the Old Kingdom

BBC News:
Are modern blocks of flats modelled on Roman insulae?

io9:
Remains of "Warrior Princess" Found Buried Alongside Dagger and Sword

The History Blog:
Settlement Era longhouse found in Reykjavík

Daily Mail:
Was Sardinia home to Atlantis? Comet triggered an enormous tidal wave that wiped out ancient civilisation, experts claim

Daily Mail:
Stunning 800-year-old crucifix engraved with a Hebrew talisman to ward off fever is unearthed in Wales

Smithsonian Magazine:
Chinese Cave Graffiti Records Centuries of Drought

Daily Mail:
Mystery of the Mona Lisa's smile solved: Second painting shows how da Vinci created an optical illusion to trick viewers

io9:
The Bologna Stone Was a Glowing Mystery for 400 Years

Smithsonian Magazine:
The World's Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Was Too Fragile to Read...Until Now

Ancient Origins:
335 years ago Indians drove out the Spanish out of New Mexico and secured their culture for posterity

Daily Mail:
Florida treasure hunters find $4.5million in rare Spanish coins 300 years after fleet of ships sunk in hurricane en route to Cuba

Daily Mail:
Gulliver's Travels' 'nonsense' language deciphered: Expert claims to have cracked the code used by author Jonathan Swift - and he thinks it's Hebrew

Atlas Obscura:
The Unmasking of the 19th Century's Seance Queen

Smithsonian Magazine:
Would You Pass This 1910 Museum Curator Test?

The History Blog:
30 euro "art craft" is $15 million Picasso

The History Blog:
The Daughter of Dawn dawns!

Air & Space Magazine:
The Ghost Army of World War II

io9:
These Previously Unseen Photos Bear Witness to the Carnage of World War II

Daily Mail:
Lifeless bodies, bombed out cities and weary men: The horrors of World War II revealed in never-before-seen pictures of the Western Front taken by four-star general

BBC News:
The Japanese women who married the enemy

BBC News:
August 1985: The worst month for air disasters

Gizmodo:
You Can Watch Forever But the End of This Infinite Model Train Will Never Arrive

Sputnik News:
Meet Chirok: Russia's Unique Hybrid Amphibious Drone

Gizmodo:
These super fun illusions really messes with your perspective

Smithsonian Magazine:
Five of the World's Most Fascinating Topiary Gardens

August 21, 2015

Daily Mail:
Hypersonic passenger planes could be a reality by 2030: Rocket-propelled SpaceLiner could carry 100 passengers and travel between Europe and Australia in under 90 minutes (at a price)

MIT Technology Review:
The Man Who Grounded the Boeing SST

Sputnik News:
Developer Reveals New Details of 'Chirok' Flying Hovercraft Drone

Popular Science:
Watch A Hacker Take Over A Drone Remotely

Gizmodo:
The crazy simulator where pilots learn how to fly the F-35

Space Daily:
Russia's MiG-21 Would Rip Apart America's F-35

The Aviationist:
This cool infographic shows all weapons carried by Russia's next generation fighter

Jalopnik:
The Last Flying Vulcan Bomber Put On This Breathtaking Over-Water Display

The Aviationist:
Stunning aerial photos show Textron Scorpion tactical jet in Royal Navy demonstrations

The Aviationist:
Super Cool air-to-air images of the world's sole flying examples of Sea Vixen and Seafire

The Aviationist:
Mesmerizing Time Lapse video shows sky over Nevada painted by combat planes during Red Flag

Gizmodo:
The Saga of NASA's Short-Lived "Lost" Logo

Mysterious Universe:
Flying Saucers Used to Make New Air Force Jet

Daily Mail:
Canine cosmonauts! Pioneering mission that sent dogs into orbit to pave the way for manned flight to be marked by new Science Museum exhibition

August 20, 2015

Discovery News:
Japan Launches Critical Supplies (and Mice) to the ISS

Spaceflight Now:
H-2B rocket launch sends supply shipment to space station

Spaceflight Insider:
Kounotori-5: Japan's white stork delivers cargo to station

New Scientist:
NASA scours retired space shuttles for spare parts

Stuff NZ:
Nasa balloon team to return to Wanaka next year for possible April 1 launch

Scientific American:
3 Years into Its Mission, Curiosity's Stunning Martian Panorama

Astrobiology Magazine:
Solar System formation don't mean a thing without that spin

Universe Today:
More Evidence That Comets May Have Brought Life to Earth

Stuff NZ:
Kiwi filmmaker records 24 hours of daylight at Scott Base

Daily Mail:
Warp speed could be a reality in the next 100 years: Star Trek-like travel between galaxies is possible, claims astrophysicist

August 19, 2015

Daily Mail:
The inflatable space station: Expandable module to be attached to ISS that could pave the way for manned Mars base

Spaceflight Insider:
Orion spacecraft about to be put through its paces at Glenn

Spaceflight Insider:
Orion pathfinder coming together in preparation for EM-1

Space.com:
Saturn's Weirdest Ring Explained: Ancient Collision Caused It

Space.com:
If Pluto Keeps Spewing Nitrogen, Why Is It Still Full of It?

Space.com:
Earth-Like Alien World Could Have Vast Oceans

Astrobiology Magazine:
Meteorite impacts can create DNA building blocks

August 18, 2015

Sputnik News:
China Tests New Rocket, Gets Ready to Build Lunar Base on Dark Side of Moon

New Scientist:
Moon's gravity could govern plant movement like the tides

Universe Today:
Indian Mars Orbiter Shoots Spectacular New Images of Sheer Canyon and Curiosity's Crater

Popular Science:
Riding A Shrinking Comet Toward The Sun

Universe Today:
What Is A Dwarf Planet?

Daily Mail:
Mystery object falls from the sky in rural Victoria leaving a six metre CRATER filled with 'computer chips and metal fragments

August 17, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
Area 51: Its Secret Origins

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Here's the beef

Spaceflight Now:
Rocket engine fires up in latest test for behemoth booster

Spaceflight Insider:
Japan prepares to launch Kounotori-5 to Space Station

Sputnik News:
US to Get Second Shipment of Russian RD-181 Rocket Engines Later in 2015

Sputnik News:
Scientists Say They've Located the Best Place to Find Ancient Life on Mars

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Life in the Asteroid Belt Is Rough

Discovery News:
Cassini to Buzz Saturn's Moon Dione One Last Time

Universe Today:
Ride Along with New Horizons on its Pluto Flyby

Universe Today:
The Dwarf Planet Haumea

Daily Mail:
Going up! Space elevator in a tower 12 miles high could one day give astronauts a leg-up into the cosmos

WEEKEND EDITION: August 15 through August 16, 2015

The Economist:
Multiversal truths

Forbes:
How Quantum Randomness Saves Relativity

Jerusalem Post:
Einstein would have been pleased

Discovery News:
Ancient Star Proves Gravitational Constant is 'Rock-Solid'

Live Science:
Mystery Deepens: Matter and Antimatter Are Mirror Images

Gizmag:
Magnetism generated in non-magnetic metals

Gizmodo:
This Robot Builds Other Robots, Learns From Failures, Builds Better Robots

Gizmag:
MIT's Hermes remote-controlled robot has human-like reflexes

Wired UK:
These Uncanny Valley robots will really creep you out

Gizmodo:
What Are All Those Weird New Skateboards and Scooters You're Seeing Everywhere?

Daily Mail:
What the Earth would look like stripped of oceans: First ever digital map of the sea floor reveals our planet's 'alien' landscape

Popular Science:
Recreating The 'Shocking' Origin Of Life In A Lab

Daily Mail:
Extinct predator named 'scarface' had a toxic bite: Dachshund-sized carnivore roamed the Earth 225 million years ago

CBS News:
Ancient footprints may show dinosaur duo strolling along the beach

ABC Australia:
Dinosaurs could have pushed up 'daisies'

Gizmodo:
Paleontologists Discovered Sue the T. Rex 25 Years Ago Today

Stuff NZ:
Secret world of octopuses: Sneaky hunting, rough sex and months of breeding

Smithsonian Magazine:
What's the Difference Between Poisonous and Venomous Animals?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Scientists Are Still Baffled by Monarch Migration

Gizmodo:
The biggest shark ever filmed is basically the size of a blimp

Archaeology Magazine:
Bronze Age Ireland's Taste in Gold

The Guardian:
Tomb of Nefertiti, Egypt's mysterious ancient queen, may have been found

Daily Mail:
Is this the witch of Rollright? 1,400-year-old skeleton unearthed with a rare religious spoon at Bronze Age monument

BBC News:
Where algebra got its name

Ancient Origins:
Chinese Builders Discover Song Dynasty Tomb with Elaborate Decoration but Robbers Have Stolen the Rest

The History Blog:
Threads of Power: superb tapestry porn

The History Blog:
Can you decipher the inscription on this sword?

Daily Mail:
A 'monster' emerges from the Baltic sea: Ferocious wooden figurehead that adorned a Danish warship surfaces after 500 years

The History Blog:
Spanish Armada artifacts recovered off Irish coast

The History Blog:
Intact gun carriage raised from 17th c. shipwreck

The History Blog:
Brussels' Manneken Pis tested for authenticity

The History Blog:
Mozart autograph manuscript returns to Salzburg

Ancient Origins:
Hoofprints of the Devil Spotted in the Snow?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Whatever Happened to the Wild Camels of the American West?

Atlas Obscura:
75 Years Later, the Deadly Bombing That Rocked the New York World's Fair Is Still Unsolved

BBC News:
How the UK found Japanese speakers in a hurry in WW2

Gizmodo:
Paul Allen recovers bell from HMS Hood

Smithsonian Magazine:
This Is the Only Color Photo of the First Atomic Explosion [Video]

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Physics Drove the Design of the Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan

Gizmodo:
Stunning map visualization shows every nuclear detonation since 1945

Air & Space Magazine:
The Man Who Solved the Mystery of Flight 901

Popular Science:
The Army Enlists Lockheed To Build Another Laser

Sputnik News:
NORAD Commander: Our Missile Defense Strategy Won't Work

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story of Mexican Coke Is a Lot More Complex Than Hipsters Would Like to Admit

BBC News:
Meeting Mali's most dedicated postman

Space Daily:
Researchers explain why the Greenwich prime meridian moved

Smithsonian Magazine:
Sleep With the Condors at This Peruvian Hotel Hanging Off a Cliff

Daily Mail:
That's a real cliffhanger! Breathtaking photographs show how China's spectacular 'Sky Roads' zigzag for nearly three miles across a steep mountainside

Smithsonian Magazine:
At "Russia's Burning Man," Strange Structures Transform Villages

Gizmag:
Pebble Beach preview: 135 "million dollar cars" set for auction

August 14, 2015

Daily Mail:
Penguins, pirates and even a minion: Spectacular show as more than 100 balloons take off at start of international fiesta

The Statesman:
From London to New York in one hour

Stuff NZ:
Scramjet-based project looks to blast Australia into space

Daily Mail:
The Blue Dream will finally fly! Beautiful Bugatti plane designed 75 years ago is just weeks away from its maiden flight

Sputnik News:
Drone Armed With Hacking Weapons Blows Minds at Def Con

Sputnik News:
South Korea Finds Way to Shoot Down Drones With Sound

Gizmodo:
Even Eagles Hate Drones

The Aviationist:
Jaw-dropping 360° video brings you aboard a P-51 flying with an F-22 in close formation

Jalopnik:
Russia's Massive Air Show Will Display The Defunct MiG 1.44 Prototype

The Aviationist:
Watch Russia's 5th Gen. stealth fighter perform stunning aerobatics, including "Cobra" and flat spin

Jalopnik:
America's Secret Airline Flies Non-Stop To Area 51

Jalopnik:
This CIA Released Film Shows The Birth Of Area 51 And The U-2 Spyplane

August 13, 2015

Norfolk Eastern Daily Press:
In my view: How UFO sighting made the headlines

Kingman Daily Miner:
Yesteryear: Report chronicles possible Kingman UFO

Mysterious Universe:
Playing Mind-Games of the UFO Kind

Mysterious Universe:
UFOs, Radar, and "Operation Bulldog"

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
An appeal to USAF veterans

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Missing chapters in the dragon dance

Daily Mirror:
'Peace-loving aliens tried to save America from nuclear war,' claims moon mission astronaut Edgar Mitchell

Scientific American:
War in Space May Be Closer Than Ever

Popular Science:
NASA's About To Test A Deep Space Rocket Engine, And You Can Watch It Here: Tune in Thursday starting at 4:30pm EDT

Gizmodo:
SpaceX's Crewed Rocket Passed A Major (Simulated) Test

Popular Science:
Space-Grown Lettuce Tastes "Awesome," Astronauts Say

Space Daily:
Mars Rovers and the Last Moonwalker to Invade Poland in September

Universe Today:
The Dwarf Planet Ceres

Daily Mail:
The search for the missing planet: Our early solar system may have had a fifth gas giant that disappeared after a crash with Neptune

Newbury Today:
After Hungerford UFO sightings, now it's crop circles

Stratford-upon-Avon Herald:
Mystery surrounds second crop circle near Stratford

Shropshire Star:
Not aliens: 'Clever' crop circle was vandals, says Shropshire farmer

Salisbury Journal:
Crop circle maker reveals secrets as he inspires new film

Sydney Morning Herald:
Sonic boom stuns Tamworth residents after meteor shower fireball

Daily Mail:
Are we all ALIENS? Support grows for the panspermia theory that claims life on Earth may have arrived here from outer space

August 12, 2015

MIT Technology Review:
The U.S. Air Force's Flying Saucer and Its Link to the X-35 Lightning II

ABC Australia:
Early morning Tamworth "explosion" mystery solved - sonic boom

Discovery News:
Spacewalking Cosmonauts Give Space Station Window a Scrub

Astrobiology Magazine:
How Much Contamination is Okay on Mars 2020 Rover?

Discovery News:
Rosetta's Comet Fires its Most Spectacular Jet Yet

Universe Today:
What is the Oort Cloud?

Discovery News:
Universe Is Dying, Galactic Survey Shows

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Clyde Tombaugh's Vision of Mars (1959)

San Jose Mercury News:
Meteor time! How to watch Wednesday night's big shower

August 11, 2015

Spaceflight Insider:
Russian spacewalkers successfully upgrade station's hardware

Universe Today:
Yummy! ISS Astronauts Eat First Space Grown Food

Sputnik News:
India to Launch Nine US Satellites by 2016

Air & Space Magazine:
Drones on the Moon

Universe Today:
The Moons of Saturn

New Scientist:
Kepler sees hints of asteroids pursuing planets near other stars

National Geographic:
Helpful Tips For Nuking An Asteroid

Wired - Bad Astronomy:
How to Watch This Week's Perseid Meteor Shower

August 10, 2015

Sputnik News:
Russia to Conduct Series of Simulated Flights to Moon, Mars in 2016-2020

Gizmodo:
This video of a Soyuz flight to the ISS is simply outstanding

Discovery News:
Mars Mission Will Drill Deep for Inside Information

Discovery News:
Mars 2020: Where We'll Look for Alien Life: Photos

Astrobiology Magazine:
Cruise Over Ceres in New Video

Daily Mail:
Mysterious 'alien spots' on Ceres are NOT ice, researchers say as they show off 3D video that reveals 4 mile high 'pyramid'

Universe Today:
Kick Back, Look Up, We're In For a GREAT Perseid Meteor Shower

WEEKEND EDITION: August 8 through August 9, 2015

Daily Mail:
Is our universe FAKE? Physicists claim we could all be the playthings of an advanced civilisation

Science Magazine:
Tiny black holes could trigger collapse of universe - except that they don't

Gizmag:
GE atomic swimmer robot keeps tabs on nuclear reactors

Toronto Star:
HitchBOT knew the risks but soldiered on

Boston Globe:
What it was like to ride with the sassy hitchhiking robot

New Sceintist:
Ancient crystals show Earth's magnetic field switched on early

Live Science:
'Magnetic' Discovery May Reveal Why Earth Supports Life and Mars Doesn't

National Geographic:
Has Yosemite's Iconic Half Dome Become Too Dangerous to Climb?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Visit the World's Most Amazing Old-Growth Forests

Live Science:
Primeval Procreation: Strawberrylike Animal Shows Oldest Reproduction

Live Science:
Ancient Reptiles Attacked with Giant Fangs

BBC News:
Why we like to believe that dinosaurs were scaly

Gizmodo:
A Drone Captured This Adorable Orca Family Photo

National Geographic:
Meet the First New Canine Found in 150 Years

Daily Mail:
Siberia's most ancient rock carvings revealed: Etchings of animals on bleak mountain plateau may be 10,000-years-old

Daily Mail:
Were the ancient Irish the first to record an ECLIPSE? 5,000-year-old drawings in mysterious cairn depict celestial event

National Geographic:
This Ancient British Monument Was 10 Times Bigger Than Stonehenge

Daily Mail:
Giant gates to Goliath's home discovered: Monumental fortification belonging to the Biblical city of Philistine Gath unearthed

Daily Mail:
Bronze Age knife discovered on beach by tourists: 3,000-year-old leather-working tool found hidden beneath the sand

The History Blog:
Bronze Age knife found on Isle of Wight beach

Daily Mail:
Mystery of the Jewish message found hidden in a secret chamber: 2,000-year-old Aramaic and Hebrew graffiti drawn with soot and mud leaves experts baffled

Gizmodo:
How to make bread like they did 2,000 years ago

Smithsonian Magazine:
A 13th-Century Sword Is Giving Historians a Headache

The History Blog:
Makeup heir buys rare medieval panel for National Gallery

National Geographic:
We Finally Have Clues to How America's Lost Colony Vanished

Daily Mail:
Mystery solved? London warship exploded in 1665 because sailors were recycling artillery cartridges, expert claims

National Geographic:
Who Was Jim Crow?

Smithsonian Magazine:
When Congress Looked James Smithson's Gift Horse in the Mouth

The History Blog:
The Charles Mitchell v. John L. Sullivan draw belt

The History Blog:
Mary Vetsera's suicide notes found in Vienna bank

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Sound and Fury of Philadelphia's Wanamaker Organ

Smithsonian Magazine:
The United States Once Invaded and Occupied Haiti

Smithsonian Magazine:
How a Five-Letter Word Built a 104-Year-Old Company

Smithsonian Magazine:
70 Years Ago, a B-25 Bomber Crashed Into the Empire State Building

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Physics Drove the Design of the Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan

Associated Press:
AP WAS THERE: US drops atomic bombs on Japan in 1945

The Independent:
The true cost of the Hiroshima bomb: John Hersey's definitive account

Bloomberg:
Hiroshima Blast Haunts Korean Survivors

Wall Street Journal:
Hiroshima: 70 Years After the Atomic Bomb

Smithsonian Magazine:
North Korea's Military Still Uses Stealth Planes From the 1940s

Jalopnik:
New Documents Found Pointing To Japan's WWII Atomic Bomb Program

Smithsonian Magazine:
The 390-Year-Old Tree That Survived the Bombing of Hiroshima

io9:
Learn How A Titan Missile Is Fired In This Video

Sputnik News:
Age of Tanks: 5 Reasons Why a Cold War Weapon is Making a Comeback

Jalopnik:
USS John Warner Shows Off Jumbo Missile Tube During Comissioning

The Aviationist:
Focus on Red Flag 15-3: how U.S. forces learn to fight in the unseen battle space

Daily Mail:
Capturing Earth at its most vivid: The stunning pictures taking top prize in this year's National Geographic Traveler contest

August 7, 2015

Daily Mail:
World's biggest plane to launch in 2016: Designers reveal megaplane could send astronauts into orbit using a mini shuttle

Sputnik News:
Airbus Wants Supersonic Jet to Fly Four Times Faster Than Speed of Sound

Daily Mail:
London to New York in just ONE HOUR: Airbus files patent for a hypersonic jet more than double the speed of Concorde

Gizmag:
F-35B Lightning II declared operational

Gizmodo:
NASA Continues Crashing Airplanes For Science

The Aviationist:
Freaking Awesome Photo of four U.S. F-15C Eagle jets Breaking the formation

Jalopnik:
Watch A B-1B Refuel And Thank The Tanker With A Gorgeous Burner Break

The Aviationist:
Alenia Aermacchi M-346 back in U.S. Air Force T-X advanced trainer program

Jalopnik:
Watch These Hyper Rare Vietnam-Era Jets Light Up The Sky Over Oshkosh

Jalopnik:
All These Jaw-Dropping Airplane Images Were Taken By This Flying Photog

Smithsonian Magazine:
Astronauts Have Some Weird Pre-Launch Traditions

Jalopnik:
Photos: India's Su-30MKI Flankers Sparred With Royal Air Force Typhoons

Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: Apollo 15, Hadley-Apennine and the open road

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Failure Was an Option: What If an Apollo Saturn Rocket Exploded on the Launch Pad?

Gizmodo:
Human Torch Drone Is a Crazy Dangerous Combination of Blades and Fire

August 6, 2015

Daily Mail:
The X-37b's big brother revealed: Boeing bags $6.6m contract to design reusable XS-1 robot spaceplane that will launch secret spy satellites and space weapons

Sputnik News:
NASA Renews $490Mln Contract With Russian Space Agency

New Scientist:
Watch the far side of the moon pass in front of Earth

Universe Today:
The Planet Mercury

Discovery News:
Curiosity's 3 Years Unraveling Mars' Mysteries

Discovery News:
DNews: What Did We Learn from the Pluto Flyby?

Discovery News:
Giant Mystery Ring of Galaxies Should Not Exist

Tech Times:
Delta Aquarid And Perseid Meteor Showers To Delight Skygazers

KVNF Public Radio:
Perseid Party

The History Blog:
Buzz Aldrin's travel voucher to the moon

August 5, 2015

Sputnik News:
Guarding Space: Russia Creates a New Branch of the Armed Forces - Aerospace

Sputnik News:
Russia Delivers First Two RD-181 Rocket Engines Under $1Bln Contract to US

Collect Space:
Apollo moon rocket engines recovered by Amazon CEO preserved for display

Universe Today:
Curiosity Drills Deep into First High Silica Martian Rock on Third Touchdown Anniversary

Smithsonian Magazine:
How NASA Dealt With Images of an Alien Planet in the 1960s

Daily Mail:
We are not alone, says Vatican: Pope's chief astronomer says alien life exists, but it is unlikely to have been visited by Jesus

August 4, 2015

Sydney Morning Herald:
Meteor captured streaking through Jervis Bay sky

9 News Australia:
Bright green meteor streaks through sky over Buenos Aires

Trend:
Iran confirms meteor hit

The Weather Network:
Meteor explosion caught on camera

Daily Mail:
Can you spot the space station? ISS captured in stunning images as it makes rare pass in front of the moon

Gizmag:
Mars orbiter prepares for next year's InSight lander arrival

Popular Science:
Fly Over Mars In This Breathtaking New Animation

Daily Mail:
67P up close: Images taken by Philae lander reveal what the comet looks like from just 30ft away

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
What a Comet Looks Like ... From 9 Meters Away!

Science Magazine:
Philae's scientific harvest may be its last

Popular Science:
4 Things We Learned About Comets From The Busted Philae Lander

ABC Australia:
Rosetta's comet covered by more than soft dust

Popular Science:
New Horizons Goes to Pluto: A Mission Timeline

Popular Science:
Pluto: So Long And Thanks For All The Pics

August 3, 2015

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Whatever works, obviously ...

Ancient Origins:
In 1665, Many Said They Saw a UFO Battle and Fell Sick Afterward

Central Somerset Gazette:
Looking Back: Do you remember the crop circle in Butleigh 25 years ago?

Bournemouth Daily Echo:
Mystery over crop circle in Dorset field

Daily Mail:
Great ball of fire! Incredible footage captures bright green meteor with an orange trail soaring across the sky over Buenos Aires

Spaceflight Insider:
Russia reveals long-term plans for its Angara launch vehicle

Daily Mail:
Buzzed by a 'space peanut': Nasa reveals strange shaped asteroid that passed just 4.5m miles from Earth last weekend

Universe Today:
Curiosity Discovers Mars Rock Like None Before, Sets Drill Campaign

Daily Mail:
Comet 67P contains 'seeds of life' and could take them to other planets data reveals as mission controllers say Philae lander may have fallen into a hole on its surface

Universe Today:
The Planet Saturn

Gizmag:
New map reveals a third of the stars in the Milky Way have dramatically changed orbit

New Sceintist:
Giant old galaxies, not Milky Ways, are best for life to thrive

Sputnik News:
Are We Too Late? Astronomers Look for Ruins of Ancient Space Civilizations

Space Daily:
Vatican sceptical about close encounters of the third kind

Stuff NZ:
Buzz Aldrin filed expense claim for Apollo 11 trip to the moon

WEEKEND EDITION: August 1 through August 2, 2015

Space.com:
Is Our Universe a Fake?

Symmetry:
Is this the only universe?

Daily Mail:
Have scientists invented real-life adamantium? New alloy has highest melting point of any known substance at 4,126°C

Daily Mail:
The Death Star weapon is here! Japan fires world's most powerful laser to produce energy equal to 1,000 times the planet's power consumption

Space War:
The growing fear of killer robot armies

Gizmag:
Earth's magnetic field may be more than 750 million years older than previously thought

Gizmag:
Robotic swans designed to look nice ... and to monitor water quality

Live Science:
Ancient Volcano Tattooed the Earth with Giant Rings

Space.com:
Ancient Huts May Reveal Clues to Earth's Magnetic Pole Reversals

Science Magazine:
Could some vaccines make diseases more deadly?

Daily Mail:
Tyrannosaurus rex had teeth like a STEAK KNIFE: Serrated bite of carnivores could crush bones, analysis reveals

io9:
Pterodactyls Are Not Dinosaurs. So What The Hell Are They?

ABC Australia:
Ancient lizards in amber amaze scientists

Daily Mail:
Battle to save the hugging chimps: Heartbreaking story of 66 apes and a baby 'abandoned' on island by medical firm after they finished experimenting on them

io9:
The Kodkod is the Cutest Cat You Never Knew Existed

The History Blog:
Floor of 4,000-year-old dwelling found in Ohio

Daily Mail:
Face of Thankerton Man revealed: Copper Age skull is finally given a face, showing what Scots looked like 4,000 years ago

The History Blog:
Five oversized Bronze Age axes found in Jutland Christmas tree farm

Daily Mail:
Mystery of a Mayan king: 1,600-year-old stone tablet reveals reign of early ruler in the ancient South American civilisation

io9:
Did This Woman Attempt Assassination-By-Plague?

Daily Mail:
Jamestown's original four colonial leaders discovered buried under the church where Pocahontas was married amid claims one may have been a Spanish SPY

The History Blog:
Jamestown remains identified as four early leaders

The History Blog:
Lost Guercino found by Sopranos actor on display in US

Gizmodo:
A Spanish Coin Worth $500,000 Was Just Found In a Florida Shipwreck

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Entertaining Saga of the Worst Crook in Colonial America

The History Blog:
Remains of soldiers in mass grave show toll of Napoleon's Russian campaign

BBC News:
Searching for Mrs Livingstone

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Scandalous Story Behind the Provocative 19th-Century Sculpture "Greek Slave"

San Francisco Chronicle:
Library of Congress images show S.F. as it was before 1870

Daily Mail:
From the trenches of WWI to conquering the South Pole: How Australian photographer Frank Hurley captured history in iconic images of human endurance... and alienated every friend he had

The Guardian:
Theatre of war: how the monarchy suppressed anti-Nazi drama in the 1930s

BBC News:
Why is the US still using a Nazi tall ship?

National Geographic:
Warship's Last Survivors Recall Sinking in Shark-Infested Waters

Smithsonian Magazine:
Tour the World's First Nuclear Power Plant

Gizmodo:
Before the Internet, This Archaic Machine Is How Photos Were Transmitted

Mysterious Universe:
A Government Secret in Plain Sight

BBC News:
One rower, two cats, 900 miles

Gizmodo:
The process of launching a nuclear missile is completely riveting

BBC News:
Litvinenko: A deadly trail of polonium

Popular Science:
China uses high tech giant hovercraft to storm a beach, capping off a giant operation of warships, helicopters, artillery and marine infantry

Gizmag:
Morgan AR Plus 4 blends classic lines with modern power

Gizmag:
Ten $10 million cars head for Pebble Beach

Gizmag:
Penniless in Pebble Beach (the poor man's guide to Monterey Car Week)

Smithsonian Magazine:
America's Road Trip: Route 66's Most Fascinating Museums

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Best Little Museum You Never Visited in Paris

Smithsonian Magazine:
Take a Spin on the Most Beautiful, Hand-Crafted Carousels in the Nation

Gizmodo:
Actually, Perpetual Slinky Escalator Is Humanity's Greatest Achievement

July 31, 2015

Sputnik News:
15 Years After Concorde Crash, No Push for Supersonic Air Travel

The Independent:
Supersonic flight: Concorde's successors are in the works 15 years on from the Paris crash

Popular Mechanics:
This Experimental Japanese Plane Could Take Some Boom Out of Sonic Booms

Air & Space Magazine:
The Next World Speed Record

Gizmodo:
Even cleaning the V-22 Osprey looks cool

Gizmodo:
Watch a MiG-29 take off and immediately shoot up vertically into the sky

The Aviationist:
HD Video: The life of a U.S. Navy C-2A Greyhound squadron at sea

The Aviationist:
The Legenday F4U Corsair as you have never seen it before

Air & Space Magazine:
Bad Day in Space

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
After EMPIRE: Using Apollo Technology to Explore Mars and Venus (1965)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Skylab-Salyut Space Laboratory (1972)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Rocket Belts and Rocket Chairs: Lunar Flying Units

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
The Notorious 1962 Proposal to Launch an Astronaut on a One-Way Trip to the Moon

Air & Space Magazine:
The Birdman of Topeka

July 30, 2015

Mysterious Universe:
Roswell's Missing Files - 20 Years On

Daily Mail:
Nasa's 'impossible' fuel-free thrusters DO work: German scientists confirm viability of super-fast space travel that could slash a journey to the moon down to 4 HOURS

Stuff NZ:
Once-ridiculed EMDrive may in fact be the future of space travel

io9:
No, German Scientists Have Not Confirmed the "Impossible" EMDrive

Discovery News:
Cassini To Make Final Flybys Of 2 Icy Saturn Moons

Stuff NZ:
Roger Hanson: The mission to Europa

Universe Today:
Neptune's Moon of Triton

Universe Today:
Eris' Moon of Dysnomia

Akron Beacon Journal:
Meteor shower is a highlight of August skies

Portland Press Herald:
What's Up in August: Another super moon, and the annual meteor shower

July 29, 2015

The Daily Express:
REVEALED: Special Branch tailed UFO cult leader for FIVE YEARS over fears he was communist

New Scientist:
SpaceShipTwo crash due to lax safety oversight say investigators

Discovery News:
Poor Pilot Training Blamed For Virgin Galactic Crash

Daily Mail:
Fatal Virgin Galactic crash was caused by 'braking error': Co-pilot unlocked the craft's feathering system too early, report finds

io9:
China is Building an Absolutely Massive Radio Telescope

Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA's Curiosity Rover Inspects Unusual Bedrock

Astrobiology Magazine:
'Bathtub Rings' Suggest Titan's Dynamic Seas

Spaceflight Insider:
The European Space Agency (ESA) has created an incredible interactive website that lets you tour the International Space Station (ISS)

Discovery News:
DNews: Is There A Bermuda Triangle In Space?

July 28, 2015

Daily Mail:
Is Russia preparing for a new space war? Three mysterious 'communications satellites' launched by the Kremlin within 18 months have potential to be weapons, say U.S. analysts

Universe Today:
USAF High Throughput Tactical Satcom Takes Flight in Stunning Florida Sunset Blastoff

Spaceflight Insider:
China launches two satellites for its BeiDou navigation system

Spaceflight Now:
Video: Liftoff of Delta 4 with WGS 7

Daily Mail:
Nasa's biggest ever rocket gets closer to reality: Agency completes review of Space Launch System to send humans to Mars

Sputnik News:
Jumbo Jet to Jupiter - New Airbus Spacecraft Will Probe for Alien Life

Astrobiology Magazine:
Why we live on Earth and not Venus

Universe Today:
Venus

Discovery News:
Mini-Machines Take Aim for Europa's Mysteries: Photos

Daily Mail:
Goodbye Pluto! Final image of dwarf planet reveals strange hazy atmosphere as stunning new shots confirm the 'dark heart' has moving GLACIERS made of nitrogen

New Scientist:
What would happen if a massive comet crashed into the sun?

Daily Mail:
Mystery of Japan's ancient star chart solved: Constellations painted on tomb ceiling map how stars would have looked in CHINA in 65 BC

July 27, 2015

Stoke Sentinel:
VIDEO: Did you see this 'meteor' shooting across the sky in Stoke-on-Trent?

Spaceflight Now:
Space station crew restored to six with Soyuz docking

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Soyuz crew craft treks from Kazakhstan to space station

Sputnik News:
Russia Extends Life of International Space Station Until 2024

Gizmag:
NASA looking into the use of windbots to explore the skies of Jupiter

Discovery News:
Pluto, Enhanced: Photo Reveals Dwarf Planet's Complexity

Science Magazine:
How Pluto's most spectacular image was made - and nearly lost

Daily Mail:
Meet Earth 2.0: Kepler 452b revealed as most similar planet to our own ever found with a 'substantial opportunity' for life

Stuff NZ:
Twelve new potential Earths

Discovery News:
Kepler Discovers Earth's Older Sister

IEEE Spectrum:
$100 Million Hunt for Aliens Aims to Survey One Million Stars

Surrey Mirror:
Mysterious photos of crop circles in Merstham

Gloucestershire Echo:
Crop circle attracts group of 20 international tourists - prompts angry call to the police

BBC News:
Display marks 25 years of crop circles study

KOLD-TV Tucson:
Meteor shower peaks at the end of July

WEEKEND EDITION: July 25 through July 26, 2015

Daily Mail:
The Weyl fermion is finally discovered: Massless particle first theorised in 1929 could pave way for next-generation quantum computing

Universe Today:
What's the Big Deal About the Pentaquark?

Daily Mail:
The village where only ROBOTS drive: Inside the autonomous driving test track where the buildings are fake and even the popup pedestrians are mechanical

Daily Mail:
The four legged SNAKE: Fossil find reveals serpents evolved from burrowing lizards

Daily Mail:
Can you spot the snow leopard? Amazing photographs show the elusive predator stalking its prey in the Himalayas

Daily Mail:
The owl and the pussy cat who really DID become best friends and made the internet melt

Daily Mail:
Did humans start farming 11 THOUSAND years earlier than we thought? Stone 'sickles' suggest we were cultivating crops 23,000 years ago

Daily Mail:
The original Americans: First settlers came from Siberia in a single group more than 23,000 years ago, new study finds

Smithsonian Magazine:
A DNA Search for the First Americans Links Amazon Groups to Indigenous Australians

Daily Mail:
Is this the oldest evidence of written language? Pictograms found in ancient Turkish city could be 12,000-years-old

Daily Mail:
Wooden fortress older than the PYRAMIDS unearthed on housing estate: 'Crannog' built by boat building community dates back almost 5,000 years

Daily Mail:
Bronze Age teenager unearthed near Stonehenge: 4,000-year-old skeleton discovered in ancient burial site

Daily Mail:
King Philip II's tomb uncovered in Greece: Analysis confirms skeleton belongs to the father of Alexander the Great

Live Science:
Alexander the Great's Father Found - Maybe

Live Science:
Weird Horse-Cows and 6-Legged Sheep Found in Iron Age Burials

The History Blog:
Linen with cartouche of Cleopatra's father found

The History Blog:
Mayan hieroglyphic stele found in Guatemala

Daily Mail:
World's oldest Koran found: Pages from ancient manuscript may have been written shortly after Prophet Mohammad died

Smithsonian Magazine:
Can Sound Explain a 350-Year-Old Clock Mystery?

Live Science:
Cracked Bones Reveal Cannibalism by Doomed Arctic Explorers

Archaeology Magazine:
Letter from Virginia - Free Before Emancipation

Smithsonian Magazine:
150 Years Ago, a Fire in P.T. Barnum's Museum Boiled Two Whales Alive

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Mad Challenge of Translating "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Smithsonian Magazine:
Here's What Steam-Powered Cars Were Like Before the Combustion Engine

Air & Space Magazine:
In 1942, the Army Built a Decoy Airfield in Virginia - to Fool the Luftwaffe

Daily Mail:
How 'Ghost Army' helped foil the Nazis: Amazing pictures show inflatable tanks and huge speakers playing audio of non-existent machinery that fooled Germany into thinking 30,000 troops were massing on front line

Air & Space Magazine:
Crowdsourcing Saves D-Day's First Airplane

Wired:
Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway - With Me in It

Smithsonian Magazine:
The International Olympic Committee Just Rescued Its Priceless Video Archive

The History Blog:
1,000,000 minutes of historical news on YouTube

Smithsonian Magazine:
What Endures From the Ancient Civilizations That Once Ruled the Central Andes?

Daily Mail:
Life in the land of the golden temples: A mesmerising tour of Burma's monks, sea gypsies and spellbinding sites

io9:
Watch The Ten Muppetrific Minutes of Footage That Sold ABC on The Show

July 24, 2015

Gizmag:
Terrafugia unveils new design for TF-X autonomous flying car

Gizmag:
Australian pilot clean sweeps first international drone racing competition

Jalopnik:
Think An Osprey Is A Transformer In The Air? Check It Out On The Ground!

Popular Science:
Dogfights Of The Future Will Be Unmanned

Air & Space Magazine:
Pretend to Fly Pan Am - On a Hollywood Sound Stage

Air & Space Magazine:
About That F-18 Photo

Air & Space Magazine:
The Jumbo Flies an Airshow

Jalopnik:
Flyby Over Buckingham Palace Marks 75th Anniversary Of Battle Of Britain

Jalopnik:
The Last Avro Vulcan Bomber Flying Just Pulled Off An Amazing Stunt

Jalopnik:
The SR-71 Blackbird's Most Spectacular Flyover Was Also Its Slowest

Jalopnik:
This Giant Nazi Plane Was The Largest Land-Based Transport Of WWII

io9:
How the Soviet Union Almost Won the Race to Be First to Photograph Mars

Air & Space Magazine:
Space $ouvenirs

Mysterious Universe:
The Strange Saga of a Secret Aircraft

July 23, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Live coverage: Three-man crew arrives at space station

Sputnik News:
Soyuz Failed Solar Panel Opens During Docking With ISS - Roscosmos

Space.comNews:
Russia Launches New Space Station Crew After 2-Month Delay

Universe Today:
Moonspotting - A Guide to Observing the Moons of the Solar System

Popular Science:
Pluto Has A Second Mountain Range That Looks Like Earth's Appalachians

Air & Space Magazine:
Stowaways on New Horizons

Smithsonian Magazine:
These Pictures Give a Rare Glimpse Into the Heart of the Pluto Flyby

Sputnik News:
NASA Hints It's Found Another Earth

July 22, 2015

Daily Mail:
The emotional goodbye: Astronauts bid farewell to their loved ones as they make final preparations for delayed trip to the Space Station

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz ferry craft rides rails to launch pad

Spaceflight Now:
First flight of Falcon Heavy delayed again

Discovery News:
How to Make a Tougher Spacecraft: Photos

Sputnik News:
Rosetta Spacecraft Loses Contact With Philae Lander - Aerospace Center

New Scientist:
Philae may have moved - and Rosetta will start to look south

Discovery News:
Massive Search Will Scour Cosmos for Intelligent Aliens

New Scientist:
$100m project uses world's best radio telescopes to find aliens

Daily Mail:
'We've got a 1% chance of making contact': Head of $100m hunt for alien life backed by Professor Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner reveals its chances

Gizmodo:
How Early Astronomers Managed to Measure Cosmic Distances

July 21, 2015

Sputnik News:
Pentagon Alarmed With Russia's Military Satellite 'Maneuvering Too Much'

Spaceflight Now:
Support strut probable cause of Falcon 9 failure

Gizmag:
The Rosetta mission ahead of perihelion

Sputnik News:
Rosetta Spacecraft Loses Contact With Philae Lander - Aerospace Center

Spaceflight Insider:
India eyes possible mission to Venus

Sputnik News:
NASA Sets Sights on Robot-Built Moon Colony

Sputnik:
Ancient Mars Was Icy Rather Than Covered With Water, New Study Claims

Daily Mail:
Have we found 'solar system 2.0'? Jupiter's twin spotted orbiting a sun like our own, and it could help create conditions for life

Daily Mail:
The exoplanets that hint at life billions of years older than Earth: Five new planets raises possibility of super-advanced civilisations

Daily Mail:
A galaxy far, far away: Astronomers confirm star system 13.1 billion light-years away is the most distant known in the universe

Popular Science:
More Evidence Life Could Have Come From Beyond

July 20, 2015

Winnepeg Sun:
The M-Files: A look at Manitoba's UFO history

Discovery News:
Evasive Maneuvers: Space Station Dodges Space Debris

Daily Mail:
'The solar system saved the best for last': Nasa releases stunning flyover animation of mountains and vast icy plains in Pluto's mysterious 'dark heart'

Discovery News:
Pluto and Charon Dazzle in New Horizons Portrait

The Atlantic:
The Camera Behind the New Pluto Photos

Discovery News:
Pluto's Weirdly Young Surface Doesn't Make Sense

New Scientist:
New Horizons team baffled by discovery of icy plains on Pluto

Science Magazine:
Pluto is alive - but where is the heat coming from?

Gizmodo:
Pluto's Atmosphere is Billowing Away into Space

Stuff NZ:
Probe heading into deep space

New Scientist:
Apollo-Soyuz: A cold war handshake in space, 40 years on

Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: One giant leap, the flight of Apollo 11

WEEKEND EDITION: July 18 through July 19, 2015

Daily Mail:
Behold the PENTAQUARK! Large Hadron Collider discovers new particle that has eluded scientists since the 1960s

Stuff NZ:
Hadron Collider breakthrough: After 50-year hunt, science finds pentaquarks

New Scientist:
Vibrating stars could reveal elusive ripples in space-time

Daily Mail:
A very polite robot uprising! Humanoid shows a glimmer of self-awareness - and apologises - during scientific experiment

Daily Mail:
'Artificial Intelligence is as dangerous as NUCLEAR WEAPONS': AI pioneer warns smart computers could doom mankind

Science Magazine:
Which movies get artificial intelligence right?

Gizmodo:
This Robot Is Hitchhiking Across the US (Please Don't Steal His Boots)

The Gaurdian:
Huge and ancient underwater volcanoes discovered off coast of Sydney

Universe Today:
What is the Pacific "Ring of Fire"?

Wired:
2,500 Tons of Rock Fell Off Half Dome and Nobody Noticed

Daily Mail:
Mammals went through an 'explosion' of evolution while dinosaurs roamed the Earth

Daily Mail:
The terrifying 'bloodthirsty giant peacock': New species of 5ft long winged dinosaur discovered - and it hints that Velociraptors were covered in feathers too

The Guardian:
Zhenyuanlong suni: biggest ever winged dinosaur is found in China

The Guardian:
100 million-year-old fossils shed new light on Australia's ancient inland sea

Mysterious Universe:
Scary New Fish Species Discovered in Underwater Volcanoes

BBC News:
The decline of the 'disgusting' burbot

National Geographic:
Fighting Octopuses Video Is First to Show How They "Talk"

Stuff NZ:
Why did the Maori dog kuri die out? Scientists looks for clues in old hair and bones

Daily Mail:
Hop on board! Raft guide rescues an abandoned bear cub from a river by coaxing her onto his boat and paddling her to safety

Ancient Origins:
Four 6000-Year-Old Tombs with Child Burials Uncovered in Egypt

Ancient Origins:
4,400-year-old ruins found near ceremonial site may be the oldest house ever found in Britain

Daily Mail:
Did China discover AMERICA? Ancient Chinese script carved into rocks may prove Asians lived in New World 3,300 years ago

The History Blog:
2,000 Bronze Age gold spirals found in Denmark

Ancient Origins:
Ancient Persian Inscriptions Link a Babylonian King to the Man Who Became Buddha

Ancient Origins:
Twenty Four more Ancient Geoglyphs Discovered in Nazca, Peru

The History Blog:
Inscription found mentioning last Thracian kings

Ancient Origins:
Archeologists discover Ancient Celtic village with more than 150 roundhouses

The History Blog:
Rare Roman frescoes found in Arles

Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists unearth 2,000-year-old Roman Legion outpost that controlled Jewish uprisings

Ancient Origins:
Rediscovered Papyri Fragments Provide Charming Insight into Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt

Ancient Origins:
Glass shard found at Japanese shrine matches artifacts from Persian Royal Palace

Ancient Origins:
New Mosaics Add to the Intrigue of Israeli Synagogue Story

Ancient Origins:
Researchers confirm that recently discovered Tonina Pyramid is Largest Pyramid in Mexico

Ancient Origins:
Sword of Late Viking Age Burial Unveiled Exhibiting Links Between Norway and England

The History Blog:
Gilded Late Viking sword found in Norway

The History Blog:
Original floor of Coventry Cathedral revealed

Daily Mail:
Watch the Mona Lisa come to life: Interactive version of masterpiece sees her frown, turn her head, and even breathe

BBC News:
The quietest corner of London

Slate:
What Can Browne Do For You?

io9:
The Sisters Who "Talked to the Dead" and Sparked America's Seance Craze

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Singer Won the Sewing Machine War

National Geographic:
How the Matterhorn Created Modern Mountaineering 150 Years Ago

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Statue of Liberty Arrived in New York in 350 Pieces

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Was One of Hollywood's First Female Film Directors, Dorothy Arzner, Forgotten?

The History Blog:
Happy birthday, Dymaxion Car!

Gizmag:
Rare Engima machine sells at auction for $232,000

Air & Space Magazine:
Hello Again, Comrades!

Daily Mail:
Nazi gold hoard unearthed: 217 coins found with swastika seal were buried underneath a tree during last days of World War II

Mysterious Universe:
1st Atomic Explosion Happened 70 Years Ago

Daily Mail:
Radioactive WWII wreckage discovered off Californian coast: Aircraft carrier and its nuclear cargo are 'amazingly intact'

BBC News:
Eric Roberts: The spy who suffered

BBC News:
Interrogated for playing the wrong tune

Gizmag:
Harrington's new $10,000 Junior Formula One Car

Gizmag:
Mercedes-Benz 540K Spezial Roadster ... going cheap

Smithsonian Magazine:
You Can Still Stay a Night at These Grand Hotels From the Gilded Age

July 17, 2015

Daily Mail:
Watch the $3.5bn F-35 stealth jet fire its hidden 'wing cannons' (but it won't have the software to fire them in the air until 2019)

Gizmag:
Flying replica set to fulfill Bugatti's radical aircraft dream

Gizmag:
Restored Spitfire fetches record £3,106,500 at auction

Air & Space Magazine:
Learning to Fly the Fortress

Stuff NZ:
How does the New Horizons mission to Pluto rate among the great space moments?

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
What Shuttle Should Have Been: NASA's October 1977 Space Shuttle Flight Manifest

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
EMPIRE Building: Ford Aeronutronic's 1962 Plan for Piloted Mars/Venus Flybys

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
A Forgotten Rocket: The Saturn IB

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
"Assuming That Everything Goes Perfectly Well in the Apollo Program. . ." (1967)

The Aviationist:
Video of an F-16 high performance take off: up to 15,000 feet in 45 seconds

July 16, 2015

BBC News:
Why the New Horizons flyby of Pluto is so amazing

Spaceflight Now:
Scientists thrilled with mountains on Pluto, chasms on Charon

Daily Mail:
Welcome to Iceworld: Stunning first hi-def image of Pluto reveals huge 11,000 foot mountains made of water-ice and a geologically active surface

io9:
Pluto Is a Geologically Active World, But We Don't Know Why

io9:
Charon, You are a Glorious, Beautiful, Complicated Moon

National Geographic:
9 Things You Didn't Know About Pluto

Smithsonian Magazine:
Where Will the New Horizons Probe Go After Pluto?

io9:
When We Discovered Pluto, It Changed How We Saw The Solar System

Smithsonian Magazine:
Are These 1909 Photos the Oldest Pictures of Pluto?

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
New Horizons II (2004-2005)

July 15, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Humanity's first ambassador to Pluto makes historic flyby

Discovery News:
NASA's Pluto Mission: 'We Have A Healthy Spacecraft'

Spaceflight Now:
Take a sneak peek at Pluto

Spaceflight Now:
Scientists wowed by new views of 'psychedelic' Pluto

Discovery News:
New Horizons Reveals A Psychedelic Pluto And Charon

Stuff NZ:
Eight planets or nine? Ask your heart

Daily Mail:
Is a mini ICE AGE on the way? Scientists warn the sun will 'go to sleep' in 2030 and could cause temperatures to plummet

July 14, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Clear sailing expected for Pluto flyby

Discovery News:
On Target: NASA Probe Ready To Punch Through Pluto System

Spaceflight Now:
Pluto stakes claim as 'King of the Kuiper Belt'

Discovery News:
Confirmed: Pluto Is Reigning King Of The Kuiper Belt

Discovery News:
Pluto's Moon Charon Hosts Craters And Monster Canyon

Universe Today:
Pluto's Moon of Hydra

Discovery News:
New Horizons Is Seeing Signs Of Kuiper Belt 'Blood Spatter'

Wiltshire Gazette and Herald:
Police start criminal damage probe over crop circle on Wiltshire farmland

FG Insight:
Exhibition aims to reveal all about mysterious crop circle phenomenon

Swindon Advertiser:
VIDEO: Aerial view of stunning crop circle near Stonehenge

Daily Mirror:
Rendlesham Forest UFO sighting: New evidence 'proves authorities covered up paranormal activity'

BBC News:
Rendlesham Forest UFO sighting 'new evidence' claim

Daily Express:
RENDLESHAM: US commander feared attack after 'UFO fired laser' and 'explosion in woods'

July 13, 2015

Discovery News:
Pluto Flyby Begins: NASA Probe Enters Encounter Phase

Spaceflight Now:
NASA probe finally on Pluto's doorstep

Discovery News:
NASA's Mission To Pluto By The Numbers: Photos

Universe Today:
Pluto's Time to Shine Just Hours Away - A Guide and Timetable

Space.com:
A Brief History of Pluto Viewing: From Its Discovery to New Horizons Flyby

Space.com:
How NASA's New Horizons Mission to Pluto Works (Infographic)

Sputnik News:
Indian Space Research Successfully Launches Five Commercial UK Satellites

Spaceflight Now:
NASA names cadre of commercial crew astronauts

Daily Mail:
One small click for mankind: Nasa's new 'crater view' of Mars lets you journey around the red planet in high-resolution

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Heartbreak in the UFO closet

WEEKEND EDITION: July 11 through July 12, 2015

Space.com:
The Illusion of Time: What's Real?

The Guardian:
This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but with a Big Rip

Sputnik News:
US Scientists Find Earth Explosion Unavoidable

The Atlantic:
The Computers of Our Wildest Dreams

Gizmodo:
The Latest Google Algorithm Creates Video Based On a Few Still Images

Popular Science:
The DARPA Robotics Challenge Was A Bust

Gizmodo:
This Jumping Robot Is Extremely Cute... And Very Difficult to Destroy

Popular Science:
Two-Legged Robot With Human Feet Can Now Walk Independently

Daily Mail:
It's On! Japanese megarobot makers accept US inventors challenge to battle - but say they want hand to hand robo-combat as giant guns are 'super American'

Daily Mail:
Would YOU share your home with Buddy? Housekeeper robot that even plays hide and seek with the kids to launch in 2016

Smithsonian Magazine:
What Killed the Dinosaurs in Utah's Giant Jurassic Death Pit?

Daily Mail:
'Wendiceratops' dinosaur reveals clues about how the triceratops got its horn: Fossils show the bizarre beast had a 'beak'

Smithsonian Magazine:
Researchers Just Found a Surprising Stash of Dinosaur Eggshells in Japan

Daily Mail:
It's a miracle! 'Jesus lizard' first walked on water 48million years ago in the lush tropics of Wyoming

Stuff NZ:
Genome study reveals how the woolly mammoth thrived in the cold

Smithsonian Magazine:
Ever Heard of the Bontebok? It's an African Animal Humans Nearly Destroyed, Then Saved

Gizmodo:
See the Great Barrier Reef from the perspective of a swimming turtle

The History Blog:
2,000 Bronze Age gold spirals found in Denmark

Archaeology Magazine:
In Search of a Philosopher's Stone

Daily Mail:
Vikings? It was the CELTS that wore horned helmets: Exhibition reveals the history and stunning beauty of ancient Celtic culture

The History Blog:
The great find and great loss of Childeric's treasure

Smithsonian Magazine:
Sixth-Century Misery Tied to Not One, But Two, Volcanic Eruptions

Daily Mail:
Mongol ship sent by Genghis Khan's grandson to invade Japan before it was destroyed by 'kamikaze' typhoon is discovered underwater after 700 YEARS

Universe Today:
Who Was Nicolaus Copernicus?

The History Blog:
Two 16th c. silver vessels found in pre-Inca fortress

The History Blog:
Turner's High Street, Oxford to remain in Oxford

The History Blog:
Restored 1813 presentation flag, Betsy Ross & the Lost Dauphin

Smithsonian Magazine:
In 1915 a Former Harvard Professor Tried to Blow Up the U.S. Capitol

Daily Mail:
When Coney Island reigned supreme and bathing suits grazed your knee: Photos of New York beachgoers from 1880 to 1940s capture incredible change of fashions and timeless love of the sand

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Scopes Trial Redefined Science Journalism and Shaped It to What It Is Today

Gawker:
July 10, 1926: The Day Nature Blew up a Town in New Jersey

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Colonel Sanders Made Kentucky Fried Chicken an American Success Story

Smithsonian Magazine:
In 1950, the U.S. Released a Bioweapon in San Francisco

The Atlantic:
Living Test Patterns: The Models Who Calibrated Color TV

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Stories Behind Disneyland's Hidden Wonders

Daily Mail:
Licence to chill: Hidden in a £6million London townhouse... the cosy bar that made spying history and was paid for by both MI6 and the KGB

Discovery News:
'Apollo 13': 20 Things We Love, 20 Years Later

Smithsonian Magazine:
What it Took to Create the World's First Gay Art Museum

Sputnik News:
One Shot, One Kill: Russia Develops New Ship-Sinking Artillery

Daily Mail:
Saab unveils superstealth 'ghost submarine' that is virtually invisible to enemies and even allows divers to silently enter and exit

Daily Mail:
Russia claims to have developed secret 'superweapon' capable of switching off foreign satellites and enemy weapons

Gizmag:
One and only Maserati Boomerang concept headed for auction

Daily Mail:
Frozen in time: Inside the space age TWA terminal at JFK built in 1962 that is soon to be turned into a boutique hotel

Smithsonian Magazine:
Behold the World's Tallest Sandcastle, 41 Feet Tall

July 10, 2015

Gizmodo:
This Is the First Video To Be Projected on to Clouds From an Airplane

Daily Mail:
The $60m son of Concorde: Firm reveals private jet that could travel from London to New York in THREE hours

Popular Science:
Yup, The Army Is Working On A Hoverbike

The Atlantic:
Supersonic Airplanes and the Age of Irrational Technology

Gizmodo:
Watch a MiG-23 fighter jet fly insanely close to the ground

Jalopnik:
Japan's Totally Original Maritime Patrol Jet Is Hunting For Buyers

Jalopnik:
This Is A Fully Armed F-15SA, The Most Advanced Production Eagle Ever

Gawker:
Drone of the Day: S-100 Camcopter

Jalopnik:
The Navy Has Retired The EA-6B Prowler After 45 Years Of Service

Gizmodo:
The Last of the Vulcans Retires After 55 Years of Service

Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: Sojourner - Born on the 4th of July

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
MIT Saves the World: Project Icarus (1967)

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
EMPIRE Building: Ford Aeronutronic's 1962 Plan for Piloted Mars/Venus Flybys

New Scientist:
Chasing Pluto's shadow in a Boeing 747

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Pluto: Doorway to the Stars (1962)

July 9, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Musk: Falcon 9 rocket failure a "huge blow" to SpaceX

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX delays next Crew Dragon abort test

Stuff NZ:
New Zealand to take surprise lead in private space race

Popular Science:
This Could Be The Combustion Engine That Works On Venus

Popular Science:
NASA Is Seriously Considering Terraforming Part of the Moon With Robots

Sputnik News:
NASA Wants to Send Microbes to Mars Prep Red Planet for Human Habitation

Discovery News:
Is Mars Humid Enough To Support Life?

Astrobiology Magazine:
Earth and Mars Could Share A Life History

Discovery News:
From the Start, Pluto was a Puzzle: Timeline

Universe Today:
Is Kapteyn B Not to Be?

Science Magazine:
Astronomers spot the pebbles that turn into planets

Daily Mail:
Is the universe EMPTIER than we thought? Simulations suggest there could be 100 times fewer galaxies than predicted

Gizmodo:
Here's a Real-Time Map of All the Objects in Earth's Orbit

The Inquisitr:
Mysterious Crop Circles Spotted In Wiltshire, Near Stonehenge [Video]

July 8, 2015

Gizmodo:
We're Only a Pluto Day Away From Pluto

Gizmodo:
Watch Mars Opportunity's 11-Year Mission in Just 8 Minutes

Sputnik News:
India's Space Program to Launch Its Heaviest Commercial Mission to Date

Spaceflight Insider:
2014 incident may provide clue to cause of SpaceX Falcon 9 failure

Spaceflight Now:
New Horizons back in business after weekend scare

Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Studies Rock-Layer

Astrobiology Magazine:
Advances in Robots Needed to Explore Icy Moons

Universe Today:
Uranus' Moon of Titania

Scientific American:
Signs of Water Ice Detected on Comet Surface

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Crash Course Astronomy: Meteors!

Universe Today:
What is the Roden Crater?

Popular Science:
Check Out Russia's New Spaceport Being Built

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Is Star Trek Tech Possible?

July 7, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Russia launches cargo ship to station

Spaceflight Now:
Progress resupply mission arrives at ISS

Universe Today:
Russian Progress Supply Freighter Docks at Space Station, Ending String of International Launch Failures

Spaceflight Insider:
Russia launches Progress M-28M spacecraft with supplies for the ISS

Universe Today:
Russian Progress Launch Restores Critical Cargo Lifeline to Space Station

Spaceflight Now:
Data, not debris, takes spotlight in Falcon 9 failure investigation

Spaceflight Insider:
For some, loss of CRS-7 Dragon is personal

Spaceflight Insider:
Falcon 9, Dragon debris begins washing up in Florida and Georgia

Spaceflight Now:
New Horizons gets 'all clear' for Pluto flyby

Space Daily:
New Horizons 'Speeds Up' on Final Approach to Pluto

Spaceflight Now:
Technical problem pauses Pluto probe's science operations

Discovery News:
Pluto Probe Glitch Traced to Software Timing Flaw

New Scientist:
New Horizons hiccup won't affect Pluto mission science

Spaceflight Insider:
New Horizons team planning on resuming science on July 7

Universe Today:
New Horizons Exits Safe Mode, Operating Flawlessly for Upcoming Pluto Encounter

Popular Science:
New Horizons Spacecraft Gets A Whiff Of Pluto's Methane

IEEE Spectrum:
After a 9-Year Voyage, New Horizons Will Have Little Time to Measure Pluto's Atmosphere

National Geographic:
Spacecraft Will Reach Pluto in July, Revealing Last Face in Solar System

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
C'mon, How Much Weirder Can Pluto Get?

ABC Australia:
Four mysterious spots detected on Pluto

Space.com:
NASA Slammed a Probe Into a Comet 10 Years Ago Today

Space Daily:
NASA Met Unprecedented Challenges Sending Spacecraft to Pluto

Science Magazine:
Feature: How Alan Stern's tenacity, drive, and command got a NASA spacecraft to Pluto

The Guardian:
Philae comet could be home to alien life, say top scientists

io9:
What to Expect From Aliens When We Make First Contact

Bustle:
6 Reported Alien Encounters That Were Never Fully Explained, In Honor Of World UFO Day

JULY 4TH WEEKEND EDITION: July 4 through July 6, 2015

Vox:
Some physicists believe we're living in a giant hologram - and it's not that far-fetched

Calcutta Telegraph:
Ideas? Physicists call them 'jewels'

The National:
The theory that may have been stringing scientists along for years

Bangalore Mirror:
From string theory to Mother Of All Theories

Popular Science:
This Insanely Hard, Self-Driving Robot Race Takes Place In A Parking Lot

Gizmodo:
You'll Spend Hours Transforming This Expanding Cabinet Just For Fun

Gizmag:
CanopyStair helps you traverse the treetops

Daily Mail:
Scientists discover Sahara Desert contained the world's largest lake named Mega Chad until it evaporated in just a few hundred years

Daily Mail:
Helium is LEAKING from massive earthquake fault in LA raising fears 'big one' could be more devastating than thought

Daily Mail:
The centipede from HELL: Deepest dwelling 'Hades' creature found in caves 3,600ft underground

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Deep Dive Into the Skeleton of the Oldest-Known Modern Bird

National Geographic:
The Echoes of Toothed Birds

Smithsonian Magazine:
After the Dinosaurs Died, Earth Experienced the Age of Fish

National Geographic:
The Making of California's Mini-Mammoths

National Geographic:
You Just Missed the Last Ground Sloths

Daily Mail:
Young sabre-tooth tigers were pussy cats! Fearsome beasts didn't get their dagger-shaped fangs until the age of three

Daily Mail:
In the jungle, the mighty jungle… lions sleep 20ft up as a tree offers the only shade in scorching wilderness

National Geographic:
The Mystery of Kangaroo Adoptions

National Geographic:
Crow Tries to Fight Eagle, Gets Free Ride Instead

Ancient Origins:
4,000-Year-Old Mochica Temple and Tombs Unearthed in Peru

Daily Mail:
Arrowhead discovered lodged in Iron Age warrior's spine... and scans reveal he SURVIVED the injury

Live Science:
Athenian Wealth: Millions of Silver Coins Stored in Parthenon Attic

Daily Mail:
Ancient Jewish ritual bath discovered under a home in Jerusalem: 2,000 year old miqwe still bears scars of Roman city siege

Times of Israel:
Mysterious 2,000-year-old marble dolphin surfaces near Gaza

Daily Mail:
Step back in time: Roman footprints discovered in Israel reveal details of 1st century soldiers' hobnail boots

Daily Mail:
This Roman soldier put his foot in it! 2,000-year-old tile with teenager's footprint found near Hadrian's Wall

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Fall and Rise and Fall of Pompeii

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Mad King and Magna Carta

The History Blog:
Artifacts found on 700-year-old Swiss battle site

Smithsonian Magazine:
What It's Like to Travel the Inca Road Today

Universe Today:
What Did Galileo Invent?

Gizmodo:
How a museum restores a beautiful painting from hundreds of years ago

Smithsonian Magazine:
Bringing Thomas Jefferson's Battered Tombstone Back to Life

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Great Moon Hoax Was Simply a Sign of Its Time

National Geographic:
When Darwin Met Another Ape

Smithsonian Magazine:
Before Moby-Dick, There Was "Two Years Before the Mast"

Daily Mail:
Polished human bones confirm 130 sailors turned to cannibalism after their ships got trapped in Franklin's doomed 1845 Arctic expedition to find Northwest Passage

The History Blog:
156 years ago today, the first man crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope

The History Blog:
Unique pre-Civil War Brooklyn Atlantics card for sale

National Geographic:
Where Alice in Wonderland, Now 150 Years Old, Came From

Des Moines Register:
Van Meter remembers 1903 visit from winged monster

Forbes:
The Tunguska Event: Still A Mystery After 107 Years

BBC News:
Why the Indian soldiers of WW1 were forgotten

National Geographic:
2 Weeks, 4 Deaths, and the Beginning of America's Fear of Sharks

National Geographic:
In the Footsteps of Gandhi

BBC News:
How The Bomb changed everything

Air & Space Magazine:
How the Korean War Almost Went Nuclear

Daily Mail:
The hidden world of America's almost-Armageddon: The abandoned facilities dotted across the US that were once dedicated to all-out nuclear war

Smithsonian Magazine:
What's Changed, and What Hasn't, in the Town That Inspired "To Kill a Mockingbird"

BBC News:
Tennis's reluctant transgender pioneer

Science Magazine:
Why a pandemic flu shot caused narcolepsy

Gizmodo:
Paris Gets Its First Skyscraper In 42 Years, And It Was Worth the Wait

Daily Mail:
Stunning images of the places time forgot: Vine-covered buildings, ghost ships and eerie, abandoned streets... where nature rules

Gizmag:
Alfa Romeo opens museum with mouthwatering historical collection

Gizmag:
Pictorial: 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed

July 3, 2015

Daily Mail:
Will this be the first plane on Mars? Nasa drone to be sent to scout landing locations for manned missions in 2020s

IEEE Spectrum:
Foldable Airplane Could Ride a Cubesat to Mars in 2022

Daily Mail:
Red zeppelin: Russia set to unveil military airships capable of carrying 200 personnel and traveling up to 105mph without the need for a runway

Popular Science:
We Wish This Luxury Airship Was Real

Popular Science:
Watch This Strange Multicopter Carry A Guy

Jalopnik:
The F-35 Can't Beat The Plane It's Replacing In A Dogfight: Report

Jalopnik:
75 Amazing Images Of U.S. Air Power In South Korea

Gizmodo:
Watch a F-16 shoot down a drone in the air

Jalopnik:
See WWII Warbirds Buzz The Hell Out Of St. Barth's Scary Little Airport

Gizmodo:
Video: Flying man in wing suit slices right through a hole in a mountain

Jalopnik:
Was This Huge WWII Floatplane Going To Deploy Mini-Subs To U.S. Shores?

Jalopnik:
Meet Northrop's XST, The Plane That Lost Out To The Original Stealth Jet

The Aviationist:
Project Whale Tale: the story of how the U-2 became an embarked reconnaissance aircraft.

Popular Science:
From Our Archives: Sign Up Here For A Trip To Space

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
What Shuttle Should Have Been: NASA's October 1977 Space Shuttle Flight Manifest

Gizmodo:
Space Shuttle Wreckage Fills This Heartbreaking NASA Exhibit

Universe Today:
What is the Space Age?

July 2, 2015

Daily Mail:
Mystery fireball seen in southeastern US yesterday was SPACE JUNK, says Nasa

Sputnik News:
Russia to Launch Large-Scale Space Projects With China

Space.com:
Russian Cargo Spacecraft Will Launch to Space Station Early Friday

Spaceflight Insider:
All eyes on Progress: Russian spacecraft to deliver supplies to ISS

Popular Science:
Air Force Sent Self-Destruct Command To Broken SpaceX Rocket

Spaceflight Insider:
How significant is the loss of SpaceX's Falcon 9?

Space.com:
How Will Sunday's Rocket Explosion Affect SpaceX?

Scientific American:
SpaceX Rocket Failure Threatens Support for Commercial Spaceflight

Space News:
SpaceX Failure Leaves Long List of Customers in the Lurch

Spaceflight Now:
Satellite owners among bystanders in Falcon 9 accident

Spaceflight Now:
Before Falcon 9, SpaceX Learned From Falcon 1 Flops: Photos

Spaceflight Now:
Padalka breaks spaceflight endurance record

Daily Mail:
Rosetta spots SINKHOLES on comet 67P: Giant abysses formed when ice turned to gas and the surface collapsed

Daily Mail:
Nasa reveals the underwater alien hunting robot set to go to Europa to look for life

Astrobiology Magazine:
Early Titan Was a Cold, Hostile Place For Life

Spaceflight Now:
New Horizons two weeks from Pluto flyby

Popular Science:
Journey Into The Sun's Guts With Benedict Cumberbatch As Your Guide [Video]

Sputnik News:
Scientists in Russia Create 3D Model of 2013 Chelyabinsk Meteor

Daily Mail:
Could Britain be hit by a deadly TSUNAMI? Software reveals likely asteroid impact 'corridors' and the Norfolk coast is at risk

Gizmodo:
What the sky would look like if you could see all the asteroids

July 1, 2015

Discovery News:
SpaceX Commercial Crew Will Have Launch Escape Route

Science Magazine:
Earth's colossal crater count complete

Smithsonian Magazine:
Seven Surprises From the First Flybys of Each Planet in the Solar System

Space Daily:
37 Years after Its Discovery, Pluto's Moon Charon Is Being Revealed

Discovery News:
Broiling Exoplanet Sports 'Behemoth' Comet Tail

Discovery News:
Stellar Rejuvenation: Some Exoplanets May Get Facelifts

Scientific American:
Exclusive: Astronomers Discover the Most Jupiter-Like Exoplanet Ever Seen

Sputnik News:
Universe's Inflation Had Seven Phases of Acceleration and Deceleration

Portland Press Herald:
What's up in July: A meteor shower, a blue moon and a Pluto flyby

June 30, 2015

WSB-TV:
NASA officials confirm mysterious fireball is space junk

Universe Today:
Cause of SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Failure Unknown; Launch Explosion Photos

IEEE Spectrum:
SpaceX Rocket Explosion Is Latest in Space Station Resupply Failures

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX failure adds another kink in station supply chain

New Scientist:
SpaceX rocket explosion is setback for US crewed space missions

Sputnik News:
SpaceX Failure Endangers Scheduled Launches of Commercial Customers

Sputnik News:
America Needs Russian Rocket Engines to Fly to Space - US Space Command

Daily Mail:
Now THAT'S off roading: Audi reveals 4WD lunar rover that will launch in 2017

Universe Today:
What are the Signs of the Planets?

Universe Today:
A Brief History of Nukes in Space

June 29, 2015

Daily Mail:
SpaceX Falcon 9 reusable rocket EXPLODES moments after launch following an 'anomaly on ascent'

Spaceflight Insider:
With loss of SpaceX Dragon NASA now dependent on Russia, Japan for access to ISS

Sputnik News:
Loss of SpaceX Cargo Resupply Mission No Threat to ISS Crew Security - NASA

Spaceflight Now:
Video: SpaceX supply mission explodes just after launch

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Falcon 9 breaks apart en route to ISS

Spaceflight Now:
China sends up remote sensing satellite

Space Daily:
Rover In Good Health After Communication Blackout

Discovery News:
Comet Metal Rained Down On Mars

Universe Today:
Rosetta Orbiter Approved for Extended Mission and Bold Comet Landing

Daily Mail:
Has Rosetta found ice on 67P? 120 bright patches on the comet's surface could be frozen water

Farmers Weekly:
Crop circle in Wiltshire field investigated by police

Inquistr:
Crop Circles Discovered Near Turin, Italy And Estella, Navarra, Spain [Video]

WEEKEND EDITION: June 27 through June 28, 2015

Scientific American:
Does a Multiverse Fermi Paradox Disprove the Multiverse?

Gizmodo:
Astronomers Say There May Be Other Universes That Are Better for Life

Gizmodo:
We May Have Dramatically Misunderstood the Shapes of Black Holes

CNN:
Look out! Autonomous, military-funded 'cheetah' robot is off its leash

Technabob:
This Opera Stars a Robot

BBC News:
The Devonian extinction saw the oceans choke to death

Daily Mail:
Hero in a half-formed shell: Early ancestor of turtles with a bony belly but bare back lived 240 million years ago

The Guardian:
Dinosaur comes out of closet at South Africa university

Smithsonian Magazine:
16 Million Years Ago This Giant Bat Walked the Jungles of New Zealand

BBC News:
Our deep need for monsters that lurk in the dark

Gizmodo:
BearCam Is Back and It's Beary, Beary Nice

Live Science:
Modern Human Possibly Had Neanderthal 'Great-Great-Grandparent'

Daily Mail:
40,000 year old Romanian jawbone reveals humans interbred with Neanderthals far earlier than thought

Daily Mail:
Oldest human footprints in North America found: 13,200-year-old impressions could reveal migration patterns

Daily Mail:
Stonehenge's sun-disc revealed: Rare 4,500-year-old gold decoration found in grave near sacred site goes on display

Ancient Origins:
Chinese Votive Sword Found in Georgia suggests Pre-Columbian Chinese travel to North America

The History Blog:
Lavau noble buried wearing 1.28-pound gold torc

Smithsonian Magazine:
Have Something Rude to Say? Put it on This 2300-Year Old Statue in Rome

The History Blog:
Merovingian wine jug found in Denmark cemetery

Ancient Origins:
Weapons unearthed near site of 1315 battle between Swiss peasants and imperial cavalry

Ancient Origins:
Remains of castle built by powerful Japanese feudal leader unearthed in Kyoto

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Murky Tale of John Smith and the Mermaid

The History Blog:
Getty acquires rediscovered papal bust by Bernini

The History Blog:
Napoleon's last gift to his son: wee dueling pistols

Stuff NZ:
Roger Hanson: The cannons of Waterloo

The History Blog:
Wellington's cloak from Waterloo for sale

Smithsonian Magazine:
An Art Dealer Just Found a Forgotten Monet Pastel Hidden Behind Another Drawing

The Atlantic:
Beyond Black and White: The Forgotten History of Color in Silent Movies

io9:
This Antiquated Technology is Why Movies are Called "Flicks"

io9:
Two Nobel Prizes Were Dissolved (and Recast) To Keep Them From The Nazis

The Atlantic:
That Time the CIA Bugged a Cat to Spy on the Soviets

Gizmodo:
For Sale: 1960s Missile Site, Bring Your Own Missiles

BBC News:
Getting close to my son who died on Air India 182

The Atlantic:
Even Early Focus Groups Hated Clippy

Jalopnik:
The Ohio-Class Guided Missile Nuclear Submarine Is One Dangerous Beast

Smithsonian Magazine:
Ride America's Most Historic Roller Coasters

Gizmag:
"Barnfind" 1925 Bugatti T13 fetches $950,000

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Look Behind the Peruvian Art of Gourd Carving

Gizmodo:
Making a stone axe without any tools is really impressive

Gizmodo:
Hilarious stop-motion video of two guys karate fighting on the ground

June 26, 2015

Time:
Watch Explosive New Video of SpaceX's Rocket Landing Test

Gizmodo:
This Is SpaceX's Second Barge, Preparing to Catch a Rocket on Sunday

Popular Science:
Watch SpaceX's Epic Landing Attempt Right Here On Sunday

Daily Mail:
The helicopter that doesn't need a pilot: US Navy reveals plans to use 40 full size helicopter drones for long range missions

Daily Mail:
Forget the flying car, meet the personal helicopter: 18 rotor electric craft revealed

Gizmodo:
Watch a 10-engine drone transform from a helicopter into a plane

Sputnik News:
New V-280 Valor Tiltrotor May Replace Entire US Army Helicopter Fleet

Gizmodo:
Seeing B-2 stealth bombers land is like seeing alien UFOs come to Earth

Jalopnik:
It's MiGs Versus Eagles Training High Over Europe

The Aviationist:
Rare video shows Russian Air Force Tu-160 Blackjack bombers activity in the Arctic

Jalopnik:
Did The Soviets Build A Better Shuttle Than We Did?

Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: SpaceShipOne - Small step

DSFP's Spaceflight History:
The Gemini Spacewalks That Never Were: The Gemini Extravehicular Planning Group (1965)

Daily Mail:
Finally! World's first consumer jetpack will go on sale next year (but be warned - it will set you back $150,000)

IEEE Spectrum:
The Insider's Guide to Drone Videography

Gizmag:
In pictures: Paris Air Show 2015

June 25, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Russian military satellite launched from Plesetsk

Space Daily:
China's super "eye" to speed up space rendezvous

Sputnik News:
Pentagon Plans Space-War Center to Defend Against Adversaries Russia, China

Popular Science:
Crater Shows Mars Probably Had Water 500,000 Years Ago

Space.com:
Bizarre Cometlike Alien Planet Is First of Its Kind

Scientific American:
Cosmic Turbulence May Spawn Monster Magnetic Fields

Gizmodo:
Why Scientists Have Been Scared of Space Germs for Almost 50 Years

Jalopnik:
New Area 51 Satellite Imagery Shows Massive New Hangar Almost Finished

io9:
These Lights In The Sky Are So Strange, They Look Like Alien Signals

June 24, 2015

Spaceflight Insider:
Russia launches Persona-3 reconnaissance satellite

Daily Mail:
Rosetta lives on: Comet-chasing mission is extended until September 2016 - and it could end with a spectacular crash into 67P

Spaceflight Now:
New Horizons in good shape approaching Pluto

Astrobiology Magazine:
Jupiter's Movements Made Way For Earth

Universe Today:
How Many Moons Does Uranus Have?

Universe Today:
Uranus's Moon of Oberon

Space Daily:
Titan's atmosphere even more Earth-like than previously thought

Discovery News:
Pluto's Moons Offer Secrets And Threaten Danger

New Scientist:
Grand Theft Sedna: how the sun might have stolen a mini-planet

Daily Mail:
More than 800 'ultra dark' galaxies found - and astronomers say there is a mysterious force surrounding them all

June 23, 2015

Stuff NZ:
Big solar storm smacks Earth

Daily Mail:
Look out! Sun unleashes 'triple whammy' geomagnetic storm on Earth as forecasters prediction massive aurora and possible problems from severe storm TONIGHT

Spaceflight Insider:
Third spacecraft in troubled Persona series to be launched on June 23

Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft nears 60,000th orbit

Daily Mail:
More than 800 'ultra dark' galaxies found - and astronomers say there is a mysterious force surrounding them all

Scientific American:
Meteorite Thefts Pose a Problem in Ancient Impact Field

Daily Mail:
'Pyramid' spotted on Ceres: Mysterious lone mountain discovered towering over the surface of the dwarf planet

Discovery News:
Philae Comet Lander Back In Touch With Mothership

Gizmodo:
Interplanetary Spacecraft, Ranked

Discovery News:
Building A Starship Would Begin In Earth Orbit

June 22, 2015

Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Friends relish memory of 1967 UFO hoax

Sputnik News:
Russia Confirms Elimination of US On-Board Computer Failure at ISS

Scientific American:
Hubble's Proposed Supersize Successor Generates Controversy

Gizmag:
Scientists look at communicating with hypersonic vehicles using plasma resonance

Daily Mail:
Active volcanoes are spotted on Venus: Astronomers discover hot lava flows on 'Earth's evil twin'

New Scientist:
Lava lakes spotted on Venus may be how it stays so blemish-free

Daily Mail:
Death-defying Rosetta 'dives' could keep the Philae mission alive: Close encounters with the comet will retrieve once-in-a-lifetime data from the lander

Spaceflight Now:
For comet scientists, elation and redemption at Philae's wakeup

Spaceflight Now:
Saturn moon's ice canyons viewed by Cassini

Discovery News:
Titan's Weird Surface Dissolves Like Earth's Sinkholes

Universe Today:
NASA Gives 'GO' for Mission to Alien Ocean World at Jupiter Moon Europa

Discovery News:
Fuzzy To Clear: Space Robots Snap Solar System Into Focus

Astrobiology Magazine:
Earth and Mars May Have Shared Seeds of Life

WEEKEND EDITION: June 20 through June 21, 2015

Daily Mail:
Black holes AREN'T deadly: 'Fuzzball' theory claims we wouldn't notice if one swallowed Earth - and they can create copies of us too

ABC Australia:
General relativity explains why Schrodinger's cat is alive

New Scientist:
Earth's gravity may force us to do quantum experiments in space

Gizmodo:
Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk

Gizmag:
Fifty years of Shakey, the "world's first electronic person"

Gizmodo:
These Slithering Modular Snakebots Are the Future of Robotics

Gizmag:
Backstage with the world's most advanced robots

Daily Mail:
Brimstone really DOES lie beneath our feet: Researchers find Earth's core contain's 90% of planet's sulphur

Daily Mail:
Mount Everest shifts 1.2 inches south-west after shock of Nepal earthquake

National Geographic:
First Day of Summer: 4 Things to Know About the Summer Solstice

Astrobiology Magazine:
Fossils Explain How Life Coped During Snowball Earth

Science Magazine:
Nuclear blasts shed light on how animals recover from annihilation

Live Science:
Paradise Avoided: Why Largest Dinosaurs Skipped the Tropics

Stuff NZ:
Ancient discovery pushes back New Zealand bat history

Daily Mail:
Southpaws from the pouch: Kangaroos are left-handed, researchers find

Daily Mail:
Scientist discovers new big-eyed pink species of octopus that is so cute she is considering calling it the 'Adorabilis'

Smithsonian Magazine:
Half of All Languages Come From This One Root Tongue. Here's How it Conquered the Earth.

Daily Mail:
Kennewick Man WAS a Native American: DNA from 8,500 year old skeleton reignites debate over who controls remains

ABC Australia:
Asians, Europeans were fair-skinned around 5000 years ago

Ancient Origins:
Name from Davidic era found inscribed on 3,000-year-old vessel

Daily Mail:
Has China unlocked a lost civilisation? Archaeologists believe newly discovered city wall could hold secrets to an ancient capital nearly 1,000 years older than Rome

Daily Mail:
Does France's 2,500-year-old royal tomb belong to a prince or princess? Stunning Celtic find complete with chariot and jewels leaves archaeologists baffled

Daily Mail:
Mystery of the 450 ancient Greek dead babies solved: Remains discovered at bottom of well reveal macabre tradition 2,000 years ago

Live Science:
Gladiator Fights Revealed in Ancient Graffiti

Live Science:
Ancient Rome's Aqueducts Held Less Water Than Previously Thought

Smithsonian Magazine:
A New Recreation Shows How Ancient Romans Lifted Wild Animals Into the Colosseum

Ancient Origins:
Ancient Inscriptions Decoded at the Spectacular Temple of the Mayan King Pakal

Live Science:
Search for King Henry's Tomb Centers on English Playground

BBC News:
How did the Turin Shroud get its image?

Ancient Origins:
Bad weather reveals stunning relics from the Spanish Armada

Smithsonian Magazine:
The American at the Battle of Waterloo

The Guardian:
Don't spare the horses: how the Battle of Waterloo became a stage sensation

Smithsonian Magazine:
Six Ways the Civil War Changed American Medicine

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Most Loved and Hated Novel About World War I

Smithsonian Magazine:
Andrew Jackson Wasn't Always on the $20 Bill

The Guardian:
Hobbit first edition with JRR Tolkien's inscription doubles sales record

Smithsonian Magazine:
Los Alamos's "Atomic Secretary" Was Never Told What the Manhattan Project Was For

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Radio DJ Hoppy Adams Powered his 50,000-Watt Annapolis Station into a Mighty Influence

Air & Space Magazine:
Bringing Inflight Movies to Airlines Was Harder Than It Sounds

Mysterious Universe:
A Beautiful Death: The LSD-Mediated Passing of Aldous Huxley

Mysterious Universe:
When the BBC Banned the Bomb

The Atlantic:
How Apple and IBM Marketed the First Personal Computers

Sputnik News:
Invisible No More: US Stealth Subs to Lose Unbeatable Advantage

Gizmag:
High-speed thrills at the Cholmondeley Pageant of Power

Daily Mail:
What a ride on a 750 mph solar-powered pod might look like: Firm unveils its luxurious vision for Elon Musk's Hyperloop

San Francisco Chronicle:
Photos: See what the Tampa Airport did with a boy's lost stuffed tiger

June 19, 2015

Daily Mail:
Is this the end for Solar Impulse? Plane faces a race against time to finish its round-the-world trip by the end of summer

Daily Mail:
Russia is developing a secret 'MICROWAVE GUN' that can shoot a drone out of the sky from six miles away, claims military official

Daily Mail:
US soldiers could soon travel like stormtroopers: Military bosses developing Star Wars 'hoverbikes' for the battlefield

Gizmag:
Airbus H160 helicopter makes its first flight

Gizmag:
E-Fan 2.0 makes podium appearance at Le Bourget

Sputnik News:
Three More Prototypes of Sukhoi T-50 Fighter to Start Flight Tests in 2015

Popular Science:
Inside America's Next Spyplane

Gizmodo:
Two planes crazily fly through a hangar in an epic stunt

Jalopnik:
Hungarian Pilot Punches Out Of His Saab Gripen During Emergency Landing

Jalopnik:
This Cute Lil' Fighter Jet Is So Damn Adorable (And Deadly)

Air & Space Magazine:
Winning the Stratobowl in 1935

Daily Mail:
Russia's forgotten space agency: Haunting images reveal two abandoned Soviet shuttles rotting in giant derelict hangar

Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: Tereshkova's flight for equality

Universe Today:
Neil Armstrong: The First Man to Walk on the Moon

Universe Today:
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin - The Second Man on the Moon

Universe Today:
Who Was The First Man To Go Into Space?

Universe Today:
Mir: Russia's Space Station

io9:
Astronauts Have Done So, So Much With Duct Tape And Electrical Tape

June 18, 2015

Popular Science:
To Listen For Philae Lander, Rosetta Orbiter Moves Perilously Close To Comet

Universe Today:
Exquisite Views of Earth's Cities Featured in First Ultra HD Videos from Space Station

Space.com:
Pluto Awaits: NASA Spacecraft 20 Million Miles from Epic Encounter

Universe Today:
New Video Will Get You Excited for New Horizons' Pluto Encounter (as if you already aren't...)

Universe Today:
What Is The Kuiper Belt?

Space.com:
Alien Planet Is Smaller Than Earth and Surprisingly Light

Space.com:
Kepler-138 b Facts: Mars-Size Exoplanet Smaller Than Earth (Infographic)

New Scientist:
Dual asteroid strike hints at chaos in the inner solar system

Stuff NZ:
Russian official wants probe into US moon landings

June 17, 2015

Daily Mail:
LightSail goes out in a blaze of glory: Mission ends with fiery re-entry after pushing the boundaries of space propulsion

Space.com:
NASA Satellite Falls Out of Space, Burns Up Over Tropics

Spaceflight Now:
Engineers seek to stabilize radio link with comet lander

Astrobiology Magazine:
Philae Wake-Up Triggers Intense Planning

Daily Mail:
The moon's 'ring of dust' revealed: Nasa uncovers permanent lopsided cloud that could finally solve the mystery of strange glow seen Apollo astronauts

Daily Mail:
Is this proof of life on Mars? Methane extracted from Martian rock could be a food source for organisms on the red planet

Daily Mail:
'Mars NEVER had oceans': New theory says the red planet used to be cold and icy, not warm and wet

Discovery News:
5 Space Robots Rescued From Dying Missions

June 16, 2015

New Zealand Herald:
Mystery noise baffles Auckland residents

Space.com:
Dead Satellite Will Fall Out of Space on Tuesday

Spaceflight Insider:
The saga of The Planetary Society's LightSail-A

Daily Mail:
Philae is 'completely awake': Lander makes contact for a SECOND time after coming back to life on comet 67P

The Guardian:
Rosetta spacecraft to change orbit in bid to strengthen Philae communication

New Scientist:
Philae awakes: What next for probe after 7 month nap on comet?

Astrobiology Magazine:
Mercury Sole Survivor of Close Orbiting Planets

Space Daily:
Japanese space agency plans to get samples from Martian moon

Universe Today:
First Interplanetary CubeSats to Launch on NASA's 2016 InSight Mars Lander

Astrobiology Magazine:
Robotic Tunneler May Explore Icy Moons

Popular Science:
New Horizons Principal Investigator Still Considers Pluto a Planet

Space Daily:
Hubble detects stratosphere-like layer around exoplanet

Space Daily:
Work-experience schoolboy discovers a new planet

June 15, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
U.S.-Russian-Italian crew returns to Earth

Discovery News:
Hello Earth! Comet Probe Philae Wakes Up

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Space crew welcomed home after 199-day mission

Spaceflight Now:
Comet lander wakes up!

New Scientist:
Our exploration of the solar system is just getting started

Discovery News:
Helium-Filled Exoplanets Likely Float Throughout The Galaxy

Spaceflight Now:
Jack King, 'Voice of NASA,' dies at 84

WEEKEND EDITION: June 13 through June 14, 2015

Daily Mail:
Does the future affect the PAST? Physicists demonstrate how time can seem to run BACKWARDS

Universe Today:
Mathematics: The Beautiful Language of the Universe

Universe Today:
What are Gravitational Waves?

Science 2.0:
Is The New LHC Run The End Of Particle Physics As We Know It?

New York Times:
A Crisis at the Edge of Physics

Daily Mail:
So much for rise of the machines! Hilarity at defense agency's $2m killer robot contest as potentially deadly automatons are taken down by corners, stairs and even sand

IEEE Spectrum:
DARPA Robotics Challenge: A Compilation of Robots Falling Down

IEEE Spectrum:
How South Korea's DRC-HUBO Robot Won the DARPA Robotics Challenge

IEEE Spectrum:
Bots Do Ballet in Brooklyn, and the Crowd Goes Wild

Stuff NZ:
Winter El Nino about to bite

Daily Mail:
A REAL Welsh dragon! Fossil of meat-eating dinosaur that terrorised Wales 200 million years ago unearthed

Stuff NZ:
Fossil from 6-metre shark found in US

Daily Mail:
Researchers shrink the size of the biggest dinosaur on Earth (but say dreadnoughtus still weighed 40 tons and was at least 26 metres long)

ABC Australia:
Red blood cells, collagen fibres found in poorly preserved, 75-million-year-old dinosaur bones

Stuff NZ:
Kawhia giant penguin brought to virtual life

ABC Australia:
Marsupial mouse survives fire by switching itself off

National Geographic:
Why Are Chipmunks Wearing Mini Spy Microphones?

Audobon Magazine:
A Highrise for Peregrines

Audobon Magazine:
Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Bird Wing Collection

Stuff NZ:
Chimps get drunk on fermented palm sap

Archaeology Magazine:
The Story of the Horse

Daily Mail:
Do RABBITS hold the key to the Neanderthal extinction? Ancient cousins couldn't adapt to catch fast prey, study reveals

Science Magazine:
Nomadic herders left a strong genetic mark on Europeans and Asians

Ancient Origins:
3,800-Year-Old Statues from Advanced Caral Civilization found in Peru

Ancient Origins:
Five Huge Bronze Age axes discovered in a field in Jutland, Denmark

Ancient Origins:
Elite Iron Age Scythian warrior discovered with bronze arrowhead embedded in his spine

Ancient Origins:
Six tombs containing mummies belonging to elite figures of 26th Dynasty unearthed in Egypt

Live Science:
Burned Bones in Alexander the Great Family Tomb Give Up Few Secrets

Ancient Origins:
Amazon Warrior Woman on Horseback Discovered on 2,500-Year-Old Vase

Daily Mail:
The grave of Sleeping Beauty: 2,000-year-old Ethiopian site reveals 'beautiful and adored' woman seemingly asleep on her side - and staring into a mirror

Ancient Origins:
New Photos Reveal Giant Easter Island Moai Statues are Covered in Mysterious Symbols

Daily Mail:
How Satan went viral: Interactive map shows where the Salem witch trials spread - and pinpoints the source of hysteria to a local reverend

Smithsonian Magazine:
How George Washington Did His Hair

Smithsonian Magazine:
Relive the Battle of Waterloo With These Astonishing Portraits of War Reenactors

Smithsonian Magazine:
Amateur Women's Baseball Teams Existed as Early as 1866

Gizmodo:
The LA Dodgers Got Their Name From Brooklyn's Deadly Streetcars

Audobon Magazine:
Eyes in the Sky: A Short History of Bird Spies

Daily Mail:
Lessons from the past: High school renovations reveal students' chalkboard drawings frozen in time at Thanksgiving 1917

Daily Mail:
Teddy Roosevelt's 'Summer White House' in Long Island set to reopen to the public following a $10million restoration by the National Park Service

Gizmag:
Rare Leica gun RIFLE camera prototype goes to auction

National Geographic:
Newly Discovered Amelia Earhart Film Reignites Mystery

Smithsonian Magazine:
Houghton Mifflin Once Sued Another Publisher on Behalf of Hitler and Mein Kampf

Air & Space Magazine:
If You Like Ballpoint Pens, Thank the R.A.F.

io9:
Inflatable Tanks, Paradummies And More Incredible Fake Objects From WWII

Jalopnik:
How The Royal Navy's X-Class Midget Subs Helped Make D-Day Possible

Smithsonian Magazine:
What a 1950s Fashion Maven Might Teach Us About What To Wear

BBC News:
The children taken from home for a social experiment

Daily Mail:
How Turing solved the enigma of Solitaire: Codebreaker's letter to girl, 8, explains how to crack the game (and here it is for anyone who's lost their marbles trying to solve it)

BBC News:
The history of Henry Mancini's Moon River

Daily Mail:
It's 20 years ahead of the West - and it WON'T blow up 'like its predecessor': Brains behind Russia's new robotic tank reveals secrets of machine at centre of $500BILLION military upgrade

Smithsonian Magazine:
What Is a Maker Faire, Exactly?

io9:
This Delightfully Morbid Cartoon Rewinds The Day An Unlucky Man Dies

June 12, 2015

Daily Mail:
Watch incredible footage of Boeing Dreamliner shooting straight up into the sky instantly from take off as pilots prepare for air show

Daily Mail:
World's first plug-in plane takes off: Bright sparks at Airbus unveil electric two-seater aircraft at the Paris Air Show that's nearly silent in flight

Gizmodo:
The World's Biggest Aircraft Could Launch a New Age of Airships

Daily Mail:
Are giant seaplanes the future of flight? Blended wing design can carry 2,000 passengers at once - without the need for an airport

The Aviationist:
Russia has grounded all its Tu-95 strategic bombers after one Bear skidded off runway and caught fire

The Aviationist:
Two B-2 Spirit stealth bombers join three B-52s deployed to UK in a show of Global Reach

Jalopnik:
Love the Jet Or Hate It, This F-35B Deck Operations Video Is Awesome

Daily Mail:
Grandson of Hiroshima pilot who dropped world's first nuclear bomb takes command of US Air Force's fleet of stealth jet bombers

Jalopnik:
The Space Shuttle's Military Launch Complex In California That Never Was

Jalopnik:
These B-17 Low-Level Passes Will Bring A Nostalgic Tear To Your Eye

Air & Space Magazine:
The First U.S. Air Law Was In a Town Without Airplanes

Richmond Palladium-Item:
64 years ago, jets fell from the Wayne Co. sky

June 11, 2015

WTVR:
'Windows in the house were shaking,' says couple awakened by mystery booms

Nelson Star:
Thunder-like boom in West Kootenay prompts speculation

Nelson Star:
Meteor speculation continues

Spaceflight Now:
NASA confident in finding fix for test parachute failure

Discovery News:
Soyuz Thruster Glitch Knocks Space Station Off-Kilter

Daily Mail:
International Space Station glitch caused spacecraft to fire its engines and shift position yesterday, Russian space agency reveals

Spaceflight Now:
Three station fliers set for return to Earth

Spaceflight Now:
Russia updates launch schedule for ISS crews, cargo

Daily Mail:
Next stop, interstellar space! LightSail sends back image of its giant solar sail that may help it explore the solar system

Spaceflight Now:
LightSail hailed as precursor for low-cost planetary missions

Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: Remembering Spirit

Space.com:
Mystery on Mercury: Strange Pattern of Huge Cliffs Defy Explanation

Daily Mail:
Are signs of life on Mars hiding in GLASS? Deposits found in impact craters on the red planet may contain organic material

Daily Mail:
Take a flight around Ceres: Dawn spacecraft offers close-up video tour of the pockmarked dwarf planet

Discovery News:
We STILL Don't Know What Those Bright Blobs On Ceres Are

Universe Today:
Ceres Bright Spots Keep Their Secret Even From 2,700 miles Up

Daily Mail:
Can you solve the mystery of the bright spots on Ceres? Latest images reveal the phenomena in its best detail yet

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
What the Heck Are Those Spots on Ceres?

Sputnik News:
NASA Reveals Recent Pictures of Saturn's Heavily Cratered Moon Tethys

Discovery News:
Saturn's Newly Discovered Ring Dwarfs The Gas Giant

Daily Mail:
Lost in space: Nasa reveals 'loneliest galaxy' floating in a 150 million light year-wide abyss

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
A Cautionary Tale

June 10, 2015

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Let's just forget this ever happened

Sputnik News:
ISS Crew Return Still on Schedule After Soyuz Engine Firing Incident

Universe Today:
Longest Woman Spaceflyer to Return as Russia Reshuffles Station Launches After Rocket Failure

Space Daily:
Electric thruster propels China's interstellar ambitions

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Video Ridealong with a Soyuz Capsule Docking with the Space Station

Space Daily:
Rover Ready for Solar Conjunction and Period of Curtailed Operations

Universe Today:
What Are The Moons of Jupiter?

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Crash Course Astronomy: Asteroids

June 9, 2015

Sputnik News:
International Space Station Adjusts Orbit to Evade Space Junk

Discovery News:
Space Station Crew Returning to Earth After Delay

Daily Mail:
Nasa launches radical 'flying saucer' that could help people land on Mars in 2035 - but it ends in disaster

Spaceflight Now:
Huge parachute shredded during Mars entry experiment

Discovery News:
Parachute Failure Ends 2nd Test Flight Of NASA 'Flying Saucer'

New Scientist:
LightSail spacecraft successfully deploys solar sail

Daily Mail:
Move over Space X: Airbus unveils its own reusable rocket called Adeline

Stuff NZ:
Nasa orbiter spots glass on Mars

Universe Today:
Dazzling Gallery From India's MOM Mars Orbiter Camera

Universe Today:
Uranus' Moon of Umbriel

Space.com:
Venus, Jupiter and Saturn (Oh, My!) The Brightest Planets of June

June 8, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz rocket returns to flight with military launch

Spaceflight Now:
Ground team battling on-and-off communications with LightSail

io9:
Peer Out The Window Of A Rocket Returning To Earth

Discovery News:
Sun Block: Mars Communications Will Be Cut This Month

io9:
We're Keeping A Close Eye On This Hole Punched In The Surface Of Mars

New Scientist:
Listening to meteorites hitting Mars will tell us what's inside

Spaceflight Now:
Dawn enters new orbit closer to Ceres

Smithsonian Magazine:
Big Boom: The Best Places to See Meteorite Impact Craters

Daily Mail:
Where are all the aliens? Video explores the Fermi paradox that questions why we haven't made contact with other civilisations despite the size of the universe

Mysterious Universe:
UFOs and the Robertson Panel

Mysterious Universe:
Another Politician Reveals Personal UFO Encounter

The Inquisitr:
This Former NASA Astronaut Shares Details About UFO Cover-Ups [Video]

WEEKEND EDITION: June 6 through June 7, 2015

Daily Mail:
The universe is a 'cosmic LOAF' and 95% of its stars have already formed: Book reveals astounding facts about the cosmos

Daily Mail:
Your entire life is an ILLUSION: New test backs up theory that the world doesn't exist until we look at it

Science Magazine:
Mystery company blazes a trail in fusion energy

Gizmag:
MIT physicists build world's first fermion microscope

Space Daily:
JPL's RoboSimian to compete in DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals

Gizmag:
ATRIAS robot now blindly takes platforms in its stride

Gizmodo:
A Robot That Pushes Like a Human Is More Impressive Than It Sounds

Gizmag:
Highlights from the ICRA 2015 robotics conference in Seattle

Daily Mail:
Going for gold! Meet the terrifying competitors in the US Government's 'Robot Olympics' that will have to walk, climb, drive and use tools to win $2m prize

Daily Mail:
Say G'Day to the family: First backboned animals to step out of water and walk on dry land were from Australia, new study claims

Daily Mail:
A spellbinding discovery: New species of ancient reptile with self-sharpening teeth is named after a curse in Harry Potter

Daily Mail:
Meet Alan, Britain's oldest sauropod dinosaur: 176 million-year-old bone that fell from a cliff adds to Yorkshire's 'Jurassic World'

Daily Mail:
Now THAT's a sea monster: 20ft-long shark hunted oceans 100 million years ago - and one back bone is bigger than a human hand

Stuff NZ:
Dinosaur with exotic horns and frill nicknamed Hellboy

Daily Mail:
Fossils reveal a whale inside a whale, eaten by a shark: Grave of 40-million-year-old marine creatures found in Egypt

Gizmodo:
Unknown underwater species caught on camera for the first time

Stuff NZ:
Mysterious oarfish of the deep washes up on California island

Daily Mail:
The killer goldfish that can choke predators, walks on land and climbs TREES... and they're heading to Australia any day now

io9:
These Amazing Videos Show What Happens When You Befriend A Wild Animal

BBC News:
Listening to the language of apes

Popular Archaelogy:
Cradle of Humankind Caves Yield New Ancient Dates

Popular Archaelogy:
The First Australians?

Ancient Origins:
Sacrificed humans found in ancient Chinese tombs from the Qijia Culture

National Geographic:
'Engineering Marvel' of Queen of Sheba's City Damaged in Airstrike

Ancient Origins:
Two thousand year old Mercury figurine found in Yorkshire

Ancient Origins:
Ancient Persian Cuneiform Contract and Artifacts Discovered in Bahrain Fort

Smithsonian Magazine:
Ancient Urns or Drinking Vessels for Giants? Behind the Mysterious Plain of Jars in Laos

The History Blog:
Pieces of triumphal Arch of Titus found in Circus Maximus

Ancient Origins:
1,400-year-old medicinal treatise of Galen found hidden under hymns in ancient manuscript

The History Blog:
Bodicacia's tombstone doesn't mark her grave

Ancient Origins:
Stunning dragon heads found at ancient summer palace of Xanadu

Ancient Origins:
Mutilated remains may be 14th century mob-attack victim, Richard de Holebrok

Live Science:
Da Vinci Discovered: Art Sleuthing Reveals Leonardo Engraving

Daily Mail:
Is this what Leonardo da Vinci looked like? 500-year-old engraving claims to show one of world's only depictions of the artist

The History Blog:
Artifacts recovered from HMS Erebus dive

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Remarkable Story of the World's Rarest Stamp

Smithsonian Magazine:
Ride This Bizarre, Old-School Elevator Before They All Shut Down

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Pyrex Reinvented Glass For a New Age

io9:
7 Archaeologists Who Were Real-Life Indiana Joneses

BBC News:
The WW2 soldiers France has forgotten

Gizmodo:
The Secret 1949 Radiation Experiment That Contaminated Washington

Gizmag:
Auction report: Searching for gold amongst metallic mayhem

Gizmodo:
A $60k Broadcast Lens on a Compact Camera Makes For Some Great Zoom Porn

June 5, 2015

Sputnik News:
Mystery 'Surveillance Plane' Seen Flying Over Minnesota Cities

Gizmodo:
FBI Admits It Uses Fake Companies to Fly Surveillance Over U.S. Cities

Gizmodo:
The FBI's First Aircraft Were Spy Planes From the Vietnam War

Gizmodo:
The Incredible Calculations That Keep Google's Project Loon Aloft

Daily Mail:
Air Force bosses reveal hypersonic planes that could fly from New York to London in an HOUR could take off in 2023

Daily Mail:
The US Navy 'Star Wars' weapon that can can fire missiles at three times the speed of sound from existing warship guns

Gizmag:
Lightweight High-Energy Liquid Laser (HELLADS) prepared for live fire tests

Daily Mail:
'Batmobile of the skies' takes flight: Sikorsky tests radical dual rotor helicopter that can reach 276 mph

Daily Mail:
Star Wars speeder bikes comes a step closer to reality: 'Personal skytrike' takes to the skies in first ever manned test flight

Gizmag:
First manned flight for Flike personal tricopter

Popular Science:
Google's High-Flying Internet Drone Crashed In New Mexico Weeks Ago

Popular Science:
Special Forces Test Hummingbird-Size Drone

Daily Mail:
Divine Eagle revealed: Chinese 'stealth hunting' drone pictured for the first time

Daily Mail:
Refuelling in the sky: Nasa shows off stunning pilot's eye video of the F-15D Eagle fighter jet taking on fuel mid-flight

The Aviationist:
This Is What It's Like to Fly to the Edge of Space in a MiG-29 Fulcrum

Jalopnik:
You Can Bid On This Rusty P-51 Mustang For The Price Of A Ford Mustang

Space.com:
Edwards Air Force Base: History and Missions

Jalopnik:
Legendary Skunk Works Founder Kelly Johnson's Rules Of Management

Universe Today:
Earth's First Space Station: The NASA Skylab

Universe Today:
New NASA Documentary Chronicles 50 Years of Spacewalks

Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: Baikonur turns 60

June 4, 2015

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
The hunt for missing pieces

Daily Mail:
The son of Concorde is coming! Nasa reveals $2.3m plan to help a new generation of supersonic planes take flight

Discovery News:
Hubble Finds Tiny Pluto's Moons Are Chaotic Tumblers

New Scientist:
Pluto's strange family of moons are locked in a mysterious waltz

Sputnik News:
More Bad News for Pluto: It May Be Binary Planet With Largest Moon Charon

Space.com:
Shielded Microbes Can Survive Space

Gizmag:
MIT study on exoplanet orbits may narrow parameters in search for life

Universe Today:
Solved: The Riddle of the Nova of 1670

June 3, 2015

BBC News:
'Warminster Thing' marked in 50th anniversary UFO mural

ABC Northern Tasmania:
'Big, bright' meteor seen over Launceston amid perfect conditions for sightings

Discovery News:
NASA's Inflatable Flying Saucer Ready For 2nd Test Flight

Discovery News:
High Seas Delay NASA's 'Flying Saucer' Test Flight

Space.com:
Repairing the Hubble Space Telescope: The Tools Astronauts Used

Space.com:
NASA Developing Plans for Human Missions to Cislunar Space in 2020s

Universe Today:
What is Lunar Regolith?

Discovery News:
Mystery Moon Swirls Caused By Blasts Of Comet Gas?

Discovery News:
DNews: A New Clue To Finding Life On Mars

Discovery News:
Earth's Magnetic Shield Buffered Powerful Solar Storm

Universe Today:
What Is The Difference Between Asteroids and Meteorites?

June 2, 2015

ABC Illawarra:
Search for remnants from a fireball over the Illawarra and Sydney

Daily Mail:
Is the X-37B on a secret spy mission for the US Air Force? Amateur astronomers spot mystery space plane in an unusual orbit

Spaceflight Now:
Roscosmos: Design flaw brought down Proton rocket

Spaceflight Insider:
Third stage engine blamed for Russian Proton-M rocket crash

Daily Mail:
LightSail is back! Revolutionary solar sail spacecraft 'phones home' after losing contact for more than a week in orbit

Spaceflight Now:
LightSail deployment set for this week

Daily Mail:
The biggest rocket on Earth takes shape: Watch Nasa build the engine that could take man to Mars in two minute timelapse

Universe Today:
The Dwarf Planet Eris

Space.com:
It's Crater-palooza on Dwarf Planet Ceres (New Photo)

New Scientist:
#RosettaWatch: 67P formed when two baby comets got together

Spaceflight Now:
Tour comet 67P in Rosetta's latest image release

Discovery News:
Cassini Gets Final, Stunning View Of Saturn's Moon Hyperion

Universe Today:
Would We See the Aliens Coming?

Western Daily Press:
Number of crop circles fall to record lows after makers angered over tickets sold to see them

Bournemouth Echo:
Crop circle appears in Dorset field

Yorkshire Post:
Picture Post: Close encounters of a third kind on Ilkley Moor

June 1, 2015

Discovery News:
Amateur Astronomers Spy Mysterious Military Spaceplane

Spaceflight Now:
Space station module moved to clear path for cargo ships

Spaceflight Now:
Dashcam video records dazzling Soyuz docking

Gizmag:
Software problem "pauses" LightSail mission

Popular Science:
Bill Nye's Ambitious Solar Sail Has Lost Communication With Earth

Spaceflight Now:
Boeing gets first order for commercial crew mission

Discovery News:
NASA Begins Tests On Next Awesome Mars Lander: InSight

Universe Today:
Cassini to Perform Its Final Flyby of Hyperion

Discovery News:
Coast Is Clear! No Deadly Debris Seen In Pluto Flyby Path

Space Daily:
Microbes Can Survive In Meteorites If Shielded From UV Radiation

Universe Today:
What Was Here Before the Solar System?

Discovery News:
This Happened Here: A Selfie On The Edge Of Space

WEEKEND EDITION: May 30 through May 31, 2015

Space.com:
Forget Space-Time: Information May Create the Cosmos

Space.com:
Is the Big Bang Cycling Through Hidden Time?

Ars Technica:
The female mathematician who changed the course of physics - but couldn't get a job

The Guardian:
John Nash's unique approach produced huge leaps in economics and maths

io9:
How A Tea Party Turned Into A Scientific Legend

Gizmag:
MIT's robotic cheetah can now leap over obstacles

Daily Mail:
Watch robo-cheetah land the running jump: Galloping machine uses algorithm to sail over rows of foot-high hurdles

CBS News:
Disney robots built for physics-defying cartoon walks

IEEE Spectrum:
Robotic Cockroach Launches Robotic Bird Off of Its Back

Popular Science:
Meet Chimp, A Disaster Response Robot With Four-Limb Drive

Popular Science:
Robot Learns To Walk With Damaged Legs

Gizmag:
Breakthrough bionic leg prosthesis controlled by subconscious thoughts

Daily Mail:
Access all areas: Scavelo wheelchair uses rubber 'tank' tracks to climb STAIRS

Daily Mail:
Has the mystery of Star War's BB-8 droid been solved? Patent reveals how mystery machine really works

Daily Mail:
The light powered by GRAVITY: Lamp uses energy from falling weight to illuminate homes without electricity

BBC News:
The element that made the 20th Century shine

National Geographic:
Has the Last Human Trekked to the North Pole?

BBC News:
Sending ice to Antarctica

Smithsonian Magazine:
As Glaciers Retreat, They Give up the Bodies and Artifacts They Swallowed

BBC News:
Saving coffee from extinction

National Geographic:
Expedition Launched to Save Africa's Largest Wetland

Smithsonian Magazine:
What Will Really Happen When San Andreas Unleashes the Big One?

The Guardian:
'Missing link' in shark evolution found in 380m-year-old Australian fossil

ZME Science:
Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, new study finds

Live Science:
This is the Dinosaur That Tested Life's Size Limits (Video)

National Geographic:
In Ancient Egypt, Life Wasn't Easy for Elite Pets

Daily Mail:
Plague of the giant jellyfish: Tens of thousands of 5ft stingers mass off south-west coast of Britain

BBC News:
Welcome to the falcon hospital of Qatar

io9:
Newborn Baby Gorilla Enjoys A Nap While Its Mother Keeps Watch

Daily Mail:
Town stalked by giant 2m tall, 95 KILO kangaroo with a torn ear who emerges from the bushes to terrorise dog-walkers and golfers

Daily Mail:
Mysterious fossils reveal new species of early HUMAN: Thick-jawed hominid lived alongside 'Lucy' 3.4 million years ago

Popular Archaelogy:
Scientists discover 430,000-year-old murder in Spain

Smithsonian Magazine:
Investigating the Case of the Earliest Known Murder Victim

Daily Mail:
Neolithic village hidden beneath Bulgaria: 8,000-year-old rows of streets and two-storey houses unearthed

Live Science:
Sacrificed Humans Discovered Among Prehistoric Tombs"

National Geographic:
Gold Artifacts Tell Tale of Drug-Fueled Rituals and "Bastard Wars"

Ancient Origins:
Secret Chamber Found at Scythian Burial Mound Reveals Golden Treasure of Drug-Fueled Rituals"

National Geographic:
Amazing Drone Footage of Nubian Pyramids

The History Blog:
Scythian gold vessels found with opium, cannabis residue

Daily Mail:
Mystery of the 'Bodica' tombstone deepens: Skeleton found beneath is MALE - and the inscribed stone may have been recycled

The History Blog:
Plaster casts of Vesuvius' victims restored

The History Blog:
Staffordshire Hoard helmet band, pommel pieced together

Smithsonian Magazine:
Vikings Didn't Just Raid, They Traded Too

The History Blog:
Icon of the Madonna restored to former splendor

Live Science:
Dragons of Xanadu: Sculptures Discovered in Legendary City

The History Blog:
Murder through the lines of medieval land charters

The Guardian:
Ring a bell? Dig could uncover Big Ben's daddy

The History Blog:
Medieval panels looted from Devon church found

Smithsonian Magazine:
Here Are Some of the Weird Ways You Could Die in Tudor England

Gizmodo:
Britain Sent Thousands of Its Convicts to America, Not Just Australia"

io9:
In 1780, America's First Mass Murder Was A Crime Of "Uncommon Horror"

San Francisco Chronicle:
Rare, eerie photos of the Civil War

Daily Mail:
Incredible paintings by British explorer of failed 1875 expedition to the North Pole 37 years before Scott's doomed Antarctic trip set to sell for £150,000

Daily Mail:
The Big Apple back in time: Forty thousand historic photographs on an interactive map offer slice of life from old New York

The Atlantic:
A Brief History of the Wristwatch

Gizmodo:
Here Are 40,000 Photos Of Old New York Plotted on a City Map

Daily Mail:
The medal that MOCKED the sinking of the Lusitania: German antique that celebrated deaths of 1,200 people goes under the hammer - along with souvenirs from the tragic wreck

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Classy Rise of the Trench Coat

io9:
Meet The Sole "Survivor" Of The Women's Suffrage Movement

Daily Mail:
Canada's secret plan to invade the US: How gung-ho 1920s colonel planned to take Detroit, Seattle and Portland in five-pronged attack over $22 billion debt row

Daily Mail:
Escape to Harry Houdini's LA hideaway: Rental villa comes complete with hidden caves, terraced gardens and deep-water tank where the master practiced his underwater escapology

Daily Mail:
Welcome to Fordlandia, Henry Ford's lost city deep in the Amazon rainforest which was abandoned as a monumental failure

Mysterious Universe:
The Physicist Who Vanished: The Strange Fate of Ettore Majorana

Daily Mail:
Painting discovered among huge Nazi art trove to be sold for £500,000 after being returned to its rightful heir - who saw it seized the morning after Kristallnacht

Daily Mail:
Nearly forgotten World War II soldier killed in 1942 added to hometown's memorial thanks to efforts of his 92-year-old high school classmate

The History Blog:
Lost Reich Chancellery horses found in warehouse

Daily Mail:
'Thinking is to man what flying is to birds': Unseen letter from Albert Einstein offering advice to students is rediscovered after 65 years

Daily Mail:
Yesterday's cars of tomorrow: Chevrolet concept models from the Fifties and Sixties show what designers thought we would be driving today

io9:
A Spy Ring Had Its Cover Blown By Giving Out The Wrong Change

Daily Mail:
Party time! Rare photographs reveal the early beginnings of the magical park as Disneyland prepares for its 60th birthday

Daily Mail:
The story behind one of sport's most iconic photos: A red-hot rivalry between two teams that carried on in front of thousands... even as a building burned behind them

Gizmodo:
20 Incredible Images of Atomic Age Infrastructure

Smithsonian Magazine:
Step Inside a Famous Submarine

Gizmodo:
Not Again: How a 1969 Oil Spill Devastated the Santa Barbara Coast

Smithsonian Magazine:
Pac-Man Turns 35 This Month

Smithsonian Magazine:
Thirteen Years Later, Did Spellbound Show Us the Power or the Myth of the American Dream?

Sputnik News:
Pentagon Considers Secret Underwater Recharging Stations for Submarine Drones

Gizmodo:
You Can Take this Little Wind and Solar Powered Home Anywhere

Gizmag:
A look back at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este

Gizmag:
In pictures: Rubber, metal and mud at Overland Expo West 2015

BBC News:
Europe's next cheap holiday destination?

Popular Science:
A 12-Legged Pod You Can Ride

May 29, 2015

Daily Mail:
The silent missile that can destroy enemy electronics with microwave PULSES: Air Force confirms terrifying new weapon

Daily Mail:
Air Force bosses reveal they want hypersonic missiles within five years - and technology could see planes travel from New York to London in an HOUR

Daily Mail:
Star Wars comes a step closer: US military bosses reveal success tests of airborne 'death rays'

Gizmag:
Real-time sonic boom display moves closer to cockpit integration

Daily Mail:
So THAT'S why plane windows have holes: Expert reveals 'air conduit' acts as a failsafe to protect aircraft if the outer pane cracks

Air & Space Magazine:
The Recline of Civilization

Smithsonian Magazine:
This Crazy Land Art Deflects Noise From Amsterdam's Airport

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Nation's Stash of Lost Luggage Finds a New Life in This Alabama Town

Popular Science:
These Paper Airplanes Will Blow Your Mind

The Atlantic:
Unmanned

Jalopnik:
Sikorsky's S-97 "Raider" Pusher Prop Chopper Takes Its first Flight

Daily Mail:
Splash landing! Navy pilot ejected into San Diego Bay and is rescued by boaters when training plane skids off runway

Jalopnik:
The USAF Thunderbirds Soar Over Manhattan In These Awesome Images

Popular Science:
Watch A Record-Setting Hoverboard Flight

The Atlantic:
'Mayday! Emergency Landing. We're on Fire.'

Air & Space Magazine:
The X-47's Missing Link

Air & Space Magazine:
David McCullough on the Wright Brothers

Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: Carpenter's run - the flight of Aurora 7

Daily Mail:
Aircraft graveyard holds hidden gems that tell the story of American Air Force as it armed to the teeth to fight Communism

National Geographic:
Watch: Pilot Pioneers Harrowing, Low-Level Wingsuit Flights

May 28, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
X-37B spaceplane's orbit discovered

Air & Space Magazine:
Now We Know at Least Two Payloads on the X-37B

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX cleared to launch U.S. national security satellites

Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's LDSD 'UFO' readied for its second flight

Spaceflight Insider:
'Old deficiency' in engine design caused Proton-M crash, says Russian deputy PM

Discovery News:
Space Travel Linked To Skin And Hair Issues, Mice Show

Air & Space Magazine:
China and the "Dark Side"

io9:
This Is How You Fix A Space Robot 140 Million Miles Away From A Mechanic

Space.com:
Hints of Salty Water on Mars Raises Planetary Protection Concerns

io9:
Here Are The 9 Instruments We'll Use To Reveal The Secrets Of Europa

Discovery News:
New Spacecraft Photos Hint At A Rich And Complex Pluto

New Scientist:
Dust from asteroid mining spells danger for satellites

Discovery News:
Software Or The Borg: A Starship's Greatest Threat?

Scientific American:
Crazy, Wonderful Spacecraft Orbits

May 27, 2015

Universe Today:
How Long Will Our Spacecraft Survive?

Universe Today:
Getting Ready For International Space Station Observing Season

Universe Today:
Rosetta's View of a Comet's "Great Divide"

Universe Today:
Ceres Bright Spots Sharpen But Questions Remain

Space.com:
What Would It Take to Send People to Pluto?

Universe Today:
How Bad Can Solar Storms Get?

Universe Today:
What Are Extrasolar Planets?

The Atlantic:
How Stargazing Became a Numbers Game

Daily Mail:
Did a massive asteroid turn Earth into a boiling 'SPRING' 3.3bn years ago? Impact may have vaporised our planet's oceans

May 26, 2015

SunLive NZ:
Mysterious bangs sonic booms

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX cargo ship returns to Earth

Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX Dragon leaves ISS, splashes down in the Pacific Ocean

Daily Mail:
Blast into space at 100mph in 1.2 seconds: SpaceX releases dizzying new footage of its Dragon launch abort test

Sputnik News:
Recent Proton Loss to Push Up Launch Costs - Manufacturer

Discovery News:
DNews: Why Does Earth Only Have One Moon?

Daily Mail:
Now THAT is a super moon! Image made of 32,000 photographs shows pockmarked lunar surface in brilliant detail

Gizmag:
ESA spacecraft detects the presence of enormous Martian supervolcano

Space.com:
Slippery Slopes on Mars Send Curiosity Rover on Detour

Space.com:
Did Curiosity Rover Cause Mars' Mysterious Methane Spike?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Did Mars Steal its Moons From the Asteroid Belt?

New Scientist:
Vesta has no moons - is it unlucky or did it eat them?

Smithsonian Magazine:
One Man's Lifelong Pursuit of Pluto is About to Get Real

Discovery News:
Out of This World Space Memorials: Photos

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND EDITION: May 23 through May 25, 2015

Science Magazine:
Feature: The new shape of fusion

Popular Science:
Resurrected Large Hadron Collider Smashes Protons, And Speed Records

Nature:
Quantum physics: What is really real?

Inside Science:
Why Physicists Love Super Balls

Forbes:
The Surprisingly Complicated Physics Of A Light Bulb

IEEE Spectrum:
DRC Finals Update: What to Expect Next Month

Popular Science:
3-D Print Your Own Humanoid Robot Friend

Gizmag:
Nobot wants to put people to work ... in robot form

BBC News:
The metal that brought you cheap flights

Live Science:
Snake Ancestor Had Ankles and Toes

Daily Mail:
Unravelling the hiss-tory of ancient snakes: DNA reveals early reptiles were nocturnal, evolved on land and had legs longer than first thought

Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet Your New Favorite Dinosaur: The Velociraptor's Cousin

Heritage Daily:
Paleontologists discover the first dinosaur fossil in Washington State

Daily Mail:
Dinosaurs laid BLUE eggs: Ancient reptiles produced brightly coloured shells to camouflage clutches from predators

National Geographic:
Millions of Spiders Rain Down on Australia - Why?

Daily Mail:
Careful crows watch their tools: Corvids spotted storing their foraging sticks in 'toolboxes' to reuse them later

Gizmag:
Injured turtle to return to the ocean with 3D printed beak

The Guardian:
The octopus can see with its skin

io9:
This Prehistoric Pocket Deer Has Fewer Chromosomes Than A Fruit Fly

Daily Mail:
Mystery of who made the world's oldest tools: 3.3-million-year-old stones predate Homo by 700,000 YEARS

The Guardian:
Stone tool discovery pushes back dawn of culture by 700,000 years

ABC Australia:
Discovery of ancient stone tools in Kenya dating back 3.3 million years challenges story of mankind

Haaretz:
New archaeological finds challenge ideas of prehistoric Israel

Ancient Origins:
Discovery of Ancient Indian Daggers may push back Start of Iron Age by Hundreds of Years

National Geographic:
Bronze Age Woman Had Surprisingly Modern Life

Science Magazine:
Coffin remains tell life story of ancient sun-worshiping priestes

Ancient Origins:
Ancient temple dating back 3,500 years found near Aswan in Egypt

Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists in China unearth 2,400-year-old Polo Sticks and Balls

Ancient Origins:
Does the Cascajal Block provide evidence of a written language of the Olmecs?

Popular Archaelogy:
Unearthing an Iron Age Sanctuary in the Mediterranean

Ancient Origins:
Is Celtic Birdlip Grave the Final Resting Place of Queen Boudicca?

Popular Archaelogy:
Ancients Set Stage for Collapse of Teotihuacan

Ancient Origins:
Elfdalian, the Archaeologists in Sweden unearth first Viking brooch piece depicting dragon head

Daily Mail:
Could Henry I become the second 'car park' King? Team who discovered Richard III launch search in Reading for monarch who was buried in abbey destroyed in 1539

Western Digs:
Hundreds of Dice, Game Pieces Found in Utah Cave Shed Light on Prehistoric Gambling

Daily Mail:
Did a megaflood kill off America's first metropolis? Mississippi River and NOT droughts to blame for demise of Cahokia

National Geographic:
New Evidence May Solve Mystery of America's Huge Ancient City

Smithsonian Magazine:
Did This Map Guide Columbus?

Popular Archaelogy:
Archaeologists rebuild 1608 church where Pocahontas was married

The History Blog:
Le Brun's Jabach Family restored and on display

Daily Mail:
Twice the size of Buckingham Palace and FIVE miles of corridors: House once owned by the aristocrat who inspired Jane Austen hero Mr Darcy is on sale for £8million

Daily Mail:
World's oldest warship, USS Constitution, launched in 1797, comes home to Boston Harbor for $15million refurbishment after two centuries of battles on the water

Haaretz:
The eccentric English lady who introduced archaeology to the Holy Land

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why We'd Be Better Off if Napoleon Never Lost at Waterloo

io9:
How America's First Female Detective Helped Foil An Assassination Plot

Daily Mail:
Courtesans and samurai: Beautiful photos depicting life in 19th century Japan are some of earliest colour images ever taken

WVEC:
Navy divers prepare to raise Civil War ironclad

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Brief History of the Ferris Wheel

Smithsonian Magazine:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Once Helped Clear an Innocent Man of Murder

io9:
Remembering Britain's Worst Rail Disaster Of The First World War

The History Blog:
Picasso curtain unfurled at NY Historical Society

Gizmodo:
We Got Buckminster Fuller's FBI File

BBC News:
A family's struggle to bring a Pearl Harbor sailor home

The History Blog:
George Takei helps save internment camp artifacts

Elgin Courier News:
Elgin anchor commemorates death of 17-year-old Courier-News worker

Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Summer of Atomic Bomb Testing Turned the Bikini Into a Phenomenon

io9:
These Videos of Nuclear Weapon Tests Are Terrifying But Spectacular

Smithsonian Magazine:
American History Museum Scholar on the History of the "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" Advertisement

Smithsonian Magazine:
35 Years Later, Where You Can Still See Signs of the Mt. St. Helens Eruption

Gizmag:
Sandia shoots (dud) nuke out of a cannon

Gizmodo:
Watch The Navy's Hyper Velocity Projectile Rip Through These Plates

BBC News:
The Quiet Zone: Where mobile phones are banned

Ancient Origins:
Elfdalian, the Ancient Viking Forest Language of Sweden, Set to be Revived

National Geographic:
Meet Nepal's Living Goddesses

Gizmodo:
Video: More recycled scenes from different Disney animation movies

Gizmag:
Inside the weird, wonderful and award-winning Melbourne School of Design

Gizmag:
Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este and RM-Sotheby's Villa Erba auction preview

Gizmodo:
Fire-Breathing Robots, Mega Mech Warriors and More at Maker Faire

May 22, 2015

Daily Mail:
Meet the flying TANK drone: Remote-controlled vehicle climbs over terrain and can take to the air at the flick of a switch

Gizmag:
B-Unstoppable combines a mini tank and a drone

Gizmag:
Origami-inspired drone snaps open to take flight

Gizmag:
Hydrogen-powered Hycopter quadcopter could fly for 4 hours at a time

Gizmodo:
Here's Your Go-To Graphic To Understand The Navy's Aircraft Inventory

Gizmodo:
Get Software for Designing Rockets and Piloting Drones, Free From NASA

Air & Space Magazine:
An Inside Look at the Spirit of St. Louis

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Ill-Fated History of the Jet Pack

Universe Today:
How Well Do You Know the Apollo 13 Mission? Take Our 13-Question Quiz

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
The Challenge of the Planets, Part One: Ports-of-Call

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
The Challenge of the Planets, Part Two: High Energy

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
The Challenge of the Planets, Part Three: Gravity

Daily Mail:
Nasa's vision of the future in 1970: Space station illustrations reveal plans for artificial gravity and a 'space scooter'

Spaceflight History:
Outpost in Orbit: McDonnell Douglas Phase B Space Station (1970)

Spaceflight History:
Missions to Comet d'Arrest and Asteroid Eros in the 1970s (1966)

Spaceflight History:
Where to Launch and Land the Space Shuttle? (1971-1972)

Spaceflight History:
Preparing for Halley: Cometary Explorer (1973)

Spaceflight History:
Earth-Approaching Asteroids as Targets for Exploration (1978)

Spaceflight History:
International Space: NASA's 1992 Plan to Land Soyuz Spacecraft in Australia

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Strategic Defense: Military Uses of the Moon and Asteroids (1983)

Gizmodo:
This Watery Graveyard Is the Resting Place for 161 Sunken Spaceships

Gizmodo:
The Beautiful Art That Helped Inspire Space Travel

May 21, 2015

Stuff NZ:
Rare double from mother nature lights up Australia's skies and waters

Spaceflight Now:
Recap story: X-37B spaceplane embarks on fourth voyage in orbit

Discovery News:
X-37B Space Plane Launches Fourth Mystery Mission

Daily Mail:
LightSail begins its voyage! Solar sail spacecraft launches to test revolutionary technology in Earth orbit

Universe Today:
Hunting LightSail in Orbit

Daily Mail:
We're going to Europa! US committee assigns $18.5 billion to fund Nasa's search for alien life and a mission to Jupiter's moon

New Scientist:
Supernova space bullets could have seeded Earth's iron core

Air & Space Magazine:
The Search for Future Earths

Smithsonian Magazine:
Asteroid Impacts Once Made the Earth's Oceans Boil for A Whole Year

Popular Science:
Alleged Airplane Hacker Also "Messed Around With The Space Station"

May 20, 2015

Sputnik News:
China Plans First Ever Landing on the Dark Side of the Moon

Discovery News:
What Will X-37B Military Space Plane Do In Mystery Mission?

Discovery News:
NASA Experiment Hitches Ride on X-37B Space Plane

Spaceflight Now:
Preview: X-37B spaceplane to journey back into space Wednesday

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Atlas 5 on the pad for X-37B launch

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: X-37B gallery archive

Discovery News:
Aliens Will Be Bear-Size, According To Math

May 19, 2015

Northwest Florida Daily News:
Likely meteor draws attention to local skies (VIDEO)

Space.com:
Air Force's Robotic X-37B Space Plane Launches Mystery Mission This Week

Popular Science:
NASA Is Sending Some Lucky Yeast Into Radiation-Filled Deep Space

Space Daily:
Quick Detour by NASA Mars Rover Checks Ancient Valley

New Scientist:
Mars volcanoes launch dust storms like a skate ramp

Universe Today:
Could We Live on Jupiter?

io9:
New Timelapse Shows The Neptune System As Never Before

Daily Mail:
Could hidden rings around Pluto destroy New Horizons? Team prepares for 'seven weeks of suspense' as spacecraft nears end of nine-year mission

BBC News:
How weird is our Solar System?

May 18, 2015

The Inquisitr:
UFO: U.S. Senator Richard Russell Saw Disc-Shaped UFOs In Russia In 1955

Daily Mail:
What IS this strange sound from the sky? Noise heard across the globe for nearly a DECADE - but nobody has an explanation

Sputnik News:
Russian Mission Control Center Successfully Adjusts ISS Orbit

Sputnik News:
Mexican Satellite Launched on Proton-M Carrier Rocket Burnt Up

Universe Today:
2nd Launch Disaster in 3 Weeks Strikes Russia, Destroying Proton Rocket and Mexican Comsat

Spaceflight Insider:
MexSat-1, or Centenario, crashes in Siberia shortly after launch

Spaceflight Now:
Proton crash deals another blow to Russian space sector

Space.com:
Russian Space Cargo Ship Crash Blamed on Soyuz Rocket

Spaceflight Now:
ULA, SpaceX face off in landmark Air Force launch competition

The Express:
Space oddity: Police feared extraterrestrial attacks at turn of the millennium

Daily Mail:
How police kept track of the Trekkies: Met drew up secret dossier into Star Trek and The X-Files fearing sci-fi shows would cause riots and mass suicides

Bold Ride:
America's UFO: The Story of the Avrocar

WEEKEND EDITION: May 16 through May 17, 2015

Scientific American:
Science's Path from Myth to Multiverse

Gizmodo:
This Magnetic Shield Will Push the Boundaries of Particle Physics

New Scientist:
Found: giant spirals in space that could explain our existence

Space.com:
Strange Signal from Space May Solve One of Science's Greatest Mysteries

Wired:
This Little 3-D Printed Robot Cracks Combination Locks in 30 Seconds

Time Magazine:
This Robot Learned to Make a Salad by Watching YouTube

NBC News:
Robot Valet: Manhattan Hotel Gets an Automated Helper

New Scientist:
Robot cleaner can empty bins and sweep floors

NPR:
She's Almost Real: The New Humanoid On Customer Service Duty In Tokyo

The Atlantic:
The Store Where Robots Sell Robots

Smithsonian Magazine:
Happy Birthday to Inge Lehmann, the Woman Who Discovered Earth's Inner Core

National Geographic:
How Tornadoes Form and Why They're so Unpredictable

Stuff NZ:
Jawdropping video of a supercell storm

Live Science:
Antarctic Ice Shelf in Last Throes of Collapse

Daily Mail:
Crab ancestor's 500 million year-old brain hints at how heads first evolved

Daily Mail:
The dinosaur that could SMELL fear: 75 million-year-old fossil points to new species of dinosaur with 'supersmell' to find prey

Science Magazine:
Scientists discover first warm-bodied fish

BBC News:
The hitchhiking snakes of the Caribbean

National Geographic:
A Darwin Finch, Crucial to Idea of Evolution, Fights for Survival

io9:
Largest-Ever Rhino Airlift Recently Released First 10 Rhinos In Botswana

Daily Mail:
This is how you should be cracking nuts! Monkeys show how to perfectly open a shell

Daily Mail:
The fox and the hound: Orphaned cub rescued from roadside accident bounces back to health thanks to its new collie best friend

Daily Mail:
That's Mr Mum to you! Gentle male orangutan bottle feeds and cuddles three baby tigers like they were his own

Daily Mail:
Neanderthals and humans DID interbreed: 40,000-year-old jawbone found in Romania suggests species mingled in Europe

Ancient Origins:
Stone bracelet is oldest ever found in the world

Daily Mail:
Incredible 40,000-year-old bracelet believed to be the oldest ever found suggests ancient human race used drills which were just like modern tools

Daily Mail:
The 'Red Lady of El Mirón' was covered in FLOWERS: Scientists find 16,000-year-old fossilised pollen in mystery tomb

Daily Mail:
Is this the oldest artwork ever found in America? 12,300-year-old bone pendant is unearthed in Alaska

Daily Mail:
Bronze Age stone circle found for the first time in 100 years on Dartmoor - and it could be older than Stonehenge

Daily Mail:
Is this the oldest toy ever found in Europe? 3,500-year-old bronze and silver stork tilts its head to 'drink' water

Daily Mail:
The lost city in the sands: Inside the ancient citadel of the Black Pharoahs which has pyramids to rival Egypt (but no visitors)

Daily Mail:
Alexander the Great's father WAS buried in Vergina: Bone analysis suggests remains with foreign princess do belong to Philip II

Ancient Origins:
Egyptian Child Mummy Dumped in Garbage in France, Now Restored and Protected

Ancient Origins:
What is a Pyramid doing in the Heart of Rome?

Daily Mail:
Medieval prayer wheel found inside rare Liesborn Gospel - but how the diagram was used remains a mystery

Ancient Origins:
700-Year-Old Tomb of Confucian Doctor Unearthed in China

Live Science:
Gold-Filled Tomb of Chinese 'Survivor' Mom Discovered

National Geographic:
Rare Spanish Shipwreck From 17th Century Uncovered Off Panama

Smithsonian Magazine:
The White House is Mostly a Reconstruction of the Original

The History Blog:
The first selfie

San Francisco Chronicle:
More stories behind San Francisco's street names

Smithsonian Magazine:
Two French Towns Are Battling Over a Saint's Remains

io9:
Darwin Predicted This Animal's Existence Decades Before Its Discovery

The History Blog:
Museum acquires Empress Sisi's silk ankle boots

The Guardian:
Fanny and Stella, the pioneer transvestites who fought Victorian anti-gay laws

BBC News:
Will Gaudi be made a saint?

Daily Mail:
Who needs Instagram filters? Beautiful 100-year-old images look like they have been altered but are actually some of the earliest colour photographs (including an antique selfie!)

Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet the Iconic Japanese-American Artist Whose Work Hasn't Been Exhibited in Decades

Smithsonian Magazine:
How 75 Years Ago Nylon Stockings Changed the World

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Katharine Hepburn Became a Fashion Icon

BBC News:
The town that couldn't contain Marilyn Monroe

National Geographic:
How Indiana Jones Actually Changed Archaeology

Daily Mail:
The car that runs on FRESH AIR: It hits 111mph and only water comes out the exhaust... no it's not science fiction and you can buy it here soon (if you can afford it)

Jalopnik:
This Is Not How You Get A Giant Self Propelled Howitzer Onto A Truck

Jalopnik:
Here's Why Dynamic Mongoose Is NATO's Biggest Anti-Sub Exercise Ever

Jalopnik:
Russia's Brand New Tank Just Broke Down In The Middle Of Moscow

Gizmag:
Four-minute-mile stopwatch and original All Blacks Jersey go to auction

Forbes:
Sotheby's Geneva Auction Fetches $160.9 Million; Multiple World Records Set

Bloomberg:
These 10 Pieces of Art Just Sold for Almost $800 Million

Gizmag:
Andrews Auto Collection Auction is biggest ever - 16 million dollar cars

Gizmodo:
Video shows how Disney recycled scenes in its animation movies

Daily Mail:
One-man band! Musician plays every part of 70-person orchestra and films symphony from his bedroom

May 15, 2015

Daily Mail:
Solar Impulse 2 prepares for its most dangerous leg: Sun-powered plane to attempt daring five-day trip over the Pacific

Stuff NZ:
Giant science balloon lands in western Queensland

Stuff NZ:
Wanaka Nasa balloon to be retrieved from Australian outback

Gizmag:
GE fires up fully 3D-printed jet engine

Daily Mail:
Don't trade in yours just yet! Flying car CRASHES during test flight with inventor inside after 'going into a tailspin' and plummeting to the ground

Daily Mail:
Drones of the future unveiled: Flying saucer and floating orb among new aircraft that could soon take to our skies

Daily Mail:
Fly to the moon in FOUR hours: The British scientist who says he's found the secret of Star Trek's 'warp speed'

Gizmag:
Lily drone shoots video and pilots itself after being hurled into the air

Gizmodo:
A Plane Took a Wrong Turn and Ended Up in a Cloud of Antimatter

Jalopnik:
This Video Will Leave You Begging The USAF to Keep The A-10 Warthog

The Aviationist:
Watch Russia's Biggest Ever Victory Day Parade through Combat Aircraft's GoPro cameras

Jalopnik:
Watch F-35Bs Hover In For A Landing Off A Fake Ship Deck In The Desert

Jalopnik:
The Amazing Saga Of How Israel Turned Its F-15s Into Multi-Role Bombers

San Francisco Chronicle:
Sale: One of the last Spitfires

Spaceflight Now:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: Skylab 1, America's first space station

Universe Today:
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, Epilogue: The 'Failure is Not an Option' Attitude

Gizmodo:
Flying jetmen stunningly soar all over Dubai in amazing video

May 14, 2015

Yuma Sun:
UFO mystery: 1950s sighting at Yuma Test Station never explained

Swindon Advertiser:
Will the circles be unbroken?

Metro UK:
No, a meteor was not spotted in the skies over Bristol

Spaceflight Now:
DMSP satellite debris expected to remain in orbit for decades

Gizmag:
NASA to fly material testing experiment on X-37B spaceplane

Spaceflight Insider:
With failures piling up, Roscosmos looking to retry Phobos-Grunt mission

Spaceflight Insider:
Report: Falcon 9 could be certified for DoD flights next month

Spaceflight Insider:
Full scale mockup of NASA's Orion spacecraft completed in lead up to 2018 EM-1 mission

Gizmag:
NASA's Space Launch System enters its critical design review phase

Gizmag:
New spacesuit tech simulates gravity on a personal scale

Spaceflight Now:
Japanese scientists abandon plan for asteroid flyby

Gizmag:
NASA-funded research seeks to produce breathable oxygen on Mars

Daily Mail:
Europa's shattered 'glass' surface revealed: Hints of underground ocean seen as missions to the icy moon in 2022 are drawn up

Daily Mail:
Is there life on Saturn's moon? New study claims underground oceans on Enceladus could be teeming with microbes

Space.com:
Alien Life on Oily Exoplanets Could Have Ether-based 'DNA'

Scientific American:
M Dwarfs Could Be the Best--or Worst--Extraterrestrial Homes

Gizmodo:
How Long Can You Stay in Space, and What Happens If You Stay Too Long?

Stuff NZ:
Student Chris Sneath will shoot off to Space Camp in July

May 13, 2015

The Oregonian:
Past Tense Oregon: UFO photos taken near McMinnville in 1950 still raise questions

Discovery News:
ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket

Daily Mail:
The countdown begins: Nasa set to approve design for the biggest rocket ever made - and say it will one day take man to Mars

Discovery News:
Europa's Salty Ocean May Be Seeping Through Icy Crust

Space.com:
Venus Plane Pushed for Next NASA Next Frontiers Mission

Discovery News:
New Horizons Probe Mission Spies Pluto's Entire Moon Family

Universe Today:
What Shape is the Universe?

May 12, 2015

Sputnik News:
Pentagon: China Launches Mysterious Objects Into Space

Space.com:
No Warp Drive Here: NASA Downplays 'Impossible' EM Drive Space Engine

Daily Mail:
Nasa backs terrifying robo-squid set to scour Europa's underground oceans for signs of alien life

Space.com:
Tiny Cubesats Set to Explore Deep Space

Daily Mail:
Watch the next 50 years of asteroid near-misses with Earth: Interactive map reveals how THOUSANDS of rocks will skim planet

Discovery News:
How To See The Brightest Planets Of May

New Scientist:
Mercury's magnetic heart was beating soon after its birth

New Scientist:
Millions of missing galaxies found hiding in plain sight

Space.com:
Women in Space: A Gallery of Firsts

May 11, 2015

Edmonton Journal:
May 8, 1967: Edmontonians claim to see UFO

Mysterious Universe:
Charles Abbott's Weird Patent and the 1897 Airship Mystery

Gizmodo Australia:
When The FAA Blasted Oklahoma City With Sonic Booms For 6 Months

Newstalk ZB:
Sonic boom rattles Lincoln residents

Gizmag:
Progress 59 spacecraft burns up over Pacific

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Atlas 5 and X-37B mated together for upcoming launch

Space.com:
Inside the US Air Force's Next X-37B Space Plane Mystery Mission

Spaceflight Insider:
Space's SuperDraco engine: Abort capability all the way to orbit

Discovery News:
Mercury's Magnetic Field Got Switched On Early

Discovery News:
Curiosity Watches Mesmerizing Blue Mars Sunset

Discovery News:
The Geysers of Enceladus May be an Illusion

Daily Mail:
Rosetta spacecraft starts listening out for stricken lander on comet amid hopes sunlight could recharge its batteries

Daily Mail:
Earth-like oceans - and life - could be far more common on other worlds than we thought

Space Daily:
Ancient Star Raises Prospects of Intelligent Life

Sputnik News:
Russian Scientist Gets Patent on Transfiguring Martian Atmosphere

io9:
This Animated Explanation Of The Fermi Paradox Is Fantastic

WEEKEND EDITION: May 9 through May 10, 2015

Science News:
Nobel laureate foresees mind-expanding future of physics

Sputnik News:
Three is the Magic Number of Atoms, Physicists Prove

Gizmodo:
Watch an awesome lightning bolt get captured in a box

Gizmodo:
Here's The First-Ever Picture Of Thunder

IEEE Spectrum:
World's Largest Swarm of Miniature Robot Submarines

Popular Science:
Bipedal Robot ATRIAS Takes First Steps Outside

The Independent:
Robot capable of sorting and folding clothes built by scientists in Glasgow

Daily Mail:
Welcome to the family! Scientists find deep-sea microbes are 'missing link' for complex life on Earth - and our oldest relatives

Daily Mail:
Oldest-known ancestor of modern birds unearthed: Discovery of 'punk-haired' waders pushes back avian evolution 5 MILLION years

Daily Mail:
Eureka! The moment a wild gorilla works out how to use tools caught on camera for the first time

Daily Mail:
How about a piccie of me! The animals who muscled in to make ordinary family snaps wildly funny

Ancient Origins:
5,300-Year-Old Otzi the Iceman Yields Oldest Known Human Blood

The History Blog:
Neolithic eel fishing spear with bone prong found at Lolland

Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists find 4,500-year-old statue of little known Egyptian king

Ancient Origins:
Ancient Three-Headed Serpent Column of Delphi to Rise Again after 2500 Years

Ancient Origins:
Archaeological dig at ancient fortress site in Egypt reveals massive gate and graves of fallen warriors

Ancient Origins:
Ancient Wonder of the World: Egypt Approves Plan to Rebuild Pharos of Alexandria

Daily Mail:
China's terracotta army has new recruits: 1,400 more clay warriors, horses and chariots found buried near emperor's tomb

Smitshonian Magazine:
The Mystery of What Venus de Milo Was Once Holding

Ancient Origins:
Afghan Archaeologists Battle Chinese Mining Interests in Fight to Save Ancient Buddhist Paradise

National Geographic:
Medieval Death Sculptures Were Least Flattering Selfies Ever

Ancient Origins:
Finnish Archaeologists find Wreck of 15th Century Ship Laden with €50m Worth of Treasure

Discovery News:
Medieval 'Witch Girl' Likely Just Suffered From Scurvy

BBC News:
Pirate Captain Kidd's 'treasure' found in Madagascar

The History Blog:
Huge silver ingot found on alleged Captain Kidd shipwreck

The History Blog:
Letter written in murderer William Burke's blood on display

Smitshonian Magazine:
John Quincy Adams Once Approved an Expedition to the Center of the Earth

Daily Mail:
Trove of newspaper writings from Mark Twain as a 29-year-old in San Francisco revealed 150 years after the author was contemplating suicide because of his debts

Daily Mail:
Original drawings depicting iconic Martians from HG Wells's sci-fi masterpiece The War of the Worlds are on sale for £350,000

The History Blog:
Original The War of the Worlds drawings for sale

National Geographic:
7 Things You Don't Know About Mother's Day's Dark History

io9:
How The Sinking Of The Lusitania Heralded An Entirely New Kind Of War

Smitshonian Magazine:
This Map Shows the Full Extent of the Devastation Wrought by U-Boats in World War I

The History Blog:
Starring Douglas Fairbanks as Coke Ennyday

Daily Mail:
Five perfectly preserved pre-war automobiles worth $700,000 found frozen in time inside a Texas barn

Smitshonian Magazine:
The Infamous "War of the Worlds" Radio Broadcast Was a Magnificent Fluke

The History Blog:
Watch Too Much Johnson online

Ancient Origins:
The Final Insanity of Al Capone: Was Notorious Gangster Haunted by a Hapless Victim?

US News and World Report:
5 Things You're Too Young to Know About V-E Day

Radio Times:
Everything you need to know about VE Day: rogue royals, bargain bunting and fiery street parties

CBC:
VE-Day: How it unfolded, told through CBC's original reports

San Antonio Express-News:
On V-E Day, victory went beyond the battlefield

Chicago Tribune:
V-E Day was cause for celebration - and worry

The Waterloo Record:
Remembering VE Day: Battling the enemy and a merciless sea

Chronicle-Herald:
From our archives: VE Day, May 8, 1945

Kent and Sussex Courier:
VE Day: The Kent and Sussex Courier in 1945

Tamnworth Herald:
VE Day: Celebrating end of War in Europe in the Herald in 1945

The Guardian:
VE Day 70 years on: readers' photos and stories

Washington Post:
What V-E Day was like in London for a U.S. airman on leave from the war

Times-Union:
Bronx soldier's letters show hope, joy, of V-E Day

Detroit Free Press:
On V-E Day, a look at how Detroit stepped up

Los Angeles Times:
L.A. 're-clenched its fists' on VE Day 70 years ago

Christian Science Monitor:
V-E Day, 1945: how President Truman reacted to news

People Magazine:
Listen to the Queen Remember the 'Most Memorable Night' of Her Life

BBC News:
War is over - how Belfast 'let itself go' for VE day

USA Today:
V-E Day, 70 years later, and memories abound in France

Military.com:
V-E Day Remembered: Joy, Grief and Ike's Tribute to G.I. Joe

South African Times:
Scary start to granddad's VE Day

Bristol Post:
VE Day 2015: This is what Bristol had to endure so you could vote

The Guardian:
Sketches of VE Day from 70 years ago

Coventry Telegraph:
VE Day in pictures: How Coventry celebrated the end of World War Two

Manchester Evening News:
VE Day: Looking back at how Rochdale, Heywood and Middleton celebrated

Manchester Evening News:
VE Day in pictures: Looking back at how Stockport marked the end of the war in Europe in 1945

Wales Online:
VE Day: How communities across Wales celebrated the end of fighting in Europe

Time Magazine:
See Photos of Jubilant V-E Day Celebrations in New York City

Baltimore Sun:
From the Vault: V-E Day

Baltimore Sun:
Celebrating V-E Day in Baltimore

Chicago Tribune:
V-E Day in Chicago

The Guardian:
From the archive, 8 May 1945: VE Day - two German cruisers await surrender

The Mirror:
VE Day: RAF bomber's engine catches fire mid-air while preparing for 70th anniversary celebrations

BBC News:
VE Day: The last British Dambuster

The Atlantic Citylab:
Technicolor Footage of Berlin, Two Months After the End of World War II

BBC News:
Tracing the children of the Holocaust

Daily Mail:
Five paintings missing since World War II being returned to collections in Germany after order from heirs of American acquirers and work by Monuments Men Foundation

Daily Mail:
Naughty but nice: Collection of saucy artworks that titillated U.S. servicemen during World War II are expected to fetch $450,000

Gizmodo:
The man who cut out his own appendix

BBC News:
Searching for the truth about my mother

Daily Mail:
Pirate-themed play barn, pool shaped like a ship's hull and nautical-themed bedroom: Lavish estate of publisher Felix Dennis who was obsessed with Treasure Island goes on sale for £10million

San Francisco Chronicle:
16 stolen paintings that have never been found

Gizmodo:
I Can't Believe This Designer Can Draw All These Logos By Hand

Daily Mail:
It's peak time! Terrifying cliff-side traffic jam as hordes of tourists swarm to see China's 'most dangerous village' perched on top of mountain

BBC News:
Devoted followers of fashion

May 8, 2015

io9:
How All The Spacecraft Circling Mars Keep From Crashing Into Each Other

Gizmodo:
The Cockpit of Solar Impulse Is Not For the Faint-Hearted

Sputnik News:
3D Printing Takes Off With the Airbus A350 XWB

Smithsonian Magazine:
Paper Airplanes Flew Decades Before Real Ones Did

Air & Space Magazine:
Warplanes Over Washington

Air & Space Magazine:
Where the Warbirds Come From

Gizmodo:
Watch this insanely fast drone fly at impossible speeds into the clouds

Daily Mail:
Go Greased Lightning! Nasa's battery-powered drone takes off like a helicopter but flies like a plane

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Huey Defined America's Presence in Vietnam, Even to the Bitter End

Universe Today:
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 11: The Caution and Warning System

Universe Today:
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 12: The 'Trench' Band of Brothers

Universe Today:
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 13: Jim Lovell's 90 Degree Wrong Turn

Spaceflight Insider:
Vostochny report part 3: Hunger games

io9:
Here's How To Drive The Lunar Rover

Gizmodo:
26 Soviet Space Pins From the Heat of the Space Race

Gizmodo:
The Space Artist Who Perfectly Painted All Our Cosmic Dreams

May 7, 2015

Daily Mail:
The sun unleashes its biggest flare of the year - but scientists warn solar bursts 1,000 times more powerful may be on their way

Discovery News:
Sun Unleashes Powerful Flare, Knocks Out Global Radio

Spaceflight Now:
Out-of-control Progress cargo craft to fall back to Earth

Daily Mail:
Look out on Friday! Russian space officials warn stricken spacecraft might not burn up entirely in the atmosphere - but no one knows where it will hit

Sputnik News:
Russian Telescope Captures Burning Up Progress Spacecraft

Spaceflight Now:
NASA gives more information on its experiment aboard the X-37B

Daily Mail:
Success! SpaceX tests its revolutionary Crew Dragon that will take astronauts to the ISS in 2017

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX crew capsule completes dramatic abort test

Spaceflight Insider:
With Pad Abort Test, astronauts one step closer to riding SpaceX's Dragon

Discovery News:
SpaceX Passenger Dragon Makes Debut Test Flight

Daily Mail:
Should we build a base on the 'DARK' side of the moon? Esa wants international team to colonise the far side of lunar surface

Space.com:
Did Mars Have Flowing Water 500,000 Years Ago?

Daily Mail:
Planet formation caught in ACTION: Astronomers confirm famous image of distant system shows worlds taking shape

Discovery News:
This Fuzzy Blue Blob Is Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen

Discovery News:
Eerie 'X-Files' Sounds Recorded From The Edge Of Space

Gizmodo:
Simple video tries to explain where all the aliens are

May 6, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX preps for test of Dragon capsule's life-saving abort system

Spaceflight Now:
Don't blink: SpaceX crew escape demo will go by in a flash

Space.com:
How Risky Spacecraft Launch Aborts Work (Infographic)

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Dragon prototype poised for abort test

Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's Orion loses weight, gains new windows

Space.com:
Alien Volcanoes on 'Super Earth' May Explain Wild Temperature Swings

Universe Today:
What Animals Have Been to Space?

Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: The flight of Freedom 7 fifty four years ago

Spaceflight Insider:
Russia's new space program: Search for extraterrestrial life amid budget cuts

io9:
10 Real-Life Animal Husbandry Techniques That Alien Zoos Will Use On Us

May 5, 2015

Space.com:
SpaceX's Dragon Crew Capsule to Get 1st Big Test This Week

Universe Today:
Buster the Dummy Strapped in for Mile High SpaceX Dragon Flight Test

Universe Today:
Key Facts and Timeline for SpaceX Crewed Dragon's First Test Flight May 6 - Watch Live

Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX's Merlin 1D: Built to enable human space exploration

Stuff NZ:
Mt John Observatory faces uncertain future

Sputnik News:
Astronomers Discover Giant Jupiter-Like Exoplanet Too Big for Its Star

Space.com:
Size of the Milky Way Upgraded, Solving Galaxy Puzzle

Newsworks:
Fireball streaked across New Jersey sky Friday evening, observers say

Business Insider:
How to watch this week's meteor shower created by Halley's Comet

May 4, 2015

Discovery News:
Doomed Russian Spaceship May Re-Enter Next Week

Spaceflight Now:
Bezos' Blue Origin completes first test flight of 'New Shepard' spacecraft

Spaceflight Insider:
Blue Origin successfully tests 'New Shepard' suborbital rocket

Spaceflight Now:
Next round of U.S. optical spy satellites to start launching in 2018

National Geographic:
Space Shuttle Endeavour Flies West Into the Sunset

Spaceflight Now:
Messenger mission ends with plunge into Mercury

Discovery News:
Forever Farewell: NASA's Mercury Probe Is Now An Impact Crater

Stuff NZ:
Scientists mourn as Messenger crashes into Mercury

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Trip to Mars Could Give You Brain Damage

Discovery News:
Icy Europa Does Battle With Solar System's Most Hellish Moon

National Geographic:
Giant Red Sprite Seen From Space Station

Daily Mail:
Asteroid that could have killed off the dinosaurs 'rang Earth like a bell' and triggered the largest lava flows ever seen

WEEKEND EDITION: May 2 through May 3, 2015

Daily Mail:
Are we living in a HOLOGRAM? For the first time, scientists prove strange theory could be true in 'realistic models' of our universe

Times-Leader:
This guy's theories are out of this world

Quanta Magazine:
How Quantum Pairs Stitch Space-Time

Wall Street Journal:
The Half-Life of Physicists

Gizmodo:
The Trillion Frame-Per-Second Camera That Will Visualize Atoms

Popular Science:
Watch A Tiny Robot Pull Something Nearly 2,000 Times Its Size [Video]

Gizmodo:
This Gang of Flat Robots Can Autonomously Steal (Or Park) Your Car

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Nepal Earthquake Made Mt. Everest an Inch Shorter

Live Science:
Bigger Earthquake Coming on Nepal's Terrifying Faults

Live Science:
The 10 Biggest Earthquakes in History

Daily Mail:
Why is Oregon's 'Lost Lake' disappearing? Scientists say a lava tube is swallowing the water - but no one knows where it ends up

Mysterious Universe:
Mysterious Land Mass Appears Overnight Off Japan's Coast

Daily Mail:
Earth's newest supercontinent is taking shape: Land masses are already drifting together to form 'Amasia'

Daily Mail:
Older than Stonehenge: Britain's 'oldest tree' is feared to be dying after more than 4,000 years

Ancient Origins:
Ten Amazing Caves of the Ancient World

National Geographic:
New Fanged Dwarf Dinosaur Found - "Would Be Nice Pet"

Smithsonian Magazine:
This Fluffy Little Dinosaur Had Bat-Like Wings

Daily Mail:
'Bizarre' Jurassic dinosaur discovered in remarkable new find

The Guardian:
New bird species discovered in China

ABC Australia:
Monkeys are cracking good at cracking nuts

Smithsonian Magazine:
Monkeys Can Hack Each Other's Grammar

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Adorable and Heroic Animals of the Museum of Maritime Pets

The History Blog:
Chauvet Cave replica opens in France

Ancient Origins:
Two Ancient High Official Father and Son Tombs Opened at Pyramids Area in Egypt

The History Blog:
Mystery basilica under Porta Maggiore opens to the public

The Guardian:
Liquid mercury found under Mexican pyramid could lead to king's tomb

Ancient Origins:
River of Mercury in Underworld of Pyramid of the Sun may lead to Royal Tomb

The History Blog:
Roman owl fibula found on Danish island

Ancient Origins:
Discovery of Pictish Fort Reveals Iron Age Look-Out post for Sea Raiders

The History Blog:
Viking blacksmith grave even greater than expected

The History Blog:
16th c. murals, burials found in Cuzco church

National Geographic:
A Culture Written in Stone and Soil

The History Blog:
Goya's witches back together again at long last

The Atlantic:
The Questions People Asked Advice Columnists in the 1690s

The History Blog:
British soldiers, archaeologists find early shots fired at Waterloo

National Geographic:
Rare 1823 Wreck Found - Capt. Linked to "Moby Dick," Cannibalism

Daily Mail:
Meet Brazil's 'Confederados': They've forgotten how to speak English but the South American descendants of rebels who fled US after the Civil War still turn out by the thousands to celebrate their Dixie roots

Ancient Origins:
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste: Crew Vanishes from Seaworthy Ship

io9:
7 Lesser-Known Victorian Inventors Who Were Just As Fascinating As Tesla

Gizmodo:
An 1899 Plan to Build A Bike Highway in Los Angeles (And Why It Failed)

Gizmodo:
Why Is the Paper Clip Shaped Like It Is?

Gizmodo:
How the Tea Bag Was Invented

Daily Mail:
Watch the U.S. Army test self guided 'smart bullets' that let ANYONE hit a moving target with perfect accuracy

Daily Mail:
Watch your step! World's largest glass walkway opens in China with panoramic views... and a vertigo-inducing 2,350ft drop over a valley

Smithsonian Magazine:
Seven of the Most Unusual McDonald's Around the World

May 1, 2015

U-T San Diego:
NASA's MESSENGER sends last words, photo before mission ends on Mercury with a bang

Universe Today:
Mercury MESSENGER Mission Concludes with a Smashing Finale!

Daily Mail:
Watch Amazon's Jeff Bezos successfully test New Shephard rocket that could soon blast tourists into space

Daily Mail:
Nasa tests 'WARP DRIVE' engine that could carry passengers to the moon in just four hours ...and may even travel faster than the speed of light

Sputnik News:
Breakthrough: NASA Confirms Electromagnetic Drive Produces Thrust in Vacuum

Gizmag:
SABRE engine concept passes US Air Force feasibilty test

Popular Science:
Is This Weird 3-Story Solar Powered Jet The Airliner Of The Future?

Gizmag:
Vertex hybrid drone combines hovering and fixed-wing flight

Jalopnik:
Snowgoose Is The Pentagon's Low-Cost Resupply Drone Of Dreams

Sputnik News:
Just Google It: Info on How to Hack a Military Drone is Already Online

Spaceflight Insider:
2015 Sun and Fun Fly-In and Expo wows visitors

Jalopnik:
This Is Just Part Of One Of The Most Stunning Aviation Photos Of WWII

Universe Today:
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 9: Avoiding Gimbal Lock

Universe Today:
3 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 10: 'MacGyvering' with Everyday Items

Jalopnik:
The SR-71 Blackbird's Predecessor First Flew 53 Years Ago Today

April 30, 2015

Daily Mail:
Out of control Russian spacecraft is a 'total loss': Officials admit space station supply craft will burn up in the Earth's atmosphere

Spaceflight Now:
Russia gives up on Progress supply ship docking

Discovery News:
Russian Spaceship Is Falling To Earth, No One Knows Where

Spaceflight Now:
Progress failure probe narrows in on separation from rocket

Spaceflight Insider:
Progress M-27M latest woe for Russian Space Program

Daily Mail:
The giant SPONGE floating in space: Stunning close-up reveals Saturn's crumpet moon in incredible detail

The Express:
WATCH: Moment 'car-sized' meteor hurtles to Earth exploding with force of 'atomic bomb'

April 29, 2015

Times-Picayune:
MESSENGER spacecraft to crash into Mercury on Thursday

Business Insider:
NASA is going to purposely crash a $446 million spacecraft into Mercury at breakneck speeds

Earth-Sky:
Six cool things about MESSENGER's April 30 Mercury crash

Spaceflight Now:
Antenna snag strikes Progress cargo freighter

Discovery News:
Russian Spacecraft Spinning Out Of Control In Orbit

Spaceflight Now:
Russians scramble to restore cargo ship communications

Spaceflight Now:
Video: Russian cargo ship spinning

Discovery News:
NASA: No Immediate Impact If Russian Cargo Ship Is Lost

Space.com:
How Russia's Progress Spaceships Work (Infographic)

Daily Mail:
Mercury as you've never seen it: Messenger reveals close-ups of planet's sun-scorched surface as it prepares to meet its fiery end

Discovery News:
When Did The Universe Flood With Water?

Popular Science:
When Space Probes Crash--For Science And Otherwise

April 28, 2015

Burnley Express:
Meteor shower lights up North West

Hartlepool Mail:
UFO? Meteor? Fireball shoots over UK skies

Irish Mirror:
Watch amazing moment mystery fireball lit up Irish skies and baffled coastguard

Irish Times:
Astronomers seeking witnesses to Sunday fireball

Jalopnik:
We Finally Know Something About What The Shadowy X-37B Will Do In Orbit

Spaceflight Now:
X-37B launch date firms up as new details emerge about experiment

Space.com:
SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Launches Turkmenistan's First-Ever Satellite

io9:
The Space Station Now Has A Viewscreen Straight Out Of Star Trek

Discovery News:
That's no moon! Spacecraft mistaken for new natural satellite

Space.com:
How Studying Saturn Moon Titan Could Unlock Secrets of Alien Planets

Scientific American:
It's Time to Go to Europa

Scientific American:
Rosetta Captures Stunning New Images of Comet's Surface and Activity

Jalopnik:
60 Minutes Provides A Quality Primer On Anti-Satellite Warfare

April 27, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Fourth X-37B flight a month away from launching

Spaceflight Insider:
Russian space efforts encounter array of setbacks in less than a week

Universe Today:
SpaceX Picks Up Launch Pace; Sets April 27 Commercial Launch and May 5 Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test

Discovery News:
Hubble At 25: Brief History Of The Hubble Space Telescope

Discovery News:
Hubble At 25: Space Telescope's Top Science Discoveries

Discovery News:
Hubble At 25: The Space Telescope By The Numbers: Photos

Space.com:
How the Hubble Space Telescope Works (Infographic)

Spaceflight Now:
High-flying tune-ups gave us the Hubble generation

Spaceflight Now:
Astronomers hopeful Hubble will make it to 30th anniversary

Air & Space Magazine:
MESSENGER Comes To a Crashing End on Thursday

Discovery News:
'Spider' Patterns On Pluto Await Spacecraft

Space Daily:
Tau Ceti Probably not the next Earth

Discovery News:
Tiny And Speedy: 'Homeless' Galaxies Ejected From Clusters

WEEKEND EDITION: April 25 through April 26, 2015

Universe Today:
Is There a Mirror Universe?

Daily Mail:
When supermassive black holes COLLIDE: Best-ever 3D simulation reveals how space-time warps during the cataclysmic event

Mysterious Universe:
NASA May Have Accidentally Created a Warp Field

Stuff NZ:
Lower Hutt radiocarbon dating lab helps sort antiques from modern shams

Daily Mail:
'Longitude' clock stuns experts by keeping accurate to a second for 100 days - 300 years after it was designed

The Guardian:
Clockmaker John Harrison vindicated 250 years after 'absurd' claims

The Guardian:
Yellowstone national park: scientists discover huge magma chamber

Daily Mail:
The moment the GROUND came to life: Terrifying video shows 'earthflow' phenomenon creeping across a Russian track, pulling trees and power lines with it

Daily Mail:
Oldest evidence of life on Earth is WRONG: 3.46 billion-year-old 'fossils' were simply stacks of clay minerals

Science Magazine:
Sixth extinction, rivaling that of the dinosaurs, should join the big five, scientists say

Daily Mail:
Did stegosaurus use its armour to attract a mate? Male and female dinosaurs had different shaped plates along their backs

Audobon Magazine:
Which Came First: the Dinosaur or the Bird?

io9:
This Is What A Forest Elephant Looked Like 200,000 Years Ago

ABC Australia:
Lonely end for the world's last woolly mammoths

io9:
Wild Chimps Look Out For Traffic Before Crossing Busy Road

Daily Mail:
Did our ancestors hunt in PACKS? 1.5 million year old Homo erectus footprints hint at prehistoric hunting parties

Science Magazine:
Feature: Solving the mystery of dog domestication

Ancient Origins:
Russian Archaeologists Unearth Legendary White Walls of Memphis

Ancient Origins:
Egyptologists Unearth Tomb of Long Lost Pharaoh so Ancient Only His Name is Known

National Geographic:
Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Smuggled Into U.S. Are Heading Home

Ancient Origins:
Taosi Confirmed as 4,200-Year-Old Legendary Capital of Chinese Hero Emperor

Archaeology Magazine:
The Cult of Amun

Ancient Origins:
4,000-Year-Old Ancient Babylonian Tablet is Oldest Customer Service Complaint Ever Discovered

Ancient Origins:
Ferdinand Magellan: Defying all Odds in a Voyage around the World

Daily Mail:
French replica of an 18th century ship used to help defeat the British in War of Independence sets sail for Boston

The History Blog:
Replica of LaFayette's ship Hermione sets sail for US

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Beautiful Drawings by Darwin's Artist-in-Residence

io9:
It's The 174th Birthday Of The Detective Story, So Read The Very First!

San Francisco Chronicle:
New S.F. archive includes stunning photos from 1906 quake

io9:
How The Most Daring Plan Of WWI Turned Into A Military Disaster

Daily Mail:
Never-before-seen photographs show horror of doomed Gallipoli landings through the eyes of the soldiers who fought there

BBC News:
Gallipoli: Six tales of valour and a missing Victoria Cross

Daily Mail:
'It was a floating shambles, a mass of corpses': Harrowing first-hand accounts of Gallipoli landings revealed in two never-before seen diaries

The Telegraph:
Letters from Gallipoli: an officer's tale of bloodshed and defeat

Australian Financial Review:
Digger diary reveals true cost of Gallipoli

ABC Australia:
Anzac Day 2015: Gallipoli campaign left Turkish children illiterate, exposed to trauma, study reveals

The New Daily:
Faces of Gallipoli: the mates who made history

The Northern Echo:
Young and old honour Brandon's Gallipoli victim, 100 years on

The Gympie Times:
Remember Our Anzacs: Lest We Forget

Gizmodo:
This Working Replica of Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion Car Is Scary As Hell

Daily Mail:
Some are revered, others are rubble: Photos show the former New York City wonders the world has lost forever and the buildings that have been saved by metropolis's 50-year-old Landmarks Law

Gizmodo:
The Fed's Cold War Bunker Had $4 Billion Cash For After The Apocalypse

io9:
The 8 Most Intriguing Theories About Skyjacker D.B. Cooper

Daily Mail:
The day a poltergeist attacked me: Skeptical about the supernatural? So was the Mail's MICHAEL HELLICAR - until he saw events so chilling they still haunt him to this day

Sputnik News:
5 Reasons Why the Chernobyl Disaster Got So Out of Control

Daily Mail:
Japanese Maglev breaks speed record AGAIN: 'Floating' train hits 375mph during latest test run

Gizmodo:
This Japanese Gymnast Game Is the Laziest Way To Train For the Olympics

Daily Mail:
The jeep that can down a drone: US Navy reveals anti-UAV weapon that can fire lasers from a moving vehicle

Jalopnik:
This Is Your Go-To Graphic To Understand The US Navy Fleet

Gizmodo:
Norway Will Be the First Country to Turn Off FM Radio in 2017

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Abandoned Settlements Inside National Parks

Daily Mail:
The largest Buddhist settlement in the world: Inside the village where 40,000 monks and nuns are segregated and televisions are banned... but iPhones are allowed

Daily Mail:
The uncontacted tribe who could help us beat disease: First study of bacteria living on Amazon villagers reveal how much the modern world has changed us

Gizmag:
In Pictures: Highlights from Milan Design Week 2015

April 24, 2015

Air & Space Magazine:
The Lunar "Distraction"

Daily Mail:
Paul Allen launches 'Vulcan Aerospace': Microsoft founder says new company will get biggest plane in history off the ground - and it could launch astronauts into space

Jalopnik:
Russian Troops Have Close Call With Missile, Giggles and Cheers Ensue

Gizmag:
High-end Freefly Alta drone flips aerial photography on its head

The Aviationist:
nEUROn European Stealth combat drone has started operational tests in Italy

Popular Science:
Marine V-22 Osprey Shoots Kamikaze Drones Out Its Backside

Gizmodo:
Awesome underneath angle of a B-1B Lancer taking off

Jalopnik:
Check Out This Royal Air Force Typhoon With A Battle Of Britain Paintjob

The Aviationist:
Stunning images of U.S. Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler jets flying at dusk

Jalopnik:
Breathtaking Photos Of Fighter Jets Soaring Over Yosemite Park

Jalopnik:
Bask In The Awesome Of The Bat-Winged X-47B Sipping Gas From A Tanker

Gizmodo:
China's 'Air Force One' gets escorted by 8 fighter jets in cool video

The Aviationist:
Video provides behind the scenes look at the Russian Su-27 Flanker operations in the Baltic area

Jalopnik:
This Amazing First Person View Shows Every Move It Takes To Fly A P-51

Space.com:
Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle

Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: The saga of Apollo 16

Universe Today:
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 5: The CO2 Partial Pressure Sensor

Universe Today:
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 6: The Mysterious Longer-Than-Expected Communications Blackout

Universe Today:
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 7: Isolating the Surge Tank

Universe Today:
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 8: The Indestructible S-Band/Hi-Gain Antenna

Collect Space:
Mercury space capsule returns to Kansas after overseas art exhibition

April 23, 2015

Daily Mail:
Governments are HIDING aliens, claims former defence minister: Paul Hellyer urges world leaders to reveal 'secret files'

Space Daily:
Russia Planning Manned Flight Around Moon in 2025

Spaceflight Insider:
NASA Wallops Flight Facility's Pad 0A slowly recovering from Orb 3 accident

Discovery News:
Spacecraft Spots Curiosity On Mars, But Spies No Rover Tracks

Discovery News:
First Exoplanet Discovered By Reflected Visible Light

Daily Mail:
World's most powerful telescope to launch in 2018: 'Time machine' will peer back over 13.5 billion years to see first stars forming

Popular Science:
Is NASA Going To Let The Hubble Telescope Burn Up?

Popular Science:
Mysterious Radio Bursts Are Indeed Coming From A Galaxy Far, Far Away

April 22, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Throttle valve blamed for Falcon 9's unsuccessful landing

New Scientist:
Space geckos seen playing on their trip into orbit

Daily Mail:
Solar Impulse crosses China: Sixth leg of groundbreaking round-the-world flight is completed

Stuff NZ:
Japan eyes 2018 moon landing

Daily Mail:
The REAL Death Star! International Space Station could be fitted with lasers to shoot down space junk in orbit

Daily Mail:
How Saturn is devouring its moon: Stunning images reveal Enceladus' ghostly tendrils being sucked in by the gas giant's rings

Universe Today:
The 2015 Lyrid Meteors Peak Tomorrow Night!

April 21, 2015

Space.com:
Incredible Technology: NASA's Wild Airship Idea for Cloud Cities on Venus

Space.com:
Project HAVOC: NASA Concept Could Explore Venus with Airships (Gallery)

Spaceflight Insider:
Curiosity detects possible liquid brine in Martian soil

Space.com:
Spring Skywatching: Constellation Leo Comes in Like a Lion

Space.com:
Cassiopeia: The Banished Queen Ruling the Night Sky

Space.com:
Meteorites Help Date the Violent Birth of Earth's Moon

Scientific American:
Meteorite Chemicals May Have Started Life on Earth -- and Space

Scientific American:
Alien Supercivilizations Absent from 100,000 Nearby Galaxies

Discovery News:
Could Next-Gen Hubble Telescope Seek Out Alien Life?

April 20, 2015

Sputnik News:
After 2012 Close Call, Giant Asteroid on Collision Course With Earth Again

Phys.org:
Will asteroid 2012 TC4 hit Earth in October 2017?

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX supply ship joins up with space station

Daily Mail:
Leaked video shows SpaceX rocket tipping over on a barge - and reveals just how close firm got to a perfect landing

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: SpaceX's debris-strewn landing barge back in port

Daily Mail:
Solar Impulse stuck in China: Winds hamper record-breaking attempt at round-the-world flight for third week

io9:
These Are Easily The Most Gorgeous Maps Of The Moon Ever

The Guardian:
Nasa spacecraft that found water on Mercury prepares to crash into planet

Discovery News:
NASA Probe To Crash Into Mercury In 2 Weeks

Universe Today:
Dawn Rises Over Ceres North Pole

Gizmodo:
The Universe's Largest Galaxies Rotted From the Inside Out

Daily Mail:
Hubble at 25: Nasa celebrates upcoming milestone of the world's greatest telescope by releasing an image for each of its years

Discovery News:
When (Part Of) Apollo 13 Reached The Moon

WEEKEND EDITION: April 18 through April 19, 2015

National Public Radio:
Einstein's Universe Turns 100

International Business Times:
Albert Einstein: 10 facts about genius behind theory of relativity on 60th anniversary of death

International Business Times:
Albert Einstein: Quotes and photos of father of modern physics on 60th anniversary of death

National Science Foundation:
Albert Einstein, in his own words

Time Magazine:
Albert Einstein on the Secret to Learning

Economic Times:
How Albert Einstein engaged with India and why some Indian scientists are reimagining his notion of gravity

Business Insider:
How this letter from a genius pacifist inspired the US to build the most powerful weapon known to man

Global Research:
"The Negro Question". Albert Einstein's 1946 Statement on Racism and Civil Rights

New York Review of Books:
Einstein as a Jew and a Philosopher

Daily Galaxy:
Dark Matter --"Is a Parallel Universe That Could Harbor Rich Physics and Complex Behavior"

Daily Mail:
Can I help you? Toshiba puts its humanoid robot to work in Tokyo department store

PC World:
Shape-shifting robot reveals secrets of Fukushima reactor

IEEE Spectrum:
University of Pennsylvania Unleashes Robot Jerboa Upon the World

Smithsonian Magazine:
Levitating Train Breaks Speed Record in Japan

Daily Mail:
Will a volcanic eruption destroy humanity? Scientists warn that world must begin preparing for explosive global catastrophe

Phys.org:
Rare tidal movements expose Kimberley dinosaur tracks

The Independent:
Giant cannibalistic dinosaurs engaged in ritualistic fighting

Scientific American:
Tails Tell the Tale of Dinosaur Sex

National Geographic:
Ultra-Rare Black Flamingo Spotted in Cyprus

National Geographic:
A Gray Whale Breaks The Record For Longest Mammal Migration

Daily Mail:
Man-sized kangaroo gives stuffed bunny toy a bear hug... and his handler says he'll fight anything that tries to take it away from him

Daily Mail:
Now they're feline better: The abandoned black cat who cuddles other sick strays back to health at an animal shelter

Science Magazine:
World's oldest stone tools discovered in Kenya

National Geographic:
Digs Reveal Stone-Age Weapons Industry With Staggering Output

Smithsonian Magazine:
Only a Handful of People Can Enter the Chauvet Cave Each Year. Our Reporter Was One of Them.

Daily Mail:
Oldest evidence of human cremation in Britain unearthed: Stone Age men placed bodies on funeral pyres 7,600 years ago

The History Blog:
Family looking for broken sewer pipe finds 2,500 years of history

Daily Mail:
Britain's ancient connection to Carthage: 2,300-year-old coin reveals Mediterranean trade route dating back to the Iron Age

The History Blog:
Roman bronze harpy found in England

Live Science:
Evidence of Pre-Columbus Trade Found in Alaska House

Ancient Origins:
Ancient Bronze Artifacts in Alaska Reveals Trade with Asia Before Columbus Arrival

National Geographic:
Why Shroud of Turin's Secrets Continue to Elude Science

Smithsonian Magazine:
New York City Ran a Slave Market

The History Blog:
New York to put up marker at site of Wall Street slave market

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Rum Helped the U.S. Win Its Independence

The History Blog:
The glory of 18th century Swiss automata

io9:
How Lord Byron's Scandals Led Ada Lovelace To Become A Mathematician

Smithsonian Magazine:
200 Years After Tambora, Some Unusual Effects Linger

io9:
The Strange, Bitter 19th Century Debate Over Where Toledo Was

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Pony Express Was Short-Lived And Costly

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Host of Relics from Lincoln's Last Days All Came to Reside at the Smithsonian

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Samuel Mudd Went From Lincoln Conspirator to Medical Savior

The History Blog:
Bronzes stolen from gallery 32 years ago found

Daily Mail:
Amazing letter reveals for the first time how Titanic owners demanded huge sums from grieving families to be reunited with bodies of ship's crew

Daily Mail:
Before the crowds and selfie sticks: Century-old travel photos show beauty of Chinese landmarks with barely any tourists

Gizmodo:
How the Quest for a Perfectly Rational Calendar Created a 13th Month

San Francisco Chronicle:
Before the fires: Arnold Genthe's Chinatown

Daily Mail:
Diving into history: Luxury submarine tours offered to visit Titanic wreck at the bottom of the Atlantic... for a cool $60,000

Daily Mail:
'Are you of the white race or of a colored race?' Application form to join the Ku Klux Klan in 1921 unearthed by book dealer

The History Blog:
Here is the first Wonder Woman drawing

Daily Mail:
Was Soviet wartime fortune lost by accident in the Clyde? Evidence emerges that case of bullion fell into river as it was transferred between ships during secret operation

Daily Mail:
$50million hoard of silver coins sent to the bottom of the sea by the Nazis is discovered aboard sunken steamboat at a record depth of 17,000ft by treasure hunters

Science Magazine:
Alan Turing's notebook sells for $1.025 million

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Untold Story of the Vengeful Japanese Attack After the Doolittle Raid

Daily Mail:
After not one, but two atomic blasts and 64 years at the bottom of the Pacific, here is the US WWII USS Independence aircraft carrier 'amazingly intact' (...and there's even a plane in the hangar!)

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Albert Einstein, the Genius Behind the Theory of Relativity, Loved His Pipe

Gizmodo:
That Time the US Accidentally Nuked Britain's First Satellite

Gizmodo:
13 Horrifying Ideas America Had For Invading Cuba

Houston Chronicle:
Search is on for the Dome's mysterious time capsule

io9:
The Atomic Energy Commission Once Put A "Nuclear Heart" In A Cow

Gizmodo:
LSD and a Top-Secret Army Experiment's Trip to the Supreme Court

Gizmodo:
The Massive Proving Ground Where Extraordinary New Trains Are Tested

Gawker:
The IRS's Secretive Undercover Unit Lives In This Building

Smithsonian Magazine:
The World's Most Interesting (and Accessible) Library Collections

Smithsonian Magazine:
These Were 2014's Most Challenged Books

April 17, 2015

Daily Mail:
The battery powered rocket powerful enough to blast satellites into orbit

Gizmodo:
Crazy wingsuit guy smashes right through a sign while flying super fast

Popular Science:
New Attack Helicopter Set To Enter Russian Service

Popular Science:
Watch This Drone Carry A Person

Popular Science:
The Navy Plans To Launch Swarms Of Drones From Tubes [Video]

Daily Mail:
The drone that never has to land: US Navy's X-47B successfully completes first ever unmanned refuelling test in mid-air

Popular Science:
Chimpanzee Swats Drone From Sky

Gizmodo:
This 2-Minute 4K Supercut of SpaceX Launches Is Some Great Space Porn

Air & Space Magazine:
Launch. Recover. Repeat

The Aviationist:
[Video] Red Flag 15-2 Night Launches

Jalopnik:
This Obscure Skunk Works Jet May Help Team Win New Stealth Bomber Bid

Air & Space Magazine:
How to Become a Ball Turret Gunner

Air & Space Magazine:
The Day After D-Day

Air & Space Magazine:
The War's Oddest Dogfight

The Aviationist:
How the legendary Starfighter was used to train astronauts: the story of the NF-104

Air & Space Magazine:
My Dad's Moon Vision

io9:
The Checklist Of What Had To Go Wrong For Apollo 13 To Fail Is Insane

Space.com:
How Apollo 13's Dangerous Survival Mission Worked (Infographic)

Universe Today:
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 2: Simultaneous Presence of Kranz and Lunney at the Onset of the Rescue

Universe Today:
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 3: Detuning the Saturn V's 3rd Stage Radio

Universe Today:
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 4: Early Entry into the Lander

Gizmag:
A preview of the Bonhams 7th annual Space History Sale

April 16, 2015

Discovery News:
SpaceX Releases Amazing (and Explosive) Video of Rocket Landing

Discovery News:
Early Earth May Have Swallowed A Mercury-Like Planet

Smithsonian Magazine:
Earth May Have Became Magnetic After Eating a Mercury-Like Object

The Guardian:
Rise and shine: Rosetta's Philae probe could be awake within weeks

Daily Mail:
We're getting closer! First colour image of the planet and its moon that man has never seen close-up before is snapped ahead of Nasa's New Horizons arrival in July

Daily Mail:
The ultimate urban runaround - on any planet: Watch Nasa test experimental vehicle that can drift, drive sideways to park and spin on the spot

April 15, 2015

Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 screams off the pad, misses landing as Dragon flies to ISS

Daily Mail:
SpaceX lands its rocket on a barge: Elon Musk confirms Falcon touched down but tipped over in groundbreaking experiment

New York Times:
SpaceX Comes Close to Recovering Rocket

New Scientist:
SpaceX reusable rocket crashes in attempted boat landing

Scientific American:
SpaceX Faces the Hard Truth about Soft Landings - They're Tough to Do

New Scientist:
Reusable Vulcan rockets that parachute to Earth to launch in 2019

Daily Mail:
Are spy satellites being disguised as SPACE JUNK? Russian official makes bold claim - but won't say who is behind it

New Scientist:
Philae's sensors show comet 67P has almost no magnetic field

Space.com:
Comet Comes to Life in Amazing Rosetta Spacecraft Photo Montage

Discovery News:
Enigmatic Moon Mimas Bathes In 'Saturnshine'

Daily Mail:
Was Earth a SNOWBALL 2.4 billion years ago?Theory suggests our entire planet was once locked in a deep freeze

KPIX:
Radiant Meteor Shower With Chance For 100 Shooting Stars Per Hour Begins Thursday

Space.com:
SpaceX's Dragon Space Capsule Now Visible in Night Sky: How to See It

Scientific American:
Where Would you Leave a Message From the Stars?

April 14, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Nearby storms keep Falcon 9 rocket grounded

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX drone ship in position for daring rocket landing

Spaceflight Insider:
What makes a Dragon: A quick guide to SpaceX's capsule

Gizmodo:
How the Moon Got Its Name

Universe Today:
This Mountain on Mars Is Leaking

Daily Mail:
Water, water, everywhere: Nine worlds in our solar system could have underground oceans - and maybe life too

Spaceflight Now:
Rosetta keeps its distance from awakening comet

New Scientist:
Two mysterious bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres are not alike

Space.com:
Violent Methane Storms on Titan May Explain Strange Dunes

American Photo:
See the Vintage Space Photos that Put Our World Into Perspective

Collect Space:
Apollo 13 astronaut exhibit re-launches at Chicago planetarium

April 13, 2015

Daily Mail:
Meteor explodes above terrified city in massive fireball seconds before impact

WHNT:
Fireball seen in the Alabama sky early Saturday

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX on track for cargo launch Monday

Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX to attempt Falcon 9 first stage landing again with SpX-6 flight

Universe Today:
SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon CRS-6 set for April 13 Launch to ISS and Historic Landing Attempt

Spaceflight Insider:
Launch of secretive X-37B delayed until May 20

Spaceflight Now:
NASA adding to list of CubeSats flying on first SLS mission

Spaceflight Now:
NASA invites ESA to build Europa piggyback probe

Daily Mail:
Mercury in stunning detail: Nasa's Messenger spacecraft reveals best views yet of Earth's sun-scorched cousin

Discovery News:
Watching The Sunsets Of Mars Through Robot Eyes: Photos

Spaceflight Insider:
New Horizons begins Approach Phase 2

Daily Mail:
The sun is a late bloomer: Our star is five billion years younger than most in the Milky Way - and this may have helped its planets form

Daily Mail:
Can life exist on rogue planets with no sun? Cold worlds that wander the stars may still harbour alien beings, claims scientist

Air & Space Magazine:
A Crater of Cosmic Proportions

WEEKEND EDITION: April 11 through April 12, 2015

The Irish Times:
Belief in the multiverse: a form of blind faith?

Business Insider:
If parallel universes exist, here's how we could actually find the evidence

Daily Mail:
Large Hadron Collider starts up again after being stopped for two years of upgrade work - and scientists hope to see dark matter for the first time

Smithsonian Magazine:
Inside the Atom Smasher at CERN

Gizmodo:
Watch This Fighting Robot Die in Agonizing Slow Motion

Gizmodo:
We Definitely Shouldn't Have Taught Robots How To Sword Fight

io9:
10 Geological Forms We've Studied For Years And Still Don't Understand

Smithsonian Magazine:
These Breathtaking Photos of Vietnam's Caves Bring Out the Armchair Spelunker in Everyone

Stuff NZ:
When, not if: Alpine fault could cause 8 metres of movement

Smithsonian Magazine:
Ask Smithsonian: Could the Volcano Beneath Yellowstone National Park Ever Erupt?

Daily Mail:
The mystery of life solved? Study reveals how primordial DNA may have spontaneously appeared 4 billion years ago

Daily Mail:
The 'thunder lizard' is back! Brontosaurus is finally recognised as a dinosaur after more than a century

Daily Mail:
Giant meat eating 'terror bird' had a deep voice: Almost complete fossil of flightless predator discovered in Argentina

Daily Mail:
Step inside the world's largest replica CAVE: French cavern that contains 1,000 prehistoric paintings is recreated using 3D scanning

The History Blog:
Two 6th Dynasty priests' tombs found at Saqqara

Daily Mail:
Egyptian jewellery and pottery recovered from looted tomb: 3,000-year-old artefacts were overlooked by hapless thieves

Archaeology Magazine:
The Minoans of Crete

Ancient Origins:
Long Hidden Scythian Treasure Site Located at Ceremonial Spring in Poland

National Geographic:
A War Diary Soars Over Rome

National Geographic:
Reading Trajan's Column

Smithsonian Magazine:
Two Eerie Medusa Heads Watch Over Turkey's Waterways

Daily Mail:
The ancient fortress that has historians - and Putin - baffled: Nobody knows why spectacular 1,300-year-old Siberian island fort was built... or why it was abandoned

The History Blog:
Anglo-Saxon eye salve kills MRSA superbug

The History Blog:
Rare Earl of Lancaster devotional panel found on Thames riverbank

Daily Mail:
Rebuilding the Ming Dynasty's 'Martial City': Archaeologists begin mammoth task of restoring fearsome 600-year-old fortress

The History Blog:
Russian billionaire buys Salvator Mundi, dealer makes $50 million killing

Ancient Origins:
Discovery of Ancient Tomb Suggests Man was Sacrificed to join a Noblewoman in Death

Daily Mail:
How Did an Ottoman War Camel End Up in an Austrian Basement?

The History Blog:
17th c. Ottoman war camel unearthed in Austria

Daily Mail:
Gunpowder plots and prefect revolutions: Secret rebellious history of Britain's most prestigious public schools including Eton and Rugby laid bare in new book

Daily Mail:
Archaeologists identify skeleton of soldier who was killed at the battle of Waterloo after his 200-year-old remains were discovered under a car park - just like Richard III

The History Blog:
Skeleton of soldier unearthed at Waterloo identified

National Geographic:
Volcanic Eruption That Changed World Marks 200th Anniversary

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Gentleman's Agreement That Ended the Civil War

Daily Mail:
Chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot to be displayed in an open plaza for 150th anniversary of president's assassination

Smithsonian Magazine:
Lincoln's Missing Bodyguard

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Night Abraham Lincoln Was Assassinated

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Final Hours of John Wilkes Booth

San Francisco Chronicle:
Incredible Civil War images

Daily Mail:
Scrawled on the walls of a cave 100ft below the French countryside, the poignant graffiti left by doomed troops waiting to join Battle of the Somme

The History Blog:
WWI soldier graffiti found on Naours quarry walls

io9:
Science Is Still Identifying The Paintings Of The Most Famous Art Forger

Air & Space Magazine:
The Biggest Industrial Boom in U.S. History

Air & Space Magazine:
Kursk

Air & Space Magazine:
Voices of the Veterans

Daily Mail:
Hiroshima's horror on paper: Handwritten military plans for devastating atomic bomb attack expected to fetch £300,000 at auction

Air & Space Magazine:
What the Movies Taught Us About World War II

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Year of Jackie Robinson's Mutual Love Affair With Montreal

Gizmodo:
A Look at the Tefifon, Germany's Doomed 1950s Music Player

Gizmag:
Delphi's self-driving car completes US coast-to-coast trip

Jalopnik:
Watch America's Most Advanced Tank Waltz For Estonians

Daily Mail:
Why is the military moving back into 'Stargate' base deep under the Rocky Mountains a decade after it was abandoned?

The Atlantic:
The Secret Life of Yo-Yos

April 10, 2015

Daily Mail:
Could this $300 billion 'space mushroom' replace the ISS? Giant rotating station would create artificial gravity for astronauts

Daily Mail:
For high-flyers only! Gold trim, white leather and a cruising speed of 178mph... the deluxe helicopter on sale for $15MILLION

Air & Space Magazine:
Model Airplanes for Fun and Profit

Popular Science:
Police In India Get Drones Armed With Pepper Spray

Popular Science:
Air Force's Reaper Sinks Boat For First Time

Popular Science:
Congress Pressures Air Force To Finish Its Cyber Missile

Jalopnik:
This Is A Plane That's Refueling A Helicopter That's Carrying A Hummer

Jalopnik:
This Is The Best Military Aviation Shot You Have Seen For A Long Time

Jalopnik:
The US Just Held Long-Range Bomber Drills Over An Area Russia Wants

The Aviationist:
Is this China's next generation stealth fighter bomber?

Jalopnik:
The Amazing OV-10 Bronco Was Never Allowed To Meet Its Full Potential

Gizmodo:
Matchstick Rockets Captured at 2,500 fps Look Like Tiny ICBMs

Gizmodo:
For 50 Years Now, the U.S. Has Had a Nuclear Reactor Orbiting in Space

Daily Mail:
Don't forget to shut the door! Bloodstained checklist for astronauts performing the first US spacewalk set to fetch $120,000

Scientific American:
Watch the First Artificial Gravity Experiment

Universe Today:
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13

Universe Today:
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 1: The Failed Oxygen Quantity Sensor

Jalopnik:
Aggressor Air Controller's Display Clearly Shows Aircraft Over Area 51

April 9, 2015

Daily Mail:
Origins of Russian fireball found: Scientists say meteor had a 'disturbingly similar' orbit to potentially hazardous asteroid

Spaceflight Now:
What to do with the final Delta 2 rocket?

Spaceflight Now:
Blue Origin's sub-orbital 'New Shepard' poised for test flights

Spaceflight Insider:
Expedition 43 crew prepare to welcome a Dragon

Daily Mail:
Nasa reveals plan to send spacecraft into the upper atmosphere of the SUN for first time

Discovery News:
Collision With Earth's 'Little Sister' Created The Moon

Space Daily:
Planned Maneuver Further Extends MESSENGER Orbital Operations

Daily Mail:
How DID the moon form? Mystery deepens as two studies provide totally different theories for how Earth's satellite was born

Discovery News:
Buried Mars Glaciers Are Brimming With Water

Space Daily:
Life Needs An Atmosphere, But How Much Is Too Much

Discovery News:
Chemistry For Life Discovered Around Baby Star

April 8, 2015

Blastr:
Check out this insane invasion of 22 vintage UFO magazines that wanted you to believe

Daily Mail:
The billionaire space battle: Jeff Bezos' rocket company to blast off with first suborbital test flights this year in bid to take on Elon Musk's SpaceX

Spaceflight Now:
Diverse destinations considered for new interplanetary probe

Sputnik News:
Glacial Belts of Water Ice Found on Mars

Spaceflight Now:
Rosetta probe disoriented by comet dust

Space Daily:
Dawn orbiting high over the night side of Ceres

Discovery News:
Cassini Captures Stunning View Of Saturn's Weird 2-Faced Moon

Space Daily:
Europa's Elusive Water Plume Paints Grim Picture For Life

Discovery News:
ALMA Captures Ancient Galaxy's Near-Perfect Einstein Ring

Space.com:
How Alien Planets Can Change Each Other's Habitability Over Eons

Space.com:
Search for Alien Life Should 'Follow the Methane,' Scientists Say

Universe Today:
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" I: A Lunchtime Conversation- Enrico Fermi and Extraterrestrial Intelligence

April 7, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Launch of BepiColombo mission to Mercury slips to 2017

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why the ESA's Astronauts Train Underground

Daily Mail:
Robo-spiders in space: Radical new robots can spin 'webs' in orbit to build spacecraft

IEEE Spectrum:
Quantifying the Risk of Damage to Integrated Circuits in Space

Space.com:
Pluto Weather Forecast: Probe Likely to Find It Gusty and Gassy

Space.com:
Earth's 'Alien' Creatures May Reveal Clues About Extraterrestrial Life

April 6, 2015

Seattle Post Intelligencer:
Follow-up: Who was the FBI's man behind the Maury Island UFO incident?

New Scientist:
Alien FAQ: 6 questions about strange cosmic radio bursts

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Time wows us again

Daily Mail:
Red sky at night! Blood Moon cast a scarlet hue across the night sky in shortest lunar eclipse this century

Space.com:
Strange 'Hollows' on Mercury Revealed by NASA Probe as Mission End Nears

Discovery News:
Curiosity Has Hit A Martian Mineral Jackpot

Space Daily:
Curiosity Sniffs Out History of Martian Atmosphere

Space Daily:
Warm or cold? Mars' history takes a watery new twist

Popular Science:
Visit The Asteroid Vesta Without Leaving Your Home

Discovery News:
Rosetta Gets Confused By Rough Comet 'Weather'

Scientific American:
Jupiter, Destroyer of Worlds, May Have Paved the Way for Earth

Gizmodo:
A Moon Of Saturn Has Its Moment In The Sun In This Stunning Ringscape

Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: Virgil I. 'Gus' Grissom - After Shepard, before Glenn

WEEKEND EDITION: April 4 through April 5, 2015

Universe Today:
Will the Universe Run Out Of Energy?

Popular Science:
3 Ways To Make A Star On Earth

Daily Mail:
The Tricorder is here: Gadget that works with a phone to study the chemical makeup of ANY object will be released in June

IEEE Spectrum:
RoboGames: The World's Largest Robot Competition Is Back

Daily Mail:
Take a virtual drive through the 32 acre fake city being built in Michigan to test self driving cars - where even the pedestrians are mechanical

Popular Science:
Most Of The Web Is Invisible To Google. Here's What It Contains

Daily Mail:
Now you can play Pac-Man on GOOGLE MAPS: Search engine transforms streets into a giant version of 1980s Atari game

Daily Mail:
Storm in an ash cloud: Electrifying shots of Mexican volcanic eruption show lightning bolts striking inside its ash plume

Daily Mail:
The werewolf of the plant world: Conifer cousin waits for full moon to produce nectar to seduce pollinating insects

Daily Mail:
Is this Nessie's ancestor? Fossil of beast that lived in Loch Ness 360 million years ago may be distant - and much smaller - relative

Daily Mail:
Ancient lobster with six claws and FOUR eyes unearthed: Fossil reveals the predator prowled oceans 500 million years ago

Daily Mail:
The 75ft dinosaur that weighed more than NINE elephants: Monstrous new species that roamed planet 100million years ago is discovered in Siberia

Daily Mail:
The 75ft dinosaur that weighed more than NINE elephants: Monstrous new species that roamed planet 100million years ago is discovered in Siberia

Daily Mail:
Beauty of ancient shells unmasked: Fossilised snails revealed in all their glory after 6.5 million years thanks to UV light

Daily Mail:
Songbird's 'impossible' 1,700-mile flight: Tracking of blackpoll warbler proves it really can cross continents without stopping for food or rest

Daily Mail:
Did monkey business shape society? Crested black macaque reveal how human social structures evolved

Smithsonian Magazine:
Elephants Have Male Bonding Rituals, Too

Daily Mail:
When Little Foot walked the Earth with Lucy: 3.7 million year old fossil sheds new light on early human forerunners

Gizmodo:
After 150,000 Years in a Cave, a Neanderthal Skull Looks Like This

Daily Mail:
Our ancestors DIDN'T grunt and mumble: Scientist says early human speech evolved rapidly into complex sentences

Daily Mail:
Did Neanderthals HEAR the world differently? Extinct relative's ear bone is unlike our own, study reveals

Daily Mail:
Is this hillside hiding the world's oldest pyramid? Ancient structure in Indonesia could be up to 20,000 years old

Daily Mail:
Mystery of the Red Lady of El Miron: 19,000-year-old bones stained in sparkling 'blood-like' paint baffle archaeologists

Daily Mail:
Did Stone Age humans 'DEFLESH' their dead? Marks on 7,000 year old human bones hint at ritual burial

Daily Mail:
Ancient beer kegs unearthed in Israel: 5,000-year-old Egyptian stone vessels contained fruit-flavoured brew

Live Science:
Shocking Discovery: Egypt's 'Mona Lisa' May Be a Fake

The History Blog:
Pharaoh Senebkay died a violent death in battle

Daily Mail:
Medieval potion made from onions, garlic, wine and bile from a cow's stomach 'can kill hospital superbugs'

Ancient Origins:
Together for two millennia: Iron Age burial containing father and son weavers unearthed in Scotland

The History Blog:
Trajan's Column up close and in stop-motion

Daily Mail:
Is another of Britain's medieval monarchs about to be dug up? Archaeologists to dig for King Stephen - grandson of William the Conqueror - under a school playing field

Ancient Origins:
Ancient tablets reveal whole family underwent Sallekhana, ritual fasting unto death

Smithsonian Magazine:
Isaac Newton's Laundry List of Sin

Ancient Origins:
The Mentor Shipwreck and the Disastrous Journey of the Parthenon Marbles to Britain

Smithsonian Magazine:
Where to See the Fabled Faberge Imperial Easter Eggs

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Racing Car Built in 1910 Roars to Life Once More

Daily Mail:
Frozen in time: Haunting never-before-seen pictures of Captain Scott's doomed expedition team setting off on their South Pole mission revealed

The History Blog:
Mithras tauroctony, Picasso painting found in Italy

Daily Mail:
From the castle that inspired Walt Disney to a glowing beach in the Maldives: The world's best fairy-tale destinations to feel like a real-life Cinderella

Gizmodo:
This Giant Rolling, Walking Bike Can Probably Tackle Any Terrain

Gizmag:
Six "million dollar cars" sold at Bonhams' Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart auction

Gizmag:
History that Moves: Automotive excellence through the ages

io9:
Behind-The-Scenes Videos Show How Iconic Movie Special Effects Were Made

Smithsonian Magazine:
Inside Los Angeles's Strangest Museum

Gizmodo:
The Fake Places That Only Exist to Catch Copycat Mapmakers

April 3, 2015

Universe Today:
Adventures in Satspotting: Why Are Different Orbits Needed for Satellites?

Daily Mail:
Could we get to Mars in 39 DAYS? Nasa selects companies to develop super fast deep-space engine

Daily Mail:
A mobile home at 28,000 FEET: Round-the-world Solar Impulse pilots reveal the realities of spending up to five days at a time inside their cramped cockpit

Daily Mail:
Lightning jets that can't fly through lightning: Fears new £100m RAF fighter's fuel tanks could explode if struck by a bolt

Jalopnik:
Infrared Search And Track Systems And The Future Of The US Fighter Force

Daily Mail:
Helmet that allows pilots to see THROUGH the plane: Airmen in new $1trillion F-35 fighter will see the ground thanks to $400,000 piece of headgear

Daily Mail:
The ultimate window seat! Airbus files patent for interactive plane windows so passengers can tap and learn about sights below

Sputnik News:
Six Million Euros for Freedom: Russia Unveils Flying House Project

Gizmodo:
It's Almost Impossible To Tell This Butterfly Is Actually a Robot

Gizmodo:
A Flying Star Destroyer Drone Looks Terrifying As It Descends From Above

Daily Mail:
As shepherds watched their flocks by flight: Amazing footage shows how sheep are herded using a DRONE

Gizmag:
Quadcopter converted into balloon-hunting Laser Drone

Popular Science:
South Korea Gets Ready For Drone-On-Drone Warfare With North Korea

Popular Science:
The Navy Is Making A Flying, Swimming, Submarine-Hunting Duck Drone

Gizmag:
Elytron 2S tiltrotor demonstrator airframe completed

Jalopnik:
Watch VP-5 "Mad Foxes" Put Their New P-8A Poseidons To Work

Jalopnik:
This T-33 Named "Ace Maker" Almost Gave Me A Buzz Cut

The Aviationist:
Russian Tu-22 bomber scares NATO air defenses flying at supersonic speed over the Baltic Sea for the first time

The Aviationist:
A quick look at why the F-16N was the best plane to simulate soviet "bandits" in adversary missions

Jalopnik:
The Touch-Roll-Touch Was One Of The Craziest Maneuvers Done In A Fighter

Space.com:
SpaceShipOne 'Lands' on Smithsonian Floor as Museum Renovates Hall

Jalopnik:
Confessions Of A US Navy EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare Officer

Machine Design:
Supersonic Flight: Overcoming the Sonic Boom

Gizmodo:
The restored HD video of the Atlas missile explosion is amazing to watch

io9:
Some Of The Strangest Flying Machines Ever Built

April 2, 2015

Daily Mail:
Easter 'blood moon' approaches: Third lunar eclipse of the year set to make the night sky glow red this weekend

Universe Today:
Don't Blink! April 4th Lunar Eclipse Shortest of the Century

Space.com:
First Total Lunar Eclipse of 2015 on Saturday: A Skywatching Guide

Spaceflight Now:
Rockot launcher deploys Russian data relay satellites

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX cargo launch now set for April 13

Discovery News:
We're Planning to Shoot an Asteroid to See What Happens

Space.com:
Lunar Lava Tubes Might Make Underground Moon Cities Possible

Space Daily:
Flash Reformatted and Marathon Completed

Space.com:
Ancient Mars May Have Had Slow-Moving Monster Waves

Daily Mail:
Rosetta prepares for daring swoop through 67P's icy jets to find out what the comet is made of

Daily Mail:
Rosetta reveals incredible images of comet 67P after flyby - and shares unseen snaps of Earth and Mars during epic 10-year journey

Universe Today:
Seeking Ceres: Following the Brave New World Through 2015

Discovery News:
Secret Recipe Book For Cooking Jupiters Revealed

Space Daily:
New Horizons Sampling 'Space Weather' on Approach to Pluto

Daily Mail:
The fault in our stars: Chart reveals how the Big Dipper will become the BIG DUCK in 100,000 years as we travel through the Milky Way

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Confronting the triangles

April 1, 2015

Daily Mail:
Are these mystery radio bursts messages from ALIENS? Study finds freak frequencies from outside the Milky Way ALL form unexplained multiples of 187.5

New Scientist:
Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space

Space Daily:
U.S. Air Force tests Minuteman III missiles

Spaceflight Insider:
Era of the 'Mini Shuttle' picks up speed with Chinese flight of Yuanzheng-1

Sputnik News:
Russian Cosmonauts Take Tablet Computer Into Space on Latest Soyuz Mission

New Scientist:
The moon's got two tails - and its friends might too

KPIX:
Fireball Streaks Over Bay Area, Beginning Annual 'Fireball Season' Of Meteors

March 31, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Mysterious mini spaceplane the next Atlas 5 payload

Spaceflight Now:
Chinese navigation system enters new phase with successful launch

Spaceflight Insider:
ESA's IXV spaceplane test flight a complete success, says the spacecraft operations manager

Spaceflight Insider:
New explanation for Mercury's dark surface

Space.com:
NASA Mercury Probe Trying to Survive for Another Month

Space.com:
NASA's Opportunity Rover Suffers More Amnesia on Mars

io9:
Stunning New Images Of Rhea Herald More Photos Of Saturn's Icy Moons

Scientific American:
The Space Station Gets an Espresso Maker

March 30, 2015

New York Times:
A Successful Launch to the International Space Station

Malaysia Star:
Soyuz spacecraft docks at ISS for year-long mission

Spaceflight Now:
Kelly, Kornienko braced for marathon mission

Spaceflight Now:
Space station crewmen head off on 342-day mission

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Fiery start to marathon space mission

Discovery News:
Russia to Build New Space Station With NASA

Engadget:
NASA is working with Russia on a new space station (update: not quite)

Gizmodo:
Russia's Soyuz Spacecraft Looks Fantastic as It Prepares to Launch

Spaceflight Now:
Look back at Friday's Soyuz launch from the Amazon

Sputnik News:
Eye in the Sky: Japan Launches Spy Satellite Into Orbit

Spaceflight Now:
South Korean satellite launched by Dnepr rocket

Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's "flying saucer" prepares for another spin

Discovery News:
Mars Rover Landing Zone Scars Have Curiously Darkened

Sputnik News:
Scientists Locate Perfect Spot for Mars Mission Seeking Alien Life

New Scientist:
Planet or not, Ceres rocks

National Geographic:
Bizarre Bulge Found on Ganymede, Solar System's Largest Moon

Space Daily:
A new spin on Saturn's peculiar rotation

Daily Mail:
Two Earth-like planets could be hiding close to our solar system - and scientists say there may be other watery worlds nearby

National Geographic:
17th-Century Astronomers May Have Watched Stars Collide

WEEKEND EDITION: March 28 through March 29, 2015

io9:
The 9 Weirdest Implications Of The Many Worlds Interpretation

Live Science:
Proving Einstein Wrong with 'Spooky' Quantum Experiment

Stuff NZ:
Cern scientists to explore existence of parallel universes

Universe Today:
Is the Universe Finite or Infinite?

IEEE Spectrum:
Sawyer: Rethink Robotics Unveils New Robot

Stuff NZ:
Japanese robot aims at giant leap for 'rabbit'-kind

Space Daily:
Snake robots learn to turn by following the lead of real sidewinders

IEEE Spectrum:
Ollie the Baby Otter Is a Therapy Robot That's Actually Affordable

IEEE Spectrum:
Universal Robots UR3 Arm Is Small and Nimble, Helps to Build Copies of Itself

Daily Mail:
The US Navy's 'ghost hunter' revealed: Robo-boat set to track down silent enemy submarines for months at a time

Daily Mail:
Boeing patent reveals plans for Star Trek-style FORCE FIELD: Device would protect vehicles and buildings from explosion shockwaves

Daily Mail:
New layer discovered in Earth's mantle: 'Superviscous' region that is five quintillion times thicker than peanut butter found

Daily Mail:
It takes 38 minutes to fall through the centre of the Earth: Journey is four minutes faster than thought due to changes in density

Daily Mail:
'Super salamander' the size of a CAR unearthed: Amphibian dominated lakes and rivers 200 million years ago

Daily Mail:
The living fossil: Chinese park ranger captures incredibly rare giant salamander that roamed the earth 170million years ago

Scientific American:
Fact or Fiction?: Dark Matter Killed the Dinosaurs

Daily Mail:
Giant prehistoric deer lived on for 2,000 years after 'extinction': Population of Irish elk thrived in Siberia after the Ice Age

Daily Mail:
Return of the woolly mammoth: Scientists take giant step towards recreating extinct beast after inserting 14 genes into elephants

io9:
Two Invasive Termite Species Join Forces To Wreak Havoc In Florida

National Geographic:
Beyond the Car-Size Stingray: Five Cool Facts About Rays and Skates

Daily Mail:
The beavers are free! First wild family in England for 800 years is released back into the River Otter

Populr Science:
China's Endangered 'Magic Rabbit' Photographed For The First Time In 20 Years

io9:
7 Real Life Forms That People Once Believed Were Hoaxes

National Geographic:
How a Wolf Named Romeo Won Hearts in an Alaska Suburb

Daily Mail:
Early humans 'came in a range of shapes and sizes': Fossils reveal the bodies of our ancestors diversified sooner than first thought

Daily Mail:
The 'father of humanity' lived 239,000 years ago: Landmark DNA study in Iceland reveals new insights into evolution and disease

Daily Mail:
Did prehistoric hunters POISON their spears? Stone-tipped weapons may have been coated with toxic plant extracts up to 30,000 years ago

Ancient Origins:
Varna Man and the Wealthiest Grave of the 5th Millennium BC

National Geographic:
Why Is Confucius Still Relevant Today? His Sound Bites Hold Up

Ancient Origins:
Temple in ancient city of Odessus reveals Greek Goddess Aphrodite was worshipped by Thracians

Ancient Origins:
Excellently preserved, complete crossbow from 2,200 years ago found at Terracotta Warrior site

New York Times:
Undoing the Ruins Once Wrought by Vesuvius

Daily Mail:
Inside Pompeii's Villa of Mysteries: Historic site featuring beautiful frescoes is restored and re-opened amid EU funding threat

Gizmodo:
The First Brand Manager Was a 1st Century Roman Glassblower

National Geographic:
Massive Underground City Found in Cappadocia Region of Turkey

Daily Mail:
Prototype US penny sold for $1.175million to anonymous bidder during auction

Gizmodo:
This Lost Map Changed How We Saw the World

Daily Mail:
A photo tour of the golden age of cruising: Pictures from the Cunard archive reveal the VERY glamorous world of ocean liners as company celebrates its 175th anniversary

Smithsonian Magazine:
This is the Carriage That Took Lincoln on his Fateful Trip to Ford's Theatre

io9:
This Expedition Helped Decide The Location Of The Panama Canal

Gizmodo:
Barbed Wire's Dark, Deadly History

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Brief History of "Americanitis"

Gizmodo:
A Custody Battle Is Raging Over the Contents of This 1894 Time Capsule"

Daily Mail:
America's first supermodel: Evelyn Nesbit, born in 1884, was the most sought-after 'It girl' in the 20th century

Daily Mail:
Dogs of war: Previously unseen photographs show British and German soldiers posing up with their pets in WW1 France

National Geographic:
How Good Old American Marketing Saved the National Parks

Daily Mail:
Hidden in the depths of the Argentine jungle, secret Nazi bolthole for fleeing war criminals

The History Blog:
Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit!

IEEE Spectrum:
1964 Ad Flashback: When Analog Computers Walked the Earth

io9:
How To Fight Fire With Nuclear Bombs

The Atlantic:
A Brief History of the ATM

io9:
Hilarious TV Ads From The Dawn Of The Home Computer Era

The Atlantic:
It's Not Easy Being Scientology

Gizmodo:
Missing Restricted Military Gear Keeps Popping Up for Sale on eBay

Gizmodo:
These Are the Most Beautiful Science Labs in the World

National Geographic:
Moscow: Opulent, Overwhelming, and Pulsing With Power

Gizmag:
Ambitious plan unveiled to create new Egyptian capital

Gizmag:
Jet Capsule's Reptile flies on the sea at 50 knots

Gizmag:
Trefecta DRT: The $25K high-tech, military-grade electric super bike

Gizmag:
World Records galore at E.J. Cole Collection Motorcycle Auction

Gizmodo:
This human hamster wheel is like its own personal roller coaster

March 27, 2015

Daily Mail:
Don't panic! 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid is hurtling towards Earth - but experts say it will miss the planet by 2.8 million miles

Sputnik News:
US Prepares for Space Warfare, Citing Chinese Success

Gizmag:
Construction begins on Space Fence radar system

Stuff NZ:
Nasa launches super pressure balloon at Wanaka

Daily Mail:
Facebook reveals its internet drones will be as big as a 737 but weigh as much as a car - and have already been flown in the UK

Gizmag:
Air Shepherd drones keep a watchful eye over endangered species

Daily Mail:
Don't get into a flap! Roboticists create flying drones that mimic the exact movement and shape of bird wings

Gizmodo:
Pilot scares his friends in insane acrobatic flight

The Aviationist:
Watch a U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J refuel two F-35B Joint Strike Fighters

The Aviationist:
Watch a B-1 Lancer bomber buzz photographers on take off from Al Udeid airbase

The Aviationist:
Stunning HD video: flying the Russian Su-34 Fullback bomber

Jalopnik:
These Are The Amazing Planes Of This Year's Red Flag Aerial War Games

Spaceflight Insider:
Melbourne Air & Space Show rocks Florida's Space Coast

Daily Mail:
Revealed: Russia's new supersonic bomber can outrun Britain's best fighter jet... and Putin could soon send them OUR way

Daily Mail:
Now THAT'S a remote controlled plane: Boeing shows off pilotless F-16 fighter jet set to be used as flying target in war games

Daily Mail:
The future of war or a flight of fancy? Giant Russian plane is designed to carry tanks to combat zones at supersonic speeds

The Atlantic:
NASA Went to Space and All Humans Got Was This Acne Treatment

Air & Space Magazine:
One Airman's Trash...

Gizmodo:
This Is How NASA Tests Spacesuits Ahead of Missions

Gizmag:
The Gemini program: 50 years on

Gizmodo:
We Is Here! Relive The Last Moon Mission In Its Entirety

March 26, 2015

Annapolis County Spectator:
Bright meteor lights up western Nova Scotia skies

Global News Canada:
WATCH: Meteor lights up sky over Halifax

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz primed to launch veteran space station crew

New Scientist:
First year-long stay on the ISS about to begin

Space.com:
A Year in Space: The Science Behind the Epic Space Station Voyage

io9:
How To Fly A Spaceship To The ISS: Orbital Mechanics And A Fancy Stick

Spaceflight Now:
NASA opts to grab a boulder, not the whole asteroid

Gizmag:
Precision planetary lander technology tested by NASA

New Scientist:
NASA's Curiosity rover finds fatty acids on Mars

New Scientist:
Dwarf planet Ceres might have right stuff for life

Popular Science:
Why Are There No Close-Ups Of Ceres Yet?

Astrobiology Magazine:
Explosions of Jupiter's aurora linked to extraordinary planet-moon interaction

Gizmodo:
Why the Length of Saturn's Day Is So Hard to Measure

Discovery News:
Length Of Saturn's Day Measured Like Never Before

Daily Mail:
Putin's $5bn race to reach Mars: First look inside vast Siberian base from which Russia hopes to beat the US to the red planet

Universe Today:
Using 19th Century Technology to Time Travel to the Stars

Discovery News:
The Hunt For Alien Intelligence Is Going Infrared

Daily Mail:
Could we detect aliens travelling at close to light speed? Engineers reveal how current technology can spot interstellar spacecraft

March 25, 2015

Daily Mail:
The race to find Philae: Mission chief reveals there's a '50:50' chance at the next attempt - but time is running out before the comet drifts away from the sun

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Soyuz rocket transferred to jungle launch pad

Space Daily:
China completes second test on new carrier rocket's power system

Spaceflight Insider:
Vostochny report part 1: All the right people

Spaceflight Insider:
Vostochny report part 2: Into the darkness

Daily Mail:
Think packing for your holiday is bad? Nasa astronaut reveals what he is taking for a YEAR in space - and says his 'superhero utility belt' is key

Discovery News:
Rover Opportunity Reformatted To Continue Conquering Mars

Daily Mail:
The first marathon on Mars: Nasa's Opportunity rover completes milestone on red planet (although it did take 11 YEARS)

Discovery News:
Nitrogen: Yet Another Building Block For Life Found On Mars

Space Daily:
Our Solar System May Have Once Harbored Super-Earths

March 24, 2015

The Plymouth Herald:
Strange case of the World War One UFOs unearthed by Plymouth author

The Inquisitr:
Historic UFO Sighting: Retired Police Officer Still Haunted By 'Boxcar' Size Object 48 Years Later

Hillsdale Collegian:
UFO: In 1966, Hillsdale had its own close encounter

Lodi News:
Local retiree traces reported UFO landing in 1896 Lodi

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz launch double-header set for Friday

Discovery News:
Ancient Doomsday Asteroid Impact Found in Australia

Daily Mail:
Australia's big bang! Scientists confirm two giant craters in the desert are the planet's biggest asteroid impact zone... and may have helped cause the extinction of the dinosaurs

Daily Mail:
The moon volcano that blasted an area the size of SCOTLAND: Huge eruption 3.5 billion years ago is mapped

Discovery News:
Jupiter May Have Killed Solar System's Baby Super-Earths

Space Daily:
Titan's Atmosphere Created As Gases Escaped Core

Discovery News:
After Pluto, Where Will NASA's New Horizons Go?

Daily Mail:
Are orphan planets more common than we thought? Drifting worlds may be common thanks to 'mother' clouds of dust and gas

Daily Mail:
Is the universe on the brink of collapse? Study says catastrophic event is 'imminent' (but don't worry - that still means we have tens of billions of years left)

Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: 50 years since the launch of Gemini 3

Collect Space:
Gemini 3 and the first (contraband) corned beef sandwich in space 50 years ago

March 23, 2015

Red Orbit:
Look up! Peak fireball season is next few weeks

Gizmodo:
The best solar eclipse videos

New Scientist:
Awesome photos from Europe's biggest solar eclipse

Daily Mail:
Did easyJet flight from Manchester get the best view of eclipse? Passengers witness this extraordinary sight from their seats

Spaceflight Now:
Proton rocket launches with Russian telecom satellite

Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4-Heavy selected for launch of solar probe

Spaceflight Insider:
ESA's CHEOPS satellite: the pharaoh of exoplanet hunting

Science Magazine:
Lopsided ice on the moon points to past shift in poles

Astrobiology Magazine:
Extent of moon's giant volcanic eruption is revealed

Daily Mail:
Man UNDER the moon: Humans could live in lava tunnels underneath the lunar surface, new study finds

Space Daily:
Could Water Have Carved Channels On Mars Half A Million Years Ago?

Space Daily:
MARSDROP Microprobes Could Expand Spacecraft Mission Capabilities

Discovery News:
Rosetta's Comet May Be Made Of Pebbles

Space.com:
Rosetta Spacecraft Makes Nitrogen Discovery on Comet

Daily Mail:
Mysterious crystal with 'forbidden symmetry' found in 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite formed at start of the solar system

WEEKEND EDITION: March 21 through March 22, 2015

Daily Mail:
Will the Large Hadron Collider find a parallel universe? Particle smasher could become a gateway to alternate realities, say scientists

Gizmodo:
Did We Really See Light Acting as a Particle and a Wave at Once?

Daily Mail:
That's robo-abuse! Researchers test their new two legged 'giant chicken' robot by throwing dodgeballs at it

Daily Mail:
Clever or just plain creepy? iCub robot has a sense of self, displays six emotions and responds to being touched

Gizmodo:
There's an Incredibly Complex Clock Inside This Miniature Mechanical Man

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Special Facility in England Keeps the World's Chocolate Safe

Stuff NZ:
Cyclone Pam: Science of the storms

io9:
This Is What It Would Be Like To Dig To The Center Of The Earth

Smithsonian Magazine:
Every Year Spring Gets 30 Seconds Shorter

Gizmodo:
The Tastiest Berries That Grow Wild In North America

Daily Mail:
The crocodile that hunted on TWO legs: Fearsome 9-foot-long predator terrorised world millions of years before the dinosaurs

Smithsonian Magazine:
Before There Were Crocodiles, There Was the "Carolina Butcher"

Daily Mail:
Solved: The mystery of the 'strangest animals ever discovered' that even baffled Charles Darwin

National Geographic:
Asian "Fortune-Teller" Spider Found in U.S. for First Time

National Geographic:
New Titi Monkey Found: Fire-Tailed, With Sideburns

Stuff NZ:
Niwa discovers weird and wonderful new creatures

Live Science:
Hear That? Orangutans Use Hands to Amplify Calls

io9:
Why Whale Songs Are Still One Of Science's Greatest Mysteries

Smithsonian Magazine:
Finally, the Beauty of France's Chauvet Cave Makes its Grand Public Debut

Archaeology Magazine:
Neolithic Europe's Remote Heart

Daily Mail:
Are the ruins of the lost city of Atlantis on LAND? Ancient civilisation was destroyed by tsunami and remains are 'hiding in plain sight' in Morocco, expert claims

Daily Mail:
Are the WELSH the truest Brits? English genomes share German and French DNA - while Romans and Vikings left no trace

Ancient Origins:
Varna Man and the Wealthiest Grave of the 5th Millennium BC

Daily Mail:
Discovered: The 2,200-year-old crossbow almost twice as powerful as a modern day assault rifle which could hold the secret of the Terracotta Warrior emperor's success

Ancient Origins:
The precious remains of Akrotiri, an ancient city obliterated in the great eruption of Thera

Daily Mail:
Is this the FIRST ever Roman fort? Camp used to fight pirates 2,000 years ago could reveal secrets to the Empire's success

Daily Mail:
Now THAT'S a heavy tax bill! Ancient Egyptian receipt suggests coins weighing 220lbs would have been needed to pay duty

National Geographic:
Gold Looted From Ancient Empire Returned to Romania

Smithsonian Magazine:
Rome's Very Short Street With a Long, Magnificent History

Ancient Origins:
Residents upset with greedy elites burned Teotihuacan

Daily Mail:
Mysterious ring reveals the Vikings' reach: Purple stone found in 9th century grave is inscribed 'for Allah' showing warriors traded with Islamic civilisations

The History Blog:
Ring with Arabic inscription found in Viking grave

io9:
Here's How This Ancient Mayan Pyramid Makes Bird Calls

io9:
8 Short-Lived Religious Manias That We're Lucky Didn't Stick Around

The History Blog:
From Ming China to Persian princess to Shah Jahan to Sotheby's

Daily Mail:
Meet the ORIGINAL fashion blogger, a flamboyant 16th century accountant who painted his outfits for 40 years... and published them in world's first style book

Ancient Origins:
The Ancient, Fortified Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou Awaits the Return of Desert Traders

Daily Mail:
Remains discovered in Madrid chapel ARE those of Don Quixote author Cervantes: Archaeologists solve mystery of writer's resting place after bones vanished in 1673

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Marquis de Lafayette Sails Again

Ancient Origins:
Juana Maria, the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island

The History Blog:
Ice divers to return to Erebus in April

The History Blog:
"A ship of war changed into an angel of mercy"

Daily Mail:
The gun used by Ruth Ellis, a Great Train Robber's liver salts and gallstones from a victim of the Acid Bath Murderer: Grisly secrets of Scotland Yard's 'Black Museum' to finally go on display

Smithsonian Magazine:
How an Early 19th Century Journalist Took Lincoln to Task for Travel Reimbursement

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Underappreciated and Forgotten Sites of the Civil War

Daily Mail:
Labor of love! French postman spends 33 years building impressive PALACE from pebbles collected on his route

Daily Mail:
Life of a Victorian adventuress: Incredible story of clergyman's daughter who braved malaria, floods and wars to trek across China

National Geographic:
Was There a Cover-Up After the Sinking of the 'Lusitania'?

San Fancisco Chronicle:
Ceremony marks stunt pilot Lincoln Beachey's death 100 years ago

Daily Mail:
The village which has burned for 99 years: Toxic fumes constantly fill the air and 250 houses were once swallowed up by the ground in four hours. But for these Indian families, this hell is home

io9:
These Historic American WWII Posters Haven't Been Seen Since 1954

Smithsonian Magazine:
Remembering the Astrodome, the Eighth Wonder of the World

San Fancisco Chronicle:
The hot rides we were driving 50 years ago

Gizmodo:
This 1982 JCPenney Catalog Is a Jackpot of '80s Toys and Electronics

Gizmag:
The E.J. Cole Collection auction preview - the most important motorcycle auction ever held

Gizmag:
In pictures: Concept cars of the 2015 Geneva Motor Show

Gizmag:
Amelia Island auctions: 23 cars sell for $1 million or more and a Ferrari 400 Superamerica makes the top 100 of all-time

Gizmag:
One-of-a-kind electric velomobile could be yours

Gizmodo:
How the Energy Grid Handles the Surge After a Solar Eclipse

The History Blog:
St. Patrick's Cathedral gates in salvage sale

Gizmodo:
These incredible aerial views of San Francisco are just jaw dropping

Smithsonian Magazine:
The 11 Most Endearing Small Streets Worth Visiting

Smithsonian Magazine:
See Street Art Around the World via Google

Gizmodo:
The tallest buildings on each continent throughout history, visualized

io9:
These Videos Take You Inside The World's Spookiest Underground Cities

Daily Mail:
Will YOU be safe when zombies attack? Interactive map reveals how the undead could spread across the US

March 20, 2015

New Scientist:
Eclipse 2015: Your guide to the solar spectacle

Daily Mail:
Where to watch the solar eclipse in the UK: Central and south west England to get the best views - but Northern Ireland might miss out

Discovery News:
Total Solar Eclipse To Dazzle Arctic Circle On Friday

Air & Space Magazine:
Watch Friday's Eclipse--From the Stratosphere

Daily Mail:
European Satellites to Watch Total Solar Eclipse from Space

Gizmodo:
Why Does The International Space Station Have Such A Weird Shape?

Space.com:
Lockheed's 'Jupiter' Space Tug Could Fly to Space Station, Moon and Beyond

Universe Today:
Helicopter Drones on Mars

Daily Mail:
The self driving car that can also FLY - and its inventors say a consumer version could be on the road (and in the air) by 2017

Popular Science:
F-35 Fighter Jets To Get Mysterious New 'Cyberpod' Cyberweapon

The Aviationist:
What's this new sensor exposed by video of a B-1 bomber refueling over Iraq?

Jalopnik:
Fly Along With The USAF's Elite Special Operations CV-22 Osprey Crews

The Aviationist:
All you need to know about the latest Red Flag, world's most realistic aerial exercise

Smithsonian Magazine:
It Was Only a Matter of Time: Drones Get Their Own Film Festival

Daily Mail:
The magnificent moment the last flying WWII Boeing B-29 Superfortress startled drivers by swooping over LA highway

The Aviationist:
Stunning HD video: flying the Russian Su-34 Fullback bomber

Jalopnik:
This Is How You Hand-Launch A U-2 Spy Plane After It Loses A Wheel

The Aviationist:
The amazing story of Bill Weaver: the Blackbird pilot who survived his SR-71 disintegration

Air & Space Magazine:
In 1957, Two Tiny Pellets Were the First Man-made Objects to Escape Earth's Gravity

Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: 50 years of EVA, Alexei Leonov steps into the black

io9:
Airplanes Look Like Swarming Fireflies In These Mesmerizing Timelapses

March 19, 2015

Daily Mail:
What caused the mysterious silent flashes which lit up Russian sky? Weather experts say the lights 'cannot be natural' - and locals are baffled

WVEC:
More reports of ground shaking, sonic booms

Space.com:
China Outlines New Rockets, Space Station and Moon Plans

Sputnik News:
Replacing Russian Rocket Engine to Take 7 Years - US Air Force Official

Spaceflight Insider:
Next space station crew arrives in Baikonur, starts final training phase

Gizmag:
ESA successfully corrects sixth Galileo satellite's orbit

Stuff NZ:
Weather continues to delay NASA balloon launch

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Next GPS satellite readied for launch

Daily Mail:
The moon's newest scar: Biggest explosion seen on lunar surface leaves giant crater

Scientific American:
Best Images Ever of Mercury's Scorched Surface

Scientific American:
Best Images Ever of Mercury's Scorched Surface [Slideshow]

Discovery News:
Mars Is Wrapped In A Weird Dust Cloud

New Scientist:
Weird aurora and dust cloud found on new Mars mission

Discovery News:
Ceres' Mystery Bright Spots May Be Ice Plumes

New Scientist:
Bright spots on Ceres could be water volcanoes

Discovery News:
Milky Way Flush With Habitable Planets

Scientific American:
Have we got Solar System Habitability Backwards?

New Scientist:
New Urbanist: Off-world colonies of the Canadian Arctic

Stuff NZ:
Mars: 5 reasons we haven't been there yet

The Atlantic:
A Brief History of Astronaut Fashion

The Guardian:
40 years and counting: the team behind Voyager's space odyssey

March 18, 2015

Discovery News:
Powerful Solar Storm Rips Into Earth's Magnetic Field

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX puts off next Falcon 9 launch

Spaceflight Now:
Innovative satellites begin maneuvers with all-electric thrusters

Discovery News:
Leak In Curiosity's Wet Chemistry Test Finds Mars Organics

Discovery News:
Hidden Moon Crater Named After Amelia Earhart

Daily Mail:
Hubble's greatest hits revealed: Stunning images showcase how 25-year-old telescope is transforming our knowledge of space

The Atlantic:
When Oceans Disappear

March 17, 2015

Global News:
WATCH: Bright meteor lights up skies across parts of Europe

The Telegraph:
Dash cam footage: Fireball meteor spotted in skies over Switzerland and Austria

BBC News:
Meteor photographed from Loch Ness

Space Daily:
Roscosmos: Manned Flight to Mars Will Be Impossible Without Russia's Help

Space Daily:
Russia Plans to Start Moon Exploration Jointly With Partners

Space Daily:
Russia Plans to Adapt New Angara-5 Rocket for Flights to the Moon

Popular Science:
NASA Can Make 3 More Nuclear Batteries, And That's It

Spaceflight Now:
Europa Clipper concept team aims for launch in 2022

New Scientist:
#RosettaWatch: New clues about the origin of comet 67P

Discovery News:
Asteroid-Comet Hybrid Found With Surprise Ring System

Daily Mail:
Heavens above! It's the great eclipse: Next Friday morning, Britain will turn from day to night for the first time this century. Here's all you need to know

Universe Today:
A Complete Guide to the March 20th Total Solar Eclipse

Daily Mail:
A cosmic fluke? Asteroids hurtling towards Earth 185 million years apart hit the SAME spot, study claims

Air & Space Magazine:
A Meteorite Older than Earth Could Tell Us How Planets Were Made

March 16, 2015

Moline Dispatch:
Retired Moline officer recalls the day the UFO paid a call

Seattle Post Intelligencer:
Investigation of Maury Island UFO 'Incident' haunted by coincidence

KTVK:
Phoenix Lights shine again, celebrate 18 year anniversary

KGUN:
A look back at Phoenix Lights phenomenon

Spaceflight Now:
Recap story: Atlas 5 rocket launches NASA satellite quartet

Spaceflight Now:
Rocket-mounted cameras show Atlas rising into the night

Stuff NZ:
Cyclone keeps NASA balloon on ground

Discovery News:
China's Rover Reveals A Surprisingly Complex Moon

New Scientist:
Explosive eruptions rocked the youthful moon

Daily Mail:
The moon is like an ONION: China's Jade Rabbit rover finds layers under the lunar surface

Discovery News:
Curiosity Regains Use Of Arm, Recommences Mars Science

Daily Mail:
Explore MARS from your armchair: Incredibly detailed maps let you navigate the surface of the red planet to visit famous features

Spaceflight Now:
Rosetta begins listening for signs of life from comet lander

Scientific American:
Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Has Salty Ocean with More Water Than Earth

Discovery News:
Hubble Reveals Underground Ocean Inside Jupiter Moon

Discovery News:
DNews: The Hunt For Extraterrestrial Liquid Water Intensifies

Space.com:
'Sideways' Alien Earths May Still Be Able to Support Life

Scientific American:
Looking for Life In Our Soggy Solar System

Daily Mail:
Winter is coming! The stunning image that reveals Antarctica's first sunset of 2015 - and that 24 hour darkness is on the way

WEEKEND EDITION: March 14 through March 15, 2015

Scientific American:
Hopped-Up Particle Accelerator Poised to Venture into the Realm of Exotic Physics

Daily Mail:
Does the Higgs boson hold the secret to dark matter? Particle may disintegrate into elusive substance when smashed

IEEE Spectrum:
Physicists Find Hints of the Higgs in Superconductivity

io9:
These 17 Women Changed The Face Of Physics

Discovery News:
Take a Drone Ride into the Guts of an LHC Detector: Video

National Geographic:
Pi Day of the Century: Celebrating an Irrational Number

Smithsonian Magazine:
Indiana Almost Made Pi Equal to 3.2, and Other Pi Day Facts

The Atlantic:
Robot vs. Robot

Daily Mail:
The robocops fighting crime in the Congo: Towering solar-powered droids are helping traffic police - but how effective are they?

IEEE Spectrum:
ATRIAS Robot Gets Hit By Barrage of Dodgeballs

Gizmodo:
Why the Talking "Smart" Barbie Terrifies Parents

Popular Science:
60 Tons Of Cosmic Dust Fall To Earth Every Day

Science Magazine:
Oldest known sponge pushes back date for key split in animal evolution

Science Magazine:
Newly discovered sea creature was once the largest animal on Earth

Daily Mail:
Skull sheds light on transition from water to land: 360-million-year-old tetrapod may have looked similar to a modern crocodile

Daily Mail:
Tree of life rewritten: Evolutionary timeline looks more like a giant lollipop - and reveals new species appear every 2 million years

Daily Mail:
From a frilled shark to the frogfish, we're finding four new sea creatures every day: Scientists uncover 1,451 new species in the ocean in the past year alone

Science Magazine:
The secret to chameleon color change: Tiny crystals

Daily Mail:
Do male tigers play dad after all? Camera trap captures rare family portrait of Amur tiger couple with their three cubs in the wild

Daily Mail:
Man first learned to throw two million years ago: Change to collar bone and shoulders allowed human ancestors to use spears

Daily Mail:
Strange bodies of our ancestors revealed: 1.9 million-year-old pelvis suggests early humans had tiny hips and spindly legs

Daily Mail:
The first man-made landscape: Vast carpet of 500,000-year-old stone tools found littering cliff-top in Sahara desert

Daily Mail:
Lost tooth reveals details of 'Peking Man's' life: Ancient human ancestor gnawed on bones and nuts and lived into old age

Scientific American:
Neandertals Turned Eagle Talons into Jewelry 130,000 Years Ago

ABC Australia:
Teeth reveal humans were early rainforest-dwellers

The History Blog:
Agate tool found under ash layer 15,800 years old in Oregon

Ancient Origins:
Vast ancient underground city beneath Cappadocia being excavated

Daily Mail:
American archaeologists unearth stunning Egyptian tombs in Luxor featuring intricate and colorful murals unseen for thousands of years

Archaeology Magazine:
Seismic Shift

Daily Mail:
Did Bronze Age rulers flee their village because they foresaw their demise? Divination bones and stones found abandoned in Armenia

Live Science:
Mysterious Jade Artifact May Have Been Offering to Ancient Gods

The History Blog:
Unique Olmec jadeite corncob found in Mexico

Daily Mail:
Huge tomb of Celtic prince unearthed in France: 'Exceptional' 2,500-year-old burial chamber reveals stunning treasures

The History Blog:
Princely tomb from 5th c. B.C. found in France

The History Blog:
University at Buffalo rediscovers ancient coins after 80 years

Daily Mail:
Israel's cave of wonders: Silver coins and treasure dating back 2,300 years to Alexander the Great discovered

Daily Mail:
Amphipolis tomb mystery deepens: Burial chamber CAN'T belong to Alexander the Great as it was built after his death, expert claims

Archaeology Maggazine:
The Vikings in Ireland

Ancient Origins:
The Longest Poem Ever Written: Shahnameh - The Epic Book of Kings

Smithsonian Magazine:
Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa Ever Topple?

Ancient Origins:
The Life and Legend of the Aldworth Giants

The History Blog:
Durer's Arch of Maximilian I restored, on display

Ancient Origins:
Mountains of Silver: Tiny Bolivian village of Potosi was once the largest industrial mining complex in the world

io9:
Here's What Happens When You Screw With Isaac Newton

San Francisco Chronicle:
The stories behind San Francisco's street names

Smithsonian Magazine:
Who Was Edmund Pettus?

Daily Mail:
Life in the slums: First-hand account of East End life by author Jack London who disguised himself as a stranded sailor reveals 'chronic misery' of London's early-20th-century workhouses

Smithsonian Magazine:
On Occasions Like This, I Envy the Dead: The St. Francis Dam Disaster

Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE - A bitter rivalry with Amelia Earhart, a mixed-race marriage and a ban from flying because of her menstrual cycle: The incredible and utterly tragic story of 'Lady Icarus' - the first person to fly solo across Africa

Air & Space Magazine:
When Disney Went to War

Daily Mail:
How the Nazis bombed thousands of Germans - for TARGET PRACTICE: Uncovered classified documents reveal how Hitler used cities to test V-2 rockets

io9:
New Footage Shows Wreck Of Japanese Super Battleship Sunk In WWII

Air & Space Magazine:
The Deadliest Air Raid in History

io9:
Artists In Prison Once Created Functional Carnivals Made Of Toothpicks

Gizmodo:
The "Harvard Sentences" Secretly Shaped the Development of Audio Tech

Air & Space Magazine:
Airline Merger Wars

Smithsonian Magazine:
When Breathtaking Rock Billboards Dominated the Sunset Strip

The History Blog:
25th anniversary Gardner Museum theft virtual tour

Smithsonian Magazine:
India's Dying Well of Death

io9:
9 Historical Mysteries Solved By Astronomy

Gizmag:
In pictures: Performance cars and exotics of the 2015 Geneva Motor Show

Gizmodo:
Take The Intelligence Test That Thomas Edison Gave to Job Seekers

March 13, 2015

Discovery News:
Sun Triggers Radio Blackout After Monster X-Class Flare

Daily Mail:
Biggest solar flare of the year causes radio blackouts on Earth - and a geomagnetic storm is predicted for tomorrow

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan, returning international crew home

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Soyuz landing craft touches down in wintry Kazakhstan

Daily Mail:
Next stop, India! Solar Impulse 2 takes off from Oman with new pilot as it continues its epic five-month journey around the world powered only by the sun

IEEE Spectrum:
Solar Plane Finishes First Sea Crossing of Epic Journey

Gizmag:
Solar Impulse 2 sets distance record

Popular Science:
Welcome To The Inflatable Space Age

Daily Mail:
Does this balloon hold the key to finding ALIENS? Laser sensor could help detect signs of life on other planets

Daily Mail:
Dance of the satellites: Animation reveals perfectly choreographed orbits of Nasa crafts around Earth

Gizmag:
Insect-inspired eye may allow drones to navigate their environment more naturally

Gizmodo:
The Secret Service Is Flying Drones Over DC Late at Night

IEEE Spectrum:
What Might Happen If an Airliner Hit a Small Drone?

Air & Space Magazine:
Hellfire Meets Predator

Popular Science:
Boeing And Saab Give New Life (And New Bombs) To Aging Rockets

Gizmodo:
A Beginner's Guide to the Secret Language of Airport Runways

Gizmodo:
Spectacular video of F-18s in never-before-seen action

Jalopnik:
A B-1B "Bone" Night Launch Is An Otherworldly Experience

Gizmodo:
Cool video shows fighter jet takeoff from a completely new perspective

The Aviationist:
Here are some superb videos of Russian Mig-29K Fulcrum operations aboard aircraft carrier

Jalopnik:
This Super Hornet Squadron's New Cruise Video Is The Best One Yet

The Aviationist:
Watch a B-2 Spirit bomber refuel and then rotate dorsal fuel receptacle to achieve full stealthiness

Popular Science:
This Is The Vintage Plane Harrison Ford Crashed

San Francisco Chronicle:
The biggest aircraft in the world ready for flight tests

Gizmodo:
How Did Lunar Landers Relaunch When There's No Oxygen on the Moon?

March 12, 2015

Sputnik News:
Soyuz TMA-14M Undocks From ISS

Space.com:
US-Russian Space Station Crew Headed Back to Earth

ABC News:
What It's Like to Ride Inside Russia's Soyuz Spacecraft

Space Daily:
China's Space Laboratory Still Cloaked

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rolled to the pad for Thursday night's liftoff

New Scientist:
The spacecraft stack set to fly in pyramid formation

Daily Mail:
Watch Nasa test its thunderous Mars rocket booster for the first time - with temperatures hot enough to melt sand into glass

Spaceflight Now:
Powerful solid rocket motor fired in Utah

Spaceflight Insider:
QM-1 test fire turns Utah sand to glass in lead up to first flight of SLS

Universe Today:
Most Powerful Solid Rocket Booster Ignites in Milestone Test, Propelling NASA on Path to Deep Space

Space.com:
Test of World's Largest Solid Rocket Steeped in Space Shuttle History

Gizmag:
Engine running on frozen carbon dioxide may power mission to Mars

Space Daily:
Latest MESSENGER data includes new targeted mosaics of Mercury

Discovery News:
Earth-Based Radar Unveils Venus' Mysterious Surface

Science Magazine:
Martian canyons may have been carved by wind

Space Daily:
Mystery Giant Mars Plumes Still Unexplained

Spaceflight Insider:
Philae phone home: scientists will try to contact the comet lander on March 12

Scientific American:
First Active Hydrothermal System Found beyond Earth

New Scientist:
Undersea Jacuzzi may give life to Saturn's icy moon

Daily Mail:
Saturn's moon shows sign of life: Enceladus's underground oceans contain hydrothermal activity

Gizmodo:
The Dark Side of Another Moon

Spaceflight Now:
Pluto-bound probe tweaks its trajectory

Daily Mail:
Not so lonely after all! Incredible NINE dwarf galaxies discovered orbiting the Milky Way - and they could be 99% dark matter

9 News Australia:
'Sonic boom' from Perth meteorite probably to blame for hole in rural mechanic's roof

The Denver Post:
NASA: Fireball seen in Colorado sky was in fact a meteor

Mashable:
Mysterious 'bright green' fireball spotted over Colorado

March 11, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rocket cleared for rollout to launch pad

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas/MMS launch timeline

Space.com:
How 4 NASA Satellites Will Study Magnetic Fields of Earth & Sun (Infographic)

Space.com:
Satellite Quartet: NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission in Pictures

Spaceflight Now:
Space station crew ready to close out 167-day mission

Universe Today:
First Attempt to Contact Hibernating Philae Lander Will Be March 12

Universe Today:
Dust Whirls, Swirls and Twirls at Rosetta's Comet

Discovery News:
The Milky Way May Be 50 Percent Bigger Than Thought

Daily Mail:
Now THAT'S a shooting star! White dwarf breaks galactic speed record by travelling at 745 miles per SECOND

Daily Mail:
Alien moons could be more likely to host life than Earth-like planets, claims scientist

March 10, 2015

The Missoulian:
UFO streaking above Polson remains a mystery, decades later

The Guardian:
Look! Up in the sky! It's a meteor, says 81-year-old WA farmer

New Zealand Herald:
Meteor may have sparked Wanganui bush fires

Spaceflight Insider:
JAXA's Hayabusa 2 in "good health" en route to asteroid

Spaceflight Now:
Preview: Atlas 5 rocket to launch NASA magnetic field study

Universe Today:
World's Most Powerful Solid Booster Set for Space Launch System Test Firing on March 11

Space Daily:
Russian SAR-401 Space Robot Ready for the ISS

IEEE Spectrum:
NASA's Super Ball Bot Could Be the Best Design for Planetary Exploration

Daily Mail:
Indian Mars spacecraft snaps breathtaking images of the 'red' planet - including a dormant volcano and its tiny moon in orbit

Scientific American:
Saturn: A History [Slide Show]

Universe Today:
How Long Does It Take to Get to Pluto?

Gizmag:
MIT scientists develop method of detecting the presence of clouds on exoplanets

Daily Mail:
The planet with FOUR suns: 30 Ari B suggests quadruple-star worlds are much more common than we thought

Scientific American:
Scientists See Same Star Explode Four Times

Discovery News:
We Need To Cast A Wide Net In Search For Alien Life

March 9, 2015

Daily Mail:
Dawn orbits Ceres: Spacecraft successfully arrives at 'last uncharted world of the solar system'

Scientific American:
Dawn Spacecraft Arrives at Ceres, Becomes First to Orbit a Dwarf Planet

Spaceflight Now:
Dawn arrives for the first exploration of a dwarf planet

Discovery News:
Probe Enters Orbit Around Dwarf Planet Ceres

Space.com:
7 Strange Facts About Dwarf Planet Ceres

Popular Science:
8 Surprising Things We Might Find On Ceres

Space.com:
Dwarf Planet Ceres: Biggest in the Asteroid Belt (Infographic)

Space.com:
What's Next for NASA's Dawn Probe at Dwarf Planet Ceres?

Western Australia Today:
Meteor flashes across Perth skies

Perth Sunday Times:
Reports of meteor falling in Gidegannup in Perth Hills

Alton Telegraph:
'Fireball' in sky over Alton creates buzz

Spaceflight Now:
Power system failure likely cause of military satellite explosion

Space Daily:
ESA experts assess risk from exploded satellite

Spaceflight Insider:
Nano-satellite launched from space station tests space brake

Spaceflight Now:
Crunch time: Next Mars lander enters final year before launch

Astrobiology Magazine:
Single Site on Mars Advanced for 2016 NASA Lander

Discovery News:
Rover Opportunity Has Found Some Odd Mars Rocks

Spaceflight Now:
Glitch on Curiosity rover traced to drill mechanism

Discovery News:
Ancient 'Blue' Mars Lost An Entire Ocean To Space

Universe Today:
Mars Loses an Ocean But Gains the Potential for Life

Universe Today:
The Night Mars Was Closest to Earth

WEEKEND EDITION: March 7 through March 8, 2015

Space.com:
General Relativity at 100: Einstein's Famous Theory Has Aged Well

Space.com:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity Explained (Infographic)

Science Magazine:
A primer on relativity in Einstein's own words

Science Magazine:
Einstein's milestones

Daily Mail:
Einstein was RIGHT! Light is captured as a wave AND a particle at the same time in first ever photograph

Science Magazine:
To catch a wave

Science Magazine:
Feature: Testing Einstein's theory in the galaxy's toughest neighborhood

Space.com:
Warp in Space-Time Swallows Pulsar

Discovery News:
The Higgs Boson May Disintegrate Into Dark Matter

IEEE Spectrum:
Pleurobot Is an Eerily Lifelike Robotic Salamander

Wired:
The Scary-Dexterous Robots of the Darpa Challenge

New Scientist:
Weather forecast for early Earth involved iron rain

Universe Today:
10 Interesting Facts About Volcanoes

io9:
10 Gemstones Much Rarer Than Diamond

Gizmodo:
The Clearest Aerial Shots Of The Himalayas, Ever

Daily Mail:
World's most complete Stegosaurus weighed the same as a RHINO: 3,527lb mass could reveal dinosaur's metabolism

Live Science:
Secret Hideout Helped Penguins Survive the Ice Age

Daily Mail:
Meet Skeletorus and Sparklemuffin: Two new species of spider given odd nicknames due to strange colours on their bodies

National Geographic:
'Extinct' Bird Rediscovered in Myanmar, Surprising Scientists

National Geographic:
Quokka Selfies: What's the Deal With That Cute Australian Critter?

Stuff NZ:
The wisdom of orca grandmothers

Smithsonian Magazine:
Ringling Brothers Is Phasing Out Its Elephant Act

Daily Mail:
Is this the FIRST man? Fossil jawbone of 2.8 million-year-old human ancestor discovered that could be our earliest relative

Daily Mail:
Were early humans the HYENAS of prehistoric Africa? Our ancestors may have been scavengers, study reveals

The Guardian:
How hunting with wolves helped humans outsmart the Neanderthals

Ancient Origins:
Reconstructed Temple of the Night Sun in Mortuary of Queen Hatshepsut opens to the public

Ancient Origins:
Elaborately Painted Tomb for Nobleman and Amun Temple Guardian Uncovered in Luxor

The History Blog:
Bronze Age hair ring, ingots found in Anglesey

National Geographic:
ISIS Bulldozes One-of-a-Kind Ancient Palace in Iraq

The History Blog:
Princely tomb from 5th c. B.C. found in France

Ancient Origins:
The Royal Kurgan of Kerch: The burial mound built by a king

The History Blog:
Dallas Museum of Art acquires Mayan effigy vase sold by St. Louis Society

Daily Mail:
Did this medieval knight die while jousting? Breaks on 12th century skeleton suggest noble was injured during tournament

National Geographic:
Exclusive: Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest

The History Blog:
Lead coffin inside stone coffin from Richard III dig opened

io9:
Read A Story From This Newly Discovered Trove Of Lost Fairytales

Daily Mail:
Unmasked, Edward the Nazi King of England: Princess Diana's biographer reveals the Duke of Windsor's collusion with Hitler... and a plot to regain his throne

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Great Goldfish Swallowing Craze of 1939 Never Really Ended

Daily Mail:
Are a team of amateur sleuths about to discover one of Adolf Hitler's greatest lost treasures? Group begin drilling under German city where they say the legendary $380million Amber Room looted from Russians is hidden

Gizmodo:
Filming Atomic Blasts Requires This Massive, Complicated Camera

Gizmodo:
The Secret Weather Manipulation Program of the Vietnam War

Smithsonian Magazine:
Grave Robbers Once Held Charlie Chaplin's Body For Ransom

National Geographic:
Daylight Savings Time: 7 Surprising Things You May Not Know

io9:
Cars From Another Universe: Bizarre Motor Vehicles That Never Caught On

io9:
10 Famous Scientists Who Held Surprising Supernatural Beliefs

Live Science:
6 Ways Albert Einstein Fought for Civil Rights

Science Magazine:
Who said it: Einstein or not?

Science Magazine:
General Relativity: A super-quick, super-painless guide to the theory that conquered the universe.

March 6, 2015

Space.com:
How an Ion Drive Helped NASA's Dawn Probe Visit Dwarf Planet Ceres

Spaceflight Now:
Could Delta rockets soon be a thing of the past?

Daily Mail:
A 360 degree view of a solar eclipse from SPACE: GoPro cameras in stratosphere to capture live HD footage of rare event

Gizmag:
UK moves one step closer to naming its first commercial spaceport

Sputnik News:
More Mysterious Drones Spotted Flying Over Paris

BBC News:
'A dozen' drones fly over Paris in latest mystery sighting

IEEE Spectrum:
A Drone with Bug Vision

Gizmag:
How drones are poised to help build the cities of tomorrow

Popular Science:
Neural Implants Let Paralyzed Woman Fly Plane

Gizmodo:
How fighter jet pilots pass snack bars in the cockpit while flying

BBC News:
A long time ago... when Pembroke Dock made the Millennium Falcon

Jalopnik:
This Is The End Of The Line For The USAF's Most Versatile Cargo Jet

The Aviationist:
Russians have started working on a new engine for their 5th generation stealth fighter

Jalopnik:
Is This The Shape Of Russia's Next Generation Long-Range Bomber?

io9:
Vintage Menu Recalls A Time When Pineapple Fruitcake Was Served In Space

Jalopnik:
XB-43 Jetmaster: The Weird History Of America's First Jet Bomber

Defense Update:
Life at the boneyard

Daily Mail:
Explore every yard of where planes go to die in amazing resolution: Bing unveils interactive map of biggest aircraft graveyard in the world

March 5, 2015

Scientific American:
NASA's Messenger Mission to Mercury Nears End

Spaceflight Now:
Liftoff of Indian navigation satellite postponed

Space Daily:
China's moon rover Yutu functioning but stationary

Universe Today:
The Mini-Moon Cometh: Catch the Smallest Full Moon of 2015 This Thursday

Daily Mail:
Mystery of the 'Y' shape on Venus solved: Fast winds and slow planetary rotation create odd pattern, astronomers reveal

Discovery News:
Curiosity Science Suspended After Electrical Glitch

Daily Mail:
Can we produce oxygen on Mars? Scientists will attempt to prove the technology on the red planet in 2020

Gizmag:
NASA releases new Ceres images prior to Friday encounter

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
The World, Ceres

Popular Science:
8 Surprising Things We Might Find On Ceres

Discovery News:
Sun May Blast Two Jets Of Plasma Into Interstellar Space

Discovery News:
Massive Exoplanet Evolved In Extreme 4-Star System

Motherboard:
America's Original Space Program Is Turning 100

ECN Magazine:
NACA's space legacy: The Cold War and beyond

Red Orbit:
PHOTOS: NASA predecessor NACA marks 100 years of innovation

Mashable:
Vomit comets and 43-foot pools: NASA astronaut training over the decades

March 4, 2015

Space Daily:
U.S. weather satellite explodes into 43 pieces

Spaceflight Now:
Four satellites mated to Atlas 5 rocket

Spaceflight Insider:
Next space station crew preparing for one year in space

Spaceflight Insider:
ISS deploys two cubesats following repairs to launcher

Spaceflight Insider:
Dawn spacecraft prepped for orbital insertion

Discovery News:
Bright Spots on Ceres Likely Ice, Not Cryovolcanoes

Universe Today:
Hunt For Dwarf Planet Ceres' Mysterious Water Begins

Spaceflight Now:
Rosetta glimpses its own shadow on comet 67P

Space Daily:
Science Shorts: How Big Is Pluto's Atmosphere?

Universe Today:
What's the Brightest Star in the Sky, Past and Future?

Space Daily:
How Would The World Change If We Found Extraterrestrial Life

March 3, 2015

The Telegraph:
US military satellite explodes above Earth

Sputnik News:
US Military Satellite Explodes, Sending Chunks of Debris Into Orbit

Sputnik News:
Debris Fills Orbit as US Satellite Explodes

Daily Mail:
SpaceX rocket lifts off with world's first all-electric satellites: Mission launches 'two for the price of one' thanks to cheaper fuel

Spaceflight Insider:
Two for the price of one! SpaceX makes history with launch of ABS/EUTELSAT

Daily Mail:
Can YOU spot the astronaut? Stunning image shows the incredible size of the ISS during weekend spacewalk

Daily Mail:
Camera accidentally captures 570 megapixel image of a COMET: Stunning shot of Lovejoy shocks scientists

The Guardian:
Hubble at 25: the wonder of the universe laid bare

Gizmag:
NASA's colossal crawlers mark half a century of service

Discovery News:
Could This Alien Cell Thrive On Titan?

Stuff NZ:
Earth is listening for ET. But should we be calling too?

Universe Today:
Why Don't We Search for Different Life?

Popular Science:
From The Archives: Designing Products For Aliens

March 2, 2015

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Did VA just confirm UFO dangers?

Popular Mechanics:
11 UFO Photos Unearthed From the Air Force's Vaults

Hindustan Times:
Panic among residents as fireballs light up Kerala sky

The New Indian Express:
Many Theories as Fireballs Light Up Kerala Sky

NDTV:
Fireball in Kerala's Skies Was a Meteor, Indicate Preliminary Assessments

The New Indian Express:
Scientists Examine 'Rocks', Confirm Kerala Meteor Fall

Daily Mail:
Astronauts complete tricky repair job on International Space Station with third spacewalk - despite suit malfunctions moments before they went out

Spaceflight Now:
Russian intelligence gets an upgrade with satellite launch

Sputnik News:
Soyuz-2.1a Carrier Rocket With Military Satellite Blasts Off From Plesetsk

Spaceflight Insider:
First Bars-M spy satellite for Russian military flies on Soyuz-2-1a

Florida Today:
SpaceX Falcon 9 blasts off from Cape

Discovery News:
Russia Will Spin-Off ISS Parts For New Space Station

The Guardian:
Russia outlines plans to build national space station after ISS ends in 2024

io9:
These Tiny Satellites Just Left The International Space Station

Scientific American:
Giant Asteroid Collision May Have Radically Transformed Mars

Gizmag:
Curiosity selfie shows rover in wider context as it begins drilling at Telegraph Peak site

Astrobiology Magazine:
Life 'Not As We Know It' Possible on Saturn's Moon Titan

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Kepler-432b: A Doomed Planet Orbiting a Doomed Star

Air & Space Magazine:
Earth-like Planets Might be Rare After All

Scientific American:
Alien Life Prefers Circles

Space.com:
Cosmonaut Alexei Gubarev, Led 1st Multi-National Space Crew, Dies at 83

Space.com:
A Salute To Leonard Nimoy From Orbit: Photo

WEEKEND EDITION: February 28 through March 1, 2015

Live Science:
Big Bang, Deflated? Universe May Have Had No Beginning

Universe Today:
How Can Space Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light?

The Guardian:
What goes on inside a proton?

Gizmodo:
Ro-Bow Is a Violin-Playing Robot That Actually Sounds Pretty Good

IEEE Spectrum:
Sony Halts Support for Aibo, Still One of the Best Robot Toys Ever

Sputnik News:
Australia Creates World's First 3D-Printed Engines

Daily Mail:
The bionic hand that's operated by the MIND: In a world first, three men have their lower limbs amputated and replaced with robotic prosthetics controlled by the brain

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Computer Can Tell Real Jackson Pollocks From Fakes

The Guardian:
Those classic Atari games were harder than you think

IEEE Spectrum:
Poker-Playing AIs Today, Skynet Tomorrow

Daily Mail:
The secret of Old Faithful is a U-BEND: Researchers say underground loops are key to geysers

Daily Mail:
Stunning 3D animation reveals how the Sahara fertilises the rainforests of the AMAZON with 182 million tones of DUST

Scientific American:
Bacteria Got an Early Fix on Nitrogen

ABC Australia:
Fossil reveals hippos related to whales

Daily Mail:
Crocodile smile: Broad-jawed prehistoric caymen that could crush CLAMS with their teeth ruled Peru 13 million years ago

The History Blog:
World's only woolly rhino calf found in Siberia

Daily Mail:
Mystery of the 'graveyard' of lemurs the size of GORILLAS: Underwater cave found to contain hundreds of giant fossils

Daily Mail:
Dragonflies see in Ultra HD: Winged insects have the best vision in the animal kingdom

The Independent:
The remarkable archaeological underwater discovery that could open up a new chapter in the study of European and British prehistory

io9:
This 1750 BC Babylonian Tablet Is An Ancient Customer Service Complaint

Daily Mail:
Was King Senebkay killed in battle? Injuries to pharaoh's bones suggest he was brutally hacked with axes while riding his horse

Ancient Origins:
Secret chamber hidden beneath ancient temple in Lebanon surprises archaeologists

Daily Mail:
Now THAT'S a bargain! Ancient Egyptian seal believed to show Ramesses the Great is discovered in a charity shop costing £12

Discovery News:
Villa Owned by Ben-Hur's Rival Identified

Ancient Origins:
Commodus - the Outrageous Emperor who Fought as a Gladiator

Daily Mail:
'Incredibly rare' Roman tombstone found complete with human remains of a woman named 'Bodica'

Ancient Origins:
Kizil Caves, earliest Buddhist caves in China, hide rare images from the time of the Silk Route

The History Blog:
Objects from 1,500-year-old settlement found in Poland

Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists study stunning murals adorning the walls of an ancient Maya home

The History Blog:
CT scan reveals mummy inside Buddha statue

The History Blog:
Possible joust casualty found at Hereford Cathedral

Ancient Origins:
The Ultimate Pirate Branding Symbol

The Guardian:
Piltdown Man, Beringer's lying stones, dinosaurs... are they all hoaxes?

Smithsonian Magazine:
The First African American Senator Was Sworn in 145 Years Ago Today

Daily Mail:
Letter written in Italian by Albert Einstein defending his theory of relativity and referring to 'God' as a scientific concept sells for £50,000

Smithsonian Magazine:
Germans Brace for the Re-Release of 'Mein Kampf'

Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: The WWII American B-24 pilot who turned spy, saved 1,000 US POWs from certain death at Soviet hands and won medal after medal - but never said a word about his wartime heroism

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Oregon's Second Largest City Vanished in a Day

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Making and Remaking of the Original Ice Hotel

Smithsonian Magazine:
Amsterdam Is Out of Bike Parking

Smithsonian Magazine:
Top Historic Sites to Visit in Cuba

Smithsonian Magazine:
Charming and Unusual Bookstores Around the World

Gizmodo:
The NSA's In-House Magazine Looks Like a 1970s Punk Zine

BBC News:
The best vehicle for surviving a zombie apocalypse?

Daily Mail:
Where to hide in a zombie apocalypse: Rockies or the Scottish Highlands would give you the most time to plan your last stand against the undead

February 27, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
World View Parafoil Test Flight Touches Edge of Space

Space.com:
Europe's Newly Tested Space Plane Aims for Next Launch in 2019

Popular Science:
Marketing Drones Scanned Los Angeles For Cellphone Location Data

Popular Science:
Secret Service Will Fly Its Own Drones To Protect The White House

Sputnik News:
Mysterious Drones Watch Paris at Night

The Australian:
Drones reappear in Paris for second night, French police on alert

Gizmag:
New system allows air traffic controllers to converse with drones

Popular Science:
Hammerhead Drone Makes First Flight

Gizmodo:
This Robotic Bird Can Swoop and Dive (Kinda) Like the Real Thing

Popular Science:
Take To The Skies With A Radio-Controlled Pterodactyl

Daily Mail:
Would YOU fly on a mind-controlled plane? Scientist pilots a drone using just his thoughts - and the technology could one day be used on commercial aircraft

Gizmag:
SkyProwler combines a quadcopter and a fixed-wing airplane in one device

Daily Mail:
Biggest aircraft in history begins construction: Microsoft co-founder provides glimpse of his proposed megaplane that will launch rockets into orbit

Gizmodo:
The thrill of flying with a wingsuit in a beautiful slow motion video

The Aviationist:
Unique Point of View: R-73 Missile Launch as seen from the pylon of a Russian Su-27 Flanker

Jalopnik:
This F-16 Viper Managed To Fly Back To Base Missing Half A Wing

The Aviationist:
Listen to Russian Strategic Bombers talk to their Ground Control while skirting UK airspace

The Aviationist:
[Video] Russian strategic bomber films British and French jets escorting it

The Aviationist:
Video: How the UK QRA responded to Soviet intruders at the times of the Phantom

Daily Mail:
Are these the 51 greatest rockets ever made? Amazing graphic shows how the world's most influential and powerful launchers compare to each other

Daily Mail:
Cold War-era B-52 bomber resurrected from Air Force's desert 'boneyard' to fly again after seven years on the scrapheap

Air & Space Magazine:
Balloons of the Cold War

Gizmodo:
A Visual History of Inflight Luxuries

Longreads:
Glamorous Crossing: How Pan Am Airways Dominated International Travel in the 1930s

Gizmodo:
Drone footage of Russia's Air Force Museum shows a heaven for planes

February 26, 2015

Daily Mail:
Europe's biggest solar eclipse since 1999 is on its way - and 84 per cent of sunlight could be blocked out over London

Popular Science:
Europe's Solar Power Industry Braces For Solar Eclipse

Spaceflight Now:
Successful spacewalk ends with water leak

Sputnik News:
Russia's New ISS Module to Be Ready in Early 2016

Space.com:
Moon Space Law: Legal Debate Swirls Around Private Lunar Ventures

Discovery News:
Curiosity's New Selfie Awash With Epic Mars Science

Gizmodo:
Curiosity's New Software Lets It Drill More Gently (and Do Less Damage)

Universe Today:
What is Mars Made Of?

Daily Mail:
Mystery of Ceres spots deepens: Dawn probe finds ANOTHER flashing 'alien' mark on dwarf planet

Discovery News:
Ceres' Mystery Bright Dots May Have Volcanic Origin

io9:
The Complete History Of Ceres, The Planet (?) Between Mars And Jupiter

Daily Mail:
Could Earth's other 'moon' reveal the solar system's secrets? Cruithne's strange orbit may shed light on how planets evolve

Gizmag:
Research suggests dark matter plays a significant role in our planet's mass extinction cycle

Space Daily:
Planets Can Alter Each Other's Climates over Eons

Gizmodo:
What being strapped to a rocket launch looks like (hint: awesome)

February 25, 2015

Discovery News:
Reentering Chinese Rocket Sparks North America Fireballs

National Post:
Flash across the Alberta sky wasn't a meteor or plane crash, it was a rocket body falling to Earth

Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
Meteor sightings, sonic boom reported in Florida

KRTV:
'Fireball' streaks across Montana sky

Twin Falls Times-News:
Meteor over Rexburg Idaho 2/23/15

KSL TV:
Meteor-like object seen in Utah sky was rocket body

The Melbourne Age:
Skywatchers spot fireball soaring across Victorian sky

Spaceflight Now:
Russian space agency endorses ISS until 2024

Spaceflight Insider:
Crawler transporter 2 upgraded in preparation for SLS

Scientific American:
Tricksy Mars may be Obscuring Signs of Organic Matter

Daily Mail:
Watch the sun set on MARS: Opportunity rover captures the red planet's deep blue sky as our star 'dips' below the horizon

Discovery News:
Using Jupiter As An Alien World Analog

New Scientist:
The plan to find alien life in Europa's icy seas

Universe Today:
Could There Be Another Planet Behind the Sun?

February 24, 2015

Boston Globe:
A UFO story lands in a hall of history

Sputnik News:
UFO Abduction Story Recognized by Massachusetts Historical Society

WFLA:
Fireball sightings with booms heard in Florida

Russia Today:
Fireball and sonic boom witnessed from Florida to South Carolina

Space.com:
Predawn Military Rocket Launches Visible from US East Coast Tuesday

Spaceflight Insider:
Three Terrier-Oriole rocket launches delayed

Spaceflight Now:
Engineers finding lessons in nearly flawless Orion test flight

Daily Mail:
Antares explosion caused by debris in fuel tank, preliminary investigation finds into $20 million accident find

Universe Today:
Learn About Venus, The Hothouse Planet Near Earth

Universe Today:
What's Important To Know About Planet Mercury?

Discovery News:
Our Dwarf Planet Dreams Are Coming Into Focus: Photos

Universe Today:
A Recipe for Returning Pluto to Full Planethood

Spaceflight Insider:
For Sale: Spaceport America?

Spaceflight Now:
Photos from this weekend's spacewalk

io9:
A Complete Illustrated Timeline Of Spacesuit Design

February 23, 2015

The Atlantic:
A Time Machine in the Mojave Desert

io9:
A Vintage Chart Of UFO Sightings From Around The World

Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Retro Friday: a blast from the past

WJXT:
Meteor seen across Northeast Florida skies

WJAX:
Possible meteor sighting captured on home video

Beach Connection:
Quake Scare on N. Oregon Coast, Southern Washington, Likely a Sonic Boom

Popular Science:
NASA's Making Parking Spots On The Space Station For Commercial Taxis

Daily Mail:
NASA astronauts complete first of three complicated spacewalks needed to upgrade ISS to allow privately owned SpaceX crew capsules to dock

IEEE Spectrum:
Successful Flight of Angara-A5 Rocket Marks New Era for Russia's Ambitions in Space

Spaceflight Now:
Launch America getting new access gantry for astronauts

Space.com:
Moon Water Ingredient More Plentiful on Slopes Facing Lunar South Pole

Air & Space Magazine:
Ancient Life on the Moon - From Earth

Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Completes First Deep Dip Campaign

Astrobiology Magazine:
Mars Hills Hide Icy Past

New Scientist:
Searching for signs of Mars life could destroy them

Universe Today:
Who Speaks for Earth? The Controversy over Interstellar Messaging

WEEKEND EDITION: February 21 through February 22, 2015

Discover Magazine:
Infinity Is a Beautiful Concept - And It's Ruining Physics

Quanta Magazine:
In Fake Universes, Evidence for String Theory

Scientific American:
Higgs Boson Could Explain Matter's Dominance over Antimatter

Inside Science:
A More Finely Tuned Universe

io9:
Robot Clock Writing The Time On A Whiteboard Is Weirdly Fun To Watch

Gizmodo:
Robotic hand made of wires is flexible enough to rotate meditation balls

io9:
The Magnificent Evolution of Polar Icebreakers

Stuff NZ:
Life on Earth 3 billion years ago?

Daily Mail:
Life first flourished on land 3.2 billion years ago, study reveals

Daily Mail:
Ichthyosaurs had a taste for squid! Forgotten museum fossil found to be new species - complete with last meal in its stomach

Audubon Magazine:
Which Came First: the Dinosaur or the Bird?

Audubon Magazine:
Who's Who

Daily Mail:
Fossil evidence found in the east Peruvian Amazon reveals that South American monkeys may have originated from Africa, say researchers

io9:
This Is What The Paleo Diet Was Really Like

io9:
10 Lesser-Known Egyptian Gods That Are Absolutely Terrifying

The History Blog:
3,500-year-old Bronze Age hoard found in Poland

Live Science:
Ancient Shrines Used for Predicting the Future Discovered

Daily Mail:
How Bronze Age rulers got HIGH to predict the future: Armenian shrines reveal bizarre practices of fortune tellers 3,300 years ago

Smithsonian Magazine:
Were the Terracotta Warriors Based on Actual People?

Daily Mail:
'Priceless' trove of 2,000 gold coins used by 10th Century Caliphate which once ruled much of the Middle East is found off the coast of Israel

Daily Mail:
Portrait of Henry VIII's third wife Jane Seymour is actually Anne Boleyn, facial recognition technology reveals

Daily Mail:
The woman who nearly became Henry VIII's SEVENTH wife: King almost married again - but decided bride-to-be was too feisty, new book claims

The History Blog:
Ohio museum returns 16th c. astrolabe to Germany

Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet the Madam on the Mall

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Spiritualist Who Warned Lincoln Was Also Booth's Drinking Buddy

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Closest Source We Have to Really Knowing John Wilkes Booth Is His Sister

Smithsonian Magazine:
What the Newspapers Said When Lincoln Was Killed

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Blood Relics From the Lincoln Assassination

Daily Mail:
Inside Billy the Kid's bolthole: New Mexico adobe where the outlaw hid under beds and in a flour barrel on sale for $545,000

Daily Mail:
Secret of Gaugin's printmaking revealed: Simple lighting technique peels back hidden layers from artist's most famous works

io9:
Read The Lost Sherlock Holmes Short Story Someone Found In An Attic

Daily Mail:
The lost tribes of the United States: Haunting pictures taken over 30 years capture Native American life even as it was dying out

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Frightening Legacy of Typhoid Mary

The History Blog:
Film of Eastland disaster found in Dutch newsreels

Gizmodo:
The Gorgeous Typeface That Drove Men Mad and Sparked a 100-Year Mystery

The Atlantic:
How the Inventor of the Polaroid Championed the Patent

Daily Mail:
'I watched as they sank exhausted to the ground and died in a pyre of smoke and flame': The astonishing account of British POW caught up in Dresden bombing

io9:
The CIA Once Ran Brothels And Dosed Unsuspecting Customers With LSD

io9:
A Previously Unpublished Dr. Seuss Book Is Coming Out This Summer

Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Photocopier Changed the Way We Worked - and Played

Russia Today:
Drone captures Soviet-era 'Tesla Tower' lightning machine (VIDEO)

Daily Mail:
The movie stars kidnapped and drugged by North Korea... to create an insane communist Hollywood

Gizmodo:
The Computer Simulation That Almost Started World War III

Daily Mail:
A mega virus, supervolcano and artificial intelligence: The 12 most likely causes of the Apocalypse, according to scientists

February 20, 2015

Discovery News:
NASA Gearing Up to Reassemble the Space Station

Spaceflight Now:
Astronauts, spacesuits ready for spacewalk Saturday

Universe Today:
Why Can't We Design the Perfect Spacesuit?

io9:
How You Can Track Every Spy Satellite In Orbit

Science Magazine:
Drones and satellites spot lost civilizations in unlikely places

Space Daily:
China's Hypersonic Glide Vehicle: A Threat to the United States

Daily Mail:
The 'flying bum' is set to takeoff: World's longest airship to take to the skies next year after £3.4m investment by UK government

Daily Mail:
Is this the future of flight? Shape-shifting craft that takes off like a helicopter and flies like a plane could mean the end of runways

Jalopnik:
At What Point Does The USAF's War Against The A-10 Become Sabotage?

Jalopnik:
The World's Most Secretive 737 Is America's Key To Better Stealth Tech

Air & Space Magazine:
Getting Married On the Fly

Universe Today:
The Most Unique Rocket Launch You'll Ever See

February 19, 2015

Time Magazine:
Watch a Meteor Burn Up in a Fiery Ball Over Pennsylvania

New Scientist:
How to predict what height meteors explode at

Space.com:
The Search For Volcanic Eruptions On Mars Reaches The Next Level

New Scientist:
85 Years after Pluto's Discovery, NASA's New Horizons Spots Small Moons Orbiting Pluto

Universe Today:
Interesting Facts About The Planets

Universe Today:
What Makes The Solar System Interesting To Astronomers?

Discovery News:
Star Blasted Through Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago

Universe Today:
A Star Passed Through the Solar System Just 70,000 Years Ago

Space Daily:
Life on other planets: Alternative chemistries of life

February 18, 2015

Chico Enterprise-Record:
6 most interesting Bay Area UFO sightings investigated by the U.S. Air Force

The Telegraph:
Britain's Roswell: the truth behind the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident

Aberdeen Press and Journal:
Six spookiest UFO sightings and alien abductions ever reported in Scotland

Digital Journal:
NYC's American Museum of Natural History a UFO Destination

WFMY:
NASA Confirms Early Morning 'Fireball' Over Western New York

WTAE:
Fireball seen over Pittsburgh area captured on video

Discovery News:
Europe's Space Truck Burns Up During Final Reentry

Discovery News:
Europe's Space Truck Burns Up During Final Reentry

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz rocket boosts Russian cargo craft to space station

Spaceflight Insider:
Progress M-26M spacecraft launches 3 tons of cargo to ISS

Discovery News:
Mysterious Mars Plumes Defy Explanation

Spaceflight Insider:
Rosetta conducts closest flyby yet of the surface of comet 67P

Daily Mail:
67P as you've never seen it before: Rosetta probe takes stunning close up images of the comet from just four miles away

New Scientist:
Mystery cloud-like blobs over Mars baffle astronomers

Universe Today:
Learn All About Pluto, The Most Famous Dwarf Planet

Discovery News:
Our Sun May Experience A Surprisingly Explosive Death

February 17, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Europe's ATV space freighter bids final goodbye to space station

Spaceflight Insider:
JAXA prepares another attempt to insert Akatsuki spacecraft into Venus orbit

Spaceflight Now:
Engineers to assess reusability of Europe's wingless space plane

Space Daily:
Talking Japanese space robot back on Earth

Gizmag:
SpaceX signs landing pad agreement with US Air Force

Space Daily:
NASA's Curiosity Analyzing Sample of Martian Mountain

Universe Today:
Interesting Facts About Planet Mars

Daily Mail:
A clear view of Titan: Nasa 'despeckles' Saturn's largest moon to reveal hidden river channels, shorelines and windswept dunes

io9:
The Closest View Yet Of Charon Orbiting Pluto

Spaceflight Now:
Video: New Horizons animation

Air & Space Magazine:
How Could We Detect Life in Europa's Geysers?

Universe Today:
Where To Look For Life In Space

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Pale Blue Dot + 25 Years

Daily Mail:
Did aliens send this metal orb to seed life on Earth? Riddle of microscopic sphere found 16 miles up, oozing slime which may contain microorganisms

PRESIDENTS' DAY WEEKEND EDITION: February 14 through February 16, 2015

Daily Mail:
Can the past be changed by the FUTURE? Bizarre quantum experiment suggests time can run backwards

Daily Mail:
Did the Big Bang ever happen? Quantum model predicts universe has NO beginning - and it could even explain dark energy

Universe Today:
What is Hooke's Law?

Popular Science:
How Smart Is Your Artificial Intelligence?

Gizmag:
Creative AI: Teaching computers to be reporters and storytellers

Gizmodo:
The AI Revolution: How Far Away Are Our Robot Overlords?

Daily Mail:
Will religions try to convert artificial intelligence? Reverend says 'Christ's redemption' is not limited to humans

Gizmag:
Boston Dynamics introduces smaller, more kickable robot

Gizmodo:
Oh Great, The Robots Can Ski Now

Gizmodo:
The Photographic History Of Robots As Restaurant Employees

Daily Mail:
It's a microwave, but not as you know it! Appliance FREEZES food and drinks at the flick of a switch

Daily Mail:
Journey to the very centre of the Earth: Scientists find our planet's inner core has ANOTHER core of its own

Gizmag:
The study of acoustic-gravity waves could improve early detection of tsunamise

Daily Mail:
Man's best friend has not been around as long as we thought: 30,000-year-old fossil of the oldest dog turns out to be a WOLF

Stuff NZ:
Can we bring back the woolly mammoth?

io9:
A Complete Primer On Every Kind Of Seal In The World

Daily Mail:
Search for the world's 'loneliest whale': Experts want to tag creature who has been singing to himself for 20 years

Daily Mail:
The bilingual CHIMPS: Video reveals apes learning new grunt for 'apple' when they moved in with 'foreign' chimpanzees

Daily Mail:
Neanderthals interbred for longer with East Asian humans, DNA reveals

Live Science:
100 Ancient Cult Sites Discovered in Israel

Live Science:
Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia

The History Blog:
St. Louis Society board resigns over artifact sales

io9:
Take A Virtual Trip Through The Amphipolis Tomb In Its Original State

Ancient Origins:
Egyptian Alexandria - Ancient underwater finds revealed the Pharaonic roots of the Ptolemaic City

The History Blog:
Remains of ancient mound in Ohio found during mall construction

Ancient Origins:
Rosetta-style engraving lauding Cleopatra and two Ptolemaic Pharaohs unearthed in Egypt

The History Blog:
Restored Berthouville Treasure at the Getty

Archaelogy Magazine:
Rome's Imperial Port

Heritage Daily:
10 Hidden Historic Sites in London

The History Bog:
Magna Carta found in Kent library scrapbook

The History Blog:
England's oldest cannonball found on battlefield

io9:
Leonardo da Vinci's Hand-Written Resume Will Make You Feel Inadequate

The History Blog:
Portrait attributed to Leonardo seized from Swiss bank vault

Daily Mail:
Richard III's final death blow revealed: Deadly thrust was so powerful it left dent on the inside of his skull

Smithsonian Magazine:
Spanish Conquest of the Incas Caused Air Pollution to Spike

The History Blog:
Wolsey's Angels saved!

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Surprising Raucous Home Life of the Madisons

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Founding Fathers and the Women, Not Their Wives, Whom They Wrote To

Gizmodo:
How the Cardboard Box Was Invented

The Guardian:
The Great Moon Hoax and the Christian Philosopher

Gizmodo:
Abe Lincoln Holds the Only (and the Weirdest) Presidential Patent

Daily Mail:
Is van Gogh's Starry Night a painting of GALAXIES? Bright swirls are based on distant cosmic spirals, claims expert

The History Blog:
Gaugin exhibition includes $300 million painting

Gizmodo:
How "Clean" Was Sold to America with Fake Science

Jalopnik:
The Car That Inspired The Jeep Was Completely Bonkers

Smithsonian Magazine:
Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings Nominated for Unesco World Heritage Status

The History Blog:
Codebreaking notes, Banbury sheets found in Bletchley hut

Daily Mail:
Top secret documents giving instructions for D-Day landings are discovered under hotel's floorboards during renovation work

io9:
How We Imagined The Future Of Transportation Would Look In The 1940s

Gizmodo:
Before 1948, LA's Power Grid Was Incompatible With the Rest of the US

Disneyland:
The story of Disneyland: Unprecedented auction of vintage memorabilia from the world's favorite theme park

Jalopnik:
This Is What It Looks Like When The World's Smallest Nuke Explodes

io9:
How The BBC Fooled Viewers Into Thinking Spaghetti Grows On Trees

io9:
The Hyperviolent Trading Cards That Inspired Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!

io9:
10 Real-Life Female Spies Who Deserve Their Own Movie Franchises

Gizmodo:
13 of History's Most Ingenious Spy Cameras

io9:
The 10 Biggest Blunders in The History Of Espionage

Gizmodo:
All the Tech We've Used to Intercept Every Kind Of Communication

Daily Mail:
Revealed, the real-life Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark: Untold story of American fortune hunter's deadly Cold War battle with Soviet spies to recover ancient shrine that 'contains St John the Baptist's bones'

February 13, 2015

Daily Mail:
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the TRANSITION: Two-seater flying car takes off from a runway but still fits inside your garage

Daily Mail:
Watch a satellite being fired into space from a FIGHTER JET: US Army concept video reveals bold plan for low cost launches

Smithsonian Magazine:
Ask Smithsonian: How Does a Satellite Stay Up?

Jalopnik:
How To Win In A Dogfight: Stories From A Pilot Who Flew F-16s And MiGs

Daily Mail:
Extraordinary footage emerges of Tomahawk missile punching a hole completely through a moving shipping container during U.S. Navy training exercise

Gizmodo:
Removing paint from a Boeing 737 is one of the trippiest things ever

Gizmodo:
Cool video of planes causing beautiful atmospheric effects

Universe Today:
Did You Know Soviet Cosmonauts Carried a Bear-Killing Shotgun into Space?

The Aviationist:
Red Flag 15-1: Simulating Modern Warfare at Nellis Air Force Base

Wired - Danger Room:
Restoring This WWII B-29 Bomber Has Taken 300K Hours So Far

Daily Mail:
Fascinating pictures show how Lockheed built the top secret SR-71 blackbird for the U.S. Air Force - which is STILL the fastest ever plane after 39 years

Gizmodo:
Fascinating photos reveal how they built the SR-71 Blackbird

Gizmodo:
The story of the ultrasecret A-12 Oxcart - father of the SR-71 Blackbird

Air & Space Magazine:
A History of WW2 in 25 Airplanes

February 12, 2015

Stuff NZ:
Meteor over NZ 'a decent-sized rock'

TVNZ:
'What the freak was that?' - social media lights up over meteor spotting

Daily Mail:
Splashdown! Europe's first 'space taxi' returns to Earth after successful 100-minute mission through the atmosphere

Spaceflight Now:
European space plane flies around the world on test flight

New Scientist:
Experimental spaceplane returns to Earth safely

Daily Mail:
The Falcon takes flight: SpaceX launches deep space weather observatory - but scrubs radical plan to land rocket on a barge due to rough seas

Spaceflight Now:
Space weather observatory blasts off after 17-year wait

Discovery News:
SpaceX Dragon Returns To Earth With Ocean Splashdown

Space Daily:
US Concerned by Growing Expertise of China, Russia Space Capabilities

Space Daily:
NASA Spacecraft Completes 40,000 Mars Orbits

Universe Today:
How Can Mars Sometimes Be Warmer Than Earth?

Astrobiology Magazine:
Mars Rover Nearing Marathon Achievement

Space.com:
How Can We Protect Mars from Earth Germs, While Searching for Life?

Space Daily:
Number of Known Accessible Near-Earth Asteroids Doubles Since 2010

Universe Today:
Why Does The Milky Way Rotate?

Daily Mail:
Is this the best photo of Earth's night sky EVER taken? Amazing long-exposure montage reveals a meteor, comet and nebulae above an observatory and oxygen airglow on Earth

Universe Today:
All the World's Rockets, Past, Present and Future

February 11, 2015

KHOU:
UFO encounter in Brazoria County lives on

Spaceflight Insider:
High upper level winds push SpaceX DSCOVR launch to Feb. 11

Spaceflight Insider:
Final Soyuz TMA-M crew completes winter survival training

Daily Mail:
British engineers will send probe to look for alien 'twinkle' in the sky of Earth-like worlds

Popular Science:
Inside The 'Europa Clipper' Mission That NASA Is Planning To Send Past Jupiter

Scientific American:
NASA's Next Space Telescope Promises the Stars -- and Planets, Too

Daily Mail:
Nasa wants to send a SUBMARINE to space in 2040: Agency reveals plans for a craft to explore Titan's hydrocarbon oceans

Gizmag:
NASA releases details of Titan submarine concept

Gizmag:
DARPA's ALASA space launch system would turn airports into spaceports

Universe Today:
Rosetta's Comet Really "Blows Up" in Latest Images

Space.com:
What Would It Be Like to Live on the Moon?

Space.com:
Living on the Moon: What It Would Be Like (Infographic)

Malaysia Star:
Moon is open for business, US govt giving out licenses

February 10, 2015

Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
The petroleum geologist's tale

io9:
Experts Gather To Discuss Whether We Should Send Messages To Aliens

Daily Mail:
Meteor streaks across English Channel: Fireball captured hurtling across night sky off the coast of Devon

Spaceflight Insider:
DSCOVR launch date now set for Feb. 10

Space.com:
Europe's Experimental Mini-Space Shuttle to Launch Wednesday

Space.com:
Curiosity Rover Drills Into Mars Mountain, Tastes Acidic Rock

New Scientist:
Pluto's evaporating ice leaves it with a blank face

Universe Today:
Which Planets Have Rings?

Scientific American:
Strange Stars Pulsate According to the "Golden Ratio"

Gizmodo:
Secret stash of Moon artifacts found hidden in Neil Armstrong's closet

February 9, 2015

WJXT:
Scores of residents report sonic boom

First Coast News:
'Explosion' heard in St. Johns County likely sonic boom

Spaceflight Insider:
Tracking issue scrubs launch attempt of SpaceX Falcon 9 with NOAA's DSCOVR

Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 countdown halted by faulty radar tracker

Spaceflight Now:
Storied space weather observatory finally ready for launch

Spaceflight Now:
New challenges await SpaceX's next rocket landing attempt

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: SpaceX rocket standing on launch pad

Daily Mail:
Could we soon find water on the moon? Nasa discovers hydrogen craters that may help signal the presence of lunar H2O

Daily Mail:
March of the moons: Hubble spots rare triple-lunar pass of Jupiter as three Galilean satellites are captured in a single frame

Space.com:
Oldest Stars in the Universe Actually Younger Than Previously Thought

Daily Mail:
Are there 200 BILLION Earth-like worlds in the Milky Way? Stars have an average of two habitable planets in orbit, study claims

Daily Mail:
The not so dark side of the moon: Stunning animation shows lunar phases in a new light

WEEKEND EDITION: February 7 through February 8, 2015

Daily Mail:
Is your future already decided? New theory of time suggests that the past, present AND future co-exist in the universe

Discovery News:
Will Gravitational Waves Ever Be Found?

WPSU:
The Most Dangerous Ideas In Science

Gizmodo:
Even Our Balloon Animals Will Soon Be Made By Robots

Daily Mail:
Meet the US Navy's latest recruit: A 5 foot 10, 143lb humanoid robot firefighter called Saffir who can see through smoke

Gizmodo:
BattleBots Is Back After Ten Years, And It's Bound To Be Incredible

Smithsonian Magazine:
Scientists Have Imaged the Base of a Tectonic Plate

Daily Mail:
The science of SUPERSTORMS: Diagrams reveal the perilous processes taking place in tornadoes, thunderstorms and more

io9:
Why America Has Stronger Forest Fires Than Elsewhere In The World

Universe Today:
What Is The World's Widest River?

Space.com:
Life Might Thrive 12 Miles Beneath Earth's Surface

Daily Mail:
Is this the oldest living species on Earth? Scientists discover organism that hasn't evolved for more than 2 BILLION years

Science Magazine:
Early land animals heard sounds with their lungs

Daily Mail:
Is this South America's first monkey? Fossils found in Amazon may be the first primates to cross the Atlantic from Africa

Daily Mail:
When did apes start walking upright? 12.3million-year-old hip bone fossil from ancient ancestor may rewrite our evolutionary tree

Daily Mail:
Enormous 3-million-year-old rodent used its teeth like elephant TUSKS: Ancient mammal used incisors as tool to dig and defend itself

Daily Mail:
Man's best friend has not been around as long as we thought: 30,000-year-old fossil of the oldest dog turns out to be a WOLF

Daily Mail:
Spot the octopus! Amazing moment marine creature camouflages itself against a reef is captured on video

Daily Mail:
Taking turns in the driving seat: Migrating birds alternate who leads the tiring v-formation to save energy

Daily Mail:
Chimpanzees can LEARN new 'words': Apes use specific calls for foods and can learn the grunts used by other groups

Daily Mail:
Have we found a new species of human? Unidentified fossils may belong to primitive ancestor that lived 120,000 years ago

The Atlantic:
Mapping 61 Ancient Tattoos on a 5,300-Year-Old Mummy

Daily Mail:
The palm sized tablets that reveal what life was really like for Jews in Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon

Live Science:
Newfound 'Gospel of the Lots of Mary' Discovered in Ancient Text

The History Blog:
British Columbia library acquires 13th c. Papal bull

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why this 14th-Century Chinese Artist Is Having a Rebirth

Daily Mail:
The sketches that prove these bronzes WERE the work of Michelangelo: Intimate parts solve the mystery

The History Blog:
Have only surviving Michelangelo bronzes been found?

The Guardian:
Has the mystery of Shakespeare's Sonnets finally been solved?

Daily Mail:
The Taj Mahal's gardens align with the SUN: Four corners of Indian complex were built in line with the winter and summer solstices

Ancient Origins:
Skeleton found at shipwreck site is a reminder of a brutal massacre off the Australian coast

ABC Australia:
Newton's journal reveals seeds of plant biology

Ancient Origins:
How Castaway Survivor Alexander Selkirk Inspired the Tale of Robinson Crusoe

Smithsonian Magazine:
Thomas Jefferson Conducted Early Smallpox Vaccine Trials

Smithsonian Magazine:
Two of the Vatican's "Ancient" Egyptian Mummies Are 19th Century Fakes

The Atlantic:
A Priceless Museum Artifact, But in the Ocean

The History Blog:
Sketch of Van Gogh found in friend's scrapbook

The Atlantic:
How Technicolor Changed Storytelling

Daily Mail:
Revealed: Stunning interior of Brooklyn's 1920s movie palace that has been restored to its former glory after $95M refit

Daily Mail:
Little House On The Prairie author's true story of domestic abuse and doomed love triangles takes the book world by storm

Gizmodo:
Secret message found in WW2 bullet tells the story of some stupid Nazis

Cambridge News:
Cambridge codebreaker Alan Turing's notes found being used as roof insulation in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park

Smithsonian Magazine:
Visit 1940s Chicago With a Film Discovered at a Garage Sale

Air & Space Magazine:
The Untold Story of U.S. Pilots Who Flew for Israel in 1948

Daily Mail:
Radical railgun that can fire shells at mach 6 and penetrate concrete 100 MILES away shown off in public by US Navy

Gizmag:
Sons of guns: Winchester motorcycles return to the auction block

Gizmag:
Retromobile preview: The barnfind of the century finally goes to auction

Gizmag:
In Pictures: Technology proves big fun at the Nuremberg Toy Fair

February 6, 2015

Smithsonian Magazine:
Japan's Small Jet Gamble

Popular Science:
To Keep Airplanes On The Map, Track Them From Space

Gizmag:
Skyshot Helikite provides a simpler alternative to aerial drone photography

Daily Mail:
How to fold a record-breaking paper plane: Maker reveals aerodynamic secrets - and offers $1,000 to anyone who can fly his design further than him

Gizmodo:
The Midnight Guardian of the Serene Seas

The Aviationist:
Dogfights, low level flying, live firing at Red Flag-Alaska through F-16's GoPro cameras

Inquisitir:
See Russian Fighter Jet Confront NATO Spy Plane In HD Video - Amazing Look At New Cold War In Skies

Air & Space Magazine:
Gallery: What Can the F-35 Weather?

The Aviationist:
This may be the shape of the future U.S. top secret stealth bomber

The National Interest:
Will the F-35 Dominate the Skies?

The National Interest:
US Navy's 6th Generation Fighter Jets Will Be Slow and Unstealthy

Gizmodo:
Timeline shows the potential future of Russia's next-gen fighter jet

Defense One:
Here's What You'll Find on the Fighter Jet of 2030

Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: Explorer 1 and the start of the Space Age

Daily Mirror:
Out of this world selfie: Amazing moon shots taken by Buzz Aldrin in space

BBC:
The pioneering female astronauts who never saw space

February 5, 2015

Daily Mail:
SpaceX sends its shuttle to the launchpad: Dragon capsule that will ferry astronauts to the ISS and return America to manned spaceflight set for first test mission

Spaceflight Now:
Europe To Launch Its Own Mini-Space Shuttle

PlanetSave:
Recurring Meteor Shower On Mercury? NASA's MESSENGER Suggests So

Universe Today:
The Moment We've been Waiting For: First New Images of Pluto from New Horizons

Space Daily:
"Vulcan Planets" - Inside-Out Formation of Super-Earths

Gizmodo:
Why It's Impossible to Design a Perfect Spacesuit

Universe Today:
The World's Rockets to Scale

February 4, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Three Atlas 5, Delta 4 assigned to military launches

Discovery News:
NASA Spacecraft Ready To Unlock Ceres' Mysteries

Discovery News:
Hubble Space Telescope Could Survive Through 2020

New Scientist:
Green light for mission to Jupiter moon Europa

Spaceflight Insider:
R.I.P. Venus Express: remembering eight years on the brink of hell

Spaceflight Now:
Aging Mars rover could be shut down

Scientific American:
Plan Abandoned for Close Search This Month for Lost Comet Lander

Gizmag:
Scientists discover ancient solar system hosting five Earth-sized planets

Daily Mail:
Across the solar system at the speed of light: Breathtaking video takes viewers from the sun's surface to Jupiter in 45 minutes

Universe Today:
What Was The Impact That Killed The Dinosaurs?

February 3, 2015

Caspar Star Tribune:
UFOs over Wyoming

Valdeosta Daily Times:
Valdosta-area UFO sightings documented

Savannah Morning News:
60 years ago, Athens joined annals of mysterious UFO reports

Baltimore Sun:
UFO investigations in Maryland get second life in online trove of Air Force documents

Santa Rosa Press Democrat:
Possible meteor seen over west Sonoma County

New Scientist:
Lava could have preserved the origins of life on the moon

Universe Today:
Moroccan Meteorite May Be a 4.4-Billion-Year-Old Chunk of Dark Martian Crust

Discovery News:
Where is Philae? Search for Rosetta's Lander Continues

Universe Today:
It Looks Like an Asteroid Strike Can't Cause a Worldwide, Dinosaur-Killing Firestorm

Universe Today:
Asteroids: 10 Interesting Facts About These Space Rocks

February 2, 2015

Daily Mail:
The mini-shuttle set for launch: Europe's 'space taxi' to blast off in February - and it could one day help bring back samples from Mars

Daily Mail:
The two faces of Mars: Researchers reveal red planet's two hemispheres are entirely different shapes - and say huge impact early in its life caused unique change

Scientific American:
Strange Comet Discoveries Revealed by Rosetta Spacecraft

Daily Mail:
Watch Philae descend to its comet: Esa releases animation showing the probe spinning ahead of its touchdown on 67P

Scientific American:
Has An Exomoon Been Found?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Planets Formed Close to Their Stars Are Named for Vulcan, the Roman God of Fire

Discovery News:
DNews: How Often Do Asteroids Buzz Earth's Tower?

WEEKEND EDITION: January 31 through February 1, 2015

Vox:
The biggest astrophysics discovery of the 21st century was wrong

Smithsonian Magazine:
Nope, We Have Not Detected Gravitational Waves (Yet)

Live Science:
Quantum Experiment Helps Prove Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Gizmodo:
Scientists Have Made a Möbius Strip Out of Light for the First Time

Scientific American:
Learn to Count like an Egyptian

Gizmodo:
6 Supermaterials That Could Change Our World

Popular Science:
Bat-Like Bot Soars In The Sky And Crawls On The Ground

Daily Mail:
Slithering for 167 million years: World's oldest snake fossils are twice as old as any previously found

Science Magazine:
Orangutans take the low road

Heritage Daily:
The Oldest Chinese Bone Acheulean Handaxe Has Been Found

Washington Post:
Research Finds Neanderthals Were More Thoughtful Than We Once Imagined

The Guardian:
Skull discovery suggests location where humans first had sex with Neanderthals

ABC Australia:
Big-toothed fossil may be primitive new human

Live Science:
1st Americans Used Spear-Throwers to Hunt Large Animals

Smithsonian Magazine:
Australian Stories Capture 10,000-Year-Old Climate History

The History Blog:
Tut's beard glued back on like a bad craft project

Ancient Origins:
The Mystery of Egyptian Tomb KV55 in the Valley of the Kings

Live Science:
Sappho's New Poems: The Tangled Tale of Their Discovery

The History Blog:
Remains of five people found in Amphipolis tomb

The Telegraph:
Mystery of Greece's Alexander the Great-era tomb deepens with body discoveries

The Conversation:
Lego Pompeii creates less pomp and more yay in the museum

The History Blog:
Letters read on carbonized Herculaneum scrolls

Ancient Origins:
Red-painted numbers helped Romans find their seats in the Colosseum

The History Blog:
Roman Silenus bed fitting found in Denmark

National Geographic:
At Newly Discovered Water Temple, Maya Offered Sacrifices to End Drought

Live Science:
Mysterious 15th-Century Irish Town Found Near Medieval Castle

The History Blog:
Coffin initialed "M.C." found in Cervantes search

The History Blog:
Were Cervantes' bones under piles of old books?

Science Daily:
Easter Island mystery: Why did the native culture die out?

The History Blog:
Spain planned to invade Australia with an armada

Stuff NZ:
'Meditating' mummy found in Mongolia

Daily Mail:
Napoleon's cloak, the Duke of Wellington's boots and cannonball-shredded armour: Amazing artefacts of the Battle of Waterloo go on display to mark its 200th anniversary

The History Blog:
Read and see what Darwin read and saw on the HMS Beagle

The History Blog:
Samuel Morse the artist

Daily Mail:
Has the mystery of Confederate submarine that sank Union ship then vanished finally been solved after 15 years of research?

Gizmodo:
The Forgotten Story of NYC's First Power Grid

io9:
Learn "What Every Girl Should Know" From Margaret Sanger

Gizmodo:
AT&T Made the First Transcontinental Phone Call 100 Years Ago Today

Jalopnik:
The Oldest Active Navy Ship Is A Century Old Russian Submarine Tender

Smithsonian Magazine:
How One 138-Page Book Inspired the Creation of the Boy Scouts

Daily Mail:
Automatic whisky sodas and 24-hour POTATO service! The bizarre vintage vending machines you never knew existed

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Coast Guard's Most Potent Weapon During Prohibition? Codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman

The Guardian:
Dippy the Diplodocus is displaced from Natural History Museum by blue whale

The Guardian:
Natural History Museum main hall displays - in pictures

The History Blog:
Citizen Kane to be screened at Hearst Castle

Wired - Danger Room:
Well That Didn't Work: The Rolling Rocket Bomb Designed to Kill Nazis Almost Killed a Dog Instead

Gizmodo:
Plan C: America's Nuclear Doomsday Plan to Declare Martial Law

Time:
How Frisbees Got Off the Ground

CBS News:
Flashback 1996: Man sues Pepsi for not giving him a Harrier Jet

Smithsonian Magazine:
How SkyMall Captured a Moment of Technological and American History

Gizmag:
Lockheed Martin-designed experimental naval vessel up for sale

Gizmag:
In pictures: 2015 Dusseldorf Boat Show

Gizmag:
70 vintage pedal cars lead to record sale of automobilia collectibles

Smithsonian Magazine:
Tour Paris With the Marquis de Sade as Your Guide

January 30, 2015

Gizmag:
NASA developing robotic helicopter scout for Mars rovers

Popular Science:
DARPA Wants Drones To Hunt In Packs

Popular Science:
Get Ready For The Next Generation Fighter Jet

The Aviationist:
Photos of F-35, F-16, A-10, F-15E jets launching from Nellis Air Force Base

The Aviationist:
Unique HD video shows Russian Su-27 intercept P-3 Orion aircraft over the Baltic Sea

Smithsonian Magazine:
Craziest Airplane Cabins of the Future

The Aviationist:
The Story of a U.S. Navy S-2 Tracker that lost one engine, at night, in bad weather, off Norway

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
The Challenge of the Planets, Part One: Ports-of-Call

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
The Challenge of the Planets, Part Two: High Energy

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
The Challenge of the Planets, Part Three: Gravity

January 29, 2015

Daily Mail:
Astronomers watch closest pass of a large asteroid until 2027: First images reveal space rock hurtling past has its own MOON

Spaceflight Now:
NASA expects continued use of Soyuz in era of commercial spaceships

Daily Mail:
The world's most powerful rocket: SpaceX animation shows how the Falcon Heavy will lift off - and one day send humans to Mars

Daily Mail:
Fire breaks out on mock Mars mission and ends simulated voyage to the red planet after 'astronauts' had to battle 10ft flames for over an hour

Universe Today:
Amazing Impact Crater Where a Triple Asteroid Smashed into Mars

Space Daily:
Smaller Gas Giants Could Support Life

Universe Today:
Oldest Planetary System Discovered, Improving the Chances for Intelligent Life Everywhere

The Conversation AU:
Nature's fireworks: the best meteor showers coming in 2015

January 28, 2015

Southeast Missourian:
Poplar Bluff UFO sighting in 1950 included in online database

Sharon Advocate:
REMEMBER WHEN: UFOs seen over Sharon in 1966

Spaceflight Now:
Boeing, SpaceX on track for commercial crew flights to station in 2017

Discovery News:
Monster Ring System Circles Giant Alien Planet

Universe Today:
"Super Saturn" Has an Enormous Ring System and Maybe Even Exomoons

Space Daily:
Ancient star system has Earth-sized planets forming near start of universe

January 27, 2015

Discovery News:
Flyby Asteroid Has its Own Moon

Spaceflight Now:
Preview story: Launch of Delta 2 rocket with NASA probe Thursday

Spaceflight Now:
Weather looking good for Delta 2 launch

Popular Science:
Ion Thrusters In NASA Mission Redraw The Boundaries Of Space Exploration

Universe Today:
NASA Marching Towards Milestone Test Firing of Space Launch System Booster

Gizmodo:
NASA's Opportunity Has Now Explored the Martian Surface for 11 Years

Discovery News:
Drone Invasion: A New Way to Explore Mars

Universe Today:
10 Amazing Facts About Black Holes

Universe Today:
What Is The Difference Between the Geocentric and Heliocentric Models of the Solar System?

Space.com:
Smithsonian's 'Star Trek' Enterprise Docks for Museum Restoration

January 26, 2015

Daily Mail:
Asteroid to pass so close on Monday you'll be able to see it with binoculars - but don't panic, Earth's closest call until 2027 poses no threat 'for the foreseeable future'

Spaceflight Insider:
Huge asteroid 2004 BL86 to fly by Earth Jan. 26

Spaceflight Now:
Preview story: Launch of Delta 2 rocket with NASA probe Thursday

Spaceflight Now:
Former Atlas launch pad gets a new tenant

Daily Mail:
Could humans live on the dark side of the moon? Esa outlines ambitious vision for colonies to settle on the lunar surface

io9:
Venus Express Blasts Out One Last Message From Beyond The Grave

Spaceflight Insider:
Students to send life to Mars on board Mars One lander in 2018

Discovery News:
Spacecraft's Double-Take Reveals Changes On Mars

Air & Space Magazine:
The (Nail-Biting) First Landing on a Comet

Daily Mail:
Rosetta's comet in amazing detail: Steep ravines, icy surfaces and a thick dusty veil are captured in high-resolution photographs

Universe Today:
Latest Research Reveals a Bizarre and Vibrant Rosetta's Comet

Universe Today:
There's a Crack Forming on Rosetta's 67P. Is it Breaking Up?

Daily Mail:
Do gulleys prove that water once flowed on Vesta? Solar system's largest asteroid may once have had liquid on its surface, images reveal

Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft finds evidence of past water on Vesta

Gizmag:
Dawn probe data indicates ancient flowing water on Vesta

Air & Space Magazine:
A Meteorite Older than Earth Could Tell Us How Planets Were Made

New Scientist:
Finding ET - we're gonna need a bigger dish

Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
At least nobody got killed

Desert Sun:
UFOs in Palm Springs: The desert's other tourists

WEEKEND EDITION: January 24 through January 25, 2015

io9:
Researchers Slow The Speed Of Light As It Travels Through A Vacuum

Gizmag:
Alan Turing's "hidden" manuscript heads to auction

io9:
ATLAS, The Pentagon's Humanoid Robot, Just Got A Major Upgrade

Gizmag:
Care-O-bot gets an upgrade, now flirtier and available with optional second arm

Gizmag:
Meccanoid G15 KS brings Meccano into the robot age

Gizmag:
Moog welcomes back the machine by bringing back large format synthesizers

Gizmag:
Terra Motors targets Indian market with R6 electric rickshaw

Daily Mail:
Meet Nundasuchus, the crocodile-like carnivore that hunted with its 'steak knife' teeth millions of years before the dinosaurs

Smithsonian Magazine:
Vinegar-Like Acid Rain May Have Fallen During Earth's Worst Extinction

Daily Mail:
The most primitive primates lived in TREES and looked like a squirrel, 65 million year old anklebone shows

Daily Mail:
Early ancestors used their hands like modern HUMANS: Fossils of three million-year-old species reveal they could grip tools

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Wrists of Birds Reveal Evolution Undoing Itself

Gizmodo:
A beautiful starling murmuration

Daily Mail:
United monsters of America: Infographic reveals the strange beasts that have captured the nation's imagination

Smithsonian Magazine:
Exploring the Titanic of the Ancient World

Smithsonian Magazine:
Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism, the First Computer

io9:
9 Roman Gods Who Weren't Just Rip Offs Of Greek Gods

Smithsonian Magazine:
Ancient Scrolls Blackened by Vesuvius Are Readable at Last

Smithsonian Magazine:
Who Was the Marquis de Sade?

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Unbelievable Success of the American Steamship

Gizmodo:
A Brief History of the Rubber Band

Daily Mail:
Lesbian sex, seduction and murder... by NUNS in a Catholic convent: Incredible tale of debauchery that was exposed by a princess whistleblower is unearthed in secret Vatican archive

Gizmodo:
Oregon Was Founded As a Racist Utopia

Daily Mail:
'Sharp and clear sounded the pistol': The most detailed eyewitness account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln to go on sale 150 years after former president was shot dead by John Wilkes Booth

Smithsonian Magazine:
A New View of the Battle of Gallipoli, One of the Bloodiest Conflicts of World War I

io9:
The 10 Greatest Tank Battles In Military History

Daily Mail:
Floating bikes? They sank without trace: So did robot snooker players and paper pants! Historian DOMINIC SANDBROOK looks back at Tomorrow's World - the show that got the future hilariously wrong

Gizmodo:
The Spectacular Sight of Subway Cars Being Dumped Into the Ocean

Gizmag:
Scottsdale Rare Car Auctions - 41 cars that sold for more than US$1 million in January

Gizmodo:
What You Can See From the Tallest Observation Decks On Earth

January 23, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Did two more Iridium satellites collide with space debris?

Air & Space Magazine:
A Ride on the World's Largest Passenger Jet

Jalopnik:
The B-52 Is Becoming A Terrifyingly Intelligent Smart Weapons Truck

Gizmodo:
Impressive photo of the F-35 Lightning II with all its weaponry lined up

Gizmodo:
Watch seven jets landing in perfect formation

Smithsonian Magazine:
Wheels Down. Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" Has Landed

Air & Space Magazine:
Need a T-33 to De-Ice a Runway? No Problem

Air & Space Magazine:
The B-52 Just Keeps on Flying

Air & Space Magazine:
What Couldn't the F-4 Phantom Do?

Air & Space Magazine:
Last of the Great Flying Boats

Air & Space Magazine:
Supermarket Spaceships

January 22, 2015

Universe Today:
Most Powerful Atlas V Delivers a Most Spectacular Nighttime Sky Show Launch for US Navy

Spaceflight Now:
Next Falcon 9 launch rescheduled for Feb. 8

Discovery News:
Supernova Mystery Found at the Bottom of the Sea

Universe Today:
A Swirling Vortex at Venus' South Pole

Universe Today:
Opportunity's Breathtaking View from Atop Cape Tribulation

Universe Today:
Rosetta Gets a Peek at Comet 67P's "Underside"

New Scientist:
Mystery storms rage across face of Uranus

Universe Today:
If Earth Had Saturn's Rings, This is What it Would Look Like

Space.com:
Magnetic Fields of Asteroids Lasted Hundreds of Millions of Years

Wired - Bad Astronomy:
Two New Planets in the Solar System? Not So Fast, Folks.

Daily Mail:
Could a wormhole in our galaxy take us to another UNIVERSE? Interstellar-style 'space time tunnel' may exist in the Milky Way

January 21, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Recap story: 200th Atlas-Centaur launching delivers Navy satellite

Spaceflight Now:
Redesign likely needed for Orion airbag system

Discovery News:
Tantalizing Detail Seen on Mysterious Dwarf Planet

Universe Today:
Here's Ceres Compared to All the Other Asteroids We've Visited

Universe Today:
Some of the Best Pictures of the Planets in our Solar System

Universe Today:
What is the Zodiac?

January 20, 2015

Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Drilling for fossils in ancient sediment

Breaking News Ireland:
Amateur photographer captures 'once in a lifetime' fireball photo over Dalkey

Knoxville News Sentinel:
NASA: Meteor prompts numerous sightings across TN, Southeast

WATE 6:
Fireball spotted in Roane County enters atmosphere in Mississippi

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
SpaceX Releases Dramatic Photos and Video of Rocket Landing Explosion

Spaceflight Now:
Preview: Navy craft to ride milestone Atlas-Centaur launching

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Navy satellite readied for Atlas 5 launch

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Atlas in the roll

Spaceflight Now:
Thick clouds a concern for Tuesday's Atlas 5 launch

Daily Mail:
Beagle 2 team finally delivers the news professor Colin Pillinger never lived to hear: His probe DID land on Mars on Christmas Day 12 years ago

Universe Today:
Beagle 2: Found on Mars After An 11 Year Hunt

Spaceflight Now:
Lost Beagle 2 spacecraft found on Mars

New Scientist:
Beagle 2 spotted on Mars in one piece after 11 years

Spaceflight Now:
New Horizons lined up for final approach to Pluto

Spaceflight Insider:
Star Trek 'shields' science fiction? Not so fast...

Daily Mail:
Are there hidden planets in our solar system? There could be TWO dwarf worlds still to be discovered, study claims

Universe Today:
Astronomers are Predicting at Least Two More Large Planets in the Solar System

MARTIN LUTHER KING WEEKEND EDITION: January 17 through January 19, 2015

Daily Mail:
Biggest myth in the universe busted? The lightspeed barrier can appear to be broken thanks to 'photonic booms', claims scientist

The Guardian:
The boy who put a star in a jar

Gizmag:
Researchers discover a universal law of superconductivity

The Guardian:
This is not a measurement

The Guardian:
The golden ratio has spawned a beautiful new curve: the Harriss spiral

io9:
The Mathematical Secret That Changed The Shape Of Fashion

The Guardian:
Poker program Cepheus is unbeatable, claim scientists

Gizmag:
Snake Monster robot can be easily reconfigured to suit user needs

Science Magazine:
First scorpions may have crawled from the seas

Science Magazine:
Ancient fossil may rewrite fish family tree

Daily Mail:
Found, Nessie's long-lost cousin: Dolphin-like reptile lived 170million years ago in seas around what is now the Isle of Skye

Science Magazine:
Geese ride aerial roller coaster across the Himalayas

Science Magazine:
Magnetic beacons shepherd sea turtles home

Daily Mail:
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes? Orangutan learns to whistle tunes and make calls that mimic human speech

Daily Mail:
Were Neanderthals smarter than we thought? 60,000-year-old bone 'multi-tool' suggests cavemen were complex creatures

Daily Mail:
Before Iron, Greenland had a 'METEORITE Age': Prehistoric Eskimos mined giant space rocks to make tools and weapons

The History Blog:
4,000-year-old copper crown found in India

Daily Mail:
Anglo-Saxon sculpture unknowingly used as a tombstone on a cat's grave is bought for £150,000

The History Blog:
Museum acquires Anglo-Saxon St. Peter carving used as cat grave marker

Live Science:
Treasured 16th-Century 'Lenox Globe' Gets a Digital Makeover

Daily Mail:
Frozen in time: Rare glimpse inside the oldest public library in the English-speaking world - where Marx and Engels started work on their Communist Manifesto

The History Blog:
Toledo Museum of Art scores Napoleon's brother's spiral chandelier

The Guardian:
Earthquakes, tsunamis and a naked tribe. It's Chile - and not just the Galapagos - that inspired Darwin

The History Blog:
Canada museum buys world's oldest hockey stick

Smithsonian Magazine:
10 Victorian Inventions That Never Quite Took Off

The History Blog:
132-year-old Winchester '73 found leaning against tree

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Year Montana Rounded Up Citizens for Shooting Off Their Mouths

Daily Mail:
The Holocaust film that was too shocking to show

Smithsonian Magazine:
Beavers Once Parachuted into Idaho's Backcountry

Daily Mail:
Beer-swigging newly-weds, naked ladies... and one iconic kiss: Intimate portraits from the City of Love capture the beauty and charm of 1950s' Paris

Smithsonian Magazine:
These Rare Photos of the Selma March Place You in the Thick of History

Smithsonian Magazine:
Listen to the Freedom Songs Recorded 50 Years Ago During the March From Selma to Montgomery

Smithsonian Magazine:
Read Through Early Drafts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Speeches

New York Times:
Parcel for Sale: Plenty of Space. Very Quiet. Light? Well...

Smithsonian Magazine:
Photos From the Coldest City on Earth

Gizmag:
In pictures: The best of the 2015 Detroit Auto Show

Daily Mail:
Are you a wattle-head? Have you ever had poop-noddy? Historical thesaurus reveals how 800,000 English words have evolved

io9:
Lose Yourself In These Photos Of Europe's Most Magnificent Libraries

January 16, 2015

Discovery News:
Large Asteroid to Fly (Safely) Through Earth's Backyard

Universe Today:
First SLS Engine Blazes to Life in Mississippi Test Firing Igniting NASA's Path to Deep Space

The Aviationist:
Dogfighting and ultra-low level flying with the Super Hornets of the VF-143 Puking Dogs

The Aviationist:
The most unusual MiG killer: the Skyraider air-to-air victories on North Vietnamese MiG-17s

Air & Space Magazine:
Is [Your Invention Here] The Future of Aviation?

Popular Science:
We Flew Two Top Secret Stealth Drones. You Can, Too.

Daily Mail:
From Trump's $100m 757 to Oprah's luxurious interiors and Tom's 'Top Gun' G4: Inside the private jets of the rich and famous

Daily Mail:
Ghostly ocean-floor graveyard of hundreds of ships and planes makes eerie memorial for WWII attack on Japanese Pacific base

The Aviationist:
The nuclear nightmare of Savage Mountain: when a B-52 crashed due to turbulence. With two nukes

Gizmodo:
Why Is It Called Area 51?

io9:
The Most Inspiring Space-Themed Murals From Ex-Soviet Bloc Countries

January 15, 2015

New Scientist:
Alarm Sends Astronauts to Shelter at Space Station

Spaceflight Insider:
Possible ammonia leak aboard International Space Station causes crew to evacuate U.S. side

Spaceflight Now:
Engineers study possible coolant leak aboard space station

Universe Today:
Astronauts Safely Back inside US Space Station Segment after False Ammonia Leak Alarm

New Scientist:
Space Station Emergency: Prepping for the Worst Case Scenario

Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX: Falcon Heavy poised to fly this year

Spaceflight Now:
24 launches scheduled at Cape Canaveral this year

Spaceflight Insider:
Is SpaceX's 2015 manifest realistic?

New Scientist:
Robot Smash! Curiosity Shatters Mars Rock Slab

New Scientist:
Curiosity's Shattered Mars Rock Could be Science Goldmine

Spaceflight Now:
10 years since we landed on Titan

io9:
Here's What It Looks Like To Fall To Titan From Space

Universe Today:
What Other Worlds Have We Landed On?

Air & Space Magazine:
Astronomers Just Doubled the Number of Potentially Habitable Planets

Daily Mail:
Nasa warns January 26th asteroid pass will be Earth's closest call until 2027 - but says it poses no threat 'for the foreseeable future'

Astrobiology Magazine:
Rare Mineral found in a Wisconsin Crater

January 14, 2015

Discovery News:
Europe Monitors Venus Express Probe's Fading 'Ghost'

Daily Mail:
The first man on PLUTO: New Horizon probe on mission to dwarf planet is carrying astronomer Clyde Tombaugh's ashes

Universe Today:
Did You Know There are 9 Secret Items Hidden on Pluto Mission New Horizons?

Universe Today:
It Looks Like These Are All the Bright Kuiper Belt Objects We'll Ever Find

Daily Mail:
Mystery of the mile-wide ring in Antarctica: Enormous scar may be crater from house-sized meteorite that hit Earth in 2004

Gizmag:
American independence in space: Ending reliance on the Soyuz spacecraft by 2017

Space.com:
Dozens of Vintage Space Games Now Available Online

January 13, 2015

Discovery News:
Chinese Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around the Moon

Discovery News:
SpaceX Dragon Capsule Delivers Supplies to Space Station

Space.com:
SpaceX's Elon Musk Says Rocket Landing Test Ran Out of Hydraulic Fluid

Daily Mail:
Has Britain's lost Mars probe been found after 11 YEARS? UK Space Agency mysteriously announces it will give 'update' on missing Beagle spacecraft on Friday

Daily Mail:
Watch Nasa fire the engine that will power the biggest rocket ever made: Key test for 384 foot rocket that could take man to Mars

New Scientist:
Mercury may be sole survivor of planetary pile-up

Space Daily:
Dawn of a strange new world

Spaceflight Insider
NASA's Juno spacecraft on its way to unveil Jupiter's mysteries

New Scientist:
Jupiter's eroding core may already be just a husk

Space Daily:
Scientists Pinpoint Saturn With Exquisite Accuracy

Popular Science:
A Star Just Got Swallowed By A Warp In Space-Time

Scientific American:
A Spectacular Spiral May Encircle the Milky Way

io9:
This Is What a Quasar Looks Like

Scientific America:
Active Sun At Birth Cut Historical Lifespans

January 12, 2015

Smithsonian Magazine
Come for the Giant Rock, Stay for the UFO History

Daily Mail
What are the mysterious booms rocking Oklahoma and frightening wildlife? Experts investigate after seismologists rule out 'frost quakes'

The Guardian
Mysterious booms rattle residents in Oklahoma for second day

Spaceflight Now
Dragon successfully launched, rocket recovery demo crash lands

Discovery News:
SpaceX Rocket Crash Lands After Successful Launch

Spaceflight Now
Despite botched landing, a lot went right with SpaceX's booster flyback

Spaceflight Now
Photos: Falcon 9 rocket climbs away from Cape Canaveral

Spaceflight Insider
SpaceX's Autonomous Drone Ship Has Returned To Port

Space.com
Weird 'Passengers' on SpaceX's Dragon Delivery to ISS (Infographic)

Spaceflight Now
Lockheed Martin begins taking apart first flown Orion capsule

Discovery News:
Rover Opportunity Conquers Martian Crater Rim

Universe Today:
Memory-Addled Mars Rover Climbs High Above The Red Planet's Plain

Space Daily:
Potential Signs of Ancient Life in Mars Rover Photos

Discovery News:
Mars Microbe Traces Spotted By Rover? Probably Not

Daily Mail:
Mars' latest scar revealed: Incredible image reveals enormous impact crater on the red planet's Elysium Planitia plain

Smithsonian Magazine:
U.S. Air Force Builds New Radar for Space Junk

WEEKEND EDITION: January 10 through January 11, 2015

New Scientist:
After a century of relativity, a new view of gravity

Space.com:
Did Gravity Save the Universe from 'God Particle' Higgs Boson?

IEEE Spectrum:
Disney Robot Draws Giant Sketches on the Beach

The Atlantic:
Teddy Ruxpin in the Uncanny Valley

Daily Mail:
Bloodhound in bits: Supersonic 1,000mph car is dissembled into 3,500 components to make the world's fastest model kit

Gizmag:
1950 Vincent Series C White Shadow sells for US$224,250

Gizmodo:
Extraordinary pictures of the most ancient trees on Earth

Smithsonian Magazine:
Fossils Show How Flying Fish Started to Glide

Daily Mail:
The mystery of the dinosaur death trap: Utah rock containing SIX Utahraptors uncovered

Smithsonian Magazine:
Jurassic Park May Have Been Right - Some Dinosaurs Hunted in Packs

Daily Mail:
'American eagle face' dinosaur discovered: Cat-sized relative of Triceratops could help reveal how horned creatures evolved

Daily Mail:
Bizarre frog found with FANGS is the only amphibian to give birth to live tadpoles without laying eggs

Daily Mail:
How man's best friend followed us to the Americas: Researchers say dogs may have first migrated 10,000 years ago, thousands of years after the first human migrants

Gizmodo:
Watch a tiger jump impossibly high for meat in slow motion

Science Magazine:
Chimpanzees drum with signature style

Daily Mail:
Is Chinese civilisation older than we thought? 'Self-contained' Hongshan people that lived 2,400 years before the first dynasty lived ACROSS China

Ancient Origins:
Archeologists discover Mythical Tomb of Osiris, God of the Dead, in Egypt

The History Blog:
Large chariot, horse burial found in China

Discovery News:
Atlantis' Legendary Metal Found in Shipwreck

Live Science:
Let in the Light: Ancient Roman Fort Designed for Celestial Show

The History Blog:
Ancient amulet with 59-letter palindrome found

Smithsonian Magazine:
Amateur Explorers Are Using High-Res Satellite Images to Search for Genghis Khan's Tomb

Live Science:
Renaissance-Era Italian Warlord Was Poisoned, Mummy Reveals

The History Blog:
224th anniversary of Aztec Sun Stone's rediscovery

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Second Divorce in Colonial America Happened Today in 1643

The History Blog:
Oliver Cromwell's burial plate sells for $116,719

io9:
How Two 18th Century Women Fell in Love and Invented Modern Romance

Daily Mail:
A message from 'His Excellency' Sam Adams and 'The Most Worshipful' Paul Revere: Fascinating time capsule buried by real 'Sons of Liberty' is opened for the first time in 220 years

The History Blog:
Boston time capsule from 1795 (and 1855) opened

CBC:
Fort Calgary uncovers mummified rat, 1890s newspaper during Hunt House restoration

Smithsonian Magazine:
The 1887 Blizzard That Changed the American Frontier Forever

Smithsonian Magazine:
Early Food Safety Workers Tested Poisons by Eating Them

The History Blog:
Letters reveal mysterious final illness of Oscar Wilde's wife

Daily Mail:
Found, Hitler's secret nuke plant: Vast underground complex where the Nazis worked on developing nuclear weapons is discovered in Austria

Smithsonian Magazine:
60 Years Ago, the First African-American Soloist Sang at the Met Opera

Gizmodo:
How the First Lump of Plutonium Made on Earth Got Lost

Gizmag:
Four Amphicars go to auction in January - what will they fetch?

Gizmag:
Pininfarina's aerodynamic 1960 X Concept was 50 years ahead of its time

Gizmodo:
The Forgotten Plan to Save Great Art From World War III

Gizmodo:
The ATM is Dead. Long Live the ATM!

Daily Mail:
Inside crumbling Ohio mall, once the biggest in the WORLD, that is now about to be demolished

Daily Mail:
The decay of Pod City: Eerie photos reveal abandoned flying saucer-style holiday homes built for US military officers in Taiwan

Popular Science:
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine Spurs New German Tank Design

Wired:
A Cyberattack Has Caused Confirmed Physical Damage for the Second Time Ever

The History Blog:
Digitized Freer-Sackler collections up and running

The Guardian:
The 88 movies we're most excited about in 2015

January 9, 2015

New York Daily News:
Exploding meteoroid brightens the night sky of Romanian capital

Gizmodo:
11 stunning images of rocket launches

Popular Science:
Join The World's Biggest High-Altitude Balloon Flight

Gizmag:
Man reenacts movie "Up" with 90 colored balloons and a sun lounger

The Aviationist:
[Photo] Five U-2 Spyplanes lined up in front of 9th RW hangar at Beale Air Force Base

The Aviationist:
GoPro footage of French Aircraft Carrier Flight Deck Operations

Jalopnik:
Watch These MiG-29s And Su-25s Blast Off From A Highway In Belarus

Jalopnik:
Watch This: F/A-18 Breaks The Speed Of Sound In Aircraft Carrier Flyby

Gizmodo:
First photo of the fully operative Chinese rivals to the US Navy F-18

Jalopnik:
This Stealth Bomber Looks Like It's Making An Attack Run On Pasadena

Popular Science:
Inside The New Stealth Arsenal

Gizmodo:
Flying Car Prototype From 1990 Going Up For Auction

Gizmodo:
The Stratoliner Was the First Plane to Fly Above the Storm

Smithsonian Magazine:
Space Exploration Would Be Nothing If We Didn't Know How to Spacewalk

Smithsonian Magazine:
I Was Among the Lucky Few to Walk in Space

io9:
Space-Themed Soviet Postcards Are a Cosmic Delight

January 8, 2015

Toronto Star:
UFOs Declassified looks at hard evidence behind infamous sightings

Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX Falcon 9 SpX-5 launch slips to NET Jan. 10

Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's MESSENGER probe to fly close to Mercury before final boost

Daily Mail:
Do these photos of sediment on Mars prove life once existed on the red planet? Similar structures are formed by microbes on Earth

Universe Today:
The Dark Energy Survey Begins to Reveal Previously Unknown Trans-Neptunian Objects

Universe Today:
Gallery: Some Of Kepler's Strange New Worlds Outside The Solar System

Universe Today:
Photo Shoot Captures Classified Spy Satellite Engine Burn

Daily Mail:
The superstitions of space travel revealed: Fear of the number 13, peeing on tyres and tapping Snoopy's nose among bizarre rituals

Universe Today:
NASA Made These Gorgeous Travel Posters For Actual Exoplanets

January 7, 2015

Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
NPR joins the comics

Cape Cod Times:
January UFO sightings in the early 1970s

WSFA:
2 confirmed fireballs streak over TN, visible in AL

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX launch scrubbed by steering system problem

Universe Today:
Last Minute Scrub for SpaceX Dragon Launch; Try Again Friday for Historic 1st Stage Landing

Space Daily:
Chinese spacecraft to return to moon's orbit

Universe Today:
Japan's Akatsuki Spacecraft to Make Second Attempt to Enter Orbit of Venus in December 2015

Discovery News:
Has Curiosity Found Fossilized Life on Mars?

Space.com:
1,000 Alien Planets! NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Hits Big Milestone

Daily Mail:
Eight planets found that could support life - and two are the most Earth-like worlds ever discovered

January 6, 2015

Spaceflight Now:
Ships deployed into the Atlantic for experimental rocket landing

Discovery News:
SpaceX Readies for Daring Rocket Flyback Test

Space.com:
Inside SpaceX's Epic Fly-back Reusable Rocket Landing (Infographic)

Space Daily:
Navy prepares for Jan. 20 communications satellite launch

Space Daily:
South Korean Satellite Faces Collision With Space Junk: Reports

Space Daily:
Isro's Mangalyaan Completes 100 Days in Mars Orbit

Popular Science:
Four Ways Spacefaring Microbes Could Muck Up the Solar System

Daily Mail:
Super-Earths have huge oceans that last billions of years - and these vast waterways could help in the hunt for alien life

Discovery News:
Recipe for 'Earth-Like' Alien Worlds Discovered

Gizmodo:
What the hell is this UFO ejecting an orb filmed in California today?

January 5, 2015

Popular Science:
For The First Time, SpaceX Will Land A Rocket After Launch

Spaceflight Now:
Rain and clouds in the forecast for Tuesday's SpaceX launch

Gizmodo:
NASA's Most Ambitious Scientific Balloon Collapsed After Two Days Aloft

Spaceflight Now:
In an eerie scene, Chinese villagers visit rocket crash site

Universe Today:
2015 Expected to be a Record-Breaking Year for Soyuz-2 Workhorse

Daily Mail:
The vast vacuum chamber that can recreate outer space in Florida: Stunning photos reveal how Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope will be cryogenically tested ahead of its launch in 2018

Universe Today:
Mercury Spacecraft's 2015 Death Watch Could Go One More Month

New Scientist:
'Super-powered oven' suggests Venus once had continents

Discovery News:
Mars Rover Opportunity Suffers Worrying Bouts of 'Amnesia'

Spaceflight Now:
Dawn begins final approach to dwarf planet Ceres

Daily Mail:
What a tail! Incredible photo shows ice from Comet Lovejoy turning into stream of gas as it gets closer to the sun

Gizmag:
Earth-like planets in Milky Way hint at 'possibility of ancient life'

Daily Mail:
Earth-sized planet found in the Milky Way is TWICE as old as our solar system - and discovery suggests life formed billions of years earlier than first thought

Space.com:
Planets with Odd, Mercury-Like Orbits Could Host Life

Space.com:
15 Amazing Space Missions to Watch in 2015

Universe Today:
10 Space Science Stories to Watch in 2015

Space.com:
10 Must-See Stargazing Events to Look Up for in 2015

Space.com:
Planet Venus to Dazzle Stargazers in 2015 Night Sky

NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND EDITION: January 1 through January 4, 2015

io9:
10 Futurama Jokes That Will Make You Smarter

Wired:
Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers

Daily Mail:
Can YOU solve the mystery of UVB-76? Radio station has 'buzzed' every second since the 1970s - but no one knows why

National Geographic:
Our Photographers' Favorite Cameras

Daily Mail:
Would YOU ride MIT's handmade wooden rollercoaster? Students build ride for incoming freshmen (but much to parents relief, they aren't allowed a loop)

Daily Mail:
Beach walker stumbles on a 'whopper' ichthyosaur: 200-million-year-old fossil is the first complete 'fish lizard' found in Wales

National Geographic:
First Artists

National Geographic:
Tracking the First Americans

Ancient Origins:
Uncovering The Lost City of Helike

Daily Mail:
Was the Mayan civilisation wiped out by an extreme drought? Study of Great Blue Hole suggests 100-year dry spell caused collapse

The History Blog:
16th c. Faith stolen by priest found after 70 years

The History Blog:
Charlottenburg Palace's New Wing reopens after restoration

The History Blog:
Sailor's coat from USS Monitor ready for display

The History Blog:
Artifacts from Scotland Yard's Black Museum to go on public display

Daily Mail:
Immigrant lives frozen in time: Never-before-seen photos from inside Manhattan's Tenement Museum shed light on Lower East Side's notorious turn-of-the-century slum

io9:
What the City of New York Did to "Typhoid Mary" Was Pretty Horrific

The Atlantic:
Rise and Fall of the American Kiddie Ride

Gizmodo:
Russia's Terrifying 'Nuke Trains' Will Be Roving The Rails By 2018

Heritage Daily:
10 must see cave paintings

Heritage Daily:
Seven must-see Long Barrows in England

Ancient Origins:
The Spectacular Ancient Megaliths of the Ural Mountains

Heritage Daily:
Top Must See Stone Circles in Britain

Heritage Daily:
10 must see historic walls

Heritage Daily:
Ten Must See Iron Age Hill Forts In Britain

Heritage Daily:
10 must see ancient Greek temples

Heritage Daily:
10 must see Roman sites across the world

Heritage Daily:
8 Roman Ampitheatres in Britain

Heritage Daily:
10 must see sites along Hadrian's Wall

Heritage Daily:
10 must see castles in Russia

Heritage Daily:
10 must see castles in Scotland

Heritage Daily:
10 must see castles in Ireland

Heritage Daily:
10 must see castles in Wales

Heritage Daily:
10 must see UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Heritage Daily:
10 World Monuments - Now and then in pics

Heritage Daily:
8 Ancient Geoglyphs Across the Globe

Ancient Origins:
Top Ten Underwater Discoveries of 2014

National Geographic:
Travel 365: Best of 2014

Daily Mail:
If Old MacDonald had a GARAGE! Artist takes car parts destined for the scrap yard and transforms them into incredible animal sculptures




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