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NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND EDITION: December 30, 2016 through January 2, 2017
Quanta:
Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay
New Scientist:
Gravity may have chased light in the early universe
New Scientist:
First test of rival to Einstein's gravity kills off dark matter
Smithsonian Magazine:
Scientists Find That Water Might Exist in a Whole New State
Live Science:
The 10 Strangest Science Stories of 2016
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Hidden Connections Between Darwin and the Physicist Who Championed Entropy
Ars Technica:
Behold the greatest spirographs in the world
New Atlas:
13-foot-tall Korean mech suit aims to assist with Fukushima cleanup
Daily Mail:
The real-life Avatar robot takes its first steps: Secretive 13 foot high South Korean 'war machine' walks by mimicking its human pilot
Seeker:
Meet the Most Incredible Bots of 2016
Daily Mail:
Watch the giant MEGABOT pick up a car: 16 foot fighting robot reveals its hi-tech claws ahead of upcoming battle with Japanese machine
Science Magazine:
Earth's rarest diamonds formed in pockets of liquid metal
Smithsonian Magazine:
This German Town Is Embedded with Millions of Tiny Diamonds
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Ancient Volcanoes Created Armenia's Pink City
Seeker:
There's a Jet Stream Churning in the Earth's Core
Live Science:
Biggest Natural Disasters of 2016: Year of the Earthquake
Stuff NZ:
A supervolcano caused the largest eruption in European history. Now it's stirring again.
Science Magazine:
The incredible ecosystem of Earth's hottest spot
Forbes:
The Top 10 Fantastic Fossil Finds Of 2016
Daily Mail:
Meat-loving dinosaur that grew up to be a toothless vegetarian could help shed light on how bird beaks evolved
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 90 million-year-old bird bones dug up in the Arctic show the region was once as warm as FLORIDA
Seeker:
Dirty 10,000-Year-Old Pots Reveals Signs of First Cooked Vegetables
Daily Mail:
Is there a forgotten pharaoh buried in this tomb? Newly-discovered 4,200-year-old wall could hold an Egyptian secret
Haaretz:
New Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments Found in Judean Desert
Mental Floss:
Show & Tell: Was This 20-Sided Die Used for Ancient Gaming?
The History Blog:
Getty acquires beautiful, storied intaglio
Mysterious Universe:
The Location of Camelot May Have Finally Been Found
Daily Mail:
Stunning medieval ring found in Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest could bag an amateur treasure hunter £70,000
Atlas Obscura:
How Racism Was First Officially Codified in 15th-Century Spain
The History Blog:
Secrets of 16th c. boxwood miniatures revealed
Mental Floss:
What Happened When Elizabeth I Organized A National Lottery
Smithsonian Magazine:
After Nearly 500 Years in Business, the Company that Cast the Liberty Bell Is Ceasing All Operations
Daily Mail:
The lost floating city: Images emerge of the 'engineering marvel' which was carved out by vanished ancient civilization
The History Blog:
Art historian donates unpublished Velazquez to Prado
The Guardian:
Isaac Newton masterwork becomes most expensive science book sold
Atlas Obscura:
The First Female Doctor in Britain Spent 56 Years Disguised as a Man
BBC History Extra:
A day in the life of Jane Austen
Mental Floss:
The Overlooked Paleontologist Who May Have Inspired 'She Sells Sea Shells'
The History Blog:
Oscar Wilde portrait returns to UK after a century
History.com:
How a Canadian Invented Basketball
History.com:
Remembering Annie Moore, Ellis Island's First Immigrant
Mental Floss:
The Man Who Filled Newspapers With Monsters
Smithsonian Magazine:
Just Months After Its Discovery, the X-Ray Was in Use in War
Smithsonian Magazine:
Ever Wonder Who Invented The Tea Bag?
Atlas Obscura:
How Pleather Saved the DuPont Company - And Some Cows, Too
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Murder of Rasputin, 100 Years Later
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Suspect, the Prosecutor, and the Unlikely Bond They Forged
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Strange Story Of The Westinghouse Atom Smasher
Smithsonian Magazine:
Without This Camera, the Emerald City Would Have Been the Color of Mud
History.com:
Wonder Woman at 75
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Only Live News Report from the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Atlas Obscura:
How Millions Of Secret Silk Maps Helped POWs Escape Their Captors in WWII
History.com:
You Won't Believe Where the First NHL Outdoor Game Was Played
History.com:
The Soviet Union's Final Hours
New Atlas:
10 exciting future-focused films coming in 2017
BBC News:
A very fairy Christmas: Winter works by Arthur Rackham
Atlas Obscura:
How to Appease Household Spirits Across the World
December 29, 2016
EuroNews:
Central American sky lit up by spectacular meteor burst
Daily Mail:
China vows to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon by 2018 and launch its first Mars mission by 2020
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese Earth observation satellites launched into lower-than-planned orbit
Spaceflight Insider:
China's Long March 2D places 2 SuperView-1 satellites into wrong orbit
Ars Technica:
SpaceX just teased a photo of its highly anticipated Falcon Heavy rocket
Space News:
ILS says Proton delay not related to June anomaly
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Video Preview of Cassini's Saturn Endgame
Sputnik News:
Pandora's Beauty: NASA Spacecraft Snaps Hi-Res Photos of Saturn Moon
AccuWeather:
New Year's Eve comet: How to see Comet 45P on Saturday night
Seeker:
Lost and Found: Most Dramatic Space Missions of 2016
Seeker:
The Most Incredible Alien Planet Discoveries of 2016
Stuff NZ:
Scientists plan to send greetings out to other worlds
Inverse:
Drake Equation Revision Hugely Ups Odds Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life Exists
December 28, 2016
Seeker:
China Announces Plans for Moon and Mars Missions
Space News:
No damage to JWST after vibration test anomaly
Spaceflight Now:
Proton rocket's next flight moved back to next year
Gizmodo:
Incoming Star Could Spawn Swarms of Comets When It Passes Our Sun
Air & Space Magazine:
Cave Living on the Moon
December 27, 2016
WOOD-TV:
Meteor falls through West Michigan sky
Space News:
Virgin Galactic ends 2016 with second SpaceShipTwo glide flight
New Atlas:
ESA Mars orbiter prepares for atmosphere plunge
Seeker:
'Mars Igloo' Habitats May Use Ice to Keep Astronauts Safe
New Scientist:
Window to hell: Io's strongest volcano changes face as we watch
Spaceflight Now:
Hunt for water at Ceres goes underground
Gizmodo:
Voyager Probes Are Still Making Amazing Discoveries
December 26, 2016
Spaceflight Insider:
ISS Expedition 50 crew preps for January spacewalks
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is driving again, drill is still out of action
Seeker:
Proxima Centauri's Origins Could Mean Its Exoplanet Really Is Habitable
Science Alert:
6 more mysterious radio signals have been detected coming from outside our galaxy
Mysterious Universe:
Mysterious Sonic Booms Are Being Heard on the Moon
CHRISTMAS-HANUKKAH WEEKEND EDITION:
December 23 through December 25, 2016
Phys.org:
Mystery of how Santa fits down chimneys, can deliver presents without being seen 'solved' by relativity theory
Robohub:
Call for holiday robot videos 2016
Robohub:
Holiday robot videos 2016: Part 2
Bustle:
Is The North Pole Real? Figuring Out Exactly Where Santa Lives Is Harder Than You Think
Forward:
The Secret Sage-Scented History of the Menorah
Wall Street Journal:
Why Does the Hanukkah Menorah Have Nine Branches?
Bustle:
5 Hanukkah Traditions, Explained
Mental Floss:
11 Festive Facts About Hanukkah
Bible History Daily:
How December 25 Became Christmas
Mental Floss:
St. Nick's Real Hometown Is an Ancient City in Turkey Entombed in Mud
Quora:
What is the origin of the Christmas tree?
Times of Israel:
How Hanukkah sufganiyot became a national treat in the Netherlands
Washington Post:
How latkes took over your Hanukkah table - and how to get out of that rut
Mental Floss:
When Christmas Was the Only Day You Could Legally Go Bowling
Mental Floss:
When Americans Outlawed Christmas
BBC History Extra:
Christmas carols: the history behind 5 festive favourites
The History Blog:
Oldest copy of Silent Night found in Vienna
Mental Floss:
The Mystery Behind the World's Most Famous Christmas Poem
Mental Floss:
The Holly Jolly History of the Santa Suit
Mental Floss:
West Point's Eggnog Riot of 1826
Bustle:
Why Do We Hang Stockings At Christmas? This Holiday Tradition's Origins Are Steeped In Myth
Time:
The Real Reason Charles Dickens Wrote A Christmas Carol
Bustle:
When Did The First Christmas Card Appear? The History Of This Holiday Tradition Is Surprisingly Complex
Mental Floss:
The Secret History of Mrs. Claus
Bradenton Herald:
Christmas was big part of social season in Florida, the south
The Independent:
The history of Christmas turkeys
Smithsonian Magazine:
Untangling the History of Christmas Lights
Mental Floss:
Benjamin Harrison and the White House's First Christmas Tree
Mental Floss:
James Edgar, the Pioneering Department Store Santa
Salon:
"The Nutcracker's" disturbing origin story: Why this was once the world's creepiest ballet
Mental Floss:
Why Are Poinsettias Associated with Christmas?
Atlas Obscura:
For Teddy Roosevelt's Son, Rebelling Meant Sneaking Christmas Trees Into the White House
Smithsonian Magazine:
For Generations of Chicagoans, Marshall Field's Meant Business, and Christmas
Atlas Obscura:
In 1912, Thousands of Women Rallied Against 'Useless' Christmas Giving
Mental Floss:
A.C. Gilbert, the Toymaker Who (Actually) Saved Christmas
Mental Floss:
The Dynamic History of the Toy Chemistry Set
BBC History Extra:
The secret history of black Santas
Mental Floss:
10 Heartwarming Facts About 'Miracle on 34th Street'
Mental Floss:
25 Wonderful Facts About 'It's a Wonderful Life'
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Christmas Tale Spoken Record That Launched the Audiobook
Mental Floss:
Why Did NORAD Start Tracking Santa?
Mental Floss:
14 Blockheaded Facts About 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'
Akron Beacon Journal:
Local history: Kenmore girl's unusual 1966 Santa letter led to lifelong friendship with Vietnam veteran
Forward:
How Herb Alpert Made the Most Underrated Jewish Christmas Album of All Time
Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: Saving 1968
Mental Floss:
21 Things You Might Not Know About 'Elf'
Mental Floss:
7 Places That Celebrate Christmas Year-Round
Smithsonian Magazine:
Seven Places Reinventing the Christmas Tree
Mental Floss:
10 of the World's Best Toy Shops
Mental Floss:
The Origins of 12 Christmas Traditions
Mental Floss:
10 UK Christmas Traditions That Confuse Americans
Greenville News:
8 Christmas stories, courtesy of history
Mental Floss:
Can You Name Santa's Reindeer (Besides Rudolph)?
December 22, 2016
Daily Mail:
China claims to have a working version of NASA's impossible engine orbiting the Earth - and will use it in satellites 'imminently'
Seeker:
Japan Ready to Test Space Junk-Grabbing Tech
Universe Today:
How Strong is the Gravity on Mars?
Seeker:
Curiosity's Most Incredible Mars Snapshots of 2016
Universe Today:
New Study Says Proxima b Could Support Life
December 21, 2016
Spaceflight Insider:
Japan's Epsilon rocket sends Van Allen belt spacecraft into orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Research platform launched to brave Van Allen radiation belts
Daily Mail:
Japan successfully launches radical solid fuel rocket that could cut launch costs by a third
Accuweather:
Ursid meteor shower to peak on first night of winter
Live Science:
Winter Solstice: The Science of the Shortest Day of 2016
December 20, 2016
Daily Mail:
Look up! FOUR asteroids are set to make a 'close approach' to Earth on Wednesday - and one is twice the size of the London Eye
Seeker:
NASA's Next Mars Orbiter Is Being Planned for 2022
Astrobiology Magazine:
First detection of boron on the surface of Mars
New Atlas:
Ice found in the eternally dark craters at Ceres' poles
Scientific American:
Solar System's Biggest Asteroid Is an Ancient Ocean World
Seeker:
Oddball Ceres Hides Huge Reservoirs of Water Ice
Seeker:
That's No Moon... Actually, It Is. That's Saturn's 'Death Star' Moon Mimas
Alphr:
We basically have no defences against a surprise comet or asteroid
December 19, 2016
Seeker:
'Cruise Missile' Rocket Launches Hurricane-Tracker Satellites Into Space
Space News:
Pegasus launches hurricane forecasting satellites
Spaceflight Now:
Flock of 'microsats' launched to measure winds inside hurricanes
Spaceflight Insider:
Orbital ATK Pegasus launches CYGNSS hurricane-watching satellites
Seeker:
NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Still Dogged by Drill Malfunction
Space News:
Juno safe mode triggered by instrument glitch
Seeker:
If an Asteroid Hits the Ocean, Does It Make a Tsunami? (Probably Not)
WEEKEND EDITION: December 17 through December 18, 2016
Universe Today:
Quasar Light Confirms Consistency Of Electromagnetism Over 8 Billion Years
Mysterious Universe:
Physicists Theorize Wormhole Travel Is Possible
Seeker:
'Star in a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works and Promises Infinite Energy
New York Times:
The Great A.I. Awakening
Daily Mail:
The end of absurd packaging? The robopacker that can create the perfect sized box for ANY gift
Seeker:
This Robot Jumps Off of Walls Like an Acrobat
Daily Mail:
Google's humanoid robot goes off road (and this time, doesn't fall over): Watch Boston Dynamic's Atlas learn to trot across the trickiest of terrain
Daily Mail:
Forget a doorman, this apartment will have a ROBOT: San Francisco building will offer droid that delivers everything from champagne to toiletries
Seeker:
Ice Age Clues Help Explain Mysterious Slowdown of Earth's Rotation
Astrobiology Magazine:
Breakup of supercontinent Pangea cooled mantle and thinned crust
New Scientist:
Third-ever natural quasicrystal found in Siberian meteorite
Forbes:
5 Unnatural Facts About The Russian 'Chaos Crystal'
New Atlas:
Discovery of biggest exposed fault on Earth solves mystery of how abyss formed
Seeker:
This Crack in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Is 70 Miles Long
New Atlas:
The Ice chasm forces relocation of Antarctic research station
The Guardian:
Wave taller than a six-storey building sets 'remarkable' world record
Seeker:
India's Plan to Create the World's Longest River Will Cost $168B
New Atlas:
Sizing up South America's oldest living tree
Seeker:
Plants Are Even Smarter Than We Thought
BBC News:
Scottish fossils tell story of first life on land
Daily Mail:
How life first walked on land: Four-legged fossils found in Scotland may help fill a 15-MILLION-year gap in evolutionary history
Daily Mail:
Meet Kan, the MILLION pound dinosaur: Nearly complete 7-metre-long allosauraus skeleton sells at auction
Scientific American:
Jaw on the Floor: Entire Chunk of Feathered Dinosaur Discovered in Amber
Mysterious Universe:
Fossils Show North America Was the Birthplace of Marsupials
Stuff NZ:
1.8 million year old animal fossil found in Mexico could be giant shark
Seeker:
Mammoth Fossils Found at Site of LA Subway Dig
Smithsonian Magazine:
Wisdom the Oldest Known Albatross Is Having Another Baby
Smithsonian Magazine:
America's Only Known Jaguar May Not Be Alone Anymore
Scientific American:
Meet Chewie, the Biggest Australopithecus on Record
Seeker:
Human Ancestor 'Lucy' Was Likely Part of a Female Harem
Daily Mail:
Jersey was a refuge for Neanderthals: Our ancient cousins sought shelter in the Channel Island for 140,000 years
Seeker:
Look Into the Eyes of a Neolithic Man in This Reconstruction
Daily Mail:
Mysterious lost Greek city dating back 2,500 years is discovered hidden under a hill near Athens
The History Blog:
Previously unknown ancient city found in Greece
Ars Technica:
How the ancient Maya brought sharks to the jungle
Gizmodo:
Underwater Hebrew Tablet Reveals Biblical-Era Ruler of Judea
The History Blog:
Dutch return head of Julia Domna to Italy
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 1,800-year-old stone tablet found on the seafloor names the Roman ruler of Judea for the first time
Mysterious Universe:
Oldest UK Monastery May Have Been Visited By King Arthur
The History Blog:
Rare ancient gold Odin amulet found on Lolland
Ars Technica:
Finding North America's lost medieval city
The History Blog:
Is this Robert the Bruce which you see before you?
The History Blog:
V&A acquires watercolor of Henry VIII's lost Nonsuch Palace
Smithsonian Magazine:
Astronomer and Alchemist Tycho Brahe Died Full of Gold
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Sole American Killed in the 1814 Burning of D.C. Was Related to George Washington
Mysterious Universe:
An Entire Irish Village Vanished And No One Knows Why
Atlas Obscura:
Central Park Was Once Seneca Village, Home to a Thriving Free Black Community
History.com:
History Faceoff: Who Was First in Flight?
Daily Mail:
The lost tribes: Remarkable 100-year-old photos provide insight into the lives of Native Americans
New Atlas:
The tale of the 1907 Curtiss V8, the only motorcycle ever to hold the outright land speed record
Atlas Obscura:
The First Movie About the Titanic Starred a Titanic Survivor
Mental Floss:
Maine Man: The Story of L.L. Bean and His Company
Smithsonian Magazine:
The World's First Motel Was a Luxury Establishment, Not a Dive
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler
Atlas Obscura:
The Obsessed, Feuding Searchers Still Looking for Amelia Earhart
New Atlas:
Enigma machine sells for a record $463,500
Gizmodo:
The All-American Expo That Invaded Cold War Russia
Inverse:
How the McDonald's Big Mac Changed the Whole Damn World
Inverse:
Why Finding the Original 1977 'Star Wars' Verges on the Impossible
Daily Mail:
The duel in the skies which nearly sparked World War Three: Terrifying moment Soviet jet fighter almost shot down US spy plane is revealed
New Atlas:
The best full frame DSLR cameras of 2016
New Atlas:
The fastest cars in history: 1946 to now
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Town That Polar Bears Built
December 16, 2016
Seeker:
US Military Develops 'Multi-Object Kill Vehicle' to Blast Enemy Nukes
Daily Mail:
China to test new anti-satellite missile capable of destroying enemy communications as work starts on satellite that can GRAB its rivals in space
Seeker:
Stratospheric Solar Plane Unveiled in Switzerland
New Atlas:
Jetstream becomes "flying testbed" for autonomous systems
Daily Mail:
M*A*S*H, meet the future: Self-flying air ambulance that could replace medivac choppers takes to the skies for the first time
Seeker:
Pilotless Plane Flies Itself Between England and Scotland
Air & Space Magazine:
Jimmy Wyld, the Young Genius Who Jump-Started the U.S. Rocket Business
Gizmodo:
The First Time NASA Docked with a Soviet Spacecraft in Orbit
Stuff NZ:
Mistakenly sold Apollo 11 moon mission bag is buyer's - judge
New Atlas:
Apollo 15 drill chuck that helped bore into lunar surface up for auction
Universe Today:
What is an Orrery?
December 15, 2016
Space News:
SpaceX delays commercial crew demonstration flights
Daily Mail:
SpaceX delays plans for manned missions: Dragon capsule that NASA will use to ferry passengers to the ISS will not blast off until 2018 amid safety fears following September explosion
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX's first crew launch moved back to 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX Crew Dragon test flights delayed
Space Daily:
Teaching an old satellite new tricks
Daily Mail:
Curiosity in crisis: NASA reveals rover's drill has crippled its robotic arm and stranded it on the red planet
Scientific American:
Ancient Mars Could Have Harbored Life for a Long, Long Time
Ars Technica:
Curiosity finds tantalizing clues as it ascends Martian mountain
Daily Mail:
The mysterious meteorites that could prove Jupiter DID have a different orbit early in its existence
Seeker:
Juno Looks Into a Fierce Jupiter Storm During Dramatic Orbital Dive
Scientific American:
Plumes Spotted on Europa Suggest Easy Access to Water
New Scientist:
Cassini's grand finale will see orbiter plunge into Saturn
Seeker:
Comets: The Catastrophic Impact Threat We're Not Prepared For
Daily Mail:
What would REALLY happen if an asteroid struck the ocean: Simulation reveals impact would launch BILLIONS of tons of water into the atmosphere
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Intergalactic Battle of Ancient Rome
December 14, 2016
Daily Mail:
The dramatic moment that a giant flaming METEORITE lights up the sky and then hammers into the earth so hard that terrified witnesses in the Costa del Sol felt 'the ground move'
Daily Mail:
Christmas comes to the space station! Japanese 'white stork' cargo ship containing gifts arrives following Russian delivery disaster
Spaceflight Now:
Japanese HTV makes battery delivery to International Space Station
Seeeker:
Curiosity Finds Mars May Be Covered in Organic Chemistry
Daily Mail:
The 'jackpot' under Curiosity's wheels: NASA says rover has found more clues Mars once has microbial life
Seeeker:
Juno Successfully Buzzes Jupiter's Clouds for the Third Time
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
The Endgame at Saturn Begins
Universe Today:
Why Does Siberia Get All the Cool Meteors?
December 13, 2016
Russia Today:
Bright moon arising: Huge fireball recorded crossing night sky over Spain (VIDEOS)
Spaceflight Now:
Hydraulic pump glitch scrubs Pegasus launch
Astrobiology Magazine:
ExoMars Orbiter Images Phobos
Daily Mail:
Take a trip over Mawrth Vallis: Stunning simulated flyover of Martian surface reveals the vast valley scientists say is the 'best bet' for signs of alien life
Astrobiology Magazine:
Saturn's bulging core implies moons younger than thought
Seeker:
Ancient Space Dust Washes Up in Rooftop Gutters
Daily Mail:
Meet Fyodor: Russia's spacebot put through its paces on Earth before being blasted to the ISS - where it will carry out spacewalks before helping build a moon base
December 12, 2016
Popular Mechanics:
The Real Story Behind the Myth of Area 51
Florida Today:
Pegasus rocket returns for today's "liftoff" from aircraft
Inverse:
NASA's Suitcase-sized Hurricane Hunters Are Ready for Launch
Spaceflight Now:
Japan's HTV supply ship blasts off for space station
Seeker:
Japan Sends Space Junk Collector to the International Space Station
Sputnik News:
After 10 Years of Development, Japan Launches Space Junk Collector Into Orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Flight history of Japan's HTV resupply spacecraft
Spaceflight Insider:
ULA launches WGS-8 military communications satellite to orbit
KOMO-TV:
Geminid meteor shower show starts Monday
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
The Mysterious Case of a Nonexistent Alien Planet Discovered 160 Years Ago
WEEKEND EDITION: December 10 through December 11, 2016
Knight Lab:
Day of Infamy
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
The Pearl Harbor attack, by the numbers
Time Magazine:
See Colorized Photos of a Peaceful Pearl Harbor in the Months Before War
History.com:
The Midget Subs That Beat the Planes to Pearl Harbor
The Tennessean:
100-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor from Tennessee lives on to tell the story
Lincoln Journal-Star:
Wahoo man recalls attack on Pearl Harbor
Topeka Capital-Journal:
On 75th anniversary, Pearl Harbor survivor's memories of Japanese machine guns still vivid
Naples Daily News:
Collier survivor recalls shock of Pearl Harbor attack
New York Daily News:
Pearl Harbor, 75 years later: Brooklyn man, wounded in attack, remembers declaration of war
KING-TV:
WWII Japanese American war hero shares pride in serving
Providence Journal:
Pearl Harbor: Veterans with ties to Rhode Island recall one terrible morning
Lansing State Journal:
Pearl Harbor hero: Charlotte man helped crew flee sinking ship
WXIA-TV:
Ga. vet who survived Pearl Harbor Attacks recalls scariest time of life
The Virginia-Pilot:
The Pearl Harbor survivors' tales of the fateful day 75 years ago
Whittier Daily News:
Pearl Harbor: Veterans, nuns tell their courageous survival stories
The Maui News:
Remembering Pearl Harbor: 'We were scared'
Palladium-Item:
Richmond eyewitnesses share Pearl Harbor memories
Great Falls Tribune:
Mystery letter details Pearl Harbor attack
WCSH-TV:
Pearl Harbor stories of female military nurses
National Catholic Register:
Pearl Harbor Priest Identified 75 Years Later
Japan Times:
Pearl Harbor, through a child's eyes
Providence Journal:
Women recall their life as schoolchildren just miles from Pearl Harbor at start of WWII
Time Magazine:
Powerful Stories of the Japanese-American Children Who Witnessed Pearl Harbor
Florida Times-Union:
Jacksonville woman from Philippines remembers a different side of Pearl Harbor
Bloomington Pantagraph:
Child prisoner: Internment after Pearl Harbor attack changes life
AOPA Pilot:
Civilian pilots under fire at Pearl Harbor
Smithsonian Magazine:
At Pearl Harbor, This Aircraft Risked It All to Find the Japanese Fleet
History.com:
Heroes of Pearl Harbor: George Welch and Kenneth Taylor
Dallas Morning News:
Dorie Miller's fans keep fighting to honor black sailor's Pearl Harbor heroism
DOD Live:
Pearl Harbor Survivor: USS Arizona Came 'Completely Out of the Water'
Detroit Free Press:
Battle Creek native entombed with USS Arizona
The Inter-Mountain:
Local man died aboard USS Arizona
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
75 years later, USS Arizona band remembered
Stars & Stripes:
USS Arizona survivor: 'I knew I had lost a part of myself in the ruins of that ship'
CBS News:
75 years later, Pearl Harbor survivor recalls horrors of "burning alive"
Air & Space Magazine:
On the Arizona and After
Navy Times:
Pearl Harbor: Survivors seek honors for sailor who saved 6 in USS Arizona attack
KHON-TV:
Pearl Harbor: Untold Stories of Heroism
Task and Purpose:
While Pearl Harbor Fell Under Attack, This Marine Fought Like Hell At Wake Island
Boston Globe:
Day after Pearl Harbor, Boston Globe said, 'Japan Strikes All Over Pacific'
Daily Mail:
'A date which will live in world history': First draft of FDR's 'Day of Infamy' speech goes on display showing how the famous line only made it into later versions
Stars & Stripes:
The only US politician to vote against war with Japan 75 years ago
KHNL:
In aftermath of Pearl Harbor attack, Hawaii grappled with martial law
Hawaii Tribune-Herald:
Remembering Pearl Harbor: Censorship, propaganda skew Tribune-Herald news accounts in the days following attack
History.com:
After Pearl Harbor: The Race to Save the U.S. Fleet
History.com:
After Pearl Harbor: The Secret Plan to Hide America's Iconic Documents
Constitution Daily:
Pearl Harbor's role in a historic Supreme Court decision
Seattle Times:
How Bainbridge Island Japanese were registered, forced from their homes during World War II
NPR:
At 92, A Japanese-American Reflects On The Lessons Of Internment Camps
Denver Post:
In Gov. Ralph Carr, Colorado has a shining light in the painful history of Japanese internment
Des Moines Register:
Des Moines Register Front pages from Pearl Harbor
Denver Post:
PHOTOS: Denver Post front pages document Pearl Harbor attack
WXIA-TV:
Photos: The attack on Pearl Harbor
Detroit Free Press:
Buick that survived Pearl Harbor helps Michigan family remember owner
Connecticut Magazine:
A Connecticut Submarine Survived Pearl Harbor, Then Helped Win the War
Alaska Dispatch News:
Alaska, the day before Pearl Harbor
Raleigh News & Observer:
At NC museum, a Japanese doll's message of goodwill survived Pearl Harbor
December 9, 2016
New York Times:
John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age, Dies at 95
Columbus Dispatch:
John Glenn, American hero, aviation icon and former U.S. senator, dies at 95
Houston Chronicle:
John Glenn's orbit of the Earth riveted Houston
Washington Post:
'That was a real fireball': What happened when John Glenn orbited the Earth in 1962
USA Today:
John Glenn was a total badass, these facts prove it
Spaceflight Insider:
Silent Seven: John Glenn, last Mercury astronaut, dies at 95
USA Today:
Who were the Mercury 7 astronauts?
Chicago Daily Herald:
Images: John Glenn, 1921-2016
December 8, 2016
Daily Mail:
Incredible moment night turns to day for a couple of seconds as dazzling meteor is filmed shooting through the sky over Russia
CBS News:
Meteor lights up night sky over Siberia
Seeker:
SpaceX punts Falcon 9 return-to-flight launch to January
Seeker:
India's Mars Orbiter Mission Has a Methane Problem
Daily Mail:
From Saturn's atmosphere to its icy halos: Cassini captures stunning images during its first 'ring-grazing orbit'
Daily Mail:
Propulsion expert warns NASA's 'impossible drive' could be caused by a 'mundane error' in experiments
December 7, 2016
Universe Today:
Advanced USAF Tactical Satcom Set for Stunning Dec. 7 Nighttime Blastoff - Watch Live
Seeker:
Curiosity's Mars Drill Is Jammed
Spaceflight Insider:
Cassini begins dive into Saturn's rings
Universe Today:
What is the Weather like on Venus?
Seeker:
Quest to Reveal Asteroid's Mysteries Before Japanese Spacecraft's Visit
Seeker:
Astronomers Primed to Track Spectacular Comet Encounters
Daily Mail:
The charred Soyuz craft that took Tim Peake to space and back will go on display in London next year
December 6, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Upgraded satellite for communications among U.S. military forces ready to launch
Space News:
ASA considers shorter first crewed SLS/Orion mission
Seeker:
Cassini Probe Begins Tango With Saturn's Rings
Daily Mail:
Saturn's icy rings are ready for their close up: Stunning animation shows Cassini's daring descent into the planet's halo
Popular Science:
No one really knows how to name exoplanets
December 5, 2016
ABC Australia:
Aboriginal art depicting Wandjina figure that sparked aliens theory to be reclaimed by traditional owners
Popular Science:
Area 51 Aerial Time Lapse Shows How the Secretive Location Has Grown
Dumfries Courier:
Fireball sighting was probably a meteorite
Seeker:
New SpaceShipTwo Flies Free for the First Time
Spaceflight Insider:
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo successfully completes first glide flight
Space News:
Second SpaceShipTwo performs first glide flight
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX sets Dec. 16 for first flight since launch pad explosion
Seeker:
Russia Cargo Spacecraft Burns Up After Failed Launch
Space News:
Iridium banking on Dec. 16 launch for Falcon 9's return-to-flight mission
Daily Mail:
From a dazzling supermoon to a stunning meteor shower: Here is your ultimate guide to the December night sky
WEEKEND EDITION: December 3 through December 4, 2016
New Scientist:
Gravity may have chased light in the early universe
Quanta Magazine:
Strange Numbers Found in Particle Collisions
Daily Mail:
Google says its artificial intelligence has taught itself to 'translate between languages that it doesn't even know'
Seeker:
Stopping Killer Robots at the Source (Code)
Science Magazine:
'Atlas of the Underworld' reveals oceans and mountains lost to Earth's history
Astrobiology Magazine:
Nitrogen in Ancient Rocks A Sign of Early Life
Astrobiology Magazine:
New study finds Earth's soils hosted life early on
Daily Mail:
Life before oxygen: Fossils of 2.5 billion-year-old bacteria reveal organisms thrived despite early Earth's harsh conditions
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 300 million-year-old 'lost' footprints give a glimpse into the rise of the reptiles
Astrobiology Magazine:
Virginia Tech researchers explore gigantic volcanic eruptions that caused worldwide mass extinctions
Daily Mail:
Dinosaurs could finally show their true colours: Oldest ever red pigment is found in a 130 million-year-old feather
New Atlas:
Near-complete dodo skeleton fetches £280,000 at auction
Seeker:
Newfound Spider Species Masquerades as a Dried-Up Leaf
Stuff NZ:
Daylight sighting of kiwi on Heaphy Track a true rarity
Seeker:
Early Humans Spent More Time in Trees Than We Thought
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 2.5-million-year-old teeth of our ancestors suggest they may have mostly eaten GRASS
New Scientist:
Kangaroo-bone nose piercing is oldest bone jewellery ever found
Live Science:
Got Milk? People Living 9,000 Years Ago Did, Ceramic Pots Show
Seeker:
Huge, Mysterious Settlement Discovered Near Stonehenge
Mysterious Universe:
3,800-Year-Old Thinker Statue Found in Israel
Live Science:
Ancient Inscriptions Show Life Once Flourished in Jordan's 'Black Desert'
Live Science:
Built by the Huns? Ancient Stone Monuments Discovered Along Caspian
Seeker:
Mayan Pyramid Was Built Like a Russian Nesting Doll
Atlas Obscura:
A History Buff's Guide to Medieval London
Forbes:
Creating The Philosopher's Stone: The Medieval Science Of Color And Alchemy
BBC History Extra:
William the Conqueror: hero or villain?
Daily Mail:
How did they get there? Two rare Viking coins are found in Northern Ireland for the first time
BBC History Extra:
Henry VIII: 5 places you (probably) didn't know shaped his life
Daily Mail:
Stunning medieval murals painted over by Shakespeare's father on the orders of Henry VIII are revealed for the first time in 450 years
Boston Globe:
Remains of Pilgrims' Plymouth settlement unearthed
Daily Mail:
Bundle of rags found stuffed up a chimney to stop draughts is revealed to be extremely rare priceless 17th century map
Daily Mail:
Buried treasure! 1,000 coins from the English Civil War are dug up in a muddy Lincolnshire field
Universe Today:
Who was Giovanni Cassini?
BBC History Extra:
Love before Albert: Queen Victoria's suitors
Daily Mail:
Chimney sweeps, market sellers and beggars: Incredible sepia pictures taken by a Victorian photographer reveal the grim reality of life on the streets in the 1870s
Daily Mail:
A Lost England? Incredible black and white photos reveal what life was like for people in the 19th and early 20th centuries and how the issues they faced were not so different than the ones we do today
Mental Floss:
The Dangerous and Highly Competitive World of Victorian Orchid Hunting
Daily Mail:
Vintage portraits taken more than 100 years ago over the span of three decades capture Native American life in the early 20th century
Smithsonian Magazine:
One Hundred Years Ago, the Titanic's Sister Ship Exploded While Transporting Injured WWI Soldiers
Daily Mail:
Beautiful cars hidden away from Hitler… but claimed by time: Vehicles stashed in French quarry are discovered 70 years later after they have rusted away
BBC History Extra:
8 things you (probably) didn't know about Tobruk
Daily Mail:
British war graves looted by scavengers as warships torpedoed in World War Two VANISH from the sea bed off the Indonesian coast
BBC History Extra:
Forgotten trials: the other side of Nuremberg
Flashbak:
Edward Bawden: Life In An English Village, 1949
BBC History Extra:
Elizabeth II and her prime ministers
BBC News:
Did the Queen stop Princess Margaret marrying Peter Townsend?
Daily Mail:
North of Dixie: The U.S. civil rights movement photos that capture the largely 'forgotten' black activism outside of Selma and Birmingham
Daily Mail:
Is this the key to the DB Cooper mystery? Haul of FBI documents from unsolved hijacking investigation is released online allowing amateur sleuths to comb them for clues
Ars Technica:
Decades after deadly lab accident, a secret Russian bioweapon decoded
Seeker:
Giant Dome to Seal Chernobyl Reactor for Generations
Air & Space Magazine:
A News Reporter at Lockerbie
New Atlas:
The world's first sportscar up for auction ... or is it?
BBC History Extra:
Peter Snow's six most important documents in history
BBC History Extra:
In their own words: 6 of history's most fascinating letters
Daily Mail:
From the Great Blizzard of 1888 to the evolution of the plane: Take a journey through 128 years of fascinating National Geographic illustrations
Daily Mail:
Get ready to play Harry Potter's 'Wizard Chess': $200 chess board can move pieces on its own and lets you take on players anywhere in the world
December 2, 2016
New Atlas:
Jetmen join French Air Force aerobatic team for insane formation flight
Air & Space Magazine:
Call in the A-10
Spaceflight History:
"Essential Data": A 1963 Pitch to Expand NASA's Robotic Exploration Programs
Spaceflight History:
Talking to the Farside: A 1963 Proposal to Use the Apollo Saturn V S-IVB Stage as a Radio Relay
Spaceflight History:
One-Man Space Station (1960)
Spaceflight History:
"A Continuing Aspect of Human Endeavor": Bellcomm's January 1968 Lunar Exploration Program
National Geographic:
Why NASA's First Good Look at Mars Almost Ended Its Exploration
Universe Today:
Who Was The First Woman To Go Into Space?
Mysterious Universe:
The Man Who Feared An Unearthly Disease
December 1, 2016
Daily Mail:
Russian cargo space ship FALLS TO EARTH after contact was lost as it headed towards International Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
Russian space station cargo freighter lost on launch
Daily Mail:
China's first astronaut reveals mysterious knocking on his capsule left him 'spooked' while in orbit
Spaceflight Insider:
Insider Exclusive: Jacobs' TPSF enabling Kennedy to become multi-user spaceport
New Scientist:
BEAM returning 'extremely valuable' data about expandable habitats
Seeker:
Weird Landscape Shows That Mercury's No 'Dead' Planet
Seeker:
Mars Orbiter Snaps Stunning Photos of Its New Home
Seeker:
Pluto's Heavy Heart, Not a Massive Impact, Caused Its Depression
New Scientist:
Proxima Centauri really does orbit its two bright neighbours
Daily Mail:
The two seater solar plane set to soar to the edge of space: SolarStratos reveals plans to fly 75,000 feet above Earth
November 30, 2016
Copenhagen Post:
Meteor blazes across sky in Denmark
Spaceflight Now:
Cargo ship-turned-research lab ends mission with re-entry
Spaceflight Now:
NASA declares end for space station's hurricane monitoring instrument
Spaceflight Now:
Russian Progress cargo capsule arrives at launch pad
Seeker:
What Will We Do When Hubble Dies?
New Scientist:
Moon-dust cake mix shows moon may have had water from the start
Daily Mail:
The early moon may have contained MORE water than Earth has today
Seeker:
To Find Life on Mars, Perhaps We Should Look Here
ABC Australia:
Bright radio burst detected by Parkes telescope sheds light on the Universe's cosmic web
Seeker:
Electric Blue Clouds Make Early Arrival Over South Pole
November 29, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
U.S. military communications satellite moved to pad for Dec. 7 launch into space
Ars Technica:
After six months in orbit, that space inflatable habitat is holding up well
Spaceflight Insider:
Bartolomeo platform to provide easy commercial access to ISS
Stuff NZ:
New rocket could take humans to Mars in just 70 days
Air & Space Magazine:
Early Venusian Oceans May Have Harbored Life
New Scientist:
Window to hell: Io's strongest volcano changes face as we watch
Spaceflight Now:
Study shows Pluto should be counted among solar system's ocean worlds
Seeker:
Some Sungrazing Comets May Be Different Beasts
New Scientist:
Hubble rounds up the first worlds we'll check for alien life
Forbes:
The Science Of How Solar Systems Begin
November 28, 2016
Oxford University Press:
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and new research: Q & A with Diana Walsh Pasulka and Jacques Vallee
MLive:
Word of photographer's image of suspected UFO reaches president's desk
Daily Star:
Step Back in Time: Nov.28, 2016
Nine.com Australia:
Time machine, recording studio, travel destination: Inside southern California's mind-bending Integratron
Top Secret Writers:
Desert Realtors Use UFO History to Sell Land
Stuff NZ:
Fireball explodes over Florida
Dundee Sunday Post:
Did you spot a 'fireball' meteor in the sky last night?
New Scientist:
Hubble rounds up the first worlds we'll check for alien life
Spaceflight Now:
China launches data relay satellite for future space station crews
Seeker:
One Second of Bad Data Doomed Mars Lander
Spaceflight Now:
ESA says doomed Mars lander succumbed to bad altitude reading
Universe Today:
Schiaparelli's One Second Of Terror
Astrobiology Magazine:
ESA's New Mars Orbiter Prepares for First Science
Seeker:
Mars' Methane Scout Takes Test Run to Sniff out Life
New Scientist:
A dash of hydrogen and methane could have kept Mars moist
Daily Mail:
The Martian 'plains of paradise' that hide as much underground frozen water as Lake Superior - and may once have held life
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Mars Is Going Through a Bit of a Dry Spell. How Do We Know? Rusty Meteorites.
New Atlas:
Newly spotted ice field buried on Mars could provide water to future colonists
Universe Today:
What is Cydonia?
THANKSGIVING WEEKEND EDITION: November 24 through November 27, 2016
Forbes:
Is There Another 'You' Out There In A Parallel Universe?
LA Weekly:
L.A.-to-the Bay Earthquake Could Damage 3.5 Million Homes
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Foxfire Diamond Bedazzles as Smithsonian's Newest Rock Star
The Verge:
Sand's End
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Newest National Landmark Is Chock-Full of Dinosaur History
Eugene Register-Guard:
In Montana, dinosaurs galore
Forbes:
Gigantic Spike-Toothed Salmon Swam In California Rivers 5 Million Years Ago
Seeker:
Rare Migrating Whale Calls Are Recorded Off the New York Coast
Daily Mail:
How long have we been eating turkey? Mexican bone finds show birds were first domesticated to use in rituals 1,500 years ago - and raised by Native Americans in the US 100 years later
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Smithsonian Scholar Revisits the Neglected History of the Chesapeake Bay's Native Tribes
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Pilgrims Heard When They Arrived in America
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Plymouth Hero You Should Really Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Strange Case of George Washington's Disappearing Sash
Smithsonian Magazine:
Now We'll Finally Get to See the American Revolution Through the Eyes of King George
Daily Mail:
Benjamin Franklin's grave is cracked by PENNIES: Church pleads for funds to fix damage caused by tourists throwing coins onto the Founding Father's tomb
Mental Floss:
Is This the Most Mysterious Grave in Virginia?
National Geographic:
The Ugly Election That Birthed Modern American Politics
History.com:
The Toledo War: When Michigan and Ohio Nearly Came to Blows
Mental Floss:
The Other Gettysburg Address You Probably Haven't Heard Of
Mental Floss:
Rutherford B. Hayes, National Hero of Paraguay
Mental Floss:
Exceptionally Well-Preserved Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior
History.com:
Remembering the First Native American Woman Doctor
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Short, Frantic, Rags-to-Riches Life of Jack London
Mental Floss:
The Delicious History of the Nation's Oldest Chinese-American Restaurant
History.com:
The Fight to Save the Wright Brothers' Factory
Mental Floss:
222-0: The Worst Blowout in College Football History
Ars Technica:
Oil production may have triggered some LA earthquakes in the 1920s
Daily Mail:
The mansion that Coke built: Haunting photos show how home built by debauched Coca-Cola tycoon - who had his own zoo and magic tricks room - has now crumbled into disrepair
History.com:
The Thanksgiving Raccoon That Became a Presidential Pet
The Gothamist:
Inside One Of The NYPL's Secret Abandoned Apartments
History.com:
That Time America Outlawed Pinball
Air & Space Magazine:
Lincoln Ellsworth's Polar Star
Mental Floss:
Watch the Lost Soup Sequence From 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'
Mental Floss:
The Women Who Chained Themselves to D.C.'s Cherry Trees
Mental Floss:
You Can Buy the 1939 World's Fair 'House of the Future'
Smithsonian Magazine:
How (Almost) Everyone Failed to Prepare for Pearl Harbor
Air & Space Magazine:
On the Arizona and After
Air & Space Magazine:
Kunming Remembers the Flying Tigers
Mental Floss:
Watch How Libraries Were Organized in 1951 (Card Catalogs!)
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Photo Book Is a Reminder That the Civil Rights Movement Extended Far Beyond the Deep South
Mental Floss:
15 Hardboiled Facts About 'Cool Hand Luke'
The Intercept:
Titanpointe: The NSA's Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight
Mental Floss:
15 Things You Might Not Know About 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'
Fast Company:
How Apple Helped Democratize Typography In The '90s
Motherboard:
The Rise and Fall of the $100 Million Company That Taught America to Compute
Ars Technica:
This fall, the "Radioactive Boy Scout" died at age 39
Mental Floss:
Watch Computer Pros Get Excited About Windows 98...In 1998
Atlas Obscura:
In Barrow, Alaska, the Sun Just Set for the Final Time
Smithsonian Magazine:
Get to Know Man Mound, One of 10 New National Historical Landmarks
Mental Floss:
Why Do the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys Always Play on Thanksgiving?
Mental Floss:
Why Your Traditional Thanksgiving Should Include Oysters
Mental Floss:
15 Forgotten Thanksgiving Dishes
Mental Floss:
16 Fun Facts About the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
November 23, 2016
BBC News:
Australia's hypersonic plane for a new space race
Popular Science:
Robot flying taxi takes its first autonomous flight
Daily Mail:
Self flying taxis prepare for takeoff: Airbus signs deal to start testing 'Project Vahana' prototype in Oregon next year - and it could go on sale in 2020
New Atlas:
Fleetlights take streetlights to the skies
New Atlas:
Intel's Shooting Star drones bring flying Christmas lights to Disney World
Seeker:
Eagles Are Taking Out a Mining Company's Drones in Australia
Air & Space Magazine:
Apollo's Worst Day
November 22, 2016
Mysterious Universe:
The Strange Story of the UFO on the Moors
Deccan Chronicle:
1946 - 'Ghost rockets' over Scandinavia
Mysterious Universe:
South Dakota and California Hit By Wave of 'Mystery Booms'
Daily Mail:
Nasa finally publishes controversial fuel free 'impossible drive' paper - but still can't explain how it works
Forbes:
NASA's Physics-Defying EM Drive Passes Peer Review
Spaceflight Now:
Cygnus cargo freighter leaves station, but its mission is not over
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 launches the most advanced U.S. weather satellite in history
Ars Technica:
International Space Station crew to downsize in early 2017
Daily Mail:
The 1,000km long 'great valley' on Mercury that dwarfs the Grand Canyon and Africa's Great Rift - and could help prove the planet is shrinking
Universe Today:
How Bad is the Radiation on Mars?
Seeker:
Pluto Has an Underground Ocean of Water and Slush
Ars Technica:
Pluto's Sputnik basin tilted the entire planet
Universe Today:
Soar Over Ceres With New Images From the Dawn Spacecraft
Daily Mail:
Stunning new images reveal the mysterious 'crater of light' on Ceres in unprecedented detail
Daily Mail:
New super-Earth is discovered nearby: Exoplanet is found orbiting a star 33 light years away - and there could be more
Daily Mail:
Mission Psyche: Large metallic asteroid that could be the molten core of a planet the size of Mars may hold secrets to how Earth was formed
November 21, 2016
Bridgeport Post:
MIB: Made in Bridgeport, Men in Black, The legacy of Albert K. Bender
Geek Wire:
Doubleheader in space! Trio arrives at space station, weather satellite lifts off
Inverse:
Soyuz Carrying Trio of Astronauts Arrives at the ISS
Spaceflight Insider:
ISS crew count returns to 6 with Soyuz docking
NBC News:
Space Station Receives Oldest Female Astronaut, Bit of Mars
Ars Technica:
Think its hard to be an American astronaut? Try being French
Air & Space Magazine:
Chinese Astronauts Land on the Same Day That ISS Astronauts Launch
South China Morning Post:
Touchdown for Chinese astronauts after record space mission
Spaceflight Insider:
Shenzhou 11 crew returns to Earth after month in space
Ars Technica:
How the dino-killing asteroid put a ring on its crater
New Scientist:
Dinosaur-killing asteroid turned planet Earth inside-out
Seeker:
Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Punctured Earth's Crust
BBC:
Asteroid strike made 'instant Himalayas'
WEEKEND EDITION: November 19 through November 20, 2016
Forbes:
Ask Ethan: What If Gravity Isn't Really Fundamental?
New Scientist:
Dark energy could force the universe to gradually unzip itself
Daily Mail:
Mysterious 'megafast electrons' are accelerated to the speed of light just outside Earth's magnetic field - and scientists say strange discovery could change particle physics forever
Daily Mail:
Not so smart after all: AI robot now has to get a 'real job' after FAILING a university exam for the fourth year running
Live Science:
New Record! Robot Solves Rubik's Cube in Less Than a Second
What's On Weibo:
Chinese Robot Smashes Booth and Injures Man at Shenzhen Hi-Tech Fair
Forbes:
'MekaMon' Mixes Biology And Mechanics For Mesmerizing Robot Battles
Smithsonian Magazine:
It's Back: La Niña Has Returned
Stuff NZ:
What happened in New Zealand's magnitude 7.5 earthquake
Scientific American:
Double Tectonic Shifts May Have Teamed Up in New Zealand Earthquake
ABC Australia:
New Zealand earthquake: Was this destruction caused by the supermoon?
Daily Mail:
New Zealand's earthquake was so powerful the sea floor lifted TWO METRES and exploded through the sand
Radio NZ:
NZ moving to 'period of more earthquakes'
New Scientist:
New Zealand's latest earthquake could trigger a mega-quake
Mental Floss:
10 Natural Landmarks That No Longer Exist
Astrobiology Magazine:
Greenland fossils reveal global ecosystem recovery after mass extinction
Daily Mail:
The fossils that rewrite the history of the dinosaurs: 230 million-year-old remains suggest their rise was 'more gradual' than thought
New York Times:
A Dinosaur With a Beak and Feathers Unearthed in China
Seeker:
Dinosaur's Slow Death Captured in 'Saddest' Fossil
Mysterious Universe:
Giant Prehistoric Sea Monster Discovered In Antarctica
National Geographic:
Inside the Private Lives of Orangutans
Daily Mail:
One of the world's rarest turtles washes up in WALES: Reptile is 'lucky to be alive' after being swept 4,000 miles from home by strong currents
Seeker:
Penguins Get Their Own Tunnel in New Zealand
Daily Mail:
The 'Stone Age Atlantis': Stunning video reveals the 9,000-year-old settlement found submerged under the sea off Sweden
Daily Mail:
Millennia-old mummy belonging to a servant of warrior king Thutmose III's household is discovered in 'very good condition' in Luxor
BBC History Extra:
How to succeed in Ancient Rome
BBC History Extra:
At home with the Romans
Daily Mail:
Could YOU survive the suicide circle? Math puzzle solved by Jewish soldier to avoid death at the hands of Roman soldiers explained
Atlas Obscura:
Iran's Great Wall Is Now Buried and Forgotten
Atlas Obscura:
A Visual Tour Through Colombia's Ancient Lost City
Mental Floss:
Archaeologists Discover Rare Viking Tools in Danish Fortress
The Guardian:
Fountains Abbey study reveals scale of monks' burial site
The History Blog:
Curtain Theatre stage, secret passageway revealed
Smithsonian Magazine:
Shakespeare May Have Tailored "Henry V" for a Specific Theater
The History Blog:
Supreme Number One imperial musket slays at auction
The History Blog:
Conserving The Death of Buddha
BBC:
How Casanova's provocative memoir created a legend
History.com:
When Stanley Met Livingstone
Mental Floss:
Why Is This Little-Known American Parachutist Famous in Estonia?
Daily Mail:
Girls on the Bridge painted by Edvard Munch sells at Sotheby's in New York for $54MILLION - after selling for $7.7m in 1996
Inside Science:
Japanese Balloon Attack Almost Interrupted Building First Atomic Bombs
Gizmodo:
The Nazis Kept a List of Powerful American Friends in Los Angeles, Including the Co-Founder of UCLA
Daily Mail:
Mystery of London's killer fog solved: Researchers reveal how chemicals combined to form acidic haze that killed 12,000 in 1952
New Atlas:
The world's most expensive car: 3 Ferrari 250 GTOs for sale at more than $55 million each
Mental Floss:
From Ham to Sandwich: 40 Odd British Place Names
Gizmodo:
This Animated Modern Twist of a Bizarre Famous Painting Is Just Delightful
November 18, 2016
New Atlas:
Lexus unveils (fictional) single-seat spacecraft
Daily Mail:
Meet 'Baby Boom': Richard Branson-backed mini-concorde that can fly from London to New York in 3.5 hours is unveiled
New Atlas:
Boom unveils XB-1 supersonic passenger plane prototype
Mental Floss:
14 Ethereal Secrets of Skywriters
Daily Mail:
Move over James Bond: World's first commercially available jetpack is now on sale to 'well qualified buyers'
BBC:
The balloons that soar to the edge of space
Mental Floss:
On This Day in 1980, Voyager 1 Showed Us Saturn
November 17, 2016
Lions Ground News:
Treasure of UFO Files: Spanish Ministry of Defence Released X-Files
Spaceflight Now:
Three-person crew ready to embark on space station expedition
Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4 rocket undergoes launch day simulation for its next Air Force mission
New Scientist:
China's space station now has insects, weeds and rice on board
Space Daily:
Opportunity heads to next waypoint at over 27 miles on the odometer
Daily Mail:
The incredible blue dunes of Mars: Stunning NASA image reveals layers of ancient rock
Seeker:
Cassini Watches Titan's Clouds Blow in the Wind
Universe Today:
Preview: Comet 45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdusakova Brightens in December
Atlas Obscura:
The Tiny Kentucky Town That Eclipse Fans Are Obsessing Over
History.com:
A Brief History of Halley's Comet Sightings
November 16, 2016
Toronto Star:
Porter plane narrowly avoids collision with mystery object
Daily Mail:
Pilot of passenger jet forced to put the aircraft into a steep DIVE to avoid a 'UFO' that was 'too high to be a drone' in emergency over Canada that injured two cabin crew
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz crew launcher rolled out for liftoff from Kazakhstan
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz MS-03 to send trio to ISS
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Soyuz rocket rolled to pad for Expedition 50 crew launch
Space Daily:
Meteorites reveal lasting drought on Mars
New Scientist:
Spacecraft could taste Europa's sea by sampling its atmosphere
Universe Today:
Discovery Of A Nearby Super Earth With Only 5 Times Our Mass
Universe Today:
What Is The Interplanetary Transport Network?
November 15, 2016
Popular Science:
Should we be worried about SpaceX's plan to fuel the Falcon 9 with astronauts on board?
Spaceflight Now:
Mysterious weather satellite launched from China
Spaceflight Insider:
First piece of new Chinese weather satellite constellation launches
Astrobiology Magazine:
A Funnel on Mars Could Be a Place to Look for Life
Daily Mail:
Intelligent aliens are most likely to be MACHINES, astronomers claims
November 14, 2016
Pocono Herald:
Carbondale UFO tale rises again
Atlas Obscura:
Mystery Space Junk Crashes Into Myanmar
Spaceflight Insider:
Long March 11 launches pioneering X-ray pulsar navigation spacecraft
Seeker:
How We Know Europe's Mars Lander Crashed
New Scientist:
Beagle Mars probe probably didn't crash, new analysis shows
Seeker:
Mars' Mega-Drought Revealed in Meteorite Rust
Daily Mail:
The strange 'funnel' on Mars that scientists say could be the best place to look for alien life
Science Daily:
Comet Chury is much younger than previously thought
Seeker:
Australian Telescope Joins Hunt for Intelligent Aliens
WEEKEND EDITION: November 12 through November 13, 2016
Forbes:
Ask Ethan: Could The Universe Be Infinite?
Universe Today:
When Was the First Light in the Universe?
Forbes:
Solution To Dark Matter Proposes That Gravity Is An Illusion
Forbes:
Five Independent Signs Of New Physics In The Universe
Gizmodo:
Interactive Periodic Table Reveals Exactly How We Use All Those Elements
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Thera Incognita
Stuff NZ:
Central Otago rocks reveal earth's secrets
Stuff NZ:
Scientists are mapping Yellowstone's plumbing to find out why it's so explosive
Astrobiology Magazine:
Studying how the first biomolecule self-replicated
Astrobiology Magazine:
Life took hold on land 300 million years earlier than thought
Science Magazine:
Has a new mutation in the Ebola virus made it deadlier?
Daily Mail:
Did Dinosaurs SURVIVE the 'great dying' 250 million years ago? New study claims creatures may not have been killed off in mass extinction and could have roamed the earth 30 million years earlier than thought
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 75 million-year-old CLAW of a flesh-eating dinosaur is found in a 'remarkable' state of preservation
Seeker:
Fossilized Leaves Reveal How Earth Recovered After Mass Extinction
Daily Mail:
Swifter than a swift: Brazilian bat clocked at over 100mph becomes the fastest flier in the animal kingdom
Seeker:
Neanderthal DNA Is Being Purged From Our Genomes
Seeker:
Ancient Irish Grave Yields Europe's Oldest Polished Ax
The History Blog:
120 boats carved on building near pharaoh's tomb
Daily Mail:
The wave that sunk Atlantis: Deadly tsunamis in the late Bronze Age may have been driven by lava flow
Ancient Origins:
What Went Wrong? The Real Story of the Battle of Thermopylae
The History Blog:
Huge Gallo-Roman villa found in Brittany
The History Blog:
Rare Viking toolbox discovered at Borgring
Ancient Origins:
Rare Ming Dynasty Banknote Found Hidden Inside a Chinese Sculpture
Atlas Obscura:
Protect Your Library the Medieval Way, With Horrifying Book Curses
The History Blog:
Stolen illuminated manuscript leaf to return to Italy
The History Blog:
St. Anne's Well rescued from oblivion
The History Blog:
Vasari's Last Supper restored after 50 years
Smithsonian Magazine:
Hi-Res Photography Reveals New Details of the Centuries Old Aberdeen Bestiary
Seeker:
Flood-Damaged Masterpiece Miraculously Restored
Digg:
Disputed Caravaggio Painting To Go on Display in Milan
Atlas Obscura:
The 200-Year Old Book That Sent the East Coast Into a Sex Panic
History.com:
Jefferson & Adams: Founding Frenemies
Stuff NZ:
An alleged fragment from the Pink and White Terraces is up for sale
The History Blog:
Rare dodgy nickel found in Deadwood
Mysterious Universe:
Bram Stoker's Secret: The Strange Lost Chapter of "Dracula"
Smithsonian Magazine:
New Digital Collection Unveils the Other Stories of 'Anne of Green Gables' Creator
Smithsonian Magazine:
See the Cold War-Era Trains Berlin Is Bringing Back Into Service
History.com:
The Disaster that Deluged Florence's Cultural Treasures
Flashbak:
Program Your Future: Remembering Coleco's Adam Computer (1983)
The Atlantic:
The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems
Gizmodo:
Canadian Military Investigates Mysterious Pings From the Arctic Seafloor
New Atlas:
The 5 best mirrorless cameras for beginners 2016
Flashbak:
Twenty Fabulous Designs by Edward McKnight Kauffer
Mental Floss:
Introducing an Edvard Munch-Inspired Action Figure
November 11, 2016
Daily Mail:
Watch as 500 Intel drones create a dazzling light show: System could be a step towards flying billboards
New Atlas:
Northop Grumman to build laser beam control system for future aircraft
BBC:
The WWII design genius that inspired a Mars explorer
Seeker:
Recycling Space Junk for Missions to Mars
Popular Science:
10 Disgusting Ways Your Body Betrays You In Space
Seeker:
That Time When a NASA Satellite Spied on Mars Robots
Ars Technica:
Gus Grissom taught NASA a hard lesson: "You can hurt yourself in the ocean"
November 10, 2016
History.com:
America's First UFO Sighting
Ars Technica:
China now has a rocket that can land taikonauts on the Moon
Daily Mail:
Splashdown for the capsule that could take man to Mars: Navy tests recovery of the Orion craft as it prepares for its first mission
Daily Mail:
Call that a dead planet? Stunning animations reveal gigantic dust storms, clouds and high winds rolling across the Martian surface
Astrobiology Magazine:
A Record of Ancient Tectonic Stress on Mars
Daily Mail:
Why is Pluto 'leaking' X-rays? Astronomers baffled by emissions from the dwarf planet
Forbes:
Is Earth Our Solar System's Missing 'Super-Earth?'
New Scientist:
Exoplanet hunters are missing 75 per cent of two-star worlds
New Atlas:
"Beaver moon" to be the biggest supermoon since 1949
November 9, 2016
Space Daily:
China "well prepared" to launch Chang'e-5 lunar probe in 2017: top scientist
Popular Science:
After 20 Years, NASA Finally Finished Building The James Webb Space Telescope
Astrobiology Magazine:
Giant Radio Telescope Turns to New-Found Nearby Planet
Seeker:
Cassini's Last Days at Saturn Will be Science Gold
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Able Was I, Ere I Saw Oxo Crater
Popular Science:
Juno Is Still Stuck In The Wrong Orbit Around Jupiter
Seeker:
Space Laser to Help Robots 'Sniff Out' Alien Life
Scientific American:
This Blue Alien Planet Is Not At All Earth-Like
November 8, 2016
KVLY-TV:
How common are large fireballs like the one many of you reported seeing?
Seeker:
SpaceX Finds Rocket Explosion 'Smoking Gun'
Space News:
Musk predicts mid-December return to flight for Falcon 9
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA advisory board worried about SpaceX fueling processes
Space Daily:
The Growing Necessity for Space Traffic Management
Space News:
Air Force picks ADS to demo an all-commercial alternative to Space-Track catalog
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rocket to launch space station cargo delivery mission in March
Seeker:
Undiscovered Moons May Lurk in Our Own Solar System
Daily Mail:
What happens when a killer asteroid smashes into LA? Nasa simulates 'inevitable' hit in bid to prepare for real emergencies
November 7, 2016
Daily Mail:
Blazing 'fireball' is captured lighting up the sky as it falls to the ground in Siberia
New Atlas:
Newly discovered asteroid gives Earth a near miss
Spaceflight Now:
Navy satellite claws its way to usable orbit after main engine failure
Seeker:
China Just Launched Its Most Powerful Rocket Ever
Spaceflight Now:
China launches Long March 5, one of the world's most powerful rockets
New Scientist:
China's Long March 5 heavy-lift rocket takes first flight
Spaceflight Insider:
China conducts maiden launch of powerful Long March 5 booster
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Long March 5 rocket lifts off on maiden flight
Space News:
Weather scrubs SpaceShipTwo glide flight test
Seeker:
Baby Moon-Birthing Collision Slapped Earth Sideways
Daily Mail:
OA on the red planet: New colour images reveal fragments of Schiaparelli after Europe's Mars lander's hit the surface in a fiery explosion
Astrobiology Magazine:
Curiosity Mars Rover Checks Odd-looking Iron Meteorite
Astrobiology Magazine:
Iron-Loving Bacteria a Model For Mars Life
Universe Today:
Monster Meteorite Found in Texas
Geek:
Your Guide to the November Sky
Stuff NZ:
Biggest supermoon of the century set to illuminate the sky
WEEKEND EDITION: November 5 through November 6, 2016
New Scientist:
Physics tweak solves five of the biggest problems in one go
Daily Mail:
A step towards LIMITLESS energy: Loophole found in a fundamental law of physics may lead to infinite power
Robohub:
Can a brain-computer interface convert your thoughts to text?
Daily Mail:
The mystery of the 100,000 year cycle that plunges the Earth into an ice age: Researchers say CO2 in oceans may be to blame
Daily Mail:
The veins of America: Stunning map shows every river basin in the US
Daily Mail:
The volcano that ended an earthquake: Rising magma halted the 'unzipping' of a powerful tremor on a Japanese island
Gizmodo:
The Deadliest Volcano in the United States Just Got Really Weird
Daily Mail:
The FRIENDLY dinosaurs: Huge cache of bones suggests bird-like creatures flocked together in social groups
Science Magazine:
Controversial 'four-legged snake' may be ancient lizard instead
Science Magazine:
Ancient sea monster battle revealed in unusual fossil
The Atlantic:
Oldest squawk box suggests dinosaurs were no songbirds
Seeker:
9-Foot Salmon Once Spawned in California Rivers
Live Science:
Mysterious Bison Hybrid Revealed from Ancient DNA and Cave Paintings
Smithsonian Magazine:
Where to See the World's Biggest Spiders
Daily Mail:
Common swifts fly non-stop for 10 MONTHS every year: Record-breaking birds only come down to breed
Daily Mail:
Pacific islanders may carry the DNA of an unknown human species: Genetic study reveals ancient Melanesians interbred with a mysterious hominid
Ars Technica:
First discovery of 50,000-year-old human settlements in Australian interior
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 40,000-year-old tools used by Stone Age artisans to create body paint are found in an Ethiopian cave
Mysterious Universe:
Paleolithic Cave Art In Spain Could Be First Of Its Kind
Live Science:
3,800-Year-Old 'Tableau' of Egyptian Boats Discovered
BBC History Extra:
8 things you (probably) didn't know about Tutankhamun
Daily Mail:
Ghost fleet: Explorers accidentally find a graveyard of more than 40 perfectly preserved ancient shipwrecks at the bottom of the Black Sea
Smithsonian Magazine:
Renaissance Europe Was Horrified by Reports of a Sea Monster That Looked Like a Monk Wearing Fish Scales
Seeker:
Cavemen Hunted Ice Age Lions to Extinction for Their Pelts
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Oldest-Known Carving of the 10 Commandments Is Going up for Auction
The History Blog:
Rare Pictish cross slab found on Orkney
BBC History Extra:
8 things you (probably) didn't know about King Cnut
Atlas Obscura:
How a Forged Sculpture Boosted Michelangelo's Early Career
Smithsonian Magazine:
What to Know About Shakespeare's Newly Credited Collaborator Christopher Marlowe
BBC History Extra:
A brief history of coffee: a drink for the devil
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Surprising History of Cuba's Patron Saint
The History Blog:
Extremely rare British coin found in boy's toy box
History.com:
How a Phony 18th Century Chess Robot Fooled the World
Flashbak:
Victor Hugo's Blotto Drawings In Coal, Dust And Blood (1848-1866)
The History Blog:
A True Tale of Grave-Robbing Horror, Part I
The History Blog:
A True Tale of Grave-Robbing Horror, Part II
The History Blog:
A True Tale of Grave-Robbing Horror, Part III
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Women Reporters Went Undercover to Get the Most Important Scoops of Their Day
Flashbak:
Portraits Of Ellis Island Immigrants In Color (1907)
Daily Mail:
Haunting letters reveal Titanic officer's 'queer feeling' about the ship even before the start of ill-fated voyage
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the WWI U-Boat and the 'sea monster' solved: How bungling German captain sank his own vessel after demanding a heater in his cabin - and then blamed the leak on a creature of the deep
The Atlantic:
That Time the Statue of Liberty Almost Got a Glowing Wrist Watch
Seeker:
Drilling in LA Triggered Quakes in Early 1900s
BBC History Extra:
The young Elizabeth II: life before she was Queen
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why We Call the Axis Powers the Axis Powers
Daily Mail:
Did Amelia Earhart die a castaway after crashing on a Pacific island? Researchers say pioneering aviator's 'unusually long forearms' show skeleton found in remote spot could be her
Forbes:
The Mysterious Disappearance Of Amelia Earhart's Skeleton
History.com:
Mount Rushmore's Secret Chamber
Mysterious Universe:
Russian Scientists Find Mysterious Lost Nazi Arctic Base
Flashbak:
The Glorious WW2 Posters of Patrick Cokayne Keely
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story of How McDonald's First Got Its Start
Atlas Obscura:
The First People to Push the Panic Button Were Korean War Pilots
Daily Mail:
Diver may have found 'lost nuke' missing since cold war off Canada coast
BBC History Extra:
How significant was the Suez Crisis?
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Black Panthers Were Founded 50 Years Ago, and Their Influence Hasn't Waned
Ars Technica:
The (updated) history of Android
Ars Technica:
Bizarre leaked Pentagon video is a science fiction story about the future of cities
Atlas Obscura:
Inside the NSA's For-Sale Spy Town
Live Science:
The 25 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth
Atlas Obscura:
Watch These Men Perform Acrobatic Flips over Bulls
November 4, 2016
Daily Mail:
China proudly debuts its new stealth jet it built 'by hacking into US computers and stealing plans'
Daily Mail:
China unveils drone bomber that can fly 15,000 miles and stay in the air for two days to deliver smart bombs and radar jammers
Daily Mail:
The future of air travel (and not a runway in sight) Boeing reveals 100 passenger plane that takes off like a helicopter then transforms into a traditional aircraft
Aviation Week:
Supersonic Hopefuls: Who Will Be First To Fly?
Aviation Week:
Scary Landings And Runway Sights
Aviation Week:
In Pictures: A Potted History Of Ejection Seats
Florida Today:
50 years ago, Air Force 'MOL' program launched only mission
Business Insider:
Just months after Apollo 11, NASA sent men to the moon with porn strapped to their wrists
November 3, 2016
Spaceflight Insider:
China to debut powerful next-generation Long March 5 launcher Thursday
Popular Science:
How NASA Found The Lost ExoMars Lander So Quickly
Science Magazine:
Solar storms can weaken Earth's magnetic field
Stuff NZ:
New twist explains how a single giant impact could have blasted the moon into being
Daily Mail:
Saturn from above: Stunning new Cassini image shows the giant hexagonal storms at the planet's North Pole and its icy rings in unprecedented detail
Universe Today:
Even Though it's an Alien World, Titan's Canyons Would Look Very Familiar
Space Daily:
Discovery of binary-binary calls solar system formation into question
History.com:
Vulcan: The Famous Planet that Never Existed
November 2, 2016
Daily Mail:
Little green yen: Mysterious emerald-green orb 'UFO' appears over Japan, leaving a trail of sparks behind it
Space News:
U.S. Air Force awards commercial space-surveillance contract
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese astronauts halfway through country's longest space mission
Popular Science:
Virgin Galactic Calls Off SpaceShipTwo's Glide Test
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan with U.S.-Russian-Japanese crew
Universe Today:
Curiosity Finds a Melted Space Metal Meteorite on the Surface of Mars
Seeker:
We've Found 15,000 Near-Earth Space Rocks
Stuff NZ:
'Hellhole of the universe' where it rains glass, winds reach 8700kmh and it's 1000 degrees Celsius
Popular Science:
Could A Black Hole Be Blocking The Light From That 'Alien Megastructure' Star?
November 1, 2016
Mysterious Universe:
French Town Upholds 62-Year-Old Ban on UFOs
KXAN-TV:
WATCH: Fireball streaks across northern Japan
Universe Today:
SpaceX Makes Progress Replicating Failure that Caused Falcon 9 Pad Explosion
Sputnik News:
NASA, Roscosmos Discuss Joint Mission to Venus
Seeker:
Secrets of Moon's Mysterious Ringed Basin Revealed
Universe Today:
Best Photos Yet of the Mars Lander's Demise
Seeker:
Mars' Newest Crater Could Be a Target for Science
Spaceflight Now:
Juno recovers from reboot, but propulsion problem lingers
Spaceflight Now:
Final Pluto data transmission received from flyby probe
Universe Today:
It Took 15 Months, but all of New Horizons' Data Has Finally Been Downloaded
Stuff NZ:
Watch: NASA releases amazing HD video of inside the International Space Station
October 31, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
International space crew wraps up nearly four months in orbit
Spaceflight Insider:
Three nations, one landing: Expedition 49 crew members return safely to Earth
Spaceflight Insider:
DMSP F-12 breaks up on orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Soyuz MS-01 leaves the space station for landing
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Soyuz MS-01 lands with three-person space crew
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Crew members extracted from the Soyuz after landing
Spaceflight Now:
New images resolve finer details of Mars lander's crash site
Space Daily:
Potential new hunting ground for exoplanets discovered
Universe Today:
The Search Is On For Alien Signals Around Tabby's Star
Seeker:
'Aliens?!' How the News Will Spread in a Digital Age
HALLOWEEN WEEKEND EDITION: October 29 through October 30, 2016
Daily Mail:
The universe may have a 'self-destruct button' that could WIPE OUT life in an instant - and we wouldn't see it coming
Sputnik News:
The Nightmare Machine: MIT Experiments With AI Designed For Fear
Atlas Obscura:
Watch the Devil's Fingers Rising From the Underworld
Daily Mail:
Why snakes slither: Mutation in the creature's DNA caused it to lose its legs 100 million years ago
Daily Mail:
Meal to go! Amazing moment giant huntsman spider carries a MOUSE away with its fangs
Mental Floss:
14 Reanimated Facts About 'The Bride Of Frankenstein'
Gizmodo:
All 58 Stephen King Movie and TV Series Adaptations, Ranked
Gizmodo:
Watch All the Awesome Spells Cast in the Harry Potter Movies in Alphabetical Order
Mental Floss:
The Real Story That Inspired 'The Conjuring 2'
Live Science:
25 Grisly Archaeological Discoveries
Ancient Origins:
Ancient Demons and Their Infernal Legacy
Ancient Origins:
Decapitating Demons May Be the Oldest Fearsome Entities of Ancient Egypt
Mental Floss:
8 Historic Accounts of Werewolves
Ancient Origins:
Witch Familiars, Spirit Guardians and Demons
Smithsonian Magazine:
Visit the Site of the Biggest Witch Trial in History
Mental Floss:
5 Forgotten Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm
Mental Floss:
Flip Through Mary Shelley's Draft Notebooks for 'Frankenstein'
Mental Floss:
Le Karnice, the Victorian Coffin Designed to Save Lives
Atlas Obscura:
The Strange Secret Behind the Tragic Deaths of Oscar Wilde's Half-Sisters
Daily Mail:
Researchers reveal the bizarre Victorian seances that 'brought artists back from the dead' - and the paintings they produced
Mental Floss:
6 Classic Seance Tricks Explained
Mental Floss:
This Explorer's Corpse Has Been Trapped in Ice for More Than a Century
Atlas Obscura:
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Atlas Obscura:
Watch a Serial Killer Play the Dating Game
Mental Floss:
10 Amazingly Intricate Jack O'Lanterns
BBC History Extra:
9 haunted historic houses
Mental Floss:
8 Haunted Houses You Can Buy Right Now
Mysterious Universe:
Bizarre Last Calls from People Who Vanished or Died Mysteriously
Atlas Obscura:
11 Hidden Spots to Enter the Underworld
October 28, 2016
Daily Mail:
Expert says Russian and Chinese anti-satellite weapons are the 'new reality' and warns ALL US satellites are at risk
Daily Mail:
Russia fires its radical hypersonic 'super nuke' warhead: Prototype of mysterious 'object 4202' blasted off on top of a ballistic missile
New Atlas:
The seven best drones for your Christmas wish list
New Atlas:
Robotic ALIAS puts Cessna Caravan through basic maneuvers
Popular Mechanics:
A Stabilized Stunt Plane Flight Is More Dizzying Than the Real Thing
The Atlantic:
Why the U.S. Military Still Flies Cold-War Era Planes
Smithsonian Magazine:
I Was a Card-Carrying Member of the "First Moon Flights" Club
Atlas Obscura:
The 1942 Ghost Blimp That Bewildered a California Town
Mental Floss:
How A Misinterpreted Anagram Predicted The Moons of Mars
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Artists, Mad Scientists and Speculative Fiction Writers Made Spaceflight Possible
October 27, 2016
Mysterious Universe:
New Wikileaks Emails Discuss "Fastwalker" UFOs
Sputnik News:
The Truth is Out There? Glowing Meteor Crashes in Siberia, Sparks UFO Rumors
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in good health after testing its thrusters
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese space lab deploys compact satellite for external surveys
Space News:
Smallsats still need to prove their military utility, Air Force space official says
Universe Today:
New 'Selfie' MicroSatellite Captures Images of Chinese Space Station
Scientific American:
How NASA Fights to Keep Dying Spacecraft Alive
Air & Space Magazine:
Marsquakes May Point the Way to Life
Space Daily:
Titan experiences dramatic seasonal changes
Sputnik News:
Earth-Like, Water-Rich Planets Could Be Common to Red Dwarfs
Universe Today:
How Many Planets are There in the Galaxy?
Seeker:
Kepler's 'Alien Megastructure' Star to Spill SETI Secrets?
Stuff NZ:
SETI hunt to focus on distant 'alien megastructure' star
Daily Mail:
'Alien megastructure' 1,400 light years away will be looked at for signs of life by Stephen Hawking's £80m Breakthrough Listen project
October 26, 2016
Motherboard:
Dead Mars Lander Thought It Had Safely Landed Before It Crashed
Science Magazine:
Mars lander crash complicates follow-up rover in 2020
WAAY-TV:
U.S. remains only nation to successfully land on Mars after European lander crash
Science Magazine:
Objects beyond Neptune provide fresh evidence for Planet Nine
Seeker:
How The Mysterious Planet 9 Is Tilting Our Solar System
Popular Science:
What's Inside Proxima Centauri B, Our Nearest Exoplanet Neighbor
Seeker:
Proxima b COULD be habitable, researchers say: Planet could harbor a massive ocean and gassy atmosphere
Seeker:
Some Alien Worlds Could Have 'Too Much' Water for Life
October 25, 2016
U.S. Department of Defense:
Top Official Describes DARPA Real-Time Space Awareness Efforts
Space News:
Another U.S. Air Force weather satellite just broke up in orbit
New Atlas:
CubeSats could soon be zooming around space under their own power
Seeker:
Trip to Mars Could Throw Off Astronauts' Balance
Seeker:
Computer Glitch Nixes Juno's Run at Jupiter
Seeker:
Violent Volcanic Eruptions on Jupiter Moon Io Mapped
Daily Mail:
Stormy with a chance of methane showers: Cassini watches as Titan plunges into a harsh winter
Mashable:
The first photo of Earth from space was taken 70 years ago
October 24, 2016
Gizmodo:
It Looks Like NASA Found ESA's Crashed Mars Lander
New Atlas:
Sudden impact? Latest data points to parachute problem for ESA's Mars lander
Seeker:
Mars Lander Crashed, Possibly Exploded
New Scientist:
Mars orbiter spots new crater that may be ExoMars's lost lander
Sapceflight Now:
Cygnus cargo craft snared by station's robot arm
Spaceflight Insider:
Orbital ATK's OA-5 Cygnus spacecraft arrives at the ISS
New Atlas:
Tracing comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko back to its likely origins
New Atlas:
Sun's tilt attributed to influence of unseen Planet Nine
WEEKEND EDITION: October 22, 2016 through October 23, 2016
Gizmodo:
How the Universe Could Annihilate Itself at the Speed of Light
Gizmodo:
Enormous, Mysterious Ice Avalanches Strike Tibet
Daily Mail:
A gem of a find! Stunned Burma miners unearth world's most valuable piece of jade worth $160 MILLION
Gizmodo:
Earthquake Faults Around San Francisco Are Dangerously Interconnected
Seeker:
Ancient Armor-Plated Fish Was a Bottom-Feeding Giant
Seeker:
Skin Impression From Europe's 'Last Dinosaur' Found
Daily Mail:
Fossils of rare 100-million-year-old swordfish with huge teeth found in Queensland
New Atlas:
New dinosaur species helps unravel ancient migration mysteries
Daily Mail:
Trix the T-Rex arrives in the Holland: Stunning 43ft-long fossil goes on display after flying across the Atlantic
Seeker:
Tiny 'Beardogs' Get New Place in Carnivore Family Tree
Daily Mail:
It's true, elephants NEVER forget! Touching footage shows baby Kham Lha wading across a river to rescue her favourite trainer
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 50 'striking' animal images are found engraved in a Spanish cave after being hidden for 14,000 years
Seeker:
Mastodon Skeleton in Michigan Best Since 1940s
Seeker:
Great Pyramid Find: Two Mysterious Cavities With Unusual Features
Daily Mail:
Great Pyramid's secret rooms revealed: Two mysterious 'cavities' are uncovered in Egypt's 4,500-year-old monument
New Atlas:
Drones and virtual reality combine to recreate mysterious archaeological site
Live Science:
25 New 'Dead Sea Scrolls' Revealed
Daily Mail:
Secret tombs uncovered in Mayan pyramids could unravel the secrets of the mysterious 'snake kings'
The History Blog:
Huge mosaic floor in Jericho unveiled for one day
The History Blog:
Tiny 8th c. "horned" Odin found in Denmark
Daily Mail:
The first king: 1200 AD tomb reveals ancient city invented new kind of society and was the first of the Pacific Islands to be ruled by a single chief
The History Blog:
First possible victim of killer boomerang found
The History Blog:
Villa of one of the last pagan Roman senators found
Daily Mail:
Child's 600-year-old shoe is found at Newton Abbot: Well-preserved leather sandal dates back to Henry V
Daily Mail:
What a find! Rare Tudor ring unearthed by an amateur treasure hunter in York is sold for a 'five figure sum'
The History Blog:
Has the victim of 322-year-old royal intrigue been found?
The History Blog:
Hidden self-portrait found in 17th c. Dutch painting
The History Blog:
Unique London museum restored to its former chaotic splendour
Smithsonian Magazine:
Newly Discovered Letters Bring New Insight Into the Life of a Civil War Soldier
Smithsonian Magazine:
Ulysses S. Grant Launched an Illegal War Against the Plains Indians, Then Lied About It
Daily Mail:
Ancient China, through the lens of a Scotsman: First ever travel guide photographs of the remote Far East emerge after 140 years
Daily Mail:
From Scarface to senile: Inside Al Capone's fall from criminal kingpin to syphilis-riddled madman with the mental age of a 12-year-old who held 'conversations' with men he'd had killed
Gizmodo:
House of Tomorrow From 1933 Declared National Treasure, Will Be Restored
Smithsonian Magazine:
When Curious George Made a Daring Escape From the Nazis
Daily Mail:
Giant of the skies finally comes home: Plane that survived WWII only to crash in Siberia in 1947 is recovered (including the diary survivors wrote on the fuselage)
New Atlas:
Market snapshot from Bonham's Autumn Stafford Motorcycle auction
New Atlas:
Duemila Route Auction: Iconic boys toys collection set for auction
Daily Mail:
See how a Pope vacations - (just not this one!) Luxurious Papal apartments are opened to the public for the first time after Francis refused to stay there because they are too plush for his taste
Live Science:
Cracking Codices: 10 of the Most Mysterious Ancient Manuscripts
October 21, 2016
Popular Science:
After Rough Descent, Europe's Mars Lander Is Probably Dead
Tech Crunch:
A failed lander and a working orbiter - everything we know about ESA's ExoMars mission
Mashable:
History's most spectacular Mars mission fails
The Guardian:
Total recall ... of unsuccessful attempts to land on Mars
Popular Mechanics:
What Europe's Other Lost Mars Lander Could Tell Us About Schiaparelli's Fate
Irish Examiner:
Why is it so hard to land on Mars?
National Geographic:
What Mars Maps Got Right (and Wrong) Through Time
Popular Science:
DARPA Just Gave The Air Force A Telescope To Watch For Satellite Sabotage
Pierre Capital Journal:
Floating on air: South Dakota's part in the early history of aviation
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Bizarre Tale of the Middle East's First Space Program
Spaceflight History:
"A Continuing Aspect of Human Endeavor": Bellcomm's January 1968 Lunar Exploration Program
Popular Science:
The 10 Most Important Aerospace Innovations Of The Year
October 20, 2016
Mysterious Universe:
UFO Landing Or Much Ado About Nothing?
New Atlas:
Contact lost with Schiaparelli lander as ExoMars 2016 arrives at the Red Planet
The Guardian:
ESA Mars lander feared lost in final minutes of descent
Seeker:
Not a Good Sign: Europe's Lander Went Silent During Mars Landing
CBS News:
Soyuz blasts off with three bound for space station
Spaceflight Insider:
Expedition 49 trio en route to ISS after flawless launch from Baikonur
Wired:
China Wants the Moon. But First, It Has to Spend a Month in Space
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz crew blasts off from Kazakhstan
The Guardian:
Was Venus the first habitable planet in our solar system?
Daily Mail:
Venus may STILL have active volcanoes: Earth's 'evil twin' shows signs of recent lava flows
New Scientist:
Pluto may sport clouds of poisonous acid and flammable gases
Daily Mail:
Icy world with a bizarre 20,000-year orbit may lead the way to a mysterious NINTH planet in our solar system
Mysterious Universe:
New Study Claims Life on Mars Discovered in 1976 by Viking 1
October 19, 2016
CBS News:
Repaired Soyuz ready to carry three to space station
Spaceflight Now:
Shenzhou 11 glides to orbital link-up with Chinese space lab
Space Daily:
China closer to establishing permanent space station with launch of Shenzhou-11
Astrobiology Magazine:
Buried Glaciers on Mars
Daily Mail:
How the REAL 'Death Star' was born: Astronomers reveal how Martian moon Phobos got its distinctive shape
New Scientist:
Uranus might have two dark moons we've never seen before
Seeker:
Proxima Centauri Is Like Our Sun... on Steroids
New Scientist:
Proxima b's hyperactive star is more sun-like than thought
Seeker:
Our Universe Has 10-20 Times More Galaxies Than Thought
October 18, 2016
Sputnik News:
Antares Rocket Takes Off to ISS
New Atlas:
Antares booster makes a comeback as OA-5 blasts off for the ISS
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft finally ready for launch
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Soyuz rocket rolled to pad for Expedition 49 crew launch
Daily Mail:
Blast off! China sends two astronauts to live onboard its space station in nation's longest manned mission yet
New Scientist:
ExoMars spacecraft splits in two to explore Mars surface and air
Scientific American:
Schiaparelli Lander Prepares for Touchdown on Mars
Seeker:
Glitch Stalls Juno Engine Burn at Jupiter
New Atlas:
Stubborn valves leave Juno hanging
Mysterious Universe:
Strange Satellite Blackouts In "Bermuda Triangle" Of Space
New Scientist:
Strange signals from 234 stars could be ET - or human error
October 17, 2016
Times-Picayune:
Morning 'fireball' seen over Lake Pontchartrain was a meteor
WTVA:
Meteor breaks apart over Louisville
CBS News:
China launches two-man crew to station module
Daily Mail:
East Coast set for space show: 7:40pm Space Station supply rocket blast off set to be visible from South Carolina to Massachusetts
Seeker:
Moon Craters Appearing Faster Than Thought
Daily Mail:
European space probe starts three-day descent to Mars to begin its hunt for the search for intelligent life on the red planet
Seeker:
ExoMars Lander Separates and Coasts to Red Planet
Spaceflight Now:
Mission managers keeping Juno in elongated orbit until December
Seeker:
Hurricane Matthew Trashes Iconic NASA Beach House
WEEKEND EDITION: October 15, 2016 through October 16, 2016
Forbes:
Are The Beginning And End Of The Universe Connected?
Stuff NZ:
Fundamental particle discovered by error
Seeker:
The Spooky Secret Behind AI's Power
Gizmag:
Do androids dream of folding laundry? Robots take center stage at CEATEC Japan 2016
Gizmodo:
Disney Just Invented a One-Legged Robot That Hops Like Tigger
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the Earth's missing crust solved: Researchers say massive amounts of land sank into the mantle when early continents collided
Daily Mail:
Megaquakes could be far more powerful than thought: Researchers find quakes can occur more than 15 MILES beneath California
Forbes:
The Most Mysterious Fault In California
National Geographic:
Giant Millipede Fossils May Reveal New Species
Daily Mail:
Meet our weird reptile ancestors: Bizarre 235-million year-old creatures gave rise to mammals
Daily Mail:
Forgotten fossil that lay in a museum for over a CENTURY is found to be a new species of 'British' ichthyosaur
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Strange Reappearance of the Once-Vanished Green Sea Turtle
Smithsonian Magazine:
Behind the Scenes at the National Zoo With the World's Most Dangerous Bird
Mental Floss:
14 Fascinating Facts About Foxes
Forbes:
Ancient Skeletons Suggest Foraging Was Healthier Than Agriculture
Mysterious Universe:
Rings of Power Found in Ancient Greek Warrior's Grave
The History Blog:
Ancient cannabis burial shroud found in China
The History Blog:
2,200-year-old lease contract found on tablet in Turkey
The History Blog:
Pompeii house virtually reconstructed in 3D
The History Blog:
Restituted Egyptian mummy portraits for sale
The History Blog:
Lost Viking rune stone found at Swedish church
Quanta Magazine:
Using Mathematics to Repair a Masterpiece
National Geographic:
Debunking the Myth of the 'Real' Robinson Crusoe
Atlas Obscura:
The Dramatic Life and Mysterious Death of Theodosia Burr
Smithsonian Magazine:
Understanding the Gospel of Nat Turner
National Geographic:
Nat Turner's Slave Uprising Left Complex Legacy
The History Blog:
Conservators dismantle 1830 Appleton pipe organ
Smithsonian Magazine:
Nine Places Where You Can Still See Wheel Tracks from the Oregon Trail
Atlas Obscura:
Meet Spring-Heeled Jack, the Leaping Devil That Terrorized Victorian England
Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Reno Gang Launched the Era of American Train Robberies
Flashbak:
Mata Hari In Photos: The Ultimate Femme Fatale and Woman of Courage
National Geographic:
What Can We Learn From a Nazi Time Capsule?
Gizmodo:
This Was the Bicycle of the Future in 1946
BBC History Extra:
The great British civil rights scandal: the Bristol bus boycott
Ars Technica:
How Soviet transparency(!) defused tensions during a near-Chernobyl at sea
Mental Floss:
The BBC Halloween Hoax That Traumatized Viewers
Wired:
What Happens When a Space Observatory Goes Rogue
Gizmag:
In Pictures: Ushering in the new at the 2016 Paris Motor Show
Daily Mail:
Monkey magic: Captivated orangutan tries to copy magician's trick when he 'transports' a card through the enclosure glass
October 14, 2016
Stuff NZ:
We have lift off - inaugural aurora flight set for take-off from Dunedin
Robohub:
The four coolest NASA robots
Spaceflight History:
Catching Some Comet Dust: Giotto II (1985)
Spaceflight History:
Naming the Space Station (1988)
Popular Science:
The Man Who Fixed Hubble
CBC:
Meet the black women who broke ground in NASA space race
Universe Today:
What was Sputnik One?
San Francisco Chronicle:
Chronicle Covers: When Soviets' Sputnik started the space race
October 13, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Hurricane Nicole prompts Antares launch delay to Sunday
New Scientist:
The moon has hundreds more craters than we thought
Seeker:
Europe's Daring Mars Mission Prepares for Touchdown
Daily Mail:
Is there life on Mars? Europe's alien-hunting lander prepares to touch down on the red planet
Daily Mail:
Cosmic rays could FRY the brains of astronauts travelling to Mars causing 'chronic dementia' and paranoia
Universe Today:
A New Dwarf Planet Joins The Solar System Family
Daily Mail:
A gold rush: Earth's precious minerals formed when another world collided with our planet 4.45 billion years ago
Forbes:
Ask Ethan: How Can We See All The Way Back To The Big Bang?
Universe Today:
This Weekend: A Hunter's Full Moon Kicks Off Supermoon Season
October 12, 2016
Danbury News Times:
Author to seek info on area UFO sightings in 1983
Daily Mail:
US Air Force's X-37B space plane reaches 500 days in orbit - and we STILL don't know its mission
Popular Science:
Orbital ATK's Rocket Set To Finally Fly Again After 2014 Explosion [Updated]
Spaceflight Now:
Critical Antares rocket launch set for Friday night
Spaceflight Now:
Stratolaunch announces plan to fly with Pegasus rockets
Space Daily:
Schiaparelli readied for Mars landing
Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity's Recent Hard Work Produces Slew of Science
Daily Mail:
Stunning images of Mars beamed back from Indian space probe reveal the red planet in all its glory
Astrobiology Magazine:
How Deadly Would a Nearby Gamma Ray Burst Be?
Forbes:
How Do We Know The Shape Of Our Galaxy?
October 11, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Cape gets back into rocket business after Hurricane Matthew
Space Daily:
Getting Ready for Shenzhou 11
New Scientist:
Orion service module passes major shake test at NASA's Plum Brook Station
New Scientist:
NASA completes 'summer of testing' for SLS and Orion
Daily Mail:
Radical ion rocket engine that could 'get to Mars and back on one tank of fuel' set to be tested on the ISS
Seeker:
What Is China Doing In Space?
Popular Science:
China's Private Space Industry Prepares To Compete With SpaceX And Blue Origin
Motley Fool:
Boeing and SpaceX Aren't Going Anywhere Without Biotechnology
Seeker:
NASA's Hi-Tech Gauze Could Heal Wounded Mars Astronauts
Astrobiology Magazine:
Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars
Universe Today:
JPL Predicts Mars' Global Dust Storm To Arrive Within Weeks
Astrobiology Magazine:
Our galaxy's most-mysterious star is even stranger than astronomers thought
BBC News:
The myths and reality about interstellar travel
October 10, 2016
Northwest Florida Daily News:
UFOs in Northwest Florida (VIDEO)
Daily Star:
The Great British cover-up: New conspiracy claims over UK's biggest UFO incident
The Age:
The truth is (not) out there: how the Australian government stopped investigating UFOs
Daily Mail:
Great balls of fire! Bright meteor lights up the night sky stretching from Washington DC to Ontario
Seeker:
Space Launch Site Spared by Hurricane Matthew
Seeker:
Watch the Amazing Blue Origin Launch Abort in Slow-Mo
Forbes:
Given Its History, It's Very Likely That There Is Life On Mars
Universe Today:
Is Proxima Centauri b Basically Kevin Costner's Waterworld?
New Scientist:
Failed hunt for Proxima b's star transit leaves us in the dark
Seeker:
Eyeballing Proxima b: Probably Not a Second Earth
Popular Science:
Maybe Alien Life Runs On Cosmic Rays Instead Of Sunlight
Air & Space Magazine:
Is Beaming Messages to Other Stars a Wise Idea?
Universe Today:
Where Are All The Alien Robots?
WEEKEND EDITION: October 8, 2016 through October 9, 2016
Seeker:
What Is Beyond The Universe?
Seeker:
Cute Little Bot Ready to Be Your Friend
BBC News:
The place furthest from land is known as Point Nemo
Stuff NZ:
Meet our entrapping greenhouse gases
Daily Mail:
The world's deepest cave: Czech underwater find is at least 404 meters deep - and a robot probe STILL hasn't hit the bottom
Daily Mail:
Shells could be 200 MILLION years older than we thought: Ancient microbe fossils show mineral formation 809 million years ago
Daily Mail:
This bizarre cat-sized reptile challenges our understanding of how four-legged animals evolved
Forbes:
Lower Jaw Of Toothless Flying Reptile Discovered In Brazil
Daily Mail:
The dinosaur footprint as big as a man: Archaeologists find huge 70m year old fossil from a TITANOSUAR in Mongolia
Daily Mail:
Did primates emerge in a baptism of fire? Meteorite impact and forest blazes 56 million years ago may have triggered our evolution
Daily Mail:
A new species of extinct shark is discovered: Prehistoric predator is related to the 60ft Megalodon
Daily Mail:
Britain's last mammoths died when they fell en masse into an enormous pit left by melting ice 14,000 years ago
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Return of the Great American Jaguar
Daily Mail:
The first great seafarers: DNA from ancient skeletons reveals the Polynesians may have come from Taiwan 5,000 years ago
Daily Mail:
The real Lord of the Rings: Jewellery from 3,500-year-old warrior's tomb could give insights into the origins of Greek civilisation
The Guardian:
Pristine pressed flower among 'jaw-dropping' bronze age finds
Daily Mail:
Now that is one rental agreement that is hard to break: Inscription on 2,200-year-old Turkish marble slab may be the world's oldest tenancy contract
Smithsonian Magazine:
Happy 445th Birthday, Caravaggio
The History Blog:
Library acquires hand-drawn 1790 map of Detroit
The History Blog:
200-year-old pub, liquor found in Manchester
BBC History Extra:
Finding HMS Terror: the Franklin Expedition and making sense of the past
Mental Floss:
The Doctor Who Designed a Cipher Wheel to Decode Shakespeare
BBC History Extra:
Queen Victoria's children
The History Blog:
Stolen Van Gogh paintings found after 14 years
Jstor:
Why Oklahoma Has a Panhandle
Daily Mail:
America's poor and huddled masses in colour: Fascinating colourised photographs show hope of immigrants who arrived at New York's Ellis Island
Daily Mail:
'Goodbye, old man': Final farewell uttered to one another by the doomed Titanic crew is revealed in a newly-discovered account by the most senior officer to survive the disaster
Smithsonian Magazine:
When the Inventor of the Diesel Engine Disappeared
BBC History Extra:
The British generals whose infighting lost the battle of the Somme
New Atlas:
(The original) 100 year-old motorscooter up for sale
Smithsonian Magazine:
After 80 Years, New York's Iconic Carnegie Deli Is Closing for Good
BBC News:
How a Jewish collector rescued his 'degenerate art' from the grasp of the Nazis
Flashbak:
The Farm Hall Transcripts: German Nuclear Scientists Weep For Hiroshima And Regret Not Annihilating London (1945)
Smithsonian Magazine:
George Kennan's Love of Russia Inspired His Legendary "Containment" Strategy
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Mural on View in the African American History Museum Recalls the Rise of Resurrection City
Priceonomics:
The Rise and Fall of the 1-900 Number
Daily Mail:
'Moriarty of the Old Masters' pulls off the art crime of the century: Market in crisis as experts warn $300m of paintings could be fakes
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Were the Most-Performed High School Musicals of 2015/2016
October 7, 2016
Popular Science:
Spaceport America's Open House Was A Tribute To Empty Space
New Scientist:
China plans world's biggest spaceplane to carry 20 tourists
Daily Mail:
Move over James Bond: Pilot takes to the skies in Britain's first jetpack flight - and says you could own one in just three years
Universe Today:
What Were the First Lunar Landings?
Spaceflight History:
Could the Space Voyages in the Film and Novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" Really Happen? (Part 3)
Spaceflight History:
Dreaming A Different Apollo, Part Four: Naming Names
Universe Today:
Schiaparelli & The Problematic History Of Martian Landings
Universe Today:
How Many Dogs Have Been to Space?
Popular Science:
This Rocket Failed to Put Soviets on the Moon
Popular Science:
What It's Like To Spacewalk For The First Time
October 6, 2016
NY Post:
Huge fireball across East Coast sets off plane crash fears
Philly Voice:
Meteor lights up night sky over Pennsylvania, New Jersey
National Post:
Meteor streaking over Toronto prompts hundreds of emergency calls across eastern seaboard
The Weather Network:
Dashcam catches great view of bright New York fireball
Ars Technica:
Hurricane Matthew poses a significant threat to Kennedy Space Center
Spaceflight Insider:
Cape Canaveral prepares for Hurricane Matthew
New Scientist:
Blue Origin test of escape system for space tourists a success
Spaceflight Insider:
Blue Origin conducts in-flight abort test; booster lands successfully
Seeker:
No Boom, Perfect Landing: Blue Origin Nails Test
Spaceflight Now:
Privately-developed rocket aces abort test
Spaceflight Now:
Managers set Oct. 13 for first Antares launch in two years
Daily Mail:
Satellites suffer mystery blackouts: Thunderstorms on the edge of space may be causing loss of GPS signals
Spaceflight Now:
Russia's S7 Group to take over Sea Launch
Seeker:
Curiosity Kicks Off Next Mars Odyssey With a Selfie
Seeker:
Another Saturn Moon May Hide Subsurface Ocean
Seeker:
Alien Life Model Found in Deep Earth
Washington Post:
If we're not alone, how will we know?
October 5, 2016
Space Daily:
Waiting for Shenzhou 11
Seeker:
Why Is Jeff Bezos Going to Crash His Rocket?
Air & Space Magazine:
South Korea's 2018 Lunar Mission
Spaceflight Insider:
World's first private orbital launch complex completed in New Zealand
Gizmodo:
NASA's 'Blue Collar Robot' Is an Unstoppable Miner
Ars Technica:
Going to Mars is (relatively) easy; coming back is where it gets tricky
New Atlas:
Three great places to live on Mars
Space Daily:
Curiosity Finds Evidence of Mars Crust Contributing to Atmosphere
Collective Evolution:
Physicist Calls Crop Circles "The Most Science-Oriented Art Movement In History" (And For Good Reasons)
October 4, 2016
Staunton News Leader:
UFOs visit Augusta: History
Daily Mail:
Duck! Fireball spotted lighting up night sky: Glowing UFO could be space junk falling back to Earth
The Sun:
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT Was mysterious 'man-made' fireball spotted over Britain the wreckage of a runaway Chinese satellite?
The Missourian:
Sonic Boom Thursday Caused by F-15 Eagle
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz MS-02 launch now targeted for October 19
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Sentinel-1A Satellite Slammed by Space Debris
Space Daily:
NASA's Asteroid-Bound Spacecraft Aces Instrument Check
Daily Mail:
Journey to Jupiter: Watch the end of Juno's five-year mission to the gas giant in a stunning time-lapse
Air & Space Magazine:
To Dare the Realm of Jupiter
Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: We Asked NASA About 7 Places In Space Most Likely To Have Alien Life
Popular Mechanics:
Why Europa Is the Best Bet for Alien Life in the Solar System
Quartz:
Aliens probably look even weirder than we think
National Geographic:
What 'Star Trek' May Have Right - and Wrong - About Alien Life
October 3, 2016
The Guardian:
Rosetta probe lands on comet 67P ending 12-year mission
New Scientist:
Rosetta lands on 67P in grand finale to two year comet mission
Spaceflight Now:
Rosetta mission ends with comet touchdown
Seeker:
Rosetta Probe Makes Controlled Crash Into its Comet
Universe Today:
Rosetta Wows With Amazing Closeups of Comet 67P Before Final 'Crunchdown'
New Scientist:
Rosetta's biggest hits: The comet chaser's top seven discoveries
The Guardian:
After Rosetta: what next for the European Space Agency?
New Scientist:
Biggest radio telescope on Earth ready to receive alien signals
Smithsonian Magazine:
How a Couple of Guys Built the Most Ambitious Alien Outreach Project Ever
WEEKEND EDITION: October 1, 2016 through October 2, 2016
Forbes:
What Is The Physics Of Nothing?
Ars Technica:
Is the Universe the same in all directions?
New Atlas:
Expanding universe may render time travel impossible
Wired:
Time Might Only Exist in Your Head. And Everyone Else's
New Atlas:
Google Trips plots traveler itineraries using an algorithm from 1736
Scientific American:
New Take on an Ancient Method Improves Way to Find Prime Numbers
Gizmodo:
Watch a Giant Fighting Robot Get Beat Up By a Wrecking Ball
Gizmodo:
Don't Look Into This Robot's Eyes While It Learns to Play the Ball-and-Cup Game
Mysterious Universe:
Unknown Anomaly Caused The Stratosphere To Change Directions
Gizmodo:
A Vicious 50-Year Storm Just Blacked Out an Entire Australian State
Mental Floss:
10 of the World's Rarest Gemstones
Smithsonian Magazine:
Finders, Keepers: Five of the Best Places to Go Gem Hunting in the U.S.
Daily Mail:
Oxygen levels in ancient oceans could explain mystery of why early animals evolved 550 million years ago
Seeker:
Wanna-Be Dino? Prehistoric Reptile Looked Like a Dinosaur
The Guardian:
'Three-eyed' extinct reptile was a bone-headed dinosaur mimic 100 million years early
Seeker:
Biggest, Baddest Dinos Had Fanciest Head Bling
Daily Mail:
Egg-shell-ent! A 3.8 million-year-old ostrich egg could provide genetic data 50 TIMES older than any DNA record
Seeker:
Most Trafficked Animal, Pangolin, Finally Gets Protection
Seeker:
Earth Wobbles May Have Driven Ancient Humans Out of Africa
Daily Mail:
Did humans conquer the Americas earlier than we thought? Bones and tools suggest we reached the tip of South America 14,000 years ago
Ars Technica:
14,000-year-old campsite in Argentina adds to an archaeological mystery
Live Science:
5,000-Year-Old Swirling Rock Art in Scotland Remains a Mystery
Daily Mail:
The wrong kind of throne: Toilet discovered at 2,800-year-old shrine reveals Biblical tale of desecration of religious sites by King Hezekiah
The History Blog:
Cutting edge leather shoe found at Vindolanda
Live Science:
Ring-Shaped Geoglyphs Found Near Ancient Town in Peru
Daily Mail:
Is the Voynich manuscript a hoax? 'The world's most mysterious book' may not contain a secret code after all
The History Blog:
Six paintings by Hercules Segers found in private collections
The History Blog:
Luna settlement dig finds more 16th c. artifacts
The History Blog:
Tate acquires its earliest portrait by woman artist
Mental Floss:
9 Facts That Tell the True Story of Johnny Appleseed
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Russian-U.S. Relationship Goes Way Back to John Quincy Adams
Daily Mail:
That's a rare find: 200-year-old pub unearthed in busy city complete with untouched bottles of brandy
The Atlantic:
The Last Great Arctic Shipwreck
BBC History Extra:
Friends, family and rivals: Queen Victoria and the European empires
Atlas Obscura:
The Strange Victorian Computer That Generated Latin Verse
Smithsonian Magazine:
Rare Painting by a Victorian-Era Artist Found on "Antiques Roadshow"
Atlas Obscura:
The Ballad of Lucille Mulhall, America's Original Cowgirl
BBC News:
The mysterious muse of Gustav Klimt
Flashbak:
Berenice Abbott's New York Stores (1930s)
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Letter Tells What Al Capone Was Up to in Alcatraz
Gizmodo:
Newly Released FBI File Shows LA Times Publisher During WWII Was Buddies With Nazis
Air & Space Magazine:
My Father, the Tuskegee Airmen, and the Dream of Flight
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Redacted Testimony That Fully Explains Why General MacArthur Was Fired
Gizmodo:
Meet Guy Sims Fitch, a Fake Writer Invented by the US Government
Air & Space Magazine:
How One Planetary Scientist Became a Cold War Spy For the CIA
The Atlantic:
The Museum of Modern Art's Miraculous New Online Archive
The Atlantic:
The Beauty of Terraced Fields
September 30, 2016
Ars Technica:
Rosetta to finish its slow descent to comet's surface Friday morning
The Guardian:
Rosetta probe set to collide with comet 67P as 12-year mission comes to an end
Daily Mail:
Meet the Raider: US Air Force releases first details of top secret B-21 that could take to the air in 2020 - and a pilot will be optional
Daily Mail:
Radical hypersonic engine to take to the skies: 'Fighter jet' sized 4,000mph engine that could go from New York to London in under two hours to be built
Space Daily:
US Air Force works to bring prestige back to nuke missile roles
Daily Mail:
The relics of war: Haunting underwater images show US aircraft dumped in the Pacific 70 years ago after the surrender of Japan
Air & Space Magazine:
Meet Doc, One of Only Two Flying B-29s in the World
BBC News:
The bomber that paved the way for the Moon missions
Car and Driver:
Airplanes! We Visit the National Museum of the Air Force
Live Science:
25 Strangest Sights on Google Earth
September 29, 2016
American Bazaar:
High intensity solar flare will reach Earth on Friday
Gizmodo:
Everything You Need to Know to Watch Rosetta Crash Into a Comet This Week
San Diego Tribune:
Rosetta's ambitious mission leads to new Solar System horizons
Space Daily:
Tiangong-2 space lab enters preset orbit for docking with manned spacecraft
Scientific American:
SpaceX's Elon Musk Unveils Mars Colonization Dream Ship
The Verge:
Elon Musk's ideas aren't enough to turn humanity into a multi-planet species
Space Daily:
Batch production of Long March 5 underway
Spaceflight Now:
Missile warning satellite launch slips into 2017 due to thruster concerns
Stuff NZ:
Russian airline owner aims to beat Elon Musk and Jeff Bezoz to space
Inverse:
Why Scientists Are Stoked on Mercury's Tectonic Activity
Universe Today:
NASA's Curiosity Rover Just Licked A Mountain
Daily Mail:
The moon WAS once part of the Earth: Interplanetary smash created our rocky satellite 4.5 billion years ago
Daily Mail:
Did alien life once exist here? European Space Agency reveals stunning shot of Mawrth Vallis area that may have been habitable
The Verge:
Europa changed how we saw the Solar System
Science Magazine:
Comet may have struck Earth just 10 million years after dinosaur extinction
International Business Times:
The Genesis project: Meet the man hoping to seed life on other planets
September 28, 2016
Skeptoid:
The Belgian UFO Wave
BBC News:
What if the aliens we are looking for are AI?
Space Daily:
Scientific experiment apparatuses on Tiangong-2 put into operation
Seeker:
NASA: Odds Favor Successful SpaceX Mars Mission
Daily Mail:
To Mars and beyond: SpaceX test-fires its Raptor interplanetary engine that will carry humans to the red planet
Seeker:
Grand Finale: Cassini Preps For Last Days at Saturn
Gizmodo:
We Now Know What Caused the Weird Eruptions on Rosetta's Comet
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Rosetta's Final Resting Place Has Been Chosen
Seeker:
Shrinking Mercury Is Tectonically Active
Mysterious Universe:
Google Earth Images Show Giant New Area 51 Hangar
September 27, 2016
Daily Mail:
'Biggest meteor seen for years' crashes into earth and causes HOUSES to shake as tremor terrifies thousands
Daily Mail:
Bright flash of orange lights up the sky and houses shake as people report a fireball caused by 'space junk' crashing to Earth over Queensland
The Guardian:
'It lit up the beach': reports of large meteor crash off Queensland coast
Chinchilla News:
BREAKING: Government releases footage of 'fireball' lighting up sky
Daily Mail:
Breakthrough in search for life on Europa as Hubble spots gigantic plumes of water 125 miles high that confirm hidden ocean engulfs Jupiter's moon
Seeker:
Hubble Finds More Signs of Water Vapor Plumes on Europa
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA: Europa may have plumes of water being jettisoned into space
Seeker:
Evidence Mounts for Ocean on Jupiter's Moon Europa
Stuff NZ:
NASA reveals new evidence of water geysers on Jupiter moon Europa
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA Scientists Find 'Impossible' Cloud on Titan - Again
Astrobiology Magazine:
Pluto's 'heart' sheds light on a possible buried ocean
Daily Mail:
Is there water lurking beneath Pluto's surface? Ocean could be 62 miles deep and as salty as the Dead Sea
Seeker:
First-Ever Binary Alien Planets Possibly Found
Seeker:
World's Largest Single-Dish 'Alien Hunter' Is Online
Seeker:
Stephen Hawking Is Still Afraid of Aliens
September 26, 2016
Dundee Evening Telegraph:
Was light in skies above Tayside a meteor?
Kent Live:
Video shows a huge fireball as it shot over Kent last night
Daily Express:
UFO? Rogue satellite? Just what was this massive FIREBALL over London?
WMUR-TV:
Meteor sightings reported across New Hampshire
WMTW-TV:
Meteor sightings reported in Maine, across New England
CBC:
Meteor shoots across Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick night sky
Weather Network:
Bright fireball meteor flashes over southern Quebec
Carrick Gazette:
Was explosion in Carrick a sonic boom from Typhoon jet?
New York Times:
A Mysterious Boom Rattles New Yorkers
New York Post:
Sonic boom from military planes scares blast-weary New Yorkers
Kirkesville Daily Express:
Sonic boom felt in Kirksville, Fire Dept. responds to calls
WABC-TV:
NORAD disputes report that F-22 caused 'boom' over Queens near JFK Airport
Spaceflight Insider:
Russia sets new date for Soyuz MS-02 mission, confirms decision to cut ISS crews
Universe Today:
Big Breach In 2nd Stage Helium System Likely Triggered Catastrophic Falcon 9 Explosion: SpaceX
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 rocket explosion traced to upper stage helium system
Seeker:
SpaceX: Helium System Breach Caused Rocket Explosion
Spaceflight Insider:
Falcon 9 explosion narrowed to helium system failure
Spaceflight Now:
Out-of-control Chinese space lab expected to fall to Earth next year
Spaceflight Insider:
China's Tiangong-1 space laboratory to fall to Earth in 2017
New Jersey Herald:
October a big month for seeing meteor showers
Daily Mail:
Massive crater under small Scottish town could be the crash site of the first meteorite to hit the British Isles
Belfast News Letter:
Museums NI curator uncovers giant meteor
WEEKEND EDITION: September 24, 2016 through September 25, 2016
Quanta Magazine:
The Strange Second Life of String Theory
Forbes:
How Did We Make Sense Of The Cosmic Abyss?
New Scientist:
The warps in space that make Einstein's perfect cosmic accident
Forbes:
How Certain Are We Of The Universe's 'Big Freeze' Fate?
Seeker:
Is the Butterfly Effect Real?
Engadget:
Google's AI is getting really good at captioning photos
Wired:
Google's Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI
Spin:
"The World's First Songs Composed by Artificial Intelligence" Are Neither First Nor Entirely Artificial
NDTV Gadget 360:
Robot Rides May Force Error-Prone Human Motorists Off the Road
UPI:
Hospital hires robot to patrol emergency room parking lot
Daily Mail:
Adorable robot bounds like an excited puppy: Ghost Minitaur can run, jump, open doors and even climb fences
San Francisco Chronicle:
Starship robots try out deliveries on SF sidewalks
Indian Express:
Video: This transformation of a BMW car into a robot is amazing
Daily Mail:
Now that's a BIG shock! World's longest lightning bolt stretched for nearly 200 miles across Oklahoma
Popular Science:
New Study Links Texas Quakes to Fracking Wells
Straights Times:
S. Koreans shaken by their largest recorded earthquake
CNN:
Earthquake-proofing the tallest skyscraper in California
Wall Street Journal:
Earthquake 'Magnitude' Misses the Mark
New York Times:
Australia Is Not as Down Under as Everyone Thinks It Is
The Guardian:
How weeds transformed the Earth's ancient landscape
Forbes:
X-rays Reveal 4-Limbed Animals In Mass Death Assemblage Were Just Kids
The Guardian:
Scientists reveal most accurate depiction of a dinosaur ever created
Daily Mail:
A reptile from another time: Researchers say the American alligator is 6 MILLION years older than previously thought
Daily Mail:
Strange mammoth skull discovered in California baffles scientists: Experts finds extinct creature has features unlike any of its kind
Forbes:
What Happened To The Last Dodo Bird?
New Atlas:
Freshwater stingray found to munch tough food just like a goat
Ars Technica:
Unedited videos reveal the sophisticated tool-using behavior of Hawaiian crows
Mental Floss:
11 Fierce Facts About Scottish Wildcats
Daily Mail:
All non-Africans today can trace ancestry to ONE population emerging from Africa 72,000 years ago
Daily Mail:
Neanderthals invented BLING: Extinct human species wore animal teeth, shells and ivory as necklace beads
Ars Technica:
Incredible discovery of intact female figurine from neolithic era in Turkey
Ars Technica:
World's most valuable dye existed in Peru 1,800 years before anywhere else
Daily Mail:
The amazing secrets of Europe's oldest mummy finally revealed: 5,300-year-old man was shot from BEHIND with an arrow is among a number of discoveries made by scientists
Daily Mail:
The forgotten utopia: The Indus people may have lived for 700 years without war, weapons or inequality
Daily Mail:
Fisherman almost threw back 4,200-year-old pagan statue he caught - but then took it to local museum where staff 'literally jumped for joy'
Daily Mail:
Unusual Bronze Age settlement of 'national significance' is found during work on a Norwich bypass
Daily Mail:
Mysterious onyx stone thought to be an ancient prophetic gem from the breastplate of the High Priest of Jerusalem
Daily Mail:
Human skeleton discovered at Antikythera shipwreck after more than 2,000 years at the bottom of the sea
Forbes:
2,000-Year-Old Skeleton Discovered In Ancient Greek Shipwreck
Daily Mail:
Face of a tyrant: Rare 1st century gold coin bearing the image of Roman Emperor Nero is found in Jerusalem
BBC History Extra:
The truth about Viking berserkers
Daily Mail:
The deadly history of boomerangs: Analysis of 800-year-old skeleton found in Australia suggests these tools were once used as weapons
Daily Mail:
A chisel, a chip... and 12 tonnes of golden sandstone: How stonemasons are hard at work on mammoth £1.7million restoration of Durham Cathedral
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 500-year-old kiln could shed light on the construction of Henry VIII's Tudor palace in Essex
Daily Mail:
A nice little urn-er: Rare Chinese teapot from Qianlong dynasty sells for £2.6million
Mental Floss:
Retrobituaries: Benjamin Banneker, the African-American Mathematician Who May Have Saved Washington, D.C.
Collectors Weekly:
Unusual Suspects: Finding the Humanity in Vintage Mugshots
Daily Mail:
The North Pole bid that never was: Forgotten photos from failed 1875 British expedition reveal the scurvy-hit crew's efforts 30 years before history was made
Jstor:
How America Got its Time Zones
Mental Floss:
1915 Footage Shows Monet Painting His Famous Lilies
Mental Floss:
As German Bombs Fell on Paris, Marie Curie Decided to Go to War
Daily Mail:
The final missing ship from the Battle of Jutland is found on the sea bed more than 100 years after the devastating WWI clash killed almost 9,000 sailors in 36 hours
Mental Floss:
September 15, 1916: Rise Of The Tanks
Atlas Obscura:
Why the Soviets Sponsored a Doomed Expedition to a Hollow Earth Kingdom
Forbes:
Where Did The Tooth Fairy Come From?
Mental Floss:
15 Mysterious Facts About Agatha Christie
Mental Floss:
You Can Buy This 1950s Time Capsule House for $665,000
The Atlantic:
America's Secret Cold War Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer
Mental Floss:
Show & Tell: A Mailbox for a Missile
Atlas Obscura:
The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH'
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Should South Africa Remember the Architect of Apartheid?
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Anthrax Letters That Terrorized a Nation Are Now Decontaminated and on Public View
Vanity Fair:
Welcome to the Dark Net, a Wilderness Where Invisible World Wars Are Fought and Hackers Roam Free
New Atlas:
Bargains galore at Robert White car and motorcycle auction
Mental Floss:
8 Trade Routes That Shaped World History
Mental Floss:
7 Spectacular Lost Crown Jewels
Atlas Obscura:
10 Bars at the End of the World
September 23, 2016
Ars Technica:
The Air Force's next long-range bomber has a name: The Raider
Sputnik News:
Test of Gun for Russia's PAK FA 5th-Gen Stealth Aircraft Spotted on Video
Air & Space Magazine:
Inside Hangar One
Daily Mail:
Russian cosmonauts are preparing to land on the MOON: Roscosmos begins lunar landing trials in 1970s simulator
Popular Science:
China's Race To Space Domination
New Atlas:
5 weird things humans have smuggled into space
September 22, 2016
The Telegraph:
NASA to release details of 'surprising activity' on Europa
Universe Today:
Hubble's Surprising Find On Europa To Be Announced By NASA Monday
Universe Today:
New Soyuz Mission A Go After Technical Delays
The Guardian:
China's Tiangong-1 space station 'out of control' and will crash to Earth
Stuff NZ:
New Zealand space industry prepared for takeoff
Seeker:
Cassini Spies Incredible Detail in Titan's Dune Fields
New Scientist:
Saturn's rings may be from the whirl of a passing icy rock
New Scientist:
New Horizons discovery raises solar wind riddle around Pluto
Forbes:
Pluto Has A Comet-Like Tail, X-Rays, NASA Discovers
Mysterious Universe:
Pluto Is Shooting Out X-Rays And Astronomers Don't Know Why
Seeker:
Mystery of Charon's Red Cap Solved
Seeker:
Explore the North Poles of Our Solar System
Forbes:
Was Earth Born With Life On It?
September 21, 2016
Astrobiology Magazine:
Cassini Begins Epic Final Year at Saturn
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Blue Origin Will Test Its Capsule Abort System ... in Flight!
Forbes:
While Other Rockets Get Bigger, This SpaceX Competitor Is Going Smaller
Seeker:
The End Is Nigh for Rosetta's Comet Mission
Sputnik News:
Rosetta Probe's Final Move: Unlocking Cosmic Secrets
Seeker:
Philae's Incredible Comet Odyssey: Photos
Universe Today:
Phenomenal New View of Ceres 'Lonely Mountain' Reveals Signs of Volcanic Activity
Seeker:
Hubble Watches Comet Die a Slow Spinning Death
New Scientist:
Kamikaze galaxy explodes after diving into the Milky Way
Stuff NZ:
Scientists caught black holes swallowing stars - and burping energy back up
Mysterious Universe:
Space Storm Belt Discovered Across U.S. Upper Midwest
Science Magazine:
Space storms could crash upper Midwest's power grid
September 20, 2016
Sputnik News:
China to Perform Space Brain-Machine Interaction Experiments on Tiangong-2
Spaceflight Now:
Russians delay next crew launch to station
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz MS-02 launch postponed for technical reasons
Idaho State Journal:
Air Force base wildfire postpones hi-res satellite launch
Spaceflight Now:
Uncontrolled wildfire at Vandenberg Air Force Base continues to rage
New Atlas:
New study favors violent mash-up Moon theory
Astrobiology Magazine:
Some Ancient Mars Lakes Came Long After Others
Daily Mail:
Ancient lakes on Mars suggest the red planet could have hosted life for a BILLION years longer than we thought
Air & Space Magazine:
Martian Methane May Come From Comets
Space Daily:
Earthquakes, 'Marsquakes,' and the Possibility of Life
Stuff NZ:
Scientists say they've confirmed Earth-sized planets orbit a single star in Aquarius
New Scientist:
'Alien megastructure' star may be explained by interstellar junk
Seeker:
Did Ancient Planet Collision Allow Life to Thrive?
September 19, 2016
Durango Herald:
Up in Saturday's sky a UFO?: No it was only a weather balloon
Seeker:
China Launches Second Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
China's Tiangong 2 space lab successfully blasts off
Spaceflight Insider:
China launches Tiangong-2 space laboratory into orbit
Mysterious Universe:
The Chinese Military Has Launched Its Second Space Station
New Scientist:
China launches a space station and wants an even bigger one
Space Daily:
China eyes year-long stays for space station astronauts
IEEE Spectrum:
Putting Humans in Stasis is the Best Way of Getting Us to Mars
Popular Science:
A Primer On How Self-Replicating Robots Could Conquer The Universe
Mysterious Universe:
Alien Life Containment Facility Being Planned in Europe
WEEKEND EDITION: September 17, 2016 through September 18, 2016
Forbes:
Cosmic Neutrinos Detected, Confirming The Big Bang's Last Great Prediction
Ars Technica:
Trek at 50: The quest for a unifying theory of time travel in Star Trek
Forbes:
Isaac Newton's Most Acclaimed Work Was Out Of Date As Soon As He Wrote It
Seeker:
6-ft Robot Balances Like Ballerina on One Foot
Engadget:
Watch what it takes to build a 350HP combat robot right here
Australia West:
VIDEO: Perth robot bricklayer sends shares soaring
New Zealand Herald:
Meet Chip the robot: Free to a good home
New Scientist:
Full and new moons linked to timing of largest, deadliest quakes
Smithsonian Magazine:
Oklahoma Just Had Its Biggest Quake Ever, and There May Be More to Come
Smithsonian Magazine:
Cave Formations Carry Clues About Ancient Earthquakes
WDIV-TV:
Video shows rolling lava lake atop Hawaii's Kilauea volcano
National Geographic:
Lord Of The Rings Volcano Is Heating Up Again
BBC News:
Japan's Sakurajima volcano due for major eruption within 30 years, say scientists
Live Science:
Surprise! Another Massive Reef Is Hiding Behind the Great Barrier Reef
Astrobiology Magazine:
First Signs Of Animal Life On Earth May Be From Microbes
Mental Floss:
A Brief History of One of the World's Rarest Plants
Mysterious Universe:
Mysterious Ghost Redwoods May Be Saving the Giants
Stuff NZ:
Trees know when deer are eating them - and how to fight back
Daily Mail:
Camouflage of the 'parrot lizard' dinosaur is recreated using 120 million-year-old fossils
Science Magazine:
Dinosaur 'wore' forest camouflage to hide from predators
Daily Mail:
Ancient DNA traces extinct Caribbean 'island murderer' back to the dawn of mammals 70 million years ago
Seeker:
Take a Stroll to the River with Ankylosaurus: Video
Mental Floss:
Spiders Tune the Strings of Their Webs
Seeker:
Dolphin 'Conversation' Recorded?
BBC News:
The country with too many elephants
Astrobiology Magazine:
Humans may speak a universal language, say scientists
Mysterious Universe:
Unexplained Stone Structures Found Off Australia's Coast
Seeker:
World's Oldest Snowshoe Found in Alps
Daily Mail:
Perfectly-preserved road that led Roman soldiers to London from the coast is found after 2,000 years
Daily Mail:
Archaeologists unearth human bones and remarkable marble statues of mythological deities at site of ancient city in Jordan
The History Blog:
Unique 3rd c. epitaph of Jewish woman translated
The History Blog:
22 ancient inscribed gold plates found in Java
Daily Mail:
Will a SECOND King be found in a car park? Graves are discovered at the site believed to be Henry I's resting place
The History Blog:
Studies of Brazilian fauna by 17th c. Dutch artist found
Atlas Obscura:
America's Oldest Lighthouse Has Turned 300
Mental Floss:
Retrobituary: John Gorrie, the Doctor Who Pioneered the Ice-Maker (Before It Was Cool)
Daily Mail:
Ship that helped inspire the words to the Star Spangled Banner is discovered intact in the Arctic 168-years after it sank navigating the Northwest Passage
The Guardian:
Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt
Smithsonian Magazine:
American Drivers Have Bicyclists to Thank for a Smooth Ride to Work
San Francisco Chronicle:
110 years later - a ticking tectonic timebomb? SF '06 quake seen through private collection
Mental Floss:
12 Technological Advancements of World War I
Mental Floss:
Market Disrupted: How Piggly Wiggly Revolutionized Grocery Shopping
Mental Floss:
The Bold Van Buren Sisters, Who Blazed a Trail Across America
Daily Mail:
The bizarre 1920s plan to merge Africa and Europe into a 'supercontinent' by DRAINING the Mediterranean Sea
The Guardian:
Missing piece of lost Magritte painting is discovered in Norwich
Jstor:
Dorothea Lange and the Making of "Migrant Mother"
BBC News:
The strange story of the world's most famous logo
BBC News:
The nurse who knew the first astronauts inside out
Atlas Obscura:
Watch Five Alarmingly Calm Men Stand Under an Exploding Atomic Bomb
Mental Floss:
A Thrilling Disney Design: The Mary Poppins Ride That Could Have Been
Atlas Obscura:
A Map of the Last Remaining Flying Saucer Homes
Mental Floss:
BetaHeads: The Betamax Fanatics of 1970s Ohio
BBC News:
The pilot who stole a secret Soviet fighter jet
BBC News:
The woman who discovered India's first HIV cases
Seeker:
World's Highest Bridge Nears Completion in China
NBC News:
Russian Meteorologists Are Trapped By Polar Bears 2,800 Miles From Moscow
Daily Mail:
How good is YOUR English? Tongue-twisting poem puts even fluent speakers' pronunciation to the test (and it's harder than it looks)
The Atlantic:
How I Came to Love the En Space
Mental Floss:
9 Major Computer Bugs That Wreaked Havoc
BBC History Extra:
In pictures: history's most remarkable banknotes
Mental Floss:
10 of the Oldest Continuously Operated Stores From Around the World
BBC News:
I am Kirk Douglas! The lust for life of a screen legend at 100
BBC History Extra:
10 things you might not know about Roald Dahl
The Walrus:
From Oshawa with Love: That time Roald Dahl came to Canada - as a spy
Atlas Obscura:
6 New Entries Added to Oxford English Dictionary in Honor of Roald Dahl
Inverse:
All Your Favorite Cartoons Started As Someone's College Thesis
Gizmodo:
Triple Domino Spiral Is a Marvel of Destructive Engineering
Atlas Obscura:
Behold: An Ode to Concrete
September 16, 2016
IEEE Spectrum:
Future Airplanes Will Fly On Twistable Wings
Daily Mail:
China claims to have developed radar that can detect STEALTH jets
New Atlas:
Tree-planting drones to speed up reforestation efforts
New Atlas:
Cormorant (née AirMule) unmanned VTOL aircraft expands flight envelope
IEEE Spectrum:
Aggressive Quadrotors Zip Through Narrow Windows Without Any Help
New Atlas:
Dutch police's drone-hunting eagles are ready for action
New Atlas:
xCraft's 100-mph drone is about as fast as they come
Aviation Week:
Auto-GCAS Saves Unconscious F-16 Pilot -Declassified USAF Footage
Gizmodo:
Watch a Helicopter Project a Video onto an Enormous Banner Towed by Another Helicopter
Mental Floss:
The Dying Art of Skywriting
BBC News:
The 1950s jet launching tiny satellites
Atlas Obscura:
A Hacker From South Africa Just Rescued the First NASA Computer in Space
Seeker:
The Story Of NASA's "Forgotten Astronaut"
Forbes:
After 50 Years In Space, Voyager Will Go Dark Sometime Before 2030
September 15, 2016
Ars Technica:
China to launch its second "Heavenly Palace" on Thursday morning
Air & Space Magazine:
China Prepares for First Astronaut Flight in Three Years
CCTV:
Two astronauts will live in Tiangong 2 for 30 days
Live Science:
Glider Will Attempt Record-Breaking Flight to Edge of Space
Spaceflight Now:
Idled by Range facility rework for months, Vandenberg ready to launch again Friday
Ars Technica:
SpaceX targeting a November launch for its Falcon 9 rocket
Ars Technica:
Why Bezos' rocket is unprecedented - and worth taking seriously
Spaceflight Now:
Israel's new spy satellite reportedly encounters trouble after launch
Washington Post:
Rosetta orbiter will soon crash into its comet and die
New Scientist:
Rosetta set for a grand finale by diving into cometary cave
New Scientist:
Tiny lightning bolt explosions can vaporise the moon's thin soil
Daily Mail:
The mystery of the moon's eerie glow is solved: Nanodust lunar clouds are caused by METEOROID impacts
Astrobiology Magazine:
Chemistry says moon is proto-Earth's mantle, relocated
Medium:
Ten ways 'Proxima b' is different than Earth
Daily Mail:
The £135 million 'alien scanner' set to be switched on: Incredible gallery reveals how Chinese engineers turned a remote area into the 'world's largest radio telescope'
Seeker:
This Is Where Spacecraft Have Gone to Die: Photos
Stuff NZ:
30-tonne meteor discovered in Argentina at ancient meteor shower site
Seeker:
Massive Meteorite Pulled From Argentina Hole
September 14, 2016
Sputnik News:
China's Second Space Lab Tiangong-2 Ready for Launch
Space Daily:
Vigil for Tiangong 2
Spaceflight Now:
Quick work saved the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission from nearby explosion
Spaceflight Insier:
Gripping details emerge of 45th Space Wing's response to SpaceX explosion
Popular Science:
Blue Origin Will Likely Blow Up Its Next Rocket
Space Daily:
Opportunity departs Marathon Valley to head deeper into Endeavour Crater
Universe Today:
Curiosity Rover's Proximity To Possible Water Raises Planetary Protection Concerns
Daily Mail:
Red Planet revealed: NASA's stunning pictures from the Mars Rover show the hills, plateaus and rock faces likened to a 'road trip through the US desert'
Seeker:
Interstellar Clouds Eroded Martian Atmosphere
Inverse:
What the Oldest Fossils On Earth Tell Us About Life on Mars
Daily Mail:
Asteroid that slammed into Earth 1.2 billion years ago may have been bigger than the one that killed off the dinosaurs
Science Magazine:
Q&A: Should we seed life on alien worlds?
September 13, 2016
Washington Post:
Jeff Bezos just unveiled his new rocket. And it's a monster.
Tech Crunch:
Jeff Bezos announces Blue Origin's first orbital rocket, the New Glenn
Seeker:
Jeff Bezos Unveils Plans for Huge, Reusable Rocket
Forbes:
What You Need To Know About SpaceX's Rocket Failure In 10 Bullet Points
Spaceflight Now:
Musk: No answers so far in 'difficult' failure investigation
Spaceflight Insider:
Falcon 9 explosion could be 'most difficult and complex failure' in SpaceX history
Seeker:
First Look at Damaged SpaceX Launch Pad
Sputnik News:
Russia's Energomash Ready to Build Reusable Carrier Rocket Stages
Spaceflight Now:
GSLV puts advanced Indian weather satellite in orbit
Ars Technica:
China firm reportedly invests $1.5 billion in a space balloon
Inverse:
Here's What's Next for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission
Seeker:
Canada's Flight Across the Solar System
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Jupiter, the (Surprising and Weird) King of the Planets
Astrobiology Magazine:
Titan's Dunes and Other Features Emerge in New Images
Gizmodo:
Scientists Think They've Found A Giant Ice Volcano On Ceres
Inverse:
Here's Why We Haven't Picked Up Alien Television Shows (Yet)
September 12, 2016
Bangor Daily News:
Subject of 1976 UFO incident casts doubt on 'Allagash Abductions'
Tech Times:
Suspected Meteor Explodes Over Cyprus
Nature World News:
Exploding Meteor in the Sky Shakes the Ground in Cyprus, Shocks Locals
Popular Mechanics:
Rare Daytime Fireball in North Carolina Outshines the Sun
Sputnik News:
18,000 MPH Asteroid Almost Causes Mass Extinction and Nobody Saw it Coming
Scientific American:
A Bus-Size Asteroid Just Gave Earth a Close Shave
Popular Science:
Second Asteroid In A Month Sails By Without Us Detecting It First
Universe Today:
Newly Discovered Asteroid Has a Close Encounter with Earth
Sputnik News:
NASA Blasts Off for Landing on 'Doomsday' Asteroid Bennu
Spaceflight Now:
OSIRIS-REx probe launched to asteroid in compelling search for the origins of life
Seeker:
NASA's Bold Asteroid Sampling Mission Launches
Universe Today:
OSIRIS-REx Blasts off on 7 Year Sampling Trek to Asteroid Bennu and Back
Stuff NZ:
How a small asteroid may answer big questions about the solar system
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Spectacular sunset launch of asteroid mission
Spaceflight Now:
Video: NASA mission launched to return sample of asteroid
New Atlas:
Virgin Galactic airborne after two year hiatus
New Scientist:
Virgin Galactic returns to the skies two years after fatal crash
Seeker:
New Virgin Galactic Spaceship Takes First Flight
The Guardian:
Philae has been found - now every ounce of science can be wrung out of it
Seeker:
A Short History of Missions to Asteroids
WEEKEND EDITION: September 10 through September 11, 2016
Science Magazine:
It's official: You're lost in a directionless universe
Forbes:
Cosmic Neutrinos Detected, Confirming The Big Bang's Last Great Prediction
Daily Mail:
Google's secretive DeepMind is learning to talk: AI is analysing human speech to allow it to converse in English and Chinese (and you can listen to the results)
Atlas Obscura:
The Future of Animatronics, From Disney to the U.S. Military
IEEE Spectrum:
Swarms of Robots Manage to Not Run Into Each Other
Daily Mail:
Never get lost at the airport again! Japan installs rollerskating robots that speak Japanese AND English to guide lost tourists around Haneda airport
Gizmodo:
Remember When People Laughed at the ATLAS Robot When It Fell Over? WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?!
ZME Science:
What is Gondwana
KFMB-TV:
Study: Large aftershocks may cause mega earthquake in California
The Indpendent:
Italy earthquake causes Apennine Mountains to grow by up to 4cm
Science Magazine:
Scientists may have solved mystery of giant Midwest earthquakes
Wired:
New Zealand's Ruapehu Volcano Is Heating Up Fast
Daily Star:
Massive super volcano spewing huge ash cloud to cause international flight chaos
Rappler:
Phivolcs warns of 'big' Mayon eruption in coming days
The Conversation:
Is Katla crying wolf? Icelandic volcano's rumblings don't mean airspace chaos is imminent
Daily Mail:
Mystery as stratospheric wind patterns change for first time in 60 years of observations - and climate change could be to blame
Science Magazine:
Unprecedented disruption to atmosphere's pacemaker foretells wet winter for Europe
Daily Mail:
Mass grave reveals secrets of the 'walking fish': 360-million-year-old fossils provide a glimpse into how animals moved from water to land
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 200 million-year-old intact skull of a new species of pterosaur is found in Patagonia
Seeker:
Toothy Remains of 'Loch Monster' Unveiled
Stuff NZ:
Dinosaur footprints found in Nelson on show in Lower Hutt
Daily Mail:
The fossil with an insect inside a lizard inside a snake: Incredible remains reveal 48 million-year-old food chain
The History Blog:
Million-year-old mammoth tusks found in Austria
Smithsonian Magazine:
Remembering the Tasmanian Tiger, 80 Years After It Became Extinct
Daily Mail:
Madagascar 'ghost snake' found to be unique new species of cat-eyed reptile
The Guardian:
Researchers discover there are not one - but four species of giraffe
Daily Mail:
'Ascent of man' image is the wrong way round, claims expert: Humans and chimps evolved from a common ancestor that walked upright
Daily Mail:
The REAL Paleo diet included bread: Ancient dental plaque reveals crops were on the menu in the Balkans 8,600 years ago
Daily Mail:
Could the mystery of the Concho Stone be solved? Neolithic carvings found near a Scottish housing estate to be revealed for the first time in 50 years
The History Blog:
Metal parts found in wood from Khufu solar boat
Daily Mail:
Revealed: Gold-hilted sword found beneath a Scottish football pitch may be 4,000 years old
The History Blog:
Couple find Bronze Age sword in Danish field
The History Blog:
Athena Parthenos moved to new digs in New York
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 1,700-year-old obituary celebrates the charitable life of an Egyptian woman who loved orphans
The History Blog:
Zapotec crocodile stone found in Oaxaca
Daily Mail:
Was an early Mexican civilisation hit by a bid for independence? Carvings of stone crocodile reveal ancient rift
Smithsonian Magazine:
Beneath This Medieval German Town Lie Over 25 Miles of Forgotten Tunnels
The History Blog:
Icelandic goose hunters find Viking sword
Daily Mail:
Did this Viking sword belong to the 'first Icelander'? 1,000-year-old weapon is unearthed by geese hunters
The History Blog:
Rarely seen liturgical textiles on display in Vienna
BBC History Extra:
How naughty was the past? The hidden depths of the medieval church
Daily Mail:
Mysterious Maya codex IS real: 13th century Grolier text is confirmed as the 'oldest book in ancient America'
The History Blog:
Long-disputed Grolier Codex is genuine
Daily Mail:
Magnificent castle where Scottish outlaw Rob Roy famously escaped the English Redcoats with the help of his sisters goes on sale for £1.65million
The History Blog:
Mary Rose remains and artifacts in stunning 3D
BBC History Extra:
London's 7 most memorable lord mayors
The History Blog:
Chandos portrait cleaning may reveal the Bard's true visage
Atlas Obscura:
Places You Can No Longer Go: The Floating Church of the Redeemer
The History Blog:
Confederate spy Belle Boyd's flag up for auction
Smithsonian Magazine:
Even Napoleon Had an Unpublished Manuscript, and Now It's up for Auction
BBC History Extra:
Queen Victoria timeline: 10 milestones in the monarch's life
The History Blog:
Export of Queen Victoria's coronet barred for now
Daily Mail:
Revealed: How the first mass tank attack in WW1 was blown off course because rebellious Irish PoWs gave vital information about British attack to the Germans
Daily Mail:
The First Great Escape: Forgotten story of how WW1 soldiers inspired the Stalag Luft breakout by digging their way out of a German PoW camp with CUTLERY and making it back to Britain as heroes
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Digital Collection of Babe Ruth's Scrapbooks Is a Piece of Home Run History
Atlas Obscura:
Behold a Glorious Vintage Map of Yosemite National Park
Smithsonian Magazine:
Read a Chilling Letter From Bonnie and Clyde
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Rarely Seen Photographs Are a Who's Who of the Harlem Renaissance
Atlas Obscura:
The Brilliant MI6 Spy Who Perfected the Art of the 'Honey Trap'
Daily Mail:
The final resting place of U576: German U-Boat is found 30 miles off the coast of North Carolina 72 years after it sank during Nazi campaign of terror - and 44 soldiers are entombed inside
Daily Mail:
Revealed: The secret instruction manual that taught Australian volunteer soldiers how to kill German and Japanese invaders in WWII
Smithsonian Magazine:
Seeing Is Believing: How Marie Tharp Changed Geology Forever
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Forgotten Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Send Astronauts to Space
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story of the Weber Grill Begins With a Buoy
Atlas Obscura:
Found: The First Television Interview Nelson Mandela Ever Gave
Flashbak:
Bookstalls On Farringdon Road 1966
Gizmodo:
Rare Photos From Inside NORAD Will Give You Retro-Armageddon Nostalgia
New Atlas:
Star Trek: 50 years of boldly going
Daily Mail:
Better than anything you'll find on Google Earth: Engineers behind satellites used to spy on the Russians during the Cold War reveal they were able to take incredibly detailed photos from 100 miles up
Atlas Obscura:
In 1975, a Cat Co-Authored a Physics Paper
Ars Technica:
How an over-ambitious Star Trek convention became "The Con of Wrath"
Mashable:
Norway newspaper editor blasts Zuckerberg for censoring iconic Vietnam War photograph
Daily Mail:
Is this maverick ex-Army pilot who faked his own death in a plane crash DB Cooper? Filmmaker sues the FBI in an attempt to PROVE Vietnam vet who lives in San Diego pulled off legendary hijacking
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Eight Conglomerates Dominate Japanese Industry
Ars Technica:
Warner Bros. flags own site for piracy, orders Google to censor pages
Atlas Obscura:
The Tiny Amazonian City That Supplies Aquarium Fish to the World
New Atlas:
High performance meets high society at Salon Privé
Atlas Obscura:
7 Nuclear Test Sites You Can Visit Today
Smithsonian Magazine:
Now Departing: Some of America's Most Iconic Train Signs
Digg:
Fantastical Art From This Year's Burning Man
September 9, 2016
Daily Mail:
Who needs a runway! Watch the incredible triple transformer drone that takes off like a quadcopter and flies like a plane or a glider
Air & Space Magazine:
The Stratotanker Turns 60
Jalopnik:
How One Soviet Pilot Pulled The Sheet Off The Ghostly MiG-25
Daily Mail:
Want to buy a used robot? Terrifying 1965 PDAD humanoid used to test spacesuits will be offered at auction
Daily Mail:
Angkor Wat, Ipanema beach and the desert at Burning Man: Incredible aerial photos show planet Earth as you've never seen it before
September 8, 2016
Costa Rica Star:
Best UFO Photo in the World Taken at Arenal, Costa Rica 45 Yrs Ago
Geekologie:
Oh Wow: Insanely Elaborate UFO Abduction And Alien Prank
Daily Mail:
Did China lose a spy satellite in a SpaceX-style launch failure? Reports suggest government cover up
Sputnik News:
Energia Corp Designing New Transport Spaceship With Higher Payload Capacity
New Atlas:
Planet Nine could cause chaos following the death of our Sun
Spaceflight Now:
Tatooine's Got Nothing On This Star System
Astrobiology Magazine:
Earth's carbon points to planetary smashup
Daily Mail:
Ahoy there! Jeff Williams tweets incredible panoramic video showing boats sailing down New York's Hudson River - as seen on a sunny day from space
September 7, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz spaceship lands in Kazakhstan
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz trio blaze through atmosphere to land in Kazakstan
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rocket cleared to launch NASA probe to Asteroid Bennu
Spaceflight Insider:
OIG: Commercial Crew Program pushed to NET 2018
Seeker:
Philae Found! Rosetta Spies Dead Comet Lander
Spaceflight Insider:
Philae lander found wedged in 'dark crack' on comet 67P
New Scientist:
Found: Philae lander finally spotted by Rosetta on comet 67P
Spaceflight Insider:
New launch window for Mars InSight mission approved by NASA
Mysterious Universe:
The Alien Signal That Wasn't: What We Learned From the Latest 'Wow' Signal
September 6, 2016
The Sun:
THE BRITISH ROSWELL Retired cop calls on government to reveal 'truth' on infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident
KGW:
'Fireball' reported blazing across Pacific Northwest sky
Spaceflight Now:
Station fliers set for return to Earth after 172-day mission
Spaceflight Insider:
ISS spacewalkers retract thermal radiator, install HD cameras
Spaceflight Now:
NASA spacecraft launches Thursday seeking the seeds of life on asteroid
Seeker:
SpaceX Rocket, Israeli Satellite Destroyed
Seeker:
Jupiter's Wild North Pole Photographed
Astrobiology Magazine:
Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System
Daily Mail:
Ghostly sounds of Jupiter beamed back to Earth
Daily Mail:
Philae is found! Rosetta finally spots the long-lost lander wedged into an icy crevice on comet 67P
Seeker:
Genesis Project: Should We 'Gift' the Cosmos With Life?
LABOR DAY WEEKEND EDITION: September 3 through September 5, 2016
Jstor:
What's On the Other Side of a Black Hole?
Live Science:
'Virtual' Particles Are Just 'Wiggles' in the Electromagnetic Field
Seeker:
Is Anything Truly Random?
Smithsonian Magazine:
IBM's Watson Takes On Yet Another Job, as a Weather Forecaster
Gizmodo:
If This Robot Spinning a Serbian Man Isn't Art, I Don't Know What Is
Gizmodo:
Simone Giertz's New Robot Is Her Shittiest Yet
Daily Mail:
The robot that became racist: AI that learnt from the web finds white-sounding names 'pleasant' and black-sounding names 'unpleasant'
USA Today:
Volcanoes: 10 national parks with explosive origins
Astrobiology Magazine:
Did meteorites bring life's phosphorus to Earth?
Live Science:
This Tree Started Growing During the Viking Age
Daily Mail:
Now that's a REALLY Great Barrier Reef: Scientists find 'vast' new reef hiding behind Australia's famous attraction
Seeker:
Cat-Sized Pterosaur Found
Seeker:
Traces of Prehistoric Baked Salmon Found
Daily Mail:
Rare dodo skeleton could be worth £500,000: 350-year-old bones of extinct bird may be one of the most complete specimens in the world
Seeker:
Jellyfish Thrive at Full Moons: Photos
Daily Mail:
Lucy's painful last moments revealed: 3.2 million-year-old fossil of early human suggests she died after falling 40ft from a tree
The History Blog:
4,200 yr-old rattle found in Turkey
The History Blog:
National Trust acquires iconic Jacobean miniature
Daily Mail:
The birth of travel photography: Amazing pictures of Ancient Egypt which wowed the Victorian world in the first years of the camera
Daily Mail:
Race to save crown for the nation: How ministers are backing a £6m campaign to save Queen Victoria's iconic coronet from being sold abroad
BBC News:
How Sherlock Holmes changed the world
Smithsonian Magazine:
Hearst Castle Has a Brush With California's Wildfires
BBC News:
How John Hersey's Hiroshima revealed the horror of the bomb
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Fight to Preserve Langston Hughes' Harlem Home From Gentrification
BBC News:
Lonnie Johnson: The father of the Super Soaker
BBC News:
The village that survived a war
Daily Mail:
Amtrack reveals America's 'bullet train': $2bn project will bring 186mph next generation trains to Washington, New York and Boston by 2021
Smithsonian Magazine:
Keeping the Blues Alive
BBC News:
The secret libraries of history
Live Science:
7 Home Remedies That Actually Work (and the Science Behind Them)
Mental Floss:
The Stories Behind All 50 State Quarters
Live Science:
Sunken Treasures: The Curious Science of 7 Famous Shipwrecks
September 2, 2016
Daily Mail:
All aboard the Solar Express! Radical train concept could travel at 3,000km/s and take man to Mars in just 37 HOURS
New Atlas:
Airlander 10 damaged during second test flight
Daily Mail:
Magnificent photographs capture the last airworthy all-British Sea Vixen jet-fighter soaring above the Devon coastline
IEEE Spectrum:
Festo's Fantastical Flying Robots
Sputnik News:
Why Russia's Secret Weapon is Still the SU-25 Frogfoot 'Flying Tank'
Mental Floss:
Beavers on the Moon: The Great Astronomy Hoax of 1835
Atlas Obscura:
Joining the Caterpillar Club is as Easy as Escaping a Fiery Plane
Sputnik News:
Sukhoi Aircraft: All Creations of the Legend of Russian Aviation
BBC News:
The runaway drone that caused a Cold War air battle
September 1, 2016
New York Times:
SpaceX Rocket Explodes at Launchpad in Cape Canaveral
ABC News:
Explosion at SpaceX Launch Pad Destroys Rocket, Satellite
Wired:
SpaceX Rocket Explosion Sets Back Facebook's Internet Expansion in Africa
Business Insider:
Here's what Elon Musk had to say about this morning's SpaceX explosion
Space Daily:
China Sends Country's Largest Carrier Rocket to Launch Base
Spaceflight Now:
India tests scramjet demonstrator over Bay of Bengal
Mysterious Universe:
NASA Working On Deep Space Submarine
Spaceflight Now:
Probe hoisted aboard launcher to leave Earth next week on asteroid adventure
Popular Science:
What Will Happen To OSIRIS-REx's Asteroid Sample?
Spaceflight Now:
Animation of OSIRIS-REx mission from liftoff to return home
Daily Mail:
Space dust travelling at 20 the speed of light would erode interstellar craft on their way to Alpha Centauri, first Breakthrough Starshot tests reveal
Smithsonian Magazine:
Discovery of a New Class of Galaxies Challenges Our Understanding of How Galaxy Formation Works
io9:
The History of How We Discovered All the Planets in the Solar System
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Astronomers Find Three Exploded Stars Nested Like Russian Dolls
Atlas Obscura:
9 Incredible Meteorite Craters That Look Straight Out of 'Deep Impact'
August 31, 2016
Spaceflight Insider:
EVA-37 spacewalkers to retract radiator, install external equipment
Spaceflight Insider:
SES-10 confirmed to launch on previously-flown Falcon 9
Universe Today:
SES Boldly Goes Where No Firm Has Gone Before, Inks Deal to Fly on 1st SpaceX 'Flight-Proven' Booster
Popular Science:
This Is The First Rocket SpaceX Will Try To Re-Launch
Universe Today:
NASA Goes With Atlas V To Launch Mars 2020 Rover
New Atlas:
Spitzer goes "Beyond" for final mission
Spaceflight Insider:
Spitzer Space Telescope enters 'Beyond' phase
Daily Mail:
Russia reveals world's first test of radical pulse-detonation 'super-rocket'
Daily Mail:
Splashdown for Orion! Watch as Nasa tests craft that could one day take man to Mars in giant pool
Daily Mail:
China unveils its Mars rover concept: Images provide the first glimpse of the vehicle that will launch in 2020
New Atlas:
Curiosity snaps stunning 360 panorama of Earth-like rock formations on Mars
Astrobiology Magazine:
Test for Damp Ground at Mars' Seasonal Streaks Finds None
Astrobiology Magazine:
Fossilised rivers suggest warm, wet ancient Mars
Seeker:
Mystery of Mars' Crater Chains Solved
Seeker:
Rosetta Dazzled by Spectacular Comet Eruption
New Scientist:
Proxima b's star could be blasting away the planet's atmosphere
Daily Mail:
Get ready for the great American eclipse! Preparations begin for first totality only visible in the US since the country was founded in 1776
New Scientist:
Mysterious signal unlikely to be aliens after SETI draws a blank
August 30, 2016
Syracuse New Times:
Nov. 9, 1965 - Did UFOs Turn the Lights Off?
Geek:
The origin of the species: Grey aliens
Dubbo Daily Liberal:
That's Venus you see not a UFO
Gizmodo:
A Previously Undiscovered Asteroid Just Came Very Close to Earth
Virtual Telescope:
Near-Earth Asteroid 2016 QA2 extremely close encounter: an exceptional image and movie (28 Aug. 2016)
Spaceflight Now:
Probe hoisted aboard launcher to leave Earth next week on asteroid adventure
Seeker:
Strange New Objects Found During Hunt for 'Planet 9'
Stuff NZ:
Alien hunters excited by signal from space picked up by Russia - and a bit peeved
Universe Today:
Aliens? "Strong" Signal Detected From Sun-Like Star Being Verified By SETI
New Scientist:
Mysterious SETI signal sends alien-hunting telescopes scrambling
Seeker:
'Interesting' SETI Signal Detected: Noise or... Aliens?
August 29, 2016
Asbury Park Press:
Brick Township's UFO triggered Air Force probe
Atlas Obscura:
The FBI Debunked These UFO Documents in the Most Childish Way Possible
Rippon Commonwealth Press:
Apparent sonic boom rocks Ripon region
Lake Expo:
Was That A Sonic Boom? Where Wednesday's Rumble At The Lake Could Have Come From
The Guardian:
Nasa spacecraft Juno skims Jupiter's clouds in record-breaking mission
Ars Technica:
On Saturday Juno flew to within 4,200km of Jupiter - and survived
Spaceflight Now:
Juno gets its closest look at Jupiter
New Atlas:
Juno skims Jupiter's pole in first orbital flyby
Universe Today:
Juno Transmits First Up-Close Look Soarin' over Jupiter
Spaceflight Now:
Dragon spacecraft splashes down with station research specimens
New Atlas:
SpaceX's Dragon scuttles back to Earth with space-mice and science onboard
Scientific American:
Yes, We've Discovered a Planet Orbiting the Nearest Star but...
WEEKEND EDITION: August 27 through August 28, 2016
Sci-News:
Novel Theory on Moving Through Time
Live Science:
'Stranger Things': How Realistic Are Parallel Worlds?
Science News:
A new 'Einstein' equation suggests wormholes hold key to quantum gravity
Forbes:
This Is The Hardest Concept To Grasp In Physics (Hint: It's Not Relativity)
Atlas Obscura:
How a Mathematician Turned an Obscure Number Into a Scary Story
Robohub:
Introducing the Octobot: The first autonomous, entirely soft robot
Ars Technica:
Behold the octobot - a fully autonomous, soft-bodied robot
Daily Mail:
Air bubbles trapped in rock 800 MILLION years ago reveal oxygen levels spiked on Earth earlier than thought
Seeker:
Skull and Bones: T. Rex Fossil Photos
Gizmag:
Newly discovered "micro-lion" fossil reveals entirely new extinct species
Universe Today:
A History Of Violence: Iron Found in Fossils Suggests Supernova Role In Mass Dying
Ars Technica:
Meet some of the species we've found in 2016
Daily Mail:
Does this finger prove our ancestors left Africa earlier than believed? 90,000-year-old human bone discovered in Saudi Arabia
Daily Mail:
The oldest needle in the world: 50,000-year-old sewing instrument is discovered in a Siberian Cave
The History Blog:
Six Neolithic flint axes reunited in Denmark
Daily Mail:
Meet Meritamun, the 18-year-old Egyptian mummy with a taste for honey: Researchers reconstruct face of 'high status' sweet-toothed woman who lived 2,000 years ago
The History Blog:
Etruscan stele names goddess Uni
The History Blog:
Roman port in Albania much larger than we knew
Atlas Obscura:
The Fierce, Forgotten Library Wars of the Ancient World
Daily Mail:
The world's largest pyramid is hidden inside a mountain in Mexico: Early settlers built a church on top of a hill not knowing that the Great Pyramid of Cholulu lay beneath
Forbes:
August 24, 79: An Hour-By-Hour Account Of Vesuvius' Eruption On Its 1,937th Anniversary
Houston Chronicle:
9 reasons you would have really liked living in Pompeii
PJ Media:
The Last Day of Pompeii
The History Blog:
Crusader-era grenade in group of artifacts turned in to authorities
NPR:
Mysterious, Encrypted Medieval Manuscript Set To Be Published In Replica
The History Blog:
Tiny publisher to publish Voynich Manuscript facsimile
Daily Mail:
16th century Spanish shipwrecks found off Cape Canaveral filled with stolen French treasure
The History Blog:
Hercules Room restoration begins
Mental Floss:
That George Washington Portrait Saved by Dolley Madison Was Just a Copy
Daily Mail:
The remarkable story of the pioneering army doctor who told off Florence Nightingale, performed the first successful caesarian, and was secretly a WOMAN in disguise
Forbes:
How A Harvard Doctor's Sordid Murder Launched Modern Forensic Anthropology
The History Blog:
7 things you (probably) didn't know about Queen Victoria
Outside Magazine:
The Hapless Explorer Who Helped Create the National Park System
Flashbak:
Anton Chekhov: 8 Ways To Be Civilized (1886)
Flashbak:
An 1890 Photochrom Tour Of Rome
Flashbak:
An 1890 Photochrom Tour of Istanbul
Mental Floss:
The 1907 Version of 'Ben-Hur' That Changed the Movie Business Forever
Daily Mail:
How did that get there? Divers find a century-old STEAM TRAIN at the bottom of Lake Superior
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Man Who Ran a Carnival Attraction That Saved Thousands of Premature Babies Wasn't a Doctor at All
Flashbak:
Kodachrome Slides Of A Family At San Francisco's Golden Gate Exposition (1939)
Mental Floss:
How the 'Mona Lisa' Escaped Destruction During World War II
Daily Mail:
Your chance to own your own WWII tank: French museum is selling off its historic collection because it didn't get enough visitors
Atlas Obscura:
Decades Before Oprah, Della Reese was the First Black Woman to Host a Talk Show
Mental Floss:
14 Justifiably Forgotten Milton Bradley Board Games
Gizmag:
Patent suggests lightsaber battles coming to Disneyland
Gizmag:
Classic compilation: Photos from the 2016 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion
Gizmag:
Photo gallery: Concept cars from Monterey Car Week 2016
Gizmag:
Top 30 Classic Car Sales at 2016 Monterey Car Week
Popular Mechanics:
The Forgotten History of Those Iconic National Parks Posters
Atlas Obscura:
Smokey the Bear Has Nothing on These Forgotten Forest Mascots
Digg:
The Coolest Photos From The National Park Service's Newly Digitized Historic Archives
August 26, 2016
Daly Mail:
Flying past the future: Breathtaking shot captures 80-years of American air power as high tech stealth F-35 and WW2 veteran P-51 join the annual Chicago Air and Water Show
Smithsonian Magazine:
Return of the Airship
Slate:
"The Flight Went Really Well and the Only Issue Was When It Landed"
Air & Space Magazine:
Drones in a Busy Sky
Blastr:
How NASA space suits have changed, from Project Mercury to the cutting-edge Mark III
Los Angeles Daily News:
Rocketdyne plant that built world's most powerful rocket engines being razed
Air & Space Magazine:
Restoring Germany's Captured "Bat Wing"
Air & Space Magazine:
Lufthansa Brings Back a Superstar From the 1950s
Motherboard:
The Brave Bitches Who First Orbited Earth and Lived to Bark About It
Popular Mechanics:
Why Didn't Russia Ever Make It to the Moon?
Air & Space Magazine:
The Pentagon's Flying Saucer Problem
August 25, 2016
Seeker:
Confirmed! Sun's Nearest Neighbor Has 'Earth-Like' World
Stuff NZ:
Scientists say they've found a planet in a habitable zone - and it's Earth-sized
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Astronomers Discover a New Planet Orbiting the Closest Star to the Sun!
BBC News:
Neighbouring star Proxima Centauri has Earth-sized planet
National Geographic:
Potentially Habitable Planet Found Orbiting Star Closest to Sun
New York Times:
A Planet Orbiting Our Closest Neighbor, Proxima Centauri
Seeker:
Fly Through the Proxima Centauri System
Scientific American:
Proxima Centauri Just Became Our Gateway to the Cosmos
Seeker:
NASA Regains Contact With 'Dead' Solar Mission
Spaceflight Now:
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams sets new U.S. space endurance record
August 24, 2016
Universe Today:
NASA Successfully Test Fires Mars Mega Rocket Engine with Modernized 'Brain' Controller
Sputnik News:
NASA Releases New Panoramic 360° Footage of Mars (VIDEO)
Space Daily:
Full-Circle Vista from NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Shows 'Murray Buttes'
Astrobiology Magazine:
Spotlight on Schiaparelli's Landing Site
Gizmag:
NASA competition will see virtual robots repair a storm-damaged Martian base
Seeker:
This Is How NASA Will Grab Rocks From Mars
Science Daily:
The comet that disappeared: What happened to Ison?
August 23, 2016
Universe Today:
ESO Announcement To Address Reports Of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet
Space Daily:
From Solo Cup to an asteroid: NASA's newest space mission
Spaceflight Insider:
'All systems go' for OSIRIS-REx launch in September
Spaceflight Now:
One of NASA's cleanest spacecraft ever is ready to fly
Spaceflight Now:
NASA 'hears' from lost spacecraft after nearly two years
Spaceflight Now:
Another Falcon 9 rocket returns to perch in Port Canaveral
Universe Today:
Sea Landed SpaceX Falcon 9 Sails Back into Port Canaveral: Gallery
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX puts historic flown rocket on permanent display
Seeker:
Earth-like Exoplanet Orbiting Nearby Star?
Seeker:
'Great American Total Solar Eclipse' Just 1 Year Away
August 22, 2016
Stuff NZ:
Possible meteor over NZ spotted in the skies from around the country
Stuff NZ:
Excitement, mystery after 'phenomenally big' object lights up sky
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA considers handing over ISS to a private company
Spaceflight Now:
Spacewalkers attach docking adapter to space station for commercial vehicles
Seeker:
Astronauts Install New Space Station Docking Port
Spaceflight Insider:
New 'front porch' added to International Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4 successfully soars to the high ground to deploy two patrol satellites
Scientific American:
NASA to Launch Asteroid-Sampling Mission in 3 Weeks
Seeker:
Oxygen on 'Exo-Venus' Wouldn't Mean Life
Seeker:
Could Proxima Centauri Be Our Interstellar Getaway?
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
So What Exactly Is an "Alien Megastructure"?
WEEKEND EDITION: August 20 through August 21, 2016
Live Science:
Has a New, Fifth Force of Nature Been Found?
Universe Today:
Physicists Maybe, Just Maybe, Confirm the Possible Discovery of 5th Force of Nature
Mic:
Wormholes could finally unite two of history's biggest physics theories
Jstor:
Why No One Believed Einstein
Global News:
Does another version of you exist in a different universe?
Mental Floss:
The Puzzling Collatz Conjecture
Gizmag:
Computer program writes like famous people - or even like you
IEEE Spectrum:
GOAT Robot Leg Demonstrates Explosive Jumping
IEEE Spectrum:
Robot Octopus Points the Way to Soft Robotics With Eight Wiggly Arms
Global News:
Meet Sophia, the human-like robot that wants to be your friend and 'destroy humans'
Daily Mail:
Earth's oldest oceanic crust: Geologist finds floor of 'lost ocean' that formed 340 million years ago, long before the Atlantic was created
Daily Mail:
The Atlantic and Pacific separated later than believed: North and South America collided 2.8 million years ago to split the two oceans
Smithsonian Magazine:
Go Deep: 5 Places on Earth to See Seriously Old Rocks
Smithsonian Magazine:
Six Places to Spot the World's Most Breathtaking Sand Dunes
Daily Mail:
Frozen for 30,000 years: Spectacular images capture the world's oldest icebergs... and here's where you can go and see them for yourself
The Guardian:
All hail the humble moss, bringer of oxygen and life to Earth
Seeker:
T. Rex Fossil with Well Preserved Skull Found in Montana
BBC News:
Meet Nanotyrannus, the dinosaur that never really existed
Daily Mail:
New species of river dolphin is discovered: 25 million-year-old fossil could shed light on the mammal's evolutionary history
Seeker:
Purple Stubby Squid Charms Submersible Scientists
Seeker:
Watch a Clever Scottish Octopus' Return to the Sea
Seeker:
'Ultimate Pokemon' Squirrel Evades the Eyes of Science
Daily Mail:
Stone Age bones of Britain's last tribe of hunter-gatherers are discovered on an island in the Inner Hebrides
Stuff NZ:
Study looks at what 5300-year-old Otzi the Iceman was wearing when he died
Gizmag:
Stonehenge and other standing stones really are computers
The History Blog:
Obsidian biface cache found in Willamette Valley
The Guardian:
Lost cities #1: Babylon - how war almost erased 'mankind's greatest heritage site'
The Guardian:
Lost cities #2: the search for the real Troy - 'not just one city but at least 10'
The History Blog:
Skeleton may be ancient Greek human sacrifice
Ancient Origins:
The Magnificent Helmet of Greek Warrior Miltiades
Daily Mail:
Is this the home of the Illyrian rulers? Archaeologists discover two palaces which belonged to ancient Indo-European royalty
The Guardian:
Lost cities #6: how Thonis-Heracleion resurfaced after 1,000 years under water
BBC News:
Who, What, Why: Who was Leonidas of Rhodes?
The Guardian:
Lost cities #3 - Muziris: did black pepper cause the demise of India's ancient port?
The Guardian:
Lost cities #4: Pompeii was preserved by disaster. Now it risks ruin all over again
The History Blog:
Roman phallus pendant found in Horncastle
The History Blog:
Roman horse race mosaic revealed in Cyprus
The History Blog:
Protein analysis finds animal source of bog body clothes
Ancient Origins:
Ancient Bling: Exquisite Jewelry Found in Tomb of Chinese Woman
Daily Mail:
Did Maya astronomers rival Copernicus? Ancient text suggests they mapped the planets 700 years before the Polish mathematician
Science Magazine:
The Wari's grisly end - the fall of a South American empire
The Guardian:
Lost cities #5: how the magnificent city of Merv was razed - and never recovered
Mental Floss:
15 Surprising Facts About Marco Polo
Mental Floss:
15 Lofty Facts About the Sistine Chapel
The History Blog:
Lost Dürer engraving found in French flea market
New York Times:
David's Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World's Most Perfect Statue
BBC History Extra:
10 things you (probably) didn't know about the Reformation
Daily Mail:
Shifting sands in Hawaii reveal petroglyphs that may have been carved by early aboriginal settlers
The Atlantic:
Unusual Hawaii Petroglyphs Seem to Depict Ancient Surfers
Smithsonian Magazine:
Is This a Portrait of One of the World's Most Influential Philosophers?
The History Blog:
Mexican sword tip from 1830s found at Alamo
Daily Mail:
Pioneering British steamship 'The Thames' is found in a Siberian river almost 140 years after it disappeared
Mental Floss:
11 Sharp Facts about Annie Oakley
Mental Floss:
Retrobituaries: Alice Guy-Blaché, Forgotten Film Pioneer
BBC History Extra:
"Welcome home, Charlie": Chaplin's post-war return to London
Flashbak:
Questionnaire Sent To Prospective Members of the Ku Klux Klan (1921)
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Rules About How to Address the U.S. Flag Came About Because No One Wanted to Look Like a Nazi
Flashbak:
The CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual: An Everyday Guide To 'Purposeful Stupidity' (1944)
Mental Floss:
15 Delicious Facts About Julia Child
Flashbak:
Ray Harryhausen's Amazing Drawings Of Incredible Creatures
Flashbak:
The Saul Bass Movie Poster Archive
Science Magazine:
Anthrax genome reveals secrets about a Soviet bioweapons accident
Atlas Obscura:
The Forgotten Tale of How America Converted Its 1980 Olympic Village Into a Prison
Inverse:
Olympic Race Walking Is Not a Joke
Forbes:
Inside The Dinosaur Paleontology Renaissance In South Africa
Mental Floss:
4 Michigan Lighthouses Are Up For Sale
Smithsonian Magazine:
Six National Parks That Are Best Explored by Boat
Digg:
Don't Break The Skatepark Rules, Or This Security Guard Will Steal Your Bike And Show You Up
Gizmodo:
Synchronized Wind Tunnel Dancing Should Be the Next Olympic Sport
August 19, 2016
Sputnik News:
'Green Glow' Helmet Issue Is Blinding F-35 Pilots During Landing
Daily Mail:
China is developing a hypersonic jet: Planned space plane could drastically cut the cost of space travel
Popular Mechanics:
NASA Is Testing the Engine For its Quiet-Boom Supersonic Jet
Gizmag:
Maiden flight for world's largest aircraft
Sputnik News:
Unleaded Zeppelin: Why Airships May Again Start to Compete With Planes
The Guardian:
Airlander 10: is this the dawning of a new age of the airship?
Jalopnik:
But Seriously, These Meteorites Are Actually Flying People
Atlas Obscura:
A Whirlwind Tour of Space Race Relics
Flashbak:
Join the Dinky Starfleet! Remembering the Dinky Space Toys of the 1970s
August 18, 2016
Sputnik News:
SpaceX Dragon Cargo Spacecraft to Leave ISS, Return to Earth on August 26
Gizmodo:
SpaceX and Boeing Are Getting a Parking Spot on the ISS
Popular Science:
NASA's Mission To Sample A Killer Asteroid Launches In September
Gizmodo:
Watch NASA Build a 130-Foot Rocket Tank In 60 Seconds
Universe Today:
Stairway to Heaven! - Boeing Starliner Crew Access Arm's 'Awesome' Launch Pad Installation
Astrobiology Magazine:
New technique may help detect Martian life
Spaceflight Now:
The Science Behind Cassini's Titan Flybys
Forbes:
Cassini Prepares For Its Final, Suicidal Mission
Universe Today:
Beyond Neptune, A Chunk Of Ice Is Orbiting The Sun In The Wrong Direction
Daily Mail:
The edge of the universe is CLOSER than we thought: Amount of space we can see is 320 million light years smaller
Universe Today:
One Year to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
August 17, 2016
Air & Space Magazine:
The Great Flying Saucer Mystery of 1966
KSWB-TV:
Mysterious fireballs seen streaking across San Diego sky
RT:
Mysterious 'fireball' lights up San Diego sky (VIDEOS)
IEEE Spectrum:
China Launches World's First Quantum Communications Satellite
Spaceflight Now:
Two space informants to be launched to geosynchronous orbit Friday
Universe Today:
Did Cirrus Clouds Help Keep Early Mars Warm & Wet?
Universe Today:
How Far is the Asteroid Belt from Earth?
Universe Today:
How Many Moons are in the Solar System?
Sputnik News:
Twin Orphan Galaxies Provide Clues to the Evolution of the Universe
New Scientist:
Canadian meteorite may be first visitor from the Kuiper belt
August 16, 2016
Space Daily:
Scientists to unveil new Earth-like planet: report
Space.com:
Does an Earth-Like Alien Planet Orbit the Sun's Closest Neighbor?
The Nation:
New Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri discovered, claims Der Spiegel
Daily Mail:
Has a 'second Earth' been found around our nearest star? Planet orbiting the sun's stellar neighbour could have oceans of liquid water
Sputnik News:
Weather outlook positive for Friday's early morning Delta 4 rocket launch
Sputnik News:
Russia Could Cut Down International Space Station Crew
Spaceflight Now:
Ariane 6 rocket holding to schedule for 2020 maiden flight
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Gantry swing arm arrives at Atlas 5 pad for astronauts to board Starliners
August 15, 2016
Kent Messenger:
Was 'sonic boom' over Hildenborough caused by Red Arrows?
Kent and Sussex Courier:
Did the Red Arrows cause the 'sonic boom' over Tonbridge?
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 rocket launches Japanese satellite, then nails bullseye landing
Universe Today:
SpaceX Nails Dazzling Midnight Launch of Japanese Comsat and Droneship Landing
Gizmag:
SpaceX nails high-speed ocean landing
Daily Mail:
Watch SpaceX' impressive Falcon 9 rockets launch and land in stunning slow motion
Smithsonian Magazine:
New Moon-Formation Theory Also Raises Questions About Early Earth
The Guardian:
European Space Agency targets Mars for October landing of Schiaparelli module
Live Science:
Mars Life? 20 Years Later, Debate Over Meteorite Continues
Space Daily:
Opportunity going back for closer look at grooves seen in images
Ars Technica:
Titan appears to have steep gorges and rivers like the Nile
Daily Mail:
Is there another world lurking beyond Neptune? Strange orbit of new minor planet hints at mysterious object in the outer reaches of our solar system
Seeker:
New, Nearby Earth-Like Planet Discovered
Universe Today:
Earth-Like Planet Around Proxima Centauri Discovered
Blackmore Vale Magazine:
Amazing crop circle appears at Ansty Farm Shop
WEEKEND EDITION: August 13 through August 14, 2016
Daily Mail:
Black holes may be 'back doors' to other parts of the universe, researchers claim
Seeker:
Did LIGO's Black Holes Come From the Dawn of Time?
Ars Technica:
Replication of Big Bang reveals flaws in theory of atom formation
Quanta Magazine:
What No New Particles Means for Physics
Ars Technica:
Neutrinos traveling through the Earth's core show no sign of sterility
Stuff NZ:
Roger Hanson: The Armstrong Limit
Robohub:
Marty: the little walking robot that's more than a toy
Daily Mail:
Talk about doing the robot! 1,007 Chinese droids dance in unison to set a new world record
IEEE Spectrum:
The Adventures of a Blissfully Unaware Bipedal Robot at the Grassy Wave Field
Sputnik News:
Rare Siberian Mineral Revealed to Be Analogue of Advanced Synthetic Polymer
Forbes:
The Grand Canyon's 1.2 Billion Year Old Secret
Stuff NZ:
Study shows three huge tsunamis have hit east coast in past 1200 years
Daily Mail:
The origin of dirt: Plant fossils suggest soil began covering the planet 20 million years earlier than first believed
Seeker:
300-Million-Year-Old Shark Was a Cannibal
Daily Mail:
Sibirosaurus IS a new species, experts claim: 100-million-year-old dinosaur weighed 50 tonnes and was as long as a cricket pitch
Daily Mail:
What REALLY happened on 'the worst day in Earth's history': Experts shed light on details of asteroid strike that wiped out 75 per cent of all species 65 million years ago
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Happened in the Seconds, Hours, Weeks After the Dino-Killing Asteroid Hit Earth?
Seeker:
Greenland Shark Lives at Least 272 Years
Mental Floss:
Some Sloths Are More Slothful Than Others
Gizmodo:
Squirrel Steals GoPro, Records Harrowing Escape
Daily Mail:
Stone Age tools reveal how our ancestors prepared duck, rhino and horse meat up to 250,000 years ago
Daily Mail:
Stone Age MISSILES: Early humans were able to hunt prey by throwing round rocks with impressive skill
Daily Mail:
New study claims the theory of how humans populated America is WRONG: Researchers say travellers could not have passed 'ice-free corridor' earlier than 12,600 years ago
The History Blog:
12,300-year-old hearth left by early inhabitants of Utah
The History Blog:
Tiny gold bead may be oldest gold artifact
The History Blog:
Boys ruin iconic skier petroglyph trying to "fix" it
Daily Mail:
The missing Bronze Age city: 3,000-year-old grave of a family in Cyprus may help reveal a long-lost metropolis
Live Science:
Ancient Greek Skeleton May Be Remains of Human Sacrifice to Zeus
National Geographic:
Ancient Fort and Stele Proclaiming Victory of Famous Persian King Found in Russia
National Geographic:
Giant 'Arrows' Seen From Space Point to a Vanished World
Forbes:
This Skeleton Is The Oldest Known Ancient Olympic Athlete
The Guardian:
Mysterious magic spells unearthed by archaeologists in Serbia
The History Blog:
Roman gold curse tablets found in Serbia
Daily Mail:
Rare 4th century mosaic floor unearthed in Cyprus illustrates scenes of ancient Roman chariot races in the hippodrome
The Guardian:
Maya tomb uncovered holding body, treasure and tales of 'snake dynasty'
The History Blog:
Maya Snake dynasty tomb found in Belize
Daily Mail:
Ancient remains discovered at 'America's first city' reveal women held high-power positions
Mental Floss:
Man Discovers Lost Dürer Work at Flea Market, Donates It to German Museum
BBC History Extra:
What happened to the lost colony of Roanoke Island?
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Robe Volante, the First Comfortable Dress in France, Sells for $150,000
BBC History Extra:
How the French won Waterloo (or think they did)
Atlas Obscura:
How Racism Kept The World's Fastest Swim Stroke Out Of The Pool
Mental Floss:
The Riot Caused By A Performance of 'Macbeth'
Rolling Stone:
Lizzie Borden: Why a 19th-Century Axe Murder Still Fascinates Us
Air & Space Magazine:
The Last Words of Otto Lilienthal
Atlas Obscura:
The 9 Lives of the Spanish Prisoner, the Treasure-Dangling Scam That Won't Die
Mental Floss:
Retrobituary: Matthew Henson, the Arctic Explorer Who Stood on Top of the World
Daily Mail:
The mystery of Piltdown Man is solved: Charles Dawsen, who found the fake human 'fossil', was probably behind the hoax
The Conversation:
Solving the Piltdown Man crime: how we worked out there was only one forger
Mental Floss:
11 Facts About Rio's Christ the Redeemer Statue
San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco's Lombard Street: It's twisty, crooked, and it almost didn't happen
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Chuck Taylor Taught America How to Play Basketball
Smithsonian Magazine:
Babe Ruth Hit a Home Run With Celebrity Product Endorsements
San Francisco Chronicle:
On this day in 1934, the first federal prisoners arrived on Alcatraz Island
Air & Space Magazine:
Amelia Earhart Slept Here
Mental Floss:
Trebitsch Lincoln, International Con Man and Self-Styled Nazi Superweapon
Mental Floss:
This Is What Anne Frank's Arrest Looked Like
Gizmodo:
This is What The Site of Britain's Largest Non-Nuclear Explosion Looks Like 70 Years Later
Mental Floss:
The Lucky City That Escaped Nagasaki's A-Bomb
Mental Floss:
10 Head-Spinning Facts About Disney's Mad Tea Party Ride
Atlas Obscura:
How Cuba's Greatest Cartoonist Fled From Castro and Created 'Spy vs. Spy'
Gizmodo:
A Solar Flare Almost Sparked a Nuclear War in 1967
Smithsonian Magazine:
What You Don't Know About Olympian Tommie Smith's Silent Gesture
Mental Floss:
Nabisco's X-Rated Toy Scandal of 1971
Ars Technica:
Researchers crack open unusually advanced malware that hid for 5 years
GQ:
Inside Ark Encounter, the Life-Size Noah's Ark Theme Park That Will Save (Some of) Us All
Gizmag:
Hyperloop One plans to take supersonic tube transport underwater
BBC History Extra:
9 eccentric monarchs through history
Mental Floss:
7 Ships That Disappeared Without a Trace
Atlas Obscura:
The Bloody Histories and Remaining Relics of 5 Violent Feuds
Mental Floss:
14 Antique Roller Coasters You Can Still Ride
August 12, 2016
Gizmag:
World's largest aircraft greets the public ahead of first flight tests
Seeker:
Paraglider Soars To Record Heights Above Pakistan
History Net:
The Legendary Lockheed Constellation
New Scientist:
Iridium: story of a communications solution no one listened to
Universe Today:
Spaceports and the Future of Space Exploration
Spaceflight History:
Could the Space Voyages in the Film and Novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" Really Happen? (Part 1)
Spaceflight History:
Could the Space Voyages in the Film and Novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" Really Happen? (Part 2)
IEEE Spectrum:
Robot Arms, a Radar Antenna, and a Stick-On Docking System: Finally, My Jetpack Has Arrived
Mental Floss:
7 Strange Things That Have Been Left On the Moon
August 11, 2016
Collective Evolution:
20 Years Later Emily Shares Her Story Again Of Meeting A Real Extraterrestrial
New Scientist:
US Air Force wants to plasma bomb the sky using tiny satellites
Spaceflight Now:
Air Force satellite duo mated to Delta 4 rocket for next week's launch
Spaceflight Now:
Station cargo ship delays clear way for needed spacewalk
Space Daily:
China prepares for new round of manned space missions
Gizmodo:
NASA Wants to Build These Six New Prototype Deep Space Houses
Seeker:
Williams to Become NASA's Longest-Duration Space Flier
Scientific American:
Hellish Venus Might Have Been Habitable for Billions of Years
Daily Mail:
Have signs of Martian life been obliterated by meteorite blasts? Extreme pressures during impact may wipe out organic compounds, study finds
Seeker:
Did Meteorite Impacts Sterilize Subsurface Mars Life?
Astrobiology Magazine:
Cassini Finds Flooded Canyons on Titan
New Scientist:
Mystery object in weird orbit beyond Neptune cannot be explained
New Scientist:
Triple signal of 'alien megastructure' star baffles astronomers
Popular Science:
NASA Just Released An Addictive New Mars Rover Game
August 10, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Buildup of unusual launcher begins for NASA's asteroid sample return mission
Spaceflight Insider:
China to develop a hybrid spaceplane for cheaper space travel
Daily Mail:
Watch Nasa blast the world's biggest rocket in slow motion: SLS booster test is captured in stunning detail
Gizmag:
Mercury's volcanoes have been (mostly) snoozing for billions of years
Gizmag:
Are we looking for Martian life in all the wrong places?
Universe Today:
Why is Uranus on its Side?
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Aug. 11 and 12 with a Possible Strong Outburst!
August 9, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Next missile warning sentinel set for October launch to geosynchronous orbit
Universe Today:
Boeing Starts Assembly of 1st Flightworthy Starliner Crew Taxi Vehicle at Kennedy Spaceport
New Scientist:
Inside NASA's towering rocket factory before deep space mission
Sputnik News:
Russian Cosmonauts to Make Probiotic Fermented Milk Product at ISS
Space Daily:
China begins developing hybrid spacecraft
Seeker:
Rover Curiosity's Four Years of Stunning Mars Discovery
Daily Mail:
Mystery of Mars' mineral veins is solved: Strange structures were formed by ancient lakes that may have supported life
Space Daily:
Pluto Flyby - A Year Later
Daily Mail:
Getting to the core of Ceres: Dawn's orbit around the dwarf planet reveals what it looks like deep inside
Stuff NZ:
Scientists discover a giant planet that orbits two suns - and could have habitable moons
Astrobiology Magazine:
Astronomers make first accurate measurement of oxygen in distant galaxy
National Geographic:
This Week's Night Sky: See an Asteroid Pass and Meteors Peak
August 8, 2016
Mysterious Universe:
Decades-Old Brown Mountain Lights Photo Uncovered in 'Secret' Collection
Spaceflight Insider:
China conducts surprise launch of its first Tiantong-1 satellite
Ars Technica:
Russia says it's going to send a lander to the solar system's largest moon
Seeker:
China's Yutu Moon Rover Has Died
New Scientist:
China's Jade Rabbit moon rover dead after 31 months on surface
Scientific American:
NASA's 2020 Rover Will Carry Microphones to Mars
Popular Science:
Get Your Playlist Ready: The Next Mars Rover Will Capture Sounds
Seeker:
The Sun Just Killed a Comet
Daily Mail:
Watch the amazing moment a comet crashes to a fiery death as it passes past the sun at 1.3 MILLION miles an hour
New Scientist:
Venus could have been habitable while life evolved on Earth
Seeker:
On Volcano Moon Io, it Snows Sulfur Every Day
Astrobiology Magazine:
Another Earth? Kepler astronomers pinpoint likeliest candidates
Gizmag:
Kepler astronomers identify top 20 habitable exoplanet candidates
Seeker:
Kepler's 'Alien Megastructure' Star Just Got Weirder
Popular Science:
Astronomers Are Working To Figure Out Why The Milky Way Has A Hole In It
WEEKEND EDITION: August 6 through August 7, 2016
Scientific American:
Did the Universe Boot Up with a "Big Bounce?"
New Scientist:
Ghost particles may explain why gravity is so surprisingly weak
Scientific American:
Hope for New Particle Fizzles at the LHC
Gizmag:
Can A.I. write a Hollywood film?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet SwagBot, the Robot Cowboy That Can Herd and Monitor Cattle On Its Own
Daily Mail:
Feeling lucky? US Marines test machine gun wielding robot that can also throw grenades and even drag wounded soldiers to safety
Sputnik News:
Russia's Nerekhta-2 Combat Robot to Be Presented in 2016
Daily Mail:
The creepy humanoid robot with a neural network for a 'brain': Japanese gadget uses AI and can control limbs and facial expressions - and can even sing
Astrobiology Magazine:
Earth's mantle appears to have a driving role in plate tectonics
Gizmodo:
Strange Minerals From Siberian Mine Are Unlike Anything Found in Nature
Gizmodo:
There's Something Strange Happening at the Bottom of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Stuff NZ:
Was this ancient organism the first life on Earth, or just the luckiest?
Daily Mail:
The fish that went through a 'reverse evolution': Blind hagfish could see 300 million years ago
Daily Mail:
Dinosaurs saw red: Gene that gives birds and turtles colour vision is traced back 250 million years
Seeker:
Dinosaurs Likely Saw Shades of Red
Daily Mail:
Fossilised whale skull reveals that the creature's incredible ultrasonic hearing evolved 27 million years ago
Mysterious Universe:
Ancient Kangaroos Had Fangs, Climbed Trees
Stuff NZ:
Strange 'purple blob' on Pacific seafloor baffles scientists
The Guardian:
Frigatebirds sleep in mid-flight
Daily Mail:
Ok, kids, that's scared everyone out of the water. Let's go and steal someone's lunch . . .
Daily Mail:
Stone Age hunter-gatherers learned to farm in TURKEY before spreading their knowledge across Europe
Daily Mail:
Quinoa helped hunter-gatherers build a civilisation: 'Hipster food' allowed early foragers in North America to become farmers
Gizmag:
Ancient child skeletons suggest China's Great Flood story does hold water
Daily Mail:
Revealed: Ancient rocks suggest China's legendary 'Great Flood' took place 4,000 years ago
Science Magazine:
Massive flood may have led to China's earliest empire
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Ancient History of Cheating in the Olympics
The History Blog:
80 shackled skeletons found in ancient mass graves
Daily Mail:
Has the real birthplace of King Arthur been found? Archaeologists unearth Dark Age royal palace - just where legends said he was born - but which had already vanished by the time they were written down
The History Blog:
6th c. walls unearthed at Tintagel Castle
The History Blog:
NYU student finds 12th c. brooch on Irish beach
BBC History Extra:
Isabella of France: the rebel queen
BBC History Extra:
The Spanish Armada: England's lucky escape
Stuff NZ:
Kepler's simple, brilliant equation
Stuff NZ:
Chickens arrived in New Zealand with Captain Cook, Royal Society study says
The History Blog:
V&A acquires largest peepshow collection
BBC History Extra:
What killed Napoleon Bonaparte?
Smithsonian Magazine:
How the American Civil War Built Egypt's Vaunted Cotton Industry and Changed the Country Forever
Live Science:
X-Rays Reveal 'Lost' Portrait by Edgar Degas Behind 19th-Century Painting
The Guardian:
The real story of the Secret Agent and the Greenwich Observatory bombing
BBC History Extra:
Did Britain doom the Lusitania?
BBC History Extra:
Tutankhamun: who's afraid of the pharaoh's curse?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Original Pooh Bear Gets Makeover, Returns to New York Public Library
BBC History Extra:
Enigma before Bletchley: the German spies who betrayed Hitler
ESPN:
The Spirit Of A Legend
The Guardian:
Nazi Germany's Jewish champion: the mystery of Helene Mayer endures
Science Magazine:
Mysterious, ice-buried Cold War military base may be unearthed by climate change
Outside:
The Man Who Created Bigfoot
Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Abduction of Patty Hearst Made Her an Icon of the 1970s Counterculture
Mel:
The 'Gay Jesse Owens'
Daily Mail:
The secret cyberattack missions of America's stealth subs revealed: Experts admit 'highly prized' offensive capabilities can hack enemy networks from under the sea
Live Science:
10 Mysterious Deaths and Disappearances That Still Puzzle Historians
Digg:
The Most Insane, Vulgar Court Transcript In History, As Read By Rick And Morty
August 5, 2016
Seeker:
What Are Airplane Chemtrails, Really?
Daily Mail:
Wingless jets and tiny helicopters where you stand on top of the rotor blades: MailOnline reveals some of the strangest aircraft the skies have ever seen
New Scientist:
How drones are learning to find their own way in the world
Daily Mail:
The MEGABLIMP that comes with its own drone doctor: 'Spider' craft will scour surface of Lockheed Martin's cargo carrying craft to look for holes
Air & Space Magazine:
The History of Boeing in 15 Objects
Air & Space Magazine:
The Fastest Jet Flight in History
Daily Mail:
'It's a real kick in the pants': Stunning video reveals what it is like to fly the iconic U-2 spy plane to the edge of space
Inverse:
It's Been 45 Years Since the First Lunar Rover Drove on the Moon
Gizmag:
Is exposure to deep space radiation killing off Apollo-era astronauts?
Gizmag:
In pictures: Gorgeous space station concepts from the 1970s
August 4, 2016
Seeker:
Private Company Cleared for 2017 Moon Mission
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Blue Origin Test Flight Was a Successful Failure. Literally, in Fact.
Sputnik News:
Russia's First Solar-Powered Satellite Successfully Completes Test Flight
Sputnik News:
BYOW: Chinese Space Probe Confirms Water Does Not Exist on the Moon
Daily Mail:
China to launch unbreakable quantum spy satellite - and it could one day lead to a megascope the size of Earth that could 'spot a license plate on Jupiter's moons'
Daily Mail:
RIP Jade Rabbit: China's lunar rover is pronounced dead after 31 months on the moon
New Scientist:
Fleet of robots could hunt for life on icy moon Enceladus
Popular Science:
Io's Entire Atmosphere Freezes And Collapses
Astrobiology Magazine:
Space scientists observe Io's atmospheric collapse during eclipse
Daily Mail:
Jupiter's shadow causes the atmosphere of its volcanic moon Io to COLLAPSE
Science Magazine:
Jupiter's shadow turns Io's atmosphere to frost once every 42 hours
Scientific American:
Rosetta Mission Confirms Comets' Antiquity
Gizmodo:
What a Giant Solar Flare Would Look Like Next to Earth
August 3, 2016
BBC History Extra:
The secret search for aliens
The Denver Channel:
Meteor explodes over northern Colorado, explosion caught on camera
Spaceflight Now:
Navy looks for Plan B to salvage its newest communications satellite
Seeker:
Virgin Galactic Awarded FAA Operating License
Spaceflight Insider:
Virgin Galactic receives SpaceShipTwo operator license, starts taxi tests
Spaceflight Insider:
Dream Chaser set to begin Phase Two flight testing
Popular Science:
How SpaceX And NASA Will Work Together To Put A Dragon On Mars
Spaceflight Now:
Boeing nears fix for CST-100 Starliner design hitch
Popular Science:
Watch SpaceX Test A Million Pounds Of Reusable Rocket Thrust
Spaceflight Insider:
Installation of heat-shielding tiles marks new phase for Orion spacecraft
MLive:
200 meteors per hour possible in surge of this year's Perseid meteor shower
Seeker:
Look Up! Perseid Meteors Could be Supercharged
Busines Insider:
13 spectacular meteor showers that you won't want to miss
August 2, 2016
Daily Mail:
Asteroid that is set to narrowly miss Earth could come back and hit us 40 years later
Mysterious Universe:
NASA Sending a Spacecraft to Potential Killer Asteroid
CBS News:
NASA probe will fly to an asteroid, bring back a sample
ABC News:
NASA Spacecraft Set to Explore Giant Asteroid That Could Destroy Earth
Deccan Herald:
Scientists simulate nuclear explosion of asteroid
Space Daily:
NASA's Next Planet Hunter Will Look Closer to Home
Seeker:
Juno Begins Jupiter Free-Fall Before Closest Approach
Inverse:
The Juno Spacecraft Is a Cosmic Archeologist
Seeker:
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is a Great Red Heat Pump
Scientific American:
Jupiter's Great Red Spot May Broil Planet's Atmosphere
Daily Mail:
Jupiter DOESN'T orbit the Sun: Planet's massive size causes it to orbit a point just beyond the sun's surface
Astrobiology Magazine:
Is Earthly Life Premature from a Cosmic Perspective?
Seeker:
Could Life On Earth Have Come From A Comet?
August 1, 2016
Seeker:
Meteor Over Western US Was Reentering Chinese Rocket
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Re-Entering Chinese Rocket Booster Lights Up Western United States Skies
Universe Today:
Chinese Fireball Freaks Out Las Vegas
Gizmag:
SpaceX receives order for second manned mission
Spaceflight Now:
NASA orders second SpaceX crew ferry ship
Spaceflight Insider:
Second SpaceX crew flight ordered by NASA
Universe Today:
NASA Estimates SpaceX 2018 Mars Mission Will Cost Only $300 Million
Spaceflight Now:
NASA spells out support for SpaceX's Red Dragon Mars mission
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX fires previously-flown rocket in major stride toward reusability
Popular Science:
Watch SpaceX Test A Million Pounds Of Reusable Rocket Thrust
Spaceflight Now:
NROL-61 satellite launched Thursday spotted in space by sky-watchers
Spaceflight Now:
ExoMars orbiter fine-tunes path toward red planet
Sputnik News:
NASA Successfully Tests Rocket Engine for Journeys to Mars
Seeker:
Gullies on Mars Probably Not Carved by Water
Gizmag:
Comets aren't collision crumbs according to Rosetta
WEEKEND EDITION: July 30 through July 31, 2016
The Atlantic:
The Debate Over Time's Place in the Universe
Daily Mail:
Fifth fundamental force has NOT been found: LHC search for particle that would rewrite laws of physics comes up empty
Outside Magazine:
Why We're Now Sharing Our Trails with Robots
The Verge:
You can buy a sentry robot for your home
Stuff NZ:
Researchers discover what is likely the world's deepest underwater sinkhole in the South China Sea
Seeker:
Life's Common Ancestor Liked It Hot
Daily Mail:
Did animals splutter into existence rather than explode? Oxygen needed for complex life to emerge in the oceans was 'patchy'
Gizmodo:
Early Animals Could've Caused Earth's First Mass Extinction Simply By Existing
Astrobiology Magazine:
Ancient rocks reveal how Earth recovered from mass extinction
Smithsonian Magazine:
Chew on This: Powerful Jaws Fueled a Jurassic Herbivore Boom
Seeker:
Record-Setting Dinosaur Footprint Found in Bolivia
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
More Evidence That Dinosaurs Suffered a One-Two Extinction Punch
Daily Mail:
Scientists investigating rare wolverine sighting in the Sierra Nevada capture video of the animal
Seeker:
Little-Seen Beaked Whale Deemed a New Species
Daily Mail:
A new ancestor found: Traces of DNA in Andamanese tribe reveal previously unknown hominin species bred with early humans
The History Blog:
40,000-year-old rope-making tool found in famed German cave
Ancient Origins:
16,700-Year-Old Tools Found in Texas Change Known History of North America
Ancient Origins:
Holding Hands for 5,000 Years, A Couple with Mysterious Jade Rings and Dagger
Ancient Origins:
The Oldest Known Calendar in Europe is based on the Orion Constellation
Ancient Origins:
Burned 3,000-Year-Old Settlement Frozen in Time May Have Been Torched by Raiding Party
Ancient Origins:
A Pharaoh Thrice Buried? The Mystery of the Tombs of Pharaoh Akhenaten
The History Blog:
Grave of early Celtic woman found in Germany
The History Blog:
Roman coin hoard found by students in Spain
The Guardian:
Vatican library digitises 1,600-year-old edition of Virgil
Seeker:
Canal Found Under Maya Pyramid: Path to Afterlife?
The History Blog:
Canal system found under Pakal's tomb
Live Science:
Mighty Viking Ax Discovered in Tomb of Medieval 'Power Couple'
Live Science:
Caribbean Cave Art Illuminates Encounters with Europeans
The History Blog:
Indigenous, colonial interaction writ on Caribbean cave walls
The Guardian:
15th-century Flemish masterpiece to stay in UK with lottery help
Ancient Origins:
A Rebel in an Eyepatch and Gown - Ana de Mendoza, the Princess of Eboli
The Guardian:
Armada portrait of triumphant Elizabeth I now belongs to Britain
Ancient Origins:
Poor Merchant to Scientific Fame: The Forgotten Tale of Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit
The Atlantic:
Dollhouses Weren't Invented for Play
Atlas Obscura:
The Public Shaming of England's First Umbrella User
Atlas Obscura:
The Incredible Chevalier d'Eon, Who Left France as a Male Spy and Returned as a Christian Woman
The History Blog:
Spanish colonial adobe bricks found at the Alamo
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Sojourner Truth Used Photography to Help End Slavery
Flashbak:
The Harmony of Courtship: Naughty Stereo Cards (1870-1907)
Smithsonian Magazine:
Sarah Winnemucca Devoted Her Life to Protecting Native Americans in the Face of an Expanding United States
Flashbak:
When Bicycle Messenger Boys Peddled Drugs And Sex Across America (1908 - 1917)
Gizmodo:
Nash Turns 100 Today: Here's Six Reasons Why It May Be The Most Influential Car Company Ever
Mental Floss:
6 Pieces of Groundbreaking Art Born Out of the Russian Revolution
Mental Floss:
10 Dystopian Facts about Aldous Huxley
Mental Floss:
12 Futuristic Facts About 'Metropolis'
Atlas Obscura:
The Experimental Nuclear Reactor Secretly Built Under the University of Chicago
Flashbak:
Building America's Arsenal of Democracy: Alfred Palmer's Portraits Of War
Inside Science:
Japanese Balloon Attack Almost Interrupted Building First Atomic Bombs
Mental Floss:
12 World War II Diaries You Can Read
San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco during the 40s and 50s, captured by photographer Fred Lyon
San Francisco Chronicle:
What did San Francisco look like in the decade you were born?
Daily Mail:
The rise and fall of the Tupperware Queen: How divorced mother-of-one who built a flourishing partyware empire lost everything after organizing lethal outdoor party
Atlas Obscura:
The Lonely Ballad of the Dulles Airport Mobile Lounge
BBC News:
The BBC's detailed plans for nuclear war
Mental Floss:
The Woman Who Might Have Been D.B. Cooper
Scientific American:
Israel Proves the Desalination Era is Here
Mental Floss:
10 of the Oldest Books in the World and Where to See Them
July 29, 2016
Daily Mail:
Airbus reveals radical wingless stratospheric planes that could circle the Earth at 65,000 feet for years at a time
Daily Mail:
It's a sea monster! China unveils world's largest amphibious aircraft used to fight forest fires and perform marine rescues
Air & Space Magazine:
Inventing the Invisible Airplane
Air & Space Magazine:
The Impossible Flight
Air & Space Magazine:
Beware the Black Widow
Mental Floss:
How Playtex Helped Win the Space Race
Popular Science:
How John Glenn Landed After Becoming The First American To Orbit The Earth
Popular Science:
Why Did the Mercury 13 Astronauts Never Fly in Space?
Digg:
These Jetmen Flying Through The Clouds Look Like They're Having The Most Fun Ever
July 28, 2016
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Mysterious light widely seen from San Diego County
KOVR TV:
Light Seen Streaking Across Sky Over Western States
KTLA TV:
Bright Lights Seen Across SoCal Skies Might Be Space Junk From Chinese Rocket: Expert
KSBY TV:
Streaking fireball seen in night sky across Central Coast and beyond
KRNV TV:
Eyewitnesses report seeing fireball shoot across N. Nevada sky
Universe Today:
Top Secret NRO SpySat Set for Brilliant Breakfast Blastoff July 28 - Watch Live
Universe Today:
Falcon Heavy Vs. Saturn V
Universe Today:
Goodbye Forever Philae; We Hardly Knew Ye
Daily Mail:
Top Guns in orbit: US Air Force reveals plan for 'Space Mission Force' to protect America using satellites
Gizmodo:
NASA Will Put Rocket Raccoon And Groot On Its New Mission Patch
Stuff NZ:
From New Plymouth to new heights - Beatrice Tinsley's impact on astronomy
July 27, 2016
MassLive:
Thomas Reed, man at center of 1969 Berkshires UFO report, says his story has been sensationalized
Spaceflight Now:
NASA books nuclear-certified Atlas 5 rocket for Mars 2020 rover launch
Daily Mail:
Nasa reveals spacecraft that will scan for building blocks of life on an asteroid - and bring back a sample
Space Daily:
BepiColombo Mission to Mercury on Track for April 2018 Launch
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Atlas 5 rocket moved to launch pad for Thursday takeoff
Nature:
Philae comet lander goes quiet, for good
Scientific American:
Giant Mountains on Venus May Help Explain Bizarre Clouds
Spaceflight Now:
40 years since Viking, scientists still on the hunt for life on Mars
Seeker:
How Did Dwarf Planet Ceres Lose its Craters?
Discover Magazine:
Venus Is Messing With Halley's Comet
July 26, 2016
C Net:
The Face of Mars: A Martian mystery turns 40
PerfScience:
UFO sighting over Miami turned out to be Atlas V rocket launch from Cape Canaveral
ABC Australia:
Scientific crop circle research held back by links to UFO conspiracies
Seeker:
Sun Erupts With Biggest Solar Flares of 2016
Daily Mail:
Mysterious 'triple whammy' eruptions occur within minutes of each other on the surface of the Sun - its first major flares since APRIL
Popular Science:
U.S. and Russian Scientists Are Making Plans to Go Back to the Moon Together
Seeker:
Solar Probe Plus: We're Going to Dive Into the Sun
Astrobiology Magazine:
Alien Solar System Boasts Tightly Spaced Planets, Unusual Orbits
Seeker:
Mini Alien Star System is a Clockwork Wonder
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA's Hubble Telescope Makes First Atmospheric Study of Earth-Sized Exoplanets
ABC Australia:
X marks the spot at centre of the Milky Way galaxy, indicates NASA's WISE mission
July 25, 2016
ABC Australia:
Shooting fireball scares and amazes Kimberley stargazers
Malta Today:
'Giant fireball' over Calabria, Sicily and Malta could be part of Delta Aquarids meteor shower
Irish Examiner:
Blue fireball lights up Cork sky
Spaceflight Now:
Weather outlook favorable for Thursday's national security launch by Atlas 5
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX CRS-9 Dragon arrives at International Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Two cargo freighters arrive at space station just days apart
Daily Mail:
Saving memories of an epic voyage: Race is on to digitise data stored on film 40 years after Viking 1 landed on Mars
Mental Floss:
7 Spacecraft NASA Has Landed on Mars
Popular Science:
How Lockheed Martin Plans To Set Up A Base Camp In Mars' Orbit
Popular Science:
The Mars Curiosity Rover Is Starting To Make Its Own Decisions
Seeker:
Mars Rover Curiosity Can Now Fire Laser
Sputnik News:
Pew Pew Pew! NASA Allows Its Mars Curiosity Rover to Fire Laser at Will
Popular Science:
NASA Releases Mass of (Okay-Looking) Juno Photos
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Rosetta's Final Resting Place Has Been Chosen
Seeker:
This Discovery Shows Life Might Have Come From Space
Spaceflight Now:
July 24, 1969: Apollo 11 returns home
Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: Apollo 11 then and now
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
Apollo 11 'graffiti' offers glimpse of life aboard
Smithsonian Magazine:
Explore the Apollo 11 Command Module in 3D
WEEKEND EDITION: July 23 through July 24, 2016
Forbes:
The Multiverse For Non-Scientists
Ars Technica:
Gravity doesn't care about quantum spin
Quanta:
A Debate Over the Physics of Time
Daily Mail:
Four new tetraquarks discovered: Bizarre particles could give us clues to the aftermath of the Big Bang
Daily Telegraph:
Robot Wars returns: How killer AI has become terrifyingly commonplace
Gizmodo:
Hyper Little Dog-Bot Might Be the World's First Robot Chihuahua
Quartz:
This biohybrid robot uses sea slug muscles to scoot around
Robohub:
Marty: the little walking robot that's more than a toy
Daily Mail:
Icelandic volcano megaeruption that lasted for SIX MONTHS was caused by record breaking 'kettle' of magma measuring more than 110 square kilometers
Wired:
Could a Volcano Be Waking Up on the Outskirts of Rome?
Stuff NZ:
Could Dunedin be hit by a large, local earthquake?
Mysterious Universe:
Big Earthquake Building Below Bangladesh
Live Science:
Earth's Tides Can Trigger Earthquakes Along the San Andreas Fault
Mental Floss:
It Could Take Another 300 Years to Identify All the Trees in the Amazon
Seeker:
Did Giant Octopus 'Kraken' Kill an Ichthyosaur?
The Guardian:
Meet Gualicho shinyae, the puny-armed distant relative of T. rex
Daily Mail:
Forget Velociraptors! Terrifying big brother of Megaraptor dinosaurs grew more than 21 feet long and had 3-inch serrated teeth
Smithsonian Magazine:
When Did Today's Whales Get So Big?
Mental Floss:
10 Beloved Animals From Ancient History
Daily Mail:
Is this the world's LARGEST great white shark? Photographer travels the world to capture spectacular images of terrifying beasts of the ocean
Smithsonian Magazine:
Move Over, Madagascar: This Island Has the World's Greatest Concentration of Unique Mammals
Science Magazine:
The world's first farmers were surprisingly diverse
The History Blog:
Oldest papyri from oldest port go on display
Seeker:
Egypt's Oldest Writings Found
Science Magazine:
Bronze Age inferno preserved an extraordinary view of life in the United Kingdom 3000 years ago
The History Blog:
Must Farm excavation concludes
Mental Floss:
15 Solid Facts About the Rosetta Stone
Daily Mail:
Does the Antikythera mechanism have a hidden purpose? Experts say world's oldest computer may not have been just a navigational aid after all
The History Blog:
Sewer workers find Hercules mosaic in Cyprus
The History Blog:
Largest Anglo-Saxon building in Scotland found
Ars Technica:
How archaeologists found the lost medieval megacity of Angkor
Atlas Obscura:
The Medieval Prophetess Who Used Her Visions to Criticize the Church
Live Science:
'Witch' Prison Revealed in 15th-Century Scottish Chapel
Daily Mail:
Researchers find 'irrelevant' scribbles in Leonardo da Vinci's notebook actually reveal the moment he first recorded the laws of friction
Daily Mail:
Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose is unveiled in all its glory as entire vessel goes on display for first time nearly 500 years after it sank
The History Blog:
Museum acquires rare 17th c. stained glass window
Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Key to the Bastille Ended Up in George Washington's Possession
Smithsonian Magazine:
Few Artifacts of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Still Exist. These Iron Blocks Help Tell That Gut-Wrenching Story
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Abandoned Buildings Are the Last Remnants of Liberia's Founding History
Smithsonian Magazine:
Tracing Alaska's Russian Heritage
Mental Floss:
Retrobituary: Henry Bergh, Founder of the ASPCA
The History Blog:
Eastman museum buys only known box of first Kodak Film
Mental Floss:
An Exhaustive Photo Series of Native American Life
Air & Space Magazine:
The Upside-Down Dinner
Mental Floss:
WWI Centennial: Battle of Bazentin Ridge
Mental Floss:
Douglas Corrigan 'Accidentally' Flew to Ireland Today in 1938
Atlas Obscura:
How to Keep 500 Miles of Underwater Pipeline Secret
Atlas Obscura:
70 Years Ago, the U.S. Military Set Off a Nuke Underwater, And It Went Very Badly
The Guardian:
How the internet was invented
Mental Floss:
Japan Will Make Its Last-Ever VCR This Month
Smithsonian Magazine:
Unesco Names New World Heritage Sites
July 22, 2016
Gizmag:
Highlights from the 2016 Farnborough Airshow
Daily Mail:
The glider set to fly to the edge of space: Perlan 2 departs for record breaking attempt over Argentina - and could pave the way for hypersonic travel and aircraft on MARS
Daily Mail:
The hi-tech helmet that lets fighter jet pilots ditch night vision goggles: Striker II can project images from built in camera directly onto visor
Gizmag:
New sensor measures aircraft velocity by bouncing lasers off air molecules
Sputnik News:
World's Fastest Consumer Drone Flies Up To 85 MPH
Daily Mail:
Nasa reveals new details of radical 'proton power' system that could send spacecraft to the edge of the universe in just ten years
Popular Science:
The Dizzying View Inside NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building
Spaceflight Now:
OTD: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project launched in 1975
Gizmag:
Fortieth anniversary of Viking invasion of Mars
Universe Today:
Apollo 11 Landing 47 Years Ago; See it Through New Eyes
Popular Science:
Here's Our Original Coverage of Apollo 11
Air & Space Magazine:
Neil Armstrong's Gloves and Helmet Go Back on Display
Air & Space Magazine:
Bob Gilruth, the Quiet Force Behind Apollo
July 21, 2016
Universe Today:
Flawless Capture and Berthing of SpaceX Dragon Supply Ship at ISS
Daily Mail:
Elon Musk reveals radical TRIPLE rocket landing: SpaceX applies to build two more landing pads at Cape Canaveral to test giant rocket that could take man to Mars
Gizmodo:
SpaceX Will Attempt to Land Three Rockets at Once
Daily Mail:
A really deep impact! Vast crater on moon was caused by 180 mile-wide 'proto-planet' that smashed into it 3.6 billion years ago
Astrobiology Magazine:
What Lies Beneath: Venus' Surface Revealed Through the Coulds
Seeker:
Orbiting Buddy Could Join Curiosity 2.0 at Mars
Gizmag:
Three things Juno will teach us about Jupiter
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Throwing Shade on a Comet
Seeker:
Kepler Adds 100 to Galaxy's Planet Count
Daily Mail:
X marks the spot: Nasa space telescope images reveal mysterious formation of stars at the centre of our galaxy
Forbes:
How Are Astronomical Distances Measured?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Big Boom: The Best Places to See Meteorite Impact Craters
July 20, 2016
Stuff NZ:
The meteor that wasn't: Object could be International Space Station debris
TVNZ:
Watch: Air NZ pilot films 'space junk' fireball streaking down South Island's east
Stuff NZ:
Q&A: What is space junk and why is it falling over New Zealand?
Gizmodo:
SpaceX Just Landed a Rocket At Cape Canaveral
Spaceflight Now:
Secret NRO satellite mounted atop Atlas 5 rocket for July 28 launch
Space Daily:
Setting a satellite to catch a satellite
New Scientist:
Milky Way's bulge may have been formed by the galaxy buckling
Astrobiology Magazine:
Warm Jupiters Not As Lonely As Expected
Popular Science:
Water Snow Discovered Floating In Distant, Infant Solar System
The Guardian:
New Orion image hints at a wealth of Earth-sized planets awaiting discovery
Seeker:
'Air Conditioning' Could Make Exoplanets Habitable
Seeker:
2 Newfound Alien Planets Could Support Life
New Scientist:
Planet Nine may have tilted entire solar system except the sun
Universe Today:
See All Five Naked Eye Planets in the Dusk Sky at Once
July 19, 2016
US News and World Report:
SpaceX Launches New Rocket, Setting Off Sonic Boom
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX sends supplies to space station, lands another Falcon rocket
Seeker:
SpaceX Falcon Rocket Soars, Then Returns to Land
New Scientist:
SpaceX launches DNA sequencer and new docking port to the ISS
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX conducts second ground landing after launch of CRS-9 Dragon to ISS
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Falcon 9 rocket lifted vertical for cargo launch
Spaceflight Now:
Russian spacecraft delivers fuel and supplies to space station
Spaceflight Insider:
Progress MS-03 glides in for successful docking with ISS
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Progress MS-03 supply ship fires away from Kazakhstan
Space Daily:
China's second space lab Tiangong-2 reaches launch center
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
China Plans to Build Own Space Station Similar to ISS
Forbes:
China And Russia Discuss Joint Outer-Space Exploration, Moon And Even Mars
July 18, 2016
North Wales Daily Post:
What's behind Anglesey's mysterious 'booms'?
Mysterious Universe:
Over 100 Strange Unexplained Booms Heard in California Town
Charleston Post and Courier:
Sonic boom causes alarm on Folly, Kiawah
Cambridge News:
Sonic boom over Cambridgeshire this morning - but Ministry of Defence says 'it wasn't us'
Peterborough Telegraph:
USAF apologises after fighter jets cause sonic boom over Huntingdonshire
The Hunts Post:
Apology from officials at RAF Lakenheath after sonic boom over Huntingdonshire
Spaceflight Now:
Progress supply ship heads for International Space Station
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz-U successfully sends Progress MS spacecraft en route to ISS
Spaceflight Now:
Weather looks favorable for Falcon 9 launch and landing
Spaceflight Now:
Timeline for SpaceX's ninth station resupply launch
Ars Technica:
SpaceX in 2016: Launching more with a better rocket that it can land
Daily Mail:
The Mars rover that is even more curious: Nasa reveals updated design to hunt for alien life that will blast off to red planet in 2020
Seeker:
Curiosity 2.0: This Is NASA's Next Mars Rover
Gizmag:
Mars 2020 rides Curiosity's coattails to final assembly and testing
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA's Next Mars Rover Progresses Toward 2020 Launch
Spaceflight Now:
Researchers eager for Juno's first chance for Jupiter science
Gizmag:
Travel to Pluto and "land" on its surface, in new NASA video
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Pluto + 1: A Year After New Horizons Made It a World
EarthSky:
Farewell, Rosetta comet mission
Scientific American:
How to See the This Year's Perseid Meteor Shower
WEEKEND EDITION: July 16 through July 17, 2016
Forbes:
Grand Unification May Be A Dead End For Physics
New Scientist:
Our universe could be reborn as a bouncing baby cosmos
BBC News:
The quantum origin of time
Quanta:
How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space
Stuff NZ:
Think of a very, very small number...
Daily Mail:
World's longest maths proof: Solution to a 30-year-old problem would take 10 BILLION years to read - all for a prize of just $100
Inverse:
Ancient Automata Were the Precursors to Today's Robots
Gizmodo:
Check Out This Robot's Funky Walking Style
Gizmodo:
Mall Suspends Security Robot After It Clobbered a Toddler
Digg:
A Friendly Reminder That Fighting Robots Are Awesome
Daily Mail:
Pilot discovers massive Alaska landslide that took huge chunk out of snow-capped mountain and unleashed millions of tons of rock into debris field stretching nearly SEVEN MILES
Stuff NZ:
Giant earthquake could hit southern Asia - study
Daily Mail:
Earth's clouds are shifting towards its poles: Climate scientists warn storms are moving north and south while deserts widen
Seeker:
Giant Blindness-Causing Plant Is Spreading
Gizmag:
Giant ferocious dinosaurs may have cooed, not roared
BBC News:
The reign of the terror birds
Mental Floss:
Ancient Ostrich Relative Discovered in North America
Mental Floss:
This Ancient Crocodilian Egg Looks Like a Geode
Mental Floss:
15 Unflappable Facts About Mallards
Daily Mail:
Homo Erectus walked and worked together as we do: Analysis of 1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal human-like gait and social behaviours
Forbes:
Five Fossils That Are Uniquely American
Seeker:
Top 10 Longest Living Animals
Scientific American:
How China Is Rewriting the Book on Human Origins
Daily Mail:
A deadly but beautiful jigsaw: Delicate 5,000-year-old flint arrowhead could be the work of a Stone Age master craftsman
The History Blog:
Lady Jane Franklin's Egyptian mummy mask
Stuff NZ:
Philistines were more sophisticated than given credit for, say archeologists
The History Blog:
Gold coins found on Teutoburg Forest battle site
The History Blog:
Another Samnite tomb, skeletons, gold coins found in Pompeii
The History Blog:
Inscribed wood barrel stave found at Vindolanda
The History Blog:
Late Roman bronze belt set found in Leicester
The History Blog:
Volunteer at crowdfunded Lindisfarne dig finds Anglo-Saxon name stone
The History Blog:
Danish police to study 10th c. arson at Borgring
The History Blog:
12th c. fortified town found under Illinois cornfield
The History Blog:
Altenberg Abbey treasures reunited after 200 years
Ars Technica:
Four centuries of Polynesian trade moved stone tools over 2,000km
Smithsonian Magazine:
Researcher Unearths a Trove of New Shakespeare Documents
The History Blog:
Four 17th c. tapestries repatriated to Sweden
Mental Floss:
15 Facts about Rembrandt for His Birthday
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Forgotten Jewish Pirates of Jamaica
The History Blog:
Bones of 18th c. Italian missionary found in Tokyo
The History Blog:
Benjamin Franklin's lightning rods
Atlas Obscura:
Inside the World's Deadliest Fireworks Accident
Mental Floss:
Here's What Happened to 15 Key Players in 'Hamilton' After the Duel
Atlas Obscura:
Places You Can No Longer Go: Downing's Oyster House
The History Blog:
Restoration of Napoleon's horse Vizir begins
Mental Floss:
11 Simple Facts About Henry David Thoreau
Atlas Obscura:
The Card Maker Who Brought the Joker Into the World
Atlas Obscura:
Found: A Beautiful Old 10-Cent Bill
Mental Floss:
10 Amazing Facts About Alexander Graham Bell
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Heiress to a Gun Empire Built a Mansion Forever Haunted by the Blood Money That Built It
Seeker:
The Original Female Ghostbuster
The Atlantic:
The Last Known Roll of Kodak Film From 1888
Daily Mail:
Biggest explosion in documented history is STILL a mystery: New study fails to find cause of 1908 Tunguska blast that 'split the sky in two' and flattened 80 million Siberian trees
Atlas Obscura:
The 1913 'Nature Man' Whose Survivalist Stunts Were Not What They Seemed
Mental Floss:
Secret Beatrix Potter Drawings Found Hidden in Books at Melford Hall
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Harvard Professor Who Shot a Financial Titan and Fomented Anti-German Sentiment in a Pre-WWI America
Atlas Obscura:
The Man Who Took This Photo Was Accused of Being an Enemy of the State
Atlas Obscura:
Happy Birthday to the World's First Emergency Number
Atlas Obscura:
The Folsom Prisoner Who Built Functional Miniature Carnivals Out of Toothpicks
Mental Floss:
New Jersey's Oldest Frank Lloyd Wright House Is on the Market
The History Blog:
Escape tunnel found at Lithuanian massacre site
Quartz:
An Italian doctor explains "Syndrome K," the fake disease he invented to save Jews from the Nazis
Flashbak:
1950s American Vacations In Kodachrome
io9:
Watch Film Legend Ray Harryhausen's Concept Footage for War of the Worlds
Flashbak:
Goods Featured In The Soviet Commodity Dictionary 1956-61
Smithsonian Magazine:
Lady Bird Johnson Wielded Power With a Delicate Touch
Smithsonian Magazine:
It's Easy to Forget That Just Fifty Years Ago, Equality for Women Was a Strange Concept
Daily Mail:
FBI no longer investigating DB Cooper plane hijacking case after exhausting all leads, leaving one of the greatest mysteries in American history unsolved
Atlas Obscura:
How Married Ex-CIA Agents Pulled Off the Most Daring Escape in Cold War History
Daily Mail:
Man turns his living room into a giant £40,000 walk-in computer - so that he can play TETRIS
Mental Floss:
6 American Wars You Didn't Learn About in School
Mental Floss:
8 Surprising Places That Were Once U.S. Capitals
Mental Floss:
12 Favorite Haunts of the Founding Fathers You Can Still Visit Today
BBC News:
Five transport promises that never quite changed the world
Mental Floss:
14 Amazing, Gravity-Defying Funiculars
July 15, 2016
Daily Mail:
4,000mph hypersonic plane that could take passengers from London to Sydney in FOUR HOURS moves closer to takeoff as European Space Agency backs 'revolutionary' Sabre engine
Daily Mail:
Russia reveals hypersonic stealth bomber that can launch nuclear attacks from space: Radical plane could begin testing in 2020
Daily Mail:
The plane that hovers at the click of a button: Amazing video reveals unique stunt of RAF's latest £70million F-35B fighter jet
Daily Mail:
Ready for take off! RAF's new F-35 stealth fighter jet which can take off VERTICALLY is star of Royal International Air Tattoo
Gizmag:
Stunning drone-snapped photos get high honors
Gizmodo:
Watching Wingsuiters Base Jump Off This Steep Mountain Will Make You Terrified of Heights
Daily Mail:
London's crazy plan for an elevated airport: Scrapped 1931 design reveals a dangerous wheel-shaped runway at King's Cross
Seeker:
How The Cold War Launched The Space Race
Atlas Obscura:
How Florida Became the Temporary Center of Space Travel
Seeker:
How Ex-Nazis & Jewish Scientists Got The U.S. To The Moon
Seeker:
45 Years Ago, Astronauts First Drove on the Moon
Atlas Obscura:
See Retro Space Mission Patches Worn by Cosmonauts
Daily Mail:
Out of this world: Signed map used by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in Apollo 11 moon landing goes up for sale for £30,000
Gizmag:
Suit up for Bonhams' Space Race collectibles auction
Mental Floss:
8 Early Plans for Visiting Outer Space
July 14, 2016
Space Daily:
China announces success in technology to refuel satellites in orbit
Seeker:
Resurrected radio dish could guide GPS on the moon
Daily Mail:
Now that's a July 4th photobomb! Nasa reveals stunning images as satellite captures moon moving across Earth
Forbes:
Stunning Photos Of Mars From The Curiosity Rover
Universe Today:
A Planet With A 27,000 Year Orbit & That's Just Where The Strangeness Begins
Gizmag:
Galaxy once thought to be tiny turns out to be gigantic
Popular Science:
A Supernova Might Have Abetted A Mass Extinction On Earth
July 13, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Mystery payload for spy satellite agency launching aboard next Atlas 5
Seeker:
Mars Rover Back to Work After 'Safe Mode' Shutdown
Daily Mail:
Juno gets up close with Jupiter: Nasa probe sends back first colour images from its orbit 1.8 BILLION miles away
Seeker:
What Will Rockets Look Like In The Future?
The Atlantic:
The Satellites That Could Trace the Ripples of the Cosmos
Gizmag:
Hybrid balloon/glider designed to wing its way through Titan's atmosphere
Astrobiology Magazine:
Hydrogen cyanide on Titan key to possible prebiotic conditions
Universe Today:
What are the Jovian Planets?
Seeker:
New Dwarf Planet Discovered in Outer Solar System
Astrobiology Magazine:
The Outer Edge of a Star's Habitable Zone a Hard Place for Life
Astrobiology Magazine:
If life can make it here, it can make it anywhere
KOCO-TV:
Meteor shower starts tonight
Mental Floss:
The International Space Station's Media Library Is Stocked With Sci-Fi Movies
July 12, 2016
Spanish News:
Fireball Illuminates The Southern Spanish Sky At 95000 Km/h
Daily Mail:
Has China lost control of their space station? Tiangong-1 could be on an uncontrolled collision course with the Earth
New Scientist:
Doomed Japanese satellite glimpsed galactic wind before it died
Spaceflight Now:
Japan's Hitomi observatory made cosmic discovery before failing
Daily Mail:
Curiosity is back! Nasa reveals Mars rover has resumed work after mystery crash sent it into 'safe mode' on July 2nd
Gizmag:
Martian sand dunes boast unearthly qualities
Gizmag:
The explosive origin story of Mars' two moons
Inside Science:
Mars' Atmosphere Blew Away Billions Of Years Ago
Mental Floss:
Juno Is the First Solar-Powered Spacecraft in the Outer Solar System
Smithsonian Magazine:
Juno Will Eventually Go Up in Flames to Protect Theoretical Alien Life
The Hindu:
The greatest comet discoverer
Gizmodo:
Why Halley's Comet Has Such a Wacky Orbit
July 11, 2016
Arizona Daily Star:
Sonic boom over Globe shatters glass and nerves
Oxford Mail:
Reports of another sonic boom over Oxfordshire
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz brings three to space station
Spaceflight Insider:
ISS crew increases to six with Soyuz MS-01 docking
Universe Today:
Flawless Shakedown Mission from Modified Soyuz Delivers Multinational Crew to Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Crew of three rides Soyuz into orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Navy's new MUOS 5 communications satellite experiences snag in space
Spaceflight Insider:
MUOS-5 encounters anomaly while raising orbit
Gizmag:
NASA works to wake up Curiosity as mission gets two-year extension
Spaceflight Insider:
Mars Curiosity rover enters, leaves safe mode
Daily Mail:
First water clouds outside our solar system spotted just 7.2 light years from Earth
Science Magazine:
Distant planet has three suns and a year more than 500 times longer than ours
Gizmag:
Giant exoplanet with three suns surprises with its stable orbit
Seeker:
Bizarre Alien World With 3 Stars Directly Imaged
Sputnik News:
NASA Thinks They Found Water on Mars: Is There Life on the Red Planet?
Forbes:
Venus, Not Earth, May Have Been Our Solar System's Best Chance At Life
Atlas Obscura:
Why Massive Radio Telescopes Might Be Our Best Shot at Finding Aliens
Gizmodo:
How Often Does Life Emerge in the Universe?
Seeker:
Can New Equation Calculate Odds of Alien Life?
Air & Space Magazine:
The Cosmic Zoo: Why Animal-Like Life Should Be Common In the Universe
WEEKEND EDITION: July 9 through July 10, 2016
Inverse:
How Theoretical Physics Finally Caught Up With Ancient Philosophy
Gizmag:
Could the Big Bang have been more of a Big Bounce?
ABC Australia:
The antimatter mystery: Annihilation and a universe that shouldn't exist
Live Science:
A Fifth Force: Fact or Fiction?
Daily Mail:
The Robot that could get you off a parking ticket: DoNotPay system created by a student has won 160,000 disputes in London and New York
Smithsonian Magazine:
Six of History's Smartest, Weirdest and Most Interesting Inventions for Beating the Heat
Smithsonian Magazine:
Awkward Robots Show How Tails Propelled First Land Walkers to New Heights
Gizmodo:
This Walking Robot Looks Extremely Drunk
Daily Mail:
The tiny robot that just wants to be your friend: Cozmo develops bond with its owner - and its eyes light up when it sees them
Mysterious Universe:
Earth Once Had Many Magnetic Poles
Daily Mail:
Massive 'blobs' of molten rock 100 times higher than Everest found in Earth's mantle
Live Science:
Massive 'Lava Lamp' Blobs Deep Inside Earth Have Scientists Puzzled
Smithsonian Magazine:
Study Says Earth's Plate Tectonics May Be Just a Phase
Astrobiology Magazine:
Super-slow circulation allowed world's oceans to store huge amounts of carbon during the last ice age
Daily Mail:
Birds' exceptional hearing evolved from a cat-sized reptile that roamed the Earth 245 million years ago
Daily Mail:
Thousands of dinosaur-era bird fossils unearthed: Feathers perfectly preserved in amber are close to 100 million years old
Daily Mail:
The spiders locked in battle for 99 MILLION years: Terrifying arachnids found encased in amber had spiked fangs and body armour
Stuff NZ:
Scientists and Tuhoe to hunt dinosaur fossils in the Urewera range
Seeker:
Dwarf Duck-Billed Dinosaur Had a Facial Tumor
Audubon Magazine:
How a Tern Broke the Record for the Longest Known Migration
Smithsonian Magazine:
Where and How to (Safely) Bear Watch in Alaska
Science Magazine:
European Neandertals were cannibals
Daily Mail:
Could this skull rewrite human history? 37,000-year-old cranium found in Borneo may be evidence that ancient Aborigines were not the first to settle in Pacific island
Inside Science:
What Ancient Rock Art Reveals About A Wetter Arabia
Ars Technica:
5,000-year-old pay stub shows that ancient workers were paid in beer
Daily Mail:
Remains of four teenagers killed when Mount Vesuvius erupted more than 1,900-years ago found in ransacked Pompeii shop
Seeker:
Gateway to Ancient Greek God's Compound Uncovered?
Live Science:
Rare Noah's Ark Mosaic Uncovered in Ancient Synagogue in Israel
Daily Mail:
Jewellery crafted by 'lost' ancient people of Scotland unearthed: 1,500-year-old trove of silver discovered at Roman-era stone circle
Daily Mail:
Huge 8th century boat found near Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple could shed light on Khmer Empire's navy
Tech Insider:
The oldest library in the world just opened to the public - here's a look inside
Ars Technica:
Rare Viking "death house" discovered in Denmark
Daily Mail:
Have archaeologists discovered Buddha's remains? Skull bone found in 1,000-year-old shrine could belong to the enlightened one
Live Science:
Ancient Shrine That May Hold Buddha's Skull Bone Found in Crypt
ABC Australia:
Stone tools tell story of intrepid Polynesian mariners
Gizmag:
First published book on heliocentric theory heads for auction
The Guardian:
Pair of paintings from Dutch golden age reunited after 351 years
Aeon:
Slavery as free trade
Amusing Planet:
Bathing Machines of The 19th Century
Smithsonian Magazine:
Family Discovers Rare Letters by Thomas Jefferson
Mental Floss:
The World's Oldest Photo Studio Shutters For Good
Daily Mail:
Bringing the 1890s back to life… in colour! Beautiful photochrome images shed fascinating new light on tourist hotspots around the world more than a hundred years ago
Mental Floss:
Black Mike Winage, the Most Determined Prospector in the Klondike
Atlas Obscura:
Wax Bullet Duels Were the Paintball Fights of 1909
Daily Mail:
Glass eyes, clunky metal arms and oxygen pumps for poisoned lungs: Fascinating exhibition to mark Battle of the Somme reveals the crude medical devices used in World War I
Mental Floss:
Canada's Longest-Serving Prime Minister Might Have Been Its Strangest
Mental Floss:
Dime After Dime: A Gripping History of Claw Machines
Gizmag:
Einstein's (very cool) leather jacket heads to auction
The Guardian:
The fatal hike that became a Nazi propaganda coup
Mental Floss:
The First TV Commercial Aired 75 Years Ago Today
History.net:
When Fire Rained From the Sky
Mental Floss:
13 Unfamiliar Facts About 'Strangers on a Train'
We Are Movie Geeks:
Happy Birthday Ray Harryhausen - Here are His Ten Best Films
Daily Mail:
Rolls Royce reveals remote controlled 'roboships' overseen by a remote holodeck control room will take to the sea by 2020
Daily Mail:
China's secret stealth sub surfaces: First images released of 'Shang' nuclear submarine with improved missile launcher
Daily Mail:
US Navy is developing 'supersonic submarine' that could cut through the ocean at the speed of sound using a bubble
The Nation:
The Most Important US Air Force Base You've Never Heard Of
Stuff NZ:
Driverless cars: The ethical dilemma where no-one gets out alive
Smithsonian Magazine:
For a Truly Authentic Alaskan Experience, Hop Aboard America's Last Flag-Stop Train
The Atlantic:
Archaeologists Are Spotting Ancient Ruins in Cold War Spy Photos
Newsweek:
The Last Nazi Hunter
July 8, 2016
Daily Mail:
Nasa balloon breaks flight record: Helium-filled aircraft completes longest ever journey by staying in air for 46 days
This Is Money UK:
Lift off for the RAF's new £80m jump jet: F35 Lightning II fighter set to steal the show at Farnborough
Air & Space Magazine:
The Last Gunslinger
Air & Space Magazine:
Glacier Girl: The Back Story
DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Could the Space Voyages in the Film and Novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" Really Happen? (Part 1)
New Scientist:
Looking back at Viking, the first mission to Mars
July 7, 2016
ABC Australia:
Frederick Valentich disappearance: How UFO helped inspire The Kettering Incident
CBS News:
Soyuz ferry ship launches with 3 bound for space station
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz MS-01 launch-to-docking timeline
Seeker:
Mars Rover Curiosity Drops into Safe Mode -- But It's OK
Spaceflight Now:
Scientists to land, and switch off, Rosetta comet probe in September
New Scientist:
Up close with the awesome power of NASA's biggest ever rocket
Space Daily:
Dutch Radio Antenna to Depart for Moon on Chinese Mission
New Scientist:
Watch a Cygnus spacecraft burn up as it re-enters the atmosphere
New Scientist:
Homebrew meteorites reveal origins of Mercury's weird crust
Space Daily:
Mercury's Surface Arose from Deep Inside the Planet
Stuff NZ:
What made Mars so ... Mars-like?
Seeker:
Mars Moons Not Captured Asteroids After All?
Astrobiology Magazine:
Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres' Brightest Area
Ars Technica:
Asteroid belt's only dwarf planet doesn't look like we expected
Astrobiology Magazine:
New moon discovered over Makemake in the Kuiper Belt
Mysterious Universe:
Extraterrestrial Opal Found in Meteorite in Antarctica
Space Daily:
Meteorites Recovered in Arizona from June 2 Fireball
Sonora News:
Tracking down the Arizona fireball
July 6, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Upgraded Soyuz prepped to carry three to space station
Russian Space Web:
First Soyuz MS ready for launch
ARRL:
Two Radio Amateurs Set to Head for the International Space Station
Daily Mail:
'Juno, welcome to Jupiter': Nasa probe makes history as it enters into gas giant's orbit after epic 1.8 BILLION mile journey
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Jupiter Has a New Moon. And We Put It There.
Seeker:
Watch Juno's Final Approach to Jupiter
Spaceflight Now:
See Jupiter's Galilean moons in motion from Juno's camera
Spaceflight Now:
Pluto probe's extended mission approved, but new Dawn destination denied
New Scientist:
NASA approves new far-flung destination for Pluto space probe
Space Daily:
What Happens When You Steam a Planet
New Scientist:
Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life
New Scientist:
China builds world's largest radio telescope to hunt for aliens
July 5, 2016
Inquisitr:
Zimbabwe UFO Mass Sighting Contactee Speaks Publicly For The First Time [Video]
EMN:
Zimbabwe UFO Child Conactee Speaks Publicly For The 1st Time
Top Secret Writers:
Brazil Releases Details of Military Confrontation with UFO in 1986
UFO Digest:
Shadowhawk: Skunk Works' Ben Rich often misquoted by members of the ufo community
Stuff NZ:
Nasa's Juno spacecraft makes cosmic date with Jupiter
The New Yorker:
The Juno Spacecraft Reaches Jupiter
Daily Telegraph:
Nasa's Juno spacecraft enters Jupiter's orbit after five-year journey
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese intelligence-gathering satellite launched by Long March 4B rocket
Spaceflight Insider:
China conducts surprise launch of second Shijian-16 satellite
Spaceflight Insider:
Despite thruster glitch, test of manual Progress docking successful
Spaceflight Now:
NASA must decide soon on Dawn mission's next act
Seeker:
Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Jupiter
Seeker:
These Missions Have Journeyed to Jupiter: Photos
Spaceflight Now:
Video: When Juno launched to begin 5-year trek to Jupiter
INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND EDITION: July 2 through July 4, 2016
Smithsonian Magazine:
Hunting Lost Worlds in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin
Daily Mail:
'Clock is ticking' for megaquake in Missouri that could cause 'all hell to break loose' across Middle America
Gizmag:
After 60 Years of Fighting, We Finally Found the Tallest Peak in the US Arctic
Atlas Obscura:
Escape Plan DC: The Prehistoric District
Inside Science:
Odd viruses flourish in boiling, acidic Yellowstone hot springs.
Atlas Obscura:
Fireflies That Blink In Sync Return To Tennessee
Atlas Obscura:
American Idol: Coyote Edition
National Geographic:
A Cougar's Thousand-Mile Quest to Find a Mate
Gizmodo:
How the American Kennel Club Decides New Breeds
Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Save Browser: White Settlement council fur-loughs library cat
Atlas Obscura:
The Secret Egyptian Chapel Hidden Inside a Chicago Break Room
Daily Mail:
Did disease drive off colonists on Roanoke Island? Medicine jar pottery may provide clues to fate of lost 16th century settlers
Daily Mail:
This is the Letter Hamilton Wrote That Got Him Out of the West Indies
History Net:
'Not many things are 300 years old in this country': America's oldest lighthouse station celebrates three centuries of navigating mariners in Boston's harbor
National Geographic:
See Nine Amazing Treasures from the Revolutionary War
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Revolutionary War Patriot Who Carried This Gunpowder Horn Was Fighting for Freedom - Just Not His Own
History Net:
First in America's Skies
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Library Has Books Checked Out by Hamilton and Burr
Daily Mail:
Scathing letter written by Thomas Jefferson attacking his great rival Alexander Hamilton for being 'chained to every thing English' goes on sale for $375,000
Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet the First and Only Foreign-Born First Lady: Louisa Catherine Adams
Atlas Obscura:
The Story of Sam Patch, America's First Professional Waterfall Jumper
Mental Floss:
10 Things You May Not Know About Harriet Beecher Stowe
Atlas Obscura:
The Nation's First Tuberculosis Hospital Was Built Inside a Cave
Live Science:
19th-Century White House Garden Aligns with Solstice Sun
Mental Floss:
Retrobituary: Olive Oatman, the Pioneer Girl Who Became a Marked Woman
Atlas Obscura:
When American Feminists Were Pilloried for Daring to Wear Bloomers
Digg:
Guy Eats A 153-Year-Old Cracker From A Civil War Military Ration
Atlas Obscura:
Places You Can No Longer Go: The Richardson Spite House
Mental Floss:
Met Museum to Display Hundreds of Early American Baseball Cards
Atlas Obscura:
America's First Woman Baseball Writer Broke Glass Ceilings Without A Bat
Ancient Origins:
Ancient Travels to the Americas or a Modern Forgery? Who Made the Bat Creek Inscription?
Atlas Obscura:
Watch 2 Men Waltz in the First Experimental Film With Sound
Mental Floss:
The Mountain That Inspired "America the Beautiful"
Atlas Obscura:
At This Lost Alpine Resort, You Could Ski Among California's Orange Groves
Smithsonian Magazine:
Smithsonian's Wildflower: The Illustrious Life of the Naturalist Who Chronicled America's Native Flora
Mental Floss:
Listen to a 1906 Recording of a Phonograph Advertising Itself
Atlas Obscura:
How a Hotel in Chicago Convinced Drivers They Needed Parking Garages
Inverse:
Thomas Edison Couldn't Predict the Future Because His Ego Was Too Big
Mental Floss:
5 Rejected Designs for the Lincoln Memorial
San Francisco Chronicle:
Historic photos of Golden Gate Park show transformation from sand dunes to urban oasis
The History Blog:
Inverted Jenny stolen 61 years ago found in Ireland
Mental Floss:
14 Salty Facts About Mr. Peanut for His 100th Birthday
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Origin of the Coney Island Hot Dog Is a Uniquely American Story
Daily Mail:
Stunning network of intricately carved WWI tunnels are rediscovered by an amateur explorer who has revealed more than 250 designs etched into the quarry walls by US troops
Smithsonian Magazine:
How an Italian Immigrant Rolled Out the Radio Flyer Wagon Across America
Atlas Obscura:
The Pilots Who Risked Their Lives to Deliver the Mail
Mental Floss:
The Story of Lady Wonder, the Psychic Horse
Atlas Obscura:
Do You Live in a Mail-Order Sears Kit Home? These House Hunters Will Find You
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Long-Lost Manuscript Contains a Searing Eyewitness Account of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Mental Floss:
10 Star-Studded Facts About the Hollywood Sign
Mental Floss:
15 Things You Don't Know About the SAT
San Francisco Chronicle:
A secret room lies behind Abraham Lincoln's head at Mount Rushmore
Smithsonian Magazine:
Walker Evans Wrote the Story of America With His Camera
Atlas Obscura:
Meet 'Deadshot Mary,' a 1930s Undercover Cop Superstar
Atlas Obscura:
The D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Is Famous. But What About Their Forgotten American Stories?
Atlas Obscura:
The Story Behind the Most Baffling Photo Taken on the Golden Gate Bridge
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Summer of Nantucket's Sublime Sea Serpent
Atlas Obscura:
In the Early 1940s, the Red Cross Banned Black Blood Donors
Mental Floss:
The Faces Behind 31 Disney Villains
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Inside Story of How a Nazi Plot to Sabotage the U.S. War Effort Was Foiled
Atlas Obscura:
How U.S. Taxpayers Secretly Funded the Country's First Modern Stink Bombs
Ars Technica:
Lawyers who yanked "Happy Birthday" into public domain now sue over "This Land"
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Segregated Railway Car Offers a Visceral Reminder of the Jim Crow Era
Gizmodo:
Iconic Architect Eero Saarinen Designed Weapons and 'Devices' For the CIA
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Marines Have Confirmed That One of the Men in the Iconic Iwo Jima Photo Has Been Misidentified for 71 Years
Mental Floss:
When Kodak Accidentally Discovered A-Bomb Testing
Jalopnik:
What Happened To The Veterans Of Atomic Testing
Mental Floss:
The Pro Wrestler Who Fought Segregation in 1950s Memphis
Mental Floss:
18 Play-Along Facts About Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop
The Atlantic:
The Legend of Eisenhower's Skinny 'S'
Smithsonian Magazine:
How One Woman Helped End Lunch Counter Segregation in the Nation's Capital
Mental Floss:
10 Fast Facts About the First Corvette
Smithsonian Magazine:
After 52 Years, the "Mississippi Burning" Case Closes
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Origins of the Term "Affirmative Action"
The Atlantic:
Remember When You Could Call the Time?
Atlas Obscura:
The Radical Plan to Turn One California Town into a Gay Utopia
Mental Floss:
The Burglars Who Broke Into the FBI
Slate:
Angels in America: The Complete Oral History
Mental Floss:
Fumbled: The Story of the United States Football League
Mental Floss:
A Bear Necessity: The Story of Teddy Ruxpin
Smithsonian Magazine:
How a Museum Cancelling a Controversial Mapplethorpe Exhibition Changed My Life
GQ:
The Fugitive, His Dead Wife, and the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory That Explains Everything
Mental Floss:
How Scientists Are Preparing for the First-Ever 'All-American' Eclipse
Mental Floss:
8 Prison Animal Programs
Mental Floss:
This Digital Library Contains 1000 National Park Maps
Seeker:
How to Really Drive Across the U.S. Hitting Major Landmarks
Smithsonian Magazine:
A New Museum Is Bringing Relics of the Revolutionary War Into Public View for the First Time in Decades
Atlas Obscura:
Escape Plan DC: George Washington's Washington
Atlas Obscura:
Escape Plan NYC: The Inventor's New York
Atlas Obscura:
Escape Plan NYC: A Day in New York's Industrial Past
Atlas Obscura:
Escape Plan Boston: Castles of the Commonwealth
Atlas Obscura:
Escape Plan Boston: A Literary Escape
Atlas Obscura:
Burlesque, Boneyards, and Bombs: The Other Wonders of Las Vegas
Atlas Obscura:
Escape Plan SF: A Tour of Tech History
Atlas Obscura:
Escape Plan SF: The Curious Collections of the Bay Area
Mental Floss:
12 Pieces of Disney Memorabilia You Can Own
The History Blog:
A romp through the Prelinger film archive
Gizmodo:
Watch 30 Years of Pixar in One Emotional Supercut
July 1, 2016
Seeker:
World's Largest Plane Will Launch Rockets into Space
New Scientist:
I tried out being a space trucker in a Dream Chaser mini-shuttle
Daily Mail:
The 'heli-taxi' set for lift off: Airvinci set to take to the skies in first test of app controlled self flying copter service
Jalopnik:
An Artificial Intelligence Just Beat A Real Human In A Dogfight
Popular Science:
Why Did NASA Still Use Pure Oxygen After the Apollo 1 Fire?
Daily Mail:
The USS Enterprise flies again: Smithsonian unveils restored starship model used in the original Star Trek series
June 30, 2016
MTV:
Aliens, archaeology, and the atomic bomb: A road trip through the ruins of the American West
New York Times:
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Will Soon Be in Jupiter's Grip
Popular Science:
How The Juno Spacecraft Will Survive Jupiter's Devastating Radiation
Popular Science:
An Interactive Guide To The Juno Spacecraft
Spacecraft Insider:
Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser to provide access to space for countries worldwide
Sputnik News:
Move Over, Musk: Russia's Reusable Winged Carrier Rocket to Fly Like Plane
Spaceflight Now:
Oxygen finding strengthens case that Mars was once habitable
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA Weighs Use of Rover to Image Potential Mars Water Sites
Universe Today:
Returned Samples Of Asteroid Itokawa Show Violent 4.5 Billion Year History
Scientific American:
Excitement Builds for the Possibility of Life on Enceladus
Astrobiology Magazine:
A 'Super Grand Canyon' on Pluto's Moon Charon
Seeker:
Asteroid Belt's Ceres Linked to Icy Outer Moons
June 29, 2016
Daily Mail:
Small Meteorite Punches Through Roof of House in Thailand
Daily Mail:
Forget the ISS, get ready for the ROS: Russia reveals plans for solo space station
New Scientist:
China plans for space station with most powerful rocket launch
Daily Mail:
China to go to Mars by 2020: Nation takes another step towards red planet as it reveals it will launch second space station this year
New Scientist:
NASA approves five more years for Hubble Space Telescope
Daily Mail:
A spotless sun: Incredible image shows solar activity at its quietest in 100 years - and some say it could trigger a mini ice age
June 28, 2016
Tech Insider:
9 of the most surreal UFO documents from the CIA archive
Inquistr:
Roswell Incident: Newspaper To Host Two-Day Event Relating To 1947
Mysterious Universe:
These Otherworldly Memorials Commemorate Famous UFO Incidents in Europe
Mysterious Universe:
Chinese Scientist May Have an Explanation for Ball Lightning
Halifax Chronicle Herald:
Bright meteor races across sky east of Halifax
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA to test world's largest crew-rated solid rocket booster
Spaceflight Now:
Friday's Atlas 5 launch as seen from the air, land and rocket
New Scientist:
I smelled comet 67P's deadly pong and lived to tell the tale
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA Scientists Discover Unexpected Mineral on Mars
Daily Mail:
Will this prove water flows on Mars? Curiosity rover to search for briny liquid thought to cascade down nearby mountain
Universe Today:
7 Days Out From Orbital Insertion, NASA's Juno Images Jupiter and its Largest Moons
New Scientist:
Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Does Pluto Harbor an Ocean Under All That Ice?
Inverse:
It's Crop Circle Season in Rural Britain and Investigators Are Wiltshire Bound
June 27, 2016
Indian Express:
World UFO Day: 10 baffling UFO sightings around the world
Inverse:
Everything I Know About Alien Life From Visiting Roswell's UFO Festival
BBC News:
My time as a UFO investigator for the government
Spaceflight Now:
China's new Long March 7 rocket successful on first flight
Spaceflight Now:
Prototype for new Chinese human-rated spacecraft lands in desert
Ars Technica:
Boeing: "Legitimate chance" of Starliner launch in February 2018
Universe Today:
Can Boeing Launch A Crewed Starliner By February 2018?
Spaceflight Insider:
SAFFIRE could provide valuable information for missions to Mars
Space Daily:
Dawn clocks up 1000 orbits of Ceres
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
On the Ball of the Midnight Sun
WEEKEND EDITION: June 25 through June 26, 2016
Seeker:
Spacetime Ripples: When Black Holes Collide
Gizmag:
A long way from everything: The search for a Grand Unified Theory
Seeker:
Black Hole Crashes Warp Spacetime 1,000 Times Yearly
Quanta Magazine:
Six physics equations that changed the course of history
Stuff NZ:
Scientists just got the best measure yet of one of the fundamentals of physics
The History Blog:
Cygan is back! Eric will be. What about Kaiser?
Gizmodo:
Watch This Freakishly Agile Dog-Bot Do the Dishes
Daily Mail:
Don't call them robots! Europe's mechanical workers could become 'electronic persons' under controversial draft plan
Daily Mail:
Antarctic records the highest level of CO2 in 400 million years: Region becomes 'last place on Earth' to reach historic milestone
Stuff NZ:
Geothermal vent in Tarawera eruption crater reactivates for first time in 35 years
Stuff NZ:
Slow-slip East Coast earthquake to roll on for weeks
Seeker:
Large-Scale Motion Detected Around San Andreas Fault
The Guardian:
Frozen in time: fossil plant stem cells from 300 million years ago
Gizmodo:
Ancient Snakes Had Legs - But Not For Walking
National Geographic:
Here's What Happened the Day the Dinosaurs Died
Gizmag:
Over 90 percent of mammals were wiped out by dino-killing asteroid
Daily Mail:
$170,000 for a 25 foot long duck-billed dinosaur and $46,000 for a sabre toothed tiger: Dutch museum sells off its fossilised exhibits
Ars Technica:
Bird brains are dense - with neurons
Mental Floss:
Like Lobsters and Pigeons, Wild Pigs May Orient Their Lives Along Magnetic Fields
Ars Technica:
Cats may have a rudimentary grasp of physics, study finds
The History Blog:
Elusive 4,000-year-old petrographs found in Russia
The History Blog:
Long-lost Neolithic figurine found in Orkney museum
Ancient Origins:
Egyptologists Set to Unravel the Identity of Mystery Pharaoh from Tomb KV55
Smithsonian Magazine:
Archaeologists Uncover Massive Naval Bases of the Ancient Athenians
Seeker:
More Treasures Recovered from Antikythera Wreck
BBC News:
Whistling Sling Bullets Were Roman Troops' Secret 'Terror Weapon'
The History Blog:
The rediscovery of a Pictish silver hoard
Daily Mail:
Romans were more powerful in Britain than thought: Discovery of coins and pottery in Devon redraws the map of the empire
Seeker:
Long-Headed Woman from Ancient Kingdom Revealed
The History Blog:
Restored 6th c. purple gospels return home
The History Blog:
Bones in Trondheim well confirm Norwegian saga
Ancient Origins:
Gonzalo Guerrero: Father of the First Mestizos and Army Captain of the Mayans
The History Blog:
UK bars export of lavish Florentine inlaid table top
The History Blog:
La Belle restoration complete
Smithsonian Magazine:
Inventing the Beach: The Unnatural History of a Natural Place
Daily Mail:
Picasso masterpiece becomes the most-expensive painting sold in the UK for six years after fetching a staggering £43.3 MILLION at auction
San Francisco Chronicle:
Photos: The hell that was the Eastern Front of World War II
Mental Floss:
How a Gift from Schoolchildren Let the Soviets Spy on the U.S. for 7 Years
Politico:
The Top-Secret Cold War Plan to Keep Soviet Hands Off Middle Eastern Oil
Mental Floss:
13 Thrilling Facts About 'House Of Wax'
Mental Floss:
10 Fun Facts About '$100,000 Pyramid'
Mental Floss:
The Surprisingly Devious History of CAPTCHA
Mental Floss:
Deeply Absorbing: The ShamWow Story
Mother Jones:
My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard: A Mother Jones Investigation
Daily Mail:
Russia unveils world's biggest nuclear icebreaker: Gigantic ship can smash through ice 10 feet thick and 13 feet deep
Daily Mail:
China's secret stealth sub surfaces: First images released of 'Shang' nuclear submarine with improved missile launcher
Gizmag:
Tank crews get 360-degree X-ray vision
Gizmag:
Supercars past, present and future take center stage at Cholmondeley
Gizmag:
Louis Moinet celebrates bicentenary of the chronograph with Memoris Anniversaire
Ars Technica:
When everything else fails, amateur radio will still be there - and thriving
BBC News:
Maps have 'north' at the top, but it could've been different
June 24, 2016
The Atlantic:
The Growing Risk of a War in Space
Daily Mail:
World's largest plane gets ready for its debut: Enormous Stratolaunch will send astronauts into orbit using a mini shuttle
Gizmodo:
Watch These Drones Flawlessly Perform With a Talented Dance Troupe
Gizmodo:
Drone Footage Inside a 19th-Century Church Looks Too Incredible to Be Real
Gizmodo:
A Flock of 61 Wingsuiters in Flight Looks Like an Airborne Invasion
Daily Mail:
The car race that will REALLY take off: California to get 219 mile circuit for flying cars to compete
Inverse:
A History of Space Guns From Isaac Newton to Nazis in Paris and Project HARP
Digg:
This Russian Ejection Seat Is An Amazing Piece Of Engineering
Gizmodo:
NASA's Last Apollo Saturn V Rocket Is on Its Way to Mississippi Instead of the Moon
Stuff NZ:
In 1976, Nasa's first Mars probe was looking for Martians
June 23, 2016
Daily Mail:
Russia's plan to conquer the moon: Nation will send 12 cosmonauts to lunar surface ahead of creating a permanent base by 2030
Daily Mail:
Amateur astronomers pinpoint the military's latest ultrasecret satellite in orbit - but still don't know what it is for
Sputnik News:
No Secrets: Russia to Publish Catalog Disclosing US Military Satellites
Daily Mail:
Move over Nasa: India launches 20 satellites in 26 minutes using just ONE rocket
Popular Science:
Inside NASA's Mars Mission
Popular Science:
Look Inside Virgin Galactic's Rocket Facility
Daily Mail:
Russia's plan to conquer the moon: Nation will send 12 cosmonauts to lunar surface ahead of creating a permanent base by 2030
Sputnik News:
First Stage of Vostochny Cosmodrome Construction to Be Finished by November
Universe Today:
Huge Plasma Tsunamis Hitting Earth Explains Third Van Allen Belt
Gizmodo:
The Atmosphere of Venus Is More Terrifying Than We Imagined
Popular Science:
Juno Mission Will Peer Beneath Jupiter's Clouds In July
Seeker:
New Horizons Finds Clues of an Ocean on Pluto
Astrobiology Magazine:
Research bolsters case for a present-day subsurface ocean on Pluto
New Scientist:
Pluto must have liquid ocean or it'd look like an overripe peach
Daily Mail:
The rarest crystals on Earth: Scientists reveal only two quasicrystals have EVER been found - and they were caused by colliding asteroids
Arizona Daily Star:
Mine Tales: Unraveling the mystery, marvels of Meteor Crater
June 22, 2016
Universe Today:
Pancaked SpaceX Falcon Pulls into Port After Trio of Spectacular Landings
Sputnik News:
India Successfully Puts Record 20 Satellites Into Orbit - Space Agency
New Scientist:
China wants to share its new space station with the world
Sputnik News:
Moscow, Beijing Considering Deliveries of RD-180 Rocket Engines to China
Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet Three of Earth's Tiny Celestial Buddies
Smithsonian Magazine:
Here's What Will Happen When Juno Gets to Jupiter
Cosmos:
New insights into Pluto's outer moons
Astrobiology Magazine:
Unexpected excess of giant planets in star cluster
Smithsonian Magazine:
Diamond Planets Might Have Hosted Earliest Life
Live Science:
What's Causing Mysterious 'Worldwide Hum?'
June 21, 2016
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Happy Full Moon Solstice!
Space Daily:
China to send Chang'e-4 to south pole of moon's far-side
Daily Mail:
Video shows SpaceX's latest landing failure as Falcon 9 rocket is engulfed in smoke on drone ship
Popular Science:
Can We Defend What We Put In Space?
Gizmag:
Earth picks up asteroid traveling companion
The Guardian:
Earth's companion: asteroid locked in game of leapfrog with planet
Vox:
Earth has a new "quasi-satellite" - an asteroid that will follow us for centuries
Daily Mail:
Mars was plagued by MEGA-VOLCANOES: Surprise discovery of mineral suggests red planet was far more hellish than thought
Cosmos:
Mars rover wraps up Marathon Valley exploration
Seeker:
Watching Mars' Amazing Global Dust Storms: Photos
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's Juno spacecraft closes in on Jupiter
Seeker:
Jupiter Orbital Insertion: Juno's Dive Into the Unknown
Cosmos:
A disturbance on the rings of Saturn and other pictures
Astrobiology Magazine:
Extreme trans-Neptunian objects lead the way to Planet Nine
Ars Technica:
Do we really need humans to explore Mars?
June 20, 2016
Atlas Obscura:
There's a Huge UFO Archive Hiding in These Swedish Apartment Cellars
Daily Express:
Are snaps taken by mechanic in 1953 the best 'UFOs' ever caught on camera?
Seeker:
Three Astronauts Touch Down After 6 Months in Space
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz spacecraft brings home three-man station crew
Spaceflight Insider:
ISS Expedition 47 trio returns to Earth
Daily Mail:
'I'd love a pizza and a nice cold beer': Major Tim Peake looks forward to home comforts after landing back on Earth (shame he's got to FAST for 24 hours while his body readjusts to gravity)
Sputnik:
From ISS to Earth: Roscosmos Releases Amazing Videos of Astronauts' Journey
Gizmag:
Blue Origin finds success in parachute failure and fourth rocket landing
Spaceflight Now:
Blue Origin flies reusable suborbital rocket for fourth time
Seeker:
Blue Origin Capsule Lands Safely, Sans One Parachute
Digg:
Watch Blue Origin Launch And Land A Rocket
Gizmag:
Meteorite discovery: "No one has seen anything like this one before"
Cosmos:
Don't look now, but we're being followed...
WEEKEND EDITION: June 18 through June 19, 2016
Quanta Magazine:
Is Infinity Real?
Quanta Magazine:
Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide
Cosmos:
The square root of 2
Mental Floss:
Astrophysicists Detect Gravitational Waves Once Again
Science Magazine:
Four new element names are on the table
Cosmos:
Four new elements named - here's how the periodic table evolved
The Conversation:
Ancient asteroid impacts yield evidence for the nature of the early Earth
Cosmos:
Ancient asteroid impacts yield evidence for the nature of the early Earth
Daily Mail:
The new map of the Earth's plates that means textbooks really WILL have to be rewritten
Seeker:
El Nino Had a Good Run, But Now It's Over
Nautilus:
El Nino Has Ended Kingdoms and Civilizations
Stuff NZ:
Hijacked bacteria new theory to life as we know it
Atlas Obscura:
The Incredible Coincidence of a Poisonous Tree Growing Next to Its Antidote
Atlas Obscura:
New 200-Million-Year-Old Species of Marine Reptile Found From Dinosaur Era
Inverse:
3 Alpha Predator Heavyweights That Could Have Slaughtered Tyrannosaurus Rex
Science Magazine:
First fossil footprints of saber-toothed cats are bigger than Bengal tiger paws
Mental Floss:
When Cornered, Electric Eels Rise Out of the Water to Attack
Atlas Obscura:
Watch Humans Work Together to Rescue a Canine Friend
Cosmos:
Where did we come from? A primer on early human evolution
New Scientist:
Supernovae 2 million years ago may have changed human behaviour
The History Blog:
6,000-year-old massacre found in Neolithic silo
The History Blog:
Antikythera Mechanism was an astronomy text
Mental Floss:
15 Intriguing Facts About the Antikythera Mechanism
The History Blog:
First ancient oracle found in Athens
The History Blog:
Hikers find first ancient petroglyphs on Montserrat
Daily Mail:
Hunt begins for a SECOND King under a car park: After Richard III, now surveyors scan for signs of Henry I at a school in Reading
Atlas Obscura:
Laser Technology Reveals Cambodian Civilization that 'Rewrites History'
Daily Mail:
Ming Dynasty ruins found under China's Forbidden City: 590-year-old wooden and earth foundations of 'lost' palace uncovered
Gizmag:
Rare vellum Aristotle "de Animabilis" goes to auction - the foundation of the study of biology
Daily Mail:
'Lost' section of Great Wall of China re-emerges: Drought causes 500-year-old fortification to appear from reservoir
The History Blog:
Wrecked Piombo masterpiece restored
Atlas Obscura:
Russia's Centuries-Old Bride-Shows Were the Original Version of 'The Bachelor'
Atlas Obscura:
Europe's First Pornographic Blockbuster Was Made in the Vatican
Atlas Obscura:
Tall Travel Tales from 17th-Century Mexico, Mapped
Mental Floss:
Lord Byron's Poetic Goodbye to His Best Friend
Gizmag:
The stopwatch: 200 years old and still ticking
Atlas Obscura:
How An 1918 Author Introduced the World to the Concept of Female Pleasure
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Library of Congress Needs Your Help to Identify These Silent Movies
San Francisco Chronicle:
From Marilyn to Mao: SF photographer captured mid-century Hollywood and beyond
Sputnik News:
Where Nightmares Come From: Sputnik Takes a Look Inside a Nuclear Warhead
Stuff NZ:
Could genetic scientists resurrect extinct species, like they do in Jurassic Park?
The Guardian:
This is what happens when an AI-written screenplay is made into a film
June 17, 2016
Sputnik News:
Russian, US Astronauts to Return From ISS on June 18 - NASA
Daily Mail:
Hot date! Astronaut Tim Peake facing six-minute 'blast furnace' ride back to earth inside 17,000mph space capsule before hitting the ground 'like a tonne of bricks'
London Register:
Grim-faced 'naut Malenchenko prepares to return home
BBC:
Tim Peake: What has Britain's astronaut achieved?
Mental Floss:
Watch Wingsuit-Wearing Daredevils Fly Over an Active Volcano in Chile
Popular Science:
A Brief History Of Menstruating In Space
Seeker:
Meet the First Man Who Imaged the Moon
Popular Science:
NASA Posters Recruit Mars Explorers
June 16, 2016
Riverside Press-Enterprise:
Joshua Tree: UFO convention to tackle aliens, the supernatural
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX successfully fires satellites into orbit, but loses booster on landing
Seeker:
SpaceX Rocket Launches Satellites, Misses Ocean Landing
Sputnik News:
High-Tech Telescope for Dangerous Asteroids Detection Launched in Russia
Astrobiology Magazine:
Likely new planet may be in slow death spiral
Popular Science:
Missed The SpaceX Launch? Watch This Gorgeous New Video
Popular Science:
Stunning Photos Of Saturday's Mysterious Rocket Launch
Universe Today:
470 Million Year Old Meteorite Discovered In Swedish Quarry
Popular Science:
Ancient Meteorite Was Once An Asteroid-Smasher
Popular Science:
Alien Civilizations Probably Existed Before Humans
June 15, 2016
Sputnik News:
Experts Fear Chinese Space Station Could Crash Into Earth
Slate:
Akatsuki Reveals a Hot, Dynamic Venus
Astrobiology Magazine:
The Jagged Shores of Pluto's Highlands
Daily Mail:
Planet Nine might not be alone: Astronomers suggest there could several hidden worlds in our solar system
Astrobiology Magazine:
New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns
Gizmag:
Where have all the red giants gone?
June 14, 2016
UPI:
Fireball streaks across Australian sky after sunset
Sputnik News:
Russian, US Astronauts to Return From ISS on June 18 - NASA
Spaceflight Insider:
Russia plans to send crews to Moon regularly starting in 2025
Stuff NZ:
NASA's Wanaka balloon still healthy after 28 day flight
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX conducts static fire test for Wednesday's Falcon 9 flight
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA Mars Orbiters Reveal Seasonal Dust Storm Pattern
Popular Science:
The Biggest Obstacle To Mars Colonization May Be Obsolete Humans
Seeker:
Spectacular Space Station Spacewalks: Photos
June 13, 2016
Inquistr:
Killer Asteroid That Could Strike Earth In 2028 Makes First Pass Near Planet
KIRO-TV:
Meteor lights up the sky over Seattle early Friday morning
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
NASA confirms bright midday meteor over Missouri on Monday
Ars Technica:
The world's biggest, baddest rocket launched Saturday and it was stunning
Spaceflight Insider:
Heavyweight Delta IV launches classified satellite for NRO
Spaceflight Now:
Triple-barrel Delta 4-Heavy launches national security satellite
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Delta 4-Heavy launch as seen from press site
Spaceflight Now:
Video: America's most capable rocket ascends from Cape Canaveral on NROL-37
Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4-Heavy factoids
Seeker:
Rosetta's Icy Comet Odyssey Rocks On
Nature:
France launches massive meteor-spotting network
WEEKEND EDITION: June 11 through June 12, 2016
Forbes:
5 Facts About Outer Space That Hardly Anyone Knows
Inverse:
Is Hyperspace Pure Science Fiction? Not If You Look Hard at String Theory
Daily Mail:
Spacecraft WOULD survive the journey through a wormhole: Tunnels in spacetime could someday take us to another universe, claims radical theory
Cosmos:
Probing creation with waves
Gizmodo:
The Rise and Fall of Ken-chan, the $43,000 Robot Waiter
Hyperallergic:
The Incredible Electric Eric: Rebuilding a Lost 1920s British Robot
Cosmos:
Core conundrum: how old is Earth's magnetic field?
Astrobiology Magazine:
Just What Sustains Earth's Magnetic Field Anyways?
Cosmos:
Magma chamber grows beneath New Zealand
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
What Causes Stripey Clouds?
Nautilus:
The Surprising Importance of Stratospheric Life
Daily Mail:
World's oldest plant root: 320 million-year-old fossilised stem cells from first giant rainforest show how differently trees grew
BBC News:
There are only 35 kinds of animal and most are really weird
Smithsonian Magazine:
In This Jurassic Boneyard, It's Not Size That Counts
Daily Mail:
The SUPER SNIFFER dinosaur: Armoured Pawpawsaurus was almost deaf but had a keen sense of smell to detect predators
Digg:
This Video Of Clams Emerging To Eat Might Actually Be From A Horror Movie
Mental Floss:
10 Facts About Cassowaries
Stuff NZ:
New fossils push 'hobbit' story back to 700,000 years ago
Daily Mail:
The first Australians WERE Aborigines: 'Mungo Man' DNA contradicts claims unknown race preceded indigenous people
Ancient Origins:
More Than 70 Engravings and Paintings from 14,000 Years Ago Discovered in a Spanish Cave
Daily Mail:
Dogs were domesticated TWICE: Canines became man's best friend in Europe and Central Asia more than 12,000 years ago
Mental Floss:
Video: Tracking a Snowy Owl Returning Home to the Arctic
Ancient Origins:
Secrets of Stone Age Jade Axes Revealed in Scotland
Forbes:
These Ancient Artifacts - Like King Tut's Dagger - Are Made From Alien Metals
BBC News:
The mystery of England's ancient tunnels
The Guardian:
Archaeologists discover massive Petra monument that could be 2,150 years old
National Geographic:
In Bethlehem's Ancient Church, a Long Unseen Presence Appears
Daily Mail:
Huge Roman fort discovered in Lancaster was key to defending Britain from seaborne raiders as archaeologists flock from other countries to help with excavation
The Guardian:
Hikers on Caribbean island of Montserrat find ancient stone carvings
ABC Australia:
Ancient rice 'first evidence' Madagascan ancestors crossed Indian Ocean from South-East Asia
The Guardian:
X-rays reveal 1,300-year-old writings inside later bookbindings
The History Blog:
Utrecht's first newspaper printed in 1623 found
Atlas Obscura:
Letter-Writing Manuals Were the Self-Help Books of the 18th Century
Stuff NZ:
Awatere River bridge brought nose bleeds, black outs and risk of 'the bends'
Atlas Obscura:
The First Woman to Drive Around the World Wore Men's Breeches and Had a Pet Monkey
Ars Technica:
How World War II scientists invented a data-driven approach to fighting fascism
California Sunday:
The Man in the Woods
Daily Mail:
From daredevils straddling trains to buffalo drinking at night: Breathtaking entries in the National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year contest
History Net:
A Wing and a Prayer
BBC News:
The vet, the tortoise and the airport
Daily Mail:
The silent motorbikes: US military shows off latest special forces stealth technology
Atlas Obscura:
Take a Ride on 10 of the World's Most Mind-Blowing Elevators
Daily Mail:
The Vikings are back in North America! Replica 'dragon' ship reaches Newfoundland after month-long Atlantic crossing
The Atlantic:
How Paper Shaped Civilization
June 10, 2016
Sputnik News:
Battle Blimps: Russian Military Expands the Use of Airships
Gizmag:
Autonomous 30-mile flight for Sikorsky S-76 commercial helicopter
Sputnik News:
Would You Ride in a Drone? Passenger UAV To Begin Test Flights in Nevada
Daily Mail:
Larry Page is secretly building FLYING CARS: Google co-founder has quietly invested $100 million in two start-ups
Bloomberg:
Welcome to Larry Page's Secret Flying-Car Factories
International Business Times:
PAL-V One: Is the flying car set to take off in Europe by 2019?
Yahoo News Canada:
Flying cars? This German startup hopes to get users up in the air by 2018
Defense News:
Behold the Flying Car From France
Ars Technica:
The best of British aviation: the Imperial War Museum Duxford
Space Daily:
Fifty Years of Moon Dust
Popular Science:
What Was the Mir Space Station?
Popular Science:
What We'll Wear To Mars
June 9, 2016
Goldendale Sentinel:
Fireball meteor lights up night sky over county
Spaceflight Now:
Launch of next space station crew moved to July
Popular Science:
SpaceX Plans To Re-Use A Rocket For The First Time This Fall
Spaceflight Insider:
Starliner moves closer to crucial pad abort test
Stuff NZ:
Flying observatory touches down in Christchurch
Seeker:
NASA's Next Mars Rover May Have Flying Sidekick
Sputnik News:
Look Inside: European Space Agency Posts New Video Tour of ISS
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Photographer's Quick Thinking Captures a SpaceX Rocket Descending to Earth
Big Think:
Summer's Guide To Meteor Showers (Fall And Early Winter, Too!)
June 8, 2016
Belleville News-Democrat:
Almost 200 report seeing meteor that flew over metro-east
Spaceflight Now:
Surveillance satellite launching Thursday atop Delta 4-Heavy rocket
Inverse:
SpaceX Announces That the Next Falcon 9 Mission Will be June 14
Gizmag:
New Shepard's parachute set to fail on next flight in the interests of safety
Forbes:
Why Mercury Isn't The Solar System's Hottest Planet
Mental Floss:
Watch Mercury Pass in Front of the Sun in 4K Resolution
National Geographic:
Tsunamis on Mars? Splashy Claim Raises Eyebrows.
Daily Mail:
Jupiter as you've never seen it: 3D map of gas giant reveals its turbulent atmosphere and colourful clouds in incredible detail
Astrobiology Magazine:
Universe's First Life Might Have Been Born on Carbon Planets
June 7, 2016
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Dozens report fireball plunging in sky above St. Louis area, Midwest
Seeker:
Astronauts Occupy Space Station's Bubbly Habitat
Sputnik News:
US, Russian Astronauts Enter ISS Deep Space Habitat for First Time
Gizmodo:
Antares Rocket Passes First Test Since Exploding Two Years Ago
Spaceflight Now:
Upcoming Delta 4-Heavy launch back on track after payload-related delay
Spaceflight Now:
Weather 40 percent 'go' for Delta 4-Heavy
Seeker:
Juno Is One Month From Jupiter: Photos
Astrobiology Magazine:
Pluto's Heart: Like a Cosmic 'Lava Lamp'
Sputnik News:
Most Detailed Yet: New Horizons Sends Back Extreme Close-Up Images of Pluto
IEEE Spectrum:
How Do You Fly to Alpha Centauri in Just 20 Years? Ride a Laser Beam
June 6, 2016
Daily Mail:
Astonishing footage captures meteor lighting up the sky over Arizona after rocketing into Earth's atmosphere at thousands of miles an hour
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Fireball: Couch-Sized Rock Lights Up the Sky Over Arizona
Washington Post:
Thursday's super-bright Arizona meteor was traveling over 40,000 mph
Arizona Republic:
After the asteroid breakup, the hunt begins for the pieces
Spaceflight Now:
Russian satellite launched to measure Earth's size and shape
Gizmodo:
Oh Man, Someone Is Finally Going Inside NASA's Inflatable Space House
Spaceflight Insider:
After hard landing, Falcon 9 first stage back at Port Canaveral
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX's latest booster back home as company mulls pricing, proof tests
Seeker:
Will Dawn Visit a Third Object in the Asteroid Belt?
Gizmag:
Was Planet 9 born of a different star?
Seeker:
Sending Messages to Aliens: Could It Kill Us?
WEEKEND EDITION: June 4 through June 5, 2016
Forbes:
The Universe Is Expanding Way Faster Than We Thought, Researchers Say
Daily Mail:
Mystery as scientists reveal the universe is expanding 9% faster than they thought
Ars Technica:
Gravitational waves may reveal stringy Universe
Gizmodo:
New Evidence Suggests a Fifth Fundamental Force of Nature
Live Science:
Dead or Alive, Schrodinger's Cat Can Be in 2 Boxes at Once
Forbes:
When Did Isaac Newton Finally Fail?
Daily Mail:
Meet Zenbo: Asus reveals $599 AI home robot that can do everything from play with your kids to look after the elderly
Gizmag:
Jumping cockroach robot leaps tall obstacles in a single bound
Daily Mail:
That's quite a crater! Amazing aerial pictures of Death Valley national park show how shattering power of volcanic explosions helped create striking Martian-like landscape
Gizmodo:
The Largest Reservoir in the United States Just Hit an 80 Year Low
Daily Mail:
The landslide that forged a beauty spot: A mountain that collapsed in 20 seconds created Zion National Park 5,000 years ago
Live Science:
Could Gas Explosions Explain Bermuda Triangle Mystery?
Discovery News:
Solar Superflares Set Stage for Life on Earth
Astrobiology Magazine:
Evolution Influenced By Temporary Microbes
Live Science:
Behold the Cardon! Photos of the Giant Cacti of North America
Daily Mail:
Do mass extinctions trigger 'super evolution'? Bizarre 147 million-year-old marine reptile with mouth like a syringe suggests life bounces back faster than thought
Forbes:
How Dinosaur Tracks Changed What We Knew About The Ancient Mediterranean
Daily Mail:
The SUPER SNIFFER dinosaur: Armoured Pawpawsaurus was almost deaf but had a keen sense of smell to detect predators
Cosmos:
New evidence supports asteroid theory of dinosaur extinction
Forbes:
Unbelievably Big Birds Called Antarctica Home 50 Million Years Ago
Daily Mail:
Bizarre snail-crushing marsupial discovered: Carnivore with hammer-like teeth lived 15 million years ago
Daily Mail:
Is this the oldest animal on the planet? Researchers find gigantic sea sponge off Hawaii that could be thousands of years old
Live Science:
School-Bus-Size Giant Squid May Be Lurking Deep in the Sea
Digg:
Freaking Humongous Gator Takes Lazy Stroll Across A Florida Golf Course
Daily Mail:
Un-bear-lievable! Russian family sit down to dinner with a 300lb BEAR at the table
The History Blog:
Neanderthals built stalagmite circles 175,000 years ago
Daily Mail:
The first art gallery? Archaeologists discover large collection of 14,500-year-old animal paintings in Spanish cave
Daily Mail:
Indus Valley civilisation may pre-date Egypt's pharoahs: Ancient society is 2,500 years older than thought
Daily Mail:
Last of a dynasty: 3,800-year-old mummy of ancient Egyptian woman described as 'one of the most important figures in the Middle Kingdom' has been unearthed
The Guardian:
Dagger in Tutankhamun's tomb was made with iron from a meteorite
The History Blog:
Ancient gold wreath kept in a box under the bed
The Guardian:
Oldest handwritten documents in UK unearthed in City dig
Mental Floss:
11 Rome-Sacking Facts About the Original Goths
The History Blog:
Huge medieval cemetery found under Cambridge College
The History Blog:
Altar cloth may be sole surviving Elizabeth I gown
The History Blog:
Louvre and Rijksmuseum co-parent Rembrandt portraits
Gizmodo:
Isaac Newton Once Tried To Invent His Own Language
Mental Floss:
Show & Tell: Caricature of the Chevalier D'Eon a.k.a. Mademoiselle de Beaumont
Daily Mail:
Real-life 175ft 'Rapunzel tower' where 19th-century businessman locked up his cheating wife goes on sale for offers over £1million
Mental Floss:
Retrobituaries: Laura Bullion, The Thorny Rose of the Old West
Popular Mechanics:
This Sucks: The Messy History of the Vacuum Cleaner
Mental Floss:
When Arthur Conan Doyle Tried Solving a Real Mystery
Mental Floss:
The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster
History Net:
Gabby Gabreski: America's Two-War Ace
History Net:
Frederick Rutland: Tinker, Sailor, Aviator, Spy
Daily Mail:
Code machine that Hitler and his generals used to swap top secret messages is found rusting in an Essex shed
The History Blog:
Museum finds part of Nazi cipher machine on eBay
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Merchant Marine Were the Unsung Heroes of World War II
Seeker:
British WWII Sub With Crew Inside Found Off Sardinia
History Net:
Memphis Belle: Twenty Five trips to Hell and Back
Jalopnik:
Why A German Pilot Escorted An American Bomber To Safety During World War II
History Net:
Relentless In Battle
UPI:
A 'Band of Brothers' takes part in the Allied invasion of Normandy (32 images)
Time:
Robert Capa's Iconic D-Day Photo of a Soldier in the Surf
Midland Daily News:
The story of D-Day and the plane that led the invasion: That's All Brother
Knoxville News Sentinel:
Strong memories: D-Day was birthday to Jason Byrd, 93
Stamford Advocate:
One intrepid American warrior on D-Day
Clearwater Beacon:
WWII veteran recalls D-Day over Normandy
Global News Canada:
Montreal veteran Pierre L'Heureux to receive Legion of Honour for D-Day contribution
South Wales Echo:
Paratrooper and D-Day landings hero John Davies awarded Legion d'Honneur two days before his 91st birthday
Ipswich Star:
Suffolk D-Day veteran honoured with d'Honneur remembers Normandy beach landing
Daily Telegraph Autralia:
France awards Gorokan vet Sam Beggs the Legion of Honour medal
Providence Journal:
Among the last witnesses, North Smithfield D-Day vet feels duty to remember
KARE-TV:
Willmar sailor remains come home 72 years after D-Day death
Tribune-Review:
Family recalls Arnold native's sacrifice as member of Band of Brothers
Williamson Daily News:
Pond Creek youngest to die at D-Day invasion
June 3, 2016
Popular Science:
DARPA Urgently Wants A Space Plane It Can Fly Day After Day
Daily Mail:
Could YOU design a secret military spaceplane? US government reveals contest for $140m craft than can blast off ten times in ten days
Gizmag:
King Stallion helicopter aces first heavy load lift test
Gizmodo:
I Wore a $400,000 F-35 Helmet and It Blew My Mind
Stuff NZ:
NASA's Wanaka super pressure balloon completes first trip round world
History Net:
10 Incredible Aerial Rescues
History Net:
Night Owl
History Net:
Letter from Aviation History: The Truth is Out There
Smithsonian Magazine:
Surveyor 1, America's First Lunar Landing
Gizmag:
Leap into the lunar unknown: Fifty years since the landmark launch of Surveyor 1
June 2, 2016
Daily Mail:
Blue Origin is going to crash on purpose! Jeff Bezos says next rocket launch will use faulty parachutes to test how it copes
Popular Science:
July SpaceX Launch Will Carry Private Entrance To Space Station
Cosmos:
'Fresh' craters spotted on the Moon's bottom
Daily Mail:
Moon water mystery solved: H2O trapped in interior was delivered to our satellite by asteroids 4billion years ago
Daily Mail:
Signs of alien life on Mars could have been wiped out by space radiation: Scientists say finding ET may be harder than we think
Seeker:
Is 'Planet 9' a Kidnapped Ex-Exoplanet?
Popular Science:
Controversy Flares Over 'Alien Megastructure' Star
June 1, 2016
Universe Today:
Launch Of World's Largest Rocket Postponed
Spaceflight Now:
Ride aboard the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage on descent
Discovery News:
Mars Is Coming Out of an Ice Age
Discovery News:
Juno Mission Feels Jupiter's Gravitational Hug
Universe Today:
Take A Virtual Reality Tour Of Pluto
Sputnik News:
Focus on Ceres: Can Dwarf Planet Provide Conditions for Emergence of Life?
Discovery News:
Explore the Dwarf Planet Moons
May 31, 2016
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX launches Thaicom 8, lands Falcon 9 first stage
Gizmag:
SpaceX takes aquatic hat trick with third sea barge landing
Popular Science:
SpaceX Lands Its Fourth Rocket
Daily Mail:
NASA successfully inflates expanding room on ISS - and inflatable space stations could be next
IEEE Spectrum:
On Second Try, NASA Manages to Blow Up Inflatable ISS Module
Spaceflight Insider:
BEAM successfully expanded at International Space Station
Gizmag:
Science payload installed aboard future James Webb Space Telescope
Discovery News:
Building Blocks for Life Found in Rosetta's Comet
New Scientist:
Building blocks of life spotted around comet for the first time
Gizmag:
Red dwarf exoplanets not as habitable as once believed
Gizmag:
Simulations suggest Kepler 62-f is "a strong candidate for a habitable planet"
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND EDITION: May 28 through May 30, 2016
Gizmodo:
It Takes Just Four Minutes To Explain the Entire Universe
Digg:
What Would Happen If You Went Back In Time And Killed Your Grandpa?
Science Alert:
Big, beautiful photos of insane physics experiments chasing the 'ghost particle'
Daily Mail:
Rise of the robots: Mechanical monks, sci-fi bots and futuristic machines to go on display to chart the 500-year history of our obsession with humanoids
Gizmag:
Plans to bring Eric, the UK's first walking, talking robot, back to life
Popular Mechanics:
The Little Tank Robot That Carries a Glock
Universe Today:
Is Earth's Magnetic Field Ready to Flip?
Daily Mail:
Forget Cascadia and San Andreas: A Hayward fault megaquake could cause 'greatest natural disaster ever to hit the US', warn experts
BBC News:
The biggest beast that ever flew had wings longer than a bus
Forbes:
Ten Dinosaurs You Never Read About Growing Up
Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet the Diverse and Bizarre "Stars" of the Deep Sea
Audubon Magazine:
The 2016 Audubon Photography Awards: Top 100
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Eerie Portraits Capture Endangered and Extinct Animals in a Film That Is Also Vanishing
Live Science:
How an Orangutan Became a Master of Tying Knots
The Guardian:
Neanderthals built mysterious cave structures 175,000 years ago
Smithsonian Magazine:
Five Things to Know About the Diamond Sutra, the World's Oldest Dated Printed Book
Mental Floss:
'Eye-watering' scale of Black Death's impact on England revealed
The History Blog:
Help save the Drake Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I
Mental Floss:
The Time the Crown Jewels Were Stolen
Mental Floss:
The Amazing True Adventures of the Real Life Robinson Crusoe
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story Behind a Forgotten Symbol of the American Revolution: The Liberty Tree
Daily Mail:
Watch two centuries of immigration to the US: Incredible animation shows the populations that have arrived in America since 1820
The History Blog:
Thomas Jefferson's hair sells for $491 a strand
Priceonomics:
The How Epic Fortunes Were Created During the California Gold Rush
Atlas Obscura:
The Hidden History of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language
Atlas Obscura:
Places You Can No Longer Go: The Mammoth Tree
Atlas Obscura:
Vintage Photos of Lumberjacks and the Giant Trees They Felled
The History Blog:
Britain's biggest gold nugget found near shipwreck in Wales
The Awl:
The Supreme Court Justice Who Shot A Senator
Atlas Obscura:
NPG acquires rare album of photos by Victorian pioneer
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Search Is On for the Site of the Worst Indian Massacre in U.S. History
Smithsonian Magazine:
How an Obscure Photographer Saved Yosemite
The Atlantic:
'Kill Every Buffalo You Can! Every Buffalo Dead Is an Indian Gone'
Atlas Obscura:
Why the First Cremation in the U.S. Was So Controversial
Inverse:
What the Former Slave Who Invented Small Apartment Furniture Got Right
Gizmodo:
The 19th Century Hyperloop Was Going to Travel From NY to SF in 24 Hours
Atlas Obscura:
Vintage Photos of Tree Worship at Western College for Women
Nautilus:
The Father of Modern Metal
Mental Floss:
The Story Behind "Frankie and Johnny"
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Bizarre Tale of the Tunnels, Trysts and Taxa of a Smithsonian Entomologist
Mental Floss:
100 Years Ago, You Could Buy a House From a Sears Catalog
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Most Treacherous Battle of World War I Took Place in the Italian Mountains
Daily Mail:
The graffiti 'tags' of the WWI objectors: Incredible drawings etched onto the walls of 19th century prison cells by men who refused to fight for religious and political reasons
The History Blog:
Conscientious objector graffiti to be preserved
Inverse:
Zorro Was The First American Cinematic Superhero, And He's Coming Back
Daily Mail:
Classic crashes: Incredible black and white photos show the chaos on roads in the early days of the automobile with beautiful vintage motors smashing into trees, careering into canals and plummeting off bridges
Mental Floss:
Retrobituaries: Lincoln Perry, the First African American Movie Star
Mental Floss:
0 Flavorful Facts About the Wienermobile
Smithsonian Magazine:
Will We Ever Know Why Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess Flew to Scotland in the Middle of World War II?
Forbes:
The Science Behind Hitler's Atomic Bomb And How We Stopped It
Daily Mail:
The scars of war: Stunning colour images reveal how Europe was still littered with graves, rusting planes and sunken battleships two years after its liberation from the Nazis
Buffalo Rising:
Take a ride on The Comet
Mental Floss:
10 Bang, Zoom Facts About 'The Honeymooners'
Mental Floss:
How a Tape Recorder Mishap Helped Create Johnny Cash's 'I Walk the Line'
Smithsonian Magazine:
During the Cold War, the Air Force Dropped an Unarmed Nuke on South Carolina
The Atlantic:
Before Emoji, There Was The Print Shop
Mental Floss:
How a Real Quaker Perfectly Shut Down an Overzealous Quaker Oats Lawyer
Ars Technica:
Death by GPS
Daily Beast:
Behind the Biggest Bitcoin Heist in History: Inside the Implosion of Mt. Gox
Mental Floss:
10 Buttoned-Up Facts About Levi's
Jalopnik:
Here's Every Single American Combat Vehicle In One Huge Graphic
Mental Floss:
8 Mysterious People Without a Past
Mental Floss:
15 Pieces of Mail Delivered Decades After They Were Sent
Mental Floss:
12 Splendid Portraits of Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island
Atlas Obscura:
Take a Ride on 9 of the Most Incredible Model Trains in the World
Gizmodo:
The Amazing Architectural Evolution of the Filling Station
May 27, 2016
Live Science:
Blazing-Fast Hypersonic Jet on Track for 2018 Launch
Daily Mail:
The transforming 'hypercopter' that can hit 293mph: Airbus awarded patent for record breaking helicopter with two jet engines
IEEE Spectrum:
Harvard Launches Robot Moth
Daily Mail:
The US Air Force is building a radar 'space fence' that will keep American satellites safe and warn of enemy attacks
Sputnik News:
Russia's Space Station Mir Plunged Into Ocean Before Time
Mental Floss:
Declassified Photos Show the Early Days of Soviet Rocket Testing
Air & Space Magazine:
Ten Great Moments in Aerospace History
Inverse:
Interstellar Space Travel Won't Be Successful Without a Better Braking System
May 26, 2016
Popular Science:
SpaceX Targets Thursday For Launch And Droneship Landing
Florida Today:
SpaceX set to launch Thai communications satellite Thursday
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX 'on track' to launch astronauts in late 2017
Sputnik News:
China to Launch World's First Quantum Space Satellite in July
Sputnik News:
Russian Satellites Resistant to Any Possible Control Interception
Sputnik News:
Russia to Test Humanoid Robot at International Space Station in 2020
Stuff NZ:
Next NASA launch scheduled for Wanaka in March 2017
Inverse:
Who Will Run the Chinese SpaceX? Space Race Capitalism Has Arrived in Beijing
Discovery News:
Mystery Plumes: Did the Sun Bruise Mars?
Daily Mail:
Did alien life flourish in ancient Martian marshlands? Crater on Mars was much wetter and warmer 3.8 billion years ago
Los Angeles Times:
Found: First-ever evidence of comets beyond the solar system orbiting a sun-like star
May 25, 2016
Popular Science:
Space Station Inflatable Habitat Will Get Blown Up On Thursday
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX pencils in July for next Falcon 9 landing at Cape Canaveral
Popular Science:
Next SpaceX Launch Will Pave The Way For First Crewed Private Spaceflights
Popular Science:
Lockheed Martin Wants To Send Humans To Mars In 12 Years
Daily Mail:
Lockheed Martin joins the race to the red planet: Military firm reveals base camp concept that will orbit Mars in 2028
Discovery News:
NASA Probe Tracks Object in Solar System's Badlands
IEEE Spectrum:
Hawaiian Robot Practices Landing Pad Construction for Space Exploration
Discovery News:
Jupiter Is Smashed by Over 6 Huge Fireballs per Year
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Jupiter May Be Hit by a Half-Dozen Visible Asteroid Impacts Every Year
Popular Science:
Asteroids Are Much Weaker Than Earth Rocks
New Scientist:
Identity-crisis comet may really be closest asteroid to the sun
Discovery News:
Another Kuiper Belt Discovered Around Nearby Star
Discovery News:
Extreme Exoplanets Reveal Migration Mystery
New Scientist:
Time capsule galaxy can help probe conditions after the big bang
May 24, 2016
MIT Technology Review:
Too Bad We Didn't Find Aliens Before the Internet Was Invented
Phoenix New Times:
Extraterrestrials in Arizona: The Five Most Infamous Alien Encounters in the State
Daily Mail:
Blast off! India's mini space shuttle successfully completes test run as country joins race to make reusable rockets
Sputnik News:
India Soars Into New Space Race With Inexpensive Reusable Rocket Launch
Popular Science:
India Just Launched A Mini-Space Shuttle
Spaceflight Insider:
International Space Station crew deploys CubeSats
Discovery News:
Europa's Ocean Chemistry Could Be Earth-Like
Discovery News:
How to Form Io's Mountains? Just Squeeze!
Astrobiology Magazine:
First Stellar Occultations Shed Additional Light on Pluto's Atmosphere
Popular Science:
Beyond Pluto: Meet The New Horizons Spacecraft's Next Target
Cosmos Magazine:
Haumea's mysterious moons
May 23, 2016
Daily Mirror:
'Britain's first alien abduction victim' recalls encounter with 'diamond-shaped UFO' 35 years after incident
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Can open science and secrecy coexist?
Puerto Vallarta Daily News:
Meteor passes over Mexico City followed by loud explosion
Mexico News Daily:
Ball of fire, explosion witnessed in 3 states
Space Daily:
Mars - Closest, Biggest and Brightest in a Decade
Spaceflight Now:
India readies reusable launch vehicle testbed for flight
Spaceflight Now:
NASA probe that will make round trip to asteroid and back sent to launch base
Universe Today:
America's First Asteroid Sampling Mission Osiris-Rex Arrives at Florida Launch Base
Spaceflight Now:
One year in space: X-37B spaceplane celebrates anniversary without fanfare
Spaceflight Now:
Latest close-up of Mars comes from Hubble telescope
Daily Mail:
Mars was plagued by MEGA-TSUNAMIS: Waves up to 400 feet high swept across ancient oceans following meteor strikes on red planet, leaving scars still visible today
Ars Technica:
Ancient meteor strikes sent ice-rich tsunamis across the surface of Mars
Smithsonian Magazine:
Mars Weather Forecast Calls for Massive Dust Storms -- Here's Why
Forbes:
Hiding From Hostile Space Aliens Is No Longer An Option
WEEKEND EDITION: May 21 through May 22, 2016
Quanta Magazine:
New Support for Alternative Quantum View
Scientific American:
The Collider That Could Save Physics
Daily Mail:
A robot has been teaching grad students for 5 months... and NONE of them realized
Tech Crunch:
Pepper the Robot gets increased access for Android developers ahead of its US launch
Daily Mail:
From struck to stuck! Google patents a protective 'flypaper' coating that will keep pedestrians on the hood after getting hit by a self-driving car
Astrobiology Magazine:
Cosmic dust reveals Earth's ancient atmosphere
Daily Mail:
Earth's 'magnetic explosion' captured for the first time: Nasa space probes reveal how the field interacts with the sun
Daily Mail:
Volcanoes expose 4.5 billion-year-old pieces of Earth: Material could shed light on the formation of our planet
Mysterious Universe:
Life On Earth May Have Begun In Comet Craters
Daily Mail:
Is this the world's first multicellular life? Complex organisms emerged on Earth a billion years earlier than previously believed
Atlas Obscura:
Do Not Eat, Touch, Or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree
Daily Mail:
Now THAT's a horny dinosaur! Triceratops ancestor with a spiky bone shield on its head and 'devil' horns is a new species - and it may have used them to attract a mate
Daily Mail:
Take cover! Enormous prehistoric bird with 20ft wingspan and TEETH ruled the skies over Antarctica 50 million years ago
The Guardian:
Nile crocodiles captured in Florida - but why were they 6,000 miles from home?
The Guardian:
Spectacular bearded vulture spotted for first time in UK
Daily Mail:
Did humans conquer America 1,500 YEARS earlier than thought? Stone tools found in Florida sinkhole suggest continent's first settlers arrived around 12,500BC, butchered mastodon and may even have kept dogs
Ancient Origins:
5,000-Year-Old Unlooted Tomb of Thracian Warrior is Biggest Find of the Year in Turkey
Daily Mail:
It paid to be a royal servant in Ancient Egypt! Stunning tombs of pharaohs' butlers are opened following restoration of elaborate paintings
BBC News:
Why prehistoric Welsh people built so many forts on hills
Daily Mail:
Forget out of Africa! Fossils reveal human farmers migrated BACK to the continent from Europe 3,000 years ago to populate it
The History Blog:
Rare ancient nilometer found in Nile Delta
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Secret Tunnel Found in Mexico May Finally Solve the Mysteries of Teotihuacan
The History Blog:
Roman fort built after Boudiccan revolt found in London
Science Magazine:
Roman plumbing wrote a record of Mount Vesuvius's eruption
Daily Mail:
Subway construction workers in Rome find 2,000 year old 'military neighbourhood' complete with 39 rooms, ornate mosaics and even a graveyard
The History Blog:
Rome subway build finds Praetorian guard barracks
Daily Mail:
Here be treasure! Rare bronze statues and thousands of coins among Roman artefacts recovered from shipwreck at the ancient port of Caesarea
Atlas Obscura:
Preserving Ireland's Ancient, Mysterious Tree-Based Alphabet
Daily Mail:
Is King Arthur buried in a field in Shropshire? Historian claims tomb of legendary ruler lies near medieval village
Daily Mail:
Stirring up the past: Remains of medieval kitchen that served pilgrims, complete with storage jars, discovered in Suffolk
The Guardian:
Excavation finds early Shakespeare theatre was rectangular
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why "The Royal Oak" Is a Popular Pub Name in the U.K.
Mental Floss:
15 Wonderful Things You Might Not Know About L. Frank Baum
Atlas Obscura:
How England's First Feline Show Countered Victorian Snobbery About Cats
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Latin Thesaurus Has Been in Progress Since 1894
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story of the Komagata Maru Is a Sad Mark on Canada's Past
The Atlantic:
How Did the 'Secret' Sykes-Picot Agreement Become Public?
Mental Floss:
The Worst Industrial Disaster in U.S. History
Mental Floss:
14 Larger-Than-Life Facts About 'James and the Giant Peach'
Quartz:
Charted: China's Great Famine, according to Yang Jisheng, a journalist who lived through it
Financial Times:
China's Cultural Revolution
Straits Times:
Timeline of China's Cultural Revolution
Los Angeles Times:
From the archives: How The Times covered China's Cultural Revolution
The Economist:
Shock troops
The Globe and Mail:
Suppressed records revealed 50 years after China's Cultural Revolution
New York Review of Books:
China: Surviving the Camps
Financial Review:
China's cultural revolution 50 years later from the people who were there
Financial Review:
Monsters and demons: China's infamous Red Guards remember
The Guardian:
Fifty years on, one of Mao's 'little generals' exposes horror of the Cultural Revolution
The Guardian:
'What mistake did we make?' Victims of Cultural Revolution seek answers, 50 years on
New York Times:
Chaos of Cultural Revolution Echoes at a Lonely Cemetery, 50 Years Later
Tempo:
Photos : 50 years ago, China launched Cultural Revolution
Asia Society:
China's Cultural Revolution in Photos
National Geographic:
See Long-Hidden Photos of China's Cultural Revolution
Associated Press:
Maoists still a force 50 years after the Cultural Revolution
Atlas Obscura:
The Violent Ice Cream Wars of 1980s Scotland
Daily Mail:
U.S Navy takes control of 'deadliest destroyer': $4billion USS Zumwalt has guns that can pummel enemies 100 miles away and can trick radar into think it's a fishing boat
The Atlantic:
A Trip to Patagonia
May 20, 2016
Gizmag:
Experimental hypersonic craft hits Mach 7.5
Daily Mail:
London to New York in 35 minutes: Successful hypersonic Mach 7 engine test brings high-speed air travel a massive step closer to reality
Daily Mail:
The giant autonomous SPY ship: Military firm reveals giant drone-satellite hybrid that will snoop on Earth from the stratosphere
Gizmag:
US Navy's Blackwing drones launch from underwater
The Verge:
Tiny robot bees can now land anywhere thanks to static electricity
Gizmag:
Fire-starting conservation drone lights things up in national park
Gizmodo:
This Is How NASA Tests Its Return Capsules for Landings at Sea
Daily Mail:
World's first glider takes to a modern wind tunnel: Model of 1891 'flying machine' is tested to find out how it flew so well
Popular Science:
Why Were There Holes in the Titan Rocket that Launched NASA's Gemini Missions?
Gizmodo:
Recently Declassified Photos Show the Birth of the Soviet Space Program
May 19, 2016
The Tasmania Mercury:
Tassie UFO memories rekindled
CBC:
Fireball lights up sky over Ontario, Quebec
National Post:
Videos show spectacular fireball over U.S. and Canada as minivan-sized meteorite falls to Earth
Mystery Universe:
NASA Launches A Giant Balloon to Circumnavigate The Globe
Discovery News:
Blazing SpaceX Rocket Suffered 'Max' Damage
Daily Mail:
Move over Blue Origin: Image shows how SpaceX is running out of room for its landed rockets following a series of successful runs
Spaceflight Now:
China to debut new rocket and spaceport next month
Space Daily:
Opportunity microscopic imaging camera back to normal operations
Smithsonian Magazine:
Radiation Remains a Problem for Any Mission to Mars
Space Daily:
The rise and fall of Martian lakes
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Sunrise on a Crater Rim
Popular Science:
This Jumping Probe Might Explore Neptune's Biggest Moon
Daily Mail:
Catching the remnants of Tycho's supernova: Nasa captures debris spewing from the stellar explosion to reveal what happens when a star dies
Gizmodo:
How Extreme Is the Weather on Other Planets in the Universe?
Gizmodo:
Our Solar System Could Remain Habitable Long After Earth Is Destroyed
May 18, 2016
Universe Today:
Super Bright Fireball Spotted Across U.S. Northeast
Burlington Free Press:
Burlington airport video captures meteor
Portland Press Herald:
Videos capture spectacular streaking meteor in Northeast
Ottawa Citizen:
Meteor lights up Ottawa sky, earthlings safe
Inverse:
American Meteor Society: Don't Worry About That Fireball Over Portland, Maine
WBZ-TV:
Museum Offers $20,000 Reward For Piece Of Meteor Seen Over New England
Daily Mail:
That is quite a journey! International Space Station travels 2.6 billion miles as it makes 100,000th orbit of the Earth
Gizmag:
International Space Station completes its 100,000th orbit
Spaceflight Now:
International Space Station completes 100,000th orbit
Space Daily:
Exoplanets' Orbits Point to Planetary Migration
Cosmos:
Remains of giant asteroid found in outback Australia
Live Science:
Bits of 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Asteroid Tell Story of Monster Impact
Daily Mail:
Earth was hit by massive 19 mile wide asteroid more than 3 billion years ago that caused cliffs to crumble and changed the way our planet evolved
May 17, 2016
Sputnik News:
Round the World for 18 Years: ISS Celebrates 100,000 Earth Orbits
Spaceflight Now:
Rocketcam video released from Soyuz launch last month
Space Daily:
Second cycle of Martian seasons completing for Curiosity Rover
Daily Mail:
How Io has mountains that dwarf Everest: Giant isolated peaks on Jupiter's moon form through unique tectonic activity
Discovery News:
Geysers on Saturn Moon Enceladus Hint at Plumbing Mystery
New Scientist:
Unnamed dwarf planet may be third largest in the solar system
Daily Mail:
Is alien life hiding around red giants? Scientists 'very optimistic' after new study finds goldilocks zone where life could thrive may be more widespread than thought
May 16, 2016
KGW-TV:
Archive 1959: Fighter jets sent to intercept Redmond UFO
Mysterious Universe:
UFOs: When Evidence Goes "Missing"
Daily Mail:
What happens when a tiny fleck of paint hits the space station: Tim Peake reveals crack in ISS window after debris collides with craft
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese rocket lofts government surveillance satellite
Ars Technica:
Boeing's first crewed Starliner launch slips to 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
Dragon released from International Space Station, lands in Pacific Ocean
New Scientist:
The diehards who survey the sky from a backyard shed
WEEKEND EDITION: May 14 through May 15, 2016
Daily Galaxy:
Was the Big Bang a Mirage?
Physics World:
Parallel-universe search focuses on neutrons
IEEE Spectrum:
NASA's Valkyrie Humanoid Upgraded, Delivered to Robotics Labs in U.S. and Europe
Popular Science:
This Bipedal Robot Walks Calmly Over Uneven Ground
Daily Mail:
The ultimate robo-butler: Two-armed machine is so dexterous it opens jars, uses scissors and even makes balloon animals
IEEE Spectrum:
Autonomous Robot Surgeon Bests Humans in World First
Mental Floss:
We Can Rebuild It: A Project to Resurrect the UK's First Robot
Gizmag:
How Earth's magnetic field is changing
Los Angeles Times:
San Andreas fault 'locked, loaded and ready to roll' with big earthquake, expert says
Curbed LA:
Watch How an 8.0 Earthquake on the San Andreas Fault Would Rock LA
Stuff NZ:
Hot ash surged fast across White Island crater floor
Stuff NZ:
Volcanologists move to counter Mt Ruapehu myths and public misconception
Forbes:
Mount St. Helens 'Recharges' With Earthquake Swarm
Daily Mail:
Global warming is pushing high altitude clouds towards the poles, Nasa study finds
Jalopnik:
You Have To Be Insane To Drive Your Car This Close To A Tornado
Popular Science:
Watch Live Video from the Mariana Trench
Astrobiology Magazine:
Early Earth's air weighed less than half of today's atmosphere
Daily Mail:
The rock that could reveal what REALLY killed off the dinosaurs: Researchers reach 'ground zero' for crater that triggered mass extinction
Science Magazine:
Ancient hammerhead creature may have been world's first vegetarian sea reptile
Science Magazine:
Dung beetles may have evolved to eat dinosaur poop
Daily Mail:
The venomous mammal that ran with the dinosaurs: DNA shows the endangered solenodon's ancestors lived 78 million years ago
Daily Mail:
Huge trove of dinosaur fossils found in Antarctica: 71 million-year-old bones could reveal new clues on how they went extinct
Daily Mail:
Was climate change key to the appearance of humans? 'Mother lode' of fossils in China show big chill 34 million years ago drove primate evolution from Asia to Africa
Daily Mail:
'Bone-crushing' dogs roamed North America 12 million years ago: Fossils reveal a brand new species of coyote-sized canine
Popular Science:
World's Longest Insect Is Two Feet Long
Gizmag:
World's oldest axe fragment found in Australia
Daily Mail:
Humans arrived in Arabia 10,000 YEARS earlier than thought: Group sought refuge on the Red Sea plains before spreading across the Middle East
Daily Mail:
Was Tutankhamun's tomb built for a WOMAN? The chamber's layout and 'feminine features' of the king's death mask suggest he inherited the final resting place
The History Blog:
New Kingdom mummy found with animal, flower tattoos
Daily Mail:
Mysterious civilisation of 'Sea Peoples' were wiped out by 'world war zero'
Daily Mail:
Explore the 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
Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists Discover Remains of Viking Parliament of Medieval Norse King in Scotland
Mysterious Universe:
Unearthed Ancient Text Sheds Light on Lost Culture
The History Blog:
Rare image of Jewish man found on 13th c. pottery fragment
Smithsonian Magazine:
Early Rembrandt Found in Basement Goes On Display
Daily Mail:
How the 1665 Eyam plague really spread: Three quarters of infections in the UK village were caused by humans and NOT rats 350 years ago
Atlas Obscura:
The Hidden Messages of Colonial Handwriting
Smithsonian Magazine:
Madame de Pompadour's Legacy as a Patron of Arts is Often Overlooked
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Little-Known Nuns Helped Map the Stars
Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet Mary Kies, America's First Woman to Become a Patent Holder
Atlas Obscura:
Inside the Bizarre, Racist Scheme to Import Siberian Workers to Hawaii in 1909
Atlas Obscura:
The Fascist Building in Upper Manhattan
Atlas Obscura:
The History of GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows' Upstart '90s Competitor
The Guardian:
The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies
Gizmag:
In pictures: The UK's biggest motor show returns
Mental Floss:
11 Miniature Mischief-Makers From World Folklore
May 13, 2016
Daily Mail:
Army of 100 record-breaking 'dancing' drones illuminates the night sky over California - and the dazzling machines could one day replace fireworks
IEEE Spectrum:
Microspines Make It Easy for Drones to Perch on Walls and Ceilings
Daily Mail:
Perlan 2 takes to the skies! Airbus glider completes latest test flight as daredevils plan to fly it 90,000ft to the edge of SPACE
Popular Science:
Old B-52B Bomber That Dropped Nukes Saved By Virtual Bakesale
Jalopnik:
Bombers Used To Drop Nuclear Bombs Upside Down
Air & Space Magazine:
The Strange Trip of Soyuz T-15
Daily Mail:
X-37B approaches a year in space on its secret military mission - but we STILL don't know what it is doing in orbit or when it will be back
Popular Science:
Watch The First Commercial For Your Trip To Outer Space
Digg:
How High Can Runaway Helium Balloons Fly?
May 12, 2016
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
R.I.P. 201600540
NASA Spaceflight:
CRS-8 Dragon completes ISS mission, splashes down in Pacific
Space Daily:
Long March-7 rocket delivered to launch site
Daily Mail:
Mars nears ever closer to Earth as the planets gear up to align with the sun for the first time in 11 YEARS
Digg:
Watch SpaceX's Latest (And Fastest) Landing From Three Different Angles
Digg:
The View From The Blue Origin Rocket Booster As It Re-Enters Earth's Atmosphere And Lands
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Cassini Takes a Last Close Look at Epimetheus
Air & Space Magazine:
Boiling Water and Jumping Sands on Mars
Ars Technica:
Tightly packed four-planet system formed by planet migration
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Huge New Bounty of Exoplanets Found, Including Nine in the Goldilocks Zone
May 11, 2016
Daily Mail:
Nasa reveals habitable 'Earth twin' could be just 11 light years away as Kepler DOUBLES the amount of alien worlds it has discovered with 1,284 new finds
Spaceflight Insider:
Sea-landed Falcon 9 first stage returns to Port Canaveral
Discovery News:
Lava Tube Moon Caves Could Protect Astronauts
Discovery News:
Atomic Oxygen Detected on Mars
New Scientist:
Super-salty Turkish lakes may hold key to spotting life on Mars
Discovery News:
Pluto's Moon Coated in Nearly Pure Water Ice
Discovery News:
DNews: How Spacesuits Keep Astronauts Alive in Deadly Places
May 10, 2016
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
SpaceX Nailed Its Most Difficult Landing Yet
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX undecided on payload for first Falcon Heavy flight
Discovery News:
Mercury Travels Across Our Sun's Face: First Videos
Daily Mail:
The first 'hiking map' of Mercury: Stunning topographic model of planet reveals its craters and volcanoes in unprecedented detail
Discovery News:
Pluto Behaves More Like a Planet Than Thought
Daily Mail:
Planet Nine may have been 'flung' to the far reaches of our solar system in a tussle with Jupiter and Saturn
Astrobiology Magazine:
MIT scientists compile list of potential gases to guide search for life on exoplanets
Daily Mail:
Has Nasa found another potentially habitable 'Earth 2.0'? Space agency set to reveal Kepler's latest findings
May 9, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 succeeds in middle-of-the-night launch and landing
Spaceflight Insider:
Japanese JCSAT-14 mission marks third successful landing for SpaceX Falcon 9
Discovery News:
SpaceX Falcon Rocket Nails 2nd Ocean Landing
Spaceflight Insider:
Russia loses contact with nanosatellite launched from Vostochny
New Scientist:
Unexplained plume over Mars could be caused by solar outburst
Astrobiology Magazine:
Pluto's Interaction with the Solar Wind is Unique, Study Finds
New Scientist:
New exoplanet trio may have been dried out by fiery young star
Discovery News:
The 'Star Wars' Worlds That Exist in Our Galaxy
Daily Mail:
Can YOU solve this alien code? Physicist reveals tricky number challenge to see if humans could crack ET's message
WEEKEND EDITION: May 7 through May 8, 2016
Forbes:
Looking For Higher Dimensions In Gravity
Forbes:
What Is The Strongest Force In The Universe?
Forbes:
Why Does Gravity Move At The Speed Of Light?
Smithonian Magazine:
Did Scientists Stumble on a Battery that Lasts Forever?
Mysterious Universe:
UAE Wants to Build a Fake Mountain to Increase Rainfall
Mysterious Universe:
Oldest Crystals on Earth Were Created by Asteroid Impacts
Forbes:
Volcanic Eruptions Triggered Crises Throughout European History
Live Science:
What Would Happen If Yellowstone's Supervolcano Erupted?
Mental Floss:
Point Nemo: The Point in the Ocean Farthest From Land
Popular Science:
Which Came First on Earth - Habitability or Life?
Gizmag:
Study suggests there could be more species on Earth than stars in our galaxy
Forbes:
6 Incredible Glow-In-The-Dark Sea Creatures
The Dodo:
33 Lions Who Spent Their Lives In The Circus Just Went Home To Africa
Daily Mail:
The 'founding fathers' of Europe: DNA reveals all Europeans are related to a group that lived around Belgium 35,000 years ago
The History Blog:
Drain digger finds Denmark's largest Neolithic flint axe
Mental Floss:
Infographic: How Ancient Egypt Shaped the Modern World
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Swiss Have Made Cheese Since the Iron Age
Ancient Origins:
Unique Scarab Seal from Egyptian Thirteenth Dynasty Discovered in Israel
The History Blog:
Ancient skeleton mosaic found in Turkey
Daily Mail:
Ancient shrine to a Roman jockey reveals 2,000-year-old horse racing rules - and it shows champions were banned from ever competing again
Live Science:
Buddhist Sculptures Discovered in Ruins of Ancient Shrine
The History Blog:
Ruins of ancient air conditioning found in Kuwait
Daily Mail:
The rune translation that rewrites Viking history in Sweden: Rök stone does NOT tell tales of heroic feats and warrior kings
Smithsonian Magazine:
Ancient Arabic Text Shines Light on Massive Supernova
BBC News:
Spain's cursed village of witches
The History Blog:
Ethiopia's oldest wall paintings to be conserved
The History Blog:
Vatican's Gallery of Maps restored
Atlas Obscura:
The Most Beautiful Tulip in History Cost as Much as a House
Inverse:
240th Anniversary of the Illuminati, An Obscure Group Turned Internet Meme
Daily Mail:
Captain Cook's Endeavour is finally found 230 years after it disappeared: Legendary vessel used to sail to Australia was scuttled off the coast of Rhode Island in 1778
Smithsonian Magazine:
James Monroe's House Was Way Bigger Than Historians Thought
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Brief History of the Nickel
Atlas Obscura:
The First Woman To Put Her Face On Packaging Got Trolled Like Crazy
Ozy:
The Massacre at Frog Lake - What Really Happened
Atlas Obscura:
The Legacy of May Day Violence isn't a Maypole - It's the 8-Hour Workday
The History Blog:
More about WWI graffiti in Naours caves
BBC News:
Peter and the Wolf at 80: How a children's classic survived Stalin... and Disney
Stuff NZ:
Bob Brockie: 'Jack' Haldane - a brilliantly funny and colourful crank
BBC News:
When Disney got trippy
Daily Mail:
Newly declassified pictures show USS Independence as it was blown up alongside 77 other ships as part of atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946
Daily Mail:
The 'secret' silver plates Picasso designed for his own collection, inspired by his wife and his love of bullfighting... now set to sell for £1.5million
Digg:
This Campy, Vintage Film On How Coca-Cola Is Bottled Is Neat-O
Smithonian Magazine:
That Revolutionary May Day in 1976 When California Wines Bested France's Finest
BBC News:
10 High Street stores of 1976 that have disappeared
Atlas Obscura:
The Urban Legend of the Government's Mind-Controlling Arcade Game
BBC News:
Hillsborough: How does it feel to fight for 27 years?
Sputnik News:
Artificial Intelligence Now Decides Targets on US Aegis Ships
Stuff NZ:
Hanson: Humble and not-so humble arches bridged the gap in building design
Ars Technica:
Who Will Debunk The Debunkers?
GQ:
A Positive Life: How a Son Survived Being Injected with HIV by His Father
May 6, 2016
Gizmodo:
These Drones Dancing in the Air Against a Mountain Look Like Real Life Space Invaders
Air & Space Magazine:
DARPA's Spaceplane of the Future
Ars Technica:
World's largest aircraft "weeks" away from first UK test flight
Daily Mail:
Battle of the SUPERCOPTERS: Experimental craft fighting to replace the Black Hawk will take to the air next year
Popular Science:
I Bought an Awesome (if Obscure) Piece of Space History!
Gizmodo:
Here's How Spacecraft Dashboards Evolved, and Where They're Headed
Daily Mail:
Inside the Cold War's top-secret 'Mars simulator': Meet the bionauts who were locked inside the lab for more than a year at a time to test how Communists could colonise the red planet
Digg:
Someone Strapped A GoPro To A Rocket And It's Jaw-Dropping
Jalopnik:
This Hoverboard Actually Flies And It Just Set A World Record
May 5, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Stormy weather in Florida delays Falcon 9 launch
Spaceflight Now:
Russian authorities retrieve Soyuz booster wreckage in Siberia
Popular Science:
See SpaceX's Rocket Landing On A Drone Ship in 360-Degree Video
Popular Science:
A Rocket Launch In 360-Degree Video Is Phenomenal
Popular Science:
How NASA's Next Big Telescope Could Take Pictures of Another Earth
Discovery News:
Europe's Mars Life-Detection Mission Postponed
Discovery News:
Boiling Water May Be Cause of Martian Streaks
The Guardian:
2006: a space oddity - the great Pluto debate
Cosmos Magazine:
Why NASA plans to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid
Forbes:
5 Takeaways From ESA's Rosetta Comet Mission
Astrobiology Magazine:
Planet Nine: A World That Shouldn't Exist
Gizmag:
Three most likely creation theories for the phantom "Planet Nine"
Air & Space Magazine:
The Odds That We're the Only Advanced Species in the Galaxy Are One in 60 Billion
May 4, 2016
Daily Mail:
Sonic boom that rattled north-east England was caused by Typhoon jets racing to intercept an Air France flight that wasn't responding to radio calls
Popular Science:
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Scheduled To Launch Again On Thursday Morning
Ars Technica:
Can SpaceX really land on Mars? Absolutely, says an engineer who would know
New Scientist:
SpaceX says it will fly to Mars in 2018 - what are its chances?
Popular Science:
NASA Says It Will Help SpaceX With Mars 2018 Mission
Ars Technica:
Why landing a flying, fire-breathing Red Dragon on Mars is huge
Forbes:
Curiosity's First Visit To The Martian Dunes, In Visuals
Scientific American:
Earth Has Mystery Gas Delivered from Space
Space Daily:
Elektra: A New Triple Asteroid
Discovery News:
The Hunt for Rogue Planets Is On: Photos
Astrobiology Magazine:
Three Potentially Habitable Worlds Found Around Nearby Ultracool Dwarf Star
Air & Space Magazine:
The Odds That We're the Only Advanced Species in the Universe Are Extremely Low
May 3, 2016
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
On looking inward
Sputnik News:
Vostochny After First Launch: Gearing Up for Missions to Moon, Mars
Sputnik News:
Space Cowboys: China Plans Manned Moon Landing by 2036
New Scientist:
SpaceX says it will fly to Mars in 2018 - what are its chances?
Gizmodo:
This Futuristic Ion Thruster Will Take a Mission to Mercury
Sputnik News:
US Plans to Move Assets to Deep Space in Three to Four Years - NASA Chief
Sputnik News:
NASA's Juno Spacecraft to Arrive at Jupiter in July
Popular Science:
Fly Over The Methane Lakes of Saturn's Moon Titan
Sputnik News:
Tailless Comet From Earth's Ancient Past Returns
Forbes:
Unique Tailless Comet Was Made At The Same Time As Earth
Discovery News:
Tailless 'Manx' Comet Could Answer Planetary Mystery
Daily Mail:
Earth's 'brother' spotted: Unique tailless 'Manx' comet that formed from the same material as our own planet discovered
New Scientist:
Milky Way's nearest galaxies may be new to the neighbourhood
Gizmodo:
Four Laser Beams Will Create the World's Most Powerful Fake Stars
Discovery News:
Going Interstellar: How Laser Tech May Help: Photos
May 2, 2016
Daily Mail:
Now that's remote control! Tim Peake drives robotic rover on Earth from space in tests for the ExoMars mission to the red planet
Spaceflight Now:
First launch from Russia's new cosmodrome declared a success
Universe Today:
The New Vostochny Cosmodrome Brings Launches Back To Russian Soil
Sputnik News:
'Window to Asia': With Vostochny Cosmodrome Russia Goes East
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Soyuz launch inaugurates new Russian spaceport
Sputnik News:
US Engineers Inspecting All Russian RD-180 Engines Amid Determined Anomaly
Sputnik News:
Russian Rocket Engine Maker Not Commenting on US Launcher's Anomaly
Daily Mail:
Farewell Hitomi! Japan's space agency abandons the search for its missing multi-million dollar X-ray satellite
New Scientist:
Japanese satellite's death spiral linked to software malfunction
Daily Mail:
'I'm the king of the world!' Curiosity reveals stunning 360 panorama of its highest point on the red planet
Space Daily:
Hiding in the Sunshine: The Search for Other Earths
Astrobiology Magazine:
Could Earth's light blue color be a signature of life?
Discovery News:
Universe Likely Has Many Extinct Civilizations: Study
WEEKEND EDITION: April 30 through May 1, 2016
Forbes:
The Biggest Question About The Beginning Of The Universe
Space Daily:
The Universe, where space-time becomes discrete
Daily Mail:
Do we see reality as it is? Our perception of the world may simply be an ILLUSION, says leading expert
IEEE Spectrum:
Stanford's Humanoid Diving Robot Takes on Undersea Archaeology and Coral Reefs
Gizmag:
Menacing walker teaches kids to build robots
Daily Mail:
Earth's core is two and a half years YOUNGER that its crust: Difference caused by curvature of space-time, finds study
Daily Mail:
Could a mega-quake trigger another ICE AGE? Tectonic activity 50 million years ago caused Earth's temperature to plummet
Astrobiology Magazine:
Volcanoes tied to shifts in Earth's climate over millions of years
Daily Mail:
What's hiding under the Antarctic ice? Researchers believe giant buried lake could hold 'unique forms of life'
The Guardian:
Huge coral reef discovered at Amazon river mouth
Sputnik News:
Dino-Exit: Mesozoic Dinosaurs Fled Europe En Masse
Daily Mail:
The mighty titanosaur with bulging eyes and tiny brain: 100-million-year-old skull reveals how the Sarmientosaurus foraged for food
Smithsonian Magazine:
Newly Discovered Dinosaur Species Had Great Eyesight and a Droopy Head
Cosmos Magazine:
Appetite for seeds helped birds outlive dinosaurs
Smithsonian Magazine:
North American Mammoths May Have Been a Single Species
Daily Mail:
A giant leap for evolution: Footprints prove our ancestors walked upright 3.6 million years ago
Daily Mail:
Another twist in the Homo naledi tale: Remains of mysterious early human may have swept into the Rising Star cave from a secret chamber
Daily Mail:
Say hello to Altamura Man: Scientists recreate face of 'pearl faced' Neanderthal who fell down sinkhole 150,000 years ago
Daily Mail:
Kennewick Man WAS a Native American: One of oldest set of human bones found in America set to be returned to tribe for burial
The History Blog:
4,500-year-old burial found in Peru fishing town
Daily Mail:
It's going tibia okay! 2,400-year-old skeleton mosaic discovered in an ancient dining room says: 'Be cheerful, enjoy your life'
Daily Mail:
Did El Chichon kickstart the Mayan 'Dark Age'? 6th century volcanic eruptions may have caused devastation and social upheaval that rippled around the world
The History Blog:
Amulet invoking elves and the Trinity found in Denmark
Science Magazine:
How Europe exported the Black Death
Mental Floss:
38 Facts About Shakespeare's 38 Plays
Atlas Obscura:
Audubon Made Up At Least 28 Fake Species To Prank A Rival
Atlas Obscura:
Why 19th-Century Naturalists Didn't Believe in the Platypus
Salon:
The night Mark Twain brought Huck Finn alive
Jalopnik:
Why Electric Cars Ruled The Roads 100 Years Ago
The History Blog:
More about WWI graffiti in Naours caves
Atlas Obscura:
The Queer Black Woman Who Reinvented The Blues
Mental Floss:
The Time Walt Disney Almost Lost His Job at Walt Disney Studios
Smithsonian Magazine:
Nikola Tesla's Struggle to Remain Relevant
History.net:
Off The Rails: The Forgotten Bastards of Iran
History.net:
Gunboats in Hell: Battle at Iwo Jima
Air & Space Magazine:
Campaign by Helicopter
Inverse:
How Movie Theaters Banished Telemeter, Herald of Both Netflix and HBO, to Canada
Popular Mechanics:
Miss Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Glitz of 1950s Las Vegas
Ars Technica:
King under the mountain: Building Colorado's Cold War command center
Atlas Obscura:
The Top Secret Military Base Hidden in Chernobyl's Irradiated Forest
The New Yorker:
The Battles of Chernobyl
Tech Insider:
The amazing true story behind the Chernobyl 'suicide squad' that saved Europe
The Weather Channel:
Photographer Captures Gripping Photos of Former Residents 30 Year After Chernobyl Explosion
Smithsonian Magazine:
Thirty Years Later, a Gigantic Arch Is Set to Cover Chernobyl
Mental Floss:
The Scripps National Spelling Bee Is About to Get More Challenging
The Guardian:
Salvador Dali diary up for sale in auction of surrealist artefacts
Smithsonian Magazine:
20 Must-See Places in Switzerland
Daily Mail:
In need of some worship: Explorer discovers crumbling churches, overgrown synagogues and golden chapels which have long been abandoned by man
Gizmodo:
Seeing the First Person View of a Lego Toy Train Riding Around on a Track Is Surprisingly Fun
April 29, 2016
Mysterious Universe:
New Spaceplane May Launch Satellites Daily
Jalopnik:
Japan's Homegrown X-2 Stealth Fighter Takes Maiden Flight
Jalopnik:
Witness The Smoothest Jet Fighter Footage Ever At 345 MPH
Forbes:
What If NASA Had Continued Its Lunar Program?
History.net:
Dick Merrill: Beating the Odds
History.net:
Going Commando
Air & Space Magazine:
The Forgotten Sport of Balloon Jumping
Air & Space Magazine:
Test Your Knowledge of Airline History
April 28, 2016
Cleveland Scene:
50 Years Ago, a Small Town Ohio Policeman Chased a Flying Saucer Into Pennsylvania... And It Ruined His Life
The Weather Network:
Green fireball caught shooting across California sky
Spaceflight Now:
First countdown at new Russian cosmodrome aborted in final minutes
Spaceflight Insider:
Inaugural Vostochny launch delayed 24 hours
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX hoping to repeat ocean-landing with May 3 launch
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX announces plan to send mission to Mars in 2018
Discovery News:
Red Dragon: SpaceX Targets 2018 for First Mars Mission
Universe Today:
Spaceflight Will Give You The Body Of An Elderly Alcoholic Shut In
Discovery News:
Covers Off! Say Hello to Our Future Mega-Space Telescope
New Scientist:
Cassini gears up for final fiery plunge into Saturn's atmosphere
Daily Mail:
Pluto's 'little sister' has a moon: Hubble discovers tiny satellite orbiting the dwarf planet MakeMake
Daily Mail:
Is the universe littered with WORMHOLES? Supermassive black holes laced with dark matter could produce 'tunnels' in space
April 27, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
New Russian space base ready for first launch
Daily Mail:
Venus Express' dying moments rewrite what we know about the planet: Probe reveals the poles are colder than anywhere on Earth and covered by 'atmospheric waves'
Sputnik News:
Russian Scientist Unravels Mystery of Dark Clouds on Venus
Discovery News:
Did Asteroid Impacts Incubate Mars' Ancient Oceans?
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
A Martian Crater Torn in Half
New Scientist:
First direct evidence of ancient Mars's oxygen-rich atmosphere
EarthSky:
Comet Halley, parent of 2 meteor showers
April 26, 2016
Beverly Citizen:
Witness recalls Beverly UFO sighting 50 years later
Lee Herald:
On This Day in 1966: Gov. Haydon Burns Claims Encounter with UFO
Charlotte Observer:
Legend of 1897 UFO crash marked in North Texas
Discovery News:
UK Astronaut Completes 60,000 Mile London Marathon
Discovery News:
Mice in Space Showed Liver Damage After Two Weeks
New Scientist:
NASA's Dawn probe may visit third asteroid after Ceres and Vesta
April 25, 2016
Inquistr:
Mystery Fireball Turns Sky Blood Red Over El Salvador, Sparks Panic And Fears Of The Apocalypse
Get Surrey:
Watch moment 'bright fireball' shoots across night sky in Surrey and Hampshire
Tech Insider:
China plans to reach Mars by 2020 and eventually build a moon base
Space Daily:
China set to launch "more livable" space lab in Q3
Space Daily:
China plans to launch core module of space station around 2018
Discovery News:
Watching a Spacecraft Wreck Tumble Through Space
Popular Science:
Suitsat Might Be The Creepiest Satellite Ever
WEEKEND EDITION: April 23 through April 24, 2016
Smithsonian Magaine:
Can Physicists Ever Prove the Multiverse Is Real?
Scientific American:
Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
Ars Technica:
The search for hidden dimensions comes up empty again
Gizmag:
Siemens previews additive manufacturing on the move with 3D-printing spider bots
Gizmag:
Slithering serpentine robot snakes its way to seabed inspections
The Atlantic:
Robots That Act Differently When You're Around
ABC Australia:
Adult-like proportions may have given baby titanosaurs an advantage when they hatched
BBC News:
What really happened when the 'dino-killer' asteroid struck
Smithsonian Magazine:
21 Million Years Ago, Monkeys May Have Floated to North America on Rafts
Smithsonian Magaine:
Mystery of the Varna Gold: What Caused These Ancient Societies to Disappear?
Atlas Obscura:
Did a Coded Message Lead an American to a Lost Civilization in China?
Discovery News:
Oldest Depiction of Ancient Egyptian Demons Found
Daily Mail:
The female Pharaoh Ancient Egyptians tried to erase from history: Carved blocks reveal how Queen Hatshepsut's looked before her image was changed to that of a man
Daily Mail:
Have we found the murdered followers of Cylon? Skeletons of 80 ancient men with their hands bound above their heads may belong to 7th Century Greek rebels
National Geographic:
Jerusalem Dig Uncovers Ancient Greek Citadel
The History Blog:
Found: A Magnificent Roman Villa, Hiding Under a British Backyard
The History Blog:
Runestone lost for 250 years found in garden patio
The History Blog:
15th c. art stolen from prince by Nazis found
Mental Floss:
Divers Find 400-Year-Old Silk Dress in Dutch Shipwreck
The History Blog:
Owner of Texel shipwreck gown identified
Smithsonian Magazine:
Four Hundred Years Later, Scholars Still Debate Whether Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" Is Anti-Semitic
BBC News:
Is it fair for Shakespeare to overshadow Cervantes?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Is There Such a Thing as a "Bad" Shakespeare Play?
Mental Floss:
The 16-Year-Old Revolutionary Who Outrode Paul Revere
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Benedict Arnold Turned Traitor Against the American Revolution
Gizmodo:
An Illustrated History of American Money Design
The Guardian:
West side story: how Shakespeare stormed America's frontier
Mental Floss:
The Surprising Link Between the Deaths of Three 19th Century Presidents
Mental Floss:
When Rand Met McNally
National Geographic:
Harriet the Spy: How Tubman Helped the Union Army
San Francisco Chronicle:
110 years later - a ticking tectonic timebomb? SF '06 quake seen through private collection
Daily Mail:
The Titanic's last lifeboat: Amazing photos show vessel containing three bodies - including a man still in his dinner jacket - which was found by passing liner a month later and 200 miles away
Digg:
Beautiful Titanic Animation Strikes An Iceberg And Sinks In Real Time
Nautilus:
This Philosopher Helped Ensure There Was No Nobel for Relativity
Gizmodo:
The First In-Flight Movies Had a Live Orchestra
National Post:
The strange story of Hugo Gernsback, who brought science fiction magazines to America
Smithsonian Magazine:
Who Really Wrote "Citizen Kane"?
Atlas Obscura:
Missouri's Great Escaped Snake Scare of 1953
Smithsonian Magazine:
How a Psychedelic Concert Poster Rocked the World
Atlas Obscura:
Inside Laredo, the Secret, Members-Only Wild West Town in England
Mental Floss:
15 Town Names With Unusual Backstories
Atlas Obscura:
8 Places From Shakespeare That You Can Actually Visit
Atlas Obscura:
Why is Shakespeare Still So Popular? For the Same Reason Tolstoy Hated Him
Atlas Obscura:
Gloriously Melodramatic Portraits of 19th-Century Shakespearean Actors
April 22, 2016
Gizmag:
DARPA announces Phase 2 of spaceplane project
Daily Mail:
The XS-1 spaceplane moves closer to take off: US military funds craft that could launch spy satellites and weapons by 2019
Popular Science:
How the Saturn V Broke into Pieces Launching to the Moon
Popular Science:
How Quickly Did the Crew of Apollo 13 Know They Had Lost the Moon?
Gizmag:
Prototype moon buggy saved from junkyard goes to auction
Atlas Obscura:
The Last Flight of Germany's Glider King, Who Inspired the Wright Brothers
April 21, 2016
RT:
'Fireball' meteor lights up English skies (PHOTOS)
Birmingham Mail:
Fireball over Birmingham as Lyrids meteor shower arrives: How to see the shooting stars
Sputnik News:
NASA Interested in Using Russia's Vostochny Spaceport - Roscosmos
Daily Mail:
China wants to land on Mars by 2021: Top official at the country's space agency reveals plans for mission to the red planet
Sputnik News:
Space Exchange: China Offers Electronics for Russian Engines
Universe Today:
Recovered SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster Moves Back to KSC for Eventual Reflight
Astrobiology Magazine:
Lone Planetary-Mass Object Found in Family of Stars
Discovery News:
Extreme Meteorite Hunt Yields Cosmic Clues: Photos
Daily Mail:
Are we closer to finding a mystery world in our solar system? Scientists narrow down the location for Planet Nine
April 20, 2016
Los Angeles Times:
Oregon UFO gathering asks: Have you seen the (Phoenix) Lights?
Daily Mail:
Munich, we have a problem! Space radiation triggered an alarm on the ISS after it deleted data from the station's on-board computer
Spaceflight Now:
Attitude control failures led to break-up of Japanese astronomy satellite
Air & Space Magazine:
Future E-Gliders Could "Fly" on Airless Worlds
Gizmodo
We Just Learned Something Crazy About the Atmosphere of Venus
New Sceintist:
Never-before-seen galaxy spotted orbiting the Milky Way
Popular Science:
What We'll Wear To Mars
April 19, 2016
KERA:
Nearly 120 Years After Alleged UFO Crash, Small Texas Town Is All About Aliens
LAist:
Photos: The Truth Is Out There At Anaheim's UFO Museum
Technabob:
How to Turn a Drone into a UFO
Sputnik News:
China's Retrievable Microgravity Research Satellite Returns to Earth
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese space lab back on Earth after groundbreaking embryo experiment
Universe Today:
Antarctica Provides Plenty Of Mars Samples Right Now
Discovery News:
Alien 'Wow!' Signal Could Soon be Explained
April 18, 2016
Patch:
Green Fireball Seen in Sky Over Illinois, Midwest: VIDEOS
Belleville News-Democrat:
That bright light streaking across the sky Friday night was a meteor
KTVI-TV:
Watch a meteor streak across the skies of St. Louis
Spaceflight Now:
Expandable room installed on space station
Spaceflight Now:
Flown Falcon 9 booster hoisted off landing platform
Spaceflight Now:
New views of Falcon 9 landing from on-board SpaceX's drone ship
Space Daily:
Russia to shift all Lunar launches to Vostochny Cosmodrome
Cosmos:
Supernova scraps found on the Moon
Discovery News:
Europa's Deforming Ice Is a Surprising Heat Generator
Cosmos:
Cassini captures dust from beyond the Solar System
Discovery News:
Did the Sun Eat a Primordial Super-Earth?
WEEKEND EDITION: April 16 through April 17, 2016
Cosmos:
Five ways to travel through time
Live Science:
Can Black Holes Transport You to Other Worlds?
Cosmos:
The seven states of matter explained
Gizmodo:
China's First Ultra Realistic Robot Is Also Ultra Bad for Women
Brisbane Times:
'Stairs are still difficult': Robot expert on gap between sci-fi and reality
Wired:
Grief and Triumph at a Medieval Robot Battle for High Schoolers
National Geographic:
201 Years Ago, This Volcano Caused a Climate Catastrophe
Gizmodo:
The Death Valley Super Bloom Is Incredible
Daily Mail:
Redrawing the tree of life: Scientists redesign the branches to add 1,000 new microscopic life forms found over the past 15 years
Cosmos:
Titanic dinosaurs split by 'unzipping' supercontinent
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Discovery of a Tiny Tyrannosaur Adds New Insight Into the Origins of T. Rex
Daily Mail:
The last minutes of the dinosaurs: Scientists say fossil find of charred bones shows something 'strange' was going on
Smithsonian Magazine:
Researchers Piece Together Ancient Plesiosaur Attack
Cosmos:
Dolphin super hearing at least 26 million years old
Daily Mail:
Bizarre 'humanoid Godzilla', the size of a grown man, is filmed viciously hunting off the coast of the Galapagos Islands
BBC News:
The museum filled with poisonous spiders that just won't die
Daily Mail:
Inky the Octopus's Great Escape: Cephalod makes amazing break from aquarium by squeezing out of a gap in his tank, sliding across the floor and slipping into a pipe that led to the ocean
Scientific American:
Debate Erupts over Strange New Human Species
Science Magazine:
Modern human females and male Neandertals had trouble making babies. Here's why
Daily Mail:
The incredible history of Chauvet-Pont d'Arc: Radiocarbon dating reveals early humans 'shared' the painted cave with BEARS more than 30,000 years ago
The History Blog:
Unique Pictish Stone on display at Elgin Museum
Ancient Origins:
Analysis Shows that the Hebrew Bible May Be Centuries Older than Once Thought
Ancient Origins:
1600-Year-Old Glass Workshop Discovered in Israel
The History Blog:
Tiny Arabic chess piece found in museum dig
The History Blog:
Rare 13th c. tile floor on display under new shelter
The History Blog:
Met conservators repair della Robbia that fell from wall
Atlas Obscura:
Why the Last Words of Anne Boleyn Remain a Mystery
The History Blog:
Was a lost Caravaggio found in an attic in France?
Smithsonian Magazine:
A New Copy of Shakespeare's First Folio Was Found in a Scottish Library
The History Blog:
17th c. treasure hidden during uprising found in Bulgaria
The History Blog:
18th c. marine chronometer found in Rhode Island collection
Atlas Obscura:
Victorians Wanted to Contact Aliens Using Giant Mirrors
Mental Floss:
The Couple Who Sat With Lincoln on the Night of His Assassination
Mental Floss:
The Tragic History of RC Cola
Smithsonian Magazine:
When the British Wanted to Camouflage Their Warships, They Made Them Dazzle
Smithsonian Magazine:
Bullet Helps Revive Lawrence of Arabia's Reputation
Atlas Obscura:
In the Early 20th Century, America Was Awash in Incredible Queer Nightlife
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Booker T. Washington Became the First African-American on a U.S. Postage Stamp
Smithsonian Magazine:
New Project Uncovers What Americans Knew About the Holocaust
Ars Technica:
Science proves that Fangio was the greatest F1 driver of all time
Ars Technica:
Lawyers who won Happy Birthday copyright case sue over "We Shall Overcome"
Gizmodo:
The Untold Story of the Teen Hackers Who Transformed the Early Internet
Atlas Obscura:
Yes, '90s Blockbuster Training Videos Really Were This Cringeworthy
National Geographic:
These People Have a Mind-Bending Way to Navigate
Gizmodo:
Will This Office Supplies Perpetual Motion Machine Ever Stop?
April 15, 2016
Defense One:
The Problem with the Pentagon's Hypersonic Missile
Discovery News:
NASA Captures Stunning Photo of a Sonic Shockwave
Atlas Obscura:
This 17th Century Map of the Skies is Bursting With Mythological Creatures
Air & Space Magazine:
Splashdown, Live Via Satellite
National Geographic:
The Forgotten Soviet Space Shuttle Could Fly Itself
Sputnik News:
Unknown Parts of Cosmonaut Gagarin's Conversations With Ground Control
History Channel News:
What Really Happened to Yuri Gagarin, the First Man in Space?
Popular Mechanics:
The Mysterious Death of the First Man in Space
April 14, 2016
ScienceAlert:
We're in for a month of meteor showers as we pass through the tail of Halley's Comet
Universe Today:
NASA Discovers 72 New Asteroids Near Earth
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket returns to port
Spaceflight Now:
New views of Falcon 9 landing from on-board SpaceX's drone ship
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 to launch commercial space habitat for Bigelow Aerospace
Space Daily:
First joint EU-Russian ExoMars mission to reach Mars orbit Oct 16
Daily Mail:
The first ever image of an exoplanet: 1917 astronomical plate provides the oldest evidence of world outside our solar system
Astrobiology Magazine:
1917 astronomical plate has first-ever evidence of exoplanetary system
Air & Space Magazine:
Supernova Fallout Hit Earth When Human Ancestors Were Alive
April 13, 2016
KFVS-TV:
75th anniversary of alleged UFO crash in Cape Girardeau
Sputnik News:
US Needs 18 More Russian Rocket Engines for Its Military Satellites
Sputnik News:
Russia to Begin Building New 'Federation' Spacecraft This Summer
Daily Mail:
Nasa begins testing radical 'proton power' system that could send spacecraft to the edge of the universe
Popular Science:
What Happens After You Land A Rocket On A Drone Ship?
Gizmag:
Massive solar storm would pose considerable dangers - are we ready?
April 12, 2016
Daily Mail:
Stunning new footage reveals SpaceX' historic landing on an ocean barge from onboard its Falcon 9 rocket
Jalopnik:
SpaceX's Landing Drone Ship Is Just As Complicated As The Rocket
Popular Science:
What Happens After You Land A Rocket On A Drone Ship?
Spaceflight Now:
Dragon arrives at space station with inflatable habitat in tow
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Dragon completes rendezvous with the station
Discovery News:
Kepler Space Telescope Revived From Emergency Shutdown
Spaceflight Now:
Kepler telescope recovered from spacecraft emergency
New Scientist:
Planet Nine might be an exoplanet stolen by the sun
Gizmag:
Is this what Planet 9 looks like?
April 11, 2016
Discovery News:
Success! SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Nails Ocean Landing
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX lands rocket on ocean-going drone ship
Sputnik News:
NASA: US Dragon Cargo Ship Successfully Docks With Int'l Space Station
Stuff NZ:
Wanaka Nasa balloon launch blown off schedule
Spaceflight Now:
Kepler space telescope in emergency mode
Astobiology Magazine:
Saturn Spacecraft Not Affected by Hypothetical Planet 9
New Scientist:
Mars moons may have formed after collision with Pluto-like world
Discovery News:
The Hunt for Planet Nine: What's It Made Of?
Discovery News:
Life's Building Blocks Created on Lab-Grown Comet
WEEKEND EDITION: April 9 through April 10, 2016
Daily Mail:
Mysterious new state of matter discovered: Quantum spin liquid is seen in a real-world material 40 YEARS after being predicted - and it could make computers superfast
Mysterious Universe:
350-Year-Old Pendulum Synchronization Puzzle Finally Solved
Gizmag:
Computer creates high-tech Rembrandt counterfeit
Daily Mail:
Volcanoes, wildfires and flooding from space: Nasa releases 3 MILLION amazing shots of Earth revealing its changing landscape
Bloomberg:
Largest Blue Diamond Ever Goes to Auction for $45 Million
Daily Mail:
Largest pink pear-shaped diamond to go under the hammer is set to fetch £27million at jewellery sale next month
Science Magazine:
Why do some landslides travel so much farther than others?
Sputnik News:
Giant Prehistoric Ocean Discovered Deep Below the Ground
Science Magazine:
430-million-year-old arthropod kept its kids on a leash
Scientific American:
What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Stop Making Fun of Tyrannosaurs' Tiny Arms
Daily Mail:
Ancient snake shows its true colours: Pigments found in 'astounding' fossils can help reveal the green and black skin of a reptile that lived ten million years ago
Daily Mail:
Megalodons were wiped out when killer whales invaded: Competition for food drove 60ft sharks to extinction 2 million years ago
Science Magazine:
Red deer came to Scottish islands from unexpected places
Daily Mail:
What wiped out the 'Hobbit'? Mysterious species of human vanished from Indonesia 38,000 years earlier than first thought
Stuff NZ:
South America's prehistoric people spread like 'invasive species'
Smithsonian Magazine:
3,400-Year-Old Necropolis Hints at Ancient Egyptian Life
Scientific American:
5 Unsolved Mysteries of King Tut's Tomb
Daily Mail:
Easy as Alep, Bet, Gimel? Researchers uncover the roots of the English alphabet
Live Science:
Curse Tablets Discovered in 2,400-Year-Old Grave
The History Blog:
Ancient textiles found in Nepal suggest Silk Road ran further south
Daily Mail:
Rare copy of one of the world's most spectacular atlas made in Amsterdam in the 1660s with 600 separate engraved maps, plans and views set to sell for £270,000
Smithsonian Magazine:
The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 Was a Bloody Prelude to Decades of Hardship
Atlas Obscura:
The Chinese Female Pirate Who Commanded 80,000 Outlaws
Forbes:
Mass Grave From War Of 1812 Gives Archaeologists First Evidence Of Buckshot Injuries
The History Blog:
Pistols Lafayette gave to Bolívar poised to break auction records
Smithsonian Magazine:
Andrew Jackson, America's Original Anti-Establishment Candidate
Smithsonian Magazine:
For Susan B. Anthony, Getting Support for Her "Revolution" Meant Taking on an Unusual Ally
Daily Mail:
Missing patent file for the Wright Brothers' 'flying machine' has been found in a 'cave' 36 years after it mysteriously vanished
Atlas Obscura:
The Photos that Exposed American Child Labor
Inverse:
Forget Geodesic Domes, Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House Was His Masterpiece
Atlas Obscura:
The Hungarian Taxidermist Who Saw Frogs As People
Smithsonian Magazine:
Following WWII, New Zealand's Navy Was Rocked With Peaceful Mutinies
Gizmag:
Britain's first mass produced computer goes on public display
Gizmag:
Jaguar goes time traveling and brings back the 1957 XKSS
Seattle Times:
Stunning photos capture the workers who built the Space Needle
Gizmag:
The laptop turns 35
Atlas Obscura:
Found: Unseen Film of Britain's Most Notorious Spy Explaining His Betrayal
Atlas Obscura:
How the Commodore Amiga Powered Your Cable System in the '90s
Daily Mail:
The train you won't see coming: Mirrored carriages to be used in 'invisible' overhaul for Japanese commuter train
Gizmag:
The uncompromising works of starchitect Zaha Hadid
Atlas Obscura:
Lose Yourself in this Atlas of the World's Lost Cities
Gizmodo:
Antique Photos Were Used to Make This Realistic Footage That Looks 85 Years Old
April 8, 2016
Air & Space Magazine:
DARPA Picks Aurora Flight Sciences For New X-Plane
Daily Mail:
On guard! Watch a drone dodging a SWORD attack (and it could soon use the same technique to deliver your shopping)
Forbes:
Everything You Need To Know About Staging Your Own Private Rocket Launch
Air & Space Magazine:
Technically Speaking: Stealth Before Stealth
Popular Science:
How Did the Apollo Command and Service Modules Separate?
IEEE Spectrum:
Stopping Buck Rogers From Going Boom
Gizmodo:
The Ultimate List of Weapons Astronauts Have Carried Into Orbit
Gizmodo:
Check Out All the Largest Flying Boats in History
Air & Space Magazine:
Five Airplanes That Made No Difference
April 7, 2016
Inverse:
50 Years Ago, Michigan Congressman Gerald Ford Made UFOs a Political Issue
Twin Falls Times-News:
UPDATE: Rumble in the Skies: No Explanation for Loud Boom
Spaceflight Insider:
India to launch its reusable spaceplane in May
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese research craft launched on two-week mission
Gizmodo:
Why on Earth Is China Shooting Crude Oil Into Space?
Spaceflight Now:
Static fire complete in run-up to launch of SpaceX supply ship
Space Daily:
Mars Longevity Champion Launched 15 Years Ago
Spaceflight Now:
Dawn mission expected to go into overtime at Ceres
Science Magazine:
Earth barraged by supernovae millions of years ago, debris found on moon
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
A Distant, Moody Comet
Stuff NZ:
Stunning meteor picture likely a fireball. And some other great space pics
Smithsonian Magazine:
Sneak a Peak at the Multi-Million Dollar Meteorites Soon up for Sale
April 6, 2016
EarthSky:
Asteroid swept within moon's distance Monday night
Stuff NZ:
Meteor seen by dozens of people across New Zealand
Stuff NZ:
Chance photo captures meteor's spectacular display
The Local España:
Giant fireball streaks over Spain 'turning night into day'
Discovery News:
Japanese Probe Ready to Get Intimate With Venus
Astrobiology Magazine:
Early Mars bombardment likely enhanced life-supporting habitat
New Scientist:
Pluto may have tipped over when Charon tugged at its heart
Universe Today:
Did the Sun Steal Planet Nine?
Daily Mail:
Exoplanets where the oceans flow BACKWARDS could harbour alien life: Simulations reveal there may be more habitable regions than first thought
Scientific American:
Alien Planets With Super Salty Oceans Could Be Habitable
April 5, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX hopes to sell used Falcon 9 boosters for as low as $40 million
Gizmag:
Our Sun could get angrier than we thought
Daily Mail:
Did the MOON help create Earth's magnetic field? Theory claims the satellite's irregular orbit helps maintain the protective shield
Astrobiology Magazine:
Mile-High Mars Mounds Built by Wind & Climate Change
Spaceflight News:
Opportunity rover snaps photo of Martian dust devil
New Scientist:
Dust devils on Mars may be boosted by their own shadows
Discovery News:
Forget Tatooine, This Exoplanet Has THREE Suns
Forbes:
How Fast Does Earth Move Through The Universe?
April 4, 2016
Forbes:
Japanese Space Probe Was Smashed Into Five Pieces
Gizmag:
Blue Origin's New Shepherd rocket makes third powered landing
Stuff NZ:
NASA launch delayed again by Wanaka weather - might be Monday
Spaceflight Now:
Progress supply ship docks with the International Space Station
Sputnik News:
Progress MS-02 Cargo Spacecraft Docks With ISS Automatically (VIDEO)
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Progress supply launch viewed from space station
Forbes:
Venus Likely Had Past Life; Next Step Is Finding It
Discovery News:
Mars Rover Tackles Steep Hill, Spins Wheels, Gives Up
Spaceflight Now:
Mars rover re-routed after spinning wheels on steep hillside
Discovery News:
Mysterious Mars Mounds Were Liquid-Filled Craters
Forbes:
Planet 9 May Hail From Sun's Stellar Birth Cluster
Discovery News:
Shoot Aggressive Aliens With Lasers to Defend Earth
Astrobiology Magazine:
Laser cloaking device could help us hide from aliens
WEEKEND EDITION: April 2 through April 3, 2016
Science.mic:
Are Parallel Universes Real? Here Are Physicists' Leading Multiverse Theories
Forbes:
Is String Theory Really Unprovable?
Gizmodo Australia:
Does Infinity Really Exist?
Forbes:
Stacking Cannonballs In 8 Dimensions
Daily Mail:
Large Hadron Collider casts doubt over bizarre new 'tetraquark': Follow-up tests fail to find any evidence for the weird particle
Ars Technica:
Tay, the neo-Nazi millennial chatbot, gets autopsied
Atlas Obscura:
100 Wonders: Cave of the Crystals
Science Magazine:
Ancient spider relative hints at origins of web spinning
Smithsonian Magazine:
When Dinosaurs Roamed the (Not Yet) Petrified Forest
Daily Mail:
Watch the incredible waddling cavefish that can climb WALLS: Researchers say strange blind animal is 'evolutionary relic'
Daily Mail:
Apes never forget an old friend: Bonobos can remember past group members even if they've been separated for years
National Geographic:
Which of These Animals is Tougher?
Daily Mail:
For once-in-a-lifetime pictures it was worth the wait: Photographer spends 11 days watching den to snap the adorable moment polar bear cubs emerge for the first time
Atlas Obscura:
Behind the Scenes With the Horses of Hollywood
Daily Mail:
Our ancestors roamed further than first thought: Fossils suggest early humans ventured east 3.5 million years ago
Science Magazine:
Our ancestors may have mated more than once with mysterious ancient humans
Daily Mail:
What wiped out the 'Hobbit'? Mysterious species of human vanished from Indonesia 38,000 years earlier than first thought
Daily Mail:
Were Neanderthals master tacticians? Early human relatives used meticulously planned strategies to hunt Ice Age beasts
Smithsonian Magazine:
Bear Bone Adds 2,500 Years to History of Humans in Ireland
Science Magazine:
Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle
Daily Mail:
Is this the world's oldest customer complaint? 3,750-year-old Babylonian tablet details how a person called 'Nanni' was not happy with a delivery of ancient copper ore
Daily Mail:
Sacred text found in Italy could unlock the secrets of the Etruscan religion: Rare 6th century BC slab inscribed in a lost language may contain the names of ancient gods
The History Blog:
Torlonia collection to see the light after 40 years in the basement
BBC News:
New evidence of Viking life in America?
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Lost City of Cambodia
National Geographic:
Pictures: An Elite Viking's Prized Possessions
Ars Technica:
Medieval monks invented King Arthur's grave as an attraction to raise money
Atlas Obscura:
The Heart of Voltaire
Atlas Obscura:
It's the 177th Birthday of 'Okay'
Atlas Obscura:
The Cursed History of P.T. Barnum's Museums
Atlas Obscura:
New York's First Female Crime Boss Started Her Own Crime School
Atlas Obscura:
The Grotesque 100-Year Old Wax Figures on Display in Brooklyn
Atlas Obscura:
For Victorian Men, the Mustache Comb was Everything
Atlas Obscura:
Listen To A Tiny Machine From 1890 Make Birdsong
Daily Mail:
Paris really IS a picture postcard city: Photographer perfectly matches French capital with black and white images taken 100 years ago
Atlas Obscura:
The Story Behind the Bulletproof Photo Craze
Atlas Obscura:
The Mail Rail
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Brief History of the Zoot Suit
The Guardian:
Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis
San Francisco Chronicle:
A 100 year look at San Francisco marquees and theaters
Atlas Obscura:
Buried Somewhere in the Catskills is a Stash of Nazi Loot
Daily Mail:
The village that time forgot: Ghost town abandoned in 1943 has been deserted for more than 70 years after residents evacuated in World War II were never allowed to return
Daily Mail:
Top secret D-Day plans showing highly detailed photographs taken during low-level Spitfire flights over Hitler's defenses are found in French flea market
San Francisco Chronicle:
In color: A look at life in the railroad yards in the early '40s
Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Green Book Helped African-American Tourists Navigate a Segregated Nation
Smithsonian Magazine:
MAD Magazine's Iconic Alfred E. Neuman Turns 60 This Year
Smithsonian Magazine:
That One Time Eleanor Roosevelt Was a DJ
Daily Mail:
Adolf Hitler's most decorated assassin 'later worked for ISRAELI secret service as a hitman killing Nazi rocket scientists'
Atlas Obscura:
The Forgotten Secret Language of Gay Men
Jalopnik:
Watch an Underground Nuclear Explosion Melt the Ground into a Giant Crater
Atlas Obscura:
The Illegal Birth Control Handbook That Spread Across College Campuses in 1968
Smithsonian Magazine:
Where Museums Go to Shop for Rare Works of Art
National Geographic:
Which Mystery From History Are You?
April 1, 2016
Space Daily:
Lockheed Martin Opens Space Fence Test Facility
Jalopnik:
Watch This B-1 Bomber Light The Burners And Do A Double Roll Over MacDill Air Force Base
Air & Space Magazine:
Cactus, Speedbird, and Other Great Call Signs
Air & Space Magazine:
Born to Race
Air & Space Magazine:
Ten Antique Airplanes and the Pilots Who Dare to Fly Them
Mysterious Universe:
Steam-Powered Rocket Ready For Its Next Manned Flight
Air & Space Magazine:
The Case of the Runaway U-2
DSFP's Spaceflight History:
The Last Days of the Nuclear Shuttle (1971)
DSFP's Spaceflight History:
A True Gateway: Robert Gilruth's June 1968 Space Station Presentation
Spaceflight Insider:
Jack Crenshaw: the space pioneer you never heard of
March 31, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Air Force ends effort to recover DMSP weather satellite
Discovery News:
Space Station Ready for Inflatable Habitat Test
New Scientist:
Asteroid barrage may have birthed a short-lived ocean on Mars
New Scientist:
Bubbling ocean on Saturn's moon could explain vanishing island
Daily Mail:
The real-life Mustafar: Star Wars-style planet is covered in LAVA and orbits so close to its star that a 'year' lasts just 18 hours
Discovery News:
2-Faced Exoplanet Is Both Solid and Molten Rock
New Scientist:
More evidence for Planet Nine as odd celestial alignment emerges
Daily Mail:
The mystery of Planet X deepens: Expert believes the mysterious ninth planet is to blame for wiping out the dinosaurs
Discovery News:
Could 'Planet X' Cause Comet Catastrophes on Earth?
New Scientist:
Interstellar cloud could have wiped out the dinosaurs
Sputnik News:
Moon Mission: A Blueprint for the Red Planet
March 30, 2016
Palm Beach Post:
Green fireball spotted in South Florida by dozens of people
South Florida Sun-Sentinel:
Presumed meteor puts on pre-dawn show; sightings reported from Florida Keys to Jacksonville
Space Daily:
Has Tiangong 1 gone rogue
Spaceflight Now:
U.S. military rules out collision as cause of Hitomi satellite's woes
Discovery News:
Japan is Tracking Tumbling and Damaged Satellite
Spaceflight Now:
Progress cargo craft rolled out for launch to space station
Daily Mail:
The giant fuel tank that could take us to Mars: Images show 200ft tall cylinder being built for world's most powerful rocket
Daily Mail:
Watch the moment Jupiter gets hit by an asteroid: Amateur astronomers capture rare event 600 million miles away
Daily Mail:
Rare meteorite fragments discovered in Germany: Space rocks from recent fireball shine purple and blue under a microscope
March 29, 2016
Discovery News:
Flyby Comet Was WAY Bigger Than Thought
Daily Mail:
Is there really a NINTH planet in our solar system? Scientists say they have even more evidence of mysterious world
Spaceflight Now:
Japan's newest space telescope goes silent
Discovery News:
Japan Loses Track of $273 Million Black Hole Satellite
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz aces test campaign at new Vostochny Cosmodrome
Stuff NZ:
International research team prepares for NASA balloon launch in Wanaka
Discovery News:
Pluto May Have Nitrogen Lakes That Freeze and Thaw
Astrobiology Magazine:
Investigating the Mystery of Migrating 'Hot Jupiters'
March 28, 2016
Daily Mail:
See a green comet come close to Earth next week: Stargazers in northern hemisphere could be treated to a stunning show
Daily Mail:
Earth's close brush with a comet captured on camera: 1km rock passed just 2.2 million miles from the planet
Air & Space Magazine:
15 Years of Living in Space
New Scientist:
Gecko Gripper blasts off to help design space-crawling robots
Spaceflight Now:
Traveling Cygnus pulls into port at International Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Cygnus goes from Cape Canaveral to the space station
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz launcher puts Russian military spy satellite in orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz launcher puts Russian military spy satellite in orbit
New Scientist:
Moon's lack of water down to ancient shift in its spin axis
New Scientist:
Asteroid barrage may have birthed a short-lived ocean on Mars
Discovery News:
These Are Titan's Highest Mountains -- What Lies Beneath?
Discovery News:
Are Saturn's Moons and Rings Younger Than the Dinosaurs?
Discovery News:
Is Ceres' Mysterious Bright Dome an Ice Volcano?
WEEKEND EDITION: March 26 through March 27, 2016
Forbes:
10 Quantum Truths About Our Universe
Forbes:
What It Means If CERN Discovers A New Particle
New Scientist:
Mathematicians shocked to find pattern in 'random' prime numbers
CTV News:
Math problem a 300-year saga of death, duels, dual identities
Ars Technica:
Microsoft's teenage AI shows I know nothing about millennials
Daily Mail:
Microsoft's artificial intelligence Twitter bot has to be shut down after it starts posting genocidal racist comments one day after launching
The Atlantic:
What Is a Robot?
Daily Mail:
The 29-armed robot that can rip an iPhone apart in 11 SECONDS: Apple reveals Liam the 'recyclebot' that can recover metal
Daily Mail:
Meet Scamp, the creepy robot that flies, scurries and climbs wall just like an insect
Daily Mail:
Watch the robot that can run like a human: Researchers say Durus-2D could lead to radical new prosthetic limbs
IEEE Spectrum:
Little Robotic Leg Investigates Enormous Dinosaur Locomotion
Daily Mail:
Could you outrun a MEGAVOLCANO? Researchers reveal volcanic flows only reach 45mph (but can travel upto 100 miles)
Universe Today:
What Are The Benefits Of Volcanoes?
Smithsonian Magazine:
San Andreas May Have Had Help Triggering a Historic Earthquake
The Atlantic:
The Violent Remaking of Appalachia
Sputnik News:
Seven of the World's Most Interesting Craters
Stuff NZ:
More than half of Tekapo lake bed covered in large landslides
Daily Mail:
Could we soon CLONE a T-Rex? Fossils of a pregnant 68-million-year-old dinosaur may contain DNA to bring the beast back to life
Daily Mail:
A real-life 'unicorn': Bizarre horned beast lived alongside humans 26,000 years ago and may be behind the legendary myth
Stuff NZ:
Walking in the footsteps of giant moa
Stuff NZ:
NZ southern right whale population crashed from around to 30,000 to just 110
Daily Mail:
Now that's a long-haul flight! Tiny hummingbird travels 1,300 miles WITHOUT a break during its yearly migration
Daily Mail:
World's oldest tortoise, Jonathan, enjoys his first ever bath at the ripe old age of 184
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Elephants, Zebras and Lions Do When They Think No One's Watching
Daily Mail:
Ancient grave shows Nubian woman buried in Egyptian style: Incredible find pinpoints the moment 'two cultures became one'
Daily Mail:
Jewellery from the mysterious 'queen' of Stonehenge goes on display: Stunning pieces were found in the grave of a high-status woman 200 years ago
Atlas Obscura:
The Troll Church
Daily Mail:
Ramesses III gruesome murder revealed: Pharaoh was killed by multiple attackers, who cut off his big toe and slit his throat
Daily Mail:
Ancient mini-weapons made to please the Gods: Tiny 2,900-year-old bows, arrows, and daggers in Oman could shed light on mysterious religious practices
Daily Mail:
Buried Iron Age fighter 'speared like a hedgehog' found in newly-unearthed 2,500-year-old 'migrant camp' in east Yorkshire
Daily Mail:
The SECOND battle of Thermopylae: Fragments reveal Roman fight against invading Goths in same pass Spartans fought '300' battle
Ancient Origins:
Epic Battle between Goths and Greeks Revealed in Long Lost Ancient Text
The History Blog:
Buckle from British Isles found in Danish Viking grave
The History Blog:
Update: St Eric's wounds consistent with legend
The History Blog:
"Joan of Arc" ring unveiled at French theme park
Daily Mail:
Ruins of TWO medieval castles uncovered in Glasgow: Remains of mystery 13th century fort and 17th century Partick Castle found on the banks of the River Clyde
Live Science:
Hidden Text in England's Oldest Printed Bible Revealed
Daily Mail:
Much ado about manuscripts: Rare witching pamphlets, monster maps and paintings shed light on the artwork that influenced William Shakespeare's greatest plays
Chemistry World:
Newton's recipe for alchemists' mercury rediscovered
Ancient Origins:
Is the Skull of Shakespeare Missing from His Grave?
Ancient Origins:
Why is this coin worth $10m?
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Malaria Gave Us Mauve
Smithsonian Magazine:
A New Addition to #MyDaguerreotypeBoyfriend Is the Civil War's Most Daring Naval Officer
Smithsonian Magazine:
With the Discovery of the USS Conestoga, Researchers Have Solved a Mystery That Was Nearly 100 Years Old
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Much Has the Town Where the Scopes Trial Took Place Evolved Since the 1920s?
Air & Space Magazine:
The Soviet City in the Sky
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Grand Coulee Powers On, 75 Years After Its First Surge of Electricity
Ancient Origins:
Stash of Books from the Witch Library of Nazi Chief Himmler Found in Prague
Atlas Obscura:
The Congressman Who Brought Belly Dancing to America
IEEE Spectrum:
When 82 TV Channels Was More Than Enough
Reading Eagle:
Son of spy shot down over Soviet Russia shares story at Governor Mifflin High
Air & Space Magazine:
How NASA Joined the Civil Rights Revolution
Daily Mail:
Take a look inside Skynet's 50-year-old blast-proof bunker: New pictures give rare glimpse inside the real-life secret underground military complex made famous by the Terminator film
Daily Mail:
Could America's next war be in a MEGACITY? Pentagon bosses call for hi-tech help for 'increasingly likely' battles in (and under) giant cities around the world
Daily Mail:
The military railgun that fires 'bullets' at SIX TIMES the speed of sound: Footage shows weapon reaching immense Mach 6 speeds
Daily Mail:
The US Army is developing encrypted radar that 'looks like noise' and morphs continually to remain anonymous
Jalopnik:
Big Military Surplus Helicopter Sale Starts At $14,000
Jalopnik:
This Footage Of A Fast Attack Submarine Breaking Through Thick Arctic Ice Is 'Chilling'
Smithsonian Magazine:
Cruise Ship Set to Sail the Perilous Northwest Passage
Smithsonian Magazine:
Switzerland's Historic Bunkers Get a New Lease on Life
Gizmag:
Bavaria's greatest hits: 100 years of BMW
Smithsonian Magazine:
This News Website Is a Lakota-Speaker's "Dream"
Space Daily:
The linguistics of signifying time: The human gesture as clock
Gizmodo:
The World's Tiniest Rube Goldberg Machine Made of Watch Parts Is a Masterpiece
March 25, 2016
Daily Mail:
The flying BILLBOARD that's a cross between a drone and a blimp: Skye can safely show adverts as it soars over crowds
Gizmag:
Amphibious drone hides underwater until it's go-time
Sputnik News:
China Unveils New Electronic Spy Plane
Sputnik News:
Russia's New MiG-35 Fighter Jet Soars Towards Test Flights
Jalopnik:
Watch The Bounty Hunters And Their Super Hornets Project Power In The Southern Hemisphere
Jalopnik:
Super Etendard Attack Jets Make Their Last Carrier Catapult Launches Ever
Jalopnik:
That Time An SR-71 Made An Emergency Landing In Norway After Spying On The Soviets
Jalopnik:
The First Air Force One Has Taken To The Skies Once Again
Jalopnik:
Hear The Mechanical Symphony Of The First Air Force One's Pistons Firing Away
IEEE Spectrum:
This Is What Broadband Satellite Communication Looked Like in 1965
BBC News:
The American Concordes that never flew
Gizmodo:
Slowing Down In Space Is Easier With Yo-Yos
March 24, 2016
BBC News:
My time as a UFO investigator for the government
Inverse:
If Project Greenglow Worked, Engineers Would Have Built a Flying Saucer
Space.com:
Two Comets Just Made Historic Near-Earth Flybys
IEEE Spectrum:
Virgin Galactic's New SpaceShipTwo Will Be Safer, But Will It Be Safe Enough?
Daily Mail:
'Super Hubble' is nearly ready! Alien-hunting James Webb telescope has final flight mirror installed ahead of 2018 launch
Air & Space Magazine:
A New Space Station Camera Will Watch Meteors From Above
New Scientist:
Moon's lack of water down to ancient shift in its spin axis
Daily Mail:
Did our moon throw a 'wobbly' after it formed? Lunar poles wandered by 125 MILES over a billion years as volcanic bubbles threw them off balance
Forbes:
Scientists Discover New Facts About Pluto And Its Moons [Infographic]
Air & Space Magazine:
Life Among the Gas Giants
Stuff NZ:
Nasa photos quiz: Are you an Earthling or a spaceman?
Daily Mail:
Would YOU holiday on the moon? Esa reveals plans for lunar resort that will let tourists bask in constant sunshine
Forbes:
The Wonder Of Exoplanet Skies
Air & Space Magazine:
Would We Know Alien Life If We Saw It?
March 23, 2016
EarthSky:
Small asteroid detected 4 days after passing as close as satellites
Daily Mail:
Look up tomorrow! A lunar eclipse will pair with a very bright Jupiter in the dawn sky
Stuff NZ:
Closest comets in decades passing Earth this week
Discovery News:
Comet Double-Whammy: A Lesson in Planetary Defense?
Science News:
Comets carried noble gases to Earth
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
ExoMars Spacecraft Seen on Its Way to Mars!
Discovery News:
Did Mars' Methane Come from Comets?
Gizmodo:
This Is the Last Sun Antarctica Will See for Six Months
March 22, 2016
Business Insider:
One of the brightest fireballs in recorded history barreled across Britain's skies - and it was beautiful
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA and SpaceX eye April return-to-flight for Dragon
Popular Science:
Inflatable Addition To The Space Station Will Launch In April
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX hopes to raise launch tempo after space station flight
Daily Mail:
Pluto is even more bizarre and mysterious than thought: New Horizons images reveal a tapestry of frozen mountains, pockmarks, plate tectonics and wobbly moons
Sputnik News:
Nine Monster Stars Unearthed in the Milky Way
Stuff NZ:
Space photo shows New Zealand 400km away from Russian spacecraft
March 21, 2016
WWMT-TV:
50th anniversary of Michigan UFO sightings
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz docks with space station with fresh crew
Discovery News:
New International Space Station Crew Arrives Safely
Spaceflight Insider:
ISS crew size returns to six with docking of Soyuz TMA-20M
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Soyuz crew blasts off en route to space station
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Crew departs on half-year space station expedition
Discovery News:
Pluto Probably Has an Ocean Under its Surface
The Independent:
First day of spring: What is the Vernal Equinox?
WEEKEND EDITION: March 19 through March 20, 2016
Forbes:
10 Quantum Truths About Our Universe
Ars Technica:
Searching for the particle accelerator at the heart of the Milky Way
Scientific American:
The Long Search for the Value of Pi
The Guardian:
Pi Day: your guide to this infinitely interesting number
Sputnik News:
Life of Pi: Today's Most Celebrated Number (Literally)
Atlas Obscura:
Object of Intrigue: Disneyland's Flirty, Talking Trash Can
Atlas Obscura:
What Does Your Reaction to a Robotic Trash Can Say About You?
Daily Mail:
Researchers find evidence of TWELVE catastrophic mega eruptions 16m years ago in Idaho
Smithsonian Magazine:
San Andreas May Have Had Help Triggering a Historic Earthquake
National Geographic:
Scientists Finally Know What Kind of Monster a Tully Monster Was
Daily Mail:
Has a mythological monster been found? 250 million year old reptile named after fierce lizard with a dog's head... and it can teach us about how crocodiles evolved
Gizmodo:
Behold Timurlengia - the Elusive Missing Link in Tyrannosaur Evolution
The Guardian:
Discovery of brainy T rex ancestor sheds light on dinosaur's dominance
The Dodo:
Baby Elephant Sees Goat, Runs For His Life
The History Blog:
Unusable bronze Iron Age weapons found in Oman
Ancient Origins:
2500-Year Old Signet Ring from Tradeswomen Uncovered in Jerusalem
Daily Mail:
Did ancient Rome issue commemorative coins? Gold piece unearthed in Israel from the time of Trajan bears bust of Augustus in tribute to Rome's first emperor
Daily Mail:
Holy smokes! CANNABIS has preserved ancient Indian artwork in the sacred Ellora Caves for 1,500 years
The History Blog:
London Stone will finally gets it due again
Atlas Obscura:
Rynek Underground
Atlas Obscura:
Shipwreck from Vasco da Gama's Armada Found off Arabian Peninsula
The History Blog:
Only play with section believed to be in Shakespeare's hand on display
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Eerie Civil War Photos Changed How the U.S. Saw Veterans
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Rare Walt Whitman Letter Was Found in the National Archives
Atlas Obscura:
100 Wonders: The Great Boston Molasses Flood
Atlas Obscura:
How a Midwestern Potato Farm Became the World's First Nuclear Waste Site
Atlas Obscura:
The FBI Files of One Of The Most Prolific Mathematicians Ever
Atlas Obscura:
Cold War Spies Sifted Through Used Soviet Toilet Paper In Search of Clues
Atlas Obscura:
Why Only Apple Users Can Trash Their Files
Atlas Obscura:
Email is 'Simple, Really,' Explains 6-Minute Instructional Video From 1984
San Francisco Chronicle:
120 years ago today, San Francisco's iconic Sutro Baths opened
San Francisco Chronicle:
Fascinating stories behind San Francisco neighborhood names
National Geographic:
First Day of Spring Marked With Sun Daggers, Light Snakes
March 18, 2016
Sputnik News:
Panic Reaches New Heights: 'Russia, China Planning Space Attacks on US'
Daily Mail:
Inside Lockheed's giant blimp: Long-range LMH-1 airship will carry cargo and people to remote locations around the world
Sputnik News:
US and Russia Begin Race for Sixth-Generation Fighter Jet
Sputnik News:
Lockheed Closes in On Mach 6 Hypersonic Aircraft Technology
Daily Mail:
The oddest fighter plane you've ever seen: Radical low cost twin tailed design is so manoeuverable it 'can rival helicopters'
Popular Science:
Meet the First Civilian to Successfully Launch a Rocket Into Space
Forbes:
Astronomy And The Cold War
Discovery News:
50 Years Ago, Armstrong Made Heroic Emergency Landing
March 17, 2016
West Briton:
St Partick's Day meteor lights up sky with green flash across UK
Spaceflight Now:
Massive European spacecraft launched toward Mars
Spaceflight Now:
Scientists to start fire in discarded spacecraft to study flames in weightless
Spaceflight Now:
International Space Station to study meteors hitting atmosphere
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Atlas 5 rocket assembled for space station resupply launch
Discovery News:
DNews: Get to Mars in Three Days? Here's How That Could Happen
Discovery News:
Ceres' Mysterious Bright Spots Change Unexpectedly
Discovery News:
Our Planet's Magnetism Saved It From Solar Sterilization
March 16, 2016
Astrobiology Magazine:
ExoMars on its Way to Solve the Red Planet's History
Discovery News:
Top 5 Weird Facts About Mysterious Uranus: Photos
Gizmodo:
Keep Track of Every Mission Throughout The Solar System With This Handy Map
Popular Science:
What Happens When A Spacecraft Catches On Fire?
Universe Today:
90 Years Ago Goddard's Liquid-Fuelled Rocket Launched Spaceflight
March 15, 2016
Discovery News:
Mars Mission Blasts Off to Seek Signs of Life
Spaceflight Insider:
Proton-M rocket successfully sends European ExoMars mission on a journey to the Red Planet
Spaceflight Now:
Video: ExoMars mission blasts off on Proton rocket
Universe Today:
NASA Test Fires SLS Flight Engine Destined to Launch Astronauts Back to the Moon
Inverse:
NASA's Fireball Program Will Test if Asteroids Hit Earth as Randomly as We Think
Popular Science:
China's Answer To The Hubble Telescope
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Giant Planetary Smashup May Have Turned Venus Hot and Hellish
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Why Is There a Huge Mountain on Ceres?
Forbes:
How Does NASA Decide Where Spacecraft Will Land When They Return To Earth?
March 14, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Ambitious European-led Mars mission ready for liftoff
Discovery News:
Europe's Life-Hunting Mars Mission Ready for Launch
Popular Science:
Russia Wants To Test A Nuclear Space Engine In 2018
Inverse:
A South Carolina Blacksmith Won NASA's Spacesuit Testing Contest. He's Pumped.
Discovery News:
Inside Jeff Bezos' Secret Blue Origin Rocket Factory
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA's K2 mission: The Kepler Space Telescope's Second Chance to Shine
Discovery News:
NASA Spacecraft's Epic 10 Years of Mars: Photos
Air & Space Magazine:
Not All Martian Landing Sites Are Alike
Discovery News:
Comet Punch Threw Mars' Magnetism into Chaos
Space Daily:
Evidence found for unstable heavy element at solar system formation
The Atlantic:
A New 50-Trillion-Pixel Image of Earth, Every Day
WEEKEND EDITION: March 12 through March 13, 2016
The Wire:
Are the Constants of Physics Constant?
Forbes:
Could The Large Hadron Collider Make An Earth-Killing Black Hole?
Daily Mail:
Is there a FIFTH fundamental force? Large Hadron Collider results hint at bizarre new particle that doesn't fit with laws of physics
Forbes:
Test Your Knowledge Of Prime Numbers With This Game
IEEE Spectrum:
Study: Nobody Wants Social Robots That Look Like Humans Because They Threaten Our Identity
IEEE Spectrum:
This Is the Most Amazing Biomimetic Anthropomorphic Robot Hand We've Ever Seen
Scientific American:
Yellowstone's Supervolcano Gets a Lid
Discovery News:
Ancient Super-Eruption Reconstructed
Gizmodo:
Patagonian Ice Bridge Collapses in Spectacular Fashion
Scientific American:
All 2.3 Million Species Are Mapped into a Single Circle of Life
Discovery News:
Oldest Pine Tree Fossils Discovered
Cosmos Magazine:
What killed off the vicious ichthyosaur?
Daily Mail:
Got somewhere to be? Sloth makes everyone late for work as it leisurely crosses the road
The Dodo:
Watch The Moment This Iguana Completely Loses All Chill
Ancient Origins:
Paleolithic Bone Tools Discovered in Chinese Cave Are Some of the Oldest in the World
Ancient Origins:
Rich Tomb of an Etruscan Princess Discovered in Italy
Ancient Origins:
2500-Year Old Signet Ring from Tradeswomen Uncovered in Jerusalem
The History Blog:
The glorious Mogao cave temples and the earliest printed book
Smithsonian Magazine:
Even 500 Years After His Death, Hieronymus Bosch Hasn't Lost His Appeal
Atlas Obscura:
China's Only Monogamous Emperor Swore Off Consorts After One Murdered His Mom
Mysterious Universe:
The Deadly Saga of the Thuggee
Atlas Obscura:
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, The Original Ghost-Buster
Atlas Obscura:
When Sipping Tea Was A Socially Ruinous Act
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Laptops That Powered the American Revolution
Smithsonian Magazine:
Eight Secret Societies You Might Not Know
Atlas Obscura:
When American Voters Had 2 Choices: Whig or Loco Foco
Atlas Obscura:
The Damnable Dames Who Helped Shape Seattle's Character
Atlas Obscura:
Text-To-Speech in 1846 Involved a Talking Robotic Head With Ringlets
Slate:
K Troop: The story of the eradication of the original Ku Klux Klan
Atlas Obscura:
100 Wonders: The Underwater Ballroom
Atlas Obscura:
The 'Itchless' Innovation that Made Minneapolis the Capital of Underwear
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Secret History of the Girl Detective
Atlas Obscura:
Why Men in the 1920s Paid Women for Spins Around the Dance Hall
Inverse:
Walt Disney's Weird Buddy: What Happened to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit?
Atlas Obscura:
The Curious Story of Wierszalin, a Belarussian Prophet's 1930s Forest Utopia
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice.
San Francisco Chronicle:
17 things you didn't know about the Golden Gate Bridge
Inverse:
Be Gone Keanu Reeves' Remake of 'The Day The Earth Stood Still': 1951's Is a Sci-Fi Masterpiece
BBC News:
The man who blew up Nelson
Atlas Obscura:
The 1980s Media Panic Over Dungeons & Dragons
Gizmag:
Boeing unveils game-changing autonomous submarine
Gizmag:
In pictures: Concept cars and design studies of the 2016 Geneva Motor Show
BBC News:
Why does Britain have such bizarre place names?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Half of the Inhabitants of This Australian Opal Capital Live Underground
Air & Space Magazine:
An Oscar-Worthy Animated Tale of Two Cosmonauts
March 11, 2016
Daily Mail:
Inside Lockheed's giant blimp: Long-range LMH-1 airship will carry cargo and people to remote locations around the world
Gizmodo:
A Drone Flying Two Miles High Is Equal Parts Illegal and Beautiful
Jalopnik:
This Is The F-35's Third Generation Super Helmet
Jalopnik:
LA News Chopper Stumbles Onto Formation Of V-22 Ospreys, Takes Amazing Footage
Jalopnik:
Watch Live As Boeing Attempts To Fly The First 727 After It Sat For 25 Years (Updated)
Jalopnik:
Reminisce On That Time In The Early '90s When F-16s Escorted MiG-29s Across The U.S.
BBC News:
Future - Why Nasa still flies an old British bomber design
Air & Space Magazine:
Airplane vs. Zeppelin in 1917
Ars Technica:
Kelly's Heroes: Lockheed's five finest airplanes
Air & Space Magazine:
Otto Lilienthal's In-Flight Movie From the 1890s
Forbes:
The Worst Accidents In Space Go Well Beyond Apollo 13
io9:
Spotting This Flying RC Goth Overhead Would Be Even Creepier at Night
March 10, 2016
Discovery News:
Mars Total Solar Eclipse Wows Skywatchers
New Scientist:
Mars InSight Mission Cleared for 2018 Launch
Universe Today:
China Plans Space Telescope That Will Dock With Their Space Station
Stuff NZ:
NASA coming back to Wanaka to launch balloon and probe the universe
Astrobiology Magazine:
Dawn's First Year at Ceres: A Mountain Emerges
Daily Mail:
Rosetta's comet is as old as the solar system: Ice reveals it was born in the nebula that created our sun 4.6 billion years ago
New Scientist:
Billion-light-year galactic wall may be largest object in cosmos
Gizmag:
Simulated Martian and lunar soils sprout their first crops
March 9, 2016
Daily Mail:
Phew! 100ft asteroid 203 TX68 passes 2.5 million miles from Earth - but will be back in 2017
Popular Science:
Why Lockheed Martin Is Blasting The Orion Spaceship With 1,500 Speakers
Space News:
NASA slips schedule of Asteroid Redirect Mission
Discovery News:
Mercury's Carbon-Rich Crust is Surprisingly Ancient
New Scientist:
Mercury once had a graphite crust floating on a sea of magma
Discovery News:
Mystery Mountain Pops Up in Striking Ceres Photo
March 8, 2016
Stuff NZ:
Earth-bound asteroid in orbit path of key satellites
Universe Today:
ExoMars 2016 Spacecraft Encapsulated for Red Planet Launch in One Week
Discovery News:
Will NASA's InSight Mars Mission Launch in 2018?
Space Daily:
Aim Higher: China Plans to Send Rover to Mars in 2020
Daily Mail:
How to watch the only total solar eclipse of 2016: Phenomenon that sweeps across the Pacific this week will be streamed online
The Weather Channel:
30 Incredible Photos Of Crop Circles
March 7, 2016
Daily Mail:
Look out! 100ft asteroid 203 TX68 could pass just 15,000 miles from Earth on Sunday - but Nasa claims we are safe
KYTV:
Big meteor caught on tape in Mountain Home
Gizmag:
SES-9 mission launch successful, but Falcon 9 landing less so
Daily Mail:
'It feels like it's burning whenever I sit or walk': Scott Kelly reveals the aches and pains of coming back to Earth after a year in space
Space Daily:
China's lunar probe sets record for longest stay
Smithsonian Magazine:
Explore the Magnificent and Mysterious Surface of the Moon in Pictures
New Scientist:
Exclusive photos: Clouds seen on Pluto for first time
Astrobiology Magazine:
Methane Snow on Pluto's Peaks
Popular Science:
Strange Signals Are Coming From Space, And Repeating
Inverse:
UFO Researcher Nick Pope Is the British Fox Mulder and His Country Needs Him Now
WEEKEND EDITION: March 5 through March 6, 2016
Daily Mail:
Is the universe like a flip book? Physicists say new theory of how seconds pass could help make time travel a reality
Cosmos Magazine:
Quantum physics for the terminally confused
The Atlantic:
Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself
Gizmag:
Scorpion Hexapod has a sting in its tail
Daily Dot:
Boston Dynamics's killer robot Atlas is less terrifying when it swears
Daily Mail:
This Is How Fast a Little Landslide Turns Into a Full-On Shitstorm
Gizmodo:
The mystery of the Japanese island that appeared out of the sea: Study finds Nishinoshima formed from TWO volcanic eruptions
Gizmodo:
This 520 Million-Year-Old Fossil Is So Intricate You Can See Individual Nerves
Stuff NZ:
This weird little fungus may be the oldest fossilised land creature ever found
Daily Mail:
The fossil find of the century: World's 'biggest and most diverse' collection of Jurassic remains is uncovered in Argentina
Discovery News:
Oldest Chameleon Found in Amber
Daily Mail:
'Fluffy' meat-eating dinosaur as long as a BUS is identified after its fossil was put in a drawer and forgotten about for years
Live Science:
T. Rex Was Likely an Invasive Species
Smithsonian Magazine:
We Finally Know How Much the Dino-Killing Asteroid Reshaped Earth
Daily Mail:
The prehistoric 'otter' with a formidable bite: Kolponomos was as large as a bear with jaws like a sabre-toothed cat
Daily Mail:
Oh my! Lion, tiger and bear 'brothers' living in a Georgia animal shelter haven't left each other's side in 15 years
Daily Mail:
'Magic' Mesolithic pendant is oldest art ever found in Britain: 11,000-year-old jewellery may have been worn by shaman to ward off evil spirits
Daily Mail:
Tiny handprints in Stone Age shelter were NOT human: 8,000-year-old 'baby' stencils in Cave of Beasts were created by lizards
Ancient Origins:
Polish Pyramids: Ruins of Megalithic Tombs from the Time of Stonehenge Discovered in Poland
Ancient Origins:
Satellite Imaging Exposes 4,000-year-old Tomb in the Dahshur Necropolis
Ancient Origins:
Curious 3,400-Year-Old Canaanite Figurine Discovered by Young Boy in Israel
The History Blog:
Earliest complete Bronze Age wheel found at Must Farm
Daily Mail:
Ancient grave shows Nubian woman buried in Egyptian style: Incredible find pinpoints the moment 'two cultures became one'
Discovery News:
Inscription Spurs Debate Over Mysterious Greek Tomb
Daily Mail:
Roman 'leisure complex' unearthed in Jerusalem: Bathhouse, rural estate and wine press were used by invading soldiers 1,600 years ago
The History Blog:
Denver Art Museum returns Koh Ker statue
The History Blog:
12th c. "archaeological ruin" icon restored
The History Blog:
Ring ostensibly owned by Joan of Arc sells for $333,000
The History Blog:
Medieval painting saved by Reformation recycling
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Brief History of the St. Bernard Rescue Dog
Smithsonian Magazine:
Ben Franklin Was One-Fifth Revolutionary, Four-Fifths London Intellectual
Atlas Obscura:
The 19th Century 'Show Caves' That Became America's First Tourist Traps
Atlas Obscura:
Object of Intrigue: Confederate Currency
Atlas Obscura:
How Female Computers Mapped the Universe and Brought America to the Moon
Atlas Obscura:
The Modern Manhunt Began With An Arrest by Wireless Telegraph
Smithsonian Magazine:
Upton Sinclair Was a Socialist Candidate Who Succeeded Through Failure
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Spy in the Doll Shop
Mysterious Universe:
Assassination: A CIA "How To" Guide, Pt. 1
Mysterious Universe:
Assassination: A CIA "How To" Guide, Pt. 2
Popular Science:
The CIA's Bold Kidnapping of a Soviet Spacecraft
Popular Science:
Remember When a Soviet Spacecraft Landed in Wisconsin?
Popular Science:
Ed Dwight, the African American Astronaut who Never Flew
San Francisco Chronicle:
Turn on tune in - hippie photos unseen for decades
Atlas Obscura:
America Almost Had a Disney Theme Park with a Slavery Section
Mysterious Universe:
The Rumbling Below: Strange Sounds of "Engine Noise" From Underground
Gizmag:
In pictures: Supercars, exotics and other sporty machinery of the 2016 Geneva Motor Show
Gizmag:
In pictures: The 2016 North American Handmade Bicycle Show
Atlas Obscura:
France's Legendary Haunted Lighthouse Has First Resident Since 1910
Gizmodo:
Racing Down a Stunning Alpine Coaster Reminds Me to Never Grow Up
Daily Mail:
The stunning mosaic menagerie hiding in the dome of St Paul's: Incredible gigapixel image offers an unprecedented, close-up look of the cathedral's famous animal artwork
Gizmodo:
Awesome Stop-Motion Animation Shows Clothes Fighting Each Other Like an Action Movie
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Animated Movie About Van Gogh Is Made Entirely of Oil Paintings
March 4, 2016
Daily Mail:
Nasa set to bring back supersonic passenger travel: Space agency reveals 'son of Concorde' concept it hopes could fly in 2020
Ars Technica:
Meet NASA's new X-planes: "Quiet" sonic booms and engines at the back
Daily Mail:
Test pilot reveals F-35 stealth jet can perform Top Gun 'fly right by' impossible manoeuvre as it 'slows down quicker than you can emergency brake your car'
Inverse:
Rarely Seen Footage of the B-2 Bomber Goes on YouTube
Daily Mail:
The predator spreads its wings: Killer drone gets new long distance upgrade and can now fly for 40 hours non-stop
Forbes:
What Happens When A Fighter Pilot Blacks Out In Zero-G?
Discovery News:
Kittinger: Confidence Key to High-Altitude Jump Survival
Popular Science:
How Otto Winzen Took Men Into the Stratosphere
Popular Science:
The space plane that wasn't: everything you never needed to know about Dyna-Soar
Popular Science:
The Interservice Rivalry that Delayed America's First Satellite Launch
Popular Science:
The Paraglider: How NASA Tried And Failed To Land Without Parachutes
Popular Science:
Why Did NASA Choose an Untested Missile to Launch Gemini?
Popular Science:
The Interservice Rivalry that Delayed America's First Satellite Launch
Popular Science:
How The Air Force Planned To Put Men On The Moon
Popular Science:
Jack Northrop and the UFO-Lookin' Flying Wings
Scientific American:
The Demographics of Space Travel
March 3, 2016
WNBC-TV:
Long Island Residents Call 911 to Report Mystery 'Boom' Sounds
Daily Mail:
'The cold fresh air was amazing': Scott Kelly reveals bittersweet feelings about return to earth after record breaking year in orbit
Discovery News:
UK Astronaut Reveals LEGO Space Station Stowaways
Space Daily:
Logistics Rule on Tiangong 2
Forbes:
NASA Venus Landsail Rover Could Launch In 2023
Sputnik News:
Russian Crowdfunded Satellite Set to Become the Night Sky's Brightest Star
Daily Mail:
Did Mars 'tilt' three billion years ago? Huge shift in the shape of the red planet may have happened much later than first thought
New Scientist:
Volcanic mount spun Mars around and rearranged its rivers
New Scientist:
Summer on Titan may make its lakes ripple with waves
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
A Long, Cold Sleep for Philae
Forbes:
Antimatter Space Propulsion Possible Within A Decade, Say Physicists
Daily Telegraph:
Comet in night sky this month will be closest for 246 years
March 2, 2016
Daily Mail:
Phew! Nasa says asteroid 203 TX68 will pass three MILLION miles from Earth on March 8th (but admits there's a one in 250 million chance it could hit us in 2017)
Daily Mail:
He's home! Scott Kelly's Soyuz spacecraft touches down in Kazakhstan after astronaut's record-breaking year in orbit
Forbes:
Astronaut Ron Garan: 'Soyuz Reentry Is Like Niagara Falls Barrel Ride, On Fire'
Time Magazine:
Inside the Gigantic Operation to Meet Astronauts Coming Home
Time Magazine:
This Is The First Face Astronauts Will See After a Year in Space
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 launch scrubbed again
Discovery News:
Earth's Radiation Belts Change Wildly With Solar Storms
Astrobiology Magazine:
Life or illusion? Avoiding 'false positives' in the search for living worlds
Discovery News:
Seeking the Aliens Who Are Looking Right At Us
March 1, 2016
Aberdeen Press and Journal:
All you need to know: Meteor explodes in skies over Scotland
WPTV:
VIDEO: Fireball lights up skies over Spain
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Falcon 9 awaits liftoff
Spaceflight Insider:
Scott Kelly preps for homecoming, station preps for heavy traffic
Spaceflight Now:
Kelly, Kornienko about to wrap up 340-day mission
Daily Mail:
Is a rogue comet on a collision course with Earth? 'Surprise meteor shower' sparks hunt for unknown ice ball orbiting in space
Discovery News:
Meteor Shower Points to 'Potentially Hazardous' Comet
Science Alert:
These top 5 meteor blasts will remind you how scary our galaxy can be
February 29, 2016
Pacific Daily News:
Guam's skies have a history of UFOs
Curbed Los Angeles:
A Brief History of UFO Sightings in Los Angeles
Time Magazine:
See 10 Mysterious 'UFO Sighting' Photos From History
WINK-TV:
Decoding sonic booms in SWFL
Florida Today:
SpaceX Falcon 9 launch scrubs for third time
Astrobiology Magazine:
Opportunity Mars Rover Goes Six-Wheeling up a Ridge
Forbes:
Are We Missing Intelligent Life Because We're Looking Into The Past?
WEEKEND EDITION: February 27 through February 28, 2016
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Did the Universe Have a Beginning?
Forbes:
How Long Has The Universe Been Accelerating?
Forbes:
What Is The Universe Expanding Into?
Daily Mail:
Will the universe end in a BIG RIP? Expert suggests its rate of expansion could end up tearing everything we know apart
Forbes:
Ask Ethan: The Multiverse And The Road Not Traveled
Dailynewsx:
Combining these 2 theories could give us an actual 'theory of everything'
Live Science:
5D Black Holes Could Break Relativity
Forbes:
Ask Ethan: Do Gravitational Waves Exhibit Wave-Particle Duality?
Cosmos Magazine:
What do Albert Camus and string theory have in common?
Inverse:
Quantum Suicide Lets Physicists Prove the Multiverse Theory or Die Trying
Forbes:
Why Is Relativity True?
Daily Mail:
He's behind you! Watch Google's new Atlas robot stand up on its own up after getting knocked down by giant stick in amazing video
Forbes:
The Rock Cycle: Learn The Types Of Rocks & Minerals
Forbes:
The Largest Diamond Ever Found In Angola Is 404 Carats And Nearly Flawless
Forbes:
Legendary Boiling River Of The Amazon Is A Geological Anomaly
Ars Technica:
Sponge full of cholesterol pushes animal life back to 650 million years
Daily Mail:
Is this the ugliest ancient reptile ever? Fossils reveal beast with a barrel-like body, knobbly skin and stumpy legs roamed China 260 million years ago
Astrobiology Magazine:
Oxygen-starved oceans held back life's recovery after the 'Great Dying'
Smithsonian Magazine:
This is the Most Beat Up Dinosaur Ever Discovered
Forbes:
Were Giant Sauropod Dinosaurs Actually Swimmers?
Smithsonian Magazine:
We Finally Know How Much the Dino-Killing Asteroid Reshaped Earth
Stuff NZ:
Canterbury researchers help identify 22 million-year-old fossil
Daily Mail:
Not so skippy after all! Fossils of a tiny ancient kangaroo that couldn't hop has been found in Australia
Forbes:
Ancient DNA From Extinct Glyptodont Reveals It Was A Really Big Armadillo
Daily Mail:
Dodo's WEREN'T daft: Researchers reveals birds had similar brain size to a pigeon and a superb sense of smell
Gizmodo:
Meet the Million-Year-Old Lizard Species We Didn't Know Existed Until Now
The History Blog:
7,000-year-old upright burial found in Germany
The History Blog:
Tarkhan Dress confirmed as world's oldest woven garment
Ancient Origins:
Satellite Imaging Exposes 4,000-year-old Tomb in the Dahshur Necropolis
Ancient Origins:
Spanish Leak Reveals Hidden Chamber in Tutankhamun Tomb is Full of Treasures
The History Blog:
Earliest complete Bronze Age wheel found at Must Farm
Daily Mail:
The fashions of the Holy Land revealed: Archaeologists find 3,000 year old fabrics from reign of Kings David and Solomon perfectly preserved in copper mine
Ancient Origins:
New Investigations Begin on the Pyramid of the Mysterious Queen Khennuwa
Ancient Origins:
Excavations Reveal that the Oldest Roman Tavern Nourished and Served Ancient Life
The History Blog:
Hoards of Cheshire go on display in Liverpool
The History Blog:
12th c. "archaeological ruin" icon restored
Atlas Obscura:
Can You Spot the Monsters in This Medieval Map of the World?
Archaeology:
The Many Lives of an English Manor House
Forbes:
Here's Why Copernicus Is Still Worth Celebrating Over 400 Years Later
The History Blog:
Lost cantata by Mozart and Salieri found in Prague
Smithsonian Magazine:
Elizabeth Hamilton Once Posed for a Portrait in a New York City Prison
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Elizabeth Hamilton Is Deserving of a Musical of Her Own
Atlas Obscura:
Lakshmibai, The Warrior Queen Who Fought British Rule in India
The History Blog:
Martha Brown, the real Tess of the D'Urbevilles
Atlas Obscura:
How First Ladies on Opposing Sides of the Civil War Forged an Unlikely Bond
Atlas Obscura:
Psychic Archeology, Or How to Dig Up the Dead With Their Own Advice
The History Blog:
French police tackle 103-year-old cold case
Smithsonian Magazine:
Historians Finally Figured Out What Was on Shackleton's Bookshelf
Smithsonian Magazine:
'They looked like such good girls': the mystery of Genet's murderous Maids
Mysterious Universe:
The Day Tesla Died: Why The True Extent of Tesla's Genius Remains Unknown
BBC News:
The man who made 'the worst video game in history'
Atlas Obscura:
The Pushers, Hookers and Sawyers Still Harvesting America's Ice
BBC News:
The quest to solve YouTube's strangest mystery
Gizmag:
In pictures: The Japan Camping Car Show 2016
Atlas Obscura:
The Pushers, Hookers and Sawyers Still Harvesting America's Ice
Daily Mail:
The chateau that became Picasso's canvas: Seven bedroom French castle with a garden full of artist's works goes on the market for £6.9million
San Francisco Chronicle:
The 16 most beautiful metro stations in the world
Atlas Obscura:
Fleeting Wonders: Britain's Most Famous Train Returns
February 26, 2016
Daily Mail:
Far from lunar-cy! Lockheed Martin reveals plans for a human outpost orbiting the moon to help launch man to Mars
Daily Mail:
Could we travel to Mars in just THREE days? Nasa's 'photonic propulsion' uses lasers to produce thrust
Daily Mail:
World's largest aircraft is almost ready! Giant fin is attached to the 'Flying Bum' airship ahead of its first flight next month
Sputnik News:
Not So Stealthy: China Can Reportedly Track Pentagon's 'Undetectable' F-22 Fighters
Daily Mail:
Watch the US military's superfast self flying bird drone: Incredible video shows Darpa's tiny craft reach 45 MPH indoors and navigating autonomously
Gizmag:
Drone makes historic 72-minute flight across English Channel
DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Bridging the Gap Between Space Station and Mars: The IMUSE Strategy (1985)
DSFP's Spaceflight History:
On the Moons of Mighty Jupiter (1970)
DSFP's Spaceflight History:
What If a Space Shuttle Orbiter Had to Ditch? (1975)
Discovery News:
30 Years Later: The Legacy of Russia's Mir Space Station
Discovery News:
'Space Men:' Ascending to Earth's Deadliest Frontier
February 25, 2016
Daily Mail:
Fourth time lucky? SpaceX abandons latest attempt to launch satellite and land rocket on 'drone boat' due to bad weather - but will try again tomorrow
Spaceflight Insider:
Launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 with SES-9 postponed 24 hours
Daily Mail:
Nasa reveals just three screens will be used to control the Orion capsule that could take humans to Mars (unlike the 2,000 switches in the Space Shuttle's cockpit)
Gizmag:
NASA simulates emergency aboard Orion spacecraft
New Scientist:
'Follow the salt' may be best strategy to find Martian microbes
Daily Mail:
Astronomers are 'getting closer' to locating mysterious ninth planet beyond Jupiter
New Scientist:
Planet Nine hunters enlist big bang telescopes and Saturn probe
Astrobiology Magazine:
ATLASGAL Survey of Milky Way Completed
Daily Mail:
Ancient Earth was pummelled with meteors 790,000 years ago: Multiple impacts would have caused tsunamis and widespread fires
Universe Today:
The Definitive Guide To Terraforming
February 24, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 clears static fire test before launch this week
Spaceflight Now:
U.S. resupply ship headed for space station to launch March 22
New Scientist:
Virgin Galactic claims new 'Unity' spaceship fixes safety issues
Spaceflight Now:
Dizzying final few months planned for Rosetta comet probe
Discovery News:
Pluto Moon Charon 'Bursting' With Frozen Ocean?
Discovery News:
Hubble's Backyard: Our Solar System: Photos
Astrobiology Magazine:
Hubble Directly Measures Rotation of Cloudy 'Super-Jupiter'
Discovery News:
Rings May Be Common Around a Weird Kind of Asteroid
February 23, 2016
Mysterious Universe:
Eyes Only: How the CIA Kept Tabs on a Civilian UFO Research Group
Daily Mail:
Minuteman ICBM soars over California as US Air Force run test-launch - but this time without causing a UFO scare
Space Daily:
China's moon lander Chang'e-3 enters 28th lunar day
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Cygnus cargo ship's departure from International Space Station
Discovery News:
Ancient Impacts Mysteriously Erased From Asteroid Vesta
Astrobiology Magazine:
Footprints of a Martian Flood
Astrobiology Magazine:
Pluto's 'Hulk-like' Moon Charon: A Possible Ancient Ocean?
Inquirer.net:
The astronaut who believed in ETs, UFOs and ESP
Geek Wire:
Apollo 10's moon music mystery revisited
February 22, 2016
ABC Australia:
The X-Files: Century-old Melbourne UFO report similar to case used by Fox Mulder found in archives
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Largest Fireball Since Chelyabinsk Falls Over the Atlantic
Global News Canada:
WATCH: Meteor lights up sky over parts of Europe
UPI:
Australian man catches close-up footage of suspected meteor
EarthSky:
Space rocks from Florida fireball found!
WSAZ-TV:
Ohio National Guard jets cause sonic boom
Spaceflight Insider:
Space station boosts orbit to prepare for heavy spacecraft traffic
Spaceflight Now:
Commercial Cygnus space freighter leaves station after two months
Discovery News:
New Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Makes Debut (Update)
Spaceflight Now:
ExoMars orbiter and lander mated for final time
Spaceflight Now:
Look back on the blastoff of a Russian missile-turned-launcher
Discovery News:
Hubble's Recent Discoveries and Stunning Photos
Daily Mail:
Was it Pink Floyd? Apollo 10 astronauts heard mysterious 'music' on the dark side of the moon, newly uncovered tapes reveal
WEEKEND EDITION: February 20 through February 21, 2016
Daily Mail:
A five-dimensional black hole could break the theory of relativity: Simulation suggests strange rings with 'ultragravity' that defy physics may exist
New Scientist:
Four big cosmology secrets gravitational waves could uncover
Gizmodo:
The Zoomer Robot Chimp Stands and Balances on Two Feet Better Than a Toddler Can
Gizmag:
Review: Ultimaker 2 Extended 3D printer
Gizmag:
Mattel brings back ThingMaker as a 3D printer for kids
Sputnik News:
Scientists Find Possible New Layer at Earth's Core
Daily Mail:
Oxygen was present on Earth far earlier than thought: Ancient marine sediments reveal presence of oxygen 3.8 billion years ago
Daily Mail:
Mass extinction 550 million years ago was caused by Earth's magnetic field becoming hyperactive and FLIPPING, study claims
Daily Mail:
The prehistoric 'Big Bird' with a head the size of a HORSE'S: Enormous flightless bird roamed the Arctic Circle 50 million years
Daily Mail:
The deadly secret of the 45-million-year-old flower fossils: Remains found in amber belong to a new poisonous species of ancient plant
Stuff NZ:
Cicada-geddon hits Wellington
The Guardian:
Oldest known case of Neanderthal-human sex revealed by DNA test
Daily Mail:
'Hobbits' were NOT deformed modern humans: Bone layers in 15,000-year-old skull has no similarities to our species
Daily Mail:
Were these the world's first farmers? Stone Age village dating back 12,000 YEARS uncovered beside the Sea of Galilee
Daily Mail:
Are these Jerusalem's first homes? Ruins unearthed in Holy City show it was a thriving settlement 7,000 years ago
Daily Mail:
Now THAT'S vintage: 5,000 year old Egyptian garment confirmed as world's oldest dress
Daily Mail:
Britain's oldest WHEEL unearthed at 'Pompeii of the Fens' reveals clues about how the Bronze Age farmers travelled 3,000 years ago
Daily Mail:
Secrets of 2,000-year-old Egyptian 'mummy paintings' revealed: Forensic experts trace how pigments spread across Europe
Atlas Obscura:
The Perfect 22-Foot Map for Your Ancient Roman Road Trip
Daily Mail:
'From a level of wow factor, it ranks right up there': Amateur archaeologist finds evidence of first ever European settlement in the U.S. in the Florida Panhandle
BBC News:
The London that could have been
Smithsonian Magazine:
A German Composer Uncovered a Collaboration Between Mozart and Salieri
Atlas Obscura:
The Scandalous Decision To Pickle Admiral Horatio Nelson In Brandy
Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Gold Rush Led to Real Riches in Bird Poop
Atlas Obscura:
The Most Precious Cargo for Lighthouses Across America was a Traveling Library
Smithsonian Magazine:
The True Story of the 'Free State of Jones'
Atlas Obscura:
Getting in the Minds of Murderers at London's Hidden Crime Museum
ABC Australia:
Letter flown by balloon out of besieged Paris in 1870 discovered in National Archives
Atlas Obscura:
An Illustrated History of the Orient Express
Atlas Obscura:
The Oscar for Best Forgotten Film Pioneer Goes to this Black Director
Smithsonian Magazine:
How a German Archaeologist Rediscovered in Iran the Tomb of Cyrus
Atlas Obscura:
Enter Sandia Man: Revisiting the Site of a 20th Century Archeological Scandal
Atlas Obscura:
How the Women-Led 'Bread Boycotts' Changed 20th Century Food Pricing
Atlas Obscura:
The Top Secret Cold War Plan to Bring the U.S. Under Martial Law
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Unfinished Film Highlights the Daily Lives of Black Americans in the 1960s
Atlas Obscura:
Places You Can No Longer Go: River Country
Smithsonian Magazine:
Steve Wozniak's Apple I Booted Up a Tech Revolution
Daily Mail:
The US Navy's 'ghost hunter' to set sail: 132 foot long robo-boat will scour seas for silent enemy submarines for months at a time - without a single person on board
Daily Mail:
Messing about on the river: Inside the Thames workshops where they've been hand-making beautiful boats for 300 years
Science Magazine:
How cat hair brought down a pair of art forgers
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Quest to Master the Art of Henna
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Secret Language of Hands in Indian Iconography
February 19, 2016
Daily Mail:
Could you land a Boeing 737? Delta pilot creates video for passengers explaining how to fly the plane in an emergency
Daily Mail:
The new space race: Virgin's spaceship competes with rocket, jet plane and a balloon to be the first to take tourists into space
Gizmag:
US Army testing technology to 3D print mission-specific drones on demand
Atlas Obscura:
The Wildly Misunderstood Aeronautics Event Captured in This Photograph
Wired:
Boom! NASA Wants to Bring Back Supersonic X-Planes
Gizmodo:
Here Are All the Awesome Vertical Landing Jets in History
Jalopnik:
The F-117 Stealth Fighter Program Actually Had A 'Klingon Cloaking Device'
Space Daily:
Aldrin recounts successes and challenges of historic space journey
Smithsonian Magazine:
A New Look Inside the Apollo 11 Spacecraft Reveals A Few Surprises
Popular Science:
How the Apollo Lunar Modules were Smashed for Science
February 18, 2016
The Oregonian:
UFOs, mutilated cows and Oregon: What's the link? (photos)
Mysterious Universe:
The Art of Denial: The Secret Lives of Those Who Smear Saucers
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Fireball lights up skies over Richmond, East Coast
Air & Space Magazine:
NASA Plans to Light a Fire Inside a Spacecraft, Then Watch What Happens
Discovery News:
Antarctic Fungus Survives in Mars-like Conditions
Discovery News:
Our Fierce Sun: 12 Months of Explosive Activity
Daily Mail:
Shallow lakes on Mars may have once held life: Basins covered in lava and water could have had conditions for microbes to thrive
Daily Mail:
Scientists sniff a super-Earth: Atmosphere analysed on distant 'diamond planet' (and it's full of poisonous hydrogen)
Daily Mail:
Welcome to the exoplanet family! Five new 'hot Jupiters' have been discovered adding to growing library of alien worlds
Scientific American:
The Truth about Exoplanets
Discovery News:
Top 10 Astronomical Discoveries Of All Time
AStronomy Magazine:
Mystery of disappearing asteroids solved
February 17, 2016
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:
Caprock Chronicles: Strange phenomena seen over Lubbock skies in 1951
Spaceflight Insider:
Expedition 46 preps Cygnus for unberthing, conducts life science experiments
Daily Mail:
The 'superhero robots' heading for the ISS: Russia builds droids to perform remote-controlled spacewalks
Gizmag:
Ordnance Survey creates map for Martian ramblers
Discovery News:
Hubble Studies 'Super-Earth' Atmosphere for First Time
Smithsonian Magazine:
Iron Meteorites Play Hide-and-Seek Under Antarctic Ice
EarthSky:
Chelyabinsk meteor mystery 3 years later
February 16, 2016
WFTX-TV:
Florida men recall UFO close encounter 50 years ago
PetaPixel:
This Time-Lapse Caught a Meteor Explosion and a 40-Minute Orange Plume
Daily Telegraph:
Watch: Meteor streaks across California skies
Scientific American:
NASA to Decide Fate of Troubled Mars Lander Next Month
Daily Mail:
The massive rocket that could take us to Mars: Drawings show how Nasa's Space Launch System will propel man to the red planet
Discovery News:
Farewell, Philae: Hunt for Rosetta's Lost Lander Ends
Spaceflight Insider:
Philae, we hardly knew ye
Universe Today:
Massive Planet Gone Rogue Discovered
Jalopnik:
Russians Want To Launch An ICBM At A Near-Earth Asteroid And Nuke It In 2036
PRESIDENT'S DAY WEEKEND EDITION: February 13 through February 15, 2016
National Geographic:
Found! Gravitational Waves, or a Wrinkle in Spacetime
Slate:
LIGO Sees First Ever Gravitational Waves as Two Black Holes Eat Each Other
Scientific American:
Watch How Gravitational Waves Dance across the Universe
The New Yorker:
Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them
Daily Mail:
How the early universe behaved like a LIQUID: Cern's atom smasher recreates the 'primordial soup' that began the universe
Gizmodo:
Chinese Fusion Test Hits 90 Million Degrees for 102 Seconds
Mashable:
This robot just wants to help
Los Angeles Times:
Robots deliver fun with hotel room service orders, and they don't expect a tip
Engadget:
Watch 540 dancing robots celebrate Chinese New Year
CBS News:
A robot designed to annoy telemarketers
Smithsonian Magazine:
Otherworldly Photos From Inside One of the World's Largest River Caves
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Uluru
KitGuru:
Dinosaur discovery paints evolutionary path to the velociraptor
Daily Mail:
The megamouth fish: Giant 'oar-like' mouth of Rhinconichthys allowed it to scoop up vast quantities of plankton
BBC News:
The lost giants that prowled the Australian wilderness
Atlas Obscura:
Cornell Has a Giant Python Skeleton Hidden in a Backroom
National Geographic:
Cave-Dwelling Giant Tortoises Are a Big Surprise
Atlas Obscura:
LOST: A Rare Tortoise Was Stolen From An Australian Zoo
National Geographic:
Watch: The World's Oldest Known Wild Bird Just Hatched a Chick
Daily Mail:
Human and gorilla ancestors split 10 million years ago in Africa, fossils show
Atlas Obscura:
Found: A Man Buried Upright, 7,000 Years Ago
Ancient Origins:
4,000-year-old Minoan shipwreck discovered in Turkish waters
Ancient Origins:
Unique Discovery Made in Egyptian Necropolis: Archaeologists Uncover a 4,500-Year-Old Funerary Boat Alongside Tomb of Unknown Elite, Who Was Not part of the Royal Family
Atlas Obscura:
Our Strange History of Accusing Inanimate Objects of Murder
Live Science:
Could You Stomach the Horrors of 'Halftime' in Ancient Rome?
Ancient Origins:
Has the Hidden Location of the Tomb of Cleopatra Finally Been Found?
Ancient Origins:
2,000-Year-Old Pyramid in Rome Gets a Facelift
Ancient Origins:
Enormous Roman arcade found in Essex was once part of a magnificent temple: 400ft-long arched structure is the largest of its kind found in the UK
Ancient Origins:
Archaeologists uncover underground church with scenes of the damned in Turkey
National Geographic:
See New Discoveries at the Mysterious City of the Jaguar
Atlas Obscura:
How 2 Sisters and 1 Murder Inspired 500 Songs
Atlas Obscura:
How Catherine de Medici Made Gloves Laced with Poison Fashionable
The History Blog:
Rare complete first edition 17th c. sex manual for sale
Atlas Obscura:
17th-Century Female Spies Smuggled Information Through Eggs and Artichokes
BBC News:
Great Fire: The grid system for London that never happened
Smithsonian Magazine:
Read About Drama, Politics, Breakfast in These Newly Digitized Colonial Documents
Atlas Obscura:
The Insouciant Heiress Who Became the First Western Woman to Enter Palmyra
Smithsonian Magazine:
The First Children Who Led Sad Lives
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Brief History of Post Office Cats
Atlas Obscura:
Until 1950, U.S. Weathermen Were Forbidden From Talking About Tornados
The History Blog:
Van Gogh Museum's exceptional French print collection online
Atlas Obscura:
Congressional Clocks Have a Secret Code
Daily Mail:
From camping in front of the pyramids to late night storytelling: Incredible photographs of Australian troops during the First World War brought to life in colour
BBC News:
Rare Easter Rising photos show Dublin in rubble
The History Blog:
UK wants to keep Lawrence of Arabia's robes and dagger
Smithsonian Magazine:
One Man's Epic Rail Journey to the Darjeeling Himalaya
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Forgotten History of Women's Football
Smithsonian Magazine:
78 Years Ago Today, BBC Aired the First Science Fiction Television Program
Smithsonian Magazine:
Photographs Document Some of the First Black Women to Serve With the U.S. Navy
Atlas Obscura:
Object of Intrigue: a Jim Crow Era Guide for Black Travelers
The History Blog:
No mammoth at the 1951 Explorers Club dinner
Atlas Obscura:
What's a 1956 General Motors Ad Doing in 'The Stepford Wives' And Super Mario?
Atlas Obscura:
Dig Into the Nuclear Era's Homegrown Fallout Shelters
Smithsonian Magazine:
Wyoming Is Turning a Former Cold War Nuclear Missile Site Into a Tourist Attraction
The Atlantic:
The Playboy Centerfold That Helped Create the JPEG
The Atlantic:
When Computers Started Beating Chess Champions
Atlas Obscura:
Mechanical Dragon Clock
Smithsonian Magazine:
How 43 Giant, Crumbling Presidential Heads Ended Up in a Virginia Field
BBC News:
Erasing Franco's memory one street at a time
Gizmag:
Ferrari 335S Spider Scaglietti sells for US$35.7 million (updated)
Daily Mail:
From Coco Chanel to Christian Dior: Million-dollar collection of rare French haute couture dresses dating back to 1800 to go on display in Australia
Atlas Obscura:
Long Before Peyton Manning Met Budweiser, the Pope Shilled For Cocaine Wine
Gizmodo:
Watching a Homemade Tank Get Built Is Totally Awesome
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Unusual Border Crossings Are Worth the Wait
February 12, 2016
Daily Mail:
World's largest aircraft gets ready for take-off: 300ft-long Airlander 10 is put through its final preparations ahead of next month's flight
Sputnik News:
Flying Monster: Russia to Build World's Biggest and Fastest Air Freighter
Sputnik News:
German Company Develops Self-Flying Plane
Jalopnik:
This New Ad Reveals More Of Northrop Grumman's Vision For A Sixth-Generation Fighter
Atlas Obscura:
Watch the First Boeing 747 Take Flight, 47 Years Ago
Daily Mail:
Supersonic queen of the skies: Amazing pictures inside the first Concorde to land in the US show how the super-rich used to cross the Atlantic in style
Air & Space Magazine:
The Nine Lives of an Apollo Moon Lander
Quartz:
Before Americans could land on the moon the Soviet Union had to crash land there
DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Starfish and Apollo (1962)
February 11, 2016
Mysterious Universe:
"Belgium and the UFO Issue"
Irish Mirror:
"Meteor" caught on camera zooming through the sky in mobile phone footage
Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4 goes against the grain to backwards orbit for spy bird
Spaceflight Insider:
Classified NROL-45 mission departs Vandenberg under cover of night
Sputnik News:
Black Mold Found in Cargo Prepared for ISS, Resupply Mission Delayed
Discovery News:
SpaceX Eyes Next Ocean Rocket Landing Opportunity
Sputnik News:
SpaceX to Carry Payload to Space as US Phases Out Russian Rocket Engines
Discovery News:
Get Immersed in Curiosity's 360 Degree Mars Dune
New Scientist:
Planets with too much carbon dioxide could lose oceans to space
Discovery News:
Hundreds of Galaxies Found Hiding Behind Milky Way
Ancient Origins:
The Magnificent Observatory and Discoveries of Johannes Hevelius
February 10, 2016
Daily Mail:
A rocket's eye view of Blue Origin's flight: Jeff Bezos reveals stunning new video of historic second flight
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
A Small Asteroid Will Definitely Miss Earth on March 5. But by How Much?
Space Daily:
Site of Martian lakes linked to ancient habitable environment
Discovery News:
DNews: What Did We Learn After Landing on a Comet?
Astrobiology Magazine:
Earth-like planets have Earth-like interiors
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
The way of the explorer
The Atlantic:
Edgar Mitchell's Revelation
February 9, 2016
Collective Evolution:
Some Scientific Facts About Crop Circles That Nobody Really Knows About
Daily Mail:
REVEALED: North Korean satellite is now tumbling in orbit - marking the SECOND time rogue state has sent up an unstable device
Space Daily:
China Conducts Final Tests on Most Powerful Homegrown Rocket
Sputnik News:
Russia to Deliver Three Advanced Spacesuits to ISS in 2016 - Official
Discovery News:
100-Foot Asteroid to Buzz Earth Next Month
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Gigantic Space Telescope's Main Mirror Now Complete
Astrobiology Magazine:
Inside Rosetta's Comet
Space Daily:
Dawn now circling Ceres in its final orbit
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Is This the Biggest Spiral Galaxy in the Universe?
Stuff NZ:
Teen gains national title after launching largest amateur rocket in Taupiri
Smithsonian Magazine:
Check Out This Scale Replica of The International Space Station
February 8, 2016
Forbes:
Moonwalker, Outspoken UFO Enthusiast Ed Mitchell Dead At 85
Gizmag:
Apollo 14 astronaut Captain Edgar Dean "Ed" Mitchell dies at age 85
Spaceflight Now:
Apollo 14 moonwalker Edgar Mitchell dies at 85
Discovery News:
Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell Dead at 85
The Australian:
North Korean rocket puts object into space
Space Daily:
Opportunity climbing steeper slopes to reach science targets
Gizmag:
NASA's Juno spacecraft completes Jupiter rendezvous burn
Discovery News:
Cassini Finds Saturn's Rings Are Weirdly Thin
Astrobiology Magazine:
How Friendly Is Enceladus' Ocean To Life?
Discovery News:
The Amazing Floating Hill-Sized Icebergs of Pluto
Discovery News:
When Apollo 14 Landed on the Moon: The 'Forgotten' Photos
ECN Magazine:
Apollo 14 Demonstrated Spaceflight Challenges Are Solvable
WEEKEND EDITION: February 6 through February 7, 2016
Wired:
Quantum Links in Time and Space May Form the Universe's Foundation
Daily Mail:
Why time only ever moves forward: Physicist reveals that a 'jiggling effect' seen in atoms may explain why we only travel into the future and not the past
Ars Technica:
After 100 years, scientists are finally closing in on Einstein's ripples
Gizmodo:
Almost Getting Smashed By a Swinging Wrecking Ball to Prove a Law of Physics Is Crazy
Live Science:
Watch a Robot Salamander Swim and Walk (Video)
Gizmodo:
This Robot Changes Color Like a Chameleon
Quartz:
A robot just sunk a hole-in-one on the PGA Tour
Sputnik News:
Future is Now! Russia Closing in on Mind-Controlled Exoskeletons
Astrobiology Magazine:
Expedition finds signs of life in Earth's mantle
Discovery News:
Top 10 Fastest Dinosaurs
Five Thirty Eight:
The Biggest Dinosaur In History May Never Have Existed
Calgary Herald:
Modern birds can thank nesting habits of dinosaurs for their evolutionary success, says U of C research
EarthSky:
Extraordinary fossil find sheds light on duck-billed dinosaurs
Daily Mail:
The bizarre Jurassic insect that has baffled scientists: Insect looks and acts like a butterfly - but predates them by 40 million years
Live Science:
14 New Tarantula Species Include One Named for Johnny Cash
Daily Mail:
Bizarre wildebeest with a nose like a 'TRUMPET' roamed Africa 75,000 years ago: Fossils show the extinct mammal's skull resembled that of a duck-billed dinosaur
New Scientist:
Ravens' fear of unseen snoopers hints they have theory of mind
Inside Science:
How Do Giraffes Drink Water?
BBC News:
Why the cats on one British island have lost their tails
Daily Mail:
Spotted: First video of the only known wild jaguar in the U.S. shows 'El Jefe' roaming Arizona mountain range
New Scientist:
Mystery invaders conquered Europe at the end of last ice age
Smithsonian Magazine:
Archeologists Find a Rare 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Funerary Boat
The History Blog:
Swiss return 2 sarcophaguses, 45 boxes of Etruscan art to Italy
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Short History of Groundhog Day
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Remarkable Cave Temples of Southern India
Daily Mail:
Did the Vikings use crystal 'sunstones' to discover America?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Lavishly Illustrated Medieval Playing Cards Flouted the Church and Law
Atlas Obscura:
Why England Was A Year Behind Belgium, Spain and Italy for 170 Years
The History Blog:
Getty buys Orazio Gentileschi's Danae for record $30.5 million
The History Blog:
Bernin's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa restored
BBC News:
Great Fire: The grid system for London that never happened
Daily Mail:
The FIRST 50 Shades: Rare 17th-century sex manual which was dubbed the 'dirtiest book of its time' for advising on 'actions of the genitals' goes up for auction for £15,000
Atlas Obscura:
Peacock Clock
The Guardian:
Red Horse: Native American drawings shed new light on Battle of Little Bighorn
Atlas Obscura:
Schwebebahn Wuppertal
Atlas Obscura:
Barthman's Sidewalk Clock
BBC News:
When pyjamas ruled the fashion world
Atlas Obscura:
When the President Was the Quietest Man in the Room
Atlas Obscura:
NASA Stole the Rocket Countdown From a 1929 Fritz Lang Film
Smithsonian Magazine:
Mountain Dew Once Had Ties to Moonshine
Smithsonian Magazine:
Snow White Wasn't the First Disney Princess
Atlas Obscura:
Ellis Island's Forgotten Final Act as a Cold War Detention Center
Daily Mail:
Meltdown America, abandoned: Inside the eerie NASA base sitting empty for a decade after 57 years of rocket tests and the country's worst nuclear explosion
Jalopnik:
Russian Soldiers Go Native For Arctic Ops Using Reindeer And Dogsleds
Gizmodo:
Seeing the Special Effects Behind Jurassic World Is More Fun Than Seeing the Actual Movie
Atlas Obscura:
Astronomical Clocks Are the Most Beautiful Way to Track Hours, Years, and the Moon
February 5, 2016
Daily Mail:
'Exoatmospheric kill vehicle' designed to crash into nuclear missiles heading for the US tested over California
Air & Space Magazine:
Across the Continent in a Homebuilt
Daily Mail:
Airbus glider set to fly to the edge of space in record breaking 90,000ft test that could pave the way for hypersonic planes and aircraft on MARS
Jalopnik:
Listen And Watch The Mechanical Symphony That Is An F-22 Raptor Coming To Life
Sputnik News:
Gotcha! Dutch Police Train Squad of Drone-Catching Eagles
Gizmodo:
All the Bomber Aircraft That Could Carry Nuclear Weapons
Jalopnik:
Forget That Old Surplus MiG, Someone Needs To Buy This Very Lightly Used Tornado F2A
Daily Mail:
Starship Enterprise will be restored to its 1967 glory: Smithsonian to rebuild 11ft model used in original Star Trek TV show
Gizmodo:
The Super Bowl's Love Affair With Jetpacks
Air & Space Magazine:
The Thunderpiglet and Other Famous Failures
Jalopnik:
Virtually Tour The Cockpit Of The Once Top Secret Tacit Blue Stealth Tech Demonstrator
Air & Space Magazine:
How Things Work: Space Fence
Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: Explorer 1 and the birth of the U.S. Space Program
IEEE Spectrum:
Rocketeer Frank Malina's Life as an Artist
Air & Space Magazine:
Bob Gilruth, the Quiet Force Behind Apollo
IEEE Spectrum:
The Challenger Disaster: A Case of Subjective Engineering
Ars Technica:
The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia
February 4, 2016
Daily Mail:
Asteroid could pass 11,000 miles from Earth on March 5th: 100ft rock may come 21 times closer to our planet than the moon (although Nasa admits it might also pass nine MILLION miles away)
Phys Org:
Small asteroid to pass close to Earth March 5
Spaceflight Insider:
Second spacewalk of 2016 conducted by cosmonaut duo
Sputnik News:
US to Test Deep Space Rocket With Satellite Probes in 2018 - NASA
Daily Mail:
Nasa will send a tiny torch to the moon: 'Lunar flashlight' is one of 13 satellites to launch on first test of world's biggest rocket
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's 'Super Guppy' delivers EM-1 Orion to Kennedy Space Center
Daily Mail:
Russia begins work on its lunar lander: Spacecraft could help create a permanent manned base on the moon in 2030
Sputnik News:
Orbital ATK's Fifth Resupply Mission to ISS Scheduled for March 10
Discovery News:
Rosetta's Comet is Fluffy Dust to the Core
Astrobiology Magazine:
New study challenges Jupiter's role as planetary shield, protecting Earth from comet impacts
February 3, 2016
Huffington Post:
Airplane Camera Catches Meteor Streaking Across North American Sky
WKOW-TV:
Fireball over Madison skies on Mon.
Sputnik News:
US Air Force Bolsters Space Defense to Counter Russian, Chinese 'Threats'
Space Daily:
N. Korea confirms imminent satellite launch
The Guardian:
Cosmic classroom: Tim Peake gives science lesson from space
Discovery News:
Night Falls on Pluto's Largest Moon Charon
Scientific American:
Robotic Comet Lander Philae Says Good-Bye
Spaceflight Insider:
Animation shows Ceres' colors, terrains, 215 years after discovery
Mysterious Universe:
The UFO Problem: Science, Social Movements, and Theory of Knowledge
February 2, 2016
WNBC-TV:
Another Sonic Boom Felt Along Jersey Coast
Spaceflight Now:
Successful launch expands China's Beidou navigation system
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz prepared for first flight from Siberian cosmodrome
Daily Mail:
Explore the moon's rocky terrain in stunning detail: Chinese space agency makes its lunar lander images available to the public for the first time
Discovery News:
Sandbox Selfie! Curiosity Plays in Mars Sand Dune
Daily Mail:
'Cauliflowers' on Mars could be a sign of ancient alien life: Unusual shape may have been caused by microbes, say scientists
Air & Space Magazine:
How to Land a House on Mars
Discovery News:
Pluto Frosted With Surprising Amounts of Water Ice
Universe Today:
How Long Is A Year On The Other Planets?
Scientific American:
The Fermi Paradox Is Not Fermi's, and It Is Not a Paradox
February 1, 2016
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
SPECTACULAR Photos of a Rocket Re-Entering Over Hawaii!
Business Insider:
A spectacular 'fireball' was spotted burning up in the Northeast sky
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX tests parachute system to be used on crew-rated Dragon
Astrobiology Magazine:
Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
Discovery News:
Previewing Juno: NASA's Epic Mission to Jupiter: Photos
Astrobiology Magazine:
Moon was produced by a head-on collision between Earth and a forming planet
Daily Mail:
Did Earth's water come from another PLANET? Collision that created our moon 4.5 billion years ago saw worlds share ice
Space Daily:
Sandy Selfie Sent from NASA Mars Rover
Spaceflight Insider:
Curiosity's study of Martian sands halted due to anomaly
Daily Mail:
Stunning Nasa animation lets you fly over the mysterious 'alien spots', massive mountains and giant craters of Ceres
Spaceflight Now:
Water ice abounds in Pluto's frigid bedrock
Daily Mail:
Pluto DOESN'T have an icy heart: Stunning new maps reveal far more ice water across the dwarf planet than expected
Stuff NZ:
Huge gas cloud on collision course with Milky Way
WEEKEND EDITION: January 30 through January 31, 2016
Daily Mail:
Did the universe undergo TWO Big Bangs? Physicists claim a second rapid expansion created levels of dark matter we 'see' today
Daily Mail:
Does the secret of the universe's origin lie in a 'quantum wiggle'? Primordial clock signals could reveal if the Big Bang was actually a CRUNCH
Quartz:
It's possible that there is a "mirror universe" where time moves backwards, say scientists
Science Alert:
Scientists propose a 'mirror universe' where time moves backwards
IEEE Spectrum:
Squishy Robot Fingers Gently Tickle Deep Sea Critters
NPR:
Don't Blink: Robot Solves Rubik's Cube In Just Over 1 Second
Forges:
Forget The Markets, Robots Are China's New Worry
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Decades-Long Quest to Drill Into Earth's Mantle May Soon Hit Pay Dirt
Air & Space Magazine:
Life Found Refuge From Radiation on the Early Earth
Daily Mail:
Giant prehistoric sea monster found in a quarry may be a new species of plesiosaur: Bizarre 18ft-long beast with four flippers and a short tail lived 165 million years ago
Science Magazine:
You could probably have outrun a T. rex
Science Magazine:
Bizarre desert-dwelling fish may have evolved just a couple hundred years ago
Scientific American:
The Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle Just Got 25 Percent Closer to Extinction
Science Magazine:
Were cats domesticated more than once?
Live Science:
Ancient Humans Ate Cantaloupe-Size Eggs from 500-Pound Birds
The History Blog:
2,500-year-old footprints of people, dogs found in Arizona
Daily Mail:
Babylonians used geometry to track Jupiter long before the Europeans: Stone tablets reveal ancient astronomers used calculations 1,700 years earlier
New Scientist:
Ancient maps of Jupiter's path show Babylonians' advanced maths
Science Magazine:
Math whizzes of ancient Babylon figured out forerunner of calculus
Daily Mail:
Hoard of 3,000 Roman coins unearthed: Rare monies buried in 270AD bear images of emperors, an elephant and a hippo - and could be worth £175,000
The History Blog:
Harihara head and body reunited after 130 years
The Guardian:
Scientific genius of Leonardo da Vinci celebrated in new exhibition
The History Blog:
15th c. Theodelinda Chapel fresco restored
Atlas Obscura:
Were Portuguese Explorers the First Europeans To Find Australia?
Science Magazine:
New Mexico's American Indian population crashed 100 years after Europeans arrived
The History Blog:
Reviewing the Dare Stone, clue to Lost Colony of Roanoke
Daily Mail:
The masterplans to raise London from the ashes: Abandoned proposals to rebuild city after the Great Fire in 1666 go on show
Smithsonian Magazine:
Colonial America Depended on the Enslavement of Indigenous People
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Slaves of the White House Finally Get to Have Their Stories Told
Smithsonian Magazine:
12 Secrets of New York's Central Park
Smithsonian Magazine:
The First Person of Native American Descent Was Elected to the U.S. Senate 109 Years Ago Today
Smithsonian Magazine:
When America's Titans of Industry and Innovation Went Road-Tripping Together
Atlas Obscura:
FOUND: A New Beatrix Potter Story About a Cat with a 'Double Life'
The History Blog:
Uncharted WWI U-boat found off English coast
Atlas Obscura:
How the 'Einstein of Sex' Kept the World's First LGBT Movie Safe from Nazis
Atlas Obscura:
Cincinnati Built a Subway System 100 Years Ago-But Never Used It
Atlas Obscura:
Object of Intrigue: Soviet Space Dog Jug
IEEE Spectrum:
Radiation-Proof Robot's Terrifying Safety Demonstration
Smithsonian Magazine:
44 Year Ago, Shirley Chisholm Became the First Black Woman to Run For President
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Fall and Rise of a Modern Maharaja
The Atlantic:
A Second Chance for an Old Road-Sign Font
Daily Mail:
Life in the freezer: Inside the northernmost city on Earth whose residents endure - 55°C temperatures and two months of total darkness every year
Gizmag:
90 million-dollar cars go to auction in the next few weeks
Gizmag:
In pictures: The best tech toys from London Toy Fair 2016
The History Blog:
Browse 18,000 historic menus in the New York Public Library
Smithsonian Magazine:
The World's Most Scenic Train Rides
January 29, 2016
Sputnik News:
Faster than Missiles: Russia Developing Space Age Fighter Jet
Daily Mail:
Fly from New York to London in 11 MINUTES: Radical 'Antipode' concept plane that uses rocket boosters revealed
Daily Mail:
Is it a plane? Is it a boat? Actually, it's BOTH: £26million FlyShip can carry 100 passengers while soaring at speeds of 155mph
Daily Mail:
Japan unveils its first stealth plane: X-2 will test 'invisibility' technology for next-generation fighter jet
Daily Mail:
Self-flying Black Hawk helicopter revealed - and it comes with a companion ROBOTANK for ground surveillance
Gizmag:
Winged drone nails first autonomous landing on a moving vehicle
Gizmag:
Loon Copter drone flies, floats and dives underwater
Jalopnik:
Area 51 Bans Drones... Your Drones, At Least
Daily Mail:
Testing plane wings to the point of destruction: Video reveals the extreme lengths Airbus goes to trialling its aircraft
Jalopnik:
This Is How The Pentagon Knows Its Combat Aircraft Can Withstand A Blizzard
Jalopnik:
Blair Bunting Captures The Essence Of The SR-71 Blackbird In These Dramatic Photos
Atlas Obscura:
The Women Who Rose High in the Early Days of Hot Air Ballooning
Air & Space Magazine:
Clifford Turpin, King of the Air
Gizmodo:
Here Are All the Space Stations in History
Air & Space Magazine:
What's the X-37 Doing Up There?
January 28, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Reporters remember Challenger coverage
NBC News:
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Devastated the Nation 30 Years Ago
Chapman University Happenings:
Engineer who tried to stop Challenger launch donates papers to Chapman
Spaceflight Insider:
STS-51L lessons and loss 30 years later
New Scientist:
30 years after the Challenger tragedy, is US ready to re-launch?
Space Daily:
Russia launches ambitious cosmic robotics project
IEEE Spectrum:
Hawaiian Robot Practices Landing Pad Construction for Space Exploration
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA counting on humanoid robots for deep space exploration
January 27, 2016
EarthSky:
Daylight meteor over southeastern U.S.
WCIV:
All signs points to sonic boom in Charleston today, not earthquake
Charleston Post and Courier:
Sonic boom rolls across Charleston Tuesday with Marine jets training off the coast
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 upgrade receives blessing from U.S. Air Force
Space Daily:
SpaceX Falcon 9 upgrade certified for National Security Space launches
Gizmag:
Goodbye ground control: Nanosatellites achieve first autonomous orbital maneuver
IEEE Spectrum:
Ronnie Nader: Ecuador's One-Man Space Program
Discovery News:
Stardust Brought Back Comet Pieces 10 Years Ago
Discovery News:
Powered Up, Veteran Rover Soldiers Through Mars Winter
Space Daily:
Ceres: Keeping Well-Guarded Secrets for 215 Years
Astrobiology Magazine:
Exploring Imhotep
Daily Mail:
Not so lonely after all! Planet thought to have been floating in space alone does have a parent star (but it's 6.2 billion miles away)
Gizmag:
Planet with 900,000-year orbit lies a staggering 1 trillion kilometers from its sun
Smithsonian Magazine:
Where Are All the Aliens? Taking Shelter From the Universe's Radiation
Gizmag:
Is ET dead - and are we next?
January 26, 2016
Stuff NZ:
CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents
The Guardian:
Rise in space junk could provoke armed conflict say scientists
Discovery News:
12 Years On Mars: Opportunity's Top 5 Revelations
Discovery News:
12 Years On Mars: Rover Opportunity's First Sols: Photos
Astrobiology Magazine:
Voyager Mission Celebrates 30 Years Since Uranus
Spaceflight Now:
LISA Pathfinder on station a million miles from Earth
Universe Today:
How Long Is A Day On The Other Planets Of The Solar System?
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Does Alpha Centauri Have a Planet or Not? Well...
January 25, 2016
WINK:
Military: SWFL shaking caused by 'sonic boom' from jets
Tracy Press:
Mystery boom rumbles across Tracy
Gizmag:
Blue Origin makes historic second landing using the same rocket
Spaceflight Now:
Dragon crew capsule's propulsive landing system tested
Gizmag:
SpaceX Crew Dragon hovers on tails of fire
Discovery News:
Radiation-Blocking Glass Tech Could Shield Astronauts
Discovery News:
DNews: What China's Lunar Rover Told Us About the Moon
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Tastes Scooped, Sieved Sand
New Scientist:
Galaxy-mapping Gaia space telescope gets an eye test from Pluto
Discovery News:
Young at Heart: Pluto's Ice Only 10 Million Years Old
Discovery News:
How Planet Nine may have been exiled to solar system's edge
Scientific American:
How Astronomers Could Actually See "Planet Nine"
WEEKEND EDITION: January 23 through January 24, 2016
Daily Mail:
How time could run BACKWARDS: New parallel world 'multiverse' theory revealed
Space Daily:
Much like white light, spacetime is also composed of a certain rainbow
Scientific American:
Not All Gravitational Waves Are Created Equal
Ars Technica:
Trying to identify what made the Universe transparent
Smithsonian Magazine:
Missouri Mathematicians Discover New Prime Number
Smithsonian Magazine:
When Will We Reach the End of the Periodic Table?
Gizmodo:
Researchers Are Teaching ATLAS To Do Household Chores Like Rosey from The Jetsons
Smithsonian Magazine:
Humble Magnesium Could Be Powering Earth's Magnetic Field
Astrobiology Magazine:
Explosive underwater volcanoes were a major feature of 'Snowball Earth'
Daily Mail:
A REAL Welsh dragon: Oldest Jurassic dinosaur ever found has been officially named the 'Hanigan dragon robber'
Stuff NZ:
Prehistoric crocodile was the size of a bus
The Guardian:
Titanosaurs: the largest animals ever to walk the Earth
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Dakota Badlands Used to Host Sabertoothed Pseudo-Cat Battles
Stuff NZ:
Microscopic creatures revived after being frozen for 30 years
Stuff NZ:
Giant earthworms the size of snakes discovered on remote Scottish island
Science Magazine:
Birds master complex songs by learning when to ignore dad
Audubon Magazine:
10 Cool Reasons To Celebrate Penguins
Live Science:
Before Hatshepsut: Early Egyptian Queen Revealed in Hieroglyphs
Ancient Origins:
Discovery of 5,000-year-old Hieroglyphs Change the Story of a Queen, a Pharaoh, and an Ancient City
Smithsonian Magazine:
Fairy Tales Could Be Older Than You Ever Imagined
Ancient Origins:
Submerged Ruins May Be the Seaside Palace of the First Emperor of China
Daily Mail:
Treasure trove of Roman artefacts found under the A1: Pots, beads and jewellery are among 177,000 pieces unearthed by roadworks
Daily Mail:
The mystery of the headless Gladiators of York: DNA analysis of decapitated remains sheds new light on Roman migrations
Ancient Origins:
List of Medieval Killers found Inscribed on Cathedral Wall may help solve Murder Mystery
Smithsonian Magazine:
How a Hidden Figure Emerged From One of Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks
The History Blog:
Excavation of mysterious Honduran site begins
Atlas Obscura:
What Happened to the Bottom Third of a Famous Tintoretto Artwork?
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Painting of John Dee, Astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, Contains a Hidden Ring of Skulls
The History Blog:
Site of Salem witch trial hangings confirmed
The Atlantic:
Building an Impossible Clock
Atlas Obscura:
How Lady Bible Hunters Made the Victorian Era's Most Stunning Scriptural Find
The History Blog:
Breitner's Girl in a Kimono series together for the first time
The History Blog:
1910 slaughter of African Americans gets historical marker
Daily Mail:
World War I in colour: Rare photographs capture the lives of soldiers and civilians when all was quiet on the Western Front
Smithsonian Magazine:
Raoul Wallenberg's Biographer Uncovers Important Clues To What Happened in His Final Days
Atlas Obscura:
The World's Longest War Only Ended in 1986
Daily Mail:
My guardian gorilla angel: 30 years on from the amazing moment ape saved tiny boy who fell into his enclosure, the man protected by gentle giant reveals how the incident has shaped his entire life
Gizmodo:
The secret lives of the Mafia hunters
Gizmag:
Tracing automotive bloodlines: Gizmag goes exploring at Dutton Garage
Gizmag:
Tractor Heaven: 240 acre private park showcases vintage engines, tractors and the fine art of digging a really big hole
BBC News:
14 Gorgeous Menus From the Golden Age of Dining Cars
Daily Mail:
The terraced house with an amazing secret: Humble home hides a secret CAVE and vaulted ceiling (and it's yours for £200,000)
January 22, 2016
Daily Mail:
The plane that can detach its entire CABIN in the event of an emergency: Concept can 'drop' passengers to safety using built-in parachutes
Ars Technica:
Above the world in 80 minutes: Balloon company will fly to the edge of space
Gizmag:
Bird-repelling drone imitates a real-life predator to clear property of unwelcome pests
Jalopnik:
This Ant's-Eye View Of A CH-47 Chinook's Landing Zone Is Pretty Sweet
Daily Mail:
Plan to turn a 747 into a missile launcher revealed: Design would have put 70 cruise missiles into body of a Boeing aircraft
New Scientist:
Space age ghosts show abandoned relics of NASA's golden years
Air & Space Magazine:
Missiles Killing Missiles
Air & Space Magazine:
What Are Those Giant Arrows Dotting the American Landscape?
Atlas Obscura:
Object of Intrigue: Backpack Helicopters
Smithsonian Magazine:
When Concorde First Flew 40 Years Ago, It Was a Supersonic Sight to Behold
Ars Technica:
NASA's newest cargo spacecraft began life as a Soviet space plane
Engadget:
Eight top-secret aircraft that definitely aren't UFOs
January 21, 2016
Inquistr:
Planet X: CalTech Scientists Have 'Solid Evidence' Of Ninth Planet In Our Solar System
Astrobiology Magazine:
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet
The New Yorker:
Discovering Planet Nine
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX rocket wreckage back on shore after near-miss at landing
Spaceflight Insider:
Successful drone ship landing proves elusive for SpaceX
Spaceflight Now:
Bridging the past and future on the shoulders of the Atlas rocket
Daily Mail:
What radiation belts REALLY look like: Nasa research reveals Van Allen Belts are shaped like doughnuts
Discovery News:
In The Raw: Cassini's Ongoing Saturn Moon Odyssey: Photos
Astrobiology Magazine:
Astrobiology Top 10: How Would The World Change If We Found Extraterrestrial Life
January 20, 2016
Daily Mail:
Time to get a new spacesuit? Nasa astronaut Tim Kopra's helmet began filling with water during a spacewalk while he was wearing the same outfit that sparked a life-threatening leak three years ago
Discovery News:
Zinnia Flower Blooms on Space Station
Scientific American:
Video Shows SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Land on a Drone Ship, Then Fall Over and Explode
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX's Mars Colonial Transporter: Rumors and Realities
Discovery News:
A 'Wright Mons-ter': Pluto's Possible Ice Volcano Is Huge
Daily Mail:
The biggest ice volcano in the solar system: Stunning new images reveal 90-mile-wide CRYOVOLCANO on Pluto
Stuff NZ:
Scientists spot brightest supernova yet, outshines Milky Way
Astrobiology Magazine:
Nitrogen May Be A Sign of Habitability
New Scientist:
Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
I'm STILL Not Sayin' Aliens. But This Star Is Really Weird.
New Scientist:
Black hole sun could support bizarre life on orbiting planets
The Australian:
Finders not keepers as meteor hunters strike a mother lode
Discovery News:
Five Planet Conjunction to Dazzle Night Skies This Week
January 19, 2016
Ghost Theory:
The Night A UFO Landed In Levelland Texas
Spaceflight Insider:
Spacewalk ends early after water found in Kopra's helmet
Discovery News:
'Exhilarated' British Astronaut on First Spacewalk
Discovery News:
SpaceX Launches Satellite, Rocket Topples on Landing Attempt
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX narrowly misses booster landing at sea
Spaceflight Now:
Recovered Falcon 9 booster fires again at Cape Canaveral
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA wraps up Orion parachute tests
Sputnik News:
Rocket Science: Russia Builds Atomic Engine for Exploring Distant Space
Sputnik News:
China Aims for the Moon With New Rockets
Gizmodo:
China Announces Plan to Make First Landing on Far Side of Moon in 2018
Discovery News:
China to Send a Mission to Moon's Mysterious 'Dark Side'
Gizmodo:
The Last-Minute Decision That Saved a Mission to Mars
Space Daily:
Opportunity Welcomes Winter Solstice
MARTIN LUTHER KING WEEKEND EDITION: January 16 through January 18, 2016
Daily Galaxy:
The Epic Quest for a Quantum Theory of Gravity
Business Insider:
The 2 most dangerous numbers in the universe are threatening the end of physics
Nova Next:
A Radical Reinterpretation of Einstein's Theory
Trusted Reviews:
These are the 7 coolest robots in Robot Wars history
Ars Technica:
We narrowly missed a new ice age, and now we won't see one for a long time
Smithsonian Magazine:
Life and Rocks May Have Co-Evolved on Earth
Daily Mail:
Meet Machimosaurus rex: Archaeologists find three tonne MEGACROCODILE that grew to more than 30 feet long
Daily Mail:
An epic tail! David Attenborough follows the story of how experts found the world's largest dinosaur measuring 121ft - and its heart weighed more than THREE people
The Guardian:
Dinosaurs performed dances to woo mates, according to new evidence
Daily Mail:
TITANOSAUR invades New York: Gigantic 122 feet long skeleton unveiled at American Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Magazine:
Dinosaurs May Have Dug Trenches to Woo Mates
Smithsonian Magazine:
Frilling discovery explains head crests in sexy dinosaurs
Daily Mail:
'Chasm', the three year old dinosaur who died 75 million years ago and is helping scientists fill in evolutionary gaps
Daily Mail:
'Dinosaur graveyard' may date back to the moment of the mass extinction: Fossil bed suggests large numbers of beasts were killed by a single event 65 million years ago
BBC News:
Scientists weigh in on 'giraffe relative' fossil
Live Science:
Oldest Animal Jonathan the Tortoise Is Going Strong at 183
Daily Mail:
Mystery of Indonesia's first inhabitants: Stone tools suggest early humans crossed the ocean from Asia almost 200,000 years ago - long before our own species
The Guardian:
Sulawesi find: 118,000-year-old stone tools point to 'archaic group of humans'
Smithsonian Magazine:
Thank Neanderthals for Your Immune System
Daily Mail:
Did humans hunt mammoths in the Arctic 45,000 years ago? Spear marks on frozen carcass suggests our ancestors were in Siberia 10,000 years earlier than believed
Daily Mail:
Are these the first ever images of a volcanic eruption? Daubs of red and white pigment on cave walls are thought to depict natural disaster in France 36,000 years ago
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Ancient City Was Three Times Bigger Than Archaeologists Suspected
Daily Mail:
'Pompeii of the Fens' is the best-preserved Bronze age home in Britain: Experts astonished by dwelling's condition as they unearth treasures from 3,000-year-old rugs and jewellery to human remains
Live Science:
Prosthetic Leg with Hoofed Foot Discovered in Ancient Chinese Tomb
Daily Mail:
My (wooden) left foot: Archaeologists reveal stunning 1,500 year old prosthetic find
Smithsonian Magazine:
There's a 1,500-Year-Old Farming Village Beneath a Norwegian Airport
The History Blog:
Remains of Settlement Era Reykjavík longhouse to be preserved
The History Blog:
Infernal Landscape drawn by Hieronymus Bosch
Smithsonian Magazine:
Queen Elizabeth I Held England's First Official Lottery 450 Years Ago
Daily Mail:
The Great Plague in the 17th century was spread by Black Death bacteria that lay dormant across Europe for 300 YEARS
Smithsonian Magazine:
The French Castle That May Have Inspired "Sleeping Beauty" Is Filled With Creepy Mannequins
Atlas Obscura:
The American Textile Industry Was Woven From Espionage
Smithsonian Magazine:
How a Nearly Successful Slave Revolt Was Intentionally Lost to History
The History Blog:
Joe the Quilter's murder cottage found
The Guardian:
Long-necked diplomacy: the tale of the third giraffe
Ancient Origins:
The Mysterious and Tragic Life of Kaspar Hauser
The History Blog:
Dr. Gustav Zander's Victorian-Era Exercise Machines Made the Bowflex Look Like Child's Play
Smithsonian Magazine:
Neglected remains from Newburgh Colored Burial Ground finally get attention
BBC News:
When mistakes make the art
Atlas Obscura:
This 19th-Century Map Shows that Beaver Dams are Built to Last
Atlas Obscura:
How the Oxford English Dictionary Went from Murderer's Pet Project to Internet Lexicon
The Guardian:
The True History of Suffragette
Atlas Obscura:
The 'Australian Mermaid' Who Introduced Recreational Swimming to American Women
The History Blog:
More 1917 blackboards found in Oklahoma school
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Ku Klux Klan Didn't Always Wear Hoods
Atlas Obscura:
In 1942, the Hershey Hotel Was a Chocolate-Scented POW Camp
Atlas Obscura:
One of D.C.'s Most Contentious Pieces of Real Estate is 25 Feet Underground
Seattle Times:
Martin Luther King Jr. - 1956-62
Seattle Times:
Martin Luther King Jr. - 1963-65
Seattle Times:
Martin Luther King Jr. - 1966-68
Inquistr:
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'Beyond Vietnam' Speech Was His Most Controversial, Assassinated Exactly One Year Later [Video]
Dallas Morning News:
Ben Voth: On MLK Day, remember a Texan who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Dr. King
Time Magazine:
The Photograph That Captured the Horror of MLK's Assassination
Time Magazine:
A Visit to the King Home on the Night Martin Luther King Jr. Died
New Historian:
Cronyism, Mining and Murder - The Death of 'Jock' Yablonski
Gizmodo:
The FBI Worried About Communist Spies Invading EPCOT
Smithsonian Magazine:
It's Been 50 Years Since Batman Went "Bam!" and "Pow"
Gizmag:
In pictures: The 2016 Detroit Auto Show
Gizmag:
Vincents dominate 2016 Las Vegas Motorcycle auctions: Detailed report
BBC News:
Inside Spain's secret food societies
io9:
An Aging Movie Monster Looks Back On His Career in This Poignant Short
January 15, 2016
Discovery News:
Dream Chaser Spaceplane to Supply the Space Station
New Scientist:
Commercial spaceflight newcomer allows quick ISS return trips
Spaceflight Insider:
Catching a dream: SNC's tenacious spacecraft selected for NASA's CRS-2 contract
The Atlantic:
How a Controller Sounds When Trying to Save an Airplane
Gizmag:
VTOL Kestrel drone morphs into fixed-wing aircraft after takeoff
Gizmag:
Airbus Counter-UAV System detects illicit drones and shuts them down
Gizmag:
Drone-catching hexacopter fires a large net to reel in suspicious aircraft
Daily Mail:
Lift-off for Jumbo Drone! Students build 'octocopter' with 48 motors and 13-inch propellers that can lift an adult (but they're waiting for permission from air traffic control to test that)
Jalopnik:
Here's Your Go-To Graphic To Understand The U.S. Army's Massive Aircraft Inventory
Jalopnik:
Russia Plans 16 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Launches In 2016
Air & Space Magazine:
Before the Meatball
Scientific American:
Declassified: U.S. Military's Secret Cold War Space Project Revealed
Atlas Obscura:
100 Wonders: The Secret City of the Cosmonauts
January 14, 2016
Daily Citizen:
Rumbles Tuesday were sonic boom
Discovery News:
SpaceX to Make Next Rocket Landing Attempt Sunday
Spaceflight Now:
ISS astronauts set for spacewalk to replace failed power unit
Space Daily:
Russian Scientists Developing Avatar Robot for Extraterrestrial Exploration
Discovery News:
This Is an Ancient Meandering River... On Mars
Discovery News:
Water Ice Found on Rosetta's Comet
Gizmodo:
All Hail Juno, Our Record-Breaking Solar-Powered Emmissary to Jupiter
Ars Technica:
Inside the vault: A rare glimpse of NASA's otherworldly treasures
Scientific American:
What Will It Take for Humans to Colonize the Milky Way?
January 13, 2016
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - De Void:
Good thing it wasn't terrorism
ABC Australia:
Brisbane weather webcam snaps meteor passing over south east Queensland
WSB-TV:
Mysterious fireball spotted in north Georgia sky Monday
Spaceflight Now:
Hold-down firing completed ahead of Sunday's Falcon 9 launch
Discovery News:
SpaceX to Make Next Rocket Landing Attempt Sunday
Astrobiology Magazine:
New Details on Ceres Seen in Dawn Images
Gizmodo:
Watch the Biggest Ever Drone Swarm Take to the Sky in Style
January 12, 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Offshore barge landing targeted after next Falcon 9 launch
Space Daily:
China plans 20 launches in 2016
Discovery News:
Wake Up Philae! Last-Ditch Effort to Find Rosetta's Lander
Gizmag:
Time running out for Philae
Daily Mail:
Saturn as never seen before: Stunning view of the gas giant reveals its immense size and spectacular rings in detail
Discovery News:
Hunting Uranus, the Solar System's Azure Ice Giant
Spaceflight Now:
Pluto's floating mountains, intriguing structures fascinate scientists
Scientific American:
If There Are Aliens Out There, Where Are They?
Scientific American:
Famous Wow! signal might have been from comets, not aliens
January 11, 2016
WANE:
We get to the bottom of the Huntington "booms"
York Dispatch:
Many theories about Saturday's mysterious boom
Lafayette Journal and Courier:
Mysterious boom under investigation
WJHG:
Loud Boom Heard Friday, Source Unknown
KXII:
Loud boom leaves dozens with questions
Daily Mail:
Third time lucky! SpaceX to retry landing rocket on a BARGE: January 17th blast off will land on 'drone boat' in Pacific
Ars Technica:
Sorry NASA, Europe says it's going to the Moon instead of Mars
Discovery News:
Space Fungus! Mold Found On Space Station Plants
Universe Today:
Space Zinnias Rebound from Space Blight on Space Station
Atlas Obscura:
Fleeting Wonders: A 3D-Printed Moon Town
Astrobiology Magazine:
'X' Marks a Curious Corner on Pluto's Icy Plains
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
A Slice of Pluto
Smithsonian Magazine:
Does Icy Pluto Have a Hidden Ocean? New Horizons Offers New Clues
Scientific American:
Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic]
Ancient Origins:
4.5 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Recovered Before Being Washed Away as Heavy Rains Cause Rare Filling of Ancient Australian Lake
Ancient Origins:
Wandering Sky Gods: The Personification of Astronomical Phenomena in Ancient Times
WEEKEND EDITION: January 9 through January 10, 2016
Forbes:
What The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics Really Means
Inverse:
What is a Wormhole? Why is a Wormhole? Why Should You Care?
Live Science:
What 2016 Holds for the Mysterious World of Physics
Daily Mail:
Get ready for THOR: Sandia's new accelerator will recreate conditions at the Earth's core and crush materials at a million atmospheres
Scientific American:
Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal?
Gizmag:
Four new elements confirmed
BBC News:
Who, What, Why: How do elements get their names?
IEEE Spectrum:
Radiation-Proof Robot's Terrifying Safety Demonstration
Inverse:
Crime Fighting Robots Now Patrol Silicon Valley
Daily Mail:
The most accurate ocean floor map ever made: Scientists reveal the alien landscape beneath the sea in incredible detail
Astrobiology Magazine:
The origins of abiotic species
Astrobiology Magazine:
Enough Oxygen Long Before Animals Rose
Gizmodo:
A Fossilized Ancient Ant Queen Emerges From a 46-Million-Year-Old Rock
National Geographic:
The Largest Ape That Ever Lived Was Doomed By Its Size
Daily Mail:
Did this shell belong to an ancient giant armadillo? 3ft fossil found in Argentina may have protected 10,000-year-old glyptodont
Sputnik News:
Next Generation Warfare: Russian Cyborg Rats Versus Terrorists
Smithsonian Magazine:
14 Fun Facts About Parrots
The Guardian:
Human-Neanderthal relationships may be at root of modern allergies
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Journey to the Oldest Cave Paintings in the World
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Ancient Grain May Have Helped Humans Become Farmers
Live Science:
2,700-Year-Old Farmhouse Unearthed in Israel
Ancient Origins:
Unraveling the Origins of the Roman Sword Discovered Off Oak Island
The History Blog:
Ivan the Terrible-era weapons cache found
The History Blog:
Skeleton found under Scottish school playground may have been a pirate
Smithsonian Magazine:
Shakespeare's First Folio Goes on Tour in the U.S.
Daily Mail:
Two of Marie Antoinette's four children were fathered by her Swedish diplomat lover during 20-year affair, secret love letters reveal
The History Blog:
18th c. scuttled ship found on Potomac riverfront
Atlas Obscura:
Shocking Scenes From Benjamin Franklin's Experimental Electricity Parties
Smithsonian Magazine:
The History of the United States' First Refugee Crisis
Atlas Obscura:
The Exquisite 19th-Century Infographics That Explained the History of the Natural World
The History Blog:
George III's huge map collection digitized
Atlas Obscura:
The Pair of American Politicians Who Fought the 19th Century's Silliest Duel
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Earliest Memoir by a Black Inmate Reveals the Long Legacy of Mass Incarceration
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Early History of Autism in America
Scientific American:
California Megaflood: Lessons from a Forgotten Catastrophe
The History Blog:
Civil War-era cedar log "corduroy road" found in Virgina
Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Phonograph Changed Music Forever
Daily Mail:
It ain't worth a dime! One of only nine existing 10 cent coins struck in 1894 expected to fetch more than $1MILLION at auction
Coin News:
Legend Numismatics Acquires 1894-S Barber Dime for $2M+
Jalopnik:
How A Car Company Built So Many Important Military Machines Of World War II
BBC News:
Shostakovich's symphony played by a starving orchestra
Atlas Obscura:
Oise Aisne American Cemetery, Plot E
San Francisco Chronicle:
36 amazing historic photos of celebrities visiting San Francisco
Gizmodo:
How Kids of the 1950s Got The Idea That They Could Hunt Dinosaurs on Venus
Smithsonian Magazine:
How "The Sound of Silence" Became a Surprise Hit
Mysterious Universe:
Opening the "James Bond File"
BBC News:
The little car you can drive in France without a licence
Jalopnik:
This Absurdly Detailed WWII Reenactment With Miniature Radio-Controlled Vehicles Is Awesome
Smithsonian Magazine:
Seven Must-See Museums in Austria
Smithsonian Magazine:
Visit These Ten Sites Celebrating Major Anniversaries in 2016
Smithsonian Magazine:
New Exhibition Featuring Picasso, O'Keeffe, Hopper and Many Others Brings Modernism Into Focus
Ars Technica:
73 nations face off at the World Magic Cup
January 8, 2016
Daily Mail:
Watch the radical 'AirMule' take to the air: Bizarre 'cargo drone' prototype will fly injured soldiers from the battlefield - or deliver your shopping
Daily Mail:
The superfast 50mph flying wing 'stealth drone' you can launch by THROWING it into the air
Jalopnik:
Watch Boeing Build An Entire F/A-18F Super Hornet In This Time-Lapse Video
Jalopnik:
Check Out The USS Constellation's Super Diverse Carrier Air Wing From 1967
Atlas Obscura:
Hangar One
DSFP's Spaceflight History:
The Russians are Roving! The Russians are Roving! A 1970 JPL Plan for a 1979 Mars Rover
DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Triple-Flyby: Venus-Mars-Venus Piloted Missions in the Late 1970s/Early 1980s (1967)
DSFP's Spaceflight History:
Harold Urey and the Moon (1961)
BBC News:
Gary Powers: The U2 spy pilot the US did not love
January 7, 2016
iDigital Times:
UFO Hunters Turn Up Rare Disney Alien Documentary, But Is It Part Of A Disclosure Conspiracy?
Stuff NZ:
Meteorite could hold clues to solar system creation
Popular Science:
What's The Best Way To Protect Earth From Incoming Asteroids?
Ars Technica:
For Russia's space program, 2016 may be a make-or-break year
Spaceflight Now:
ESA wants to be a part of NASA's mission to Europa
Space Daily:
Rover Rounds Martian Dune to Get to the Other Side
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
An Interactive Crash Course Tour of the Solar System
Discovery News:
Black Holes Set the Clock for Life on Earth
New Scientist:
Star clusters could host long-lived technological civilisations
New Scientist:
The Visit: What aliens would really mean for us as humans
January 6, 2016
News.com Australia:
The Westall 'UFO' incident still remains a mystery 50 years after it occurred
Daily Mail:
One giant leap for Britain: Nasa confirms Tim Peake WILL make history with six-hour spacewalk to repair the ISS next week
Daily Mail:
SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster is back at its base: Firm releases the first image of Elon Musk's pristine record-breaking rocket
Gizmag:
Cassini snaps image of the Saturnian moons Enceladus, Rhea and Atlas
Universe Today:
What Is The Heliocentric Model Of The Universe?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Long-Lost Photos of Eclipses and Stars Found in an Observatory Basement
Discovery News:
This is the Entire Universe Squeezed into One Image
January 5, 2016
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
No, the Asteroid Apophis STILL Won't Hit Us in 2036
Spaceflight Now:
European Mars probe arrives at launch site
Gizmodo:
The Bizarre Way Jupiter Helped Life Evolve on Earth
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Dione, From Afar
Universe Today:
How Strong is Gravity on Other Planets?
Discovery News:
3-D Printed Ceramics Could Build Next-Gen Spaceships
New Scientist:
Gardening in space: Sow the cosmological seeds and scatter
January 4, 2016
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
In Spain, 2015 Ends with a Cosmic Bang
Spaceflight Insider:
Russia dissolves its federal space agency, what now?
Spaceflight Now:
China launches eagle-eyed satellite to stare down at Earth
Gizmag:
Potential delay for first test flight of India's spaceplane demonstrator
Gizmag:
Elon Musk says Falcon 9 ready to go again
Discovery News:
Mars Orbiter Catches a Crater Full of Cracks
Live Science:
Space Fuel: Plutonium-238 Created After 30-Year Wait
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX, Blue Origin and the dream of reusable rockets
Ars Technica:
Space for Europe and for all humankind: A brief history of the ESA
NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND EDITION: January 1 through January 3, 2016
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Will the Universe Expand Forever? Crash Course Astronomy Episode 43: Dark Energy
Sputnik News:
CERN's 'Collider of the Future' to Be Based on Russian Design
Gizmag:
VertiGo wheeled robot isn't stopped by walls
Daily Mail:
Is this how BB-8 works? Wheels inside drive Droid's body and 'pendulum' head is held on by a magnet, claims patent
Live Science:
San Andreas May Be a 'Zipper' Fault
Daily Mail:
To the ends of the earth: Photographer travels to Greenland to capture the striking splendour of the 'iceberg capital of the world'
Astrobiology Magazine:
Geologists focus on mineral for clues to beginning of biological life on earth
Daily Mail:
The first life to have a home: Microbes from 3.2 BILLION years ago hid in crevices to avoid harmful radiation from the sun
Astrobiology Magazine:
Life exploded on Earth after slow rise of oxygen
Live Science:
Sacred Datura: Photos of a Beautiful (But Poisonous) Plant
Daily Mail:
Internet baffled by mysterious 'alien eggs' hatching in British countryside that are actually unusual fungus
io9:
A Well-Preserved Whale Fossil Has Been Discovered on a California Mountain
Science Magazine:
Feature: Solving the mystery of dog domestication
The History Blog:
A look inside a crocodile mummy
Stuff NZ:
'Extinct' snakes surface in Australia
Smithsonian Magazine:
A New Species of Shark Gives a Hat Tip to Both Jaws and Ninjas
Stuff NZ:
Irish originated from the Middle East, DNA analysis shows
The History Blog:
Otzi has the world's oldest known tattoos
Daily Mail:
Ghoulish 'rattle' found in 4,500-year-old infant's grave: Figurines carved from antlers may have been used to protect the baby from evil
National Geographic:
Did Egypt's Old Kingdom Die - or Simply Fade Away?
The Guardian:
Stonehenge tunnel survey reveals new sites, and mysteries
Ancient Origins:
Two 3,400-Year-Old Shrines with Statues discovered at Egyptian Quarry Site
Daily Mail:
Tomb of Tutankhamun's wet nurse is opened for the first time since it was discovered in 1996... as Egypt launch a PR offensive in a bid to woo tourists back
The History Blog:
Tomb of Tutankhamun's wet nurse, maybe sister, opens
Ancient Origins:
Tomb Hidden by History, Now Revealed: Wet Nurse of Tutankhamun May have been His Own Sister
National Geographic:
Could Queen Nefertiti's Tomb Reveal Secrets From Egypt's Shadowy Past?
Mysterious Universe:
Ancient Tablet Looks Like Cell Phone With Cuneiform Keys
Daily Mail:
Gold plates and coins among valuable haul unearthed by archaeologists at 2,000-year-old royal tombs in China
Ancient Origins:
2,000-Year-Old Public Laundry in Pompeii, Restored and Opened to the Public for the First Time
The History Blog:
Five homes, one laundry reopened at Pompeii
Daily Mail:
The battle that created a river god: Ancient Turkish altar shows son of Hercules battling hydra - just like his father
Scientific American:
Archaeological Finds in El Salvador Tell a Whole Different Tale about Maya Society
Daily Mail:
Corinth's secrets revealed: Full extent of ancient underwater harbour is being uncovered by archaeologists
Daily Mail:
Mysterious 'Jewish spell' found in ancient amulet: Scans reveal 'magical symbols' inscribed on 1,300-year-old silver scroll
Ancient Origins:
Magical Incantation Discovered on Ancient Silver Scroll Written in Unknown Language
Atlas Obscura:
The First Woman to Publish a Book in English Lived in One Room, Walled Off From Society
Daily Mail:
From Mona Lisa to war machines: Leonardo da Vinci's skill as an inventor is revealed in stunning new exhibition showcasing designs that were well ahead of his time
Mysterious Universe:
Was John Dee's Fascination With the Occult Driven by Espionage?
The History Blog:
Thames mudlarks find tiny gold Tudor accessories
Daily Mail:
New Year, Old Calendar: The Origins and Controversy of the Gregorian Calendar
Daily Mail:
Johannes Kepler Defended His Mother in a Witchcraft Trial
Air & Space Magazine:
Spirit of St. Louis Replica Soars Over New York
The History Blog:
Alexander Hamilton powder horn for sale
Daily Mail:
Sheet music handwritten by Beethoven and lost for 205-years is sold for $100,000 after being discovered hanging in a hallway by a classical music fan as he appraised a Connecticut home
Atlas Obscura:
Object of Intrigue: Two-Wheeled Transport for Regency Dandies
Atlas Obscura:
The Heavily Judged Female Entertainers Who Crushed Stereotypes In the Old West
Daily Mail:
Professor finds rare audio of basketball inventor James Naismith describing how he created the game
San Francisco Chronicle:
The Unknown Midwinter Fair - San Francisco 1894
Daily Mail:
Amazing images of a long-forgotten Germany: Fascinating book shows landmarks at turn of the 20th century before country was devastated by two World Wars
Atlas Obscura:
How New Year's Eve Came to Times Square
National Geographic:
Our Most Stunning Antique Photos of Women Around the World
Daily Mail:
From the ship's grand staircase to the 'heart of the ocean' necklace and even the deadly iceberg: Exhibition recreates the doomed Titanic in every detail for a very personal experience of the tragedy
Daily Mail:
The masterpiece that Charlie Chaplin never finished: Hollywood icon's script 'The Freak' told the tragic story of winged angel who was based on his daughter
Daily Mail:
Such very seductive shoplifters: Stuffing loot into their bloomers, how a ruthless girl gang spread havoc across London - flirting with victims or battering them with diamond-ring knuckle-dusters
Atlas Obscura:
Venison Jello, 'Mystery Ingredients,' and Other Triumphs of Soviet Cuisine
BBC News:
Alexei Stakhanov: The USSR's superstar miner
Atlas Obscura:
How a Homeless Woman Rescued a Brazilian Murder Castle
BBC News:
Searching for Vadim Kozin, the Soviet tango king
Gizmodo:
This Weather Phenomenon Caused a Nuclear Bomb Test to Go Horribly Awry
Daily Mail:
The cities that America was prepared to wipe off the map in nuclear war: Newly declassified target list of populations that would have been systematically destroyed by a storm of US A-bombs
The Guardian:
The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover
io9:
Remembering the Mysterious "Vela Incident" 36 Years Later
BBC News:
The East German team that refused to die
Daily Mail:
The DOOMSDAY plan: Military bosses reveal survival system that is in place if America's power systems are wiped out by cyber attacks
BBC News:
A watchmaker's paradise
Gizmag:
The 10 wildest off-road vehicles of 2015
National Geographic:
2015 Was a Big Year for Animals Riding Animals
io9:
The 10 Best and 10 Worst Science Fiction And Fantasy Movies of 2015
Gizmodo:
The 10 Scariest, Weirdest, Coolest Robots of 2015
Archaeology Magazine:
Top 10 Discoveries of 2015
Ancient Origins:
Top Ten Historical and Archaeological Discoveries of 2015
Ancient Origins:
Top 10 Human Origins Discoveries in 2015
Ancient Origins:
Top 10 Underwater Discoveries of 2015
San Francisco Chronicle:
Things you'll never see again in San Francisco
Smithsonian Magazine:
From Teeth to Toilets, This Dazzling Exhibit of Gold Artifacts Has the Midas Touch
National Geographic:
A New Site Lets You Walk the British Museum From Your Couch
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Enduring Mystique of the Venetian Lagoon
Atlas Obscura:
Sverd I Fjell
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