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NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND EDITION:
December 30, 2017 through January 1, 2018
Daily Galaxy:
"The Multiverse?" -- Merging Neutron Stars Challenge Existing Theories of Gravity and Dark Energy
Daily Mail:
Checkmate humanity: In four hours, a robot taught itself chess, then beat a grandmaster with moves never devised in the game's 1,500-year history and the implications are terrifying
Daily Mail:
Where the 'Ring of Fire' could ignite in 2018: Researchers reveal the six volcanoes most at risk of eruption
Universe Today:
Just a Billion Years After the Earth Formed, Life had Already Figured out Plenty of Tricks
Astrobiology Magazine:
Origins of photosynthesis in plants dated to 1.25 billion years ago
Atlas Obscura:
Found: A Tiny, Terrifying Sea Monster From 500 Million Years Ago
Atlas Obscura:
Found: A Plesiosaur, Antarctica's Oldest Animal Fossil
Daily Mail:
Dozens of perfectly preserved dinosaur eggs dating back 130 MILLION YEARS are unearthed in China's 'hometown of scary dragons'
Daily Mail:
Tufty hair, orange eyebrows, freckles and no roar: What tyrannosaurus rex was REALLY like
Live Science:
Ancient Axes, Spear Points May Reveal When Early Humans Left Africa
Daily Mail:
5,000-year-old eyeliner and scarabs inscribed with the titles of the elite reveal the rise of ancient Jericho
Daily Mail:
800-year-old coin minted by Henry III but then scrapped when blundering officials realised it was worth more as gold than its face value is expected to make £500,000 at auction
The History Blog:
Visitor identifies plant decorating medieval chest
Daily Mail:
The Christmas Flood of 1717: How one of the most devastating storms in European history killed 13,700 people in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands
History.com:
Women Got 'Married' Long Before Gay Marriage
BBC History Extra:
9 things you (probably) didn't know about Helen Keller
History.com:
How Times Square Became the Home of New Year's Eve
The New Yorker:
A New History of the Second World War
History.com:
The 7 Most Notorious Nazis Who Escaped to South America
History.com:
How a Postal Strike Became a National Emergency for Richard Nixon
Popular Mechanics:
The 2018 Sci-Fi Film Guide
December 29, 2017:
CNBC:
Airlines bid farewell to the Boeing 747 - Take a look at the life of the 'Queen of the Skies'
HistoryNet:
Myth of the Zero
HistoryNet:
Amerika Bombers
HistoryNet:
Republic's Fleeting Masterpiece
HistoryNet:
Project Tip-Tow
Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: The atheist and Apollo 8
December 28, 2017:
The Guardian:
Russian satellite lost after being set to launch from wrong spaceport
Universe Today:
Yes Please! NASA is Considering a Helicopter Mission to Titan
Scientific American:
To Find Life on Mars, Look Underground
Popular Mechanics:
Martian Fossils Could Be Found Near Long-Buried Hydrothermal Vents
Daily Mail:
Has the mystery of how the moon was formed finally been solved? Results of two billion simulations show protoplanet Theia was far smaller than thought when it slammed into Earth
Universe Today:
Maybe Mars and Earth Didn't Form Close to Each Other
December 27, 2017:
South China Morning Post:
Is anyone out there? The days when UFO fever gripped China
New York Times:
Flying Saucers and Other Fairy Tales
Big Think:
If the Pentagon Is Hiding Aliens from Us, the Zoo Hypothesis May Explain Why
WCVB-TV:
Possible meteor spotted flying through New England sky
Sci-News:
Astronomers Obtain Images of Near-Earth Asteroid Phaethon
Spaceflight Insider:
Long March 2D sends China's second Land Surveying Satellite to orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Land imaging craft launched for Chinese military
Spaceflight Insider:
Untethered: Humanity's first free flying astronaut, Bruce McCandless, passes away aged 80
December 26, 2017:
BGR:
SpaceX gave California a UFO scare with absolutely incredible rocket launch
Spaceflight Insider:
Painting the sky: Iridium launch closes banner year for SpaceX
Space News:
SpaceX concludes 2017 with fourth Iridium Next launch
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX launch dazzles, delivering 10 more satellites for Iridium
The Verge:
All the best reactions to SpaceX's Friday night rocket launch in California
Fstoppers:
Stunning Time-Lapse of SpaceX Falcon9 Rocket Launch
CHRISTMAS WEEKEND EDITION:
December 23, 2017 through December 25, 2017
Phys.org:
Mystery of how Santa fits down chimneys, can deliver presents without being seen 'solved' by relativity theory
Popular Mechanics:
These AI-Created Carols Are Confused About Christmas
Bustle:
Is The North Pole Real? Figuring Out Exactly Where Santa Lives Is Harder Than You Think
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Enduring Romance of Mistletoe, a Parasite Named After Bird Poop
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Best Places to See Reindeer Around the World
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?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Iceland's Christmas Witch Is Much Cooler (and Scarier) Than Krampus
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
Mental Floss:
The Mystery Behind the World's Most Famous Christmas Poem
Mental Floss:
The Holly Jolly History of the Santa Suit
Bustle:
Why Do We Hang Stockings At Christmas? This Holiday Tradition's Origins Are Steeped In Myth
Atlas Obscura:
Each Christmas, the Welsh Try to Outsmart a Horse Skull Puppet
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
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
FourFourTwo:
What happened to football on Christmas Day? The lost history of a Victorian tradition
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'
Atlas Obscura:
Listen to the First Computer-Generated Christmas Carols, From Alan Turing's Lab
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Christmas Tale Spoken Record That Launched the Audiobook
History.com:
The Wrong Number That Launched the Santa Tracker
Atlas Obscura:
In Sweden, There Is No Christmas Without Donald Duck
Mental Floss:
14 Blockheaded Facts About 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Cult Classic Christmas Special Is Quintessential Jim Henson
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
Popular Mechanics:
The 50 Best New Board Games
Mental Floss:
Can You Name Santa's Reindeer (Besides Rudolph)?
December 22, 2017
Daily Mail:
World's largest plane with a wingspan longer than a FOOTBALL FIELD taxis down the runway for the first time ahead of its 2019 test flight
The Aviationist:
The Blackbird NASA Used For Validating The SR-71 Linear Aerospike Experiment Configuration
The Aviationist:
The Real-World Air Combat Origins of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi"
Aviation History Magazine:
Mother Ships
Ars Technica:
The Greatest Leap, Part 1: How the Apollo fire propelled NASA to the Moon
Ars Technica:
The Greatest Leap, Part 2: Apollo 8 and the 50/50 bet that won the Space Race for America
Ars Technica:
The Greatest Leap, Part 3: The triumph and near-tragedy of the first Moon landing
December 21, 2017
Daily Mail:
Elon Musk reveals his megarocket: Falcon Heavy set to blast off within weeks (and could be taking Musk's car along for the ride)
Space News:
SpaceX to skip first stage landing for upcoming Iridium launch
Space News:
Blue Origin a year away from crewed New Shepard flights
Spaceflight Insider:
Orion's parachutes tested in high deserts of Arizona
Daily Mail:
There IS water on Mars: Scientists say rocks on the red planet absorbed it under the crust 'like a sponge' killing all lifeforms and leaving the surface dry and desolate
Astrobiology Magazine:
Mars And Earth May Not Have Been Early Neighbors
Daily Mail:
Alien mineral never before seen on Earth found in 60 million year old meteorite impact on the Isle of Skye
December 20, 2017
Air & Space Magazine:
That Secret Government Program to Track UFOs? It's Not the First
Esquire:
A Former Military Strategist Explains Why the Government Is Cagey on UFO Matters
Inverse:
Astronomer Says "UFO" That Navy Airmen Spotted Was Probably Something Else
On Milwaukee:
LOOK: Bright meteor lights up the Wisconsin sky near midnight
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz with three-man crew docks with space station
Spaceflight Insider:
3-person Soyuz MS-07 docks with ISS
Spaceflight Now:
Station astronauts begin unpacking refurbished SpaceX cargo craft
Daily Mail:
NASA reveals it has started planning a 2069 mission to Alpha Centauri (but admits most of the technology it needs to get there doesn't exist yet)
December 19, 2017
New York Times:
On the Trail of a Secret Pentagon U.F.O. Program
ABC News:
Navy pilot recalls encounter with UFO: 'I think it was not from this world'
The Cheat Sheet:
Aliens or Something Else? These Unexplained UFO Sightings Have Baffled Scientists
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Dragon capsule arrives at space station
Orlando Sentinel:
Budweiser hopes Friday's SpaceX launch leads to Mars brewery
Spaceflight Insider:
Juno delves deep into Jupiter's Red Spot
Space News:
Dawn to fly closer to Ceres than ever in mission's final phase
Los Angeles Times:
Scientists find a miniature version of our solar system, with eight planets and a sun-like star
Popular Science:
Interstellar visitor doesn't appear to be an alien ship, does appear to be covered in organic gunk
BBC News:
Interstellar object may hold 'alien' water
December 18, 2017
New York Times:
Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program
Politico:
The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs
Washington Post:
Head of Pentagon's secret 'UFO' office sought to make evidence public
Daily Mail:
'It accelerated like nothing I've ever seen': Two Navy airmen describe encounter with what they believe was a UFO after the Pentagon reveals its multi-million dollar search program for mysterious objects
CNBC:
Does Pentagon still have a UFO program? The answer is a bit mysterious
Denver Post:
WATCH: Bright fireball flashed across the Denver sky Thursday night, vigilant cameras caught celestial blast
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz MS-05 trio lands in Kazakhstan after 138-day ISS stay
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz carries three station crew members back to Earth
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz MS-07 crew begins two-day trek toward ISS
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz blasts off on two-day flight to space station
Economic Times:
'Dragon back' as cargo reaches space station
Spaceflight Insider:
CRS-13 Dragon berthed with International Space Station
Spaceflight Insider:
Return, return, return: CRS-13 mission marks triple-play in terms of SpaceX reuse
Spaceflight Now:
Recent snapshots from the International Space Station
Austin American-Statesman:
UFO reported over Austin in 1897
WEEKEND EDITION: December 16, 2017 through December 17, 2017
Forbes:
There's No Such Thing As Proof In The Scientific World - There's Only Evidence
New Atlas:
Honda's 3E robot concepts ready to roll into CES
New Atlas:
Robot carries the Olympic torch in South Korea
Live Science:
Earth's Mysterious Hum Recorded Underwater for 1st Time
Forbes:
If Alien Worlds Exist, What About Alien Minerals?
Live Science:
Lava Gulps Down GoPro Camera, Which Records the Entire, Fiery Affair
Daily Mail:
Oldest known plesiosaur fossil suggests the sea-dwelling reptiles emerged 50 million years earlier than thought and survived by foraging in the open ocean
The Guardian:
Have we lost an Archaeopteryx but gained a new species of theropod dinosaur?
Stuff NZ:
New Zealand's ancient penguin was as big as a human
Daily Mail:
Intricate 3,100-year-old bronze ritual bowls stolen during a war between two Chinese dynasties are found in a tomb next to the skeleton of a Zhou warrior
Live Science:
This 5,000-Pound Behemoth Is the World's Heaviest Bony Fish
The History Blog:
Rock art may be 1st depiction of leashed dogs
The History Blog:
Two unopened tombs rediscovered in Luxor
The History Blog:
Massive Venezuela petroglyphs mapped for the first time
BBC History Extra:
Robert Dudley: Queen Elizabeth I's great love
Daily Mail:
Collectors assemble the largest known early map of the world: Misshapen countries, mythical creatures, and illustrations of kings revealed in stunning 10 FOOT map from the 16th century
Live Science:
Spy Satellites Reveal Ancient Lost Empires in Afghanistan
History.com:
The Man Who Invented Figure Skating Was Laughed Out of America
Smithsonian Magazine:
How the First Man-Made Nuclear Reactor Reshaped Science and Society
Daily Mail:
Is this what doomsday will look like? Dozens of declassified US nuclear test clips from the 1950s are released to the public for the first time
History.com:
The Governess Who Spilled the Queen's Secrets
History.com:
Why Princess Margaret Sacrificed Love for the Crown
Flashbak:
Cigarettes from Santa: Vintage Tobacco Christmas Advertising
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Happens to All Those Letters Sent to Santa?
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Plea to Resurrect the Christmas Tradition of Telling Ghost Stories
December 15, 2017
New Atlas:
Flying car racing could be heading to Australia
The Aviationist:
This Image Shows The Complexity Of The XB-70 Valkyrie mid-1960s Research Aircraft Cockpit Compared To That Of An Upgraded B-1 Bomber
The Aviationist:
A Navy Academy Professor Did A Presentation On The Actual Stealthiness Of The (Fictional) MiG-31 Firefox
Spaceflight History:
Pioneer Mars Orbiter with Penetrators (1974)
Spaceflight History:
X-15: Lessons for Reusable Winged Spaceflight (1966)
December 14, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Space station crew returns Thursday, replacements launch Sunday
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX cargo launch slips to Friday, allowing for additional rocket inspections
Spaceflight Now:
Blue Origin launches New Shepard test flight
Scientific American:
Oddball Object Tumbling among the Stars Could Disrupt Planetary Science
Universe Today:
Breakthrough Listen is Going to Scan Oumuamua, You Know, Just to be Sure it's Just an Asteroid and Not a Spaceship
December 13, 2017
Bridgeport & Lyme Regis News:
Looking back: Legends, aliens and mysteries - the history of UFO sightings in Dorset
Daily Mirror:
'Potentially hazardous' three-mile-wide asteroid to skim Earth THIS WEEKEND
Spaceflight Insider:
Launch of SpaceX CRS-13 mission slips to Friday
Daily Mail:
SpaceX delays launch of recycled rocket and Dragon capsule that will bring supplies (and the ingredients for beer) to the ISS
Spaceflight Insider:
Blue Origin returns to flight with New Shepard launch
Daily Mail:
'Alien bright spots' could be proof Ceres is NOT a dead world: NASA reveals they could be a sign of geologic activity
Popular Science:
The mysterious object NASA is visiting in 2019 might have its very own moon
December 12, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Electron countdown aborted at engine start, next launch attempt Wednesday
Space News:
New and improved Florida pad ready to resume Falcon 9 launches
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX to restore upgraded launch pad to service with Wednesday cargo flight
Spaceflight Now:
Blue Origin could fly new suborbital vehicle this week
Seeker:
The Oldest Black Hole Ever Found Is Almost as Old as the Universe Itself
December 11, 2017
Pensacola News Journal:
Gulf Breeze UFO phenomenon: 30 years later, sightings still divide public
Daily Mail
Whale-sized asteroid capable of DESTROYING a major city skimmed past our planet at just a third of the distance between Earth and the moon - and NASA didn't even notice
KUSA-TV:
Here's what those weird flashing lights over Denver were
KNXV-TV:
Police dashcam captures fireball in the sky
Daily Mail:
NASA confirms more than 60 reports of a fireball streaking across the Florida sky
Daily Express:
Huge FIREBALL shoots across Mediterranean sky as rock breaks off asteroid and enters Earth
Universe Today:
The Space Station is Getting a New Gadget to Detect Space Debris
IEEE Spectrum:
How We Could Explore That Interstellar Asteroid
WEEKEND EDITION: December 9, 2017 through December 10, 2017
Daily Mail:
Physicists say they've confirmed new form of matter in a breakthrough of 'cosmic significance'
Daily Mail:
The underwater 'Manta Ray' robot that can swim through the sea
Astrobiology Magazine:
A series of fortunate events: Antarctic zircons tell story of early volcanism
Stuff NZ:
Hikurangi subduction zone part of a huge 3500km-long system
Daily Mail:
'It's like a mythical beast': Experts discover 518-million-year-old fossilised sea creature that's 'strange beyond measure'
Daily Mail:
How the first animals saw the world: 'Oldest eye ever discovered' is found in a 530-million-year-old fossil of an extinct sea creature
The History Blog:
Hundreds of fossilized pterosaur eggs, some with embryos, found in China
Daily Mail:
110 million-year-old 'four legged tank' dinosaur, so well preserved it looks like a statue, used its spiky armour to flirt as well as fight
Stuff NZ:
New dinosaur looks like odd mix of duck, croc, ostrich, swan
Daily Mail:
Fossils of a fearsome lion species with blade-like teeth that has been extinct for at least 18 million years are discovered in the Australian outback
Daily Mail:
Our ancient ancestor 'Little Foot' makes her debut: World's oldest and most complete hominid skeleton is unveiled two decades after she was first found
Daily Mail:
Oldest known waterway system that took a mystery Neolithic civilisation 3,000 people and nearly a decade to build is discovered in China
Daily Mail:
Stunning 3,000-year-old Egyptian gate is moved from Cairo to the pyramids of Giza to be displayed alongside Tutankhamun's tomb
Daily Mail:
Dozens of black granite statues of a fierce lion-headed goddess known as the Lady of War are discovered in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the 230-foot-long killer whale geoglyph found in the middle of the Peru Desert
The History Blog:
Ancient orca geoglyph rediscovered in Peru
Daily Mail:
Mysterious 2,000-year-old rock art of mythical beasts and ancient rituals in Venezuela is revealed in unprecedented detail
The History Blog:
Third Roman temple unearthed in Silchester
Daily Mail:
Revealed: The sunken Roman city that was once the resort of the super rich but now lies beneath the waves with its treasures intact
BBC History Extra:
The rise and fall of the Knights Templar
Daily Mail:
500-year-old coin that may have been dropped by one of Richard III's soldiers fleeing the Battle of Bosworth Field is found by an amateur treasure hunter
The Atlantic:
How the Index Card Cataloged the World
Atlas Obscura:
How the 18th-Century Gay Bar Survived and Thrived in a Deadly Environment
BBC History Extra:
The 18th-century craze for gin
Daily Mail:
The blood red sky that lasted more than a WEEK: Mysterious hue seen over far-east Asia in 1770 was caused by the biggest solar storm in history
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Daring Journey Across Antarctica That Became a Nightmare
History.com:
The True Stories That Inspired 'Titanic' Movie Characters
Daily Mail:
The end of Endurance: Fascinating images capture Shackleton's doomed vessel's last voyage before it was crushed to pieces by ice leaving the crew stranded
Atlas Obscura:
Ada Blackjack, the Forgotten Sole Survivor of an Odd Arctic Expedition
History.com:
Meet the Woman Behind Winston Churchill
Atlas Obscura:
The Psychic Tea Rooms of 1930s New York Didn't Predict All the Police Raids
BBC History Extra:
The shock of Pearl Harbor
History.com:
Pearl Harbor, 1941: From a Sailor's Perspective
The Conversation:
Atomic age began 75 years ago with the first controlled nuclear chain reaction
Flashbak:
Is This Tomorrow? A Red Scare Comic Book from 1947
Flashbak:
'A Proper Pea-Souper' - The Dreadful London Smog of 1952
Smithsonian Magazine:
When 'The Graduate' Opened 50 Years Ago, It Changed Hollywood (and America) Forever
BBC History Extra:
How secret talks between the U.S. and China led to "the week that changed the world."
Smithsonian Magazine:
There's a Giant Warehouse Full of Product Launches That Failed
History.com:
Step Into the Vatican's Secret Archives
Atlas Obscura:
13 Wonderfully Specific Libraries Reveal Their Oldest Treasures
December 8, 2017
The Conversation:
Flying chariots and exotic birds: how 17th century dreamers planned to reach the moon
Daily Mail:
The magnificent flying machines of WWII and their deadly payloads as never seen before: Colourised images bring pilot's daring escapades to life
Popular Mechanics:
SLAM Was the Armageddon Cruise Missile From Hell
The Aviationist:
Rare Photo Shows F-4 Phantom Flying Inverted While Intercepting A Russian Tu-95 Bear Bomber
The Aviationist:
Two Edwards-based F-16s Spotted In Star Wars Canyon With Mysterious New Pod
The Aviationist:
Watch An F-22 Spot And Engage An A-4 Skyhawk In A Low Dogfight In A Valley
The Aviationist:
Are We Seeing B-21 Raider Development and Testing Activity at Area 51?
The Aviationist:
The Story Of The MiG-31 "Firefox": All You Need To Know About The Most Awesome (Fictional) Advanced High-Speed Interceptor Ever
Daily Mail:
Houston, we're going back in time: NASA's historic Apollo Mission Control Center set to be restored to the moment man landed on the moon in 1969 - even down to the coffee cups and ashtrays
December 7, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Cygnus cargo craft released from space station, setting up for CubeSat deployments
Spaceflight Now:
Bigelow's expandable module goes into overtime on space station
Spaceflight Insider:
Launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 with CRS-13 slips again
Spaceflight Now:
Test-firing at repaired launch pad clears way for SpaceX cargo flight next week
Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4 launch from California slips to January
Space News:
Russia looks past Soyuz-2 failure to Soyuz-5
Popular Science:
Europa Could Have Active Plate Tectonics, New Study Says
Seeker:
Liquid Water Might Not Be the Cause of Dark Streaks on Mars
Spaceflight Now:
Jupiter's moons, black holes, exoplanets among JWST's first scientific targets
Seeker:
Two Super-Earths Have Been Located Just 111 Light-Years From Earth
Seeker:
This Is the Deepest View Into the Universe That Has Ever Been Seen
December 6, 2017
Air & Space Magazine:
When Did Alien Sightings Turn Into Alien Abductions?
EarthSky:
Are alien microbes hitching a ride on the International Space Station?
Seeker:
The ISS Bacterial Community Resembles What You'd Find in Your Home
The Conversation:
Metal asteroid Psyche is all set for an early visit from NASA
Stuff NZ:
How will humanity react to alien life? Psychologists have some predictions
December 5, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese military imaging satellite lifts off from Jiuquan space base
Universe Today:
Juno Isn't Exactly Where it's Supposed To Be. The Flyby Anomaly is Back, But Why Does it Happen?
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA plans 'souped-up' rover for Mars 2020 mission
Popular Mechanics:
Martian Landslides Might Hit 450 Mph
Outer Spaces:
NASA Finds an Odd Green Comet With Unusual Ingredients
Astrobiology Magazine:
Organic molecules make up half of Comet 67P
Science News:
We still don't know where the first interstellar asteroid came from
December 4, 2017
Penn Live:
Notice a flash in the sky early Saturday morning? It was a fireball meteor
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz 2.1b launches military satellite into orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Intelligence-gathering satellite deployed in orbit for Russian military
Popular Mechanics:
Russia Lost a Rocket Because the Computer Thought It Was Launching From a Different Pad
Space News:
NASA approves use of previously-flown booster on next Dragon mission
San Francisco Chronicle:
NASA turns to Voyager's dormant thrusters for first time in 37 years - and they work!
WEEKEND EDITION: December 2, 2017 through December 3, 2017
Daily Mail:
Was the Big Bang actually a Big BOUNCE? New theory claims our universe was 'born' when a previous one stopped contracting and started expanding
Daily Mail:
Watch Toyota's latest robot balance on one foot as it mimics the movement of a human
New Atlas:
Toyota's latest humanoid robot aces operator mimicry
Stuff NZ:
When Hikurangi subduction zone megathrust triggers tsunami 'think Japan 2011'
Daily Mail:
Can I keep it, mum? Baby rhino loves its new cat playmate
Daily Mail:
Discovering volcanic Britain: From Mount Snowdon to the remains of a Scottish SUPERVOLCANO, the country's (former) hot spots revealed
Smithsonian Magazine:
Cache of 120-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Pterosaur Eggs Found in China
Stuff NZ:
How Earth's rotation speed might affect earthquakes - imagine an ice skater
Stuff NZ:
More big earthquakes in 2018 as Earth slows slightly, theory suggests
Ars Technica:
If you liked the Cambrian Explosion, you'll love the Ordovician Radiation
Live Science:
Cave Lion Mummy May Not Be What It Seems
Smithsonian Magazine:
Archaeologists Discover Where Julius Caesar Landed in Britain
Daily Mail:
Heretical Greek text of 'Jesus' secret teachings to his brother James' is discovered by biblical scholars in Oxford after being lost for 1,600 years
BBC History Extra:
10 reasons why Henry III may have been a great king
Daily Mail:
The oldest restaurant in Europe is still going in the basement of a Polish town hall more than 700 years after first opening
BBC History Extra:
Margaret Tudor: The forgotten Tudor
Smithsonian Magazine:
Gulliver's Travels Wasn't Meant to Be a Children's Book And More Things You Didn't Know About the Literary Classic
The History Blog:
Clark acquires politically daring portrait of child
Popular Mechanics:
I Am Dangerously Close To Buying This Soviet Mechanical Calculator
History.com:
The True Stories That Inspired 'Titanic' Movie Characters
Smithsonian Magazine:
Archaeologists in California Unearth a Large Sphinx—From the Set of 'The Ten Commandments'
The History Blog:
Best sphinx head from 1923 Ten Commendments found
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Was the Inspiration for "The Murder on the Orient Express"?
Daily Mail:
Fascinating images of 20th century socialite who spent her fortune exploring the Arctic and became the first woman to fly across the North Pole
Smithsonian Magazine:
Winston Churchill's Historic "Fight Them on the Beaches" Speech Wasn't Heard by the Public Until After WWII
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Science Behind the First Nuclear Chain Reaction, Which Ushered in the Atomic Age 75 Years Ago
History.com:
How Did Hitler's Armored Limo End Up in Manhattan?
Popular Mechanics:
Here's What the Family Road Trip Looked Like in 1954
Flashbak:
A Night Out At The Too Far East Club, Seoul, South Korea 1956
Popular Mechanics:
A Vietnam Parasite May Be Killing Vietnam Vets - Study
History.com:
How Truman Capote Threw the Most Legendary Party of the 20th Century
History.com:
First Look: Exclusive Documents from a Zodiac Killer Reporter
Air & Space Magazine:
A Tale of Two DC-10s
New Atlas:
Robby the Robot sells for $5.3 million - second most valuable movie prop in history
Flashbak:
Atari to Nintendo: Home Electronic Games (1975-1986)
Ars Technica:
Thirty years later, "Max Headroom" TV pirate remains at large
Popular Mechanics:
The Worst Video Game Ever Created Just Won't Die
Popular Mechanics:
Requiem for the Mall
December 1, 2017
Daily Mail:
Take a tour of a Martian city: Incredible 360 degree video shows the UAE's vision for a 2117 colony on the red planet where robots live alongside humans
Air & Space Magazine:
French Daredevils Leap Off a Perfectly Good Mountain into a Moving Airplane
Popular Mechanics:
MIT Developing Mach 0.8 Rocket Drone for the Air Force
Air & Space Magazine:
The Secret Mosquito Stash
Air & Space Magazine:
Secret Casualties of the Cold War
The Aviationist:
The Day After An F-117 Was Spotted On A Trailer In Southern Nevada Another One Was Photographed Flying With An F-16 Near Rachel
Popular Science:
You'd be surprised how often space junk falls out of the sky
November 30, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Russian weather satellite and 18 secondary payloads lost after rocket failure
Space News:
Soyuz satellites feared lost in launch failure
Spaceflight Now:
Space station cargo flight next on SpaceX's launch schedule
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX CRS-13 launch slips to Dec. 8
Spaceflight Now:
Debut of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket now planned early next year
Spaceflight Insider:
China lays out its roadmap for space transportation system
Universe Today:
Galactic Panspermia: Interstellar Dust Could Transport Life from Star to Star
November 29, 2017
Gizmodo:
An Asteroid Will Pass Near Earth Next Month But No, You Don't Have to Worry
Spaceflight Insider:
Insider Exclusive: America's 'Booster Belt' - Part One
Spaceflight Insider:
Insider Exclusive: America's 'Booster Belt' Part Two - Decatur
Spaceflight Insider:
Insider Exclusive: America's 'Booster Belt' Part Three - Marshall
Astrobiology Magazine:
Moon's crust underwent resurfacing after forming from magma ocean
Universe Today:
The Next Mars Rover's Wheels Won't Get Torn Apart by the Red Planet
Astrobiology Magazine:
Newly Discovered Twin Planets Could Solve Puffy Planet Mystery
Live Science:
Bacteria 'from Outer Space' Found on Space Station, Cosmonaut Says: Report
Slate:
Did Russians Find Alien Life Clinging to the International Space Station?
National Geographic:
Bacteria on Space Station Likely From Germy Humans, Not Aliens
November 28, 2017
CBC News:
Mystery fireball that baffled witnesses was likely rocket falling back to Earth
Daily Mail:
Blazing 'fireballs' shoot across the sky in southern England before 'falling to earth' as dozens of people report hearing a deafening boom
Spaceflight Now:
Three Chinese military surveillance satellites successfully launched
Space News:
SpaceX aims to follow a banner year with an even faster 2018 launch cadence
Spaceflight Now:
Scientists suggest streaks on Martian hillsides are dry flows
Spaceflight Now:
Cassini's farewell to Saturn
Spaceflight Now:
An interstellar interloper is dashing through our solar system
New Scientist:
Ocean-covered planets may not be the places to search for life
THANKSGIVING WEEKEND EDITION:
November 23, 2017 through November 27, 2017
History.com:
The Firewood Shortage That Helped Give Birth to America
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
History.com:
The Toledo War: When Michigan and Ohio Nearly Came to Blows
History.com:
California's Little-Known Genocide
Mental Floss:
The Other Gettysburg Address You Probably Haven't Heard Of
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Thibodaux Massacre Left 60 African-Americans Dead and Spelled the End of Unionized Farm Labor in the South for Decades
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
Mental Floss:
222-0: The Worst Blowout in College Football History
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'
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
Timeline:
Watch: This unsettling color footage shows a 1944 Japanese American incarceration camp
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
Mental Floss:
Watch Computer Pros Get Excited About Windows 98...In 1998
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
Daily Mail:
Stunningly detailed Soviet maps created in secret show the likes of Washington DC and New York City - to be used when communism conquered the world
November 22, 2017
Inverse:
How Airships Like the Airlander 10 Could Replace Cargo Planes in Just Years
Daily Mail:
The 'flying bum' goes higher, faster and farther than ever before in latest dusk test flight
The Guardian:
Giant airship comes loose in UK
The Aviationist:
These Images Document The Heat Damage To The X-15A Hypersonic Aircraft After Its Record Breaking Mach 6.7 Flight
The Aviationist:
We Got A Close Look At America's Iconic U-2 Dragon Lady Spy Plane
Inverse:
NASA Astronaut's Stolen Watch Returned After 30-Year Hunt
Forbes:
What's It Like To Stand On The Lunar Surface? Six Moonwalkers Give Us The Straight Dope
The Telegraph:
Meet Wally Funk, the woman cheated out of the space race
TechRepublic:
NASA's unsung heroes: The Apollo coders who put men on the moon
November 21, 2017
RT:
Fireball soars over Heathrow Airport (VIDEO)
Spaceflight Now:
Second Electron rocket shipped to New Zealand launch site
Daily Mail:
The hopping 'R2D2' bot set to blast off in 2019 in bid to win $10m Google X-prize and make mining the moon a reality
Gizmodo:
Watch NASA's Mars 2020 Parachute Unfurl at Supersonic Speeds
Astrobiology Magazine:
Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution
Inverse:
Jupiter Is Flexing Way Too Hard in These Absurdly Beautiful New Images
New Scientist:
Neptune's other moons were normal until Triton crashed the party
Daily Mail:
Mystery of Pluto's super-cold atmosphere is finally solved: Hazy skies keep the dwarf planet at -200°C
Daily Mail:
Astronomers reveal first 'alien' comet seen passing through our solar system is 'shaped like a giant pink fire extinguisher'
Astrobiology Magazine:
Meteorite's Origins Point To Possible Undiscovered Asteroid
November 20, 2017
Stuff NZ:
100 full moons: Blazing fireball lights up Arctic sky
Spaceflight Now:
Penultimate Delta 2 rocket launch lofts advanced polar-orbiting weather satellite
Spaceflight Insider:
Delta II rocket successfully launches NOAA's JPSS-1 satellite
Spaceflight Now:
Top secret 'Zuma' mission puzzles satellite trackers
Universe Today:
Clandestine Zuma SpySat's SpaceX Liftoff Postponed Indefinitely to Resolve Payload Fairing Issue
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX delays launch to study data from recent payload fairing test
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Delta 2 rocket lifts off from California
Daily Mail:
Astronomers reveal 55 Cancri e 'super Earth' just 40 light-years away could have an atmosphere just like our own
Daily Mail:
The Milky Way has a TWIN: Scientists discover a giant spiral galaxy 180 million light years away that looks just like our own
New Scientist:
We just sent a message to try to talk to aliens on another world
WEEKEND EDITION:
November 18, 2017 through November 19, 2017
Forbes:
Richard Feynman And John Wheeler Revolutionized Time, Reality, And Our Quantum Universe
Daily Mail:
Time travel is 'technically possible' says physicist - but you'll ONLY be able to go backwards
Daily Mail:
Flippin' eck! Meet Atlas, the terrifying 6 foot 9, 167 pound humanoid robot that can do BACKFLIPS
New Atlas:
Boston Dynamics gives SpotMini robot a sleek restyling
Daily Mail:
Earth's newest iceberg up close: NASA reveals incredible new images of trillion ton A-68 which is the size of DELAWARE
Astrobiology Magazine:
When water met iron deep inside the Earth, it might have created conditions for life
Quanta Magazine:
Life's First Molecule Was Protein, Not RNA, New Model Suggests
The Guardian:
There's more than one way to build a tree, 374m-year-old fossils reveal
Daily Mail:
Fossil fragments of a forest that existed in Antarctica 260 million years ago offer 'a glimpse of life before the mass extinction'
CNRS:
World's longest sauropod dinosaur trackway brought to light
Herald Scotland:
Skye dinosaur discovery could be as big as a T-Rex
ABC Australia:
Frozen woolly mammoth Lyuba arrives in Sydney
Science Magazine:
Four billion passenger pigeons vanished. Their large population may have been what did them in
Daily Mail:
Why did the fish cross the road? Stunning video shows a school of salmon swimming across a flooded street after heavy rain caused river banks to burst
Daily Mail:
Chimpanzees warn their friends of danger and make more effort to flag hazards to ignorant group members, just like humans
Daily Mail:
The fossil that rewrites human history: 260,000-year-old Chinese skull suggests we descend from ASIAN as well as African ancestors
ABC Australia:
A story of rupture and resilience: When did Australia's human history begin?
Daily Mail:
The oldest bottles of wine in the world: Scientists discover 'mind-altering' 8,000-year-old vintage tipple created and drunk by Neolithic farmers in Georgia
Science Magazine:
These may be the world's first images of dogs - and they're wearing leashes
Daily Mail:
Saudi Arabia's 400 ancient 'gate' structures found on the edge of volcanoes are shown in stunning new detail, but archaeologists STILL have no idea why they were built
Daily Mail:
Lost Bronze Age cities in Turkey are pinpointed using stories of ancient trade deals engraved in 3,700-year-old clay tablets
Daily Mail:
Stunning Levantine gold artefacts found in Tutankhamun's tomb are revealed for the first time in almost a century
Atlas Obscura:
The Ancient Roman Cult That Continues to Vex Scholars
Daily Mail:
Mysteries of the Mayan 'snake god' could be revealed after secret passageway to an underground cave is discovered beneath 1,000-year-old Mexican pyramid
The History Blog:
12th c. silver and gold hoard found at Cluny Abbey
Smithsonian Magazine:
Norway's Medieval Wooden Churches Look Plucked From a Fairy Tale
BBC History Extra:
Your 60-second guide to the Black Death
The History Blog:
Cranach painting in Royal Collection authenticated by pigeon tendon
BBC History Extra:
7 things you (probably) didn't know about Elizabeth I
BBC History Extra:
The other Elizabethan England
The Atlantic:
How a Glass Terrarium Changed the World
History.com:
How the Orient Express Became the World's Most Glamorous Train
Atlas Obscura:
The Lost Lingo of Depression-Era Taxi Dancers
The Atlantic:
How 'Self-Driving' Trucks Connected the Australian Outback
Inverse:
Happy 79th Birthday, LSD!
Smithsonian Magazine:
A 1957 Meeting Forced the FBI to Recognize the Mafia - And Changed the Justice System Forever
Flashbak:
The Lesbian Gateways Club and The Killing of Sister George
BBC History Extra:
History explorer: The Cold War
Stuff NZ:
The Cuban missile crisis came close to all out nuclear war
History.com:
North Korea's Devastating Famine
Daily Mail:
Read the actual Dead Sea scrolls, see the Nile turn to blood and visit Jesus World: Billionaire's $500m Bible Museum opens in DC after he was caught buying stolen artefacts from Iraq
New Atlas:
Les Cabinotiers Celestia Astronomical Grand Complication 3600 wins watch Grand Prix
Atlas Obscura:
Inside Connecticut's Secret Museum of Retro-Future Oddities
November 17, 2017
Popular Mechanics:
What the Hell Was That Mystery Aircraft Flying Over Oregon?
The Aviationist:
Check Out These Photos Of A Mysterious F-117 Under Protective Cover On A Trailer On Route 95 South Of Creech AFB, Nevada, Yesterday
Daily Mail:
China prepares for 2020 tests of 27,000mph hypersonic aircraft that could hit the US with nuclear warheads in just 14 MINUTES
The Aviationist:
Russia Unveils New Tu-160M2 Strategic Super Bomber Update
Spaceflight History:
Chrysler's Transportation and Work Station Capsule (1965)
Spaceflight History:
A CSM-Only Back-Up Plan for the Apollo 13 Mission to the Moon (1970)
The Aviationist:
That Time An X-15 Rocket Plane Entered Hypersonic Spin At Mach 5 And Broke Apart Killing USAF Test Pilot.
November 16, 2017
Popular Mechanics:
Mysterious, Powerful "Boom" Shakes Alabama
Daily Mail:
Space takeaway: Astronauts get ice cream and pizzas in latest delivery
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese weather satellite launched into polar orbit
Daily Mail:
The galaxy's best bet for alien life? Planet the same size and temperature as our own found just 11 light years away may be the 'closest known home for life' (and it's moving closer to us every day)
Universe Today:
Closest Potentially-Habitable World Found Around "Quiet" Star
Popular Mechanics:
All the Exoplanets We've Discovered in One Small Chart
Forbes:
If An Asteroid Were Heading Towards Earth, How Would We Stop It?
November 15, 2017
Newcastle Herald:
A flying saucer landed at Lambton Park in the 1950s
Red Dirt Report:
Three recent John A. Keel anthologies examined
KNXV-TV:
Multiple people catch possible meteor fly by in Phoenix on video
Spaceflight Now:
Cygnus arrives at space station with food, experiments and cache of CubeSats
Space News:
Sierra Nevada satisfied with Dream Chaser glide test
Seeker:
We found our galactic twin 180 million light years away
New Scientist:
Should we seed life through the cosmos using laser-driven ships?
November 14, 2017
Hyperallergic:
Declassified Drawings from the British Government's UFO Desk
Space News:
Antares launches Cygnus spacecraft to ISS
Spaceflight Now:
Space station cargo shipment blasts off aboard Antares rocket
Spaceflight Now:
Rocket test-fired for launch of secretive U.S. government payload
Space News:
NASA leaning towards allowing reused Falcon booster on next Dragon mission
Spaceflight Now:
Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser performs critical glide test flight
Space News:
Dream Chaser successfully completes glide flight
New Scientist:
Tracking the first interstellar asteroid back to its home star
ARMISTICE DAY-VETERANS' DAY WEEKEND EDITION:
November 10, 2017 through November 13, 2017
Forbes:
The History Of Einstein's Most Famous Equation
Forbes:
Who Was The First To Invent A Theory About Light Speed?
Inverse:
The 4 Types of AI That Will Rule Our Future
Popular Mechanics:
A.I. Generated All These 'Fake Celebrities'
Inverse:
Robotic Imitation of Human Behavior Just Took a Big Step Forward
Popular Mechanics:
Forget Climbing Stairs, This Robot Takes the Elevator
Daily Mail:
Mysterious geothermal 'mantle plume' under Antarctica IS heating its ice sheet, NASA study confirms
Daily Mail:
The secret of California's mega eruption revealed - study finds magma was held in 'cold storage' before eruption that 'shielded the sun'
Daily Mail:
The mysterious geomagnetic spike 3,000 years ago that could change our understanding of the Earth's interior
Daily Mail:
Journey to the South Pole: NASA releases stunning images revealing the incredible beauty of the Antarctic
Daily Mail:
The chemical that gave rise to life on Earth: Scientists identify the 'Fairy Godmother' compound that was crucial for the development of the first cell-based entities
Science Magazine:
Ancient lizardlike creature bridged gap between land and sea
Daily Mail:
145 million-year-old fossils of tiny rat-like creatures that are the oldest mammals related to humans are found on Dorset's Jurassic Coast
The Guardian:
Teeth discovered in Dorset reveal secrets of the origins of modern mammals
Popular Mechanics:
Tiny T. Rex Arms May Have Had a Big Purpose
Daily Mail:
When mammals emerged from the dark: Extinction of dinosaurs 66 millions years ago caused creatures to begin living in daylight
Atlas Obscura:
Meet the Rottweiler-Sized Prehistoric Otter With Teeth That Could Crunch Bone
Daily Mail:
Massive 4,000-year-old mammoth tooth unearthed in Dover could have been worshipped by ancient humans
Atlas Obscura:
Frozen Remains of Extinct Lion Found in Russia
Daily Mail:
Beluga whale learns to 'talk' to a pod of bottlenose dolphins using whistles and clicks after moving into their tank
Daily Mail:
Brothers for life! Adorable Bengal tiger cub rescued when a teenager tried to smuggle him across the Mexican border during settles into his new home at the San Diego Zoo with a Sumatran tiger cub rejected by his mother
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the incredibly detailed 3,500-year-old sealstone that was found buried with an ancient Greek warrior - and was 1,000 years ahead of its time
Smithsonian Magazine:
Masterpiece of Greek Art Found in the Griffin Warrior Tomb
The History Blog:
Pylos warrior tomb's tiniest treasure is its greatest
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Scientists Identified the Oldest Known Solar Eclipse ... Using the Bible
Daily Mail:
Collector's hoard of nearly 200 rare Roman and Greek coins dating back 2,500 years is found in the back of dusty drawer at Scotney Castle
Daily Mail:
The ancient Chinese funeral procession entombed for 2,400 years: Remains of more than 100 horses and four chariots found in a burial tomb honouring feudal lord and his wife
Daily Mail:
2,300 year old Egyptian gym complete with running track uncovered near Cairo
The History Blog:
Sasanian loom discovered in Northern Iraq
The History Blog:
Unique Punic War lion helmet found off Sicilian coast
National Geographic:
Ancient Sundial Find Celebrated Roman Election Win
Forbes:
Did The Viking Squirrel Trade Spread Leprosy?
The Atlantic:
The Saintliness of Undecayed Corpses
The History Blog:
Ghent Altarpiece restoration website is a stunner
Daily Mail:
'America's birth certificate': Incredible 510-year-old map that identifies the US for the first time set to fetch £900,000 at auction
The History Blog:
See the Borghese Caravaggios in a museum with functional climate control
Live Science:
Tasmanian Treasure: Rare 17th-Century Map of Australia Resurfaces
Atlas Obscura:
The Long Legacy of Ireland's 'Night of the Big Wind'
Atlas Obscura:
The Dinner That Kicked Off the First Dinosaur Craze
The Atlantic:
Social Media in 1857
History.com:
The Civil War Doctor Who Proved Phantom Limb Pain Was Real
Daily Mail:
Incredible restored pictures of US presidents, Civil War soldiers and a Native American tribe offer a never-before-seen insight into the past
Atlas Obscura:
Louis Comfort Tiffany's Little-Known Forays Into Judaica
BBC History Extra:
The great misconceptions of the First World War
Daily Mail:
Shellshocked WWI soldier who was sentenced to death for 'cowardice' REFUSED a blindfold so he could stare the firing squad in the eyes
BBC History Extra:
Russia's revolutions: How 1917 shaped a century
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Winnie-the-Pooh Became a Household Name
Atlas Obscura:
The Twilight of the Analog Photo Booth
Smithsonian Magazine:
The True Story of the German-Jewish High Jumper Who Was Barred From the Berlin Olympics
Daily Mail:
All the fun of the fair: Rare color photos show impressive pavilions, rides and revelers enjoying the 1939 World's Fair
Daily Mail:
How the US military built a fabricated CITY in Seattle during World War II to hide an aircraft facility that churned out 300 fighter jets a month
Popular Mechanics:
Watch a World War II Training Cartoon Voiced by Mel Blanc
Timeline:
The NFL was segregated, until Kenny Washington broke the color barrier in Los Angeles
Air & Space Magazine:
The First Hydrogen Bomb
Gizmodo:
Rare Photos From Atmospheric Nuclear Tests of the 1960s
Rapid City Journal/Butte County Post:
Fifty-three year old nuclear missile accident revealed
Daily Mail:
1960s tech company's incredible prediction for the future of the internet: Promotional video shows how online shopping will work (but keeps its sexist ideas on a woman's place)
History.com:
The Zodiac Killer: A Timeline
History.com:
The Zodiac Ciphers: What We Know
Timeline:
This Russian woman's psychic powers ignited a paranormal arms race between the U.S. and the USSR
Atlas Obscura:
The 1977 Disability Rights Protest That Broke Records and Changed Laws
Timeline:
This brash Jewish radio host was murdered by white supremacists for denouncing anti-Semitism
Atlas Obscura:
The Gibberish That Sparked One of the Internet's Oldest Unsolved Mysteries
Atlas Obscura:
Remembering, With Fondness, the 'Worst Orchestra in the World'
November 10, 2017
Popular Mechanics:
Fighter Jets Could Be Packing Lasers by 2021
Daily Mail:
Rocket man blasts into the history books at a world record-breaking 32mph - the fastest ever travelled by a jet suit
Inverse:
NASA Releases "Jet-Shoes" Patent to Public, Calls on Real-Life Tony Stark to Build Them
BBC News:
The stray dogs that led the space race
The New Yorker:
Remembering Laika, Space Dog and Soviet Hero
Air & Space Magazine:
Laika Declassified
The Aviationist:
55 Year Ago The Last U.S. Above-Ground Nuclear Test To Determine The Viability Of An Anti-ICBM Defense System
Popular Mechanics:
Space War: How the Air Force Plans to Defend the Final Frontier
November 9, 2017
San Angelo Live:
This Mysterious Sighting of 7 UFOs Near San Angelo Was Never Solved
Daily Mail:
The experiment that could save Earth: NASA reveals groundbreaking asteroid tracking project was a success - and 'house-sized' asteroid that skimmed past Earth WON'T hit us in the future
Daily Mail:
NASA hedges its bets on first flight of SLS megarocket as it admits any delays will push launch back from Dec 2019 to June 2020
Daily Mail:
SpaceX rocket explodes during Texas testing in blow for Elon Musk's firm
The Guardian:
Six Russians locked into 'spacecraft' for 17 days in moon flight simulation
Popular Mechanics:
What the First Launch of NASA's Mammoth SLS Might Look Like
Popular Mechanics:
The First Interstellar Object Ever Found Now Has a Name: 'Oumuamua
November 8, 2017
Spaceflight Insider:
Apollo 12 astronaut Richard 'Dick' Gordon passes away at 88
Spaceflight Insider:
Russia may select first crew for its Federation spacecraft next year
New Scientist:
Five firms aim to power moon-orbiting way station to deep space
Astrobiology Magazine:
Comet Lovejoy Sheds Light On Source Of Earth's Water
Daily Mail:
'One of the oldest objects in the universe': Astronomers detect a galaxy that formed just after the Big Bang
November 7, 2017
Daily Mail:
China plans to launch a re-usable 'space plane' that flies into orbit from a traditional runway in 2020
Popular Science:
NASA's future Mars robot will take the fastest pictures yet of the red planet
Universe Today:
New Study Says Enceladus had Internal Ocean for Billions of Years
Seeker:
A Porous Core on Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus May Fuel Its Mysterious Geysers
New Scientist:
Enceladus's hot, gritty core may cook up ingredients for life
Business Insider:
Alien life may have had billions of years to brew inside Saturn's icy moon Enceladus
November 6, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
China returns Long March 3B rocket to service after June failure
Spaceflight Insider:
China successfully launches a duo of BeiDou-3 navigation satellites
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Minotaur-C rocket lifts off from California's Central Coast
Universe Today:
The SpaceX Booster is Back in Town, Legs Quickly Detached: Photo/Video Gallery
Spaceflight Insider:
Century-old data holds earliest evidence for existence of exoplanets
WEEKEND EDITION: November 4, 2017 through November 5, 2017
Seeker:
The Universe Should Have Destroyed Itself at the Big Bang. Why Didn't It?
Live Science:
The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keeping Secret
Daily Mail:
Super strong robotic dog could be coming to a street near you: Chinese firm unveils scary canine-like machine to the mass market at £19,000
Daily Mail:
Sony revives Aibo, its £1,300 robot dog that 'builds a loving relationship' with its owner
Stuff NZ:
Scientists say superstorms may have hurled huge boulders in Bahamas
Daily Mail:
Flight of the living dead: Experts digitally bring the Archaeopteryx back to life (but still can't work out if it flew or just 'fell with style')
Stuff NZ:
Scientists discover India's oldest Jurassic sea monster fossil
Daily Mail:
One of the largest animals to fly: Fearsome pterosaur the size of a PLANE that feasted on baby dinosaurs 70 million years ago is discovered in Mongolia
Daily Mail:
How the giraffe got its long neck: 9 million year old fossil discovered in Spain sheds light on the evolution of world's tallest animal
Daily Mail:
Chimpanzees shown to spontaneously 'take turns' to solve puzzles in new study that sheds light on how we evolved to work together
Daily Mail:
Great Pyramid of Giza's hidden chamber is revealed: Scientists uncover a mysterious 'big void' in Egypt's 4,500-year-old monument that could reveal its ancient secrets
The History Blog:
Cache of Assyrian cuneiform tablets found in Iraq
The History Blog:
Vivid color and a prosciutto clock from Pompeii
The History Blog:
Portland Vase keeps confounding experts after 500 years
Daily Mail:
Thousands of ancient secret drawings made by 'forgotten' islanders high on hallucinogenics are discovered in pitch-black Caribbean caves
The History Blog:
Disk from da Gama ship is earliest known marine astrolabe
History.com:
The Untold Story of How an Escaped Slave Helped Sir Francis Drake Circumnavigate the Globe
Atlas Obscura:
How 16th-Century European Mapmakers Described the World's Oceans
Live Science:
X-Rays Reveal Ghostly Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots
The History Blog:
Dragons return to Kew Gardens' Great Pagoda
Atlas Obscura:
The Long Travels of La Corriveau's Cage
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Mysterious Murder Case That Inspired Margaret Atwood's 'Alias Grace'
Daily Mail:
The Killers of Custer: Fascinating photographs show fierce Cheyenne Indians before and after they beat the US Army at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Popular Mechanics:
The Oldest Surviving British Car Is Basically a Park Bench With an Engine
Atlas Obscura:
Was Minnie Dean Really the Wickedest Woman in New Zealand History?
Atlas Obscura:
The Early 20th-Century ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe From Harassment
Daily Mail:
The Battle of Stalingrad as never seen before: Photographs reveal how Hitler's bombers decimated the city... and show the general who defied the Fuhrer's order to fight to the death
BBC History Extra:
Killing Hitler's hangman: the dramatic story of Reinhard Heydrich's assassination
Stuff NZ:
Hydrogen bomb tests in the subantarctic islands would have killed millions of muttonbirds
Atlas Obscura:
The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica
Atlas Obscura:
Why Does the Season Before Winter Have Two Names?
November 3, 2017
Daily Mail:
Take a holiday on the 'flying bum': World's largest aircraft set to become the ultimate airborne cruise ship
Popular Mechanics:
Watch Russia's Su-30SM Fighter Jet Strut Its Stuff
The Aviationist:
We Have Found Ultra Rare Footage Showing A B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Dropping A 30,000-Pound Bunker Buster Bomb
The Aviationist:
That Time 25 F-117s Flew Over Holloman AFB In The Largest Stealth Aircraft Formation Ever
Maui Time:
'Romance of the Skies' - Finding family history in a mysterious 60-year-old plane crash
November 2, 2017
Popular Mechanics:
Report: SpaceX to Launch the First Falcon Heavy in December
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX to restore damaged Cape Canaveral launch pad to service in December
Spaceflight Insider:
Russia may select first crew for its Federation spacecraft next year
Universe Today:
SpaceX Matches ULA Single Year Launch Record with KoreaSat, Record Breaker On Tap: Photo/Video Gallery
Popular Mechanics:
In 2020, NASA Will Bring More Cameras to Mars Than Ever Before
Daily Mail:
Astronauts on missions to Mars will be at risk of 'significant' brain damage due to the effects of microgravity, expert warns
New Scientist:
We may have found 20 habitable worlds hiding in plain sight
Astrobiology Magazine:
'Monster' planet discovery challenges formation theory
November 1, 2017
Daily Mail:
SpaceX makes another perfect landing after 16th launch of the year (but admits its rocket was a little 'toasty' afterwards as flames shot out from it)
Daily Mail:
NASA reveals record-setting tests of radical ion engine that could take man to Mars
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the 'monster' planet half the size of the sun astronomers say should not exist
Stuff NZ:
'Monster planet' discovered by Kiwi astronomer
Astrobiology Magazine:
Scientists detect comets outside our solar system
October 31, 2017
Space News:
SpaceX ties ULA's annual launch record with 16th launch this year
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX launches - and lands - third rocket in three weeks
Spaceflight Insider:
KoreaSat 5A marks 16th successful flight of 2017 for SpaceX
Astrobiology Magazine:
Winters on Mars are shaping the Red Planet's landscape
New Scientist:
We now know more on the origins of weird duck-shaped comet 67P
October 30, 2017
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX Falcon 9 to send Koreasat 5A to space Monday
USA Today:
Weather looks excellent for Monday SpaceX launch from KSC
Space News:
GRACE mission comes to an end
Spaceflight Insider:
Going out with 'GRACE' - long-lived U.S./German mission draws to a close
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Falcon 9 rocket raised vertical at pad 39A
Seeker:
Oxygen From Plasma Could Help Astronauts Breathe on Mars
Spaceflight Insider:
What's inside Ceres? Dawn mission finds possible ancient ocean remnants
HALLOWEEN WEEKEND EDITION:
October 28, 2017 through October 29, 2017
Ancient Origins:
Ancient Demons and Their Infernal Legacy
Ancient Origins:
Decapitating Demons May Be the Oldest Fearsome Entities of Ancient Egypt
Atlas Obscura:
The Original 'Nightmare' Was a Demon That Sat on Your Chest and Suffocated You
Mental Floss:
8 Historic Accounts of Werewolves
Ancient Origins:
Witch Familiars, Spirit Guardians and Demons
Atlas Obscura:
A Brief History of the 'Danse Macabre'
Smithsonian Magazine:
Visit the Site of the Biggest Witch Trial in History
History.com:
Women Weren't the Only Victims of the Salem Witch Trials
Mental Floss:
5 Forgotten Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm
Mental Floss:
Flip Through Mary Shelley's Draft Notebooks for 'Frankenstein'
Smithsonian Magazine:
Children Used to Learn About Death and Damnation With Their ABCs
Atlas Obscura:
The DIY Carvings Designed to Deter 17th-Century Witches
Smithsonian Magazine:
Burials Unearthed in Poland Open the Casket on The Secret Lives of Vampires
Atlas Obscura:
How the Real Madame Tussaud Built a Business Out of Beheadings
Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet Mr. Mumler, the Man Who "Captured" Lincoln's Ghost on Camera
History.net:
A Look Back at the Crime Scene Photos That Changed How Murder is Documented
History.net:
Thank This Man For Your Last-Minute Halloween Costume
Flashbak:
Halloween Catalog Pages: 1920s-1950s
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Austrian Ossuary Holds Hundreds of Elaborately Hand-Painted Skulls
Atlas Obscura:
Ritual Skulls and Other Magical Objects, in Photos
Atlas Obscura:
11 Hidden Spots to Enter the Underworld
October 27, 2017
Popular Mechanics:
NASA Prepares to Select Contractor to Build Low-Boom Supersonic X-Plane
BBC News:
The Soviet Union's flawed rival to Concorde
Aviation History Magazine:
The Boeing Century
Popular Science:
How the Air Force planned to put men on the moon
Daily Mail:
Where spaceships go to die: Nasa's watery graveyard in the South Pacific 1,600 miles from land is now the resting place for 260 sunken craft
The Aviationist:
The Enigmatic SR-72 And the Palmdale Sightings: What Do They Tell Us About America's Secret Hypersonic Program?
October 26, 2017
Bellingham Herald:
They thought they saw a plane crashing in flames. It was a fireball, all right
Kitsap Sun:
Astronomer: Bright object over Kitsap likely a meteor
Spaceflight Insider:
Curiosity team working to resume drilling
Spaceflight Now:
Engineers hopeful Mars rover's drill can return to service
International Business Times:
NASA finally has the map it needs to explore Europa for signs of alien life
New Scientist:
Dawn spacecraft approved to spend another year studying Ceres
New Scientist:
A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995
New Scientist:
We may have just seen the first comet from another solar system
October 25, 2017
CBC News:
Bright object in sky near St. John's likely a meteor, says local astronomer
Daily Mail:
Take a tour of Mars... on your desktop: Nasa releases incredible 3D map of the red planet with images taken by its Curiosity rover
Seeker:
NASA's a Step Closer to Having the Curiosity Rover Drill for Organics on Mars
New Scientist:
Possible exomoon may be an ocean-covered world as big as Saturn
Universe Today:
You Can Now Use Google Maps to Explore the Solar System
October 24, 2017
c/net:
Space traffic alert: 8 asteroids buzz Earth in just 3 weeks
Space News:
With commercial satellite imagery, computer learns to quickly find missile sites in China
Time Magazine:
There's a Cave on the Moon Large Enough For a Future Lunar Colony
Astrobiology Magazine:
A mission to Mars could make its own oxygen, thanks to plasma technology
Universe Today:
Sky Pointing Curiosity Captures Breathtaking Vista of Mount Sharp and Crater Rim, Climbs Vera Rubin Seeking Hydrated Martian Minerals
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA gives Dawn mission second extension
Spaceflight Now:
NASA's Dawn mission gears up for close look at Ceres
Space News:
Dawn to spend rest of its mission at Ceres
Forbes:
Why Don't We Have Artificial Gravity In Space?
October 23, 2017
Connecticut Magazine:
Daytime Fireball Seen Over Connecticut
Spaceflight Insider:
Astronauts complete 3rd spacewalk in 2 weeks
Spaceflight Now:
Astronauts wrap up spacewalk, accomplishing all primary tasks
Popular Mechanics:
Virgin Galactic Aims to Fly SpaceShipTwo to Space This Year
Popular Mechanics:
Blue Origin Test Fires the Most Powerful New American Rocket Engine in Decades
Spaceflight Now:
World's largest methane-fueled rocket engine test-fired by Blue Origin
Inverse:
The Path to Mars Will Probably Include a Pit Stop on Phobos
Forbes:
The Hubble Space Telescope Is Falling
WEEKEND EDITION: October 21, 2017 through October 22, 2017
Phys.org:
Filling the early universe with knots can explain why the world is three-dimensional
Popular Mechanics:
What's Next: 6 Space and Physics Discoveries on the Horizon
Popular Mechanics:
Giant Robot Battles Are Here and They Are Hilariously Bad
Daily Mail:
The incredible 'Atlas of the Underworld' reveals 94 ancient tectonic plates lurking deep within Earth
Atlas Obscura:
Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand How Old Faithful Works
Daily Mail:
Traces of 'lost' mountain range that once covered FIVE continents reveal Earth's worst mass extinction occurred 1 million years earlier than thought
Daily Mail:
World's deepest lake is in peril: Natural wonder that holds one-fifth of earth's unfrozen fresh water is mysteriously dying
Live Science:
Clumsy Dinosaur or Attack Survivor? Injuries Plagued Ancient Beast
Daily Mail:
Most complete tyrannosaur fossil ever found in southwestern US dug up in Utah
Daily Mail:
Fossilised remains of a 48 MILLION year old species of bird that preened its feathers just like a flamingo is discovered in Germany
Inverse:
Ancient DNA Connects Saber-Toothed Tigers and House Cats
Adirondack Almanac:
Bear Denning: Bears Are Making Their Beds
Inverse:
9.7 Million-Year-Old Teeth Found in Germany Could Recast Human History
Daily Mail:
The head of an Egyptian Queen revealed: Archaeologists find part of 4,000-year-old wooden statue
Daily Mail:
Is this the world's oldest toy car? 5,000-year-old earthenware chariot is found among a treasure trove of relics in a child's grave in Turkey
Daily Mail:
Lost temple of Ramses II is discovered in Giza: Incredible find sheds light on the ruler who fathered more children than ANY other pharaoh
Daily Mail:
Rise of the Roman Empire in Egypt may have been down to volcanic eruptions that reduced rainfall and led to civil unrest
Forbes:
Pompeii Had Some Intense Rush Hour Traffic Too
Daily Mail:
'Sensational' 1,700-year-old Roman theatre is found at the base of a section of Jerusalem's Western Wall
BBC History Extra:
The great Viking terror: how Norse warriors conquered the Anglo-Saxons
History.com:
Stunning 'Long-Lost' Da Vinci Painting Expected to Fetch $100 Million
Timeline:
There was a full-blown Russian colony in California for almost 30 years
New Atlas:
Historic plans for world's first underwater tunnel go on sale
BBC History Extra:
Victoria and Albert: a marriage of misery?
Atlas Obscura:
The Battle Between Baseball and Cricket for American Sporting Supremacy
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Minister Who Invented Camping in America
Smithsonian Magazine:
"Lost" Rodin Sculpture Discovered in New Jersey Borough Hall
Timeline:
These plane crash pictures show one photographer's quest to chronicle early aviation failures
History.com:
How a Navy Dirigible Became the World's Deadliest Airship
Atlas Obscura:
The Brief, Wondrous, High-Flying Era of Zeppelin Dining
HistoryNet:
Controversial Crash of K-14
Timeline:
Bullied in school, Harry Hay went on to start one of the first gay rights groups in America
Popular Mechanics:
This 60-Year-Old Egg-Shaped Three-Wheeler Is the Best City Car
History.com:
Nuclear Fallout Shelters Were Never Going to Work
Forbes:
50 Years Ago, A Film Spurred The Myth Of The Abominable Snowman Of America
Popular Mechanics:
Brand-New 1979 Pontiac Trans Am Can Be Yours
Audubon Magazine:
Windows into Another World: Take a Tour of Bird Blinds Across the Country
October 20, 2017
Daily Mail:
Last Concorde's final ride: Supersonic jet's first 'passengers' go on board 14 years after its ultimate flight but will remain firmly grounded as new £19million flight museum opens its doors
Popular Mechanics:
A Florida Company Is Selling Soviet MiG Fighter Jets in Prime Condition
The Aviationist:
We Track Down the Secret MiGs and Sukhois of the Nellis Test and Training Range
The Aviationist:
Seventy Years Ago Today, Chuck Yeager Became The First Pilot To Break The Sound Barrier
The Aviationist:
We Encountered The B-2 Stealth Bomber At Night in Stormy Skies To Get These Crazy Cool Photos. Here's How It Went.
October 19, 2017
North Passaic Daily Voice:
50 Years Later, Wanaque Reservoir UFO Photographer Identified
International Business Times:
Scientists Catch Earth's Mini-Moon, An Asteroid With A Special Orbit
WBZ-TV:
Meteor Lights Up New England Sky Mid-Afternoon
Popular Science:
Don't freak out about the Chinese space station that's about to fall out of the sky
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Converted Russian ballistic missile fires into space with satellite
Daily Mail:
Cassini's death dive discovers a 'confederation of moons' hold Saturn's rings together - and could solve the mystery of how long a day on the planet is
New Scientist:
A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn's rings from breaking apart
Seeker:
Planet Nine May Be the Best Explanation for 'Weirdness' of Kuiper Belt Objects
Popular Mechanics:
How We Discovered, Lost, and Rediscovered the First Asteroid
October 18, 2017
Daily Mail:
Mysterious streak of light spotted in the sky over Dubai was likely to be a Russian space rocket breaking up
Popular Mechanics:
Chunks of Russian Spaceship Burn Up Over Dubai
Space News:
Soyuz capsule suffered partial depressurization during April landing
Popular Mechanics:
SpaceX Is Planning a Mystery Launch for Northrop Grumman Next Month (Updated)
Space News:
Bigelow and ULA announce plans for lunar orbiting facility
Spaceflight Insider:
Crash Scene Investigation: Resting place of ESA's first lunar mission found
October 17, 2017
The National:
What's that in the sky: UAE residents stumped over flaming object overhead
Spaceflight Now:
Regulatory filings suggest SpaceX plans November launch with mystery payload
Spaceflight Insider:
Progress MS-07 freighter docks with International Space Station
Seeker:
The U.S. & Russia Are Building a Deep Space Gateway, Here's What You Need to Know
Space News:
NASA studying potential cooperation on Russian lunar science missions
Popular Mechanics:
Mars Spacecraft Finds Evidence of Gigantic Martian Lake
Ars Technica:
Odd, potato-shaped dwarf planet has ring, may not be a planet
New Scientist:
A tech-destroying solar flare could hit Earth within 100 years
October 16, 2017
The Oregonian:
Local UFO photos fascinated Air Force; farmer wanted to forget them: Throwback Thursday
Daily Mail:
Phew! House-sized asteroid safely passes 'damn close' to Earth at one-eighth the distance of the moon - but it narrowly misses vital communications satellites
CBS News:
Asteroid that just buzzed Earth may not miss on future visit
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 pierces the night to boost national security satellite into space
Spaceflight Insider:
ULA launches classified NROL-52 mission for the NRO
Spaceflight Insider:
Progress MS-07 launches toward the International Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
Progress cargo freighter begins two-day trek to space station
Ars Technica:
SpaceX has flown its third "flight proven" rocket
Space News:
SpaceX launches third pre-flown rocket with EchoStar-SES satellite, lands booster
Space News:
Russia's Rockot delivers Europe's Sentinel-5P satellite to orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Atlas 5 rocket powers NROL-52 payload to space
Daily Mail:
Cassini's last seconds revealed: NASA data shows craft 'did everything we asked of it' as it plunged to its death
WEEKEND EDITION: October 14, 2017 through October 15, 2017
Popular Science:
Wait a second: What came before the big bang?
Forbes:
The Multiverse Is Inevitable, And We're Living In It
Forbes:
Are Space, Time, And Gravity All Just Illusions?
Forbes:
Five Brilliant Ideas For New Physics That Need To Die, Already
Forbes:
5 Facts About Lasers That You Didn't Know About
Daily Mail:
Robot addresses the UN and says that droids with AI would better distribute the world's energy and food resources
New York Times:
A Surprise From the Supervolcano Under Yellowstone
Live Science:
What Would Happen If Yellowstone's Supervolcano Erupted?
Scientific American:
Will Italy's Ominous Supervolcano Erupt Soon?
Astrobiology Magazine:
Are Plate Tectonics Key To Life? Maybe Not.
Astrobiology Magazine:
Mass extinctions led to low species diversity, dinosaur rule
Smithsonian Magazine:
Watch First Video of Sand Cat Kittens Romping in the Wild
Atlas Obscura:
3 Bears Broke Into a Colorado Pizza Shop
Daily Mail:
When ancient humans began to 'settle down': Stone Age tools reveal people shifted from mobile lifestyle 58,000 years ago
The History Blog:
Copper axe blade found in Switzerland matches Iceman's
The History Blog:
Largest Old Kingdom obelisk fragment found in Saqqara"
Daily Mail:
4,000-year-old arrow heads and a leather bag are among a 'treasure trove' of Bronze Age artefacts left by an ancient hunter on a Swiss mountain pass
Live Science:
3,200-Year-Old Stone Inscription Tells of Trojan Prince, Sea People
Daily Mail:
Stunning belt decorations made from coal and encrusted with jade and coral are found on 2,200-year-old skeletons of female Xiongnu warriors
Atlas Obscura:
Found: The Elaborate Coal Belt Buckles of First-Century Women Warriors
Atlas Obscura:
See the Most Luxurious Medieval Manuscripts in Existence
Daily Mail:
Were Vikings influenced by ISLAM? Arabic embroidery bearing the name 'Allah' is uncovered on 10th Century Norse burial clothes
BBC History Extra:
10 surprising facts about William the Conqueror and the Norman conquest
ABC Australia:
DNA shows no trace of contact between ancient Easter Islanders and South America
BBC History Extra:
Tudors in America: how England's New World colonies came into being
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Territorial Land Grab That Pushed Native Americans to the Breaking Point
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Were the First Cookbooks Published By Black People in America
The History Blog:
Update: John Quincy Adams daguerreotype sells for $360,500
Smithsonian Magazine:
Exhibit Sheds New Light on Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party"
Atlas Obscura:
The Ordinary Bedroom Cabinet That Inspired Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
BBC History Extra:
Cat and mouse: force feeding the suffragettes
Timeline:
After union activists bombed The Los Angeles Times, killing 21, the labor movement was ruined
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Marie Curie Brought X-Ray Machines To the Battlefield
Air & Space Magazine:
Picturing Pan Am
Flashbak:
'Unsurpassed for Scenic Grandeur' - Glorious British railway Posters from Between the Wars
Forbes:
Meet The Sisters Who Invented The Tuberculosis Skin Test
Gizmodo:
Short Documentary Explores Night That Madison Square Garden Hosted a Nazi Rally in 1939
Retronaut:
c. 1939-1946: 'Extra! Weegee'
Smithsonian Magazine:
Inside the House of Zyklon B
Daily Mail:
The hell of the Pacific War - in color: Remastered photos reveal the brutal conditions faced by US troops against the Japanese in WWII
Flashbak:
The Second World War In Color
History.com:
The Inside Story of Harry Truman and Hiroshima
History.com:
Thurgood Marshall Had a Secret Relationship with the FBI
Smithsonian Magazine:
The True Story of the Death of Stalin
Forbes:
Expecting A Disaster: The 1963 Landslide of the Vajont Dam
Popular Mechanics:
Honda's First Car Was This Weird Little Pickup
Daily Mail:
Fleeing for their lives from Myanmar's 'ethnic cleansing': Images show the desperate scenes facing the Rohingya who escape to Bangladesh as Suu Kyi admits the crisis is 'appalling'
Smithsonian Magazine:
Check Out These Massive Straw Art Sculptures on Japan's Honshu Island
Daily Mail:
Could you have been a Bletchley Park codebreaker? Take these fiendish puzzles and solve this crossword in 12 minutes to see if you might have been recruited to crack the Enigma code
Inverse:
Raccoons Could Totally Overthrow Humans, Scientist Warns
October 13, 2017
Daily Mail:
NASA finishes testing the four engines that will power its SLS 'megarocket' that could one day take man to Mars
Popular Mechanics:
DARPA Picks Aerojet Rocketdyne to Build Hypersonic Jet Engine
Seeker:
A Supercomputer Dreamed Up a Bird-Like Airplane Wing
Daily Mail:
It's the flying squad! Video shows Dubai officer ready to police the streets on a HOVERBIKE?
Aviation History Magazine:
Bat Out of Hell
Aviation History Magazine:
Supersonic Revolution
Air & Space Magazine:
Chuck Yeager's Cockpit
Aviation History Magazine:
The Last Rocket Pilot
BBC News:
The world's oldest scientific satellite is still in orbit
October 12, 2017
St. Helens Chronicle:
The strange case of the St. Helens UFO
Daily Mail:
Nasa wants to alter the DNA of Mars astronauts in the 2030s to protect them from cancerous space radiation
Popular Mechanics:
Why Does Russia Have a Secret ISS Experiment?
Space News:
SpaceX launches third pre-flown rocket with EchoStar-SES satellite, lands booster
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX notches 15th Falcon 9 launch in 2017 with SES-11 mission
Popular Science:
China plans to launch rockets into space from massive freighters and planes
Astrobiology Magazine:
Mars Study Yields Clues to Possible Cradle of Life
Seeker:
Well-Preserved Hydrothermal Deposits on Mars Offer a Window Into Early Earth
Daily Mail:
Spot the moons! NASA's Juno spacecraft sends back stunning new image of Jupiter
New Scientist:
Distant dwarf planet near Pluto has a ring that no one expected
Daily Mail:
Failed Beagle 2 lander is finally found on the Isidis region of Mars after being 'excruciatingly close' to succeeding 14 years ago
October 11, 2017
The Guardian:
House-sized asteroid will pass by Earth at just above satellite altitude
Spaceflight Now:
Astronauts stage second spacewalk in five days
Spaceflight Insider:
Astronauts breeze through US EVA-45
Spaceflight Insider:
Long March 2D blasts off with VRSS-2 Earth-observing satellite
Spaceflight Now:
Russian Progress supply ship poised for swift trip to space station
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX to launch SES-11 satellite Wednesday
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Iridium payload released from Falcon 9 rocket in orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Falcon 9 rocket's predawn launch from California
New Atlas:
Step outside the ISS in first ever 360-degree spacewalk video
October 10, 2017
Christian Science Monitor:
Buzzworthy space rocks: Asteroid hunters prep for near miss
EarthSky:
Asteroid 2012 TC4 To Zip Past Earth This Week
Space News:
SpaceX launches third set of Iridium Next satellites
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX launch adds another 10 satellites to Iridium Next fleet
Universe Today:
New Clues Emerge for the Existence of Planet 9
Air & Space Magazine:
Planet 9 Might Be an Immigrant
Astrobiology Magazine:
The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner
October 9, 2017
Vice:
It's been 50 years since one of the most well-documented UFO incidents in Canadian history.
India Today:
Fireball inbound: Watch sky in China illuminate as huge meteor explodes
Newsweek:
Watch: Huge Celestial Fireball Appears in Night Sky as Superboldie Meteorite Explodes Over China
AccuWeather:
October asteroid flyby to boost NASA's detection, tracking capabilities
Spaceflight Now:
Spacewalk concludes with successful robot arm repair
Spaceflight Insider:
Spacewalkers replace 'hand' on space station robotic arm
Ars Technica:
After a month off, SpaceX returns with two launch attempts in three days
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX realigns next Falcon 9 missions
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX delays Falcon 9 launch of TV broadcast satellite
Spaceflight Now:
China resumes launch campaigns after string of failures, delays lunar mission
Daily Mail:
The moon once had an atmosphere: Study reveals ancient volcanic activity spewed gas above the surface where it lingered for 70 million years
New Atlas:
A day on Martian moon Phobos
Space News:
60 years after Sputnik, Russia is lost in space
Popular Science:
A man who's participated in 41 space missions remembers the Sputnik launch
WEEKEND EDITION: October 7, 2017 through October 8, 2017
New Atlas:
Do gravitational anomalies prove we're not living in a computer simulation?
Popular Mechanics:
Sorry, Scientists Didn't Prove We're Not Living in a Simulation
Phys.org:
Nothing matters: how the invention of zero helped create modern mathematics
Wired:
The Education of Brett the Robot
The Verge:
Honda's bipedal robot is designed for disaster relief
Penn Live:
Giant Food Stores tests Marty, a roving robot with googly eyes and a purpose
Daily Mail:
R2-D2-inspired home robot that beams movies, streams music and guards your property goes on sale for £1,500
BBC News:
Plate tectonics: When we discovered how the Earth really works
PBS:
Human activity can trigger earthquakes, but how many? This number might surprise you
Daily Mail:
The heart of Old Faithful revealed: Scientists map the pathways beneath the geyser
Daily Mail:
Last meal of a newborn ichthyosaur revealed: 200 million-year-old fossil shows the baby 'fish lizard' ate squid
Daily Mail:
The Melksham monster: Fossil found in Wiltshire is identified as fearsome 10ft-long pre-historic sea crocodile that roamed the seas 163 million years ago
The Guardian:
Smallest Ichthyosaurus ever found was squid-eating newborn, research reveals
Daily Mail:
Researchers capture 'astonishing' footage of elusive sand kittens in the wild for the first time
Daily Mail:
Watch clever raccoons solve Aesop's 'Crow and the Pitcher' puzzle to get floating marshmallows
Stuff NZ:
Homo sapiens are 150,000 years older than previously thought, study finds
Stuff NZ:
Roger Hanson: Exploring the history and genetics of Neanderthals and us
Daily Mail:
You could be more 'Neanderthal' than you thought: Modern Europeans have TWICE as much DNA from ancient cousins than first believed
The History Blog:
Lost temple of Artemis found on Greek island
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Rare Collection of Bronze Age Chinese Bells Tells a Story of Ancient Innovation
The Guardian:
Antikythera shipwreck yields bronze arm - and hints at spectacular haul of statues
The History Blog:
"Licking Dog" found in hoard of Roman bronze
Daily Mail:
Talk about striking gold! Two matching medieval rings discovered by an amateur treasure hunter in Dorset are expected to sell at auction for £30,000
BBC History Extra:
Europe's holy war: How the Reformation convulsed a continent
Popular Mechanics:
The Secret History of Steak Knives
Atlas Obscura:
The Scandalous Witch Hunt That Poisoned 17th-Century France
National Geographic:
Who Was the Real Man in the Iron Mask?
HistoryNet:
Washington Irving: A Tour on the Prairies
Retronaut:
c. 1857: William Grundy's English Views
Retronaut:
c. 1890-1910: Streets of Amsterdam
BBC History Extra:
Did conkers help win the First World War?
History.com:
The $10-Million Dollar Cache of WWI-Era Gold That's Sitting Off the Coast of Ireland
Atlas Obscura:
The Grim Crime-Scene Dollhouses Made by the 'Mother of Forensics'
BBC History Extra:
The May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis: Churchill's darkest hour?
HistoryNet:
In Plain Sight: The Pearl Harbor Spy
HistoryNet:
Hard Luck Island: The Battle of Wake
Retronaut:
September 1942: Sunday in Central Park
Smithsonian Magazine:
How the American Women Codebreakers of WWII Helped Win the War
HistoryNet:
Raoul Wallenberg's Quest to Save a Nation
BBC History Extra:
Britain in 1945: Life in the shadow of victory
Flashbak:
Belfast 1955: Gorgeous Photographs Of The City Of Ships
History.com:
'West Side Story' Was Originally About Jews and Catholics
The Atlantic:
Walden Wasn't Thoreau's Masterpiece
The Atlantic:
The Swamp Lover
October 6, 2017
Daily Mail:
Lockheed Martin hails 'hypersonic revolution' amid claims it has begun secret tests of Mach 6 SR-72 update to Blackbird spy plane
Daily Mail:
Autonomous two-seater 'Passenger Drone' that could revolutionise the daily commute completes its first manned flight
Daily Mail:
Revealed: The Soviet predecessor to Concorde which disappeared from the skies after numerous failures - including a crash that killed 14 people
New Scientist:
Rocket man: Willy Ley's fervour helped put men on the moon
Atlas Obscura:
The '60s Soviet Satellite That Crashed Into Wisconsin
Forbes:
Why Was Skylab In Use For Such A Short Period Of Time?
Daily Mail:
'The time is now': Lockheed Martin reveals plan for manned Mars base camp that will orbit the red planet in 2028 with landing shuttles to ferry crew members to the surface
October 5, 2017
Daily Mail:
The birth of the space era: Experts mark 60 years since Russia stunned the world with the launch of Sputnik
Scientific American:
Sputnik Moments: Trio of Spaceflight Events Shook U.S. in 1957
Popular Science:
60 years ago, Sputnik shocked the world and started the space race
New York Times:
'Look Up! Sputnik!' 60 Years Later
Washington Post:
On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviets shocked the world with a shiny metal ball: Sputnik
Air & Space Magazine:
60 Years Since Sputnik
BBC News:
Sputnik: How the Soviet Union spun the satellite launch
Moscow Times:
Classic MT: Space Race Started With a Cosmic Blunder
Popular Mechanics:
The Rocket That Launched Sputnik and Started the Space Race
Popular Mechanics:
How Sputnik Worked
Time:
'A Dazzling New Sight in the Heavens': Remembering Sputnik's First Days
Time:
Read TIME's Original Report on the Sputnik 1 Launch
Popular Mechanics:
How a Russian Scientist's Sci-Fi Genius Made Sputnik Possible
Motherboard:
How Dreams of Spacefaring Zombies Led to the Launch of Sputnik
October 4, 2017
Space.com:
Bus-Size Asteroid Zooms by Earth in Close (But Harmless) Encounter
c/net:
Asteroid zips by ahead of bigger one coming even closer
Daily Mail:
House-sized asteroid will come 'damn close' to Earth next week as it passes just 27,000 miles away
Inquisitr:
An Asteroid The Size Of A House Heading 'Damn Close' To Earth - NASA To Test Defense System
Popular Mechanics:
NASA Spacecraft to Investigate Strange Asteroid of Metal
New Scientist:
Methane burps on young Mars helped it keep its liquid water
New Scientist:
The mysterious bright spots on Ceres may have a common origin
Atlas Obscura:
The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Comet
Seeker:
Meteorite Strikes Greatly Influenced the Early Composition of Earth and Mars
Astrobiology Magazine:
Evidence suggests life on Earth started after meteorites splashed into warm little ponds
October 3, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Previously-flown Falcon 9 booster test-fired for weekend launch
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 to execute another space-lift mission for U.S. spy satellite agency
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: NROL-52 payload mounted atop Atlas 5 booster for Oct. 5 launch
Spaceflight Insider:
Pluto's bladed terrain is product of its complex geological history
Daily Mail:
A 'doomsday' solar storm could cause $20 TRILLION of damage in the next 150 years warn researchers who called for a 'planetary shield' to protect Earth
October 2, 2017
Regina Leader-Post:
The farmer who saw and the Mountie who believed: Sask.'s most famous UFO sighting
Spaceflight Insider:
China returns to flight with a secretive launch of three satellites
Space News:
Musk unveils revised version of giant interplanetary launch system
Spaceflight Insider:
Elon Musk hopes to make SpaceX's Falcon, Dragon fleet obsolete with Mars rocket
Space News:
Lockheed Martin adds lander to Mars Base Camp concept
Spaceflight Now:
Scientists celebrate 10th anniversary of Dawn mission's launch
Daily Mail:
Hubble spots K2 comet heading towards us from a record breaking 1.5 million miles away (but NASA says there is 'no chance' it will hit us)
WEEKEND EDITION: September 30, 2017 through October 1, 2017
Forbes:
What Is The Greatest Wrong Theory In Physics?
Inverse:
Einstein Might Be Completely Wrong About the Speed of Light
Forbes:
Is The Inflationary Universe A Scientific Theory? Not Anymore
Forbes:
These Scientific Theories Were Accepted Once, But Were Later Proven Wrong
New Scientist:
Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions
Science Magazine:
Watch this robot use nunchucks, after learning like a human student would
Popular Mechanics:
Disney's Six-Legged 'Snapbot' Is Slightly Horrifying
Daily Mail:
Is this how Earth formed? Our planet may have been created by the evaporation of molten ROCKS from tiny planets in the early solar system
Forbes:
Rarer Metals May Have Boiled Off Early Earth
Daily Mail:
Asteroid impacts 4 billion years ago transformed the Earth's crust and helped create its tectonic plates
Forbes:
Zealandia: Scientists Reveal Secrets From First Expedition To Lost Continent
Daily Mail:
Plate tectonics first started moving a billion years AFTER the creation of the Earth helping spark an explosion of life
Forbes:
Disappearance of Mediterranean Sea Seven Million Years Ago Triggered Widespread Volcanic Activity
Daily Mail:
A blast heard 1,200 miles away and 140billion tonnes of rock and ash: The horrifying history of the world's deadliest volcano (and how you can see its spectacular crater for yourself)
Daily Mail:
Another giant iceberg has broken free from Antarctica: Mass of ice FOUR TIMES the size of Manhattan separates from the Pine Island Glacier
Daily Mail:
The oldest life on Earth: Researchers find graphite made by mystery living organisms four billion years ago in Canadian rocks
Daily Mail:
The 60,000 year old fossilized cypress forest found 60 feet underwater off the Alabama coast
Science Magazine:
This 300-million-year-old marine reptile had scoliosis
Forbes:
Animals Used The Lost Continent Of Zealandia To Spread Across The Pacific Millions Of Years Ago
Astrobiology Magazine:
Dino-killing asteroid's impact on bird evolution
Daily Mail:
Arachnophobes look away now: Mysterious species of bright BLUE tarantula baffles scientists
Science Magazine:
Neandertals, like humans, may have had long childhoods
Daily Mail:
Remains of a 6,000-year-old dwelling built by some of Scotland's first farmers are unearthed in an Ayrshire field
The History Blog:
Unusual Bronze Age hoard found in Cumbria
Daily Mail:
Lost temple of Artemis is finally found in a Greek fishing village after archaeologists realised ancient directions used in their century-long search were WRONG
Daily Mail:
Lost city of Alexander the Great is found in Iraq using US spy footage of the area captured in the 1960s
The History Blog:
After many arduous labors, Hercules back in Turkey
Daily Mail:
Here boy! Metal detectorists find 1,700-year-old bronze statue of Roman dog with its tongue hanging out in first find of its kind in UK
BBC History Extra:
1066: Eight days that rocked England
The History Blog:
Golden altar of Sahl Church removed for study
The Guardian:
Lost Rubens portrait of James I's 'lover' is rediscovered in Glasgow
BBC History Extra:
Nelson's sensational mistress: How Emma Hamilton took Europe by storm
Forbes:
The Epidemiologist Who Killed Himself For Science
Daily Mail:
Six-inch high Fabergé flower worth £1m is the most expensive Antiques Roadshow item ever
Daily Mail:
Horror of the Blitz as never seen before: Stunning colourised pictures graphically recreate scenes of devastation in London
Atlas Obscura:
How Books Designed for Soldiers' Pockets Changed Publishing Forever
The Guardian:
Documents that Kim Philby passed to USSR on display for first time
History.com:
The Disastrous Backstory Behind the Invention of LEGO Bricks
Timeline:
When this Irish housewife was 'reincarnated' in Denver in 1956, America went crazy for her story
Timeline:
These radical photos show the original Berkeley free speech movement in its raucous early days
Flashbak:
Behind the Scenes With Janis Joplin and Big Brother and The Holding Company (1967)
Timeline:
When Arthur Ashe fought to play tennis in apartheid South Africa, he faced bitter criticism
Timeline:
In 1968, North Korea captured a U.S. war ship and tortured the 82 sailors on board
Daily Mail:
China re-launches 'the world's fastest bullet train' running at 217 mph six years after shocking railway crash killed 40 people
Popular Mechanics:
Terrifying Apocalyptic Message Interrupts Orange County TV Broadcast
Popular Mechanics:
10 Super-Specific Doomsday Predictions That Didn't Pan Out
Forbes:
The Four Ways The Earth Will Actually End
September 29, 2017
Daily Mail:
Radical single-stage 'aerospike' rocket that could revolutionise satellite launches is ready
New Atlas:
Hypersonic flight: Threat or opportunity?
Seeker:
This Airship Aims to Provide a Better View of the Big Bang's Relic Radiation
Daily Mail:
Dubai joins the race to become the first city with SELF-FLYING TAXIS: Two-seater 'Volocopter' completes its maiden test run
Daily Mail:
Is this fully working hover bike Putin's future battlefield weapon? Legendary Russian firearms manufacturers Kalashnikov unveil manned flying device
Popular Mechanics:
The Forgotten Drone of WWII
Popular Mechanics:
Why the DC-3 Is Such a Badass Plane
Spaceflight History:
A New Step in Spaceflight Evolution: To Mars by Flyby-Landing Excursion Mode (1966)
Spaceflight History:
NASA Glenn Research Center's 2001 Plan to Land Humans on Mars Three Years Ago
September 28, 2017
Space News:
Crewed Starliner test flight could slip to 2019
Daily Mail:
Crash site of Europe's first lunar satellite is found 11 YEARS after it plunged onto the moon's surface
Daily Mail:
NASA's Juno spacecraft captures stunning new look at Jupiter's turbulent clouds
New Atlas:
Pluto lander concept would hop hundreds of kilometers in a single bound
Daily Mail:
Scientists solve the mystery of the giant 'ice blades' on Pluto as high as a skyscraper
New Scientist:
Super-Earths draw asteroids to other worlds, which may seed life
September 27, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX sets target launch dates for back-to-back flights next month
Spaceflight Now:
NRO payload paired with Atlas 5 rocket for another national security launch
Daily Mail:
'Invisible' space radiation is one of the biggest challenges of a manned mission to Mars, NASA scientists say
Astrobiology Magazine:
Hope to discover sure signs of life on Mars? New research says look for the element vanadium
Daily Mail:
Is this what martian life will look like? Researchers say fossilised bacteria could reveal life once thrived on the red planet - and hope to use NASA's 2020 rover to find it
Science Alert:
An Asteroid Space Probe Just Captured a Gorgeous New Photo of Earth
September 26, 2017
NL Times:
Fireball spotted in skies above Netherlands
Daily Mail:
Rocket carrying a 'spy satellite' blasts off from California on a top-secret mission
Space News:
Long March 5 failure to postpone China's lunar exploration program
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX gears up for a busy autumn
Spaceflight Insider:
Gallery: Atlas V roars spaceward with secret NROL-42 payload
Seeker:
Cosmic Rays Originate Far Beyond the Milky Way
September 25, 2017
National Post:
'We saw something. Something came down': The Shag Harbour UFO sighting, 50 years later
Pensacola News Journal:
Moon: 30 years after Gulf Breeze UFO sightings, is the truth still out there?
Spaceflight Now:
Signals intelligence gatherer successfully launched by powerful Atlas 5 rocket
Spaceflight Now:
Replenishment satellite launched into Russia's Glonass navigation fleet
New Scientist:
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid
Spaceflight Now:
OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission receives gravitational boost from planet Earth
Seeker:
Hubble Just Spotted a Bizarre New Object in Our Solar System
New Scientist:
Our closest star system may be home to a stolen star and planet
WEEKEND EDITION: September 23, 2017 through September 24, 2017
New Scientist:
Gravity may be created by strange flashes in the quantum realm
Quanta Magazine:
Mathematicians Measure Infinities and Find They're Equal
IEEE Spectrum:
These Robots Can Merge and Split Their Brains to Form New Modular Bots
Gizmodo:
Knightscope's Family of Dystopian Robot Guards Just Grew by Two
Seeker:
Scientists Analyze Earth's Elemental Makeup to See How the Planet Was Formed
Daily Mail:
Changes in Earth's crust 2.4 BILLION years ago increased oxygen levels in the atmosphere and triggered an explosion of life
Scientific American:
Seismologists Stumped by Mystery Shock after North Korea Nuclear Test
Newsweek:
Mystery Shocks at North Korea's Sacred Volcano Trigger Eruption Fears After Nuclear Test
Daily Mail:
Britain set to lose its longest-lasting patch of snow this weekend as warm weather melts the entire Cairngorms for only the seventh time in 300 years
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the Dickinsonia fossil finally solved: Strange, segmented organism that lived 550 million years ago and baffled scientists WAS an animal
New Scientist:
Dinosaurs that seemed veggie also ate the odd bit of shellfish
Popular Science:
Giant ancient frogs might have snacked on baby dinosaurs
Daily Mail:
The blue dinosaur eggs that could change what we know about bird evolution
Daily Mail:
Scientists discover Octlantis, an underwater 'city' built entirely by octopuses where they flirt, mate and even have den evictions
Gizmodo:
Exquisite Skeleton of a Neanderthal Kid Offers Clues to Human Evolution
Inverse:
Italy's Supervolcano and the End of the Neanderthals
Daily Mail:
Ghostly graveyard of 60 perfectly preserved ancient shipwrecks is found by climate scientists at the bottom of the Black Sea
The History Blog:
Met acquires splendid gilded Egyptian coffin
Live Science:
Ancient Action Figures: Toy Swords Unearthed at Roman Fort
The History Blog:
Indian manuscript with zero symbol far older than realized
Daily Mail:
Tomb of 4th Century Mayan 'god-king' containing a stunning jade burial mask is found in Guatemala
Live Science:
Lost Language, Code or Hoax? Why the Voynich Manuscript Still Stumps Experts
Smithsonian Magazine:
Victoria and Abdul: The Friendship that Scandalized England
Air & Space Magazine:
A Celebration of U.S. WWII Pilots - in China
Timeline:
In 1956, the racist governor of Mississippi started a secretive commission to fight integration
Smithsonian Magazine:
The ABA Was Short-Lived, but Its Impact on Basketball Is Eternal
BBC News:
The German schoolboy jailed for writing to the BBC
Jalopnik:
America's Most Secret Spy Sub Returned To Base Flying A Pirate Flag
Live Science:
30 of the World's Most Valuable Treasures That Are Still Missing
BBC News:
A 30,000km road network from the Andes to the Amazon
BBC News:
What if dinosaurs hadn't died out?
September 22, 2017
Daily Mail:
US Army reveals video of 'Athena' laser weapon shooting down FIVE drones in most impressive test yet
Air & Space Magazine:
The First Drone Strike - in 1944
Air & Space Magazine:
Birth of the Bizjet
Air & Space Magazine:
Vietnam, the CIA, and the World's Fastest Aircraft
Air & Space Magazine:
"Go" for Restoration
Air & Space Magazine:
We Built the Saturn V
September 21, 2017
It's Nice That:
Inside the archives of the Ministry of Defence's UFO desk
c/net:
Three asteroids give Earth a close shave in a single week
Daily Mail:
Beware of SPACE HURRICANES: Astronomers warn small fluctuations in solar wind can cause huge storms that threaten Earth's satellites
Spaceflight Insider:
NROL-42 classified surveillance satellite set to launch
Space News:
SpaceX forces Air Force to revise launch mindset
Universe Today:
More Surface Ice on Mercury than Previously Thought, says New Study
Universe Today:
Venus Express Probe Reveals the Planet's Mysterious Night Side
Astrobiology Magazine:
More evidence of water on Mars
Universe Today:
New Study Says Primordial Asteroid Belt was Empty
Universe Today:
Dawn Probe Finds Evidence of Subsurface Ice on Vesta
Daily Mail:
Mysterious comet spotted a decade ago revealed to be two 'dancing asteroids' circling each other
Seeker:
Pitch Black Exoplanet That Reflects No Light Spotted by Hubble Telescope
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Back to Saturn? Five missions proposed to follow Cassini
September 20, 2017
The Good Men Project:
My Dad, the UFO Expert
Montgomery Advertiser:
Green fireball spotted over Montgomery, captured by doorbell camera
York Daily Review:
What was that ball in the sky?
ABC Australia:
Bright light likely space junk streaks across Central Australia night sky for more than a minute
Iceland Meteor:
Fireball meteor shoots across Iceland's night sky
Space News:
Engine test latest step for Stratolaunch's giant aircraft
Space News:
Lower launch costs, smaller payloads will help shape space warfighting, Goldfein says
Spaceflight Now:
ULA milestone launch for National Reconnaissance Office set for Thursday
Daily Mail:
When an asteroid strike sent temperatures on Earth soaring to 2,370°C: Researchers reveal the hottest temperatures ever recorded on the planet (but don't worry, it was 33 million years ago)
September 19, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese space station freighter concludes refueling demo mission
Spaceflight Now:
Dragon capsule splashes down in Pacific with space station cargo
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX CRS-12 mission comes to a close with Dragon's splashdown
Seeker:
First-Ever Map of Water on Moon Could Help Support Lunar Missions
Seeker:
Enhanced NASA Images Show Potential for Buried Ice Near the Martian Equator
Seeker:
Objects Destabilized by Jupiter or Saturn May Have First Brought Water to Earth
Spaceflight Insider:
Wakened from its latest hibernation, New Horizons may visit additional Kuiper Belt Objects
September 18, 2017
Washington Post:
The Cassini spacecraft crashed into Saturn, ending a successful 20-year mission
New York Times:
Cassini Vanishes Into Saturn, Its Mission Celebrated and Mourned
Knoxville News Sentinel:
Oak Ridge parts crash into Saturn with Cassini probe
KPCC:
Cassini's last picture - and 13 more stunning images from the spacecraft
Orange County Register:
Rest in peace Cassini, 1997-2017, explorer of Saturn and its many moons
Spaceflight Insider:
Cassini: The legend and legacy of one of NASA's most prolific missions
Popular Science:
Eulogy for Cassini
Forbes:
Cassini's Farewell Nearly Coincides With The Death Of Its Namesake
WEEKEND EDITION: September 16, 2017 through September 17, 2017
Daily Galaxy:
New Quantum Gravity Theory of the Big Bang --"We Need Another Picture of the Early Infant Universe"
Forbes:
Proof Of 'God Playing Dice With The Universe' Found In The Sun's Interior
Stuff NZ:
Scientists explore the hidden continent of Zealandia
Daily Mail:
Fossils from the first organisms on Earth capable of active movement could upend the timeline of animal evolution
Daily Mail:
Ancient amphibians had a mouthful of FANGS and thousands of tiny hook-like structures to ensnare prey, study finds
Daily Mail:
How dinosaurs evolved into BIRDS: Scientists reveal how incredible transition 100 million years ago saw profound changes to animals' skulls
Daily Mail:
Seahorse clinging to a cotton bud and a heartwarming bear hug feature in a stunning series of animal portraits for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition
Daily Mail:
52 million-year-old ankle fossil that suggests our ancestors were high-flying acrobats could rewrite the history of human evolution
Daily Mail:
Tomb of Pharoah's goldsmith who died 3,500 years ago is discovered in Luxor in ancient civil service cemetery
The History Blog:
One of largest Mycenaean tombs found in Greece
Daily Mail:
Archaeologists find an undisturbed Bronze Age tomb the size of a HOUSE in Greece that was the final resting place of a jewellery-obsessed nobleman
Daily Mail:
The origin of zero: First evidence of the symbol is discovered in the Indian Bakhshali manuscript dating back to the 3rd century
The History Blog:
17th c. royal flagship unearthed in central Stockholm
Atlas Obscura:
Oscar Dunn, America's Forgotten First Black Lieutenant Governor
History.com:
Meet Stagecoach Mary, the Daring Black Pioneer Who Protected Wild West Stagecoaches
BBC History Extra:
The Battle of Britain: a brilliant triumph that involved far more than just the chosen few
History.com:
Escape From Corregidor: The Story of Edgar Whitcomb
Smithsonian Magazine:
At an Army Base in Kansas, There's a Secret Collection of Incredible Finds
September 15, 2017
Daily Mail:
Cassini's last look at Saturn: Doomed spacecraft begins sending in its final photos after 20 years in space, just hours before it plummets into the planet's atmosphere
Daily Mail:
How NOT to land a rocket: Elon Musk releases a hilarious 'blooper reel' of SpaceX's failed attempts
The Aviationist:
Mysterious Crash Of A USAF Classified Jet Near Nellis AFB Fuels Speculations Of F-35 Involved
The Aviationist:
No, it wasn't an F-35. So, What Did Crash Near Nellis? Here Are Some Theories.
HistoryNet:
The Last Flight of Hobo 28
Air & Space Magazine:
Keeper of the Blackbirds
Dayton Daily News:
Stealth bombers, UFO rumors, test pilots among Wright Patterson's past 100 years
September 14, 2017
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on final approach for fatal rendezvous with Saturn
Inverse:
Cassini Will Plunge Into Saturn and Die for Three Hours on Friday
Popular Science:
A timeline of Cassini's plunge of fiery doom on Friday
PBS News Hour:
Analysis: Why NASA's Cassini probe must be destroyed
New Scientist:
Slingshot around Titan is the beginning of the end for Cassini
Astrobiology Magazine:
Cassini Makes its 'Goodbye Kiss' Flyby of Titan
Seeker:
Peculiar Waves in Saturn's Rings Spotted by NASA's Cassini Probe
New Scientist:
Cassini's 10 best pictures from its 13-year voyage around Saturn
Los Angeles Times:
'OK. Let's do it!' An oral history of how NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn came to be
NBC News:
Scientists Bereft Over End of Cassini's Extraordinary Mission
Los Angeles Times:
Epic storms, new moons and worlds that might host life: Here are Cassini's greatest discoveries
Popular Mechanics:
Farewell to the Greatest Space Mission of Our Time
Astrobiology Magazine:
After Cassini: Pondering the Saturn Mission's Legacy
National Geographic:
How to Watch Cassini's Grand Finale at Saturn
TV Insider:
Science Channel to Go Live for Cassini Spacecraft's Final Moments
September 13, 2017
Spaceflight Insider:
Next International Space Station crew launches atop Soyuz rocket
CBS News:
Soyuz launches with space station crew looking forward to expanded research
NASA Spaceflight:
Soyuz MS-06 arrives with three more crewmembers for the ISS
Daily Mail:
Biggest rocket in Britain launches from Northumberland ahead of taking tourists to the edge of space 'in a couple of years'
Space News:
Virgin Orbit still expects to fly twice a month in 2020 despite delayed test campaign
Spaceflight Insider:
Russia sees Vostochny Cosmodrome as deep space exploration hub
New Scientist:
The Farthest: How the Voyager story keeps on giving
New Scientist:
Our sun probably didn't steal Planet Nine from outer space
Daily Mail:
Mystery of Planet 9 deepens: 'Rogue' world may have been EXILED to the edges of our solar system by the sun billions of years ago
September 12, 2017
Hillsdale Collegian:
Hillsdale should commemorate 1966 UFO sighting in Arb
BBC News:
The great saucer invasion: The day six 'spaceships' landed in England
Stuff NZ:
Meteor over Australia sparked panic about a tsunami in Queensland
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz rocket rolled out for next station crew launch
Space News:
Virgin Galactic nearing powered SpaceShipTwo test flights
Popular Science:
What finding boron on Mars actually means in the hunt for alien life
Space News:
New Horizons planning additional extended missions
Seeker:
We Found the Largest Void in the Universe, And We're Smack in the Middle
Seeker:
Fossilized Cosmic Dust Found in the Iconic White Cliffs of Dover
September 11, 2017
Daily Mail:
SpaceX launches Air Force's super-secret X-37B mini shuttle on its fifth mission (and we still don't know what it's for)
Space News:
SpaceX launches X-37B ahead of Hurricane Irma
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX beats hurricane with smooth launch of military's X-37B spaceplane
Seeker:
Jupiter's powerful aurora is surprisingly different from Earth's
Astrobiology Magazine:
Could TRAPPIST-1's seven Earth-like planets have gas giant siblings?
WEEKEND EDITION: September 9, 2017 through September 10, 2017
Wired:
Physicists Want to Rebuild Quantum Theory From Scratch
Quanta Magazine:
To Solve the Biggest Mystery in Physics, Join Two Kinds of Law
TV OverMind:
An Amazing Story about a Futurama Writer's Applied Math Skills
Digital Trends:
Cornell engineers show why a robotic third arm is the ultimate productivity hack
Engadget:
MIT's latest robot politely weaves through crowds
Denver Post:
PHOTOS: World Robot Conference in China
Quanta Magazine:
Jason Morgan Recalls Discovering Earth's Tectonic Plates
IFL Science:
Baby Tectonic Plate Discovered Hiding In The Ring Of Fire
CNN:
What is the Ring of Fire?
History.com:
The Deadliest Earthquake Ever Recorded
Daily Mail:
Ancient volcanic eruptions in Antarctica sparked rapid climate change in the southern hemisphere 17,700 years ago
Wired:
Hurricane Irma: A Practically Impossible Storm
National Geographic:
This Map Shows How an Overheated Ocean Made Irma a Monster
Live Science:
See the World's Driest Desert Covered in Wildflowers
Atlas Obscura:
The Delicate Art of Illustrating Ancient Sharks
The History Blog:
Record-breaking Triceratops fossil found in Denver
Ars Technica:
Neanderthals were distilling tar 200 thousand years ago in Europe
Science Magazine:
Neandertals and early modern humans probably didn't meet at rumored rendezvous site
Daily Mail:
The face of a mystery ruler revealed: Smashed head from a 4,300-year-old statue shows unknown Egyptian pharaoh
The History Blog:
Oldest known gospel commentary in Latin now in English
The History Blog:
Stone latrine found in Byzantine basilica in Egypt
The History Blog:
16th c. local nautical map from colonial Mexico is satellite accurate
Atlas Obscura:
How a 17th-Century Naval Engineer Revolutionized Set Design
The History Blog:
Casanova seduces at the Kimbell
HistoryNet:
How Napoleon Lost Paris
HistoryNet:
Evolution of a Mountain Man: Ceran St. Vrain
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Unlikely Medical History of Chocolate Syrup
HistoryNet:
Juan Soto: The Human Wildcat
HistoryNet:
Queen's Ransom
National Geographic:
The True Story of the Most Intense Hurricane You've Never Heard Of
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Titan Who Founded L'Oreal Built His Brand on the Shoulders of Nazis
HistoryNet:
Miracle Men of Midway
HistoryNet:
Over the Hump
HistoryNet:
Breaking the Gustav Line
HistoryNet:
Phantom of the Deep: Germany's Underwater Wonder Weapon
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Youngest of the Little Rock Nine Speaks About Holding Onto History
Flashbak:
The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records
HistoryNet:
Nixon's S.O.B.
New Atlas:
World's tallest sandcastle reaches for the sky in Germany
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Hide and Seek World Championship Will Take Over an Italian Ghost Town
September 8, 2017
Daily Mail:
Is this fur real? Cats and pigeons float upside down inside 'vomit comet' reduced gravity plane in surreal 1940s U.S. Air Force experiment
HistoryNet:
Solving the Problem of 'Fog Flying'
HistoryNet:
The Timeless Boeing 75
HistoryNet:
The War of Electricity
HistoryNet:
The Last Gunfighter: F-8 Crusader
Flashbak:
Testing Ejector Seats In The 1950s
Atlas Obscura:
Did 3 NASA Astronauts Really Hold a 'Space Strike' in 1973?
Popular Science:
How we'll nap our way to Mars
September 7, 2017
Seeker:
The Sun Just Released the Most Powerful Solar Flare in More Than a Decade
New Scientist:
The sun just belched out the strongest solar flare in 12 years
CBC:
RCMP receive dozens of calls from Alberta to B.C. about reported fireball in sky
Globe and Mail:
Witnesses stunned by 'insane' meteor over British Columbia and Alberta
KRTV:
"Fireball" lights up the sky over parts of Montana (video)
Couer d'Alene/Post Falls Press:
Fireball over North Idaho
Spaceflight Insider:
As Hurricane Irma looms, X-37B poised for first flight atop SpaceX Falcon 9
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX readies rocket to launch military spaceplane into orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Military mini-shuttle transferred to SpaceX launch pad
Business Insider:
NASA is about to destroy a $3.26 billion spacecraft by flying it into Saturn - here's a breakdown of what will happen
New Atlas:
What to expect in Cassini's final week
Air & Space Magazine:
Cassini's Last Moments, in Gory Detail
Bloomberg:
Cassini's Last Photos Will Be Spectacular
September 6, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 rocket fired up for launch of military mini-shuttle
Daily Mail:
SpaceX completes tests of the first stage cores of the world's most powerful rocket that could take humans to the moon and Mars
Space News:
Additional cubesats on July 14 Soyuz flight are unresponsive
Astrobiology Magazine:
Equatorial jet in Venusian atmosphere discovered by Akatsuki
Seeker:
NASA's Next Mission to Mars Will Probe the Red Planet's Deep Interior in 2018
New Scientist:
Some of Uranus's small moons are doomed to collide
The Guardian:
Four of seven Earth-sized exoplanets may have large quantities of water
September 5, 2017
Daily Mail:
Three mile wide asteroid that skimmed past Earth on Friday has TWO moons that could each measure 1,000 feet across
New Scientist:
Asteroid Florence buzzes Earth in closest fly-by since 1890
Seeker:
Massive Asteroid 'Florence' Flies Past Earth at Record-Breaking Nearness
Spaceflight Insider:
Space station trio returns to Earth in Soyuz MS-04
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz brings Whitson home after record-setting mission
Spaceflight Insider:
Gallery: Soyuz MS-04 crew back on Earth
Spaceflight Insider:
Indian navigation satellite launch suffers failure
Spaceflight Now:
Indian navigation satellite stranded on rocket after launch
Ars Technica:
With Indian rocket launch failure, 2017 seeing a higher accident rate
Ars Technica:
It looks like yet another satellite is breaking apart at GEO
Inverse:
The 7 Stages of SpaceX Falcon Heavy Mission Shown - Breathtaking Video
LABOR DAY WEEKEND EDITION:
September 2, 2017 through September 4, 2017
Forbes:
Does The Universe Have Physical Boundaries?
Forbes:
What Does The Expansion Of The Universe Tell Us About The Future?
Business Insider:
A robot that will replace your smartphone is already in the works
Wired:
Want a Robot to Walk Like You? Don't Expect It to Look Human
Science Daily:
Ancient Earth's hot interior created 'graveyard' of continental slabs
Science News:
Seismologists get to the bottom of how deep Earth's continents go
Forbes:
Here Are The Odds Of You Seeing A Supervolcano Erupt In Your Lifetime
Smithsonian Magazine:
See the Most Northerly Sand Dunes in the World
Astrobiology Magazine:
As Oceans Alkalized, Life Developed Bones and Shells
Daily Mail:
Did life on Earth begin because our planet was once a giant snowball? That's what a new scientific study says - and the evidence is compelling
San Francisco Chronicle:
Largest-ever 'sea dragon' fossil sat undiscovered in museum for 20 years
Ars Technica:
Ancient fish skulls shake up the vertebrate evolutionary tree
New Atlas:
Largest known Ichthyosaurus fossil identified - and it's pregnant
Daily Mail:
132 million-year-old fossil of a German 'sea beast' that resembled the Loch Ness monster is identified as a new species
Live Science:
Truck- and Plane-Size Pterosaurs Once Flew Over Dinosaurs
Daily Mail:
Rare 66-million-year-old Triceratops skull and skeleton found by construction workers building a new police and fire station in Colorado
Daily Mail:
Volcanic eruptions may have driven a major global warming event 56 million years ago that triggered the evolution of primates
ABC Australia:
Ancient whales were fearsome predators with razor-sharp teeth, fossil analysis shows
Daily Mail:
Herds of mammoths roamed far further across America than thought: Researchers find the animals travelled hundreds of miles across Texas to graze
The History Blog:
Misunderstood dodo gets its due
The History Blog:
Neolithic homes, 19th c. whale skeletons found on Orkney
The History Blog:
Cuneiform tablet is oldest (& newest) trigonometric table
Daily Mail:
Underwater ruins of the Roman city of Neapolis are found off the coast of Tunisia in a 'major discovery' that confirms a TSUNAMI hit the region 1,600 years ago
Ars Technica:
Plumbing discovery reveals the rise and fall of the Roman Empire
BBC History Extra:
10 things you (probably) didn't know about the Anglo-Saxons
The History Blog:
Tomb of China's Shakespeare found
BBC History Extra:
Oliver Cromwell: the secret of his military genius
BBC History Extra:
10 things you (probably) didn't know about the Great Fire of London
Daily Mail:
Was La Perouse killed by islanders? Clue in an Indian newspaper sheds new light on the fate of the French explorer who vanished in the Pacific in 1788 with 225 crew
BBC History Extra:
Ada Lovelace: a visionary of computing
Smithsonian Magazine:
Striking Union Workers Turned the First Labor Day into a Networking Event
The History Blog:
Museum acquires rare sufragette banner found in Leeds charity shop
BBC History Extra:
Did a British agent murder Rasputin?
Atlas Obscura:
The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books
BBC History Extra:
Britain's island weapon: Malta in the Second World War
History.com:
The Story Behind the Famous Little Rock Nine 'Scream Image'
San Francisco Chronicle:
Origin stories of iconic '60s and '70s Bay Area rock bands: From Santana to the Grateful Dead
Atlas Obscura:
Photos of the Peruvian Festival That Creates a New 118-Foot Bridge Every Year
Los Angeles Times:
A guide to every movie being released this fall
September 1, 2017
The Aviationist:
Airshow Insider: Behind The Scenes with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.
TechCrunch:
New drone perches on walls like a robotic bird
Engadget:
Drones will watch Australian beaches for sharks with AI help
Forbes:
Amazon's Drones May Collect Valuable Data On Their Fly-Overs
HistoryNet:
Nonstop to Hawaii By Air and Sea
HistoryNet:
The Lindberghs' Forgotten Flight to the Orient
HistoryNet:
Yankee Doodle Goes to Town
HistoryNet:
The Luftwaffe's Secret Squadrons
Daily Mail:
The original 'rocket man': Footage from 1961 shows the incredible moment a pilot takes flight in the world's first jet pack
Spaceflight History:
Relighting the FIRE: A 1966 Proposal for Piloted Interplanetary Mission Reentry Tests
Spaceflight History:
Prelude to Mars Sample Return: The Mars 1984 Mission (1977)
Futurism:
Here Is the Future of Interstellar Spacecraft
August 31, 2017
Spaceflight Insider:
Nearly 3-mile wide asteroid to pass close by Earth Sept. 1
Sky & Telescope:
Asteroid Florence Pays Earth a Visit
EarthSky:
Exploring the triggers of cosmic disaster
Space News:
Dream Chaser completes captive carry test flight
Spaceflight Now:
Dream Chaser completes aerial captive carry test flight
Daily Mail:
Fears over deep space travel as Cosmonaut study reveals the human immune system 'doesn't know what to do' on long missions
Seeker:
Tunnels on Mars Might Protect Astronauts From Dangerous Levels of Radiation
Seeker:
NASA Photo Shows Saturn's Icy Moon Tethys Orbiting Above the Planet's Rings
New Scientist:
We've just seen 15 new mysterious cosmic radio bursts from space
Aubust 30, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
NASA data relay craft successfully blossoms in space
Universe Today:
NASA Says James Webb Telescope will Study Solar System's "Ocean Worlds"
Astrobiology Magazine:
A Clockwork Rover for Venus
Spaceflight Now:
NASA studies mission to return samples from Mars by end of 2020s
New Atlas:
Dragonfly is the quadcopter proposed to explore Saturn's moon Titan
Popular Science:
Uranus is probably full of giant diamonds
Aubust 29, 2017
Space News:
Minotaur launches amid rekindled debate over surplus ICBM motors
Universe Today:
Cold-War Era Derived ICBM Blasts Military ORS-5 Surveillance and Space Junk Tracking Satellite to Orbit: Gallery
Daily Mail:
The rover that could reveal the secrets INSIDE the red planet: NASA shows off InSight craft set to launch next year and drill into the planet's surface
Seeker:
NASA's Next Mission to Mars Will Probe the Red Planet's Deep Interior in 2018
Space News:
NASA proposes rapid Mars sample return architecture
Scientific American:
Martian Weather Kicks into High Gear at Night
Scientific American:
Cassini's "Grand Finale" Could Solve Saturn's Lingering Mysteries
August 28, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
NASA flight controllers shelter in place during storm
Spaceflight Now:
U.S. military sleuth launched to track satellite and space debris movements
Spaceflight Insider:
Orbital ATK launches ORS-5 space surveillance satellite atop Minotaur IV
Daily Mail:
SpaceX makes it a dozen! Historic launch and landing is Elon Musk's 12th of the year
Ars Technica:
SpaceX makes it a dozen launches in 2017, passes Russia
Space News:
SpaceX notches 15th landing after launching overdue Formosat-5
Forbes:
The Next North American Total Solar Eclipse Will Cross Mexico, The US And Canada In Just 7 Years
WEEKEND EDITION: August 26, 2017 through August 27, 2017
Slate:
The Physics of Rick and Morty
Tech Radar:
A history of time travel: the how, the why and the when of turning back the clock
Scientific American:
Rumors Swell Over New Kind of Gravitational-Wave Sighting
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Romance of Fermat's Last Theorem
Daily Mail:
The climbing graffiti robot that can scale buildings to create giant murals
New Atlas:
Do the Robot: 1,000 bots boogie into the record books
IEEE Spectrum:
Blossom: A Handmade Approach to Social Robotics from Cornell and Google
The Atlantic:
A Thorny Debate in Plate Tectonics May Finally Be Resolved
Forbes:
Lake Catalina Is On The Verge Of Releasing Up To 9 Billion Gallons Of Water
BBC News:
Would a supervolcano eruption wipe us out?
Forbes:
Here's How North Korea Could Accidentally Trigger A Volcanic Supereruption
International Business Times:
Paleontologists Find Rare African Dinosaur, New Titanosaur Species
Nature:
Dinosaur trio roosted together like birds
The Atlantic:
A Prehistoric Toothless Dolphin That Ate by Vacuuming Up Squid
Daily Mail:
Secret life of a dodo revealed: Fossil study of the extinct bird suggests it transformed colour with the seasons and grew rapidly in its early years
National Geographic:
Mysterious Amazon Animal Seen Alive for First Time in 80 Years
Science Magazine:
Early human gut bacteria may have cycled with the season
National Geographic:
Ice Age Predators Found Alongside Oldest Human in Americas
Daily Mail:
Stone tools discovered in Vietnam reveal site of a 'major' ancient trade network that operated for 1,500 years across HUNDREDS of miles
Daily Mail:
Inscriptions found in a 3,700-year old clay tablet prove Babylonians beat the Greeks in mastering trigonometry by at least 1,000 years
The Guardian:
Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study
Daily Mail:
Rare 1,500-year-old Christian mosaic is uncovered in the ruins of an ancient hostel for pilgrims in Jerusalem's Old City
The History Blog:
Five centuries of history unearthed in Roman villa
The History Blog:
Ancient child sarcophagi found at Rome's Olympic Stadium
The History Blog:
6th c. mosaic inscription found near Damascus Gate
BBC History Extra:
The brutal brilliance of Genghis Khan
BBC History Extra:
Did Anne Boleyn crave the crown?
History.com:
The Mysterious Epidemic That Terrified Henry VIII
HistoryNet:
The Glory of the Sun King
HistoryNet:
Tracks of a Traitor
History.com:
The Largest Attempted Slave Escape in American History
Smithsonian Magazine:
After the Civil War, African-American Veterans Created a Home of Their Own: Unionville
Smithsonian Magazine:
This 19th Century Lady Doctor Helped Usher Indian Women Into Medicine
HistoryNet:
Frank Hamer's Del Rio Debut
Gizmodo:
How WWI food propaganda forever changed the way Americans eat
HistoryNet:
Fear Itself: The General Who Panicked the West Coast
Smithsonian Magazine:
Go Behind the Glass of Churchill's Underground War Rooms
HistoryNet:
A Grave Task: The Wartime Job Nobody Wanted
HistoryNet:
Luftwaffe's Last Blow: Operation Bodenplatte
New Atlas:
Robot sub finds USS Indianapolis 72 years after sinking
WRTV:
USS Indianapolis: From 'Lucky Indy' to one of the worst naval disasters in history
HistoryNet:
Imprisoned at Ground Zero: American POWs in Hiroshima
HistoryNet:
On the Bus a Decade Before Rosa Parks
Timeline:
Photos of American Nazis driving a 'hate bus' through the Deep South, following Freedom Riders
BBC News:
The monster atomic bomb that was too big to use
History.com:
The Great Subway Race of 1967
Ars Technica:
America's biggest board game convention: Gen Con in pictures
New Atlas:
Pictorial: Monterey Car Week & Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2017
August 25, 2017
Daily Mail:
The return of the shuttle: The radical 'Dream Chaser' spaceplane that will soon take cargo (and tourists) into orbit
Daily Mail:
Look out for flying pizzas in Reykjavik! World's first drone delivery service launches in Iceland's capital
Air & Space Magazine:
Super Helmet
Smithsonian Magazine:
Flying to the North Pole in an Airship Was Easy. Returning Wouldn't Be So Easy
Air & Space Magazine:
The First Airliner to Vanish
Air & Space Magazine:
The "Hit and Git" Fighter
ABC Australia:
From the edge of the Solar System, Voyager probes are still talking to Australia after 40 years
Ars Technica:
A gallery of Voyager's greatest hits - and they are truly great
August 24, 2017
Billings Gazette:
Nick Mariana UFO Footage - 1950 - Great Falls, Montana
Air & Space Magazine:
The Great Soviet Crescent In the Sky
Popular Science:
The Secret Soviet Space Weapon Mistaken for a UFO
Krugersdorp News:
Watch: Another meteor clearly visible in the night sky over Krugersdorp
Daily Mail:
Orion powers up: NASA switches on the capsule that will blast past the moon in historic 2019 mission
Seeker:
Elon Musk Just Revealed SpaceX Spacesuit Design After Years of Promises
Daily Mail:
Elon Musk unveils the first image of his futuristic space suit that could be worn by NASA astronauts next year
Astrobiology Magazine:
Best ever image of a star's surface and atmosphere
New Scientist:
'Alien megastructure' star may host Saturn-like exoplanet
August 23, 2017
Daily Mail:
A THREE MILE wide asteroid is set to graze past Earth on Sept. 1 - and NASA says it's the largest to come this close since they began keeping track
Forbes:
Largest Asteroid Ever Tracked To Pass By Earth Just 11 Days After Solar Eclipse
Daily Mail:
The US Air Force is preparing to launch a X-37B mini robotic space plane on the Falcon 9 rocket in September - but its mission remains a mystery
Spaceflight Now:
Assembly complete for Minotaur launcher at Cape Canaveral
Spaceflight Now:
Pioneering ESA mission aims to create artificial solar eclipses
Daily Mail:
NASA reveals plan to make oxygen on Mars in 2020 rover mission that could pave the way for human missions to the red planet
New Scientist:
It could be snowing on Mars right now
Forbes:
Why The First Lunar Base Should Be On A Nearside Highland
August 22, 2017
Washington Post:
Tales from the path of totality: 62 years ago today, they say, 'little green men' invaded this Kentucky farm town
Daily Mail:
The eclipse from SPACE: NASA reveals stunning satellite images of America's historic eclipse
Spaceflight Insider:
Spacewalk goes into overtime as cosmonauts deploy satellites, collect science
Daily Mail:
Russian cosmonauts release the world's first 3D printed satellite during spacewalk on the ISS
Spaceflight Insider:
Proton-M launches military satellite into orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 rocket test-fired for California launch next week
Forbes:
NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Making Another Deep-Dip Into Mars' Atmosphere
Astrobiology Magazine:
Astrophysicists predict Earth-like planet in star system only 16 light years away
Forbes:
Will Scientists Ever Discover Life Without A Home Planet?
August 21, 2017
Seeker:
The First Total Eclipse in Nearly a Century Will Sweep Across the US on Monday
New Scientist:
Great American Eclipse: Everything you need to know to get ready
Forbes:
10 Things You Didn't Know About The Great American Eclipse
New Scientist:
Solar eclipse will reveal the roiling fog of plasma we call home
Daily Mail:
Solar eclipse to be live-streamed from BALLOONS soaring 80,000 feet above Earth's surface
Time:
See the Path of the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse As It Moves Across the U.S.
WEEKEND EDITION: August 19, 2017 through August 20, 2017
Forbes:
Think Multiverses Aren't Real? These Theories May Change Your Mind
Gizmodo:
The Only Job Humanoid Robots Are Good at Is Making Hilarious GIFs
Daily Mail:
Scientists uncover Earth's largest volcanic region two kilometres below Antarctic ice sheet
Daily Mail:
Mount Etna's VERY little brother: Italy's tiniest VOLCANO is a four foot high 'flaming fountain'
Science Magazine:
Record-shattering 2.7-million-year-old ice core reveals start of the ice ages
Daily Mail:
How animals appeared on Earth: Analysis of Australian rock reveals that a flood of nutrients 650 MILLION years ago led to a growth of algae that fed the first creatures on our planet
ABC Australia:
275-million-year-old starfish-like fossils unearthed in remote inland Western Australia
Stuff NZ:
This odd-looking creature may be the 'missing link' in dinosaur evolution
Stuff NZ:
Neutron beams, x-rays reveal more about T. rex relative
Gizmodo:
Ancient Carnivorous Dread-Possum Is Upending the History of Mammals
Forbes:
Early Humans May Have Lived Through A Supervolcano Eruption
BBC History Extra:
How Hannibal beat the Alps but couldn't beat Rome
The History Blog:
Silver in coins tracks Rome's rise to power
Daily Mail:
Egyptian archaeologists unearth 2,000-year-old 'great cemetery' containing sarcophagi of men, women and children
Daily Mail:
Unravelling the mystery of one of Sicily's oldest villas: 3D-scanning reveals the layout of a 2,000-year-old mansion for the first time since it was discovered in 1907
Daily Mail:
Mosaic workshop uncovered in the 'Pompeii of the East' reveals a snapshot of life in the city before it was demolished by an earthquake 1,200 years ago
Science Magazine:
Thousand-year-old Viking fortress reveals a technologically advanced society
Smithsonian Magazine:
This New Mexico Petroglyph Might Reveal an Ancient Solar Eclipse
Daily Mail:
Inside the birthplace of King Henry VIII and Elizabeth I: Two lost Tudor palace rooms are uncovered in Greenwich in a 'remarkable find'
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Bizarre Story of 'Vasa,' the Ship That Keeps On Giving
Smithsonian Magazine:
The "Quaker Comet" Was the Greatest Abolitionist You've Never Heard Of
BBC History Extra:
Benjamin Franklin: from British patriot to American hero
Smithsonian Magazine:
Newly Uncovered Documents Address the Mystery of One Slave's Life
Smithsonian Magazine:
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Disassembled Childhood Home Is for Sale... on eBay
The History Blog:
Oldest surviving original picture of US President found
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Wealthy Activist Who Helped Turn "Bleeding Kansas"
History.com:
Why Lincoln Wanted an Italian Freedom Fighter to Lead His Army
Atlas Obscura:
How 7 Sisters Made a Fortune off Their Rapunzel-Like Hair
History.com:
How America's Most Powerful Men Caused America's Deadliest Flood
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Surprisingly Important Role China Played in WWI
Smithsonian Magazine:
Fifty Years Later, Remembering Sci-Fi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Newly Excavated Underground Tunnel Reveals How 83 German Officers Escaped a World War II Prison Camp
Timeline:
This (un)lucky man was in the nuclear blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki-and survived both
Flashbak:
The US Army's Official 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Homosexual Policy Comic Book (2001)
Flashbak:
Charles Dellschau: The Visionary Artist Found In A Dumpster
August 18, 2017
Daily Mail:
Incredible moment real-life IRON MAN leaps from a hot air balloon and soars through the skies at 86mph after strapping JET ENGINES to his boots
Daily Mail:
Microsoft tests motorless AI 'sailplane' that seeks out invisible heat like a bird to fly over long distances - and it could one day stay in the air forever
Daily Mail:
Russia unveils new fleet of 'invisible' supersonic fighter jets - and boasts that they will be the envy of air forces around the world
Air & Space Magazine:
Birth of the Cobra
The History Blog:
Cache of WWII Mosquito plans found days before destruction
Forbes:
This Is The 3 Billionth Total Solar Eclipse, Here's Why This One Is Special
New Atlas:
Voyager 40th anniversary: Tracing an epic journey of discovery
Forbes:
Voyager's 'Cosmic Map' Of Earth's Location Is Hopelessly Wrong
August 17, 2017
Daily Mail:
SpaceX Dragon cargo ship toting an 'extra-large science load' arrives to the space station
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX's CRS-12 Dragon capsule arrives at space station
Spaceflight Now:
NASA science-enabling relay satellite poised for launch atop Atlas 5 rocket
Scientific American:
NASA Debates How to Retrieve Rocks from Mars
New Scientist:
Ice at Mars's equator hints the planet was once much more tilted
Astrobiology Magazine:
Tidally locked exoplanets may be more common than previously thought
Universe Today:
The Most Distant Galaxy Observed to Date Provides Insight into the Early Universe
Live Science:
Ancient Greeks Built an Eclipse-Predicting 'Computer' 2,000 Years Ago
August 16, 2017
The Gaurdian:
Close encounter: asteroid the size of a house set for near miss with Earth
Daily Mail:
What would happen if 100ft asteroid due to skim just 4,200 miles past Earth in October were to actually hit?
Forbes:
The Comet That Created The Perseids Might Bring An End To Humanity
Daily Mail:
Russia's controversial 'artificial star' satellite FAILS to deploy in orbit after claims it would be the 'brightest object in the night sky after the moon'
August 15, 2017
Daily Mail:
SpaceX launches a supercomputer to the ISS along with over 6,000 pounds of science research (plus ice cream and candy for the astronauts)
Space News:
Falcon 9 launches Dragon with heavy science payload
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX's CRS-12 mission sends experiments, crew supplies to space station
Astrobiology Magazine:
Preserving the Stress of Volcanic Uprise on Mars
Seeker:
Cassini Mission to Saturn Reveals Where Life Might Be Possible on Its Moons
Seeker:
The Largest Space Telescope Ever Could Study an Earth-Like Exoplanet Next Door
August 14, 2017
Astrobiology Magazine:
Cassini to Begin Final Five Orbits Around Saturn
Space News:
SpaceX delays Falcon 9 launch
Universe Today:
NASA Reignites Program for Nuclear Thermal Rockets
New Scientist:
Tethered satellites could see the moon's weird swirls up close
Spaceflight Insider:
TRAPPIST-1 could be twice the age of the Solar System
WEEKEND EDITION: August 12, 2017 through August 13, 2017
Forbes:
How A Solar Eclipse First Proved Einstein Right
New Atlas:
Does quantum tunneling take time or is it instantaneous?
Forbes:
Ripples In Spacetime: From Einstein To LIGO And Beyond
Forbes:
$309 Million Emerald Weighing Nearly 800 Pounds Was Just Found in Brazil
Daily Mail:
Oops! Embarrassing moment Boston Dynamic's 6 foot tall ATLAS humanoid robot falls off stage during a talk to show how much it has improved
Daily Mail:
Trillion ton iceberg the size of Delaware is revealed in striking new detail as it drifts from the Larsen C ice shelf
Science Magazine:
Trees in the Amazon make their own rain
Daily Mail:
Mammal ancestors discovered the secret of gliding 160 million years ago: Jurassic fossils reveal creatures used wing-like flaps of skin between their limbs to soar between the trees
Science Magazine:
Meet the mammals that soared through Jurassic skies
National Geographic:
The Making of a Most Extraordinary Fossil
Daily Mail:
The biggest dinosaur in history: Archaeologists reveal 122ft long PATAGOTITAN would have weighed the same as a Boeing 737 (and it wasn't even fully grown)
Daily Mail:
New species of grass snake discovered in the UK grows to more than a metre long and sports dark bands along its spine
Daily Mail:
Remarkably well-preserved 13 million-year-old infant skull of a new species of primate sheds new light on the African origins of humans and apes
Science Magazine:
Ancient infant ape skull sheds light on the ancestor of all humans and living apes
Science Magazine:
Modern humans were in Southeast Asia 20,000 years earlier than thought, ancient teeth reveal
Daily Mail:
Woolly mammoths slaughtered by prehistoric humans are found piled on top of 120 million-year-old dinosaur remains in a huge fossil graveyard 'found by accident' in Russia
Daily Mail:
The six foot one Pharaoh who could be the world's oldest case of Gigantism
Daily Mail:
Mysterious Iron Age stone slab engraved in ancient symbols no one can read baffles experts after it was unearthed in a farmer's field in Spain
Atlas Obscura:
Was the First Eclipse Prediction an Act of Genius, a Brilliant Mistake, or Dumb Luck?
BBC History Extra:
Rome in crisis
The History Blog:
Is Spain's first historian of the Americas buried under Columbus' tomb?
BBC History Extra:
What happened to the lost colony of Roanoke Island?
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Obscure Fishing Book is One of the Most Reprinted English Books Ever
The History Blog:
Gainsborough's Blue Boy to be conserved in public
History.com:
Davy Crockett Was an Early PR Genius
Atlas Obscura:
The 19th-Century African-American Actor Who Conquered Europe
Air & Space Magazine:
Art From the WWI Trenches
Air & Space Magazine:
Bronx Airport? Denied!
National Geographic:
The Solar Eclipse That Sparked a WWII Scandal
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Speech That Brought India to the Brink of Independence
Stuff NZ:
Roger Hanson: How the first nuclear weapons were developed
History.com:
The Hollywood Extortion Racket That Gave Us Today's Summer Blockbusters
Timeline:
This dystopian novel was the first smash hit of the nuclear-apocalypse genre
Smithsonian Magazine:
Hollywood Loved Sammy Davis Jr Until He Dated a White Movie Star
New Atlas:
The 100 most valuable cars for sale at Monterey Car Week
Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Narwhal Got Its Tusk
Atlas Obscura:
5 Mythic Eclipse Monsters Who Mess With the Sun and Moon
August 11, 2017
Pys.org:
The Space Launch System - the most powerful rocket ever built
Atlas Obscura:
Laidback Living on an Australian Rocket-Testing Range
History.com:
Newly-Discovered Blueprints May Allow Legendary WWII Plane to Fly Again
The Aviationist:
New Search For Avro Arrow Flight Models Lost 60 Years Ago in Lake Ontario Has Begun
Popular Mechanics:
Beyond the Moon: The Planned Apollo Missions That Could Have Been
Spaceflight History:
Flyby's Last Gasp: North American Rockwell's S-IIB Interplanetary Booster (1968)
Spaceflight History:
Plush Bug, Economy Bug, Shoestring Bug (1961)
History.com:
Right Stuff, Wrong Gender: The Woman Astronauts Grounded by NASA
Buzzfeed:
35 Pictures From The Space Race That Are Out Of This World
August 10, 2017
Universe Today:
Gorgeous Images of the August 2017 Partial Lunar Eclipse
New Atlas:
Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity edges closer to space
Daily Mail:
Virgin Galactic is on track to send tourists into space next year: VSS Unity spaceplane completes a successful glide test nearly 3 years after the firm's deadly crash
New Atlas:
Electron rocket failure caused by ground error
The Guardian:
Moon had magnetic field at least a billion years longer than thought - study
Popular Science:
New Horizons will soon solve a mystery about an object a billion miles past Pluto
New Scientist:
New Horizons' next target might be a binary pair
Daily Mail:
Two potentially habitable 'super Earths' are spotted orbiting a sun-like star that is so close to our planet it can be seen with the naked eye
Universe Today:
New Study Claims There are Four Exoplanets Around Nearest Sun-Like Star!
Scientific American:
Icy Worlds May Bypass Habitability
Daily Mail:
Ancient rock art in a New Mexico canyon reveals a total solar eclipse seen by Pueblo people over 1,000 years ago
August 9, 2017
Space News:
U.S. Space Command develops operational concepts for waging war in orbit
ABC Australia:
Where our Curiosity took us
Gizmodo:
Scientists Just Discovered the Oldest Asteroid Family Ever
Astrobiology Magazine:
Our solar system's 'shocking' origin story
Seeker:
We're Still Not Saying It's Aliens, But Tabby's Star Is Getting Weirder
Washington Post:
The never-ending search for UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence
August 8, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
SES agrees to launch another satellite on previously-flown Falcon 9 booster
Spaceflight Now:
Two U.S. military satellite launches delayed into next year
Space News:
DoD meteorological satellite mission to end
Spaceflight Now:
Build-up begins for first Minotaur rocket launch from Cape Canaveral
Spaceflight Now:
Shuttle-era structure dismantled piece-by-piece at pad 39A
Spaceflight Insider:
James Webb Space Telescope may be delayed again
Astrobiology Magazine:
New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting
Scientific American:
NASA's Pluto Probe May See Double During Next Flyby
Spaceflight Now:
Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Hot Planet with Earth-Like Stratosphere
August 7, 2017
Mysterious Universe:
The Inside Story of Disney's Mythic UFO Documentary and Conference: Part One
Asbury Park Press:
70 years ago at the Shore, UFOs filled the sky
Universe Today:
A Partial Lunar Eclipse Ushers in Eclipse Season
Space News:
Virgin Galactic carries out "dry run" for powered SpaceShipTwo flights
Daily Mail:
'Super Hubble' is almost ready! World's biggest space telescope that could spot alien life passes key tests ahead of its 2018 launch
New Atlas:
Five years on, Curiosity is still capturing amazing images of Mars
Astrobiology Magazine:
Two Voyagers Taught Us How to Listen to Space
Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: 40 years after launch, NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft continue to return valuable data
Universe Today:
NASA Voyager Probes Still Going Strong After 40 Years
WEEKEND EDITION: August 5, 2017 through August 6, 2017
Forbes:
Ripples In Spacetime: From Einstein To LIGO And Beyond
Forbes:
America's Previous Coast-To-Coast Eclipse Almost Proved Einstein Right
Daily Mail:
Team USA's incredible 16ft fighting megabot is unveiled ahead of its showdown with Japanese droid in the world's first giant robot battle
Stuff NZ:
Inside the scientific origins of New Zealand
Forbes:
How Large Can Crystals Grow?
Forbes:
Global Ocean Circulation Appears To Be Collapsing Due To A Warming Planet
Daily Mail:
Scientists find sub-seafloor fault off Alaska they warn could trigger a 'devastating' tsunami similar to the 2011 event that killed tens of thousands in Japan
Forbes:
Rare Video Captures Recent Megatsunami Hitting Small Greenland Fishing Village
Daily Mail:
The mother of all flowers: Scientists reconstruct a 140 million-year-old bisexual plant that is the source of all today's 300,000 species
Daily Mail:
The 4 inch-long 'venus fly trap' sea worm with 50 SPINES for a face that hunted in the ocean 541 million years ago
New Atlas:
Were Magma pulses responsible for Earth's most devastating extinction event?
Daily Mail:
250 million-year-old fossil of a ferocious 6ft sea monster reveals three rows of razor sharp teeth that allowed it to swallow victims WHOLE
Daily Mail:
Researchers reveal the rhino-sized 'four legged tank' dinosaur so well preserved it looks like a statue was actually hunted by meat-eating predators
Daily Mail:
World's oldest known stone bracelet could rewrite the history of early man: 70,000-year-old bangle suggests our ancestors were far more sophisticated than thought
Ars Technica:
Evidence that ancient farms had very different origins than previously thought
Science Magazine:
The Greeks really do have near-mythical origins, ancient DNA reveals
Live Science:
Fit for a King: Tut's Camping Bed Was an Ancient Marvel
Forbes:
How Ancient Rome Viewed The Deaths Of Antony And Cleopatra
The History Blog:
Longest funerary inscription found on Pompeiian tomb
The History Blog:
Whole Roman neighborhood found near Lyons
The History Blog:
Amphora burial found at Circus of Carthage
Daily Mail:
The six foot tall guardian of Angkor Wat: Archaeologists unearth a giant buried statue at the site of an ancient hospital at the temple complex
History.com:
Why America's Deadliest Wildfire Is Largely Forgotten Today
Smithsonian Magazine:
Did a Nazi Submarine Attack a Chemical Plant in North Carolina?
BBC History Extra:
The countdown to Hiroshima
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the ghostly Russian radio station that has 'buzzed' every day since the 1970s - but no one knows who or what is broadcasting
The Atlantic:
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
History.com:
The Cars That Made America
August 4, 2017
Daily Mail:
Daimler backs radical eighteen rotor autonomous air taxi and says 'Volocopter' will start testing in Dubai THIS YEAR
Air & Space Magazine:
The West's Best Restorations at the California Capital Airshow
Air & Space Magazine:
The Master of Air-to-Air Photography
HistoryNet:
Screaming Bird of Prey
Air & Space Magazine:
The SR-71 Was Close to Perfect
Spaceflight History:
SEI Swan Song: International Lunar Resources Exploration Concept (1993)
Daily Mail:
First space selfie goes up for sale: Stunning photo taken by Buzz Aldrin while in orbit 51 years ago to be sold for £1,200 in September
August 3, 2017
Space News:
Virgin Orbit plans 2018 first launch
Spaceflight Now:
Two U.S. military satellite launches delayed into next year
Spaceflight Now:
Replays of new station crew's liftoff and docking
Spaceflight Now:
Anticipating upgraded spaceships, SpaceX builds final first-generation Dragon cargo craft
New Scientist:
Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron
New Scientist:
Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly
Washington Post:
NASA wants to hire someone to guard us against alien life - and vice versa
August 2, 2017
Inverse:
The Weird Thing About the Fireball That Just Flashed Over Seattle
Castanet:
Meteor lights up night sky
Daily Mail:
30-metre asteroid skimming past Earth in October will test Nasa's doomsday 'planetary defence system'
Universe Today:
Impending Asteroid Flyby Will be a Chance to Test NASA's Planetary Defense Network!
Spaceflight Insider:
Musk: Falcon Heavy could fly as early as this fall
Daily Mail:
Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn's 'ghostly curtains of light' in incredible detail as it makes its final descent toward the surface of the planet
Daily Mail:
Blow for hopes of life on Proxima-b as NASA study reveals its atmosphere may have been stripped away
National Geographic:
Two Eclipses, and 6 More Can't-Miss Sky Events in August
August 1, 2017
Space News:
Soyuz rocket delivers new crew to the ISS
Spaceflight Insider:
ISS crew size increases to 6 with Soyuz MS-05 docking
Spaceflight Now:
Replays of new station crew's liftoff and docking
Spaceflight Now:
Musk aims for November debut of Falcon Heavy
Seeker:
Finding Life on Other Planets May Be Less Likely Than Scientists Thought
New Scientist:
Building blocks of alien cells found on Saturn's largest moon
July 31, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz rockets into space with three bound for station
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz MS-05 successfully launches three-man crew to the ISS
Spaceflight Now:
Anticipating upgraded spaceships, SpaceX builds final first-generation Dragon cargo craft
Space News:
Cameras on NASA exoplanet spacecraft slightly out of focus
Spaceflight Insider:
As dusk sets on NASA's Cassini mission, Saturn still providing surprises
New Scientist:
First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away
WEEKEND EDITION: July 29, 2017 through July 30, 2017
Forbes:
Ask Ethan: Could The Fabric Of Spacetime Be Defective?
EarthSky:
Gravitational anomaly seen in lab crystal
Live Science:
400-Year-Old Physics Mystery Is Cracked
Daily Mail:
Steve the suicidal robot that 'drowned' in a Washington D.C. fountain skidded on a 'loose brick surface' and is being rebuilt
Daily Mail:
Search for the lost continent of Zealandia: Scientific mission sets sail to try to find land mass that once joined Australia and New Zealand that broke apart and sank 75 million years ago
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the Tibetan Plateau solved: Study finds the strength of tectonic plates caused its unique shape
Forbes:
This Mineral Discovery Ended An Age-Old Debate About Meteor Crater
Atlas Obscura:
How Geologists Are Minding Preikestolen's Gap
Forbes:
Watch This Scientist Literally Outrun A Deadly Volcanic Eruption
Atlas Obscura:
A Landslide Was the Culprit Behind a Massive Tsunami in Greenland
Daily Mail:
Is this the earliest life on Earth? Pioneering laser technique reveals evidence of 3.7 BILLION-year-old microbes in jewel-studded rocks in Greenland
Daily Mail:
The oldest mass stranding ever found: Archaeologists find 540 million year old jellyfish fossils in Death Valley
Atlas Obscura:
Just After a Mass Extinction, This Toothy Fish Ruled the Seas
Live Science:
'Tail-Standing' Sperm Whales Snooze in Stunning Photo
Smithsonian Magazine:
Unraveling the Mystery of the "Armenian Stonehenge"
Daily Mail:
3,500-year-old lost 'lunch box' with traces of an ancient wheats could shed light on the spread of early farming in Eurasia
Daily Mail:
Babylonians DID burn Jerusalem 2,600 years ago: Charred wood, pottery and bones found in the City of David confirm scenes of devastation described in the Bible
The History Blog:
Oldest part of Charlemagne's canal is even older, dig finds
Forbes:
The Famous Easter Island Heads Have Hidden Bodies
History.com:
America's Forgotten Swedish Colony
Timeline:
This teen stalker stole Queen Victoria's panties and lived in Buckingham Palace chimneys for a year
History.com:
How One Ruthless Impresario Blazed a Trail for Wal-Mart and Amazon
History.com:
The West's Most Notorious Socialite Froze to Death Near a Worthless Mine
History.com:
The 'Silent' Protest That Kick-Started the Civil Rights Movement
History.com:
Hershey's Once Violently Suppressed a Strike by Chocolate Workers
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Columnist Who Shaped Hollywood's Most Destructive Witch Hunt
Flashbak:
Before the "Antifascistischer Schutzwall" - Extraordinary Photos of Berlin in 1959/1960
Atlas Obscura:
Solving the 55-Year-Old Mystery of the White Box That Fell From the Sky
History.com:
How Civil Rights Wade-Ins Desegregated Southern Beaches
Smithsonian Magazine:
Understanding Detroit's 1967 Upheaval 50 Years Later'
History.com:
Live in the Russian Spy House That Inspired 'The Americans'
Daily Mail:
Life on the edge of the world: Inside the remote Siberian tribe that survives in -50C temperatures on a diet of raw reindeer meat
July 28, 2017
Daily Mail:
'Son of Corcorde' moves closer as NASA to begin taking bids to build $390m supersonic prototype that could cut travel time from London to New York in half
New Atlas:
Successful test flight for hypersonic glider
Daily Mail:
From an explosive Boeing 720 crash to a plane flying with inflatable WINGS: Nasa releases treasure trove of old research videos to YouTube
Air & Space Magazine:
The Only Jet Fighter Ever to Shoot Down a Satellite
Air & Space Magazine:
Apollo 8: A Journey Into Deep Waters
Forbes:
The Apollo 11 Astronauts Left A Lot Of Junk On The Moon
Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: The Shuttle replacement that never was
HistoryNet:
A Wing and a Prayer
July 27, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Musk sets expectations low for maiden Falcon Heavy launch
Daily Mail:
Elon Musk scales back his plans for Mars 'megaship' and hints revised plan will use rockets the same size as SpaceX's current Falcon
Spaceflight Now:
Commercial lunar mission signs up with Atlas 5 for launch
Astrobiology Magazine:
Saturn Surprises As Cassini Continues its Grand Finale
NASA News:
Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought
Universe Today:
Earth-Sized Planet Takes Just Four Hours to Orbit its Star
Seeker:
As Much as Half of the Milky Way Likely Came From Distant Galaxies
Daily Mail:
'And if you look to your right you'll see a Chinese anti-ballistic missile coming towards us': Stunned pilot photographs launch of hypersonic weapon which then flies right over his plane
July 26, 2017
EarthSky:
Close shave from an undetected asteroid
Universe Today:
Dream Chaser Mini-Shuttle to Fly ISS Resupply Missions on ULA Atlas V
Universe Today:
Ancient Volcanoes on Mars Could Have Been the Place for Life
Seeker:
Detecting Alien Life Will Likely Be a Protracted Process, Not a Eureka Moment
Scientific American:
Wandering in the Void, Billions of Rogue Planets without a Home
July 25, 2017
Space News:
Russia's post-ISS plans a mystery at best
Seeker:
New Evidence Suggests the Moon's Interior Could Hold Lots of Water
Spaceflight Now:
Opportunity rover peers into 'Perseverance Valley'
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA's Hubble Sees Martian Moon Orbiting the Red Planet
New Scientist:
Tides on exoplanets could drive alien biological clocks
Seeker:
Apollo 11 Anniversary: Neil Armstrong Spacesuit's 'Reboot' Effort Kicks Into Gear
July 24, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
NASA might privatize one of its great observatories
Spaceflight Now:
Sierra Nevada confirms ULA will launch first two Dream Chaser cargo missions
Space News:
Mishap to delay launch of NASA communications satellite
Forbes:
Did A 'Big Whack' Create All Of Pluto's Moons?
Ars Technica:
Yes, ancient civilizations on Mars sounds crazy. And yet...
Forbes:
Eight Other Worlds In Our Solar System Might Have Life Beyond Earth
Daily Mail:
Astronomers claim to have solved the mystery of an 'alien space signal' from a nearby red dwarf and say it was actually interference from a satellite
WEEKEND EDITION: July 22, 2017 through July 23, 2017
New Scientist:
The cosmic dance of three dead stars could break relativity
Forbes:
Was Our Universe Born In Chaos?
New Scientist:
Mathematics has a bad hair day
Wired:
Watch a Homemade Robot Crack a Safe in Just 15 Minutes
BGR:
Inside the Las Vegas bar where all the bartenders are robots
Ars Technica:
Security guard robot ends it all by throwing itself into a watery grave
ABC Australia:
Five places that mark Australia's extreme geological past
Stuff NZ:
Rate of Auckland volcanic eruptions increasing, scientists say
Scientific American:
Earth's Tectonic Activity May Be Crucial for Life -- and Rare in Our Galaxy
Daily Mail:
'Fascinating' 71 million-year-old bird-like dinosaur the size of a HUMAN is found in Canada
The History Blog:
9-year-old boy trips over Stegomastodon tusk
Daily Mail:
Massive two-ton species of the world's largest bony fish is finally discovered after hiding away in the ocean's depths for centuries
Daily Mail:
Congo researchers capture the adorable moment two young gorilla half siblings hug each other after a play fight
The Guardian:
Did human women contribute to Neanderthal genomes over 200,000 years ago?
Daily Mail:
New date rewrites history of man's migration out of Africa: Artefacts reveal humans arrived in Australia 20,000 years earlier and lived alongside giant kangaroos and tortoises
Daily Mail:
Has Tutankhamun's wife finally been found? Archaeologists believe the body of Ankhesenamun may lie in a newly-discovered tomb in Egypt
Forbes:
July 18, 64: The Great Fire Of Nero And The Ancient History Of Firefighting
Daily Mail:
3D imaging reveals the face of a female Peruvian ruler 1,700 years after her elaborately tattooed body was wrapped in 20 layers of fabric and buried with a treasure trove of gold
The History Blog:
Roman domus with mosaic floors found in Auch, France
The History Blog:
Mummy in Buddha statue goes to court
The History Blog:
Michelangelo river god model restored
Forbes:
How The Moon Changed Galileo's Life Forever
The History Blog:
Rare trade silver found in Michigan colonial fort
Daily Mail:
Slave quarters of Sally Hemings, the maid who gave birth to six of Thomas Jefferson's children, are uncovered and excavated at his Monticello mansion after a tourist bathroom was built over it
History.com:
Thoreau Started a Forest Fire a Year Before Writing 'Walden'
Smithsonian Magazine:
When New York City Rioted Over Hamlet Being Too British
History.com:
Long-Lost Sword Owned by Leader of Black Civil War Unit Found
History.com:
The Wimbledon Finalist Who Committed Murder
History.com:
Going to Summer Camp in 1913 Meant Practicing for World War I
History.com:
The People v. Betty Boop
BBC History Extra:
Reporting on Hitler: how foreign correspondents in Nazi Germany battled to expose the truth
BBC History Extra:
The evolution of British code-breaking
BBC History Extra:
9 things you (probably) didn't know about Dunkirk
Smithsonian Magazine:
The True Story of Dunkirk, As Told Through the Heroism of the "Medway Queen"
BBC History Extra:
Desert raiders: the Long Range Desert Group in the Second World War
BBC History Extra:
Operation Goodwood: one of the biggest British disasters of the Second World War?
BBC History Extra:
The reluctant kamikaze of the Second World War
History.com:
This Midcentury Show Turned Unhappy Housewives into TV Royalty
Timeline:
These vibrant 1960s photos show Russian teens partying with the proletariat
Atlas Obscura:
How a Group of '70s Radicals Tried (and Failed) to Invade Disneyland
Atlas Obscura:
The Computer That Ran for School President
July 21, 2017
Daily Mail:
Take a dizzying tour of the International Space Station: Google launches Street View on Nasa's outpost 250 miles above Earth
Atlas Obscura:
When the U.S. Postal Service Used Gyrocopters to Deliver the Mail
New Atlas:
Underwater search commences for flight models of famous Canadian jet fighter
Daily Mail:
Nasa destroyed mysterious Apollo-era tapes found in a Pittsburgh basement after claiming they were of 'no historical value', documents reveal
National Geographic:
Why NASA's Interstellar Mission Almost Didn't Happen
Popular Science:
Here's our original coverage of Apollo 11
July 20, 2017
Space News:
SpaceX drops plans for powered Dragon landings
Spaceflight Now:
Propulsive landings nixed from SpaceX's Dragon spaceship
New Scientist:
Elon Musk seems to have ditched Red Dragon lander plan for Mars
International Business Times:
Did A Dwarf Planet Crash Into Mars? Theory Explains Martian Dichotomy
Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: 48 years since Apollo 11 landed on the Moon
GeekWire:
48 years after Apollo 11 moon landing, lunar dust bag sells for $1.8 million
Bloomberg:
The Battle for the Moon Begins
July 19, 2017
Daily Mail:
Have YOU spotted it? Russia's 'artificial star' set to light up the sky reaches orbit (but nobody seems to be able to see it)
Daily Mail:
The breathtaking moment an orbiting satellite spots a Soyuz rocket blasting off from Russia carrying 48 of its 'sister' crafts
Spaceflight Now:
Pioneering probe for gravitational wave observatory ends mission
New Scientist:
Earth's underwater dunes help explain Venus's weird surface
Astrobiology Magazine:
Tributes to Wetter Times on Mars
Stuff NZ:
This mysterious space signal is (probably) not from aliens
July 18, 2017
Daily Mail:
Fly over the surface of Pluto in stunning NASA video as New Horizons maps reveal the planet's surface in unprecedented detail a year after historic flyby
Seeker:
NASA Center Shows Off Sleek New Mars Rover Concept Vehicle for Astronauts
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA prepares its Martian explorers for solar conjunction radio silence
Daily Mail:
Mysterious object thought to be a rogue planet 160 light years away is actually a 'Romeo and Juliet' pair of giant objects travelling together
Universe Today:
Evidence Mounts for the Existence of Planet Nine
New Scientist:
The best way to detect aliens may be by finding their footprints
July 17, 2017
Antigua Daily Observer:
Residents report bizarre ball of fire in the sky, earth shaking
WGHP-TV:
Fireball in the sky puts on light show over North Carolina
WBIR-TV:
Fireball spotted from East Tennessee
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz rocket sends 73 satellites into 3 different orbits
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese TV broadcasting satellite reaches operational orbit after off-target launch
Daily Mail:
Mars mission astronauts rehearse Orion water landings off Texas in first open water space capsule tests since the Apollo program
New Scientist:
Asteroids may have been giant mudballs in the early solar system
Forbes:
Tunguska Eyewitnesses Describe What It's Like To Live Through A Meteor Strike
WEEKEND EDITION: July 15, 2017 through July 16, 2017
Forbes:
Big Bang Confirmed Again, This Time By The Universe's First Atoms
Seeker:
Another Universe May Have Bumped Into Ours and We Might Have Proof
Gizmodo:
Basic Assumptions of Physics Might Require the Future to Influence the Past
Forbes:
11 Scientific Advances Of The Past 100 Years Gave Us Our Entire Universe
Forbes:
The Quest To Destroy Science's 'Magic Rock'
Inverse:
What is Probability and Why Do People Struggle to Understand It?
Market Watch:
Job of the future: robot psychologist
Ars Technica:
A truly enormous iceberg just broke loose from Antarctica
National Geographic:
100-Year-Old Photos Reveal Antarctica Like You've Never Seen It
Forbes:
World's Tallest Tsunami Hit An Alaskan Bay In 1958 And It Was Not The First Of Its Kind
Inverse:
Is the Yellowstone Volcano a Supervolcano or Caldera? (It's Both)
Daily Mail:
The OLDEST tree-dwelling bird species revealed: 62 million-year-old 'Tsidiiyazhi abini' fossil suggests avians rapidly evolved after the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs
Atlas Obscura:
Meet California's Three Newest Wolf Pups
Inverse:
The 'Stoned Ape' Theory Might Explain Our Extraordinary Evolution
Daily Mail:
Otzi's axe came from TUSCANY: Analysis of the famous Iceman's copper weapon shows it was made hundreds of miles from where his body was discovered
The History Blog:
Greek theaters had moveable stages on wheels
National Geographic:
New Tunnel Discovered Under Ancient Pyramid
The History Blog:
Pieta by pioneer Netherlandish painter loaned to Rijskmuseum
Ars Technica:
The strange and righteous history of the equals sign
Daily Mail:
Casting a spell: Cottage owned by two of the Pendle Hill 'witches' hanged in 1612 is on sale for £675,000 including a hidden staircase and outside Jacuzzi
Atlas Obscura:
The Hidden Rules of the Puritan Fashion Police
Smithsonian Magazine:
Watch How (Slowly) News of the Declaration of Independence Spread in Real Time
Smithsonian Magazine:
John Quincy Adams Kept a Diary and Didn't Skimp on the Details
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Bowdlers Wanted to Clean Up Shakespeare, Not Become a Byword for Censorship
Smithsonian Magazine:
Thank the Erie Canal for Spreading People, Ideas and Germs Across America
Atlas Obscura:
The Inspiration for the Graham Cracker Was a Doctor Obsessed With 'Curing' Masturbation
Atlas Obscura:
A New Map Tracks the Life of San Francisco's Emperor Norton
Atlas Obscura:
The Great Lengths Taken to Make Abraham Lincoln Look Good in Photos
Atlas Obscura:
Found: The Lost Sword of a Civil War Hero
Atlas Obscura:
The Insolent Chauffeurs of America's Early Automobile Era
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Newly Discovered Diary Tells the Harrowing Story of the Deadly Halifax Explosion
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Biggest Trial of the 1920s Continues to Resonate
BBC History Extra:
Days of Destiny: 5 key moments of the Battle of Britain
Timeline:
This magical drug mansion in Upstate New York is where the psychedelic '60s took off
BBC News:
Rocking the Stasi
Ars Technica:
Scrap dealer finds Apollo-era NASA computers in dead engineer's basement
Atlas Obscura:
When 1980s Satanic Panic Targeted Procter & Gamble
Publishers Weekly:
New Maurice Sendak Picture Book Discovered
San Francisco Chronicle:
The most popular slang the year you were born
Flashbak:
Vernacular Gas Stations From John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture
Atlas Obscura:
Here Be Dragons
July 14, 2012
Gizmodo:
New ceramic brings hypersonic travel closer to reality
Connecticut Magazine:
CT Files: Connecticut's Real-life Flying Saucer
Ars Technica:
Breaking into the Buran graveyard: Aging Soviet vehicles still impress
The Aviationist:
XB-70 Valkyrie Wing Section on eBay: An Aviation History Mystery Continues
Union-Bulletin:
1961 Freedom 7 flight keeps pace in space race
Deutsche Welle:
Sotheby's space auction to feature Neil Armstrong's moon bag, Yuri Gagarin's notes
CBS News:
Moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong to be sold at auction
Houston Chronicle:
Collection of rare Apollo program artifacts to go up for auction
The Atlantic:
Solving the Mystery of Whose Laughter Is On the Golden Record
July 13, 2012
Inverse:
The 6 Steps SpaceX Takes to Land Every Falcon 9 Rocket
Daily Mail:
China teleports photon to SPACE in breakthrough that paves the way for ultra secure 'quantum internet'
Seeker:
Stunning Close-Ups of Jupiter's Great Red Spot From Juno Probe Flyby Are Here
Seeker:
Cassini Spacecraft Captures Breathtaking Image of Sunrise on Saturn
New Scientist:
Titan's conditions could be just right to power US-sized colony
Seeker:
Uranus May Have a Magnetic Field that Flickers On and Off Like a Strobe Light
Seeker:
Scientists Analyze Possible Vegetation on the TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets
July 12, 2012
Space News:
China's long march to the moon
Daily Mail:
NASA confirms Juno probe completed its historic flight over Jupiter's 10,000 mile-wide 'Great Red Spot' (although we'll have to wait a few more days for pictures)
New Atlas:
Juno probe completes historic Great Red Spot flyby
ABC Australia:
Juno and the Great Red Spot: Buzzing Jupiter's mammoth storm
Seeker:
A Tenth Planet Could Be Warping Our Outer Solar System
July 11, 2012
Astrobiology Magazine:
New Mysteries Surround New Horizons' Next Flyby Target
Ars Technica:
Scientists revisit a strange result from one of the Soviet Venus landers
Daily Mail:
A thick magma ocean, supersonic winds and a heavy metal atmosphere: Scientists reveal the terrifying conditions on the early moon
New Scientist:
Our young moon's supersonic winds made waves in its magma ocean
Seeker:
Toxic Martian Soil May Be Deadly to Organic Microbial Life
Astrobiology Magazine:
Calm lakes on Titan could mean smooth landing for future space probes
New Scientist:
Sun's gravity could power interstellar video streaming
July 10, 2012
History.com:
History's Most Infamous UFO Sightings
Bleeding Cool:
Roswell, The Beginnings Of The UFO Craze And What It Has To Do With DC Comics
Santa Fe New Mexican:
Seventy years after government report of aliens, Roswell draws UFO faithful
ABC Australia:
Meteor's late night flash remains talk of small SA town after blaze of light seen
New Scientist:
Rocket failure may delay China's space station and moon missions
Ars Technica:
A year at Jupiter: Juno has revealed the giant of the Solar System
USA Today:
Humanity to get closest look ever at Jupiter's Giant Red Spot
EarthSky:
Juno to buzz Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Spaceflight Insider:
Juno approaches 6th science perijove and a peek at the Great Red Spot
WEEKEND EDITION: July 8, 2017 through July 9, 2017
The Guardian:
Tying loose ends? Gravitational waves could solve string theory, study claims
Forbes:
Science Uncovers The Origin Of The First Light In The Universe
Forbes:
If Time Doesn't Exist For Photons, How Does Anything Happen To It?
Daily Mail:
Scientists discover a new type of particle using the Large Hadron Collider that could open a 'new frontier' in physics
The Atlantic:
What Interacting With Robots Might Reveal About Human Nature
Daily Mail:
Stunning simulation shows how Earth's magnetic field forms 2,000 miles below the surface
BBC News:
The massive volcano that scientists can't find
Stuff NZ:
Earth's mantle deep beneath the North Island volcano zone is melting
ABC Australia:
Dr Karl: Did life begin on an 'invisible' mountain range?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Forget Dinos: Horseshoe Crabs Are Stranger, More Ancient - And Still Alive Today
Ars Technica:
This giant crocodile was an apex predator 166 million years ago
Gizmodo:
Nightmarish Crocodile Relative Terrorized Dinosaurs in Prehistoric Madagascar
The Guardian:
Eighteen-foot nodosaur unveiled at Alberta museum - video
Stuff NZ:
This bizarre ancient creature mystified Charles Darwin; now we know what it was
Ars Technica:
Neanderthal DNA suggests yet another wave of human migration out of Africa
The History Blog:
Archaeologist on vacation finds ancient figurine
The History Blog:
Neolithic funerary urn found in Yorkshire barrow
Stuff NZ:
Graveyard of giants found during dig at 5000-year-old Chinese village
The History Blog:
Graves of very tall Neolithic people found in China
BBC History Extra:
Guidebook to the Ancient Egyptian afterlife
Smithsonian Magazine:
Against All Odds, England's Massive Chalk Horse Has Survived 3,000 Years
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Archaeologists Crammed 1500 Years of Roman History Into One Map
Science Magazine:
Why modern mortar crumbles, but Roman concrete lasts millennia
BBC History Extra:
Eleanor of Aquitaine: the medieval queen who took on Europe's most powerful men
Smithsonian Magazine:
Trace Martin Luther's Footsteps Through Germany
BBC History Extra:
Thomas More: saint or sinner?
The History Blog:
Miniature apothecary's shop in cabinet form
Smithsonian Magazine:
When the Beast of Gevaudan Terrorized France
The History Blog:
Wedgwood First Day's Vase saved
Smithsonian Magazine:
History Was Writ Large on This Desk Belonging to Thomas Jefferson
The History Blog:
Revolutionary War musket ball found in Charleston cracks archaeological case
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Unremembered US-France 'Quasi War' Shaped Early America's Foreign Relations
Forbes:
The Gettysburg Battle: How One Billion Years Of Earth's History Impacted American History
BBC History Extra:
Jamaica's Morant Bay Rebellion: brutality and outrage in the British empire
BBC History Extra:
Circus sensation: PT Barnum's greatest wheezes
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Towering 19th-Century Mechanical Clock Was the Smartwatch of Its Era
HistoryNet:
'Lady Lindy': The Remarkable Life of Amelia Earhart
Live Science:
Spam, Lovely Spam! Mystery Meat Celebrates 80th Spam-iversary
History.com:
Meet the Night Witches, the Daring Female Pilots Who Bombed Nazis By Night
HistoryNet:
The Guinea Pig Club
Flashbak:
Ansel Adams' Photos of Japanese-American Prisoners of War At Manzanar Internment Camp
Flashbak:
George Orwell Explains Why He Had To Write 1984 In This 1944 Letter
The History Blog:
Original 1953 Disneyland concept map sells for $708,000
HistoryNet:
Martyr at the Berlin Wall
The Atlantic:
The iPhone Was Inevitable
New Atlas:
The 22 most interesting cars at Artcurial's Monaco Auction plus some awesome memorabilia
New Atlas:
Top 20 most interesting cars at Bonhams' Festival of Speed auction
Live Science:
10 Solar Eclipses That Changed Science
Flashbak:
Lewis Carroll's Original Illustrations For Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (1864)
July 7, 2017
Daily Mail:
Inside the world's biggest aeroplane workshop: MailOnline tours the incredible Boeing factory in Seattle (where security's so tight we're accompanied to the bathroom!)
New Atlas:
Swedish flying carpet goes electric
Daily Mail:
Now that's surf-tastic! 25mph board can FLY over water and allows even beginners to experience the thrill of riding the waves (but it will cost £9,300)
HistoryNet:
Dreams of Human-Powered Flight
HistoryNet:
Genesis of the Jenny
HistoryNet:
The U.S. Air Force's Pilotless Fighter
Spaceflight History:
Dreaming a Different Apollo, Part Six: Star Trek as an Exemplar of Space-Age Popular Culture
Daily Mail:
The Blackbird set for a hypersonic overhaul as Lockheed Martin reveals new details of its Mach 6 SR-72
New Atlas:
Flight plan from legendary Apollo 13 mission to be auctioned
July 6, 2017
Space News:
SpaceX crests double digit marker, notches tenth launch in a single year for first time
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX delivers for Intelsat on heavyweight Falcon 9 mission
Spaceflight Now:
Dragon capsule returns home with animals and station equipment
Spaceflight Now:
Launch of China's heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket declared a failure
Spaceflight Now:
NASA marks 20 years of continuous Mars exploration
INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND EDITION:
July 1, 2017 through July 5, 2017
Atlas Obscura:
The Long, Weird Half-Life of Trinitite
Virginian-Pilot:
Large new island forms off popular Outer Banks fishing spot
Atlas Obscura:
When You Have to Move an 800,000-Pound Sequoia
Daily Mail:
Couple find the largest ever intact Native American canoe measuring 33 feet and dating back 1,000 years after noticing it poking out of the mud on a Louisiana riverbank
Atlas Obscura:
America's Oldest Log Cabin Is For Sale
History.com:
Read the Document That Condemned a Woman to Death in the Salem Witch Trials
HistoryNet:
How Europe Lost the American West
Atlas Obscura:
Britain's Futile Attempt to Keep American Colonists From Taking Tribal Land
History.com:
Much in Little: The Revolutionary Memories of a New York Park
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Woman Whose Words Inflamed the American Revolution
Smithsonian Magazine:
At Its Core, the Declaration of Independence Was a Plea for Help From Britain's Enemies
HistoryNet:
Washington Irving's fictional Dutch uncle lent his name to all things New York
National Geographic:
The Map That Popularized the Word 'Gerrymander'
Politico:
U.S. Declares War on Great Britain, June 18, 1812
Everett Herald:
Navy divers recover cannon linked to a hero of War of 1812
Smithsonian Magazine:
The First Printed Fried Chicken Recipe in America
Billings Gazette:
Western tribes' Ghost Dance explained in words and artifacts
Smithsonian Magazine:
Rachel Jackson, the Scandalous Divorcee Who Almost Became First Lady
Smithsonian Magazine:
Previously unknown daguerreotype of Sophia Thoreau gifted to museum
Atlas Obscura:
The Deseret Alphabet, a 38-Letter Writing System Developed by Mormons
Smithsonian Magazine:
How One Mathew Brady Photograph May Have Helped Elect Abraham Lincoln
HistoryNet:
Founding Father Firepower: Metal Intended for Statues of George Washington Was Used to Arm the Confederacy
HistoryNet:
Stonewall's Greatest Joy
HistoryNet:
'Long Sol': The Pugnacious 6-foot-7 Solomon Meredith Cast a Long Shadow Over the Iron Brigade
Smithsonian Magazine:
Lincoln's Signature Laid the Groundwork for the National Park System
CBS News:
Custer's Last Stand
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:
Caprock Chronicles: Soldiers fight Comanches at Silver Lake
Daily Mail:
Wild, wild west! Buffalo Bill and his Native American performers brought back to life in colourised portraits to celebrate 130th anniversary of their private show for Queen Victoria
Atlas Obscura:
This Mechanical 19th-Century 'Clock of America' Animates U.S. History
Atlas Obscura:
America's Short-Lived 'Black Army on Wheels'
Chapman University Happenings:
Archive Dive: A wartime 4th of July in 1898
HyperAllergic:
A Critical Understanding of Edward Curtis's Photos of Native American Culture
Mail Tribune:
Women of the tribes
America: The Jesuit Review:
Examining the American peace movement prior to World War I
Atlas Obscura:
The Dispute Over a Time Capsule Found in a Confederate Statue
HistoryNet:
Tomboy of the Air
Atlas Obscura:
Fall in Love With the World's First Animated Dinosaur
Idaho Statesman:
Prohibition kept Boise law enforcement officers busy
Smithsonian Magazine:
The East St. Louis Race Riot Left Dozens Dead, Devastating a Community on the Rise
Business Insider:
America entered World War I 100 years ago - this art shows what it was like
New York Times:
When the Americans Turned the Tide
Smithsonian Magazine:
Horse-Riding Librarians Were the Great Depression's Bookmobiles
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Rise and Fall of the Great American Motel
National Geographic:
How a Refrigerator Led to Einstein's Pleas for Atomic Bomb Research
Newport News Daily Press:
Hampton Roads: Nonstop pipeline to World War II
Atlas Obscura:
The Librarian Who Guarded the Manhattan Project's Secrets
The National Interest:
How Hitler's Submarine Force Planned to Crush America's Economy during World War II
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Inside Story of How a Nazi Plot to Sabotage the U.S. War Effort Was Foiled
Washington Post:
Six Nazi spies were executed in D.C. White supremacists gave them a memorial - on federal land.
HistoryNet:
A Band of Brothers: The Story of the Sullivans
Spokesman Review:
75 years ago, the United States forced Japanese into internment camps. After World War II, many settled in Spokane. These are their stories.
Omaha World Herald:
During WWII, Boys Town housed Japanese-Americans escaping forced internment. The homes are coming down, but the story endures
HistoryNet:
Duel in the Clouds
Yes Magazine:
Zoot Suits: A Fashion Movement that Sparked Mexican American Resistance
HistoryNet:
Battle at the LA Coliseum
Atlas Obscura:
Whatever Happened to Captain Video and the DuMont Programming Library?
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Army Veteran Who Became the First to Hike the Entire Appalachian Trail
Houston Chronicle:
67 years ago, the 'Forgotten War' began
Stars & Stripes:
Operation Kiddy Car: Keeping a Korean War hero's memory alive
History.com:
Why Ralph Ellison Never Published a Second Novel During His Lifetime
Timeline:
This 1950s book scandalized and captivated America - and eventually destroyed its author's life
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Political Dealmaking That Finally Brought Hawaii Statehood
History.com:
They Can't All Be iPhones: The Story of Apple's Forgotten Flop
Atlas Obscura:
Why the Amish Are Building America's RVs
Smithsonian Magazine:
Colorized Footage Is a Vivid Reminder that History Didn't Happen in Black and White
History.com:
Inside the Government's Top-Secret Doomsday Hideouts
New York Times:
My Father's War, and Mine
Time Magazine:
25 Moments That Changed America
History.com:
Whose Vision of America Won Out - Hamilton's or Jefferson's?
June 30, 2017
Daily Mail:
Meet the son of Concorde: NASA's supersonic X-Plane design passes 'significant milestone' and could take off in 2021
Daily Mail:
How did they EVER get off the ground? Fascinating pictures show the world's most rickety planes (long before air travel truly took off)
HistoryNet:
Atomic Airships
HistoryNet:
Father of the Black Box
Spaceflight History:
"Still Under Active Consideration": Five Proposed Earth-Orbital Apollo Missions for the 1970s (1971)
Spaceflight History:
Safeguarding the Earth from Martians: The Antaeus Report (1978-1981)
Forbes:
Why Aren't The Van Allen Belts A Barrier To Spaceflight?
Gizmodo:
This Space Museum in Central Kansas Was Worth the 20 Hour Drive
June 29, 2017
The Sun:
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS From flashing fidget spinners to floating tanks: Newly released files reveal the bizarre-looking craft spotted in Britain's skies
Mysterious Universe:
Asteroid Impact With Earth In 2036 'Can't Be Ruled Out'
Seeker:
The Search for the Next Large Asteroid That Might Slam Into Earth
Daily Mail:
The BACKWARDS asteroid: Astronomers spot rare Bee-zed that orbits the sun in the opposite direction to the planets
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover on walkabout near crater rim
Daily Mail:
Dawn on Saturn: NASA releases stunning image of the planet illuminated by a sliver of sunlight
Spaceflight Insider:
Could a dedicated mission to Enceladus detect microbial life there?
Astrobiology Magazine:
Kepler Has Taught Us That Rocky Planets Are Common
New Scientist:
Planets in other star systems fit a puzzling pattern
New Atlas:
Can magnetic space tugs clean up space junk?
June 28, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX will try for third Falcon 9 launch in less than two weeks
Space News:
SpaceX's final Falcon 9 design coming this year, two Falcon Heavy launches next year
Spaceflight Insider:
Minotaur IV launch postponed 6 weeks
New Scientist:
Uranus's crooked, messy magnetic field might open and shut daily
Forbes:
Why Does The Moon Rise Later Each Day?
Stuff NZ:
First total solar eclipse in US sparks spectator excitement
Seeker:
Seeker's Visual Guide to Solar Eclipses Throughout History
June 27, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX launches and lands second Falcon 9 rocket in two days
New Scientist:
SpaceX has launched and landed two used rockets in one weekend
Spaceflight Insider:
2 launches, 2 landings, 2 days: Falcon 9 sends Iridium-2 satellites into space
Spaceflight Now:
40th flight of India's PSLV declared a success
Astrobiology Magazine:
Mars Rover Opportunity on Walkabout Near Rim
The Atlantic:
The Mars Robot Making Decisions on Its Own
Astrobiology Magazine:
Why No One Under 20 Has Experienced a Day Without NASA at Mars
Scientific American:
Will Mars Go Mute? NASA's Aging Orbiters May Not Last Long Enough to Support Future Exploration
Inverse:
Mars Needs a Whole New Clock and Calendar
June 26, 2017
Daily Mail:
Britain's secret 'X-Files' dossier, containing details of 50 YEARS of UFO sightings across the country, has finally been released
Seattle Times:
'Flying saucers' became a thing 70 years ago Saturday with sighting near Mount Rainier
Oregon Public Broadcasting:
Flying Saucers Still Evasive 70 Years After Pilot's Report
Albuquerque Journal:
Crashing the party: Roswell celebrates 70th anniversary of UFO incident
The West Australian:
Perth skywatchers stunned by fireball streaking across the sky
Daily Mail:
What IS this mystery object in the sky? Stargazers left baffled after 'red fireball' lights up the night over Perth
Spaceflight Now:
Secret Russian satellite launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Spaceflight Insider:
Russia launches covert payload on rare Soyuz variant
Scientific American:
SpaceX Launches Rocket With "Highest-Ever Reentry Force"
Popular Science:
Recycled Falcon 9 rocket survives one of SpaceX's most challenging landings yet
Inverse:
SpaceX Makes History Again with Hot, High-Force Rocket Landing
Daily Mail:
SpaceX blasts off on first of two launches in just 48 hours and completes 'most difficult landing yet' on Atlantic drone ship
Space News:
SpaceX launches second batch of Iridium satellites
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 rocket launching Sunday sports fin upgrade
New Scientist:
Weird orbits hint 'Planet Ten' might lurk at solar system edge
New Atlas:
Move over, Planet 9: Does a Mars-sized 10th planet lurk beyond Pluto?
Forbes:
Goodbye Planet Nine, Hello Planet Ten
WEEKEND EDITION: June 24, 2017 through June 25, 2017
Gizmodo:
New Calculation Could Spell Trouble For a Popular Theory of the Universe's Origin
NBC News:
Cosmic 'Bruise' Could Be Evidence for Multiple Universes
Aeon:
The idea of creating a new universe in the lab is no joke
Scientific American:
Black Holes, Cosmic Collisions and the Rippling of Spacetime
Daily Mail:
The future of robot communication? Facebook's AI bots accidentally invent a new LANGUAGE while training to negotiate with one another
Inverse:
Facebook Let Its A.I. Negotiate, and the Lying Started Right Away
Gizmodo:
Blink and You'll Miss These Lightning Fast, Blood-Thirsty Sumo Bots Fighting
Daily Mail:
The snake-like robot that could save lives: 26ft-long machine covered in hairs can climb over walls and rubble to reach tight spaces
Daily Mail:
Rewriting the history of frogs, toads and salamanders: 200 million-year-old fossil expands amphibious timeline by 15 MILLION years
Daily Mail:
Waves of volcanic activity 200 million years ago triggered the dawn of the dinosaurs and ended Earth's Triassic period
The History Blog:
Baby dinobird found trapped in amber
Daily Mail:
Schoolchildren discover the 25,000-year-old remains of a mysterious 'smelly beast' in Siberia that experts believe could be a WOOLLY RHINO
ABC Australia:
Driverless cars: Kangaroos throwing off animal detection software
National Geographic:
Why These Adorable Baby Raccoons 'Adopted' a Fisherman
New Atlas:
Ancient Egyptian "billboard" could rewrite history of hieroglyphs
Science Magazine:
Ancient Egyptians may have given cats the personality to conquer the world
Daily Mail:
Step back into Iron Age Britain: Stunning interactive graphic lets you explore more than 4,000 ancient hill forts around the UK
Gizmodo:
This 3,000-Year-Old Prosthetic Wooden Toe is More Incredible Than We Thought
The History Blog:
Slough hill found to be rare Anglo-Saxon mound
Daily Mail:
Discovery of a mosque and headstones amongst the remains of a legendary 12th century Muslim city in Ethiopia sheds light on Islam's origins in Africa
BBC History Extra:
What was life like for a court jester?
BBC History Extra:
King Edward III: The family man
The History Blog:
Late medieval longsword found in Polish peat bog
The History Blog:
Remains of temple and Ball game court found in Mexico City
Live Science:
This Volcano-Shaped Pyramid in Peru Has Experts Stumped
Daily Mail:
Long-standing mystery over the 'Lady in a Fur Wrap' may be solved: New tests could FINALLY reveal the identity of the artist and subject behind one of the world's most celebrated paintings
The History Blog:
Record-breaking 17th c. cabinet goes on display
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Sand Covers the Floor of One of the Western Hemisphere's Oldest Synagogues
Atlas Obscura:
Beatrix Potter's Greatest Work Was a Secret, Coded Journal She Kept as a Teen
Smithsonian Magazine:
First House Designed by Antoni Gaudi to Open as a Museum
History.com:
Researchers May Have Found the Long-Lost Eighth Natural Wonder of the World
History.com:
Scientists Just Found a Doomed Antarctic Explorer's Lost Painting
BBC History Extra:
Britain's tearoom fascists
BBC History Extra:
Where History Happened: 9 places affected by the Blitz
BBC History Extra:
Operation Barbarossa: 9 popular myths busted
History.com:
When the Nazis Invaded the Hamptons
The History Blog:
Picasso portait ring of Dora Maar for sale
Daily Mail:
Nazi medical equipment, knives covered in Swastikas and busts of Hitler: Argentina's largest ever trove of Third Reich artifacts is found hidden inside a house's secret room
Gizmodo:
Newly Declassified Documents Show Nazis Plotted to Destroy Panama Canal
New Atlas:
Another record price for ultra-rare Enigma cipher machine
BBC History Extra:
The evolution of British code-breaking
Smithsonian Magazine:
In a Fit of 1940s Optimism, Greyhound Proposed a Fleet of Helicopter Buses
New Atlas:
Luxury train offers visitors to Peru's Andes a taste of the high life
Forbes:
Explore Ancient Architecture Through Coinage In This Gigantic Coin Database
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Moonlight Sets Nature's Rhythms
June 23, 2017
Daily Mail:
Boeing says hypersonic passenger planes will take flight within a DECADE (if it can find enough people who can afford a ticket)
Daily Mail:
Supersonic 'Baby Boom' aircraft to take off next year: Richard Branson-backed mini-Concorde that can fly from London to New York in 3.5 hours is set for 2018 test flights
Daily Mail:
The Pentagon is developing an army of robotic drones able to fly alongside fighter jets at speeds of 700mph
New Atlas:
Textron's Nightwarden drone debuts at Paris Air Show
New Atlas:
Autonomous Airbus helicopter makes its first flights
Daily Mail:
Why a plane can still make the runway from 38,000ft even if all the engines fail: Pilots reveal the surprising distances airliners can GLIDE (and that they do it on almost every journey)
BBC News:
Airlander 10 reaches 'highest altitude so far'
Universe Today:
The Aerospike Engine Was Considered for the Shuttle, But Never Flew. That's About to Change
New Atlas:
2017 Paris Air Show in photos
BBC History Extra:
6 of history's strangest ever theories about outer space
June 22, 2017
The Atlantic:
The Man Who Introduced the World to Flying Saucers
East Oregonian:
Some significant Northwest UFO sightings
Space News:
SES: AMC-9 has "no risk of a collision with other active satellites"
Space News:
Roscosmos head expects Russia will cooperate with NASA, ESA on cislunar "gateway" station
Spaceflight Now:
Launch of military's new space-based satellite tracker delayed two months
Spaceflight Insider:
Five Seconds of Fury: Orbital ATK conducts test fire of Launch Abort Motor
Popular Science:
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover looks so small and alone in this amazing new photo
Scientific American:
Jupiter Now Has 69 Moons
Daily Mail:
The end of Planet Nine? New study suggests mysterious object DOESN'T exist
New Scientist:
Buckyballs mysteriously show up in cold space and warp starlight
Astrobiology Magazine:
New Branch in Family Tree of Exoplanets Discovered
Seeker:
New Spacesuit System Could Repel Destructive Moon Dust
June 21, 2017
Daily Mail:
Inside the Falcon Factory: Elon Musk posts amazing drone tour of SpaceX factory floor
Daily Mail:
Come fly with Cassini: Breathtaking video shows the many views of Saturn as seen by the NASA spacecraft
Daily Mail:
Kepler has spotted over 200 new planet candidates and TEN are in the habitable zone and could support life, NASA reveals
Universe Today:
NASA Announces 10, That's Right 10! New Planets in Their Star's Habitable Zone
USA Today:
Summer solstice, the longest day of the year, arrives Wednesday
Weather Watch NZ:
New Zealand Winter Solstice: Wednesday June 21st, 4:24pm
Gold Coast Bulletin:
Winter solstice: Why today is the best day of winter
Washington Post:
The summer solstice is Wednesday. Here's a guide to the longest day of the year.
June 20, 2017
Bismarck Tribune:
Former Minot crew commander tells of UFO cover-up in book
Minot Daily News:
Book tells about Air Force & UFO incidents
Space News:
Upper stage malfunction leaves Chinese satellite in lower-than-planned orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Long March 3B/E launches Zhongxing-9A satellite, fate uncertain
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese broadcasting satellite ends up in wrong orbit after rocket failure
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 launch delay sets up potential SpaceX 'doubleheader' next weekend
Universe Today:
Opportunity Reaches 'Perseverance Valley' Precipice - Ancient Fluid Carved Gully on Mars
East Oregonian:
Flying saucers still evasive 70 years after pilot's touchstone report
June 19, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Progress cargo freighter docks with International Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 launch delay sets up potential SpaceX 'doubleheader' next weekend
Seeker:
This Simulator Shows What You'll See During the Great American Solar Eclipse
WEEKEND EDITION: June 17 through June 18, 2017
Daily Mail:
'Intriguing anomalies' in particles that could rewrite the rules of physics and shed light on weird phenomena in the universe are found by THREE separate studies
Daily Mail:
Has the mystery of the 'Great Dying' been solved? Scientists discover evidence in the Falklands of the asteroid which caused extinction on Earth 250 million years ago
Daily Mail:
Scientists find world's oldest mushroom fossil from 115 MILLION years ago
Daily Mail:
230-million-year-old feces reveals beetles, clams, and fish formed a Triassic-era meal
Daily Mail:
The incredibly well-preserved 100 million-year-old baby bird that lived at the time of the dinosaurs: 'Simply stunning' Myanmar amber find reveals hatchling trapped in tree sap
Science Magazine:
World's only fossils of T. rex skin suggest it was covered in scales - not feathers
Daily Mail:
Oldest primate skeleton ever found shows Earth's earliest primates lived in the treetops
New Atlas:
Ripped-off ravens sure can hold a grudge
ABC Australia:
Discovery of 300,000-year-old fossils rewrites origins of Homo sapiens
Atlas Obscura:
Found: A 7,500-Year-Old Stone Drill Bit
The Guardian:
Ancient Aztec temple and ball court unearthed in heart of Mexico City
Timeline:
Pre-photographic pictures of hot air balloon accidents show the perils of late modernity
BBC History Extra:
7 things you (probably) didn't know about Charles Dickens and his family home
Daily Mail:
American Civil War submarine - that was the first in history to sink an enemy warship - emerges from a 75,000 gallon tank of chemicals to reveal HUMAN REMAINS
Stuff NZ:
Researchers claim to have found the lost Pink and White Terraces
Retronaut:
c. 1890-1900 -- Photochroms of France
Stuff NZ:
Kiwi researchers discover 'almost perfectly preserved' 118-year-old painting in Antarctica
History.com:
The Massacre at Frank Lloyd Wright's "Love Cottage"
Daily Mail:
Ring that Pablo Picasso designed to appease his angry lover when she threw her old jewellery in the River Seine during a row goes on sale for £500,000
BBC History Extra:
Who were the young people drawn to Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists?
Daily Mail:
Stunning colorized pictures show the brutal conditions faced by US soldiers in the Pacific War against Japanese troops who fought to the death
San Francisco Chronicle:
55 years ago, Alcatraz guards realized three inmates escaped their cells. They've never been found.
Atlas Obscura:
In 1964, You Could Buy Magazines From a Street Dalek
History.com:
How Activists Plotted the First Gay Pride Parades
Air & Space Magazine:
Elliot and Justin's DIY Jet
Atlas Obscura:
Get Lost in These Real-World Fairy Tale Landscapes
June 16, 2017
Daily Mail:
Supersonic passenger planes move closer to takeoff as NASA reveals plans for 2021 X-Plane flight tests
Daily Mail:
Not for nervous flyers! Boeing to test pilotless planes next year as artificial intelligence takes control of cockpits
Daily Mail:
The 'spiderdrone' that can climb walls and fly anywhere: Bizarre tilting rotor design can fly in any direction
Inverse:
10 Predictions For Flying Cars, and When They'll Happen
Spaceflight Insider:
Deep Space Network - providing communications for over 50 years
New Scientist:
First mission to the moon: The real lesson
History.com:
Would NASA's Original Astronauts Make the Cut Today?
June 15, 2017
Washington Post:
Remember last week's fireball? A meteorite may have landed in someone's backyard.
Spaceflight Now:
Robotic Russian resupply freighter on the way to space station
Spaceflight Insider:
Progress MS-06 freighter on its way to space station
Daily Mail:
Elon Musk says the SpaceX Dragon Heavy 'megarocket' could blast off from from Cape Canaveral in just three months
Spaceflight Now:
Boeing, DARPA to base XS-1 spaceplane at Cape Canaveral
Daily Mail:
Deep space plasma thrusters and a rocket engine that uses water as fuel: NASA reveals the shoebox sized DIY projects it will launch on historic first Orion mission
Seeker:
Compact Fusion Rockets Could Be the Future of Interplanetary Space Missions
Astrobiology Magazine:
Hot rocks, not warm atmosphere, led to relatively recent water-carved valleys on Mars
Daily Mail:
Think the weather is weird on Earth? Astronomers reveal the most extreme planets ever found
Air & Space Magazine:
Is the Phantom Planet Real?
Popular Science:
Our sun might have been born with an evil twin called "Nemesis"
June 14, 2017
Spaceflight Insider:
Progress MS-06 spacecraft set for supply run to ISS
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz booster rolls out for launch with space station cargo freighter
Spaceflight Insider:
'Flight-proven' Falcon 9 to launch BulgariaSat-1 June 17
Space News:
SpaceX hopes to resume launches from Cape Canaveral launch pad later this summer
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX aims to restore damaged launch pad to service by end of summer
Space News:
Antares to resume Cygnus launches later this summer
Daily Mail:
Scientists developing crumb-free bread that could soon allow astronauts to eat sandwiches in space
Astrobiology Magazine:
Window to a Watery Past on Mars
Popular Science:
Jupiter may be even older than we thought
New Scientist:
How Jupiter split the asteroid belt in two shows its great age
Seeker:
Jupiter, the Largest Planet in the Solar System, Is Also the Oldest
Inverse:
Without Jupiter, Earth Would Be a Hellish, Uninhabitable World
Astrobiology Magazine:
ALMA Finds Ingredient of Life Around Infant Sun-like Stars
Universe Today:
What is the Drake Equation?
June 13, 2017
Daily Mail:
Worm regenerates into rare TWO-HEADED creature as groundbreaking study aboard the ISS reveals they can even regrow amputated parts in space
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz booster rolls out for launch with space station cargo freighter
Space News:
Cygnus cargo spacecraft reentered Sunday, completing two-month mission
Spaceflight Insider:
OA-7 Cygnus re-enters Earth's atmosphere after 2-month mission
Astronomy Now:
Comet claim for mysterious Wow signal sparks controversy
Live Science:
Comet Likely Didn't Cause Bizarre 'Wow!' Signal (But Aliens Might Have)
Live Science:
5 Times 'Aliens' Fooled Us
New Scientist:
Messages from fake aliens decoded quickly in online SETI contest
June 12, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Proton rocket successfully returns to flight after year-long grounding
Spaceflight Insider:
Proton-M returns to flight with launch of EchoStar 21
Space News:
A Proton rocket launched overnight on its first flight in a year
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Proton rocket returns to service with launch of EchoStar 21
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA Finds Evidence of Diverse Environments in Curiosity Samples
New Scientist:
The mystery xenon in Earth's atmosphere came from icy comets
Seeker:
Comet Strikes May Have Helped Spur Life on Earth
WEEKEND EDITION: June 10, 2017 through June 11, 2017
Wired:
String Theory's Weirdest Ideas Finally Make Sense - Thanks to VR
New Atlas:
Watch this nimble robot make quick work of odd shapes
New Atlas:
Megabots' giant American fighting robot beats up a Toyota Prius
Forbes:
The Scientific Story Of How Each Element Was Made
Daily Mail:
San Diego's Rose Canyon fault is MORE dangerous than thought and could trigger a massive earthquake that would 'liquefy' the ground
Astrobiology Magazine:
Volcanoes, referees for the life on Earth
Forbes:
The Largest Volcanic Eruption Of The 20th Century You Probably Never Heard Of
Stuff NZ:
The G&T effect: Antarctica is melting differently than the Arctic
Astrobiology Magazine:
How Hot Were the Oceans When Life First Evolved?
Gizmodo:
Scientists Find 100 Million-Year-Old, Nearly Complete Baby Bird Trapped in Amber
Stuff NZ:
Tyrannosaurus rex had scaly skin and wasn't covered in feathers, a new study says
Stuff NZ:
Moroccan fossils shake up understanding of human origins
Daily Mail:
The fossils that rewrite human history: 300,000-year-old bones found in Morocco reveal Homo Sapiens evolved across Africa 100,000 years EARLIER than thought
The History Blog:
3,500-year-old polychrome reliefs found in Lima temple
The History Blog:
Skrydstrup Woman wasn't from Denmark either
Live Science:
This Mask Is Among the Oldest Human-Made Metal Objects in South America
Live Science:
Ceramic Heads of Possible Goddesses Discovered in Ancient Waste Dump
The History Blog:
Prince of Lavau begins to reveal his secrets
The History Blog:
Roman bathhouse found under Carlisle Cricket Club
The History Blog:
Restored frescoes in Domitilla catacomb unveiled
The History Blog:
Gold coins found in Netherlands from last days of Roman Empire
Smithsonian Magazine:
England's Most Brutal King Was Its Best Peacemaker
Daily Mail:
Ancient Chinese temple is uncovered after almost 1,000 years: 80 tombs and hundreds of stone tablets are discovered that could provide clues about how Buddhism was spread
The History Blog:
British Museum conserves Durer's Triumphal Arch
The History Blog:
Large-scale portraits of Elizabeth I, ambassador attributed to miniaturist Hilliard
Atlas Obscura:
The Mysteries of a Rare, 18th-Century Native American Map
Smithsonian Magazine:
When Nova Scotia Almost Joined the American Revolution
Timeline:
'Alice in Wonderland' changed literature forever, by not trying to teach kids, just entertain them
Retronaut:
c. 1900-1949 -- Hop pickers
Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet Pedro the "Voder," the First Electronic Machine to Talk
Inverse:
How American Codebreakers Helped Win the Battle of Midway - 75 Years Ago
Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet the Daredevil Parachutist Who Tested the First Nylon Parachute 75 Years Ago
Daily Mail:
Haunting D-Day photos of brave Allied troops wading ashore in France and soldiers lying dead on the beach are transformed with colour on the 73rd anniversary of the Normandy landings
Buffalo News:
Torn-Down Tuesday: The Crystal Beach Comet
Atlas Obscura:
These 1950s Coffee Commercials Featured Violent 'Muppets' Prototypes
Politico.eu:
Israel's secret plan to nuke the Egyptian desert
Ars Technica:
Can you commit manslaughter by sending texts? We're about to find out
New Atlas:
25 most interesting motorcycles at Mecum's June Las Vegas auctions
New Atlas:
In photos: The best of the best at Concorso d'Elegenza Villa d'Este
June 9, 2017
Daily Mail:
Could this two-person, electric hybrid helicopter help city commuters beat the rush hour in 2019?
New Atlas:
Video shows maiden flight of cyborg dragonfly
Popular Science:
Where airplanes go to die - and be reborn
Forbes:
The Mariner 9 Spacecraft And The Race To Orbit Mars
New Atlas:
To the stars by atom bomb: The incredible tale of the top secret Orion Project
Forbes:
The First American Spacewalk Happened 52 Years Ago Today
June 8, 2017
Washington Post:
Watch: Brilliant fireball darts across sky over Washington Tuesday night
Space News:
SpaceX will launch next secret X-37 Air Force mission
Spaceflight Now:
U.S. Air Force taps SpaceX to launch next X-37B spaceplane mission
Space News:
China planning to increase rate of human missions, hire new astronauts as it develops space station
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA Orbiter Finds New Evidence of Frost on Moon's Surface
Seeker:
Mars Astronauts Face Double the Cancer Risk as Previously Estimated, Says Study
Daily Mail:
Mars Had Way More Water on its Surface Than We Thought
Daily Mail:
Did Enceladus TIP OVER? Cassini images reveal Saturn's moon might have been kocked over by an asteroid impact
Forbes:
Scientists Found An Exoplanet With Clouds Of Rubies And Sapphires [Infographic]
Daily Mail:
The Milky Way exists in a giant hole of the universe that may have helped life on Earth to develop
June 7, 2017
Daily Mail:
Incredible burning meteor 'brighter than the moon' is seen hurtling to Earth from the Devon coast
Daily Mail:
Nasa reveals historic 2018 mission to 'touch the sun' in an attempt to predict devastating solar storms
Inverse:
NASA's Developing a Whopping 40 Technologies for Its Mars Mission
Ars Technica:
Saturday's SpaceX launch carried a surprise payload - a Chinese experiment
Daily Mail:
Amateur astronomers spot a 'cold new world' just 100 light years from our sun
Seeker:
Scorching Alien World Discovered That's Nearly as Hot as Our Own Sun
New Scientist:
The hottest planet yet is twice Jupiter's size and hot as a star
Daily Mail:
Solved: Mysterious 'Wow! signal' in 1977 was not a message from aliens but triggered by gas from passing COMETS
June 6, 2017
The Himalayan:
Comet Johnson to make close approach to Earth
Spaceflight Insider:
India launches its largest rocket
Spaceflight Now:
India's launcher fleet gets an upgrade with successful test flight
Space News:
India's first GSLV Mark 3 rocket makes its debut
Spaceflight Now:
Dragon supply ship delivers to space station for second time
Spaceflight Insider:
CRS-11 Dragon arrives at International Space Station
Space News:
Virgin Galactic nears next phase of SpaceShipTwo test program
Forbes:
Cassini's Finale: What We Are Learning From Saturn's Solstice [Infographic]
Forbes:
What We Have Learned From Juno And Jupiter So Far [Infographic]
Daily Mail:
What it's like to fly over Jupiter: Astronomers turn just 36 of NASA'S Juno images into a stunning movie
June 5, 2017
Devon Herald:
Video captures huge bright meteor shooting through the night sky
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz MS-03 crew returns to Earth after nearly 200 days in space
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz with two-man crew lands safely in Kazakhstan
Spaceflight Now:
Reused Dragon cargo capsule launched on journey to space station
Space News:
Falcon 9 launches reused Dragon to the space station
Spaceflight Now:
S.S. John Glenn freighter departs space station after successful cargo delivery
Spaceflight Insider:
Cygnus unberthed, begins weeklong free flight
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Falcon 9 rocket takes flight in 100th launch from pad 39A
New Scientist:
Mars rover sees signs of microbe-friendly layers in ancient lake
Astrobiology Magazine:
Curiosity Peels Back Layers on Ancient Martian Lake
Popular Science:
Mars was probably habitable for longer than we thought
Forbes:
Astronomers Still Can't Rule Out SETI's 'Wow!' Signal
WEEKEND EDITION: June 3, 2017 through June 4, 2017
Daily Mail:
Ripples in space time caused by the collision of two black holes are detected for a THIRD time: Discovery opens a new window on our universe
Forbes:
What Will The Death Of The Milky Way Look Like?
Inverse:
An A.I. in London is Writing Its Own Music and It Sounds Heavenly
Inverse:
Robotic Imitation of Human Behavior Just Took a Big Step Forward
Forbes:
How Michigan's Job-Stealing Robots Are Getting 'Schooled'
Forbes:
Job-Stealing Robots? Meet Your Maker
Forbes:
The Future Of Work Involves Some Really Rude Colleagues
Forbes:
Welcome To Robot Country, U.S.A.
Atlas Obscura:
In Search of the Elusive Pink-Headed Duck
New Scientist:
Extinct species of Galapagos giant tortoise may be resurrected
National Geographic:
Watch a Strange 'Walking Fish' That Has Experts Stumped
Atlas Obscura:
Found: America's Third Species of Flying Squirrel
Forbes:
Unusual 'House Of The Dead' Tells Archaeologists About Earliest Farmers
BBC History Extra:
What killed Tutankhamun?
Atlas Obscura:
An Egyptian Slab Lost in Berlin During World War II Has Been Found - in Michigan
Daily Mail:
Treasure trove of jade artefacts found in Guatemala could shed light on Mayan ceremonies 3,000 years ago
Smithsonian Magazine:
Researchers Analyze Burial of Ancient Celtic Prince
Daily Mail:
Stunning 1,600-year-old frescoes are revealed in Rome's biggest catacomb after lasers remove centuries of grime
Atlas Obscura:
Found: Cat's Paw Print on a Roman Roof Tile
Atlas Obscura:
The Modern Movement to Exonerate a Notorious Medieval Serial Killer
BBC History Extra:
Margaret Beaufort: mother of the Tudors
Atlas Obscura:
A Stash of 30 Hidden Bayonets Was Discovered in Valley Forge
History.com:
Aaron Burr's Notorious Treason Case
History.com:
The Strange Tale of New York's Forgotten Subway
History.com:
Born in the USA: The Immigrant Son Who Fought for Birthright Citizenship
The Guardian:
Unseen Edith Wharton play found hidden in Texas archive
Atlas Obscura:
The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool
BBC History Extra:
The saga of the Einstein Tower
National Geographic:
Rare Blueprints Show How an Iconic Baseball Stadium Evolved
BBC History Extra:
Dunkirk: Where History Happened
History.com:
Battle for the Aleutians: WWII's Forgotten Alaskan Campaign
BBC History Extra:
The battle for Okinawa: one Marine's story
Flashbak:
POW Kurt Vonnegut Writes Home From World War II: 'The RAF Bombed Our Unmarked Train'
BBC History Extra:
1966: the Beatles' tumultuous world tour
Atlas Obscura:
The Intense Corporate 'Hell Camps' of 1980s Japan
Smithsonian Magazine:
Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Buildings (and One Doghouse) Open for Rare Tours in Honor of the Architect's 150th Birthday
Inverse:
7 Great American Buildings That Looked Like the Future Until They Were Destroyed
June 2, 2017
Daily Mail:
Russia successfully tests 'unstoppable' 4,600mph hypersonic weapon that is faster than ANY global anti-missile system
Daily Mail:
The biggest plane EVER built: Microsoft billionaire unveils huge 'Stratolaunch' aircraft with two cockpits and a wingspan longer than a FOOTBALL FIELD that is designed to launch satellites into orbit
HistoryNet:
GE's Trailblazing J47
New Atlas:
Apollo Guidance Computer sale highlights contrasting views of historical significance
History.com:
The Twisty Tale of an Apollo 11 Lunar Sample, Set to Go Up For Auction
Live Science:
The Sky's the Limit: 15 Key Milestones in Aviation History
Air & Space Magazine:
Amazing Stories of the Space Age
Spaceflight History:
Apollo Ends at Venus: A 1967 Proposal for Single-Launch Piloted Venus Flybys in 1972, 1973, and 1975
June 1, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Refurbished SpaceX supply ship ready for liftoff Thursday
Space News:
Weather looking favorable for Thursday SpaceX Falcon 9 launch
Space News:
Spaceport checkup delays Proton return to flight to June 7
Space News:
Stratolaunch rolls out giant aircraft
Universe Today:
Lunar Orbiter Takes a Meteorite Strike Right in the Camera
Popular Science:
52 of Cassini's most beautiful postcards from the outer solar system
New Scientist:
Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape
May 31, 2017
Daily Mail:
SpaceX fires one of its megarocket's THREE boosters as Elon Musk admits 'one way or another, launch is guaranteed to be exciting'
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 rocket fires engines in hold-down test for station resupply launch
Spaceflight Now:
Russia sends military satellite into orbit for missile warnings
Space News:
Launch of space-debris-removal experiment delayed due to safety reviews
Space News:
ESA investigation finds Schiaparelli spacecraft was "ill-prepared" to make Mars landing
Daily Mail:
Cassini hits another milestone: Nasa spacecraft witnesses Saturn's summer solstice
New Scientist:
Saturn's moons could reassemble after a cosmic smash-up
Universe Today:
Juno is Ready to Tell Us What it Found at Jupiter
Air & Space Magazine:
Is the Phantom Planet Real?
May 30, 2017
Mysterious Universe:
Unexplained Roaring Noises Terrify Nottingham, England
KXAN-TV:
VIDEO: Fireball streaks across Bastrop sky
EJ Insight:
Saturday night fireball: Meteor spotted in New Territories
Smithsonian Magazine:
New Zealand Sent a 3D-Printed Rocket to Space
New Atlas:
Fifty percent success as Electron reaches space, but not orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Videos: Rocket Lab's Electron rocket lifts off for first time
Universe Today:
SpaceX Targets June 1 Launch of Space Station Cargo Delivery Mission for NASA
Daily Mail:
The moment that doomed Schiaparelli: 'Conflicting information' on the lander's computer caused it to crash into Mars, final investigation reveals
Daily Mail:
Jupiter's rings from the INSIDE: Stunning view is captured by Nasa's Juno probe in a world first
Daily Mail:
Incredible NASA images reveal 'a whole new Jupiter' as Juno spots 'monstrous' 870 mile-wide cyclones and massive magnetism on the gas giant
Daily Mail:
Aliens could be living closer than thought: Radioactive decay may support life on Pluto and Europa
Daily Mail:
Scientists spot 'potentially habitable' super-Earth planet just 21 light-years away
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND EDITION:
May 27, 2017 through May 29, 2017
Big Think:
Physicists Outline 10 Different Dimensions and How You'd Experience Them
Big Think:
There Are 2 Dimensions of Time, Theoretical Physicist States
Quanta:
Discoveries Fuel Fight Over Universe's First Light
Big Think:
There are 7 Edges of Science We'll Never Surpass, Oxford Mathematician States
New Atlas:
Google's AI beats world's top-ranking Go player
New Atlas:
World's first autonomous security vehicle with companion drone
New Atlas:
Turtle-bot teaches itself to waddle through the desert
New Atlas:
Did the Earth form from a new type of planetary object called a synestia?
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Does Earth's Geomagnetic Field Work?
Daily Mail:
Incredible 1.4 BILLION pixel map reveals the Gulf of Mexico's seafloor was scarred by a 200 million year old ocean
Daily Mail:
Scientists find an EXTRA layer of plate tectonics within Earth's mantle that could be causing strange tremors across the Pacific
Daily Mail:
Life on land began with an INVASION: 500-million-year-old footprints reveal how marine animals leaped onto dry soil from every corner of the Earth
Daily Mail:
Fossil of bus-sized prehistoric sea creature that ruled the seas in the age of dinosaurs is found in Russia
Live Science:
Incredible! Most Well-Preserved Armored Dinosaur Was a 'Spiky Tank'
The History Blog:
Nodosaur fossil so well-preserved it boggles minds
New Atlas:
T-Rex's bone-shattering bite was much worse than its bark
Daily Mail:
Tooth that proves 'Triceratops-style' horned dinosaurs roamed eastern US could rewrite our planet's history
Daily Mail:
How the blue whale got so big: Researchers say climate change turned them into binge eaters and caused an 'evolutionary jump' just 2-3 million years ago
Science Magazine:
Earliest evidence for dog breeding found on remote Siberian island
Scientific American:
Brood Awakening: 17-Year Cicadas Emerge 4 Years Early
History.com:
Did the First Human Ancestor Emerge in Europe, Not Africa?
Atlas Obscura:
Found: Earliest Evidence of Humans Living on the Australian Coast
Daily Mail:
Secrets of the Stone Age artisans: Cavemen transformed the way they used PAINT signalling a cultural shift over four millenia
Daily Mail:
Hunter gatherers and early farmers DID live together and even had children: Rival societies co-operated 8,000 years ago, DNA reveals
Smithsonian Magazine:
Malta's Hypogeum, One of the World's Best Preserved Prehistoric Sites, Reopens to the Public
Daily Mail:
Roman sling bullets used against Scottish tribes 2,000 years ago were as deadly as a .44 Magnum
Daily Mail:
King Tutankhamun's bed and chariot go back to the pyramids as they are moved to new Grand Egyptian Museum
BBC History Extra:
The real Joan of Arc
Forbes:
Mass Grave From Thirty Years' War Reveals Brutal Cavalry Attack
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Long, Violent Border Dispute Between Colonial Maryland and Pennsylvania is Why We Have the Mason-Dixon Line
The History Blog:
Franz Xaver Mozart finally steps out of his dad's shadow
Daily Mail:
Did Russian tsar fake his own death to live as a MONK? DNA tests 'to check if Alexander I lived in disguise for 39 years after he was declared dead'
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Namesake of Howard University Spent Years Kicking Native Americans Off of Their Land
Air & Space Magazine:
A Brand New U.S. Weather Service Joined the Race in 1878 to Observe a Solar Eclipse
Daily Mail:
Love lost at sea: Locket found among Titanic wreckage belonged to survivor whose husband died on the ill-fated ship while traveling home to America
History.com:
The Poppy and the Poet: How a Remembrance Symbol Was Born
Retronaut:
1941-1945 -- Building Liberty ships
Retronaut:
September 1942 -- Making the New York Times
Retronaut:
June 6, 1944 -- New York on D-Day
Timeline:
Newly discovered color photos show everyday life in Soviet Russia through American eyes
Smithsonian Magazine:
Joe Pyne Was America's First Shock Jock
Smithsonian Magazine:
What the Unisphere Tells Us About America at the Dawn of the Space Age
Smithsonian Magazine:
When a Jet-Powered Car Raced in the Indianapolis 500
Retronaut:
1962-1971 -- Diane Arbus in the park
Atlas Obscura:
How the Owner of the Greatest Mystery Bookstore Pulled the Genre Out of the Muck
Atlas Obscura:
What It Took to Demolish the Most Infamous Room at the Hanford Nuclear Site
Daily Mail:
From a 4,800 tonne water cleaning plant to a space ship spanning six lanes, the biggest things ever moved on the road revealed
BBC History Extra:
Touring London with Shakespeare, Dickens and Oscar Wilde: 7 must-see literary landmarks
Atlas Obscura:
The Lost Typefaces of W.A. Dwiggins
National Geographic:
21 Photos of China's Best UNESCO World Heritage Sites
National Geographic:
The Wonder of Water in 33 Dreamy Pictures
May 26, 2017
Air & Space Magazine:
A Brief History of Quadrotors
History Net:
The Douglas X-3 Stiletto
Spaceflight History:
"Still Under Active Consideration": Five Proposed Earth-Orbital Apollo Missions for the 1970s (1971)
Spaceflight History:
Venus As Proving Ground: A 1967 Proposal for a Piloted Venus Orbiter
Air & Space Magazine:
Test-Driving the Lunar Rover
May 25, 2017
Daily Mail:
The X-37b's big brother gets the go ahead: Boeing to build XS-1 'Phantom Express' hypersonic space plane that will allow short notice military satellite launches
Space News:
DARPA selects Boeing for spaceplane project
Spaceflight Now:
Observers spot top secret satellite launched by SpaceX earlier this month
Daily Mail:
NASA tests its 'megarocket' engine that will blast man to Mars
Spaceflight Now:
Probe into crash of ESA lander recommends more checks on ExoMars descent craft
Space News:
India's space agency planning to launch next lunar mission in 2018
Daily Mail:
Aliens could be living closer than thought: Radioactive decay may support life on Pluto and Europa
Spaceflight Now:
TRAPPIST-1h Orbit Suggests It Is Too Cold for Life
Daily Mail:
Will an asteroid collide with Earth this year? Nasa reveals the FIVE space rocks that will come 'close' to our planet
May 24, 2017
Astronomy Now:
Watch near-Earth asteroid 2017 CS dash across the northern sky 28 May-1 June
Spaceflight Now:
Astronauts replace failed computer in short spacewalk
Seeker:
NASA Declares 'Victory' With Critical ISS Spacewalk
Seeker:
Is There Space for 12,000 More Satellites Up There?
Universe Today:
We Have More Details on the Outermost Trappist-1 Planet!
Popular Science:
We may have accidentally formed a protective bubble around Earth
May 23, 2017
Seeker:
'Space Aggressors' Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict
Daily Mail:
Could humans of the future be born in SPACE? Mouse sperm stored on the ISS for 9 months produces healthy offspring
Spaceflight Now:
NASA's Cassini spacecraft aims to skirt Saturn's innermost ring
Spaceflight Now:
Juno spacecraft makes another pass by Jupiter
Astrobiology Magazine:
Rivers on three worlds tell different tales
Daily Mail:
A message from an alien race? New Australian radio telescope finds mysterious 'fast radio burst' just four days after being switched on
May 22, 2017
CBC News:
Falcon Lake incident is Canada's 'best-documented UFO case,' even 50 years later
Winnipeg Free Press:
Close encounter of the Manitoba kind
Chronicle Herald:
Mystery donor saves Shag Harbour UFO festival
Space News:
Astronauts to replace faulty electronics unit in unscheduled ISS spacewalk
Spaceflight Insider:
Contingency spacewalk required to replace failed relay box
Space News:
All booked: Virgin Galactic says suborbital spaceflights are full until 2021
New Scientist:
Titan's riverbeds show a terrain built more like Mars than Earth
New Scientist:
Astronomers scramble as 'alien megastructure' star dims again
Universe Today:
The Star That Probably Doesn't Have an Alien Megastructure (But Maybe it Does) is Dimming Again
WEEKEND EDITION: May 20, 2017 through May 21, 2017
Inside Science:
Meet the Biggest Censor of All: the Universe
The Guardian:
Multiverse: have astronomers found evidence of parallel universes?
Daily Mail:
Is this evidence of a parallel universe? 'Cold Spot' in space suggests there are alternate worlds with their own versions of reality
Bloomberg:
The Not-So-Secret Code That Powers Robots Around the Globe
Inverse:
These 14 Stunning Works of Art Were Made by Robots
Daily Mail:
The 'giant lava lamp' inside the Earth that might FLIP the planet's magnetic field
Daily Mail:
Is Italy's SUPERVOLCANO about to blow? Experts warn that Campi Flegrei is at a 'critical stage' in the build up to a devastating eruption
Daily Mail:
The 30 seconds that sentenced dinosaurs to their doom: New BBC documentary reveals the moment an asteroid NINE-MILES long hit the earth and wiped out an entire species
BBC News:
Dinosaur asteroid hit 'worst possible place'
Daily Mail:
The 'winged serpent' found in an ancient sinkhole: Fossil is new species of snake that lived 5 million years ago
Atlas Obscura:
This California Man Has Dedicated His Backyard to Saving a Butterfly
The Atlantic:
A New Addition to the Human Family Tree Is Surprisingly Young
NBC News:
Early Human Homo Naledi May Have Made Tools, Buried Dead
Washington Post:
At night at the museum, a Neanderthal skeleton comes out of the vault
The History Blog:
Tomb with 17 mummies found in Minya, Egypt
Atlas Obscura:
The Mystery of the 2,000-Year-Old Iron Beads
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Rare Public Display of a 17th-Century Mayan Manuscript
Atlas Obscura:
The Mysterious Death of the Namesake of the Douglas Fir
Atlas Obscura:
Florence Nightingale Was Born 197 Years Ago, and Her Infographics Were Better Than Most of the Internet's
Daily Mail:
Pictured: First car to EVER get a speeding ticket in 1896 (even if it was doing just 8mph)
Smithsonian Magazine:
How World War I Changed Weather Forecasting for Good
Smithsonian Magazine:
How WWI Sparked the Gay Rights Movement
Smithsonian Magazine:
The 1927 Bombing That Remains America's Deadliest School Massacre
Atlas Obscura:
During WWII, 'Rumor Clinics' Were Set Up to Dispel Morale-Damaging Gossip
Atlas Obscura:
For Sale: The First Map of Disneyland
Vulture:
The Secret History of William Gibson's Never-Filmed Aliens Sequel
New Atlas:
Masterclass: 25 legendary cars that prove beauty is more than skin deep
May 19, 2017
The Aviationist:
Newest Russian T-50 Stealth Aircraft Makes First Appearance in Spectacular New Camouflage
Daily Mail:
$190,000 amphibious flying car in crisis as crash kills two employees of the firm that makes it - including its lead designer
Daily Mail:
Would you go 'drone-diving'? Incredible video shows daredevil drop 1,082 feet from the sky after being lifted by a 28-propeller drone
6sqft:
Before JFK, there was Idlewild Airport
Spaceflight History:
Two for the Price of One: 1980s Piloted Missions with Stopovers at Mars and Venus (1969)
The Atlantic:
What Is America's Secret Space Shuttle For?
May 18, 2017
Shelburne County Coast Guard:
No love for Shag Harbour UFO: 50th anniversary event funding request denied
KOIN-TV:
UFO enthusiasts gather for McMinville weekend fest
Spaceflight Insider:
Blue Origin's BE-4 engine test hardware suffers failure
Space News:
Russia plans to end dependence on U.S. satellites for communication with ISS
New Scientist:
Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite
Daily Mail:
First true-colour images of Saturn taken during Cassini's final orbits reveal the planet's permanent 120-mile-wide hurricane in stunning detail
New Scientist:
Neptune-like exoplanet spotted that has a watery atmosphere
Daily Mail:
Are you ready for the 'Great American Eclipse?' How to prepare for the incredible phenomenon that will darken the country from Oregon to South Carolina in just 100 days
May 17, 2017
Daily Mail:
Nasa creates a bizarre Mars rover concept that looks like the Batmobile and has a detachable laboratory
Space News:
Recent Photos From Curiosity Rover Show 'Megaripples' and Wheel Damage
Astrobiology Magazine:
Mars Rover Opportunity Begins Study of Valley's Origin
Astrobiology Magazine:
Ancient Mars impacts created tornado-like winds that scoured surface
Daily Galaxy:
Heavy Rains Reshaped Early Mars
Seeker:
Mars May Have Been Born in the Asteroid Belt
Forbes:
After 50 Years Of Missions, We're Finally Ready To Know: Is There Life On Mars?
CBS News/60 Minutes:
Did life ever exist on Mars? It could have
Business Insider:
If aliens existed on Mars, they might have lived in oasis-like pools
Cosmos:
Johannes Kepler's obsession with Mars
May 16, 2017
Daily Mail:
Nasa unveils plans for a YEAR-LONG mission to the moon in preparation for the journey to Mars in the 2030s
Space News:
SpaceX launches fourth Global Xpress satellite on expendable Falcon 9
Scientific American:
The Sneaky Danger of Space Dust
Popular Science:
This watery, Neptune-sized exoplanet could help us learn how new worlds evolve
Scientific American:
Could "Planetary Protection" Scuttle Otherworldly Exploration?
Universe Today:
If Proxima b has an atmosphere like Earth's, it might be habitable
Daily Mail:
'Earth 2.0' COULD be habitable: Climate model suggests Proxima B is likely to have perfect conditions to host alien life
May 15, 2017
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX set to launch rare Falcon 9 for Inmarsat-5 F4 mission
Space News:
NASA decides not to place a crew on first SLS/Orion mission
Spaceflight Now:
NASA rules out crew on first SLS flight
Seeker:
NASA Astronauts Undertake 200th Spacewalk from the International Space Station
Spaceflight Insider:
Astronauts complete 200th ISS spacewalk
Spaceflight Now:
Astronauts complete shortened spacewalk outside International Space Station
Daily Mail:
Blow to Mars missions as researchers find spaceflight 'dramatically' slows the oxygen in astronaut's blood
Scientific American:
The Search for Life on Mars Is about to Get Weird
Air & Space Magazine:
Wandering Moons Could Make Good Abodes for Life
WEEKEND EDITION: May 13, 2017 through May 14, 2017
New Scientist:
Gravitational waves could show hints of extra dimensions
Daily Mail:
Do parallel universes exist? Gravitational waves could be the key to discovering an extra dimension
Daily Mail:
Move over Sherlock: AI detective Valcri solves crimes using deductions made from MILLIONS of pieces data
Daily Mail:
The Robotic falcon flying to the rescue of travellers: Canadian airport using drone to scare off birds from runways
Daily Mail:
Fears for the second largest ice shelf in Antarctica as researchers warn it is at the 'point of no return'
Astrobiology Magazine:
Earth was barren, flat and almost entirely under water 4.4 billion years ago
Sci News:
Earliest Signs of Microbial Life on Land Found in 3.48-Billion-Year-Old Hot Spring Deposits
Sydney Morning Herald:
Oldest evidence of life on land discovered in Australia
The Guardian:
Zombie ammonite discovery is 'snapshot of an unusual moment in deep time'
Smithsonian Magazine:
Ancient Creature Left a 28-Foot Drag Mark After It Died
Daily Mail:
Revealed: The incredible 110 million-year-old, 2,500 pound dinosaur fossil so well preserved it looks like a STATUE
Stuff NZ:
Who you gonna call? Dinosaur named for 'Ghostbusters' beast Zuul
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 75-million-year-old armoured dinosaur named after Zuul from Ghostbusters has a short snout, devilish horns and lethal club tail
Smithsonian Magazine:
Infant Dinosaur Found Still Encased in Its Egg Identified as New Species
The Guardian:
36m-year-old fossil discovery is missing link in whale evolution, say researchers
Live Science:
15 of the Largest Animals of Their Kind on Earth
Daily Mail:
Humanity's mystery new cousin is surprisingly young: 335,000-year-old fossils of Homo naledi transform our understanding of human evolution
New Scientist:
Meet 'Neo', the most complete skeleton of Homo naledi ever found
New Atlas:
Newly discovered Homo naledi lived alongside our early ancestors
The History Blog:
Mongoose on a leash identified in Middle Kingdom tomb
Daily Mail:
Archaeologists discover Egypt's first funerary garden in 4,000-year-old find at Luxor tomb entrance
The History Blog:
First-ever funerary garden found in Luxor
The History Blog:
24 Bronze Age axes found in Norway
Smithsonian Magazine:
Found: Pages From One of the First Books Printed in England
Daily Mail:
Burial chamber of a 'Pharaoh's daughter' dating back 3,700 years is found in Egypt alongside jars filled with her ORGANS
The History Blog:
Rare 17th c. Dutch wall map of Australia emerges at auction
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why the Colonies' Most Galvanizing Patriot Never Became a Founding Father
History.com:
The Strange Saga of the 27th Amendment
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Infamous 19th-Century Birth Control Pamphlet Got Its Writer Imprisoned
History.com:
The Man Behind the Kentucky Derby
Smithsonian Magazine:
Tomatoes Have Legally Been Vegetables Since 1893
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Faux "Sioux" Sharpshooter Who Became Annie Oakley's Rival
History.com:
The Mysterious Disappearance of L'Oiseau Blanc
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Really Felled the Hindenburg?
The Guardian:
Britain's first female second world war spy to get overdue recognition
History.com:
Last Secret JFK Files Could Be Released Soon
Jalopnik:
Only One Country Has Ever Voluntarily Given Up Its Nukes
The History Blog:
Mode Persuasive Cartography collection digitized
New Atlas:
Patek Philippe Calibre 89, the 20th century's most complicated watch, heads to auction
May 12, 2017
Daily Mail:
New UK facility to test engines for a spaceplane that will take tourists into orbit at five times the speed of sound
Daily Mail:
World's largest aircraft takes to the skies for the first time since it crashed on a test flight nine months ago
Air & Space Magazine:
Meet Natilus, the Jumbo Drone
Daily Mail:
Is this China's new drone bomber? Picture claims to show Beijing's sea-skimming anti-ship unmanned aircraft 'that could avoid radar detection'
BBC News:
The world's biggest plane may have a new mission
Daily Mail:
Ghosts of the USSR: Eerie photographs show Soviet-era space shuttles left to rust in an abandoned desert hangar in Kazakhstan
Stuff NZ:
'I wanted to serve': How deaf men helped Nasa understand motion sickness in space
May 11, 2017
WFAA-TV:
Aurora's Ned the Alien: A 'damn good story' 120 years and counting
The Aviationist:
We Have Rented A Cessna 172 And Skirted Area 51 and Nevada Test and Training Range. Here Is How It Went.
Daily Mail:
Nasa unveils plans for a YEAR-LONG mission to the moon in preparation for the journey to Mars in the 2030s
Daily Mail:
The rocket that will take man to the moon and Mars: NASA wind tunnel tests its SLS rocket (although its model is only 6 feet tall)
Astrobiology Magazine:
After Thirteen Lucky Years At Saturn, Cassini's Mission Comes to An End
New Scientist:
Waves surge in opposite directions around Io's largest lava lake
Seeker:
Comet 67P Found to Be Producing Its Own Oxygen in Deep Space
C/Net:
Real search for aliens gets weird signal from a sci-fi world
May 10, 2017
Universe Today:
Newly Discovered House-Sized Asteroid 2017 HX4 Flew Safely Past the Earth Yesterday
Space News:
Static fire test brings Falcon Heavy one step closer to debut
Spaceflight Now:
James Webb Space Telescope shipped to Texas for its biggest test yet
Spaceflight Now:
Cassini downlinks view of Titan's methane clouds on third loop inside rings
EarthSky:
What we learned from Asteroid 2014 JO25
May 9, 2017
Daily Mail:
Back with a bang! Top secret Air Force X-37B lands with a sonic boom after spending two YEARS in space but they still won't say what it was doing up there
Stuff NZ:
US military spacecraft ends secret mission orbiting Earth
Popular Science:
The Air Force wants you to know about its secret robotic spacecraft, the X-37B
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Sunday's return of X-37B after 718 days in space
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Sunday's landing of X-37B at Kennedy Space Center
Seeker:
How a Helicopter Drone Could Fly on Mars
Universe Today:
Does Jupiter Have a Solid Core?
New Scientist:
Earth may have been born in a huge flare-up of the young sun
May 8, 2017
Spaceflight Insider:
4th X-37B conducts first landing at Kennedy Space Center
Space News:
X-37B lands after record-setting mission
Spaceflight Now:
X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth and makes autopilot landing in Florida
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA Rover Samples Active Linear Dune on Mars
Daily Mail:
NASA reveals stunning new image of mysterious swirling storms at Jupiter's south pole
Stuff NZ:
'Space rock' found in backyard impact crater in Wainuiomata, near Wellington
WEEKEND EDITION: May 6, 2017 through May 7, 2017
Mysterious Universe:
Mysterious "Cold Spot" in Space May Prove the Multiverse is Real
Daily Mail:
Department of Energy's Virginia accelerator reveals breakthrough in detecting potential new form of matter
Daily Mail:
Meet the Monkey King: China unveils 15 foot tall fighting 'megabot' to take on the US and Japan
Daily Mail:
The bizarre bipedal robot that runs like an OSTRICH and can balance itself without any assistance
Astrobiology Magazine:
Rock Samples Indicate Water is Key Ingredient for Crust Formation
Daily Mail:
The massive meteorite that reshaped the Earth: Study reveal the full extent of vast volcanic eruptions caused by impact 1.8 billion years ago
Astrobiology Magazine:
Discovery in northern lakes may be key to understanding early life on Earth
New Atlas:
Forgotten fossil fills blanks in dinosaur evolution
Daily Mail:
Meet Max: Giant 150 million-year-old relative of Diplodocus with a 30ft neck and whip-like tail is unearthed
Gizmodo:
This New Dinosaur Looked an Awful Lot Like a Chicken
Daily Mail:
New 'mini-T Rex' species was the last dinosaur to roam Africa before the creatures went extinct 66 million years ago
Daily Mail:
The beast on the beach: Fossil hunters find shin bone of 2m-year-old mammoth... in Norfolk
New Atlas:
"Lost lizard" rediscovered on remote Pacific island
Daily Mail:
Devastating volcanic eruption that rocked Australia 7,000 years ago has lived on in Aboriginal stories for 230 generations
Mysterious Universe:
New Research Casts Doubts on Otzi the Iceman Murder Theory
The History Blog:
Guennol Stargazer sells for $14,471,500, or does it?
The History Blog:
24 Bronze Age axes found in Norway
Smithsonian Magazine:
Model Looms Are Missing Link in China's Textile History
Daily Mail:
Back from the dead: 2,000-year-old tomb of Emperor Augustus will be restored to its former glory in £8.4 million project
The History Blog:
Quiver of arrows found in Fregerslev Viking grave
Daily Mail:
Has an anchor left behind by Christopher Columbus been found in the Caribbean? Experts reveal find made using 'space map'
Smithsonian Magazine:
On Evil May Day, Londoners Rioted Over Foreigners Stealing Their Jobs
History.com:
Stranded in the New World: The Amazing Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca
BBC History Extra:
Why did Anne Boleyn have to die?
New Atlas:
World's first physics textbook sells for $790,000
The History Blog:
Massasoit Ousamequin's relics to be reburied
Atlas Obscura:
One of the Earliest Industrial Spies Was a French Missionary Stationed in China
Smithsonian Magazine:
Benjamin Franklin Was the First to Chart the Gulf Stream
Smithsonian Magazine:
George Washington's Congress Got Off to an Embarrassing Start
Smithsonian Magazine:
Fearing a Smallpox Epidemic, Civil War Troops Tried to Self-Vaccinate
Timeline:
These vivid color photos from the 1890s used retouching to make the world more real
The History Blog:
Rodin's unique Absolution on display for the first time
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Women Warriors of the Russian Revolution
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Woodrow Wilson's Propaganda Machine Changed American Journalism
Inverse:
In 1929, Black Jockeys Disappeared From the Kentucky Derby
Daily Mail:
'The air was on fire'; Last survivor of the Hindenburg Disaster remembers the moment the huge airship burst into flames 80 years ago and killed his father and sister
Smithsonian Magazine:
Times Square's Glitzy Look was One Man's Bright Idea
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Humble Moss Healed the Wounds of Thousands in World War I
Atlas Obscura:
The Mysterious Case of the Radioactive Toothpaste
Atlas Obscura:
The 1957 Rikers Island Plane Crash That Made Inmates Heroes
Smithsonian Magazine:
The US Declared "Loyalty Day" in the 1950s to Erase Worker Protest
Jalopnik:
This New Luxury Sleeper Train In Japan Is Beautiful And Insane
New Atlas:
Bonhams Spring Staffordshire sale highlights include $210,000 barn find Vincent White Shadow
New Atlas:
Mercedes-Benz 680 S Saoutchik Torpedo Roadster heads to auction
Atlas Obscura:
The 17th-Century Moon Mission That Never Got Off the Ground
May 5, 2017
Daily Mail:
Tony Stark, eat your heart out! British inventor wows crowds by taking flight in his 'Iron Man' suit
Daily Mail:
Lockheed Martin unleashes the Fury: First flight tests of stealth superdrone that can stay airborne for fifteen hours revealed and is launched by catapult
Spaceflight History:
Floaters, Armored Landers, Radar Orbiters, and Drop Sondes: Automated Probes For Piloted Venus Flybys (1967)
Spaceflight History:
Geosynchronous Drift: Krafft Ehricke's Destination Mankind Apollo Mission (1972)
HistoryNet:
The Luftwaffe's Secret Squadrons
HistoryNet:
The Luftwaffe's High-Flying Diesel
HistoryNet:
Airmail's First Day
HistoryNet:
The Suicide Club
The Atlantic:
Sergey Brin's Secret Zeppelin
May 4, 2017
Ellwood City Ledger:
UFO sightings reported in the area in the 1970s
Space News:
SpaceShipTwo tests feather system on latest glide flight
Spaceflight Insider:
Photo Gallery: SpaceX launches classified NROL-76 payload
Stuff NZ:
Leak causes early end to Nasa's Wanaka balloon mission
Space News:
Mars' looming traffic jam
Spaceflight Now:
First aerial color photo of Mars rover's "hole-in-one" landing site
Smithsonian Magazine:
How and When Did Saturn Get Those Magnificent Rings?
Spaceflight Now:
NASA probe finds Saturn ring gap emptier than predicted
New Scientist:
First results from Jupiter probe show huge magnetism and storms
Daily Mail:
NASA reveals 'remarkably similar' planetary system just 10.5 light years away from Earth
Universe Today:
Where Should We Look For Ancient Civilizations in the Solar System?
May 3, 2017
Daily Mail:
China will begin building a permanent base in orbit to rival the International Space Station in 2019
Space News:
China ready to move ahead with development of a space station after refueling tests
New Scientist:
Mars Trojans may be part of a planet that was destroyed long ago
Astrobiology Magazine:
Research team discovers lull in Mars' giant impact history
Seeker:
NASA's $200M Spacesuit Problem Threatens Its Deep-Space Exploration Plans
Popular Science:
Why NASA is running out of spacesuits
Space News:
The moon is the gateway to NASA's exploration future
Stuff NZ:
China and Europe in talks to create 'moon village'
May 2, 2017
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX ventures 'into the black' with classified NROL-76 mission
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX successfully boosts top secret U.S. government satellite into space
Space News:
SpaceX launches first spy satellite after 24-hour hold
Seeker:
Elon Musk's SpaceX Sends Secret US Spy Satellite Into Orbit, Then Lands Rocket
Universe Today:
SpaceX Stages Stupendous NRO Spysat Sunrise Liftoff and Land Landing
Seeker:
Distant Dwarf Planet DeeDee Stirs Up the Pluto Planethood Debate
Daily Mail:
Earth's frozen twin: NASA finds 'iceball' planet that has the same mass and orbits its star at the same distance
May 1, 2017
Space News:
SpaceX spy launch scrubbed Sunday, rescheduled for Monday
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX launch scrubbed in final minute of countdown
Spaceflight Insider:
Sensor issue prompts 24-hour delay for classified Falcon 9 mission
Spaceflight Now:
Tianzhou 1 freighter achieves China's first in-space refueling demo
Ars Technica:
Cassini flies where no spacecraft has gone before - within 3,000km of Saturn
Space News:
NASA's Cassini spacecraft completes first close approach to Saturn
Seeker:
Cassini Probe Survives First 'Grand Finale' Ring Dive Around Saturn
Spaceflight Now:
Cassini contacts Earth after flying inside Saturn's rings
New Scientist:
Icy Enceladus's tiger stripes are a window on its watery depths
New Scientist:
We could detect alien life by finding complex molecules
WEEKEND EDITION: April 29, 2017 through April 30, 2017
Universe Today:
Is Another Universe Sitting Too Close To Us On The Multiverse Bus?
Forbes:
Is Time Travel Possible, According To Science?
Sacramento Bee:
A robot is programmed to write a movie. The result is better than you'd think.
Science Magazine:
Watch this robot construct the world's biggest botmade building by itself
Recode:
Boston Dynamics has been using its robot 'dog' to deliver packages in Boston
Live Science:
Odd New Theory Explains How Early Earth Got Its Oxygen
Popular Mechanics:
7 of the World's Most Fearsome Active Volcanoes
Live Science:
Earliest Fungus-Like Fossils Date Back 2.4 Billion Years
Mother Nature Network:
15 astounding facts about trees
The Guardian:
Pincer-wielding 507m-year-old fossil sheds light on evolution of crabs
New Atlas:
Meet the skunk-sized predator that topped the food chain 34 million years ago
Mental Floss:
20 Fun Facts About Penguins
The Guardian:
'Hobbit' species did not evolve from ancestor of modern humans, research finds
New Atlas:
Mastodon bones push arrival of early humans in America back by 115,000 years
Science Magazine:
Were humans in the Americas 100,000 years earlier than scientists thought?
Popular Science:
A mastodon carcass could totally rewrite American history - but there's reason to be skeptical
Daily Mail:
The violent birth of modern man: The incredible ancient stone carvings that reveal how a devastating comet impact 13,000 years ago killed thousands, altered the climate and triggered the rise of the first civilisations
The History Blog:
Model looms found in ancient tomb in China
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Fears That Fueled an Ancient Border Wall
BBC History Extra:
St George's Day: 10 things you (probably) didn't know about him
Smithsonian Magazine:
Photos Capture India's Ancient, Vanishing Stepwells
BBC History Extra:
Edmund Ironside: Anglo-Saxon warrior king
Daily Mail:
The hidden world of the Knights Templar: Stunning images show mysterious carvings etched into a Hertfordshire cave by warrior monks 800 years ago
Daily Mail:
Stunning new pictures reveal the secret room hidden under a trapdoor in Florence experts believe contains lost Michelangelo artwork
Mysterious Universe:
Lost City of the Wichita Nation Found in Kansas
The History Blog:
Massasoit Ousamequin's relics to be reburied
The History Blog:
1627 Knight's Tomb in Jamestown conserved
BBC History Extra:
Scandal, conspiracy and the affair of the poisons: inside the court of Louis XIV
Mental Floss:
Franz Anton Mesmer, the Man Who Invented Hypnotism
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Prussian Nobleman Who Helped Save the American Revolution
The History Blog:
Second parchment manuscript of Declaration of Independence found in UK
Mental Floss:
The Shakespeare Fraud That Tricked Late 18th Century London
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the doomed Franklin Expedition deepens: Some of the 129 sailors who died after getting stuck in Arctic ice 170 years ago were WOMEN
The History Blog:
Florence Nightingale's Egyptian artifacts to go on display
Smithsonian Magazine:
How an Alcohol-Hating English Preacher Founded Global Tourism
BBC History Extra:
Life in 19th-century slums: Victorian London's homes from hell
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Tragic Story of the First Ascent of the Matterhorn
Mental Floss:
He Built a 40-Foot "Spite Fence" Around His Neighbor's House
Smithsonian Magazine:
Although Less Deadly Than Crinolines, Bustles Were Still a Pain in the Behind
The History Blog:
Gold coin hoard found in piano declared treasure
Smithsonian Magazine:
Where to See the Fabled Faberge Imperial Easter Eggs
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Coal Mining Massacre America Forgot
History.com:
The FBI's First Big Case: The Osage Murders
History.com:
D-Day's Deadly Dress Rehearsal
History.com:
Live from Nevada... It's an A-Bomb Test!
Timeline:
In the Orangeburg massacre, three black teens were shot dead for protesting a segregated bowling alley
Flashbak:
Salvador Dali's illustrations for Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland (1969)
Daily Mail:
From a $1,499 cell phone to a $18,000 computer: Retro adverts reveal the astonishing prices of now obsolete technology
Washington Post:
Remembering the La Plata tornado, 15 years later
New Atlas:
"Moby Dick" threatens to break motorcycle auction records
BBC History Extra:
From dragons to unicorns: finding fantastic beasts in ancient history
Smithsonian Magazine:
After Nearly a Century in Storage, These World War I Artworks Still Deliver the Vivid Shock of War
April 28, 2017
New Atlas:
Lilium plans five-seater air taxi after successful unmanned flight
Spaceflight History:
NASA Johnson's Plan to PEP Up Shuttle/Spacelab (1981)
Spaceflight History:
Things to Do During a Venus-Mars-Venus Piloted Flyby Mission (1968)
Air & Space Magazine:
The First Fatal Spaceflight
Mental Floss:
A Brief History of Soyuz 1, Fifty Years Later
Popular Science:
Whose is bigger? How all the Mars-bound rockets stack up
April 27, 2017
Sun-Sentinel:
Keys deputy among those who spotted meteor streaking over South Florida
Palm Beach Post:
Breaking: South Florida meteor may have been man-made space junk
Space news:
SpaceX prepares for its first big NRO launch
Stuff NZ:
Wanaka's Anzac poppy goes on 100 day scientific flight around world
Stuff NZ:
Nasa balloon carries Anzac poppy to outer space and is seen from Christchurch
New Scientist:
Melting moons could support liveable atmospheres for aeons
New Scientist:
We still haven't heard from aliens - here's why we might never
April 26, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX completes static fire test for Sunday launch of secret satellite
Spaceflight Insider:
Falcon 9 hotfire test blazes way for classified NROL-76 mission
Spaceflight Insider:
Titan flyby launches Cassini into Grande Finale
Spaceflight Now:
Cassini sails by Saturn's moon Titan for last time
Smithsonian Magazine:
Bye Bye Cassini, the Doomed Space Probe That Revealed Saturn's Secrets
Inverse:
How to Turn an Asteroid Into a Spacecraft
April 25, 2017
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz MS-04 arrival increases ISS crew size to 5
Seeker:
SpaceX and Boeing's New ISS Crew Vehicles Will Also Serve as Emergency 'Lifeboats'
Spaceflight Insider:
Opportunity Mars rover leaves 'Tribulation' for 'Perseverance'
Daily Mail:
Ta-ta to Titan! Cassini makes its last close flyby of moon as it prepares to crash into Saturn as its 'grand finale'
Astrobiology Magazine:
Researchers produce detailed map of potential Mars rover landing site
Astrobiology Magazine:
Oceans galore: new study suggests most habitable planets may lack dry land
New Scientist:
The five best exoplanets in the galaxy to check for alien life
April 24, 2017
New York Times:
Asteroid Misses Earth Narrowly, by Cosmic Standards
Spaceflight Now:
Two fresh crew members join space station expedition
Spaceflight Now:
China's Tianzhou 1 cargo carrier docks with space lab in orbit
Ars Technica:
China takes a key step toward building a large space station
Space News:
China launches first cargo spacecraft on mission to test docking and refueling
Spaceflight Now:
Cygnus freighter arrives at space station with bounty of supplies and new science
Inverse:
The 7 Worst Immediate Effects of an Asteroid Hitting Earth, Ranked
New Scientist:
Earth's greatest hits: Six of the biggest meteorites in history
WEEKEND EDITION: April 22, 2017 through April 23, 2017
Daily Mail:
The Large Hadron Collider finds 'intriguing anomalies' that could rewrite the rules of physics
Universe Today:
CERN Declares War On The Standard Model
Daily Mail:
The stuff of nightmares: Terrifying six-legged robot tarantula is captured on film tackling tough terrain
Inverse:
Watch Tiny Robots Battle to the Death in Japan's ROBO-ONE
Daily Mail:
Enormous iceberg 50ft taller than the one that sank the Titanic floats past the Canadian coast causing bumper-to-bumper tailbacks as tourists flock to see the monster block of ice
Daily Mail:
The stunning timelapse that shows California's Sierra snowpack is bigger than it has been for the last four years COMBINED
Daily Mail:
The ancient sea scorpion that slashed its prey with a serrated tail
History.com:
Montana Fossil Turns Out to Be New Kind of "Sea Dinosaur"
Stuff NZ:
Penguins and sea lions beat a retreat to NZ during the Little Ice Age: Otago research
Daily Mail:
Indonesia's Flores 'hobbits' may be the earliest human species to have left Africa 1.75 million years ago
Daily Mail:
Revealed: EIGHT MUMMIES and a treasure trove of artefacts are unearthed in a 3,500-year-old tomb near the ancient city of Luxor
Daily Mail:
Incredible 11-metre statue of Ramses II is unveiled in Luxor after being restored from 57 broken pieces
The History Blog:
5 Archbishops of Canterbury found under a church floor
Atlas Obscura:
Colonial America Was Built on Lottery Revenue
Boston Globe:
Second parchment copy of Declaration of Independence found - in England
The History Blog:
Napoleon's first love captured in a ring
Mental Floss:
10 Facts About Charlotte Bronte
Mental Floss:
How Thomas Edison Jr. Shamed the Family Name
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Jigsaw Puzzle Was Given to Ellis Island Immigrants to Test Their Intelligence
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Luxury Hotel in London Was Once a Secret Spy Base
Daily Mail:
The Second World War as if it were yesterday: Extraordinary collection of rare colour photographs reveal life as the people living through the war would have seen it
History.com:
One Final Toast for the Doolittle Raiders
Daily Mail:
Is this what Armageddon would look like? Terrifying archive footage from the 1950s shows mushroom clouds burst into the sky over Nevada and the Pacific Ocean during US nuclear tests
Flashbak:
Andy Warhol's Illustrations for The Little Red Hen (1958)
Timeline:
What the government didn't mention about fallout shelters
The Atlantic:
The First-Ever Banner Ad on the Web
Daily Mail:
Russia unveils its new Arctic military base housing nuclear-ready warplanes and REINDEER-powered special forces as it seeks to claim the region's huge oil and gas reserves
Inverse:
Power Outages Coincide in LA, New York, and San Francisco
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Minnesota Home Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Is For Sale, Original Furniture And All
Mental Floss:
There's a Zoo for Sale on Craigslist (Animals Included)
Smithsonian Magazine:
Where to See Five of the Planet's Most Mysterious Geoglyphs
April 21, 2017
Daily Mail:
Lockheed Martin reveals radical SB-1 Defiant that would be the fastest helicopter in the world and replace the Blackhawk AND Apache
Daily Mail:
'The Flying Bum' - the world's biggest airliner - 'nosedives into a field' after breaking free from its moorings just months after crashing on test flight
Air & Space Magazine:
The Spysat and the Shuttle
Universe Today:
Art History NASA Style
Mental Floss:
On This Day in 1972, Apollo 16 Blasted Off
New Atlas:
Secret pouch from Apollo 15 up for auction
April 20, 2017
Daily Mail:
Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane reaches a record 700 days in orbit (but we STILL don't know its mission)
New Scientist:
Satellite swarms could increase space junk risk by 50 per cent
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Atlas takes flight with Cygnus
Ars Technica:
On Venus, tectonics without the plates
Daily Mail:
The 'giant bird tracks' on Mars: NASA reveals image of mysterious raised areas on the red planet's surface
Spaceflight Insider:
Planets orbiting double-star systems could support life, study suggests
Astrobiology Magazine:
ALMA Investigates 'DeeDee,' a Distant, Dim Member of Our Solar System
Seeker:
Astronomers Say This Distant 'Super-Earth' Might Just Be Habitable
New Scientist:
The five best exoplanets in the galaxy to check for alien life
Daily Mail:
The tiny 250km wide red world that could prove Planet Nine DOESN'T exist
April 19, 2017
NBC News:
Huge Asteroid to Give Earth a Very Close Shave on April 19
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rocket successfully boosts Cygnus cargo ship on trek to space station
Space News:
Atlas 5 launches Cygnus cargo mission to ISS
New Scientist:
Fleet of CubeSats launches to study the neglected 'ignorosphere'
Space News:
Space junk in orbit is bad enough, but on Mars?
Spaceflight Now:
How to Mitigate the Threat Space Junk on Mars Poses to Future Missions
NBC News:
New Asteroid Study Suggests Hollywood Is Wrong About Ocean Impacts
April 18, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
China's first robotic resupply freighter transferred to launch pad
Spaceflight Insider:
New ISS crew set to lift off on Soyuz-FG from Baikonur on first crewed launch of 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz booster moved to launch pad to loft two-man crew
New Scientist:
Saturn's flying saucer moon Atlas has a smooth fluffy edge
Spaceflight Now:
Saturn's disk-shaped moon Atlas spotted by Cassini
April 17, 2017
Seeker:
An Asteroid the Size of the Rock of Gibraltar Is Hurtling Toward Earth... but Don't Worry
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rocket aims for Tuesday morning launch of supplies to space station
Spaceflight Now:
Cygnus ship sending abundance of science to International Space Station
Spaceflight Insider:
Ocean worlds Enceladus and Europa could be habitable for microbial life
Seeker:
NASA: Saturn's Ice Moon Enceladus Might Be Capable of Supporting Life
New Scientist:
Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus's sea
Spaceflight Now:
New discoveries raise prospects for life on moons of Jupiter and Saturn
Space News:
"Ocean Worlds" discoveries build case for new missions
Seeker:
How Would NASA Search for Extraterrestrial Life on Enceladus?
WEEKEND EDITION: April 15, 2017 through April 16, 2017
Forbes:
How Would The Universe Change If We Grew An Extra Dimension?
Science Alert:
Physics Explained: Here's Why the Speed of Light Is the Speed of Light
The Atlantic:
Google Is Using Artificial Intelligence for Clip Art
Quartz:
This industrial robot has eyes because they make human workers feel more comfortable
Business Insider:
This salad-making robot can build 1,000 different salads in 60 seconds each
Quartz:
Fedex is using autonomous robots to essentially replace the mailroom clerk
Daily Mail:
From Vesuvius to Krakatoa, researchers reveal the world's five deadliest volcanoes
ABC Australia:
Plant-like fossils, believed to be red algae, found in 1.6 billion-year-old rocks
Daily Mail:
Long-forgotten fossils of a crocodile-like creature with 'crankles' could be the missing link in dinosaur evolution
Daily Mail:
Shelling out: Stunning 33 million-year-old fossilised turtle from the Badlands of South Dakota to sell for £3,500
Daily Mail:
Arachnophobes look away! Scientists find 50 new species of Australian spider including one the size of a dinner plate
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 14,000-year-old village 'older than Egyptian pyramids' sheds light on how civilisation began in North America
The History Blog:
Look at Idrimi's statue and receive his blessing
History.com:
Ancient Manure is Latest Clue in Biblical Mystery
BBC History Extra:
How Archimedes took on the Romans
The History Blog:
Roman settlement in north England may rewrite history
BBC History Extra:
Who decided Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, should be executed?
Atlas Obscura:
The 'Black Mozart' Was So Much More
BBC History Extra:
The final days of Marie Antoinette
Atlas Obscura:
Utah's First Federal Surveyor Fled the Territory Fearing for His Life
BBC News:
The monster ships that changed how we travel
Daily Mail:
Love lost at sea: Locket found among Titanic wreckage belonged to survivor whose husband died on the ill-fated ship while traveling home to America
History.com:
Rare Titanic Photo Depicts Final Days
Smithsonian Magazine:
In a Czar-less Russia, Winning Was Easy. Governing Was Harder.
BBC History Extra:
5 First World War poets
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Women Who Fried Donuts and Dodged Bombs on the Front Lines of WWI
The History Blog:
Stolen Norman Rockwell painting found after 41 years
Smithsonian Magazine:
Movie Palaces Let Everyday Americans Be Royalty
Timeline:
10,000 West Virginia coal miners once went to war with the local police, and dozens died
Mental Floss:
Percy Fawcett's Doomed Search for the Lost City of Z
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 Laid Bare the Divide Between the North and the South
Mashable - Retronaut:
1939 - Texas roughhnecks
Daily Mail:
Inside the secret labyrinth of WW2 tunnels known as the Great North Road dug a mile under the Rock of Gibraltar to protect the Allies with 'streets' named after English towns so British troops could find their way around
History.com:
After Jackie: The Guys of '47
Timeline:
The life of an American country doctor was heroic, necessary, and utterly exhausting
Smithsonian Magazine:
What We Know About the CIA's Midcentury Mind-Control Project
Atlas Obscura:
The Behind-the-Scenes Story of an Unplanned Meltdown at America's First Nuclear Power Reactor
BBC News:
The most sophisticated people you never knew
Mental Floss:
21 Phrases You Use Without Realizing You're Quoting Shakespeare
April 14, 2017
Daily Mail:
Hoverboards are REAL: Breathtaking footage shows a man soaring above the ocean on a device that can reach 10,000ft- and you can hire one TODAY!
Daily Mail:
Flying car firm AeroMobil unveils new images of its radical hybrid vehicle and claims it will be ready for pre-order THIS YEAR
New Atlas:
Airlander 10 airship gets outfitted for cushier landings
BBC History Extra:
In pictures: Zeppelin raids on First World War Britain
Atlas Obscura:
How a Wild West Showman Brought Man-Lifting Kites to the British Army
Stuff NZ:
Roger Hanson: The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird - still one of the world's fastest aircraft
Smithsonian Magazine:
The First Manned Space Flight Was the Rocket Designer's Victory as Much as Yuri Gagarin's
Mental Floss:
In 1959, Soviets Littered the Moon With Tiny Metal Pennants
Mental Floss:
On This Day in 1959, America Met the Mercury Seven
Space News:
Aerojet to move rocket engine work out of historic facility
April 13, 2017
The State:
'One of the coolest things I've ever seen!' Did you see the fireball Wednesday night?
WBTV:
VIDEO: Fireball seen shooting across NC sky
Space News:
China launches an experimental communications satellite
Spaceflight Now:
China's highest-capacity communications satellite launched into orbit
Universe Today:
World's Largest Rocket Will Be Recoverable & Reusable
Daily Mail:
The radical single stage aerospike rocket that could revolutionize satellite launches
Astrobiology Magazine:
New Horizons Halfway from Pluto to Next Flyby Target
Daily Mail:
Scientists discover second 'Great Spot' on Jupiter: Newly found cold weather system could be thousands of years old
ABC Australia:
Why is NASA going to visit the giant metal asteroid 16 Psyche?
April 12, 2017
KTRK-TV:
Meteor spotted streaking across California sky
Plymouth Herald:
'I saw a meteor break up over Plymouth and it was amazing'
Space News:
Commercial crew flight assignments could come this summer
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Soyuz MS-02 spaceship lands in Kazakhstan
Popular Science:
Watch the Soyuz 50 spacecraft land pretty much perfectly
New Scientist:
Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation
Seeker:
Volcanic Activity on Ancient Mars May Have Produced Organic Life
New Scientist:
Mars's atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn't exist
The Atlantic:
What Makes a Good Landing Site on Mars?
New Scientist:
Volunteers spot four super-Earths orbiting sun-like star
April 11, 2017
KCBS-TV:
Bright Flash Lights Up SoCal Sky
KABC-TV:
Meteor spotted streaking across SoCal skies
Victor Valley News:
Possible Meteor Strike Mistaken For Plane Crash In Sky
EarthSky:
Large asteroid coming close on April 19
Daily Mail:
What has NASA found? Mysterious briefing to reveal ocean world discovery that will 'inform the search for life beyond Earth'
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz makes pinpoint landing in Kazakhstan with crew of three
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz MS-02 trio returns to Earth
Mysterious Universe:
Astronomers Find Four Candidates for Mysterious 'Planet 9'
April 10, 2017
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press:
Weird Norfolk: The Norwich UFO documented by the CIA
Collective Evolution:
A Man Communicating With An Extraterrestrial From Mars - Taken Seriously By The BBC, Live In 1959
Popular Science:
Why NASA is going to vaporize one of its best spacecraft
Gizmodo:
Watch How a Beloved Spacecraft Will Die in Saturn's Atmosphere
Mysterious Universe:
'Potentially Hazardous' Asteroid Headed Our Way This Month
New Atlas:
Steamy hot atmosphere detected around Earth-like planet
Stuff NZ:
A brief history of zombie stars, habitable zones, and the search for alien life
WEEKEND EDITION: April 8, 2017 through April 9, 2017
Scientific American:
Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Inverse:
Black Hole 'Images' Could Throw Modern Physics Into Disarray
Seeker:
Read the Albert Einstein Letter to a Teacher That Fetched $54K at Auction
Science Alert:
This Paper Could Be the Key to Solving a 160-Year-Old, Million-Dollar Maths Problem
Orlando Sentinel:
Disney seeks new patent for soft robots playing characters
Daily Mail:
The knife-wielding robot that can STAB in 60 positions and could help solve grisly murders
The Merkle:
New Robotic Manta Ray Achieves Twice the Swim Speed of Previous Models
Daily Mail:
The original Brexit! Revealed, the incredible megafloods which created the White Cliffs of Dover and first cut Britain off from France
Astrobiology Magazine:
Skeletons developed as chemistry of oceans changed, study shows
Eos:
A Mountain Range's History Preserved in Ocean Sediments
New Atlas:
Scientists sniff out a sensitive new species of tyrannosaur
Daily Mail:
Ancient tick fossilised in 30-million-year-old amber holds the oldest mammal blood ever found
Daily Mail:
Paleontologist discovers GIANT tooth from 'prehistoric mega shark' in Italy - and says it may have been discarded by a collector who didn't realize its value
Daily Mail:
'Surprise' discovery of Europe's first cave fish in an underground labyrinth reveals they evolved incredibly fast to survive
Daily Mail:
Meet Two Socks, Lil Red, and Markie: 'Extinct' species of wild mountain dog that hasn't been seen for 50 years rediscovered in New Guinea
Mental Floss:
Archaeologists Find 30,000-Year-Old Jewelry in Indonesia
Smithsonian Magazine:
New Pyramid Discovered in Egypt
The History Blog:
Iron Age horse, chariot burial found in Yorkshire
Daily Mail:
Welcome to Carnuntum: Ancient shops, bars and restaurants are found at a Roman gladiator arena
Daily Mail:
The 'two maidens of Pompeii' found wrapped in a poignant embrace are both MEN and could have been gay lovers
Daily Mail:
Sophisticated 2,000-year-old Roman settlement is discovered underneath Britain's longest road
The History Blog:
Mosaic floors, first remains of ancient city, found in France
Daily Mail:
Is THIS evidence of Ucetia? Stunning 1st century animal mosaics unearthed in southern France could shed light on the mysterious Roman city
The History Blog:
Michelangelo's crucifix in 360 degrees
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Mystery of Roanoke Endures Yet Another Cruel Twist
Mental Floss:
Lady Deborah Moody, the Dangerous Woman Who Started a Colonial Town
History.com:
Is This Notebook the Work of Shakespeare's First Theater Critic?
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Rare Display of a Japanese Triptych is Only Usurped by the Great Mysteries Surrounding It
Mental Floss:
Revisiting the First 'Trial of the Century,' More Than 215 Years Later
The Guardian:
Tale of Dickens' fight to save Shakespeare house retold in exhibition
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Man Who Brought the Swastika to Germany, and How the Nazis Stole It
Daily Mail:
America's greatest Indian chiefs as they really would have looked: Lost warriors are brought back to life
Atlas Obscura:
The Russian Poetry Scandal That Ended in a Duel
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Powerful Posters Persuaded Americans It Was Time to Join the Fight
Smithsonian Magazine:
Women On the Frontlines of WWI Came to Operate Telephones
BBC History Extra:
Female Tommies: women in the First World War
Smithsonian Magazine:
World War I Letters From Generals to Doughboys Voice the Sorrow of Fighting a War
Smithsonian Magazine:
World War I Letters Show Theodore Roosevelt's Unbearable Grief After the Death of his Son
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Some Breweries Survived Prohibition
Atlas Obscura:
The Controversial Zeppelin Stamps That Enraged 1930s Collectors
Smithsonian Magazine:
Never Mind Her Stellar Jazz Career, Young Ella Fitzgerald Just Wanted to Dance
BBC History Extra:
Spying on the king: when MI5 targeted Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson
Mashable - Retronaut:
1941 - Chicago's South Side
Atlas Obscura:
The Fixers Who Buried Old Hollywood's Biggest Scandals
Daily Mail:
Second World War explosive found on a beach turns out to be iconic BOUNCING BOMB tested off the Kent coast before Britain's devastating DAMBUSTERS raids
Atlas Obscura:
A Brief History of Project Moby Dick, the Cold War's Least Believable Surveillance Strategy
Smithsonian Magazine:
Your Alaskan Cruise is Possible Because Canada Blew Up an Underwater Mountain
Mental Floss:
How the CIA's Psychics Described Albert Einstein
Atlas Obscura:
The Forged 'Ancient' Statues That Fooled the Met's Art Experts for Decades
Smithsonian Magazine:
Only 30 Dutch Wooden Shoe Makers Remain
April 7, 2017
Daily Mail:
Boeing unveils concept designs for its Mars Transporter and Deep Space Habitat that will launch in the 2020s
Daily Mail:
Take off for British Iron Man! Inventor makes his own jet-propelled flight suit which 'can carry him at several hundred miles per hour'
Daily Mail:
The Panther transformer drone that can land on your street then drive to your door with your packages
Air & Space Magazine:
The Birth of Flight in Georgia
BBC News:
The British airliner that changed the world
Smithsonian Magazine:
Where Do the Largest Airplanes Go to Die?
April 6, 2017
Popular Science:
SpaceX has proven it can reuse its rockets - now what?
Daily Mail:
SpaceX finally reveals footage of its historic recycled rocket landing - as hypnotic GIFs show its past attempts
Space News:
Russia open to keeping ISS going past 2024
Daily Mail:
Russia hints at plans to ditch the International Space Station and build a rival base with China in what could be the start of a new 'space race'
Spaceflight Insider:
Peggy Whitson's ISS stay gets 3-month extension
Spaceflight Now:
Whitson's station expedition extended three months
Seeker:
Colonizing Mars Will Rely on These Next-Gen Technologies
Stuff NZ:
Cassini spacecraft to dive inside Saturn's rings for mission finale
Universe Today:
Cassini's Final Mission to Annihilation Starts April 22
Universe Today:
Venus 2.0 Discovered In Our Own Back Yard
Astrobiology Magazine:
Finding a 'lost' planet, about the size of Neptune
Daily Mail:
The REAL megastar in our universe: Chilling video reveals how the biggest star ever seen would eat our sun and half of our neighboring planets
Universe Today:
Extraterrestrial Origin Of Fast Radio Burst Phenomenon Confirmed
April 5, 2017
c/net:
An asteroid twice as close as most satellites slips by Earth
Spaceflight Insider:
Twice-launched Falcon 9 first stage returned to Port Canaveral
Space News:
Atlas 5 launch of Cygnus cargo tug rescheduled
Spaceflight Now:
Ziplines installed to whisk personnel from danger at Starliner launch pad
Spaceflight Insider:
Zip-riding to safety: Boeing, ULA test emergency egress system
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Cygnus spacecraft readied for launch to International Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
Animation: The flight of a Boeing Starliner capsule from launch to landing
April 4, 2017
Prescott Daily Courier:
Prescott Lights: UFOs over the First Territorial Capital
Blumhouse.com:
The Spooky UFO Cases of Unsolved Mysteries
Space News:
SpaceX to launch Falcon Heavy with two "flight-proven" boosters this year
Space News:
Nearly every engine stockpiled for use on upper stages of Proton rockets has defects, investigation concludes
New Atlas:
From Earth to orbit using a single-stage rocket
Astrobiology Magazine:
Final Two ExoMars Landing Sites Chosen
Daily Mail:
Stunning animation reveals the progress of Mars observations over the last decade as NASA's orbiter completes 50,000 orbits
April 3, 2017
Daily Mail:
Phew! Asteroid the size of a BUS came closer to the Earth than the moon last night
Spacecoast Daily:
VIDEO: Asteroid Size of Bus Zoomed Past Earth Thursday Night, First Discovered March 25
The Province:
'Fireball season': Meteor reported streaking across B.C. on Thursday night
Georgia Straight:
Video: Meteor spotted above Metro Vancouver
Daily Mail:
Blast off! Historic moment SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket for the SECOND time and makes a perfect landing back on its drone ship in space breakthrough
Spaceflight Insider:
The game has changed! SES-10 mission redefines space flight
Space News:
SpaceX demonstrates rocket reusability with SES-10 launch and booster landing
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX flies rocket for second time in historic test of cost-cutting technology
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: SpaceX's photos from Thursday's reflight of Falcon 9 booster
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 launch to landing replay
Spaceflight Insider:
EVA-41 spacewalkers outfit relocated docking module
Spaceflight Now:
Spacewalkers improvise after fabric shield floats away
Daily Mail:
The stunning 'shooting stars' interactive graphic that reveals the path of every major meteor shower
WEEKEND EDITION: April 1, 2017 through April 2, 2017
Daily Mail:
Simulation suggests 68 percent of the universe may not actually exist: New model shows accelerated expansion can happen without dark energy
Science Alert:
This Mind-Bending Theory Joins Black Holes, Gravitational Waves & Axions to Find New Physics
Quanta:
Quantum Questions Inspire New Math
Daily Mail:
The terrifying TENTACLEBOT: Robotic arm made of soft 'muscle' moves like an octopus and is equipped with rows of suction cups
Daily Mail:
Bad news for Bob: Meet Sam, the brick laying bot that builds walls six times faster than a human and could put millions out of work
Nature:
Earth's lost history of planet-altering eruptions revealed
Stuff NZ:
World's biggest dinosaur footprint discovered in 'Australia's own Jurassic Park'
Daily Mail:
World's biggest dinosaur footprint as large as a man is found in 140 million-year-old rock in 'Australia's Jurassic Park'
Daily Mail:
New species of Tyrannosaur with a crocodile snout was a 'sensitive lover' and had a SIXTH SENSE to hunt its prey
National Geographic:
A Very Ibis History
Stuff NZ:
Whales v the Kaikoura quake: Niwa unintentionally records impact of 7.8 on Cook Strait's marine life
Live Science:
Ghost of the Tasmanian Tiger: Scientists Investigate Sightings
Daily Mail:
Raven bone carved by Neanderthals with a 'symbolic pattern' 43,000 years ago suggests our ancient cousins were more intelligent than thought
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 2,500-year-old chariot and two horse skeletons unearthed at a Yorkshire building site could shed light on strange Iron Age burial rituals
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy shroud is discovered after sitting in museum storage for 80 YEARS will finally go on display
The History Blog:
Mosaic floors, first remains of ancient city, found in France
History.com:
Crusader Shipwreck Tells a Golden Knights' Tale
The History Blog:
Medieval Jewish cemetery unearthed in Trastevere
The Atlantic:
The Founding Fathers Encrypted Secret Messages, Too
The History Blog:
Gainsborough painting slashed by attacker back on dispay
History.com:
The 19th-Century Black Sports Superstar You've Never Heard Of
BBC History Extra:
Oxford v Cambridge: A history of the boat race
Smithsonian Magazine:
There Are Two Versions of the Story of How the U.S. Purchased Alaska From Russia
Smithsonian Magazine:
Happy 159th Birthday to the Modern Pencil
The Guardian:
Museum rescues sculptor Camille Claudel from decades of obscurity
Smithsonian Magazine:
Coca-Cola's Creator Said the Drink Would Make You Smarter
Daily Mail:
Sacre bleu. And green. And red: French towns and landmarks are captured in pioneering colorised images from the 1890s
Mental Floss:
112 Years Ago, Fingerprints Pointed to Murder in London
National Geographic:
When Science Gets Ugly - The Story of Philipp Lenard and Albert Einstein
History.com:
The Daring Photographer Who Captured Life Inside a Nazi Ghetto
Mashable - Retronaut:
Jackets of the 401st
History.com:
Was Ernest Hemingway a Spy?
Atlas Obscura:
The Old Man Who Claimed to Be Billy the Kid
The History Blog:
Iconic Roman Holiday Vespa, oldest in the world, for sale
Mental Floss:
7 Characters That Didn't Make It Into the Harry Potter Books
The Atlantic:
How the Diving Bell Opened the Ocean's Depths
Mental Floss:
7 of the Biggest Treasure Troves Ever Found
March 31, 2017
Daily Mail:
'The largest windows in space': Inside Blue Origin's New Shepard flight capsule that will take tourists to into orbit next year
Stuff NZ:
NASA grilled and thrilled by Wanaka super pressure balloon fans
Smithsonian Magazine:
A New Generation of Interplanetary Rovers Is Crawling Toward the Stars
Daily Mail:
Inside a Soviet rocket graveyard: Haunting images reveal how boosters that once helped launch a spaceplane have been abandoned for two decades
Daily Mail:
The mini motorcycle that almost made it to the moon: NASA images show the secret project developed in case the Apollo lunar rover wasn't ready in time
Air & Space Magazine:
The Airport Terminal So Beautiful It's Reopening as a Hotel
March 30, 2017
Michigan Radio:
Aliens or swamp gas? The mystery of Michigan's most famous UFO sighting lives on
Space News:
Static firing of SpaceX reused Falcon Monday clears way for launch Thursday
Spaceflight Insider:
'Flight-proven' Falcon 9 set to launch SES-10 satellite
Space News:
Cygnus mission delayed to mid-April
Space News:
Decommissioned Earth science satellite to remain in orbit for decades
Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity rover shows new signs of wheel wear
Spaceflight Now:
Scientists say thinning atmosphere drove the drying and cooling of Mars
Spaceflight Now:
Juno orbiter races by Jupiter on fourth science pass
New Scientist:
Backwards asteroid shares an orbit with Jupiter without crashing
Astrobiology Magazine:
Wrong-way asteroid plays 'chicken' with Jupiter
March 29, 2017
Daily Mail:
Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane reaches a record 677 days in orbit (but we STILL don't know its mission)
Spaceflight Now:
Scientists say thinning atmosphere drove the drying and cooling of Mars
New Scientist:
Electrified sand could explain Titan's odd backward-facing dunes
New Scientist:
Enigmatic plumes from Saturn's moon caused by cosmic collision
Astrobiology Magazine:
Ice in Ceres' Shadowed Craters Linked to Tilt History
Christian Science Monitor:
Did an asteroid trigger ancient tsunamis on Mars?
March 28, 2017
Mornington Peninsula News:
The truth is out there about UFO sighting
Spaceflight Now:
Hotfire test completed ahead of milestone Falcon 9 launch Thursday
Spaceflight Insider:
Pre-flight static fire test performed on flight-proven Falcon 9
Ars Technica:
There and back again: SpaceX to make history by re-flying orbital rocket
Spaceflight Insider:
International Space Station PMA-3 docking module relocated
Space News:
Long-delayed Russian module for ISS facing more problems
Spaceflight Now:
Watch space station spacewalk highlights
Space news:
A short history of lunar space tourism
March 27, 2017
Richland Source:
UFOs over Richland County: 1973
Spaceflight Insider:
EVA-40 spacewalkers prepare ISS docking module for relocation
Space Daily:
Spacewalking French, US astronauts begin upgrade to orbiting lab
Spaceflight Now:
Spacewalkers complete excursion outside International Space Station
Spaceflight Insider:
Juno heads for 5th flyby of Jupiter's cloud tops
Universe Today:
Juno's Monday Jupiter Flyby Promises New Batch of Images & Science
Spaceflight Insider:
How to slow down an interstellar spacecraft at Alpha Centauri
WEEKEND EDITION: March 25, 2017 through March 26, 2017
Science Alert:
Theoretical Physicists Suggest There's a Portal Linking the Standard Model to Dark Physics
The New Yorker:
The End of the Universe as We Know It
Popular Mechanics:
The Impossible Physics of Faster-Than-Light Travel
Daily Mail:
Large Hadron Collider finds FIVE new subatomic particles 'hiding in plain sight' that could shed new light on how the universe began
Scientific American:
Wavelet Theory Nets Top Mathematics Award
Recode:
These AI bots created their own language to talk to each other
Wired:
Meet Iorek, the Robot That Communicates in a Remarkable Way
Business Insider:
Tiny self-driving robots have started delivering food on-demand in Silicon Valley - take a look
The Verge:
Jeff Bezos looks a little too happy piloting a giant mechanical robot
PC Magazine:
Meet the Robots Who Are Scarily Close to Being Human
Daily Mail:
Scientists discover 4.3 billion year old traces of Earth's original crust in Canada
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Really Turned the Sahara Desert From a Green Oasis Into a Wasteland?
Scientific American:
Complex Life Could Be Vastly Older Than Thought
Astrobiology Magazine:
Early Earth had a hazy, methane-filled atmosphere
The Guardian:
Scotland holds the key to understanding how life first walked on land
Astrobiology Magazine:
Recovery after 'Great Dying' was slowed by more extinctions
The Guardian:
Radical shakeup of dinosaur family tree points to unexpected Scottish origins
Science Magazine:
T. rex gets new home in shakeup of dino family tree
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Dark History of Japan's Rabbit Island
National Geographic:
Searching for the Lost City of Copper
The History Blog:
Colossal statue not Ramesses II
Live Science:
Ancient Naval Base for Epic Greek Battle Found
The History Blog:
Unusual pyramid-shaped tomb found in China
Mental Floss:
Why the Laocoon Sculpture Had the Wrong Arm for Four Centuries
National Geographic:
How Julius Caesar Started a Big War by Crossing a Small Stream
The History Blog:
Gilded horse bridle fittings found in Viking grave
The History Blog:
Viking woman buried in Denmark was Norwegian
Daily Mail:
Liao Dynasty fashion: Beautiful murals found in a 1,000-year-old tomb provide a glimpse into ancient life in China
The History Blog:
Viking woman buried in Denmark was Norwegian
BBC History Extra:
The secret intimacies of Edward IV: multiple marriages and a same-sex affair?
The History Blog:
Medieval silver coin hoard found in Cheshire
The History Blog:
Emeralds from fabled Spanish wreck for sale
Mysterious Universe:
Legendary Ming Dynasty Sunken Treasure Found in China
The History Blog:
Treasure of Ming Dynasty uprising leader found
The History Blog:
Barberini tapestries return 16 years after fire almost destroyed them
Mental Floss:
8 Stellar Facts About the Most Accomplished Female Astronomer You've Never Heard Of
BBC History Extra:
A brief history of Harrods
Smithsonian Magazine:
The First Saxophone Was Made of Wood
BBC History Extra:
The weird and wonderful world of Victorian entertainment
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Innovator Thought Elevators Should Be Round
Mental Floss:
14 Things You Might Not Know About Whistler's Mother
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Eccentric 19th-Century Transportation Magnate May Have Inspired Jules Verne
Daily Mail:
Now you can take a tour of the Titanic - but the two-mile submarine dive to the wreckage will cost an eyewatering £86,500 a ticket
Smithsonian Magazine:
Mathematician Emmy Noether Should Be Your Hero
Mental Floss:
The End of the Romanov Dynasty
The History Blog:
Earliest color movies of the White House found
Flashbak:
Gorgeous Postcards of the 'Streamline Moderne' Greyhound Terminals
Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Liberty Bell Won the Great War
Smithsonian Magazine:
Fighting the Nazis With Fake News
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Mime Who Saved Kids From the Holocaust
Smithsonian Magazine:
FDR Had a Famous Ghostwriter: Orson Welles
Smithsonian Magazine:
George Orwell Wrote '1984' While Dying of Tuberculosis
Air & Space Magazine:
Bob Pardo Once Pushed a Crippled F-4 Home With His F-4. In Flight.
Smithsonian Magazine:
Hot Food, Fast: The Home Microwave Oven Turns 50
Daily Mail:
The Summer of Love, 50 years on: Intimate portraits of legendary rockers and the hippie movement that overtook the streets of 1967 San Francisco
Air & Space Magazine:
The Time a Stolen Helicopter Landed on the White House Lawn
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Simpson Family Made Its Television Debut 30 Years Ago
New Atlas:
In pictures: One more look at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show for the road
National Geographic:
Top 10 Castles of Europe
National Geographic:
21 Best Cruises in the World
Mental Floss:
Pick the 3-Letter Word
March 24, 2017
Daily Mail:
Air Force's mysterious X-37B mini shuttle nears record time in space (but we STILL don't know what it is doing)
Air & Space Magazine:
The First Airplane Passenger
History Net:
The Luftwaffe's Secret Squadrons
Stuff NZ:
Roger Hanson: Moon fly-by missions come with unexpected issues
Spaceflight History:
A 1964 Proposal for a Small Lifting-Body Shuttle with "Staged Reentry"
Air & Space Magazine:
Sleeping Their Way to Mars
March 23, 2017
Spaceflight Insider:
Flight-proven Falcon 9 with SES-10 scheduled for NET March 29
Spaceflight Insider:
CRS-10 Dragon unberthed, recovered in Pacific Ocean
Spaceflight Now:
Rosetta's comet shows scars from swing through inner solar system
Spaceflight Insider:
CRS-10 Dragon unberthed, recovered in Pacific Ocean
New Atlas:
Is Martian moon Phobos locked in a cycle of destruction and rebirth?
Scientific American:
A NASA Spacecraft Might Bounce, Crunch or Sink on Europa
Astrobiology Magazine:
Experiments Show Titan Lakes May Fizz with Nitrogen
Syfy Wire - Bad Astronomy:
CFBDSIR 2149-0403: A mystery lurks 1800 trillion kilometers from Earth
March 22, 2017
Daily Mail:
Elon Musk's Mars plans take shape: SpaceX is working with NASA to identify sites for unmanned Dragon capsule to land on the red planet in 2020
Space News:
SpaceX studying landing sites for Mars missions
Spaceflight Now:
Europe's ExoMars spacecraft begins lowering its orbit
Popular Science:
The Curiosity Mars rover's wheels are starting to break
Daily Mail:
Lockheed Martin says we could have an orbiting Mars base using existing technology by 2028
Daily Mail:
The mystery of the massive dust storms on Mars deepens: Clouds that engulf the red planet develop strange bubble, pebble and cotton textures
New Scientist:
Mysterious water-like streaks on Mars might be sand flows instead
CBS News:
This Mars volcano died at the same time as the dinosaurs
Seeker:
Mars May Have Once Had Rings - and Could Sport Them Again
Air & Space Magazine:
Want To Make Mars Livable? Bring Back Its Magnetic Field
Daily Mail:
What it's like to fly above Mars: Finnish filmmaker painstakingly puts together thousands of NASA images to create stunning video
March 21, 2017
Dayton Daily News:
One of the Air Force's original UFO hunters dies at 101
Universe Today:
SpaceX Dragon Splashes Down in Pacific with Treasure Trove of Space Station Science
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX's Dragon supply carrier wraps up 10th mission to space station
Space News:
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft returns to Earth from the International Space Station
Space News:
China studying reusable rockets similar to SpaceX
Daily Mail:
Earth's inner Van Allen belt is far weaker than thought - and could lead to radical new spacecraft designs, NASA reveals
New Scientist:
Gentle breeze may help Venus's atmosphere spin like crazy
Daily Mail:
NASA reveals plans for clockwork rover based on 2,300 year old Greek Antikythera mechanical computer that could survive conditions on Venus
March 20, 2017
Daily Mail:
Must be the luck of the Irish! Asteroid narrowly misses smashing into Earth just in time for St Patrick's Day
CTV News:
Streaking meteor over B.C. caught on video
Geek Wire:
Watch a fireball light up Seattle's skies
Express Tribune:
'Meteor' lights up Gilgit-Baltistan, leaves residents puzzled
Spaceflight Now:
Internationally-backed military satellite successfully launched atop Delta 4 rocket
Space News:
ULA successfully launches Air Force satcom satellite into orbit
Space News:
SpaceX launches EchoStar 23
Daily Mail:
Is a rogue world wandering 100 light years from Earth? Weird planet-like object baffles astronomers
WEEKEND EDITION: March 18, 2017 through March 19, 2017
Forbes:
The Big Bang Was Not A Single Point In Time
Forbes:
Is It Actually Possible To Travel To Parallel Universes?
Forbes:
Why Is the Speed Of Light Considered The Cosmic Speed Limit?
Inverse:
Physicists Are at War Over the Discovery of 'Metallic Hydrogen'
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Humans Invented Numbers - And How Numbers Reshaped Our World
New York Times:
Let a Robot Be Your Museum Tour Guide
Japan Times:
'Strange' hotel, run by robots, opens near Tokyo; more to come
Quartz:
A robot actor debuted in London but he only works if there's a human around
Daily Mail:
Watch the birth of a deadly tornado: Terrifying simulation reveals the catastrophic conditions of the supercell storm that created 'El Reno'
Daily Mail:
How Earth turned into a massive 'snowball' 717 million years ago: Study finds 'perfect storm' of volcanic activity may have cooled the planet
Seeker:
World's Oldest Plant-Like Fossils Discovered in India
Wired:
Plants Might Have Saved Earth From Permanent Ice Age
Audobon Magazine:
Which Came First: the Dinosaur or the Bird?
National Geographic:
One of World's Most Mysterious Cats Caught on Camera
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 400,000-year-old skull of a mystery human ancestor with Neanderthal traits sheds light on how our ancient relatives evolved in Europe
Daily Mail:
Stone Age tools and animal bones in Tunisia provide new clues on a 72,000-year-old 'early human corridor' across Africa
Daily Mail:
How humans created the Sahara desert: Farming transformed the grassy plain into an arid wasteland 8,000 years ago
The History Blog:
66 statues of Sekhmet found in Luxor temple
The History Blog:
Colossal statue, maybe of Ramesses II, found in Cairo
Daily Mail:
Raising Ramses: Archaeologists lift 3,000-year-old statue of Egyptian Pharaoh considered 'one of the most important discoveries ever' from muddy ditch in Cairo slum
Live Science:
Ancient Tomb Decorated with Vibrant Murals Found in China
The History Blog:
47 ingots alleged to be fabled metal found on shipwreck
The History Blog:
Torc hoard is earliest Iron Age gold found in Britain
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the 'pyramid of China': Archaeologists discover strange tomb under a construction site
The History Blog:
The Colosseum after antiquity
The History Blog:
Blenheim Palace flowerpot is a Roman sarcophagus
The History Blog:
1,000-year-old toy boat found in Norway
The History Blog:
Skeletons of early colonists found under Florida mall
The History Blog:
Only surviving view of Renaissance Lisbon street identified
Daily Mail:
A stitch in time: Historic waistcoat worn by Captain Cook as he explored Australia and embroidered with plants he discovered is expected to sell for £700,000
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Polish Patriot Who Helped Americans Beat the British
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Grisly History of Brooklyn's Revolutionary War Martyrs
Timeline:
This brave Russian soldier posed as a man to fight Napoleon
Forbes:
A Monstrous Volcanic Eruption Gave Life To Frankenstein's Monster
BBC History Extra:
Harriet Tubman and the 'Underground Railroad'
History.com:
When Ironclads Clashed: How Hampton Roads Changed Naval Warfare Forever
Smithsonian Magazine:
Two New Exhibitions Celebrate a Long-Lost Painting
History.com:
The Russian Revolution, Through American Eyes
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Abdication of Nicholas II Left Russia Without a Czar for the First Time in 300 Years
The History Blog:
The last days of the Romanovs
Mental Floss:
The Accidental First Female Senator
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Romance and Promise of 20th-Century Radio Is Captured in This Mural
The History Blog:
Unique Lodz Ghetto photos at the MFA, Boston
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Radioactive Oatmeal Go Down
History.com:
"God, America and Apple Pie": The Dramatic Defection of Stalin's Daughter
Timeline:
Meet the Dodge La Femme, the bonkers car marketed only to women
Mental Floss:
16 Fun Facts About The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
BBC News:
Why China's internet use has overtaken the West
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Medieval Knight's Manor Houses Over 350 Mechanical Musical Instruments
March 17, 2017
Daily Mail:
Forget the ear defenders: Supersonic planes WITHOUT the Earth-shaking sonic boom could arrive by 2023
Ars Technica:
Air Force: We have more drone pilot jobs than for any other aircraft
Gizmodo:
Here's What Those White Spirals Inside Airplane Engines Are For
BBC News:
The plane so good it's still in production after 60 years
History Net:
Visions from the Mind of Richard Vogt
History Net:
Apollo's Stallions
Air & Space Magazine:
How the "Suicide Squad" Turned Into One of the World's First Rocket Companies
March 16, 2017
WDID-TV:
The Michigan UFO craze of 1966
Spaceflight Insider:
Zero 2 Infinity launches its first rocket from high-altitude balloon
The Guardian:
Moon shot: Russia launches recruitment drive for lunar mission
Space News:
China gearing up for launch of first cargo spacecraft to support future space station
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX's 2018 Moon mission faces significant challenges
Daily Mail:
Meet the Puffers: NASA reveals palm-sized popup planetary rovers that could explore lava tubes on Mars and look for alien life on Europa
Seeker:
Enormous Dust Storms on Mars Highlight the Red Planet's Weather Mysteries
Seeker:
Colonizing Mars Will Depend on Low-Tech Know-How
Universe Today:
Warm Poles Suggest Enceladus' Liquid Water Near Surface
New Scientist:
Asteroid clay is a better space radiation shield than aluminium
March 15, 2017
Spaceflight Insider:
Weather wins as SpaceX scrubs launch of Falcon 9 with EchoStar 23
Daily Mail:
Watch Nasa test engines for the world's biggest rocket in a stunning 360-degree video
Daily Mail:
NASA reveals plans for joint Venus mission with Russia to send a probe and lander to 'Earth's evil twin'
Universe Today:
Earth's Twisted Sister: How Will We Reveal Venus' Secrets?
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA's Kepler Provides Another Peek at Ultra-cool Neighbor
New Scientist:
TRAPPIST-1 worlds are close enough for life to hop between them
March 14, 2017
Galesburg Register-Mail:
UFOs spotted 50 years ago in Galesburg
Great Falls Tribune:
More UFO tales emerge from northcentral Montana
Spaceflight Now:
Orion's parachutes tested under launch abort conditions
New Scientist:
Discovery of tiny moon completes the set for worlds past Neptune
Mysterious Universe:
An Ancient Platinum Asteroid Wiped Out the Clovis People
March 13, 2017
Melbourne Herald Sun:
Westall UFO sighting witnesses to speak about the 1966 alien encounter at Clayton South
Inverse:
China Targets Mission to Mars for Summer 2020
Gizmodo:
NASA Just Found a Lost Spacecraft Orbiting the Moon
Spaceflight Now:
Perils and discoveries lie ahead for long-lived Saturn orbiter
National Geographic:
Here's Our Best Look Yet at Saturn's 'UFO' Moon
New Scientist:
Could fast radio bursts really be powering alien space ships?
WEEKEND EDITION: March 11, 2017 through March 12, 2017
Scientific American:
The Most Important Idea about the Universe
Science Magazine:
A recharged debate over the speed of the expansion of the universe could lead to new physics
Forbes:
Our Expanding Universe: What Is It Expanding Into?
Extreme Tech:
NASA plans to create coldest spot in the universe on ISS
Daily Mail:
MIT reveals 'impossible' new form of matter: Supersolid combines the properties of solids with those of superfluids
New Atlas:
There's no escaping Boston Dynamics' wheeled jumping robot
Nerdist:
6-Legged Thomas the Tank Engine Flame-Throwing Robot is Here to Burn Down Your Childhood
Wired:
Exploring the Mysterious Volcanoes of Arizona (Yes, That Arizona)
New Historian:
Massive Volcano Eruption at Mount Etna in 1669 Kills Thousands
Temblor:
New study finds Los Angeles and San Diego are at risk from M=7.3+ offshore earthquakes
KCET:
The Quake that Renamed California "Earthquake Country"
National Geographic:
Formed by Megafloods, This Place Fooled Scientists for Decades
Daily Mail:
Top tourist landmark CRUMBLES: Malta's 164ft-high arched cliff washes away after being hit by heavy storms
National Geographic:
Why California Deserts Are Experiencing a 'Super Bloom'
Daily Mail:
The 423 million year old 'armour plated' fish that shows sea creatures may have evolved in China far earlier than anywhere else
Seeker:
Improved Vision May Have Drawn Fish to the Land Millions of Years Ago
National Geographic:
Giant Catfish Fossil Found in Egyptian Desert
National Geographic:
Where the World's Only Grass-Eating Monkeys Thrive
National Geographic:
Watch an Elephant Invite a Rhino to Play
Daily Mail:
Is this the proof that human ancestors also came from Asia? 100,000-year-old skulls found in China challenge traditional theory on mankind's African origin
Daily Mail:
Neanderthals discovered 'aspirin' 50,000 years before us: Our ancient cousins used plant-based drugs to relieve toothache and stomach pains
Ars Technica:
Australia was colonized by a single group 50,000 years ago
Ars Technica:
The Amazon forest is the result of an 8,000-year experiment
Daily Mail:
The lion-headed goddess of war protecting a pharoah: Archaeologists discover 66 statues of Sekhmet buried to ward off evil from the temple of Amenhotep III
Daily Mail:
Giant 3,000-year-old statue of Pharaoh Ramses II found buried in a Cairo slum is hailed as 'one of the most important discoveries ever'
BBC History Extra:
The Celts: unpicking the mystery
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 2,600-year-old palace is found buried under the ruins of a shrine blown up by ISIS in Mosul
BBC History Extra:
Charlemagne: creating the myth
National Geographic:
How to Fight Like a Viking
National Geographic:
The Realm of the Vikings
BBC History Extra:
7 myths about Robin Hood
Daily Mail:
PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Inside the 'Lost City of the Monkey God' protected from visitors by a flesh-eating disease
BBC History Extra:
What was life like for a court jester?
Daily Mail:
Rare gold coin worth £15,000 is found by an amateur treasure hunter who 'thought it was a bottle top'
Atlas Obscura:
Behold the Erdapfel, the World's Oldest Surviving Globe
Atlas Obscura:
The Mysteries of the First-Ever Map of the North Pole
BBC History Extra:
What did Jane Austen really look like?
Mental Floss:
The Mysterious 19th Century 'Princess' Who Fooled a Town
National Geographic:
Madame Tussaud Used Beheaded Politicians to Create Her Original Waxworks
Atlas Obscura:
Rediscovering the Civil War Heroics of a Tiny Massachusetts Armory
Mental Floss:
5 Facts About Civil War Spy Mary Bowser
Timeline:
A town of freed slaves - on Robert E. Lee's old estate - was destroyed to make Arlington cemetery
The Guardian:
The Russian Revolution: then and now
Atlas Obscura:
Meet Bessie Coleman, the First Black Woman to Get a Pilot's License
Atlas Obscura:
A Visual Guide to the Fake Fleets and Inflatable Armies of World War II
Flashbak:
Maryland's Glen Echo Amusement Park On A Sunny Day In 1943
Flashbak:
In 1963 A Model Floated From New York To Paris In A Bubble
Atlas Obscura:
The Tragedy of Newcomb Mott, Who Thought He Could Walk Into Soviet Russia
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Happens When an Archaeologist Challenges Mainstream Scientific Thinking?
March 10, 2017
New Atlas:
In pictures: 2017 Australian International Air Show, featuring F-35 Joint Strike Fighter debut
New Atlas:
Bell flies into the future with first concept helicopter
Daily Mail:
Airbus reveals the self driving 'transformer' taxi that can be picked up by a drone to take to the skies
Spaceflight Insider:
Photo Feature: Apollo 11 Command Module prepped for cross-country voyage
History Net:
Heinemann's Hot Rod
History Net:
The Cornfield Bomber
Spacelfight History:
NASA Johnson Space Center's Shuttle II (1988)
Mental Floss:
13 Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of NASA Mission Controllers
Science Magazine:
Watch the explosive demise of a weather balloon
March 9, 2017
Universe Today:
1st SLS 2nd Stage Arrives at Cape for NASA's Orion Megarocket Moon Launch in 2018
Stuff NZ:
Earth's orbiting junkyard threatens the space economy
Daily Mail:
NASA and SpaceX begin testing the life support systems that will keep Elon Musk's paying tourists alive as they travel round the moon
New Scientist:
Signal-tracking satellite would build its own antenna in space
Daily Mail:
The rocket that launches from the AIR: China to develop new projectile that can set off from aircraft and deliver satellites into space
Daily Mail:
The Martian had it wrong: Study reveals potatoes would grow outside in Martian soil in breakthrough for manned missions
March 8, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Sierra Nevada to resume Dream Chaser flight tests
Daily Mail:
Jeff Bezos reveals Blue Origin's 'megarocket' engine in billionaire space battle with Elon Musk's SpaceX
Spaceflight Now:
Blue Origin details new rocket's capabilities, signs first orbital customer
New Scientist:
Moon's hidden craters detected by gravity mapper
Seeker:
Martian Meteorites Could Reveal Wetter Past on the Red Planet Than Thought
New Scientist:
Cryovolcanism on Dwarf Planet Ceres
Seeker:
Colonizing Mars Might Require Humans to Radically Alter Their Bodies and Minds
March 7, 2017
Space News:
NASA seeks payload ideas for mystery satellite
Space News:
ULA delays launch of Air Force communications satellite due to booster issue
Universe Today:
So it Begins, Red Dragon Delayed 2 Years to 2020
Space News:
SpaceX delays force Spaceflight to find alternative launches
Daily Mail:
NASA spots remnants of a 3,000km MEGAFLOOD on Mars caused by shifting tectonic plates and volcanic activity
Seeker:
Cassini Reveals Changing Conditions at Saturn's Massive Polar Vortices
Seeker:
What Cassini's Daring Ring-Dive Around Saturn Could Tell Us About Uranus
Daily Mail:
Google's 'Project Loon' internet balloon crashes in the Amazon forest
March 6, 2017
Inquisitr:
Near-Miss Asteroid Breaches Earth's Ring Of Satellites Six Hours After Discovery
Tech Times:
Asteroid Flew By So Close To Earth It Was Inside Satellite Ring
Space News:
NASA spacecraft avoids potential collision with Martian moon
Spaceflight Now:
NASA spacecraft steers clear of Martian moon Phobos
Spaceflight Now:
Small experimental satellite launched by new Chinese rocket
Universe Today:
Curiosity Watches a Dust Devil Go Past
Inverse:
Scientists Might Look for Signs of Alien Life in the Asteroid Belt
Astrobiology Magazine:
Does Pluto Have The Ingredients For Life?
Universe Today:
Volcanic Hydrogen Gives Planets a Boost for Life
Seeker:
'Habitable' Exoplanets Might Not Be Very Earth-Like After All
WEEKEND EDITION: March 4, 2017 through March 5, 2017
Live Science:
The 18 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics
New Scientist:
One time or another: Our best 5 theories of the fourth dimension
Orange County Register:
Physicist Brian Greene explains string theory and why the world has 11 dimensions, not four
Forbes:
Is There Any Evidence Of A Multiverse?
Info World:
Artificially inflated: It's time to call BS on AI
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Eighteenth-Century Robot Actually Used Breathing to Play the Flute
IEEE Spectrum:
Ghost Robotics' Minitaur Demonstrates Impressive New Skills
IEEE Spectrum:
Boston Dynamics Officially Unveils Its Wheel-Leg Robot: "Best of Both Worlds"
Daily Mail:
Was ancient Earth surrounded by a solid SHELL? New theory suggests plate tectonics began later than previously thought
Astrobiology Magazine:
'Quartz' crystals at the Earth's core power its magnetic field
Astrobiology Magazine:
From rocks in Colorado, evidence of a 'chaotic solar system'
Stuff NZ:
Newfound 3.77-billion-year-old fossils could be earliest evidence of life on Earth
Daily Mail:
The secret of the giant dinosaur revealed: Sauropods had ZIGZAGGING bones to support their long necks
Daily Mail:
Bizarre body of 160 million-year-old four-winged dinosaur with 'drumstick-shaped' legs is revealed using lasers
Stuff NZ:
Waddling with dinosaurs: Ancient New Zealand fossil connects penguins and dinosaurs
The History Blog:
Is this the skull of the legendary "weasel bear"?
Science Magazine:
Monarch miscalculation: Has a scientific error about the butterflies persisted for more than 40 years?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Prehistoric Pointillism? Long Before Seurat, Ancient Artists Chiseled Mammoths Out of Dots
Daily Mail:
The 7,000-year-old hunting ground: Ancient human footprints reveal how Mesolithic hunters tracked their prey through Wales' boggy landscape
Science Nordic:
Did Stone Age people build a large labyrinth in Denmark?
The History Blog:
Child's footprints found in ancient Egyptian mortar
Daily Mail:
We struck gold! Two amateur treasure hunter friends discover Britain's 'oldest' Iron Age bling in a cow field in Staffordshire
The History Blog:
Torc hoard is earliest Iron Age gold found in Britain
The History Blog:
Mithras sanctuary found in Corsica
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 1,800-year-old Hebrew engraving may pinpoint the cave where a Jewish wiseman took shelter from Roman soldiers
Daily Mail:
Mysterious jade 'megajewel' worn on the chest of a Mayan king to appease the god of wind found in Belize
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Did Greenland's Vikings Vanish?
Daily Mail:
King Richard III's personal prayer book goes online and includes a handwritten note he sent to himself to remind him of his own birthday
Mental Floss:
America's First Mandatory Education Law Was Inspired by Satan
Smithsonian Magazine:
Byron Was One of the Few Prominent Defenders of the Luddites
Mental Floss:
5 Forgotten Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm
BBC News:
The island of lost explorers
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Graduate Student Just Discovered a Lost Work of Fiction by Walt Whitman
History.com:
Andrew Carnegie's Surprising Legacy
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Weird Story of "The Man They Couldn't Hang"
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Incredible Legacy of Susan La Flesche, the First Native American to Earn a Medical Degree
The Atlantic:
Thomas Edison and the Origins of Surf Filmography
San Francisco Chronicle:
1906 San Francisco Earthquake photos
Smithsonian Magazine:
Vladimir Lenin's Return Journey to Russia Changed the World Forever
History.com:
The Secret History of the Zimmermann Telegram
Mental Floss:
Giuseppe Dosi, Italy's Famed Detective and Master of Disguise
Smithsonian Magazine:
When Hollywood Glamour Was Sold at the Local Department Store
Mental Floss:
15 Things You Might Not Know About Of Mice and Men
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Nobody Remembers the Forefather of Forensic Science
Daily Mail:
Hitler's plans to destroy London: Rare mare map revealing Germany's WWII bombing targets is discovered after 75 years in an attic
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Fake British Radio Show That Helped Defeat the Nazis
Smithsonian Magazine:
Tootsie Rolls Were WWII Energy Bars
Forbes:
How Vesuvius Upstaged The Nazi Air Force During The Second World War
Daily Mail:
Did Hitler have a NUCLEAR BOMB? Mushroom cloud sighting in declassified US documents suggests the Nazis successfully tested a nuke before the end of World War Two
Mental Floss:
The 1956 Magic Trick That Sent BBC Viewers Into a Panic
Mental Floss:
The Highly Unusual Funeral of Lee Harvey Oswald
Smithsonian Magazine:
That Time the U.S. Government Won an Oscar
BBC News:
Jack Barsky: The KGB spy who lived the American dream
Mental Floss:
The Stories Behind 10 Dr. Seuss Books
March 3, 2017
Smithsonian Magazine:
What's Really Changed - and What Hasn't - About Getting Humans to the Moon
New Atlas:
Lockheed Martin supersonic jet hits the wind tunnel - in model form
Live Science:
Straight Out of Sci-Fi: Hoverbike 'Surfs' Through the Air in Test
BBC News:
Bringing the Soviet Union's 'flying tank' back to life
HistoryNet:
Frank Whittle and the Race for the Jet
HistoryNet:
Dragon Lady Down
HistoryNet:
The 10 Greatest Emergency Landings
March 2, 2017
Twinsburg Bulletin:
Recalling Twinsburg's bizarre UFO incident
Daily Mail:
Dashcam captures a huge meteor in Texas that was spotted over 700 miles away and created a rare sonic boom
Daily Mail:
Non-stop vomiting, claustrophobic freak-outs and the constant need to pee: Experts warn Elon Musk's mystery Moon tourists will have a rough ride
Space News:
ULA launch successfully carries NRO payload into orbit
Spaceflight Insider:
Atlas V sends classified NROL-79 payload to space
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 powers covert reconnaissance payload to orbit on its 70th mission
Spaceflight Now:
NASA buys up to five more seats on future Soyuz missions
Seeker:
Risks on Mars Mean Humans Might Want to Follow Opportunity Rover's Tracks
Seeker:
In Photos: Opportunity Rover's Amazing Finds in Mars' Meridiani Planum Region
Seeker:
What Cassini's Daring Ring-Dive Around Saturn Could Tell Us About Uranus
New Scientist:
If an asteroid hit London only 3% of deaths would be from impact
March 1, 2017
Dallas Morning News:
Thunderous meteor rattles West Texas sky with sonic boom
Spaceflight Insider:
EM-1 could become Apollo 8 for the 21st century
New Atlas:
NASA's next Orion flight could be manned
Popular Science:
SpaceX wants to send two rich people to the moon by 2018
Space News:
NASA signs agreement with Boeing for Soyuz seats
China News Service:
Riding an asteroid: China's next goal in space
Daily Mail:
Man may be able to survive on Mars more easily than thought: Massive 'stingray' volcano twice the size of Everest reveals red planet's mantle contains more resources than thought
Scientific American:
Nameless No Longer: Pluto's Geography to Receive Official Titles
Feburary 28, 2017
Space News:
SpaceX announces plan for circumlunar human mission
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX to send two private citizens around the moon and back
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX to fly 2 people around Moon in 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rocket to provide spacelift for U.S. National Reconnaissance Office
Space News:
Virgin Galactic resumes SpaceShipTwo testing
Forbes:
Did Mars Once Have Three Moons?
New Scientist:
Voyager 1 might have seen Enceladus' icy plumes 25 years early
New Scientist:
The greatest danger asteroids pose to us is not from the impact
Feburary 27, 2017
Great Falls Tribune:
Mansch On Montana: UFO sighting still resonates
Stuff NZ:
Bright lights above NZ could have been a rocket and meteor
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX supply ship completes journey to space station
Spaceflight Now:
Russian freighter links up with International Space Station
New Scientist:
Successful Russian launch re-paves the way to space station
Spaceflight Now:
Watch two new arrivals at the International Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
NASA studying whether to add astronauts to first launch of new super booster
Spaceflight Now:
Auto-destruct system seen as a key to ramping up launch tempos
Daily Mail:
Stunning 'ring of fire' solar eclipse plunges half a billion people into darkness in South America and Africa
Air & Space Magazine:
How Venus Could Help Us Understand the New TRAPPIST-1 Planets
Seeker:
The Search for Life in the Universe Just Got a Lot More Interesting
Daily Mail:
Take a 360-degree virtual tour of newly discovered Earth-like planet that could host alien life
WEEKEND EDITION: February 25 through February 26, 2017
Quanta Magazine:
Physicists Uncover Geometric 'Theory Space'
Forbes:
Why Do We Spend So Much Time Teaching Historical Physics?
Scientific American:
Einstein's Greatest Blunder?
Popular Science:
There are two kinds of AI, and the difference is important
Forbes:
College Student Uses Artificial Intelligence To Build A Multimillion-Dollar Legal Research Firm
Seeker:
This Delivery Robot Is Learning to Master Crosswalks
CNN:
What the faces of our robots tell us about ourselves
The Atlantic:
The 'Curious' Robots Searching for the Ocean's Secrets
Inverse:
There's a Practical Reason for This Terrifying Spider-Bot
IEEE Spectrum:
Six-Legged Robot One-Ups Nature With Faster Gait
Mysterious Universe:
Chinese Robocop Recognizes Faces and is Armed With a Taser
New Atlas:
New theory explains why the Earth's core doesn't melt
New Atlas:
Quartz at the core of Earth's magnetic field paradox
Seeker:
A Hidden Continent Dubbed 'Zealandia' May Lie Beneath New Zealand
Smithsonian Magazine:
Another El Niño Could Be On Its Way
Live Science:
What Was the First Life on Earth?
Mental Floss:
5 Extinctions That Wiped Much of Life off Planet Earth
Daily Mail:
Terrifying 6ft long carnivorous worm with huge snapping jaws swam the seas 400 million years ago
Seeker:
This Ancient Sea Monster Was a Spineless Beast
Daily Mail:
Life in Earth's oceans bounced back far more quickly than thought after world's worst mass extinction
Daily Mail:
Do not mess with turtles! 155-million-year-old fossil reveals how they evolved flexible necks to viscously attack prey
Science Magazine:
Africa's deadliest rapids give birth to new fish species
Seeker:
A 66-Year-Old Albatross Is Still Making Babies
The History Blog:
Neolithic "enigma" out of storage and on display
Seeker:
This 3,000-Year-Old Spearhead Is the 'Find of a Lifetime'
The History Blog:
Bronze Age weapons hoard found in Scotland
The History Blog:
Roman vessel hoard packed with plants found
BBC History Extra:
The Vikings at home
Smithsonian Magazine:
How 13th-Century "Mermaid Bones" Came to Be Displayed in a Japanese Temple
BBC History Extra:
Marrying for love: Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville
Atlas Obscura:
The Enduring Mystery of the 'Fool's Cap Map of the World'
Mysterious Universe:
The Aztecs May Have Been Wiped Out by Salmonella
Mental Floss:
15 Gripping Facts About Galileo
The History Blog:
Who's a good Rembrandt? You are! Yes you are!
The History Blog:
Guercino found! Round up the usual suspects.
Mental Floss:
12 Favorite Haunts of the Founding Fathers You Can Still Visit Today
Smithsonian Magazine:
The True Friendship That Saved Abraham Lincoln's Life
BBC History Extra:
In pictures: The photographs of William Henry Fox Talbot
Smithsonian Magazine:
When Lincoln Was More a Politician Than an "Honest Abe"
BBC History Extra:
Queen Victoria's appetites
Mental Floss:
The Unsolved Murder That Fascinated 1840s New York (and Edgar Allan Poe)
Atlas Obscura:
Lady Jane Franklin, the Woman Who Fueled 19th-Century Polar Exploration
Timeline:
This ingenious slave literally mailed himself to freedom
The History Blog:
Navy posts Hunley recovery report online
The History Blog:
How to move a painting the size of football field
Timeline:
In one year, 12 trillion locusts devastated the Great Plains - and then they went extinct
Atlas Obscura:
How Sears and Montgomery Ward Changed American Shipping
Smithsonian Magazine:
The First Telephone Book Had Fifty Listings and No Numbers
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Statue of Liberty Was Once Patented
Atlas Obscura:
Remembering Nushu, the 19th-Century Chinese Script Only Women Could Write
Atlas Obscura:
The Shy Edwardian Filmmaker Who Showed Nature's Secrets to the World
BBC History Extra:
"We die like brothers": The sinking of the SS Mendi
Smithsonian Magazine:
Russia's February Revolution Was Led by Women on the March
BBC History Extra:
The world's deadliest sniper: Simo Hayah
BBC News:
Forbidden love: The WW2 letters between two men
Timeline:
During the internment, Japanese American teens created this heartbreaking scrapbook about camp life
Mental Floss:
11 Weapons That Won World War II
History Vault:
Mildred and Richard: The Love Story that Changed America
Smithsonian Magazine:
"9-1-1" Has Meant "Help, Please" For 49 Years
Atlas Obscura:
When the NSA Feared Psychics Could Make Cities Lost in Time and Space
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Pioneer of Graphic Adventure Games Was a Woman
New Atlas:
Pictorial: Retromobile 2017
Atlas Obscura:
Six Stories of Stunning Passports From Countries That No Longer Exist
Atlas Obscura:
A French Roadside Diner Accidentally Got a Michelin Star
Mental Floss:
10 Towering Facts About Giant Sequoias
February 24, 2017
New Atlas:
Project Loon's internet balloons form stratospheric clusters for targeted delivery
New Atlas:
Sky-Hopper: Another manned multirotor project to watch
Daily Mail:
Start-up unveils the world's first HOVERBIKE that they claim is so simple to fly you don't need any experience before taking to the sky
Aviation Week:
Aviation Week's Warning and the Founding of NASA Langley
New Atlas:
Flight of the Blackbird: The how, what and why of the incredible SR-71
Seeker:
John Glenn's Orbital Mission Tested the Mysteries of the Human Body in Space
Air & Space Magazine:
Apollo 11 Moonship To Go On Tour
February 23, 2017
Daily Mail:
FOUND: The star system with SEVEN Earth-like planets - three of which could support alien life - just 39 light years away
The Verge:
This solar system of seven Earth-sized planets may be the best place to look for alien life
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX waves off space station cargo delivery for a day
Spaceflight Now:
Don't miss this spectacular video of 104 satellites deployed in space
Seeker:
This Is the First Privately Commissioned 3D-Printed Object Made in Space
Seeker:
Small Satellite Rocket Booster Arrives at New Zealand's First Launch Site
New Scientist:
Mars might already be building rings from its moons
SyFy Wire - Bad Astronomy:
KaBLAM! A small asteroid carved out one of the youngest craters on Mars
New Scientist:
Far-off asteroid caught cohabiting with Uranus around the sun
New Scientist:
The upstart asteroid who showed rings are for everybody
Quartz:
How a failed Japanese space mission lucked into catching a comet
Ars Technica:
The long wait to send a probe to Pluto, and what we've found
Daily Mail:
Planet Nine breakthrough as astronomers find asteroids that may have been victims of a 'smash and grab' by mysterious body
February 22, 2017
Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette:
Whatever happened to ... UFO sightings
NorthEscambia.com:
Unexplained Fireball, Boom Rattle Residents
WKRG-TV:
Update: NASA Confirms Meteor Seen Across South Alabama
Discover Magazine:
What Does a Meteor Sound Like?
Daily Mail:
Touchdown! The incredible moment Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket lands back at Cape Canaveral after delivering supplies to the International Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz booster rolled out to snowy Baikonur launch pad
Popular Science:
Juno spacecraft gives up, decides to take the long way around Jupiter
Universe Today:
Juno Will Get No Closer To Jupiter Due To Engine Troubles
Spaceflight Now:
NASA's Juno spacecraft to remain in current orbit around Jupiter
Universe Today:
How Long is a Year on Mercury?
Seeker:
Mars Life Could Lurk Within These Salty Streaks
Universe Today:
A Region On Mars With Recent Water Is About To Get Major Attention
New Scientist:
Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material
Seeker:
Organic Material Discovery Suggests Life Could Exist on Dwarf Planet Ceres
Peoria Journal Star:
Nick in the AM: When a meteor landed near Glasford
February 21, 2017
Popular Science:
SpaceX rocket lifts off from historic Apollo 11 launchpad
Seeker:
SpaceX Rocket Puts Historic NASA Launch Pad Back in Business
Spaceflight Now:
Historic launch pad back in service with thundering blastoff by SpaceX
Space News:
Falcon 9 lifts off on first mission from Kennedy Space Center pad
Spaceflight Now:
Reconnaissance payload mounted atop Atlas 5 for California launch in two weeks
Seeker:
Europe's Mars Mission Is About to 'Surf' the Red Planet's Atmosphere
Science Magazine:
On the birthday of Pluto's discovery, Science takes a look back on the dwarf planet's long, strange history
Real Clear Science:
The Mystery of Sedna: The Solar System's Icy Oddball World
PRESIDENTS' DAY WEEKEND EDITION: February 18 through February 20, 2017
Daily Galaxy:
LIGO's Gravitational Waves May Point to a Universe Beyond
Quanta Magazine:
Experiment Reaffirms Quantum Weirdness
Forbes:
Quantized Inertia, Dark Matter, The EMDrive And How To Do Science Wrong
Financial Times:
Forever changes: the quest to unlock the mysteries of time
Quanta Magazine:
A Fight to Fix Geometry's Foundations
Houston Chronicle:
Terrifyingly, Google's Artificial Intelligence acts aggressive when cornered
Popular Science:
Watch a snake robot wriggle through a Norwegian fjord
Wired:
The Cute Robot That Follows You Around and Schleps All Your Stuff
Daily Mail:
Meet Cassie, the crouching 'ostrich' robot that could soon be delivering your packages
New Scientist:
Science Museum's Robots: Who is really pulling the strings?
Astrobiology Magazine:
Older than the moon
Business Insider:
These 3-billion-year-old crystals deep inside an underwater volcano could be from an ancient continent
National Geographic Australia:
Is Zealandia Really The 8th Continent?
Astrobiology Magazine:
Oxygen Increased When Earth Was Covered in Ice
The Guardian:
Why the sublime violence of volcanoes will never lie dormant
Daily Mail:
The fangs of the first killer bite: Dog sized mammal that lived 100 million years before snakes was the first animal to use venom
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 250 million-year-old fossil of crocodile ancestor shows first ever evidence of live birth in an animal thought ONLY to lay eggs
Daily Mail:
Did a DOUBLE plume of magma wipe out the dinosaurs? Experts suggest a new theory for the historic mass extinction 65 million years ago
New Atlas:
Tarantulas show their true-blue colors
Science Magazine:
Watch the world's most elusive boa snake out of a Brazilian forest
Daily Mail:
Does King Tutankhamun's tomb hold Queen Nefertiti's remains? New scans could reveal secret burial chambers hidden for 3,300 years
Seeker:
3,000-Year-Old Child Footprints Found at Site of Ancient Egyptian Palace
New Atlas:
Archaeologists uncover first Dead Sea Scrolls cave in 60 years
The History Blog:
The Legacy of Ancient Palmyra online
The History Blog:
Odd animal burials found under Shrewsbury church
The History Blog:
Large Roman mosaic floor found in Leicester
Daily Mail:
Revealed: VIP Viking warrior found buried on the Scottish coast with a wealth of tools could be a WOMAN
Flashbak:
The Universalis Cosmographia (1507): The First Time America Was Named On A Map
Mental Floss:
Are These the Skeletons of the First European Colonists in the U.S.?
The History Blog:
Science reveals Selden Map's secrets
Smithsonian Magazine:
Eight Secrets of the Taj Mahal
Mental Floss:
The Bitter Race to Publish America's First Magazine
Smithsonian Magazine:
Newly Discovered Photo May Depict a Younger Harriet Tubman
The History Blog:
New Harriet Tubman photo found in 1860s album
Mental Floss:
Robert Smalls: The Slave Who Stole a Confederate Warship and Became a Congressman
The History Blog:
Stolen Van Goghs on display before going home
Smithsonian Magazine:
Rare Photographs Could Show Paul Gauguin in Tahiti
Mental Floss:
Retrobituaries: Lincoln Perry, the First African American Movie Star
BBC History Extra:
The fall of France: Hitler's greatest gamble
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Complicated Racial Politics of Going "Undercover" to Report on the Jim Crow South
Flashbak:
Making Globes In 1955
New Atlas:
10 highlights at this week's Paris collectible car auctions
New Atlas:
1930 Bugatti Type 52 children's car sells for $99,000
New Atlas:
"Q" gadgets from WWII up for auction
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Photos Show Just How Colossal the World's Tallest Sandcastle Is
February 17, 2017
Daily Mail:
Is this the first 'real' flying car? Orders open for $400,000 Pal-V that can hit 112mph on land AND in the air
New Atlas:
PAL-V flying three-wheeler being prepped for take off
Daily Mail:
The driverless MEGADRONE big enough to carry a passenger could be flying around Dubai in July
Daily Mail:
The 'flying bum' is back! Giant airship gets ahead to fly again following embarrassing crash
BBC History Extra:
James Sadler: From pastry cook to first English aeronaut
New Atlas:
The last Concorde makes its final journey
Daily Mail:
Stargazer was left baffled after he spotted a 'UFO' crossing the moon during a lunar eclipse - but it turned out to be one of Google's BALLOONS
February 16, 2017
Daily Mail:
The 'Dungeons and Dragons' asteroid: NASA spots object with strange shape that resembles the game's dice
Spaceflight Now:
India lofts a record 104 spacecraft on a single rocket
Space News:
SpaceX delays next Iridium launch two months
Popular Science:
NASA wants to put astronauts on the very first launch of its new mega-rocket
Space News:
NASA to study launching astronauts on first SLS mission
Ars Technica:
We finally have a computer that can survive the surface of Venus
Daily Mail:
The world's toughest computer could be sent to VENUS in 2025: Machine can withstand temperatures of 480°C
Seeker:
Mars Rover Curiosity's Drill Malfunction Puts Organics Hunt at Risk
Scientific American:
New Study Pins Down Jupiter's Birthday
Popular Science:
NASA has an unusually bold plan to find life on Europa
Popular Science:
Here's what NASA's Europa lander could look like
Bad Astronomy:
Does Earth have a Trojan horde?
February 15, 2017
SFist:
Mysterious Lights In California Sky Early Tuesday Were Just An Unarmed Missile Test
Ars Technica:
The Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane may - or may not - be about to land
Space News:
The X-37 isn't landing just yet
Spaceflight Now:
No imminent X-37B landing planned
Daily Mail:
NASA to join forces with the European Space Agency for historic manned mission around the moon in 2021 - the first time humans have left low orbit since 1972
Seeker:
Mars 2020 Could Return to Where NASA's Spirit Rover Roamed
Seeker:
Watch a Stunning Video of Jupiter's Swirling Clouds Made by Amateur Astronomers
Universe Today:
This Is The Highest Resolution Image Of Europa We Have ... For Now
Stuff NZ:
Astronomers discover 114 new planets
Daily Mail:
Astronomers find SIXTY new planets orbiting stars near our solar system - and say some 'could be like Earth'
New Atlas:
Potentially habitable exoplanets may not be so habitable after all
February 14, 2017
Daily Mail:
Astronomers spot asteroid bigger than the Empire State Building that they say could crash into the Earth
Daily Mail:
Forget Google Maps, radical swarm of 148 mini satellites set to capture a 50-trillion-pixel image of Earth DAILY following Valentine's Day launch
Seeker:
SpaceX Falcon 9 Starts Its Engines for the First Time at Historic Launch Pad
Spaceflight Now:
Scientists narrow list of landing sites for NASA's next Mars rover
Seeker:
Mercury's Water Ice Deposits Have a Mysterious Origin
Universe Today:
Watch the Curiosity Rover Roll Across Mars' Surface
Mysterious Universe:
Curiosity Rover Discovers Ancient Mars Mystery
Seeker:
Mars Was Recently Hit by a Meteorite 'Shotgun' Blast
New Scientist:
Primitive plants survive almost two years in outer space
February 13, 2017
Daily Mail:
The extraordinary story of the entire class who claimed to have spotted a 40ft-long UFO in a field near their school 40 years ago... and how mystery still surrounds the sighting
I4U News:
Hubble Discovers A Comet 100,000 Times Bigger Than Halley's
Universe Today:
SpaceX Falcon 9 Breaths First Fire at KSC Pad 39A - Successful Static Fire Test Paves Path to Feb. 18 ISS Launch
Spaceflight Now:
Teams practice for Cape Canaveral's first launch of Minotaur 4 rocket
Seeker:
Blue Origin Prepares to Build Its Florida Rocket Launch Complex
New Scientist:
NASA wants to put a lander on Europa's surface to look for life
New Scientist:
Magnetic meteorites narrow down solar system's birthdate
Universe Today:
Meet Asteroid 2017 BQ6 - A Giant, Spinning Brick
WEEKEND EDITION: February 11 through February 12, 2017
Ars Technica:
Universe neither confirms nor denies its holographic nature
New Scientist:
Mapping the multiverse: How far away is your parallel self?
Science Friday:
Why the Multiverse Isn't Just Madness
Popular Mechanics:
This Walking Robot Might Be Your New UPS Driver
Los Angeles Times:
As bee populations dwindle, robot bees may pick up some of their pollination slack
The Guardian:
Robots exhibition at the Science Museum, London - in pictures
Daily Mail:
The shocking animation that reveals how a massive Antarctic crack has grown 17 miles in the last two MONTHS - and experts say it is now 'inevitable' it will create one of the biggest icebergs ever seen
Daily Mail:
Were Massive landslide '30 times the volume of Ayers rock' hit the Great Barrier Reef 300,000 years ago: Researchers find vast debris field and giant hills on the seabed
Daily Mail:
What happened to the sun over 7,000 years ago? Tree rings reveal mysterious magnetic 'solar event'
Seeker:
Carnivorous Plants Craved Meat Before They Could Digest It
Daily Mail:
Were WAVES to blame for the Great Dying? Researchers say shoaling 252 million years ago may have stirred up chemicals on the sea floor that killed off 90% of life on the planet
The Guardian:
Giant winged Transylvanian predators could have eaten dinosaurs
Science News:
Some lucky birds escaped dino doomsday
Atlas Obscura:
The Unlikely Comeback of New Zealand's Weirdest 'Living Fossil'
Seeker:
Ancient Sheepdog Breed Returns to Romanian Landscape to Fend Off Wolves
Ars Technica:
38,000-year-old carving includes enigmatic "punctuation" pattern
Ars Technica:
Dramatic new discoveries illuminate the lost Indus civilization
Mental Floss:
15 Facts About 'Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino'
Atlas Obscura:
Found: A Crucial Map of Tokyo's Ancient Edo Castle, Which Was Ready for War
Mental Floss:
The 392-Year-Old Bonsai That Survived Hiroshima
BBC History Extra:
A king without a crown: James II's years in exile
Mental Floss:
After 400 Years, This Forgotten Master Painter Is Getting Her First Solo Show
Mental Floss:
Retrobituaries: Benjamin Banneker, the African-American Mathematician Who May Have Saved Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Soprano Who Upended Americans' Racist Stereotypes About Who Could Sing Opera
Mental Floss:
The 12-Year-Old Who Fought In the Civil War
New York Times:
A Rediscovered Mark Twain Fairy Tale Is Coming Soon
Atlas Obscura:
Marie Duval, the Pioneering 19th-Century Cartoonist That History Forgot
Mental Floss:
15 Things You Didn't Know About Renoir's 'Luncheon of the Boating Party'
Mental Floss:
The International Distress Signal That Predates 'SOS'
Timeline:
Madam C.J. Walker wasn't just a positive force for African Americans. She also pioneered global black activism
Mental Floss:
15 Facts for Norman Rockwell's Birthday
Smithsonian Magazine:
The "Scandalous" Quarter Protest That Wasn't
Atlas Obscura:
How We Forgot the Bobbed Haired Bandit
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Brief 1930s Craze for 'Tom Thumb Golf'
Atlas Obscura:
The Little-Known Passport That Protected 450,000 Refugees
Mental Floss:
The World's First Emergency Phone Number
Timeline:
The heyday of American Nazism was led by a prize-winning Hollywood screenwriter
Mental Floss:
12 Facts About Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
Flashbak:
The Greyhound Bus Terminal, Washington DC: April 1941
Atlas Obscura:
The Curious Curriculum of the 1950s Red Cross 'Bride Schools'
Atlas Obscura:
Watch the Dramatic Ad That Introduced the First Remote-Control Color TV
Mental Floss:
15 Things You Might Not Know About 'Dr. Strangelove'
Timeline:
This feminist single mom invented the phone sex business in the 1970s
Timeline:
Historic photos from the glory days of Britain's illegal rave movement
New Atlas:
The Volkswagen Bug becomes an unlikely auction hero
New Atlas:
Top 150 sales from the 2017 Las Vegas Motorcycle auctions
The Guardian:
Unbuilt Los Angeles: the city that might have been - in pictures
February 10, 2017
Daily Mail:
A taxi drone of your own: Jetpack builder reveals radical six rotor personal flying car
Daily Mail:
Russia reveals massive 'groundskimmer' cargo plane to carry heavy loads that will fly just 10 FEET above the ground and sea
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Picture History of One of the World's Greatest Hot Air Balloons
Daily Mail:
The last airworthy Vulcan nuclear bomber is STUCK in 'hibernation' while its owners scramble to raise funds to restore it to its Cold War glory
Ars Technica:
That time a monkey flew to the edge of space and then smashed into a destroyer
Mental Floss:
On This Day in 1971, Apollo 14 Golfers Arrived on the Moon
Mental Floss:
The Apollo Astronaut Who Was Allergic to the Moon
Daily Mail:
The golden era of Nasa's space race with Soviet Russia is brought back to life in stunning colourised images
Timeline:
Before photographs, these amazing illustrations showed us what deep space looks like
February 9, 2017
Seeker:
A Strange Green Comet Is Heading Our Way
Universe Today:
See a Flirtatious Lunar Eclipse This Friday Night
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Comet, Eclipse and a Full Moon Will Light Up the Skies Friday Night
CBS News:
Closest comet in decades to share sky with lunar eclipse this weekend
Spaceflight Insider:
First SpaceX flight from Launch Complex 39A slated for Feb. 18
Space News:
SpaceX plans to launch every two or three weeks once Florida pad is running
Ars Technica:
The International Space Station will get a new, private airlock in 2019
Seeker:
Mercury's Water Ice Deposits Have a Mysterious Origin
Universe Today:
How Long is a Day on Venus?
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA's Curiosity Rover Sharpens Paradox of Ancient Mars
Seeker:
Mars Was Recently Hit by a Meteorite 'Shotgun' Blast
Seeker:
Saturn Could Be Defending Earth From Massive Asteroid Impacts
Chicago Reader:
The fireball that fell into Lake Michigan on Monday was not just a metaphor
Chicago Tribune:
When a meteor hit: Millions of years ago in Des Plaines
Forbes:
According To NASA An Asteroid Nearly Struck The Earth In January [Infographic]
BBC News:
What is the difference between a meteor and an asteroid?
February 8, 2017
New York Times:
Meteor Puts on a Light Show Over Midwest, and for the Cameras
Seeker:
Blazing 600-Pound Meteor Streaks Over Milwaukee
New Scientist:
Space junk collector burns up after hitting snag in first test
Spaceflight Now:
ULA's navy delivers rocket that will launch supplies to the space station
Daily Mail:
Boeing reveals its ISS 'space taxi' will use over 600 3D-printed parts when it blasts off next year
Spaceflight Insider:
New Horizons performs course correction on path toward second target
Universe Today:
What is the Weather like on Mars?
Seeker:
NASA's Rover Curiosity Reveals Something Weird About Mars' Ancient Atmosphere
Daily Mail:
Martian life mystery deepens as Curiosity rover finds early atmosphere did NOT have enough carbon dioxide to warm the planet and create lakes
Daily Mail:
Ceres' vanishing ice volcanoes: Dwarf planet may have had 'cryovolcanoes' millions of years ago that flattened out over time, leaving just one behind
Spaceflight Insider:
Pluto's red regions may have been created by Charon-forming impact
Astrobiology Magazine:
Possibility of Silicon-Based Life Grows
February 7, 2017
Mental Floss:
A Fireball Landed in Lake Michigan This Morning
Popular Mechanics:
Huge Fireball Meteor Lights Up Sky Over Illinois
Chicago Tribune:
College of Lake County captures footage of meteor flashing across night sky
Wisconsin State Journal:
Meteor that lit up Wisconsin sky no bigger than a basketball
Popular Science:
Rocket problems may delay SpaceX's first crewed launches
Spaceflight Now:
Japanese cargo ship ends mission after space debris experiment flounders
Spaceflight Insider:
Japan's Kounotori 6 re-enters Earth's atmosphere
Space News:
Launch woes diminish demand for small satellites
Seeker:
Here's What Mars' Amazing Polar Ice Cap Swirls Look Like From Above
Daily Mail:
The strange 'ice cream swirls' at the Martian north pole: ESA reveals incredible images of giant troughs on the red planet
Spaceflight Now:
Juno dives over Jupiter's cloud tops with main engine still offline
Universe Today:
Juno Buzzes Jupiter a mere 4,300 Km's above the Cloud Tops
Universe Today:
Meteorite Confirms 2 Billion Years of Volcanic Activity on Mars
Daily Mail:
Volcanoes erupted on Mars for 2 BILLION years: Meteorite study confirms Mars had the longest-lived volcanoes in the solar system
February 6, 2017
BBC News:
Broad Haven UFO sightings marked 40 years on
WWMT-TV:
Meteor seen over West Michigan Monday morning
WISN Milwaukee:
Meteor lights up morning sky across Wisconsin
WGBA-TV:
NWS: Meteor spotted in sky across Wisconsin
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX rocket tagged for reuse test-fired in Texas
Universe Today:
Used SpaceX Booster Set for Historic 1st Reflight is Test Fired in Texas
Spaceflight Now:
Russia recalls rocket engines, grounding Proton missions until spring
News.com Australia:
When will 2016 WF9 hit Earth, how close did 2017 BS32 get and could a meteor strike destroy the planet?
WEEKEND EDITION: February 4 through February 5, 2017
Gizmodo:
What Was Our Universe Like Before the Big Bang?
Daily Mail:
Are we living in a HOLOGRAM? Physicists say they have 'substantial evidence' our universe is an illusion
Daily Mail:
Could wormhole tunnels really take us to another galaxy? Expert claims it IS possible (but very unlikely)
Seeker:
Hubble's Spacetime Warps Confirm That the Universe Is Expanding Far Faster Than Expected
Gizmodo:
Leaked Video Reveals New Boston Dynamics Robot That Can Perform Amazing Stunts on Two Wheels
New Atlas:
Reptilian robot spies infiltrate the animal kingdom
Daily Mail:
Can you spot the robots? They're the hi-tech stars of a hit BBC wildlife series. And they're so lifelike real animals tried to seduce them!
Gizmodo:
10 Incredible Robots That Are Inspiring Us to Build the First Artificial Human
Daily Mail:
The 'cosmic origins' periodic table that reveals where every element came from
New Scientist:
Earth's water must have arrived here earlier than we thought
New Scientist:
Planet Earth makes its own water from scratch deep in the mantle
Daily Mail:
Low levels of oxygen in Earth's middle ages delayed evolution for 2 BILLION years
Astrobilogy Magazine:
The making of Antarctica
Seeker:
A 'Lost Continent' Has Been Found Under the Island of Mauritius
Stuff NZ:
"Striking" new images show impact of Kaikoura earthquake on the sea floor
Stuff NZ:
Underwater volcano erupting near Tonga
Universe Today:
What is a Butte?
Seeker:
This Bag-Like Sea Creature Was Our Earliest Ancestor
Seeker:
Ancient Insect Found in Amber Is Literally One of a Kind
Seeker:
Transylvania Pterosaur Was the Top Predator on Its Prehistoric Island Home
The History Blog:
38,000-year-old aurochs engraving found in France
BBC History Extra:
The truth about ancient Egypt
BBC History Extra:
Love, sex and marriage in ancient Egypt
BBC History Extra:
8 ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses that you (probably) didn't know about
BBC History Extra:
Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial
The History Blog:
3,500-year-old jewelry workshop illuminates dark age
Daily Mail:
Were ancient Egyptian scribes inspired by BABOONS? 3,000-year-old tomb of 'renowned' Royal artist was decorated with carvings of apes
The History Blog:
Fragments found of Amenhotep II box
Daily Mail:
Alexander the Great's last will and testament may have been found 'hiding in plain sight' 2,000 years after his death
The History Blog:
Last coins excavated from huge Jersey Celtic hoard
The History Blog:
Rare Han treasures at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum
The History Blog:
Well-preserved Roman shipwreck found off Mallorca
The History Blog:
Ancient skeleton found with tongue replaced by stone
BBC History Extra:
5 things you (probably) didn't know about the Dark Ages
Daily Mail:
Amateur treasure hunter discovers priceless 1,500-year-old jewellery next to a human rib in a field in Kent
The History Blog:
Ashmolean secures Alfred the Great hoard
The History Blog:
Is this 1,000-year-old tomb a famous Viking chief's?
The History Blog:
17th c. letters found in Knole House attic
Timeline:
Clara the Indian rhinoceros stunned audiences across Europe in the 1700s
The History Blog:
18th c. pagoda clock automaton enchants at auction
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Royal Archives Reveals the Hidden Genius Behind George III's "Madness"
The History Blog:
George Washington's field tent stands again
The Guardian:
Queen Charlotte's last surviving dress goes on display in Bath
BBC History Extra:
The French ballerina who became wealthier than Queen Victoria
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Beatrix Potter Invented Character Merchandising
The History Blog:
Italy's greatest detective and master of disguise
Timeline:
These photos show what everyday life under fascism looked like
Smithsonian Magazine:
During World War II, the U.S. Saw Italian-Americans as a Threat to Homeland Security
Timeline:
These rebellious teens resisted the Nazis by beating up Hitler Youth, and some paid with their lives
Timeline:
These pictures show how cozy fallout shelters were perfect for the 1950s nuclear family
Timeline:
This 1967 classroom experiment proved how easy it was for Americans to become Nazis
Timeline:
In 1983, two pilots miraculously landed a jumbo jet with no fuel from 40,000 feet
Timeline:
When the Mac was introduced 33 years ago, people thought graphical user interfaces were a real problem
Timeline:
Soviet Style '86: Russian Fashion from the Year of Chernobyl
Daily Mail:
Return of film photography: Kodak is bringing back the iconic Ektachrome format due to 'overwhelming' demand
New Atlas:
In pictures: John Gee's extraordinary Antique Motorcycles collection
New Atlas:
Surprises galore at Scottsdale Classic Car Auctions
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story of the Astrolabe, the Original Smartphone
February 3, 2017
Seeker:
Remote-Controlled Cyborg Dragonflies Will Be Flown Like Drones
Daily Mail:
Meet the BATBOT: Researchers reveal ultralight drone they say can fly circles around other craft
Scientific American:
The Story of NASA's Real "Hidden Figures"
Spaceflight History:
Early Apollo Mission to a Lunar Wrinkle Ridge (1968)
Spaceflight History:
As Gemini Was to an Apollo Lunar Landing by 1970, So Apollo Would Be to a Permanent Lunar Base in 1980 (1968)
Gizmodo:
The Secret History of the First Cat in Space
Popular Science:
Without Apollo 1, we might have never made it to the moon
February 2, 2017
c/net:
Asteroid attack? Astronomers ponder fourth close pass of 2017
Astronomy Magazine:
A newly discovered asteroid is zipping between Earth and the Moon tomorrow
Extreme Tech:
Asteroid discovered hours before it passes between Earth and moon
Daily Mail:
The first private space station: Axiom to blast commercial module to the ISS in 2020 - then use it to create its own orbiting outpost (and will offer week long stays for tourists)
New Scientist:
Oxygen ions sent from Earth have been spotted on the moon
Seeker:
Meteorite Reveals Mars Had Active Volcanoes Two Billion Years Ago
Seeker:
On Mars, Life Could Be Hiding Under the Rocks
Seeker:
Sending Mars Rovers on a 'Walkabout' Could Boost Their Science Output
Seeker:
Cassini Reveals Breathtaking New Views of Saturn's Beautifully Complex Rings
New Atlas:
Video: Step into a spacewalker's shoes as he mends the ISS
February 1, 2017
Seeker:
A Japanese Space Junk Removal Experiment Has Failed in Orbit
Spaceflight Insider:
Russian Progress MS-03 departs International Space Station
Space News:
SpaceX shuffles launch schedule for Falcon 9
Space News:
Technical risks threaten to delay Mars 2020 mission
Space News:
Proton launches delayed until mid-May
Astrobiology Magazine:
Similar-Looking Ridges on Mars Have Diverse Origins
Seeker:
Tiny Spacecraft Sees Water at Rosetta's Comet While Stranded in Solar Orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Cassini offers best-ever view of Saturn's rings
Stuff NZ:
A 466 million-year-old space collision is still raining shrapnel down on Earth
January 31, 2017
Gizmodo:
Lost Japanese Spacecraft Has Made a Key Measurement on Rosetta's Comet
Space News:
Defective engines may ground Russia's Proton rocket for months
Spaceflight Now:
NASA resumes JWST vibration testing
Seeker:
A Private Space Station Might Be Born From the ISS
Seeker:
Boeing Unveils Lighter, Snazzy Spacesuit for Space Taxi Astronauts
Seeker:
'Alien' Life Could Exist High in Earth's Atmosphere
Seeker:
Finding Alien Life Could Be a Simple Chemistry Test Away
January 30, 2017
Daily Mail:
The undercover return of the space shuttle: Dream Chaser mini 'space taxi' arrives at Edwards Air Force Base ahead of 2019 missions to the International Space Station
Spaceflight Insider:
Next SpaceX launch may be one of the last expendable F9 boosters
Seeker:
SpaceX Delays First Flight From NASA Shuttle Launch Pad
Spaceflight Insider:
Japan's Kounotori 6 leaves ISS, readies tether experiment
Daily Mail:
NASA displays Apollo 1 capsule hatch 50 years after fatal fire that killed Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee as Buzz Aldrin leads tributes with emotional tweet about 'my best friend'
WEEKEND EDITION: January 28 through January 29, 2017
New York Review of Books:
The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics
Ars Technica:
A fountain of ammonia to look for holes in the Standard Model
Forbes:
What Was The Worst Mistake Ever Made In Theoretical Physics?
Air & Space Magazine:
The Pipeline That Measured the Speed of Light
Forbes:
The Humble Logarithm
Gizmodo:
A Quick Animated History of Why We Use the Numbers We Use
New Scientist:
AI agony aunt learns to dole out relationship advice online
IEEE Spectrum:
Hebocon: The Best Worst Robot Competition
Engadget:
Humanoid beer-and-pizza-fetching robot is charmingly retro
New York Times:
How to Make America's Robots Great Again
Daily Mail:
Early Earth was scarred by massive chunks of failed planets 4 billion years ago, astronomers find
Daily Mail:
Where Earth got its meteorites: Study reveals 'megaexplosion' of two giant asteroids 466 million years ago that showered our planet with space rocks
Popular Science:
Today's rarest space rocks were once common clods
Forbes:
Scientists Suspect 2015 Earthquake Caused Mount Everest To Shrink
Alaska Native News:
Sleuthing the Site of a Century-Old Earthquake
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
A look at the Northwest earthquake that shook the world
Seattle Times:
Washington's 30-year earthquake drill for the 'Big One': Order studies. Ignore them. Repeat.
Temblor:
San Francisco at risk from Seawall damage in a major earthquake
Inverse:
The Rising Danger of Human-Caused Earthquakes
Forbes:
Volcanic Eruptions Changed Climate And History, But It's Complicated
Los Angeles Times:
Hawaii as you've never seen it before: a spectacular time-lapse of the lava flow from the Kilauea volcano
Stuff NZ:
Roger Hanson: A menace waking up after a century of slumber
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Mystery of Hiding Orchids, Solved
Christian Post:
Rare Fossilized Footprints Belonging to Nightmarish Dinosaur Found in Canada
Seeker:
Lizard Fossil in Montana Reveals a New Dino-Era Species
Gizmodo:
Flying Cretaceous Monster Ate Dinosaurs For Breakfast
Ars Technica:
Red panda and giant panda genomes show convergent evolution
Smithsonian Magazine:
You Wouldn't Want to Cuddle This Giant Prehistoric Otter With a Crushing Bite
Daily Mail:
From 25-foot-long lizards to 2-ton wombats, more than 85% of Australia's large wildlife died out 45,000 years ago - and humans were to blame
ABC Australia:
Scans reveal how the Tasmanian tiger's brain was wired to kill
New Scientist:
Antelope revived in Sahara years after going extinct in the wild
National Geographic:
Standing Tall: Egypt's Great Pyramids
BBC History Extra:
8 things you (probably) didn't know about Tutankhamun
The History Blog:
Update on the Celtic Princess of the Danube
Daily Mail:
Social instability, warfare and political crises killed off Mayan civilization TWICE, archaeologists reveal
The History Blog:
Last coins excavated from huge Jersey Celtic hoard
The History Blog:
From the annals of there's no accounting for taste
National Geographic:
Standing Tall: Egypt's Great Pyramids
Live Science:
Lost Dark Ages Fort Found in Scotland
Daily Mail:
Ruins discovered near Sea of Galilee could be rare medieval synagogue
Daily Mail:
The hidden patterns of America's first temples: Ancient Pueblo people built geometric structures despite having no written language or number system
The History Blog:
Medieval horse skull found at Colosseum
Mental Floss:
Ben Franklin's First Print Job on Display at the University of Pennsylvania
Smithsonian Magazine:
What the First European to Visit Hawaii Thought About Surfers
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why America Has a "President" Instead of an "Exalted Highness"
Mental Floss:
Did William Henry Harrison Really Die of Pneumonia?
Mental Floss:
5 Things You Didn't Know About Edgar Allan Poe
Timeline:
The first women's magazine started with poetry and temperance, but got radical real quick
Mental Floss:
The Mysterious Disappearance and Reappearance of Roger Tichborne
Mental Floss:
The Top-Secret Inauguration of Rutherford B. Hayes
Mental Floss:
Retrobituaries: Nellie Bly, Rabblerouser and Pioneer of Investigative Journalism
Mental Floss:
Marie Connolly Owens, America's First Female Police Officer
Smithsonian Magazine:
Where We Got the Term "Banana Republic"
Mental Floss:
As German Bombs Fell on Paris, Marie Curie Decided to Go to War
Mental Floss:
The Bold Van Buren Sisters, Who Blazed a Trail Across America
Atlas Obscura:
In Pre-WWII Berlin, the Shape of Your Roof Was a Highly Political Decision
Atlas Obscura:
A Tour of Al Capone's 'Killer' Cadillac, Which Once Terrorized Chicago Streets
Mental Floss:
The Hidden Room Behind Mount Rushmore
Smithsonian Magazine:
To Bear Witness to Japanese Internment, One Artist Self-Deported Himself to the WWII Camps
History.com:
How "Tokyo Rose" Became WWII's Most Notorious Propagandist
Smithsonian Magazine:
Iva d'Aquino Toguri Remains the Only U.S. Citizen Convicted of Treason Who Has Ever Been Pardoned
Mental Floss:
What's the Story Behind This Superman Comic?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Who Was the Poe Toaster? We Still Have No Idea
Ars Technica:
A really obscure forgotten audio format: "Talking rubber"
Daily Mail:
A spy's eye view of Russia: Never-seen-before pictures of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US Army Major deported for espionage
Timeline:
This unheralded woman actually organized the Montgomery bus boycott
Timeline:
Lesbians battled for their place in 1960s feminism
Longreads:
In 1971, the People Didn't Just March on Washington - They Shut It Down
Mental Floss:
12 Facts About Shirley Chisholm, The First African-American to Run For President
Forbes:
Titanic Wreck Still Fascinates, Even After 105 Years
Forbes:
Titanic Speaks To Oceanographer Who Found Wreck At Bottom Of The Atlantic
Mental Floss:
14 Facts About 'Where's Waldo?'
New Atlas:
How the Volkswagen Kombi became a family heirloom
Ars Technica:
How I turned a traffic ticket into the constitutional trial of the century
January 27, 2017
Universe Today:
What is the Alcubierre "Warp" Drive?
Air & Space Magazine:
Baby Boom: A Concorde for the 21st Century?
Seeker:
The U.S. Army's Hoverbike Takes to the Air
Air & Space Magazine:
Lost Photographs of the Great War
Daily Mail:
Historic Lancaster bomber will be taken apart piece by piece and painstakingly restored in a £3.5million project to get it flying again by 2020
Air & Space Magazine:
We Fly the Last Electra Juniors
Atlas Obscura:
The Female Space Sculptor Who Designed the Earliest Space and Aviation Helmets
Spaceflight History:
Electricity from Space: The 1970s DOE/NASA Solar Power Satellite Studies
Spaceflight History:
Robot Rendezvous at Hadley Rille (1968)
Ars Technica:
The hell of Apollo 1: Pure oxygen, a single spark, and death in 17 seconds
January 26, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
China sets November launch for lunar sample return mission
Popular Science:
To get a man on the moon, China's program takes cues from the Apollo lunar lander
Daily Mail:
NASA'S astronauts get their first (virtual) ride in Orion: Training simulations of the capsule that could take man to Mars begin
Seeker:
Here's Why Venus' Mysterious Atmosphere Is so Weird
Astrobiology Magazine:
Bursts of methane may have warmed early Mars
Daily Mail:
Mystery of Ceres deepens: Material on the dwarf planet's surface is not what scientists expected
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Juno Makes Another Pass at Jupiter
Spaceflight Now:
New Horizons to continue mission of discovery with Kuiper Belt encounter
Daily Mail:
Is there a 'water-rich' alien world lurking nearby? Earth-like planet just 39 light years away has a thick atmosphere
January 25, 2017
Daily Mail:
The 'Rerun' asteroid set to pass between Earth and the moon TONIGHT
Exeter Express & Echo:
Bright green 'fireball' lights up skies over Exeter
Wired:
A Brilliant Green Meteor Lights Up India's 'Sky Islands'
Ars Technica:
SpaceX is about to launch one of its final expendable rockets
Space News:
Japan launches first military communications satellite
Spaceflight Now:
Japan puts its first military communications satellite into orbit
Spaceflight Insider:
Japanese H-IIA rocket delivers DSN-2 military communications satellite to orbit
Stuff NZ:
And, we are (almost) go for Kiwi Rocket launch in northern Hawke's Bay
New Scientist:
Dried-up slime could help microbes survive briny waters on Mars
Cosmos:
Explainer: we can learn a lot from the changing night sky
Forbes:
Why Is It Taking So Long To Figure Out Planet Nine?
January 24, 2017
Daily Mail:
Dashcam captures the incredible moment a flaring meteorite the size of a WALNUT shoots across the sky
Space News:
NASA planning February decision on Juno maneuver
Daily Mail:
Russia and US planning historic joint mission to 'Earth's evil twin': Venus mission will examine clouds for signs of life
Seeker:
Cassini Gets Up Close and Personal With Saturn's 'Wavemaker' Moon Daphnis
Spaceflight Now:
Saturn's shepherd moon Daphnis makes waves
Daily Mail:
What it's like to land on Pluto: NASA reveals stunning simulation of a journey to the dwarf planet's surface
Universe Today:
What Was the Carrington Event?
Daily Mail:
How Earth will end: Astronomers reveal the six cosmic catastrophes that could wipe out our planet
January 23, 2017
Universe Today:
USAF Missile Defense SBIRS Observatory Streaks to Orbit during Spectacular Evening Blastoff
Space News:
Air Force satellite launches successfully after delay
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rocket successfully delivers vital national asset into space
Universe Today:
Bullseye: Amazing SpaceX Images Highlight Perfect Falcon 9 Landing
Spaceflight Insider:
OSIRIS-REx completes critical deep space maneuver
Space News:
Rash of Galileo clock failures cast doubt on timing of upcoming launches
ABC Australia:
Weather observed for first time on Jupiter-like exoplanet
Seeker:
Astronomers Prepare to Search for Alien Life at Nearby 'Habitable' Exoplanet
WEEKEND EDITION: January 21 through January 22, 2017
Astronomy Magazine:
Is the multiverse physics, philosophy, or something else entirely?
Cosmos:
Make a date with another dimension
Daily Galaxy:
"The Black Hole That Gave Birth to the Universe"
Wired:
The Man Who's Trying to Kill Dark Matter
DNA Info:
A Crime-Fighting Robot That Looks Like R2-D2 is Patrolling 10th Avenue
Phys Org:
Chinese humanoid robot turns on the charm in Shanghai
NPR:
'Robot Lawyer' Makes The Case Against Parking Tickets
Daily Mail:
The power that can shape a continent revealed: Study finds heat from deep in the Earth's core drives the planet's tectonic plates
Phys Org:
Data from 2012 earthquake suggests new plate boundary may be forming in Indian Ocean
International Business Times:
From Yellowstone to Toba: Here are some of the world's biggest supervolcanoes
CBS News:
Photographs show how Alaska volcano's eruptions have changed island
Forbes:
This Is How A Volcano's Pyroclastic Flow Will Kill You
Forbes:
From Art To Myth, The Relationship Of Our Ancestors With Volcanoes
Daily Mail:
Did life first evolve on Earth in a 'false start' 2.3billion years ago? New study backs theory of a fleeting 'oxygen oasis' on Earth
Seeker:
The Dark and Extreme Cold Killed Off the Dinosaurs
Daily Mail:
The most terrifying goose to ever roam the Earth: 5ft bird weighed 50lbs and used its wings to FIGHT
Seeker:
In a First, Shark Switches from Sexual to Asexual Reproduction
Seeker:
Neanderthal's Eye for Bling Revealed by Unique Rock Stashed in Cave
Daily Mail:
Did the first humans arrive in North America 10,000 years earlier than thought? Bones fund in Canada cave show 'indisputable' marks from stone tools
The History Blog:
Roman chariot model reveals trick of the racing trade
The History Blog:
Anglo-Saxon settlement found in Cambridge
The History Blog:
Rare medieval Madonna that survived Reformation, Revolution goes home
The History Blog:
Centuries-old Buddha ermerges from reservoir
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Altar Cloth Might Have Been Elizabeth I's Skirt
BBC History Extra:
The East India Company: How a trading corporation became an imperial ruler
The History Blog:
A Dutch Girl at Breakfast joins Vermeer's Milkmaid
Smithsonian Magazine:
Benjamin Franklin Was a Middle-Aged Widow Named Silence Dogood (And a Few Other Women)
Mental Floss:
10 Facts About Benedict Arnold
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Little-Remembered Ally Who Helped America Win the Revolution
BBC History Extra:
5 facts you (probably) didn't know about Nelson's navy
History.com:
The First Foreign-Born First Lady: Louisa Catherine Adams
BBC History Extra:
6 strange newspaper stories that shocked Victorian Britain
Atlas Obscura:
Martha Matilda Harper, the Greatest Businesswoman You've Never Heard Of
Mental Floss:
15 Things You Might Not Know About Monet's 'Water Lilies'
The Atlantic:
The Camera Technology That Turned Films Into Stories
Flashbak:
Workers On The Roof Of Chattanooga's First Department Store (1898)
History.com:
The Treacherous Race to the South Pole
Timeline:
These picture postcards capture the monumental scale of America in the early 20th century
BBC History Extra:
The telegram that brought America into the First World War
Universe Today:
Who was Max Planck?
History.com:
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Hollywood Titan Foresaw the Horrors of Nazi Germany
Smithsonian Magazine:
In the Darkest Days of World War II, Winston Churchill's Visit to the White House Brought Hope to Washington
New Atlas:
Wild 1955 turbine-powered Chrysler show car set for auction
Atlas Obscura:
In the 1960s, Telegraph Poles Were Equipped With Nuclear Bomb Alarms
Atlas Obscura:
The Russian Spy Who Convinced America to Take ESP Seriously
Mental Floss:
How Stephen King's Wife Saved 'Carrie' and Launched His Career
Daily Mail:
The real-life X-Files: How CIA recruited Uri Geller to test his psychic abilities and were STUNNED when he was able to match random drawings by an agent sealed in another room
Mental Floss:
When Bond Battled Bond at the 1983 Box Office
Atlas Obscura:
The World's Most Beautiful and Unusual Chess Sets
January 20, 2017
Daily Mail:
Military spy laser could transform Earth's atmosphere into a giant magnifying glass to snoop on enemies
Daily Mail:
The man who wants to fly higher and faster than any bird: Wingsuit pilot reveals plan to jump from 40,000 feet and break FOUR world records (including hitting 250mph on his descent)
Daily Mail:
Move over James Bond: A civilian pilot is being trained on the world's first commercially available jetpack
New Scientist:
Lost in space: Two books on the forgotten women of astroscience
Air & Space Magazine:
The Highest Jump
Air & Space Magazine:
I Was Almost Killed By a Navy Jet on a San Diego Beach
Smithsonian Magazine:
In 1957, The U.S. Flew a Jet Around the World to Prove it Could Drop a Nuclear Bomb Anywhere
Air & Space Magazine:
What Happened to Pan Am Flight 7?
January 19, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Launch failure probe prompts engine swap on Soyuz crew's rocket
Spaceflight Now:
SES 10 telecom satellite in Florida for launch on reused SpaceX rocket
Space News:
NASA considering Boeing offer for additional Soyuz seats
Seeker:
A Giant Gravity Wave Has Been Found in Venus' Clouds
Daily Mail:
The astonishing images of cracked mud on Mars: Curiosity finds clearest evidence yet of the red planet's watery past
Seeker:
Curiosity Finds Fossilized Slab of Cracked Mud on Mars
Universe Today:
Some Earth Life is Ready to Live on Mars, Right Now
Astrobiology Magazine:
Microbes Could Survive Thin Air of Mars
Astronomy Magazine:
Are there volcanoes on comets?
Seeker:
The Milky Way's Most Distant Stars May Be Stolen Goods
AccuWeather:
Mark your calendar: 5 must-see astronomy events in 2017
Daily Mail:
Mark your calendars! A dazzling supernova will appear in the sky in 2022, predict astronomers
New Scientist:
Cold case: The unsolved mystery of what lit Kepler's supernova
January 18, 2017
Spaceflight Now:
Launch failure probe prompts engine swap on Soyuz crew's rocket
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 booster, first recovered off West Coast, back in port
Spaceflight Insider:
Smallest orbital-class rocket launch ends in failure
Spaceflight Now:
Experimental flight of Japanese sounding rocket falls short of orbit
Universe Today:
Mars Curiosity Rolls Up to Potential New Meteorite
New Scientist:
Curiosity finds Mars rock that may be a meteorite made from iron
Seeker:
Step Aside Iron Man, NASA's Going to Explore a Strange Iron World
Daily Mail:
First glimpse of an alien world: Nasa finally shares stunning footage of its 2005 landing on Saturn's moon, Titan
Spaceflight Insider:
New NASA mission could solve mystery of asteroid Psyche's water
New Atlas:
How Pluto's atmosphere is spared by a moon shield
Seeker:
Charon Is Pluto's First Line of Defense Against Solar Wind Onslaught
Seeker:
'Planet Nine' Could Be an Alien Intruder
Daily Mail:
Planet Nine could be a 'rogue world' captured from another solar system
January 17, 2017
Western Telegraph:
Broad Haven hosts UFO spotters 40 years on
Collective Evolution:
What Does A Real 'UFO' Look Like? These 9 Astonishing Pictures Will Give You An Idea
Snopes:
We Come From France
Seeker:
Alien Glow: Brilliant Light Pillars Appear Over Ontario
Seeker:
SpaceX Makes Spectacular Return to Flight, Launching 10 Satellites Into Orbit
Space News:
Falcon 9 returns to flight with successful Iridium launch
Spaceflight Now:
Advanced missile detection satellite for early-warning alerts awaits liftoff
Space News:
Safety panel cites concerns over SpaceX fueling process for commercial crew
Spaceflight Now:
Astronaut Gene Cernan, last Apollo moonwalker, dies at 82
Ars Technica:
The passing of Gene Cernan reminds us how far we haven't come
Time Magazine:
Farewell to Eugene Cernan, the Last Man to Walk on the Moon
MARTIN LUTHER KING WEEKEND EDITION:
January 14 through January 16, 2017
Daily Galaxy:
"What Came Before the Big Bang?" -- Intriguing New Theories on the Origin of Time
Popular Science:
The Science Behind the Impossible EM Drive
Mental Floss:
Watch an Early Silent Film About Relativity
USA Today:
CES 2017: Robots steal show at this year's event
Gizmodo:
RIP BigDog, Darpa's Robotic Pack Mule
Daily Mail:
Has the mystery of the Earth's core been solved? Scientists say unknown 'third element' is SILICON
Daily Mail:
A massive chunk of Hawaii has disappeared into the ocean: Incredible footage show huge lava collapse that almost killed five tourists
Seeker:
What Exactly Is The Polar Vortex & Is It Getting Worse?
Seeker:
Retroviruses, Including HIV, Are Almost Half a Billion Years Old
Daily Mail:
The MEGASHARK died out because it was a picky eater: Researchers say megalodon was unable to change its diet after its favourite whales died out
New Scientist:
The trunk trick that lets elephants pick up almost anything
New Atlas:
Clever chimps craft water-dipping sticks to quench their thirst
Daily Mail:
Baboons make five vowel-like sounds just like humans: Discovery could mean the origin of speech is much older than first thought
Daily Mail:
The incredible moment a group of monkeys communicate with a ROBOT baby that they think is one of their own
Inverse:
Italy's Supervolcano and the End of the Neanderthals
Daily Mail:
The world's oldest SILK: Evidence of the luxury material is found in 8,500-year-old tombs in China
Daily Mail:
Revealed: 4,000-year-old pottery and flint tools found near St Andrews could shed light on trade in Neolithic Britain
Daily Mail:
The mystery of the Aswan tombs: TWELVE new burial sites are found at a 3,400-year-old Egyptian necropolis
Daily Mail:
Egyptian treasure riddle cracked after 160 years: Missing fragments reveal 3,400-year-old wooden box is linked to Pharaoh Amenhotep II
The History Blog:
Latin city mythically founded by Aeneas opens to public
BBC History Extra:
Bleddyn ap Cynfyn: the first Prince of Wales?
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Inventor of the Telegraph Was Also America's First Photographer
Smithsonian Magazine:
On This Day in 1847, a Texas Ranger Walked Into Samuel Colt's Shop and Said, Make Me a Six-Shooter
Smithsonian Magazine:
Murder, Marriage and the Pony Express: Ten Things You Didn't Know About Buffalo Bill
Smithsonian Magazine:
Escape Artist Harry Houdini Was an Ingenious Inventor, He Just Didn't Want Anybody to Know
Smithsonian Magazine:
New York State Once Introduced an Anti-Flirting Bill
Mysterious Universe:
The Mysterious Vanishing of Ambrose Bierce
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Couple Who Saved China's Ancient Architectural Treasures Before They Were Lost Forever
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Legendary Reporter Who Broke the Beginning of World War II Is Dead
The History Blog:
Experimental 1942 glass penny sells for $70,500
Air & Space Magazine:
Free-Falling Above a Burning B-24
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Student and the Spy: How One Man's Life Was Changed by the Cambridge Five
Seattle Times:
Martin Luther King Jr. - 1956-62
Seattle Times:
Martin Luther King Jr. - 1963-65
Seattle Times:
Martin Luther King Jr. - 1966-68
USA Today:
Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s inspiring Nobel Peace Prize speech
USA Today:
This 1967 speech may have helped put a target on Martin Luther King's back
ABC News:
Martin Luther King's Final Speech: 'I've Been to the Mountaintop' -- The Full Text
The Tennessean:
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Time Magazine:
What Martin Luther King Sr. Wrote About His Son's Death
Time Magazine:
How the First Martin Luther King Jr. Day Was Celebrated
Smithsonian Magazine:
There Are Only Two Shakers Left in the World
San Jose Mercury News:
Remembering California's storm-toppled historic Pioneer Cabin Tree
January 13, 2017
Seeker:
US Military Unleashes Swarm of Micro Drones Over California
Daily Mail:
Pentagon tests the world's largest hive-mind-controlled drone swarm that can jam weapons, spy on the enemy and launch deadly attacks
Atlas Obscura:
The Bird-Like Soviet Flying Machine That Never Quite Took Off
Spaceflight History:
"A Vision of the Future": Military Uses of the Moon and Asteroids (1983)
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Day the Nimbus Weather Satellite Exploded
Spaceflight History:
NASA Marshall's 1966 NERVA-Electric Piloted Mars Mission
Spaceflight History:
An Apollo Landing Near the Great Ray Crater Tycho (1969)
Forbes:
A Walk On The Moon With Apollo 16's Charlie Duke
January 12, 2017
Daily Mail:
US Air Force's X-37B space plane reaches 600 days in orbit - and its mission STILL remains a mystery
New Scientist:
Space travel's mental health toll could endanger long missions
Daily Mail:
Apollo 14 reveals the moon is far older than thought: Samples collected by moonwalkers in 1971 show our satellite is 4.51 billion years old
Seeker:
The Moon Is Probably Older Than We Thought - and Life Could Be Too
Stuff NZ:
Moon 'formed from moonlets'
Christian Science Monitor:
Was our moon formed when a bunch of moonlets all smashed together?
New Atlas:
Earth-like planets may not be very Earth-like
New Scientist:
'Alien megastructure' signal may be due to star eating a planet
Daily Mail:
Where in the galaxy is Voyager? Hubble reveals new 'interstellar road map' of probe's journey through the unexplored territory beyond our solar system
January 11, 2017
Popular Mechanics:
An Asteroid Just Barely Missed Earth, Flying Closer Than the Moon
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Sneaky Asteroid Buzzed By Earth Yesterday
Russia Today:
Two large meteors caught on camera in northwestern Russia (VIDEO)
Spaceflight Now:
Kuaizhou rocket lifts off on first commercial mission
Orlando Sentinel:
Why Elon Musk has so much riding on SpaceX's upcoming rocket launch
Seeker:
Our Moon May Have Eaten Many Smaller Moons
Seeker:
Monster Telescope to Seek Out Habitable Alien Worlds in Neighboring Star System
Seeker:
Life's Building Blocks Have Been Mapped Throughout the Milky Way
Seeker:
Would NASA Tell Us About Alien Contact?
January 10, 2017
Gizmodo:
NASA Is Sending a Probe to Explore Jupiter's Mysterious Trojan Asteroids
Popular Science:
NASA's new Psyche mission will take us to a metal asteroid for the first time
Ars Technica:
NASA chooses two asteroid missions instead of a Venus return
Popular Science:
Is NASA launching too many asteroid missions?
Seeker:
This Is Earth and the Moon as Seen From Mars
Astrobiology Magazine:
Could Dark Streaks in Venus' Clouds Be Microbial Life?
Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: Mars Exploration Rover Spirit remembered 13 years after landing
Daily Mail:
Pluto's Earth-like ridges revealed: Icy feature has only ever been seen before on our planet
Forbes:
Total Solar Eclipses: Only For A Limited Time
January 9, 2017
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX Falcon 9 RTF postponed to Jan. 14
Ars Technica:
SpaceX is free to fly - will attempt a launch Saturday from California [Updated]
Spaceflight Now:
Next SpaceX launch slipped to avoid stormy weather, range conflict
Spaceflight Now:
FAA signs off on SpaceX mishap investigation
Spaceflight Now:
Engine hotfire test completed for SpaceX's first launch since explosion
Spaceflight Insider:
1st battery-replacement spacewalk completed at ISS
Spaceflight Now:
Spacewalkers continue space station battery refresh with successful EVA
Spaceflight Insider:
Chinese Long March 3B launches technology demonstrator
Spaceflight Now:
Long March rocket blasts off on first launch of the year
Spaceflight Now:
Stacking of Atlas 5 underway for next national security satellite launch
Spaceflight Insider:
Boeing's T-X prototype takes flight
WEEKEND EDITION: January 7 through January 8, 2017
Nautilus:
Even Physicists Find the Multiverse Faintly Disturbing
Quartz:
A theory that challenges Newton's and Einstein's gravity and nixes dark matter passed its first test
Forbes:
The Four Biggest Mistakes Of Einstein's Scientific Life
Forbes:
A Very Short History Of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The Guardian:
Japanese company replaces office workers with artificial intelligence
Seeker:
Snap a Bird Photo and This App Tells You the Species
Mental Floss:
11 Common Misconceptions About Robots
Daily Mail:
Meet 'Prosthesis', the terrifying 14ft-tall 'anti-robot' that can carry a human and run 50mph almost SILENTLY
Forbes:
The Dying Earth Will Display A Very Exotic Geology, Unfortunately Nobody Will Be There To Study It
Quanta:
Explorers Find Passage to Earth's Dark Age
Seeker:
Climate Change Could Cause Atlantic Ocean Current Collapse
Gizmodo:
Just How Big Can a Tsunami Get?
Forbes:
Yellowstone's Old Faithful Geyser Just Started Erupting Snow
ZME Science:
Paleontologists find 'incredibly rare' 52 million year-old fossilized berry
Seeker:
Mysterious 'Ghost Shark' Origins Revealed by a 280-Million-Year-Old Skull
Austin American-Statesman:
South Texas fossil could be reptile that swam 90 million years ago
Seeker:
We Finally Know How Long It Took for Dinosaur Eggs to Hatch
Stuff NZ:
Dinosaur eggs may finally solve mystery of why they died out
Audobon Magazine:
How the Stealthy Saw-whet Owl Duped Scientists for a Century
Audobon Magazine:
New Research Shows Hummingbirds Need Exceptional Brains to Hover
BBC News:
The strange Asian island where monkeys and marsupials meet
BBC News:
It is almost impossible to herd cats, thanks to evolution
Toronto Star:
Neanderthals in a boat? Not such a far-fetched notion after all
Ancient Origins:
Humans Occupied Tibetan Plateau Thousands of Years Earlier than Previously Thought
Ancient Origins:
Nearly Lost from The Pages of History, Mari Is The Oldest Known Planned City in the World
The History Blog:
3,800-year-old wetland potato garden found in Canada
Ancient Origins:
Instructions of Shuruppak: 4,600 Years Ago, A Sumerian King Instructed His Son on How to Behave
The History Blog:
2,300-year-old Chinese sword found still sharp and shiny
Seeker:
Ancient Cross and Menorah Carvings Found by Cave Explorers in Israel
The History Blog:
Calvatone Victory rediscovered at the Hermitage
BBC History Extra:
10 things you (probably) didn't know about the Anglo-Saxons
History.com:
Globetrotting Vikings: The Quest for Constantinople
BBC History Extra:
What was life like for a medieval housewife?
Mental Floss:
15 Rebellious Facts About Pennsylvania Founder William Penn
The History Blog:
First 18th c. American true porcelain bowl found in Philadelphia
National Geographic:
Why Newton Believed a Comet Caused Noah's Flood
Mental Floss:
211 Years Ago Today, the French Abandoned Their Decimal Calendar
BBC History Extra:
11 things you (probably) didn't know about Sherlock Holmes
Flashbak:
A Slum City For Slum People: Jacob Riis' Photos Of New York's Other Half (1890)
Smithsonian Magazine:
Happy Birthday to Hollywood's First Chinese-American Star
Atlas Obscura:
Peek Inside Buffalo's Abandoned Art Deco Train Terminal
Mental Floss:
10 Fantastic Facts About 'Fantasia'
Mysterious Universe:
The Mysterious Vanished Crew of the Ghost Blimp
BBC News:
The secret nuclear bunker built as the UK's last hope
Air & Space Magazine:
In 1950, Airlines Didn't Serve Liquor Over Dry States
Daily Mail:
Photographer in Mesopotamia: Incredible pictures taken by Agatha Christie reveal how she helped uncover Iraq's lost city of Nimrud with her archaeologist husband in between writing her detective novels
Atlas Obscura:
Watch a Melodramatic Communist Ballet from 1964
BBC News:
The spy with no name
Mental Floss:
9 Fact-Packed Infographics From National Geographic's Archives
New Atlas:
The fastest cars in history: 1894 to 1914
January 6, 2017
Air & Space Magazine:
Breakthrough in Antimatter Physics Has Some Dreaming of Starships
Inverse:
Amazon Has a Patent for Floating Blimp Warehouses
Ars Technica:
Amazon's demented plans for its warehouse blimp with drone fleet
Seeker:
Two Autonomous Passenger Drones Could Make Flying Taxis Possible
Gizmodo:
Watch Daredevils With Jetpacks Fly Next to People Standing on Top of Airplanes
BBC News:
The British jet that flew higher than any other plane
Stuff NZ:
Roger Hanson: William Pickering's battle for photos of the moon
Seeker:
As the Apollo Program Turns 50, This Is How We'll Celebrate
Inverse:
No One Wants to Live in My Simulation Space Colony
January 5, 2017
Stuff NZ:
Nasa spots comet and mysterious celestial object flying towards Earth
The Space Reporter:
NEOWISE detects near-Earth comet and possible asteroid
Christian Science Monitor:
Comet watch: Look for the first comet of 2017 this week
Space News:
NASA selects two asteroid missions for Discovery program
Spaceflight Now:
NASA to Send Mission to Metal Asteroid That Could Be Dead Planet's Core
Space News:
NASA orders more flights from Boeing, SpaceX
Spaceflight Insider:
ISS' power generation system to get crucial update
Ars Technica:
New Horizons now just two years from its next target - a dark, mysterious rock
Seeker:
Curiosity Has Found Weird Purple Rocks on Mars
Daily Mail:
What lies under the poles of Mars: 3D radar reveals vast craters and huge deposits of frozen carbon dioxide
New Scientist:
Mars should have loads more water - so where has it all gone?
Daily Mail:
What is happening on Titan? Cassini images reveal clouds have returned after several years to Saturn's largest moon - and NASA has no idea why
Sky & Telescope:
Meteor Showers in 2017
January 4, 2017
IFL Science:
Watch As A Volcanic Eruption Gets Completely Upstaged By A Streaking Meteor
Itech Post:
NASA Detects Incoming Comet Or Asteroid Towards Earth; Visible On January 14
Seeker:
China's Busy Space Launch Schedule Rivaled the U.S. in 2016
Air & Space Magazine:
China's Moon Missions Are Anything But Pointless
Seeker:
After Rocket Explosion, SpaceX Aims to Return to Flight on Sunday
Space News:
Russia plans early February Progress return to flight
Seeker:
To Find Life on Europa, We'll Need to Drill Into the Ice
Seeker:
Cassini's Breathtaking New View of Saturn's Enigmatic Hexagon
Popular Science:
Just how far away are the exoplanets we've found?
January 3, 2017
Pasadena Now:
JPL Scientists Alerted to Object Fast Approaching Earth
Tech Times:
NASA Spots Object That's Either A Comet Or An Asteroid Approaching Earth
CBS News:
SpaceX completes failure probe, plans new launch
Space News:
SpaceX plans Jan. 8 return to flight after completing failure investigation
Space News:
Chinese satellites raising orbits after launch anomaly
Spaceflight Now:
Internal debris may be causing problem with Mars rover's drill
Spaceflight Insider:
Mars Odyssey recovering after entering safe mode
I4U News:
A Total Solar Eclipse Is Coming In 2017
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
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