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Science stories
A dinosaur bone that waited forty years in a drawer
Smithsonian Magazine
The speckled skin found inside a baby dinosaurs scales
Phys.org
How ocean pressure squeezes a meal out of falling snow
ScienceDaily
The first video ever taken of a squid science only knew from bones
National Geographic
A loop of chain that flows through its own shape
IFLScience
A textured surface that makes water float at a much lower heat
ScienceDaily
A crystal you can hold that behaves like an anthill
ScienceDaily
A hidden gut bacterium that shows up wherever people are healthy
University of Cambridge
The bird flu gene that laughs off a fever
ScienceDaily
A shoe plate that keeps lowering a runners heart rate for eighty minutes
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
The ice bath that quietly costs a lifter muscle
European Journal of Sport Science
The knee weakness that rises and falls with a teenage cycle
NBC 5 DFW
The alphabet sperm whales spell out in clicks
MIT News
How bonobos combine calls the way we combine words
University of Zurich
How lonely parrots learned to video call each other
Northeastern Global News
A small dinosaur that wasn't a baby T rex
NC State University
Teaching a computer to know a whale from a single song
UNSW Sydney
A pond creature whose genes broke the rules of life
Earlham Institute
A swarm of tiny boats that rafts itself together
MIT News
A battery that charges faster the bigger it gets
CSIRO
How practice rewires the brain to truly multitask
ScienceDaily
The ancient brain cells that filter out distraction
ScienceDaily
Reading a philosophy book that Vesuvius tried to erase
Smithsonian Magazine
A Maya city so hidden its name means there is no road
Smithsonian Magazine
The shiver switch that also grows hair
New York Stem Cell Foundation
A new answer to the knuckle cracking puzzle
PLOS ONE
How elephants call each other by name
ScienceDaily
How ants amputate an infected nestmates leg
ScienceDaily
The forever chemicals hiding in every raindrop
Stockholm University
How a bursting raindrop makes the smell of rain
MIT News
How a thirsty plant clicks like popcorn
Tel Aviv University
A face wound that healed a hundred thousand years ago
Smithsonian Magazine
A reward center that grows larger in psychopaths
ScienceDaily
A composite that heals its own cracks a thousand times
NC State News
What turns plain hunger into anger
ScienceDaily
A cup of tea with billions of hidden plastic bits
McGill University
The deep sleep circuit that rebuilds you
ScienceDaily
A light switch that wakes sleeping cancer
ScienceDaily
A ball of half a million stars
ScienceDaily
A new answer to the black hole puzzle
ScienceDaily
A hidden weakness in a deadly cancer
ScienceDaily
A tuberculosis vaccine you breathe in
ScienceDaily
Spinning a frictionless liquid with light
ScienceDaily
A nursery of two thousand new stars
ScienceDaily
What to look for in the July sky
NASA
A rover that drove itself across a desert
NASA
Testing a moon lander in fake space
NASA
Back to the moon after fifty years
NASA
A planet with air around a dead star
arXiv
Reading the birth of Uranus moons in water
arXiv
A planet found by a trick of light
arXiv
A puffed up planet that used to be a giant
arXiv
What heading a soccer ball does to the brain
arXiv
How cities reshape the birds around us
arXiv
How meditation may clear the mind
arXiv
Hearing early dementia in a voice
arXiv
A clue to healthy aging hides in the blood
ScienceDaily
The pollution fireworks leave behind
ScienceDaily
Four new science missions headed to the moon
NASA
Hunting asteroids that share our orbit
arXiv
How street dogs learn to trust or run
arXiv
Books
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 45 levels
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens · 31 levels
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 18 levels
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 26 levels
The Art of War
Sun Tzu · 4 levels
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · 10 levels
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin · 17 levels
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli · 19 levels
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith · 21 levels
The Federalist Papers
Hamilton, Madison & Jay · 19 levels
Common Sense
Thomas Paine · 13 levels
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 25 levels
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 20 levels
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 35 levels
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels · 3 levels