Faves
"What Scientists Can Learn from Alien Hunters," Wired
"Hidden Hearing Loss," Popular Science
"Navigating a Career in Secret Physics," Physics Today
"Big's Backyard Ultra and the Rise of Women Endurance Stars," Wired
"The Area 51 Raid Was the Worst Way to Spot an Alien or UFO," Wired
"Don't Storm Area 51, Begs the Webmaster of the UFO Kingdom," Wired
"Meet the US's Spy System of the Future. It's 'Sentient,'" The Verge
"The Good Kind of Crazy," Scientific American
"The Wired Guide to Aliens," Wired
"Scientists Tackle a Burning Question: When Will Our Quiet Sun Turn Violent?" Science
"Keepers of the Lost Wreck," Air&Space
"Religion for the People: Ex-Mormons Embrace Populism," Bitterroot
"Colorado's Getting a Spaceport! To Go with Its Massive Military-Focused Space Industry!" Denverite
"The Rocket Woman and the Smallsat Invasion," Wilson Quarterly
"Guide to Commercial Human Spaceflight," WIRED
"A SpaceX Delivery Capsule May Be Contaminating the ISS," WIRED
"Alarm Will Sound," Popular Science
"Cosmology Is In Crisis over How to Measure the Universe," WIRED
"How to Outsmart Deepfake Videos, For Now," WIRED
"The Strange, Sad Case of Sunspot, the Empty Astronomy Town," WIRED
"China Built the World's Largest Telescope. Then Came the Tourists," WIRED
"The Rebirth of Radio Astronomy," WIRED
"How a Team of Experts Quelled Colorado's Enormous Spring Fire," WIRED
"Meet the New Mormons," Longreads
"Arecibo Observatory is Still Recovering from Hurricane Maria," WIRED
"20 Years after Matthew Shepard's Death, Wyoming is Recruiting Queers," them.
"Inside Robert Bigelow's Decades-Long Obsession with UFOs," WIRED
"What Is up with Those Pentagon UFO Videos?" WIRED
"The Space Weather Woman," Popular Science
"The University of Rochester Sexual Harassment Case is Complicated--And That's the Point," WIRED
"Mallory Ortberg's Internet," Motherboard
"A Rare Journey into the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station," WIRED
"What Happens When the Church Comes for Your Kids?" High Country News
"Katie Mack and the Social Media Path to Science Celebrity," Motherboard
"The New Normal," Pacific Standard
"What Happens When a Harassment Whistleblower Goes on the Job Market," WIRED
"The Search for a Universal Snakebite Antidote," Slate
"The Spaceship Engineers Who Build Their Own Planes," Motherboard
"An Honest Biography of Sally Ride," Slate
"The Space Industry Collides with a Tiny Town," Popular Science
"Mount Shasta: Where Seekers and Spiritualists Converge," Slate
Features
"Climate Change Is Ruining Skiing. Aspen Is Fighting Back," Bitterroot
"Inside Lockheed Martin's New Facility for Simulating Space Wars," Vice
"The Astronaut Diaries," Popular Science
"A Utah Researcher Seeks to Understand the West's Suicide Mysteries," Bitterroot
"The Last Mile," Popular Science
"Coffee, Tea, or Emergency?" Air&Space
"Polio Is Nearly Wiped out--Unless Some Lab Tech Screws up," WIRED
"Two Satellites Almost Crashed. Here's How They Dodged It," WIRED
"Shari Steele on Digital Privacy and Tackling Harassment at Tor," Pacific Standard
"Shamu Dreams of Europa," Popular Science
"Weeki Wachee Mermaids Swim Underwater for 30 Minutes at a Time," Washington Post
"NASA is Learning the Best Way to Grow Food in Space," Popular Science
"The Harassment Problem in Scientific Dream Jobs," Outside
"The Trucking Company that Keeps Spacecraft Safe on the Interstate," WIRED
"Astronomical Anthropology and the Search for the Earth Beyond Earth," NOVA
"The Woman Who Knows Everything about the Universe," WIRED
"What Happens Now? Studies of Sexual Harassment Show the Way," WIRED
"Meet the Geek Who Tracks Rogue Satellites with Coat Hangers," WIRED
"When Should a Drug's Side Effects Count As a Disability?," Motherboard
"The Space Junk Problem Is about to Get a Whole Lot Gnarlier," WIRED
"Physicists Go Deep in Search of Dark Matter," Scientific American
"Could This Team of Scientists Prove Cloud-Seeding Really Works?," Popular Science
"Elliot and Justin's DIY Jet," Air&Space
"A Brief History of SETI@Home," The Atlantic
"NASA May Have to Break Its Own Radiation Rules to Go To Mars," NOVA
"Inside the Extreme Machine That Mimics Bombs and Black Holes," WIRED
"I Spent a Week Exploring How We'll Live in Post-Water America," Popular Science
"Earth's Best Defense Against Killer Asteroids Needs Cash," WIRED
"John Glenn, the First American to Orbit Earth, is Dead at 95," WIRED
"When an Observatory Goes Rogue," WIRED
"How a Champion Powerlifter Became an Astronaut Guinea Pig," WIRED
"What Gives with So Many Scientists Being Hardcore Endurance Runners?" WIRED
"Meditating on the World's Most Powerful Rocket Booster," Motherboard
"The Strange Blissfulness of Storms," Nautilus
"The Mojo Formation Flying Pilots of Mojave," WIRED
"He Drew the Sun for 40 Years, and Now His Telescope Is Dying," WIRED
"Astronomers Are Finally Doing Something about Sexual Harassment," The Atlantic
"20 Women on What It's Like to be Lesbian and Ex-Mormon," Slate
"The Would-Be Astronaut," Motherboard
"Watching the Universe in Real Time," The Atlantic
"What our messages to ET say about us," Aeon
News/Analysis
"MIT Researchers Are Building an Instrument to Study Genetics on Mars," Quartz
"Space Alien Research Could Get Its First Grad Program," Scientific American
"Scientists Are Building an AccuWeather for Germs," Leapsmag
"How America's Spooks Seek to Spy on Distant Satellites," WIRED
"The Pentagon Launched Another Space Agency. Do We Need It?" WIRED
"The Plan to Dodge a Killer Asteroid, Maybe Even Good Ol' Bennu," WIRED
"Researchers Spy Signs of Slavery from Space," Science
"Space Billboards Are Just the Latest Orbital Stunt,"WIRED
"The View from the InSight Control Room," WIRED
"New Space Robots Will Fix Satellites, or Maybe Destroy Them, "WIRED
"It's Business Time for Rocket Lab," WIRED
"Why DARPA Wants Everyone to Launch Little Rockets," WIRED
"Cosmic Ray Showers Crash Computers. Here's What to Do about It," WIRED
"The Japanese Space Bots That Could Build Moon Valley," WIRED
"What Happens When Science Just Disappears?" WIRED
"The Case of the Evaporating Exoplanets," WIRED
"Big Ag Wants Farmers to Buy into Satellite Imagery," WIRED
"Maybe Nobody Wants Your Space Internet," WIRED
"How Fast Can Gravitational Wave Detection Get?" WIRED
"Spoof, Jam, Destroy: Why We Need a Backup for GPS," WIRED
"How the Government Controls Sensitive Satellite Data," WIRED
"Want to Learn How to Mine in Space? There's a School for You," WIRED
"A Conversation about Race and Gender in Andy Weir's Artemis," WIRED
"Yuri Milner and the Fellowship of Silicon Valley Science Influencers," WIRED
"How AI Could (Really) Enhance Images from Space," WIRED
"Green Bank Observatory Embraces Its Alien-Hunting Future," WIRED
"NASA Should Be Friendly to the Press. Lately, It's Not," Undark
"Dream Chaser Spacecraft Hitches a Ride with a Helicopter," WIRED
"The Plan to End Science's Sexist Manel Problem," WIRED
"Meet the Woman Trying to Prepare Your Town for the Eclipse," WIRED
"SpaceX Wants to Launch Thousands of Satellites. What on Earth For?," WIRED
"For Modern Astronomers, It's Learn to Code or Get Left Behind," WIRED
"The Best Way to Transmit Satellite Data? In a Truck. Really," WIRED
"An Aerospace Coder Drags a Stodgy Industry Toward Open Source," WIRED
"Russia's Quest to Build a Space Empire--Or Go Broke Trying," WIRED
"Why You Should Put Your Supercomputer in Wyoming ," WIRED
"The Race to Rule the High-Flying Business of Satellite Imagery," WIRED
"Astronomers Don't Point This Telescope. It Points Them," WIRED
"Upending the Space Biz with Satellites for You and You and You," WIRED
"Astronomers Deploy AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe," WIRED
"88 Tiny Satellites Will Watch Earth, All the Time, All the Places," WIRED
"The Birth--and Possible Death--of the SAGE Atmospheric Satellite," WIRED
"NASA's ISS Power Supply Mistake Was Totally Avoidable," WIRED
"How One Composer Turns Science into Serious Drama," WIRED
"How Breakthrough Listen Could Miss ET's Call," WIRED
"Luxembourg's Bid to Become the Silicon Valley of Space Mining," WIRED
"How NASA Will Choose Astronauts for Its Journey to Mars," WIRED
"How a Champion Powerlifter Became an Astronaut Guinea Pig," WIRED
"How Space Scientists turn Exoplanets into Places," WIRED
"The Psychology behind the Excitement about Proxima Centauri b," WIRED
"How Queer Scientists Are Shaping Their Future with a Survey," WIRED
"The First Female Shuttle Commander Is Speaking at the GOP Convention. Huh?" The Washington Post
"The Unknown Lab of Millennials Fast-Tracking NASA's missions," WIRED
"Can Physicists Ever Prove the Multiverse Exists?" Smithsonian
"Tantalizing Data from the LHC Has Physicists Psyched," WIRED
"We Need a New Word for Infinite Spaces," The Atlantic
"LIGO's First-Ever Detection of Gravitational Waves Opens a New Window on the Universe," WIRED
"Martian Cauliflower Could Be Latest Hint of Alien Life," Smithsonian