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Faves
"Alien-looking Balloons Might be the Next Weapon in the Fight against Wildfires," Popular Science
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The Forgotten History of Radiometric Dating," Physics Today
"The Looming Revival of Wyoming’s Uranium Mining for Nuclear Power," Wyoming Truth
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NASA Spacecraft Accomplishes Mission and Smashes Asteroid Into New Orbit," New York Times
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What’s Really Behind the Ghost Lights of Colorado’s Silver Cliff Cemetery?" Atlas Obscura
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To Prevent a Martian Plague, Scientists Have to Build a Very Special Lab," New York Times
"Prime Mover," Science
"Your Bosses Could Have a File on You, and They May Misinterpret It," New York Times
"What New Insights about Our First Nuclear Test Reveal about the Future of War," Popular Science
"How Lost Hikers Can Send an SOS to Space," Wired
"Spies' Night Eyes," Grid
"Cave Worms Could Hold the Secret to a Better Life," Popular Science
"Nuclear Testing Downwinders Speak about History and Fear," Scientific American
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You Don't Need a Spaceship to Grow Weird Little Martian Radishes," New York Times
"There is No Planet B," Popular Science
"In Colorado, Locals Question a Survey for Critical Minerals," Undark
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An American Tail," Popular Science
"The UFO Trap," The Atlantic
"Are We Doing Enough to Protect Earth from Asteroids?" Scientific American
"Here Be Dragons: Meet the Radioactive Rock Collectors," Atlas Obscura
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The Dimmer Switch," Popular Science
"In China, a Telescope Offers Cosmic Data Amid Earthly Tensions," Undark
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The Military is Funding Ethicists to Keep Its Brain Enhancement Experiments in Check," OneZero
"NASA Lands the Perseverance Rover on Mars," Wired
"The Hunt for a Crashed CIA Spyplane," Popular Science
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What Happens When Psychedelics Make You See God?" Popular Science
"Neutrino Detectors Could Spot Nuclear Rogues," Wired​
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Dr. Phosphine and the Possibility of Life on Venus," Wired
"How Do We Know If a Virus is Engineered?" OneZero
"A Model to Detect Explosions Big and Small," Physics Today
"The Air Force Will Let Hackers Try to Hijack an Orbiting Satellite," ​Wired
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The Doctor from Nazi Germany and the Search for Life on Mars," The New York Times
"Hell? Yes!" Popular Science
"Meet the GEOINT Singularity," Popular Science
"This Citizen Science Gig Pays People to Match Photos," Wired
"Comic Relief," 5280
"Workers Carry the Burden of Colorado's Food Supply Chain," Colorado Public Radio
"Meet the Scientists on the Front Lines of Protecting Humanity from a Man-Made Pathogen," Leapsmag
"Satellite Data Reveals the Pandemic's Effects from Above," Wired
"Astronomy Expands Its Scope from the Heavens to Humans," Wired
"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
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"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
"US Continues Push to Restart Pit Production," Physics Today
"How a DARPA Scientist Helped Usher in a Game-changing COVID-19 Treatment," leapsmag
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On Surviving - and Leaving - Prison during a Pandemic," Popular Science
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The Tech Entrepreneur Who Thinks He Can Reverse Climate Change with Nuclear Power," OneZero
"Inside Lockheed Martin's New Facility for Simulating Space Wars," Vice
"The Astronaut Diaries," Popular Science
"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 
"Weeki Wachee Mermaids Swim Underwater for 30 Minutes at a Time," Washington Post
"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
"Earth's Best Defense Against Killer Asteroids Needs Cash," 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

News/Analysis
"An Inside Look at the Radiation-Sensing Material that’s on the Pentagon’s Radar," Popular Science
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Can These Government Efforts Crack the Code for DNA Storage?" Popular Science
"How Landsat Tracked 50 Years of Change on a Fiery Planet," Wired
"Spotting Objects from Space is Easy. This Challenge Is Harder," Wired
"These Satellites See through Clouds to Track Flooding," Wired
​"Radioactive Material is Basically Everywhere, and that's a Problem," Scientific American
"NASA's Lucy Mission Gets Ready to Fly by the Trojan Asteroids," Wired
"Companies and Government Agencies Propose Nuclear Reactors for Space," Physics Today
"The Space and Air Forces Launch an LGBTQ Task Force," Wired
"There Are No Real Rules for Repairing Satellites in Space - Yet," Wired
"The Search for the Next Big Idea in Magnetic Field Mapping," Wired
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Yuri Milner and the Fellowship of Silicon Valley Science Influencers," 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
"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
"The Race to Rule the High-Flying Business of Satellite Imagery," WIRED
"Astronomers Don't Point This Telescope. It Points Them," WIRED
"88 Tiny Satellites Will Watch Earth, All the Time, All the Places," 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 Unknown Lab of Millennials Fast-Tracking NASA's missions," WIRED
"Tantalizing Data from the LHC Has Physicists Psyched," WIRED
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