How to Build an Ice Wall Around a Leaking Nuclear Reactor. By Alexis Madrigal, featuring an interview with a guy who is Director of Ground Freezing.

An insightful read: What the Science Tells Us About “Trust in Science”, by Liz Neeley.

“Elizabeth Loftus has spent decades exposing flaws in eyewitness testimony.” – Great profile by Mo Costandi.

“Chronic excreters” – not a description of Twitter users, but a threat to polio eradication. By Helen Branswell.

On the trail of a new snakebite treatment, an unidentified scientist volunteers to be injected with a simulated cobra bite.

What makes the ouija board move, and what it says about your brain. Fascinating read by Tom Stafford.

A new test for gauging consciousness