[NEWS] Five science links: Chixculub, Venus probes, HS 2231+2441, iPTF14hls, China and SETI

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• It was the dinosaurs' bad luck that Chixculub had oil-rich sands, making a bad impact a mass extinction. National Geographic reports.


• Universe Today takes a look at the challenge of designing electronics capable of surviving the environment of Venus.


• HS 2231+2441 is a HW Vir-type binary where a brown dwarf sapped the life of its now white dwarf partner. Universe Today reports.


• CBC reports on puzzling iPTF14hls, a bizarrely recurring supernova. Is it a pulsational pair instability supernova?


• Will China's new Tianyan radiotelescope give it an edge in SETI? This is a great article, on China and SETI both. The Atlantic reports.