[NEWS] Five science links: cocoliztli in Mexico, English forest, geothermal and tidal, space science

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• National Geographic notes a new study suggesting that a salmonella variant was substantially responsible for a mysterious plague, cocoliztli, that depopulated 16th century Mexico.


• Wired reports on a worthy attempt at environmental engineering in the United Kingdom, an attempt to build a coast-to-coast forest in northern England.


• National Observer notes that the government of Canada is preparing funding for higher-risk clean power technologies including geothermal and tidal energy.


• Universe Today's Matt Williams notes a new study, drawing from LIGO data, determining that at their most massive non-rotating neutron stars can only have 2.16 solar masses.


• Matt Williams at Universe Today observes the detection of a stellar-mass black hole candidate in the heart of globular cluster NGC 3201. It's not an intermediate-mass black hole, but it's something!