- The trances and healing powers of shamans are so widespread that they can be counted as a human universal. Why did they evolve?
- Paranormal America: More than 3/4 of all Americans believe in at least one paranormal phenomenon.
- Related: compare those paranormal America poll results to last year’s figures.
- Telescope drama could thwart the hunt for extraterrestrial life.
- Mysterious interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua could be a giant solar sail “sent from another civilization to look for signs of life,” claim astronomers.
- The scientist Grover Krantz risked it all…chasing Bigfoot.
- As insect populations decline, scientists are trying to understand why.
- Biologists have started their attempt to sequence the DNA of every living thing on Earth.
- Researchers use wifi signals to ‘see’ people behind closed doors in their own home using just a smartphone and clever computation.
- Frequency used by 1990s cell phones linked to cancer in rats, study finds.
- Why the number 137 may hold the answers to the mysteries of the universe.
- In 1590, starving Parisians ground human bones into bread.
- Scientists trace evolution of HPV to sex with Neanderthals.
Quote of the Day:
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
Robert Heinlein
