The internet is pretty bare between Xmas and New Year, but we’ve managed to rustle up some news briefs for y’all…
- SpaceX’s Starlink satellites produce a wave of UFO sightings in the U.S.
- There is big and bizarre drone mystery unfolding in rural Colorado.
- Related: UFOs and swarming drones – are any sightings mysterious anymore?
- The decade in astronomy: These space discoveries shaped the 2010s.
- Physicist proposes radical new ‘stellar engine‘ that could move our entire solar system.
- Reminds me of that time the U.S. Air Force proposed using rockets to stop the Earth’s rotation as defence against a nuclear attack.
- E. coli could produce a popular psychedelic for therapeutic use.
- Initial trial of ayahuasca for depression shows promising results.
- The brain senses touch beyond the body.
- Scientists have ‘cleared’ Alzheimer’s plaque from mice using only sight and sound.
- India university to teach doctors Ghost Studies.
- The ten biggest science stories of the decade.
- Image(s) of the Day: The best space images of 2019.
Thanks to @UnlikelyWorlds.
Quote of the Day:
The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
Garry Kasparov