- Ancient Egyptian temple reveals previously unknown star constellations.
- Famed Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled.
- Should we seed life on other planetary bodies?
- The first alien civilisation we contact will have been around much longer than us.
- First fast radio burst to be discovered in the Milky Way is now found to be repeating after being traced back to highly magnetic dead star 32,616 light-years away.
- Related: New research suggests mysterious fast radio bursts could be a sign of alien civilisations.
- Do magnetic pole reversals cause mass extinctions? Scientists are still investigating.
- Elon Musk wants to build a city on Mars, but Werner Herzog says the plan is unequivocally a “mistake”.
- Are we wired to be outside? A neuroscientist searches for the roots of feeling innately connected to nature.
- The last children of Down Syndrome: Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
- Trump’s lawyer Sidney Powell is hardcore QAnon.
- How artificial neural networks paved the way for a dramatic new theory of dreams.
- Video of the Day: Why our dreams could be the key to time travel.
Quote of the Day:
We have been trained to believe “there is enough for me, or enough for you, but not enough for both of us.” That conditioning is so powerful that we automatically think in terms of me or you, not both, so we don’t notice that the whole species is now capable of success.
Buckminster Fuller