For the purposes of this tour…
- China lands Tianwen-1 rover on Mars, in major first for the country.
- People want NASA’s Mars rover to fight the Chinese Mars rover. Because of course they do.
- New video from USS Omaha shows unknown aerial sphere vanishing into ocean.
- ‘Even if you think discussing aliens is ridiculous, just hear me out.’
- Has an old Soviet mystery at last been solved?
- Related: Scientists may have solved the Dyatlov Pass mystery – with help from the snow-generating software used to make Disney’s Frozen.
- The miracle of Fatima: a visit by Mary – or something stranger?
- Cult country: is this a new age of cultism – or a new cult panic?
- Ancient Easter Island communities offer insights for successful life in isolation.
- Pigs can breathe oxygen via their rectum, so humans probably can too.
- What do animals feel? Humans must follow the evidence to find out.
- A predator with night vision is changing what we know about dinosaurs.
- Hunter Biden’s admission of toad venom use signals a sea change for addiction treatments.
- The Pentagon is surveilling Americans without a warrant, senator reveals.
- Image of the Day: The Sombrero Galaxy (aka Total Perspective Vortex).
Quote of the Day:
As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.
J. Allen Hynek