Climate disaster looming? Look on the bright side!
- Ground temperatures hit 118 degrees Fahrenheit in the Arctic circle.
- Peculiar parasitic fungi discovered growing out of the rectum of a 50 million-year-old fossilised ant.
- Could alien life exist in parallel universes?
- The UFO trap: whenever UFOs make the news, standards of skepticism start to slip.
- Science should not try to absorb religion and other ways of knowing.
- A proposed ‘quantum compass‘ for songbirds just got more plausible.
- Living fossil with arms made of ‘pig snouts’ discovered in the South Pacific.
- How a ‘periodic table’ of animal intelligence could help to root out human bias.
- Is intelligent life as uncommon as ‘rare earth’ first proposed?
- What are ‘pseudo-hallucinations‘? Why you could have a powerful mind’s eye.
- Cave paintings may depict Ice Age sign language.
- Image of the Day: the highest-resolution atomic image ever captured.
Quote of the Day:
In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.
David Graeber
