- Thousands of ancient Islamic tombs found mysteriously arranged in ‘galactic’ patterns.
- 500-year-old skulls with facial modification unearthed in Gabon.
- Man finds 18th century ornamental building made of teeth at bottom of his garden – 25 years after he moved in.
- When magic erupts into the world: Netflix’s Katla and its faerie folklore roots.
- Psychedelics open a new window on the mechanisms of perception.
- Complex life may prefer planets tilted on their axis (like Earth), new research says.
- To find aliens, scientists are hunting for encrypted interstellar messages.
- Repurposed communications satellites could help save humanity from an asteroid impact.
- Planets of diamond rain and black ice: mining the mysteries of Uranus and Neptune.
- Cauliflower and chaos: fractals in every floret.
- Mass bird die-off in eastern United States baffles scientists.
- The UK is considering legal protections for animals’ feelings – so what do animals ‘feel’?
- Fish get addicted to meth in polluted rivers, go through withdrawal.
- The unsolved mystery of Skeleton Lake.
- Images of the Day: Ingenuity helicopter sends back colour photos of Mars from the air.
Thanks to @UnlikelyWorlds.
Quote of the Day:
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
Litany Against Fear, from Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’
