- The joyride era of space travel is here.
- NASA is quietly funding a hunt for alien megastructures.
- China wants to launch asteroid-deflecting rockets to save Earth from Armageddon.
- Landscape architect suggests that the megaliths of Stonehenge may just have been the base for a temple with a thatched roof.
- Tiny snails help solve the giant mystery of the age of the Cerne Abbas ‘Rude Man’.
- Humans are one mixed up ape…literally.
- Creepypasta and the search for ghosts in our machines.
- ‘Time traveller’ reveals when aliens will first land on Earth.
- Belief in conspiracies tied to lower critical thinking skills, but don’t get smug.
- Galileo and the Pope fell out over a story about a cicada.
- We assume microbes evolved to attack humans when actually we are just civilian casualties in a much older war.
- Is Vivaldi necessary for psychedelic therapy?
- Image of the Day: The god Neptune appears on the British coastline.
Quote of the Day:
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
Galileo Galilei