- Scientists say there may be ‘humans’ all over the Universe.
- Whose job is it to prevent an asteroid armageddon?
- NASA plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon within a decade.
- Metaphysics and mushrooms: Psychedelics can change how you think about the universe
- ‘Rationalists are wrong about telepathy‘, says Rupert Sheldrake.
- Dan Aykroyd digs into Ghostbusters’ ghost lore.
- Spooky quantum effect that turns matter invisible finally demonstrated.
- A radical new camouflage tech borrows its inspiration from squid relatives.
- Octopuses, crabs, and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law.
- Mysterious fast radio bursts are finally coming into focus.
- New tests show neolithic pits near Stonehenge were human-made.
- Image of the Day: Postcard from Mars.
Quote of the Day:
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
Carl Sagan (in ‘The Demon-Haunted World’, 1995)
