- UFO hearing brings a few answers and more questions.
- Viruses: are they aliens that shaped our genetic destiny, and could there be any fossilised on Mars?
- 70-year-old astronomy photos may be clues to alien visitors.
- Humans will land on an asteroid by 2073, scientists say.
- Extinction: Why scientists are freezing threatened species in ‘biobanks’.
- Mind-altering parasite may make infected people more attractive, study suggests.
- Related: Do microscopic parasites living inside you control your mind?
- Gene editing can change the social behaviour of animals in unexpected ways.
- Are some things so taboo that science should never research them?
- The Green Man and Sheela-na-gig: the stars of Alex Garland’s new film Men unpack its mysterious ancient symbolism.
- Indigenous people in Australia and North America farmed oysters sustainably for 5000 years.
- Elephants in mourning spotted on YouTube.
- Video(s) of the Day: Our sun, as seen by a space probe flying past it.
Quote of the Day:
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt