Have someone over for dinner and enjoy today’s news briefs…
- The ‘plazas’ surrounding ancient ‘Monks Mound’ were likely inundated all year round, new analyses have found.
- Submerged secrets: the hunt for Japan’s underwater archaeological ruins.
- Ten archaeological mysteries, from Superhenge to the 2,000-year-old computer.
- Belief in conspiracy theories may not be increasing after all, survey suggests.
- The strange but true science of memory deletion.
- How big of a deal is NASA’s new UFO study?
- Scientists detect ‘first of its kind’ three star system in deep space.
- Ant colonies act eerily like a neural network, new research finds.
- Strange, never-before-seen diamond crystal structure found inside ‘Diablo canyon’ meteorite.
- Ice Age children frolicked in ‘giant sloth puddles’ 11,000 years ago, footprints reveal.
- Can you delay ageing by refusing to act your age?
- Your final resting place could be a coffin made of mushrooms.
Quote of the Day:
It’s always good in science to say “Well how do you know that?” and “Are you really sure?” and “Could there be an exceptional case?
Paul Davies