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- A 1994 UFO sighting by children in Zimbabwe changed lives. What if this guy made it up?
- How could we tell if those ‘alien bodies’ in Mexico are legit?
- The burials that could challenge historians’ ideas about Anglo-Saxon gender.
- Egyptologists have revealed eight new chambers in the pyramid of Sahura, putting a years-long dispute to rest.
- Gene-editing technology CRISPR is helping to ‘de-extinct’ the Tasmanian tiger.
- Is there really a 1-in-6 chance of human extinction this century?
- Generative A.I. is a disaster, and tech companies don’t seem to really care.
- Spiders are ‘falling’ from the sky in California.
- How life might hitchhike its way through the galaxy.
- Uncertain contact: the detection of alien life won’t be obvious, it’ll be partial and inconclusive – a perfect task for the scientific method.
- Researchers find that early human migrants followed lush corridor-route out of Africa.
- The world is departing from organized religion.
Quote of the Day:
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy‘