No need to panic, the Monday Grail news briefs won’t cause any ill effects…
- How solar eclipses have shaped history – every so often, an eclipse has changed the course of pivotal events, for better and worse.
- Upcoming solar maximum could scramble migrating birds’ internal compass, new study shows.
- WTF is going on with the mysterious connection between UFOs and water?
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena: Hot spots and the quest for better UFO data.
- In Japan, ghosts haunt the bathroom.
- That time a town was in uproar over a 300-foot ghost statue.
- The amazing spider-worm: adding spider DNA to silkworms creates silk stronger than Kevlar.
- The mysterious monoliths of Meghalaya, in India.
- Hunt for a ninth planet in our solar system could be ended by controversial hypothesis that challenges our concept of gravity.
- Mysterious fast radio bursts might be caused by ‘starquakes’, study finds.
- Related: Fast radio bursts – natural phenomena or ET signal?
- Neanderthals hunted — and revered — cave lions.
Quote of the Day:
F*ck the faithful, f*ck the committed, the dedicated, the true believers; f*ck all the sure and certain people prepared to maim and kill whoever got in their way; f*ck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming.
Iain M Banks.