You are free to believe what you choose to out of today’s news briefs:
- Aliens could be trying to get our attention via supernova-timed beacons.
- There was no Jesus – how could a cult leader draw crowds, inspire devotion and die by crucifixion, yet leave no mark in contemporary records?
- Chile’s ancient mummies are thousands of years old than the Egyptians’.
- Life could spread across the galaxy on cosmic dust, wild new paper suggests.
- How long will it be before we can send humans to another star system?
- Ant geopolitics: over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own.
- The decimal point is 150 years older than historians thought.
- CRISPR ‘will provide cures for genetic diseases that were incurable before‘, says renowned biochemist.
- There’s an asteroid out there worth $100,000 quadrillion. Why haven’t we mined it?
- Russia is attempting to develop a nuclear space weapon to destroy satellites with a massive energy wave, sources familiar with intel say.
- Nebraska zoo extracts 70 coins from white alligator’s stomach.
Quote of the Day:
Maybe time running out is a gift.
Jason Isbell (‘If We Were Vampires‘)
