- Solar storms cause GPS in tractors to temporarily break during height of planting season.
- Papua New Guineans, genetically isolated for 50,000 years, carry Denisovan genes that help their immune system, study suggests.
- UFOs, God, and the edge of understanding: the spiritual possibilities of alien encounters.
- Orcas sink another yacht in Strait of Gibraltar.
- Psychedelic chemical DMT shows positive results in trials for the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.
- Dragonfly: the billion-mile mission to explore Saturn’s biggest moon.
- AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilisations.
- Scientists film plant ‘talking’ to its neighbour.
- Mining asteroids could, in theory, reduce the burden on Earth’s resources. Will it live up to its promise?
- Acid media: how perforated squares of trippy blotter paper allowed outlaw chemists and wizard-alchemists to dose the world with LSD.
- Elephants use gestures and vocal cues when greeting each other, study reports.
- Image of the Day: Aurora over Glastonbury Tor.
Quote of the Day:
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard
