Prepare yourself for today’s voyage into the strange world of the Grail news briefs…
- The mystery of Stonehenge’s ‘altar stone’ just got even more confusing.
- Why asteroid 2024 RW1 hitting the Earth last week was a victory for our planetary defense systems.
- Near-death experiences and psychedelic trips have striking similarities, researchers find.
- Related: Psychedelic afterlife? Researchers determine which hallucinogenic trip is most similar to the near-death experience.
- These enigmatic Viking symbols, used in ancient encrypted messages, keep one of history’s strangest language secrets.
- The key to detecting alien life trillions of miles away from Earth.
- These Arctic lifeforms are photosynthesizing in near total darkness.
- Meet the bone-eating vulture that dyes itself the color of blood.
- ‘Model collapse‘ threatens to kill progress on generative AIs.
- We now know exactly where in the world humans and Neanderthals hooked up.
- The golden age of offbeat Arctic research: the Cold War spawned some odd military projects that were doomed to fail, from atomic subways to a city under the ice.
- Swarms of tiny robots could be injected into our bodies to treat bleeds in the brain, scientists say – in breakthrough that could ‘open new frontiers in medicine’.
Quote of the Day:
We have been to the Moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves.
Terence McKenna