Put on your goggles and enjoy today’s Grail news briefs in private…
- Researchers have now excluded 78% of the search field for the hypothetical Planet 9 – astronomer Michael Brown says it may now be found within a few years.
- Did art exist before modern humans? New discoveries raise big questions.
- Meet the DIY diggers who can’t stop making ‘hobby tunnels’.
- There’s nothing new under the sun: see John Reppion’s article here on the Grail from 10 years ago, “Urban tunnelers: what lies beneath our streets?“
- Asteroid 33 Polyhymnia may contain elements outside the periodic table.
- Strange sound solved? The mating calls of black drum fish might be the source of Tampa’s mysterious thumping bass noise.
- Measurements of rare Higgs boson decay may show cracks in physics theory.
- Harvard astronomy professor Avi Loeb thinks he has new evidence of alien spacecraft.
- New Netflix documentary Rael The Alien Prophet will tell the story of Claude Vorilhon and his controversial UFO-inspired religion Raëlism.
- There are ‘lost civiilizations’ under the sea – scientists want to find them before it’s too late.
- Japanese village revisits four-decade-old craze of snake-like tsuchinoko cryptid to promote regional revitalization.
- Image of the Day: Perseverance rover snaps final resting place of Ingenuity, the helicopter that flew on another planet.
Thanks to @fringequest.
Quote of the Day:
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the ocean in a drop.
Rumi
