No need to fear, the Tuesday Grail news briefs are here!
- On the trail of the Denisovans: DNA has shown that the extinct humans thrived around the world, from chilly Siberia to high-altitude Tibet — perhaps even in the Pacific islands.
- What would it take to catch an interstellar visitor like ‘Oumuamua?
- The science of lucid dreams – and how to have them. (For detailed instructions, check out Paul Devereux’s excellent Lucid Dreaming: Accessing your inner virtual realities.)
- This rare 11th century Islamic astrolabe is one of the oldest yet discovered, and is a powerful record of scientific exchange between Arabs, Jews and Christians.
- Hidden trauma: Do psychedelics reveal memories or create fake ones?
- ‘Significant’ number of UFO sightings reported in Canada last year, according to the latest survey from Canadian ufologist Chris Rutkowski.
- Pythagoras was wrong: there are no universal musical harmonies, study finds.
- Asian elephants bury and mourn for their dead calves.
- Study show a threefold rise in bisexual behaviour among Americans.
- Go ahead and alter the atmosphere, no one’s going to stop you — probably.
- Psilocybin mushrooms have been growing on Earth since the dinosaurs went extinct.
- Image of the Day: Light pillars over Mongolia.
Quote of the Day:
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
Frank Herbert
