- Could alien life be hiding in the rings of Saturn or Jupiter?
- The wasps that tamed viruses: to protect and rear their young, some insects have transformed wild viruses into tiny biological weapons.
- Could this recently found skeleton in Germany have been a zombie?
- Newly discovered rock art shows the Sahara was a radically different place 4,000 years ago.
- ‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair.
- Floral consciousness: what the intelligence of plants can teach us about ourselves.
- Scientists map the lost ‘Atlantis’ continent that lies off Australia.
- 224 injured after glitchy diabetes app drains insulin pump batteries.
- Yellowstone’s supervolcano – is an eruption really overdue?
- Found: the dial in the brain that controls the immune system.
- Eyewitness processes at the ‘Battle of Los Angeles’ – an epic case of eyewitness error and misinterpretation.
- Let’s start a fight: are science fiction and fantasy the same?
- A paleolithic archaeologist goes in search of the first cyborg.
- Images of the Day: Horned ‘SpaceX spiral’ photobombs auroras over Europe in first-of-its-kind sighting.
Quote of the Day:
Too many hypotheses and systems of thought in philosophy and elsewhere are based on the bizarre view that we, at this point in history, are in possession of the basic forms of understanding needed to comprehend absolutely anything.
Thomas Nagel