No global IT outage will hold the Grail news briefs back!
- UFO hunters claim to be in possession of debris from alien space craft that is lighter than a petal.
- Evidence for butchery of giant armadillo-like mammals in Argentina push back the presence of humans in South America to more than 20,000 years ago.
- Elephants are doing something deeply human – they’re part of growing list of animals that use name-like calls.
- Magic mushrooms desynchronize brain activity: after a person takes the psychedelic compound psilocybin, some of their brain networks dissolve — especially the one involved in the perception of self, space and time – and the changes to the brain can last for weeks.
- Fireball meteor lights up New York City sky, passes over Statue of Liberty.
- China seeks space supremacy and to exploit it ‘to our detriment’, says head of US Defence Intelligence Agency.
- Did the ancient Romans really use gladiator sweat as an aphrodisiac?
- Study finds mindfulness training may induce altered states of consciousness.
- New detection of phosphine deeper in Venus’s atmosphere – and possibly ammonia too – adds supporting evidence to the theory that life could exist in the clouds of Venus.
- 3,800-year-old red cloth found in ‘Cave of Skulls’ came from far, far away.
- Dinosaur skeleton fetches record $44.6 million at auction.
Quote of the Day:
Any one of a million things could fail and cause our complex civilization to collapse for an hour, for a day, or however long. That’s when you find out the extent to which you are reliant on technology and don’t even know it.
James Burke
