- NASA engineers seek faster-than-light travel via warp drive.
- No more squishy aliens: if we ever encounter extraterrestrial intelligence it is overwhelmingly likely to be post-biological.
- Nothing to see here: demoting the Uncertainty Principle to stop the New Age nonsense.
- Making Schroedinger cats: Quantum research pushes boundaries into the macro world.
- Can we see into the future? Experiments support controversial precognition study.
- What will you hear when you die? Artist reconstructs the sounds heard by near-death experiencers.
- Four TED talks on consciousness. Just as long as it’s not that freaky, weirdo consciousness all you hippies want to talk about…
- The Vitamin Myth: Why we think we need supplements.
- Fascinating new hypothesis could explain (and prevent) AIDS.
- Giant viruses hint at a ‘fourth domain’ of life.
- Study finds women are three times more likely to wear pink or red during times of peak fertility.
- The mystery of Death Valley’s “Sailing Stones” solved (again).
- Have archaeologists found King David’s palace?
- SETI and the science wars – how contact with intelligent aliens will establish the truth about science. (PDF)
- Cosmos, reborn.
- Predicting policing – Minority Report becomes reality.
- Anakin Skywalker’s home is about to be overtaken by sand dunes.
- Stunning UFO footage shows multiple objects darting, flashing over Russian sky.
- Uri Geller: I used secret mind tricks on Russians to stop nuclear war. Which is really the next logical step after developing the ability to bend spoons…
- Watch: The secret life of Uri Geller (UK only, unless you have the tools to beat geo-blocking).
- The Forbidden Island.
- Line of waterspouts forms over the Adriatic Sea.
- Dolphins have names.
- Humpback whales almost gobble up a diver.
- Release the fanged, meat-eating bees!
- SMBC: Little gods.
- Image of the Day: Earth, as seen from Saturn.
Quote of the Day:
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
