Cats in zero-gravity. You’re welcome.
- The SETI lottery.
- Shedding some light on the much-hyped Houston UFO sighting.
- Scientific error delayed the search for alien life.
- NASA explains image showing alien on the Moon. You can also watch the press conference.
- The real Men in Black, Hollywood, and the great UFO cover-up (the Guardian’s take on the Mirage Men documentary…read the Daily Grail review here).
- Get a room you two! Earth is making the Moon all soft and warm on the inside.
- Do the 100 trillion bacteria that live within us control our behaviour? See also “Consecration of the Host – You Are Legion, For You Are Many“.
- New evidence challenges ‘Out of Africa’ theory – how old is humanity?
- Origin of Egyptian mummies pushed back 2000 years.
- Could this be the tomb of Alexander the Great?
- Arlan Andrews discusses the engineers of the ancient world on the EarthAncients podcast.
- Frank Sumption, who invented the popular ghost-hunting device “The Frank’s Box”, has passed away.
- The greatest fake religion of all time. Find out more in Adam Gorightly’s Historia Discordia.
- Will we ever be able to download our consciousness into computers?
- Lucid dreamers have better-than-average problem-solving skills in the waking world.
- Elephant poaching deaths reach tipping point in Africa.
- Solar energy plant sets up to 28,000 birds a year on fire as they fly overhead.
- Why do amputees feel the ache of nothingness?
- Engineers build octopus-inspired camouflage system.
- What is the speed of a thought?
- Planet of the clones – is the demonisation of cloning costing us medical breakthroughs?
- Former atheist shares his life-changing near-death experience.
- Image of the Day: Just how big is Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko anyhow?
Quote of the Day:
Right now, there could well be messages from the stars flying right through this room. Through you and me. And if we had the right receiver set up properly, we could detect them. I still get chills thinking about it.
Frank Drake (quoted in Five Billion Years of Solitude)