News Briefs 14-02-2018

Happy Valentine’s Day! Love is a beautiful thing…

• Boston Dynamics’ robot dog can now open doors.
• The mysterious storage device Elon Musk shot into space.
• The best SpaceX conspiracies about the Falcon Heavy launch.
• How fast your injuries heal might depend on the genome of your friends.
• Viruses and bacteria travel along a high-altitude superhighway.
• Life could exist in strange, alien universes.
• Are alien worlds in the Trappist-1 system more habitable than thought?
• Who has been running the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)?
• Iran defense official claims the West sent lizards as nuclear spies.
• Does this ancient map show a mermaid holding a flying saucer? Sounds legit.
• Residents of North Dakota town are convinced local hill is in fact a hidden pyramid, after researchers were left baffled by ancient writing stone discovered nearby.
• Neolithic ‘spiderweb stones’ in Denmark might have more to do with the Sun than with arachnids.
• 8000-year-old skulls on stakes found in mysterious underwater grave.
• The polyphonic singing traditions of the Baka Forest People.
• The Mandela Effect, and how your mind is playing tricks on you.
• Arizona woman goes to bed with a headache, wakes up speaking with a British accent.
• Image of the Day: Behold, a photo of a single atom.

Quote of the Day:

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft