Today’s tip on a new feature at the Grail: if you’re reading the news briefs on the front page of the site, you can click the arrows at the top right of the post to scroll through previous days’ news briefs.
- Harvard’s top astronomer believes aliens tried to contact us in 2017.
- Related: Seeing the spaceship – why we need to pay attention to anomalies.
- The hunt for alien life heats up in 2021.
- We’re the cosmic 1 percent, but our solar system isn’t a complete weirdo.
- Astronauts eat first radishes grown in space.
- Plan emerges to rebuild the collapsed Arecibo telescope, with early $8 million pledge from Puerto Rico.
- The South Atlantic Anomaly: could 2021 be the year when north becomes south?
- We know almost nothing about giant viruses.
- Neanderthal child’s skeleton buried 41,000 years ago may solve long-standing mystery.
- Archaeologists may have found the place where John the Baptist was condemned to death.
- The famous Nazca lines aren’t mysterious – but they are ingenious.
- A 25-year-old bet comes due: Has tech destroyed society?
Thanks to @jprah1.
Quote of the Day:
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
Alexis de Tocqueville
