- Planet 9: Old data could uncover the solar system’s newest world, 38 years late.
- Probing the likelihood of panspermia.
- These strange, brittle ‘egg-shell’ exoplanets could be orbiting alien stars.
- Hospice nurse reveals unexplained phenomena that happen before death including ‘the rally’.
- ‘The unknown is scary’: why young women on social media are developing Tourette’s-like tics.
- Mind-controlling fungus makes male flies mate with dead, infected females.
- Alex Jones liable for damages over Sandy Hook shooting claims, judge rules. (Some deeper legal analysis can be found here.)
- Archaeologists say they’ve found a lost 4,500-year-old sun temple in Egypt.
- Dark matter birthed more of itself from regular matter, claims wild new paper.
- Tardigrades: why water bears could be the first interstellar astronauts.
- Has ivory poaching triggered the evolution of tuskless African elephants?
- Birds fake their own deaths to scare off intruders.
- Potential Alzheimer’s treatment restores memories in mice.
Thanks @KayOrchison.
Quote of the Day:
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals.
Milan Kundera
