- Physicist says there’s a small chance you’ll wake up on Mars tomorrow due to quantum physics.
- Controversy grows over whether bringing back samples from Mars could endanger the Earth by contaminating our world’s biosphere.
- How ‘big data’ can help scientists focus the search for extraterrestrials.
- US Congress mandates a role for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) in the investigation of UFOs.
- Missing head of ‘Hercules’ statue pulled from the Antikythera shipwreck.
- Psi and science: why do some scientists refuse to consider the evidence for psi phenomena?
- In early modern Russia, the majority of accused ‘witches’ were men.
- Ancient humans tamed fire as early as one million years ago, study suggests.
- Record single-celled bacterium discovered that is a centimetre long.
- Amazon has a plan to make Alexa mimic anyone’s voice. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG.
- An autonomous ship used AI to cross the Atlantic without a human crew.
- Image of the Day: Solar eclipse (by space station).
Quote of the Day:
Each organism presumably assumes its umwelt to be the entirety of objective reality. Until a child learns that honeybees enjoy ultraviolet signals and rattlesnakes see infrared, it is not obvious that plenty of information is riding on channels to which we have no natural access. In fact, the part of the electromagnetic spectrum visible to us is less than a ten-trillionth of it. Our sensorium is enough to get by in our ecosystem, but no better.
