- Interstellar artifacts: space archaeology for extraterrestrial equipment is a new observational frontier.
- We’ve never seen Mars quite like this.
- Japanese team invents Moon base with artificial gravity.
- A surprising side of Carl Sagan.
- The high life: doing drugs with ancient Greeks and Romans.
- Choose your reality – a growing number of people have lost faith in government, science and media, and are instead turning to conspiracy theories to explain the world.
- First, the fish fell from the sky. Then they washed ashore.
- Evolutionary tree of life: DNA analysis is showing how we got so much wrong.
- The next stage of the hunt for dark matter is in full swing. Scientists still haven’t found it.
- What lies beneath – this carnivorous plant sets its deathtraps underground.
Quote of the Day:
Listening four or five times a day to newscasters and commentators, reading the morning papers and all the weeklies and monthlies – nowadays, this is described as ‘taking an intelligent interest in politics’; St John of the Cross would have called it indulgence in idle curiosity and the cultivation of disquietude for disquietude’s sake.
Aldous Huxley (in The Perennial Philosophy, 1945)
