- Israeli archaeologists find traces of opium in 3,500-year-old pottery.
- Related? Prehistoric cultures used drugs during funerals.
- Palestinian farmer planting an olive tree accidentally unearthed an exquisite Byzantine tile floor.
- 3,000-year-old gold funeral mask unearthed in noble’s tomb in China.
- California legalizes composting human bodies.
- Alien-hunting astronomer says there may be a second interstellar object on Earth in new study.
- Related: Harvard astronomers are hoping to find a crashed alien spacecraft at the bottom of the ocean.
- Super-Earths are bigger and more habitable than Earth, and astronomers are discovering more of the billions they think are out there.
- Why science suddenly has a lot to say about UFOs and UAPs.
- Hoaxed: a podcast investigation of a British satanic paedophile ring – which doesn’t exist.
- A third of artificial intelligence researchers think AI could cause ‘catastrophic’ outcomes on par with nuclear war in this century.
- Virus modified to kill cancer cells appears to have saved a patient’s life.
- Egyptian hieroglyphs were fully unlocked 200 years ago, when the Rosetta Stone was deciphered. Yet long before that, Arabic scholars had made their own discoveries.
Quote of the Day:
When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
Isaac Asimov
