- Can tripping save the planet?
- Seeing Earth from space will change you.
- NASA’s Orion spacecraft successfully returns to Earth after historic Moon mission.
- Humans vs robots: the battle reaches a ‘turning point’.
- Brain-computer interfaces could allow soldiers to control weapons with their thoughts and turn off their fear – but the ethics of neurotechnology lags behind the science.
- The truly wondrous treasures of Tutankhamun’s tomb are not made of gold. They are the mundane things of everyday life.
- Destroying Maya treasures to build a tourist train: Mexico is building a $15 billion train line through the heart of ancient Maya civilization.
- DNA from extinct Denisovans was found in the genomes of Indigenous Papuans, and may mold their immune system.
- What fingerprints tell us about Jerusalem’s ancient artisans.
- Why do people believe in ghost stories?
- Scientists tangle over a Jurassic mystery: could the tail of a dinosaur go supersonic?
- Crabs have evolved five separate times – why do the same forms keep appearing in nature?
Quote of the Day:
[W]hilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Charles Darwin
