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- The Enfield Poltergeist: Why the unexplained mystery that shocked 1970s Britain continues to disturb.
- A haunted chamber, a quivering blade, and other spooky science experiments.
- Declassified spy images just upended what we know about the Roman Empire.
- The scientists looking for alien vegetation.
- The golden age of astrobiology will change everything.
- Lost continent Argoland located 155 million years after it broke from Australia.
- Experts reconstruct the face of Peru’s most famous mummy, a teenage Inca sacrificed in Andean snow.
- Scientists need good data to study UFOs. But how can they collect it?
- First demonstration of a new type of radioisotope heat source that could be used to generate off-grid power in settings ranging from the bottom of the ocean to the surface of the moon..
- A new study provides the first proof-of-principle that genetic material transferred from one species to another can increase both longevity and healthspan in the recipient animal.
- Identity of mysterious ‘mermaid globster‘ that washed up in Papua New Guinea ‘is anyone’s guess,’ experts say.
- Video of the Day: The spirits and demons of ancient Mesopotamia.
Quote of the Day:
Capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil. Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones.
The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital, the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists…
…Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.
Albert Einstein (1949)
