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- Strange ‘blob’ circling Milky Way’s central black hole is shooting powerful radiation at Earth every 76 minutes.
- Explosive ‘almost X-class’ solar flare launches coronal mass ejection that could smash into Earth today and trigger a geomagnetic storm.
- Feature-length drama on Gary McKinnon, the Scottish hacker who broke into NASA and Pentagon systems in a quest to find secret information on UFOs, greenlit by the BBC.
- The lies that skulls told us: the pseudoscience of phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
- Stolen remains of Aboriginal people and Tasmanian tigers traced to grave-robbing Victorian naturalist.
- Scientists rule out a popular alternative theory to dark matter.
- Returning SpaceX rockets are creating glowing ‘holes’ in the sky – artifical aurorae that could be an issue for astronomers and communication systems.
- Elon Musk has boosted the ‘pizzagate’ conspiracy theory five times in the last two weeks.
- Nikola Tesla’s historic Wardenclyffe lab site at risk after devastating fire.
- Tech conference canceled after using AI to generate fake women speakers.
- The new quest to control evolution: modern scientists aren’t content with predicting how life evolves – they want to shape it.
- Video of the Day: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through AGI.
Quote of the Day:
If you are talking with NASA or the European Space Agency, and you’re talking about looking for life out in the universe, it is a very objective, very scientifically sound discussion and discourse. As that discussion gets closer to the solar system, somewhere around Mars, it turns into science fiction. And then as you get even closer to Earth, and you cross into Earth’s atmosphere, it becomes conspiracy theory.
