Drink today’s news briefs straight from the tap…
- Is this ancient rock carving on a Neolithic tomb in Ireland the world’s oldest eclipse art?
- This 2,000-year-old Peruvian rock art might depict psychedelic music.
- Is the Universe really a ‘dark forest’ full of hostile aliens in hiding?
- Is the multiverse real? Here’s how physicists approach the theories.
- The magic of bird brains.
- Controversial solution to 70,000-year-old mystery challenges previous understandings of ancient human expansion.
- In 1894, physics seemed complete. Then Lord Kelvin spotted two looming ‘clouds’.
- Climate engineering carries serious national security risks − but countries facing extreme heat may try it anyway, and the world needs to be prepared.
- Archaeology at the bottom of the sea.
- Conspiracy theorists think the eclipse will begin a “massive human sacrifice event”.
- Scientists develop a 6ft ‘invisibility megashield‘ that can hide multiple people by bending light.
- Image of the Day: A SpaceX rocket photobombs the Moon in incredible award-winning shot.
Quote of the Day:
I think in 50 or 100 years time we will have discovered the entity that is consciousness. It will be taken for granted that it wasn’t produced by the brain, and it doesn’t die when you die.
