Welcome to the second half of 2025 (yes, already)!
- NASA satellite images reveal mysterious blast site of 1908 Tunguska event that scorched remote Siberia.
- Neuroscientists were surveyed asking if memories can be extracted from the dead – here’s what they said.
- Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans.
- Related: The Technocratic Conspiracy – How tech tycoons plan to disrupt democracy and become the new rulers of the world.
- Scientists discover ancient temple from a ‘lost civilization’ in the Bolivian Andes that mysteriously disappeared over 1,000 years ago.
- From Dyson spheres to ringworlds: A look at some of the largest engineering projects sci-fi literature has to offer.
- Murder, she measured: The impressive science behind Agatha Christie’s poisons.
- This prehistoric trick shows how Ice Age people harvested teeth for jewellery.
- The first commercial space station is nearly here – it could change space forever.
- The scientist who says humans will reach ‘The Singularity’ within 20 years.
- Could aliens see us? A discussion of the possible futures for Earth’s technosphere.
- The Manhattan Well: How Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton united to solve a murder mystery.
- Video of the Day: Solar flare makes a cameo in photo of the ISS transiting the Sun.
Quote of the Day
Then one day you find, ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
‘Time‘, Pink Floyd
