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- Oumuamua redux: Astronomers have spotted an interstellar object whizzing through our solar system – only the third discovered so far.
- Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in Australia, but not all experts are convinced.
- Still waiting: 75 years after Fermi’s paradox, are we any closer to finding alien life?
- Tech firms suggested placing trackers under offenders’ skin at meeting with British justice secretary.
- Lucid dreaming is a unique state of consciousness – and its power can transform your life, neuroscientists say.
- 1,400-year-old temple ruins the size of a city block unearthed in Bolivia.
- ‘People pay to be told lies’: the rise and fall of the world’s first ayahuasca multinational.
- Archaeologists found a 5,000-year-old walled oasis hidden in the desert, hinting at a forgotten civilization.
- Can AI build a virtual cell? Scientists race to model life’s smallest unit. (Archived page link)
- Star meets stunning end by exploding twice.
- DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley sheds new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.
- Why your microbiome may matter more than DNA for your lifelong health.
- The body parts that evolution still can’t explain.
- A brilliant explorer discovered America’s greatest sunken treasure – a “mountain of gold” at the bottom of the Atlantic. But he might never see a cent of the lost fortune.
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Quote of the Day
Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron.
Terence McKenna
