Weigh up the evidence for each of the claims in today’s news briefs…
- For the first time in history, a peer-reviewed scientific article on a UFO case has been published in the world’s most widely read aerospace journal.
- Did a comet impact cause an ancient apocalypse 12,000 years ago…and could it happen to us too?
- ‘Demonic’: Silicon Valley billionaire who was the former vice-presidential running mate of RFK Jr blasts Burning Man festival as “one of the most effective tools for Satan to misdirect souls away from our Heavenly Father”.
- Mystical tombs and unexplained lights: 150 unique ancient burial mounds discovered in Kazakhstan are surrounded by stories of glowing lights and cars stalling without explanation when passing nearby.
- Is a requirement of ‘extraordinary evidence’ for extraordinary claims unreasonable?
- China is building a brain-computer interface industry. (Archived page link)
- The Philistines used the same hallucinogens as in ancient Greece, study finds.
- Could alien technosignatures be detected from interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS? These astronomers say it’s possible.
- How a common throat infection can rewire children’s brains.
- Mapping out France’s ‘Great Fear of 1789’ shows how misinformation spreads like a virus.
- Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold – not the tropics.
Quote of the Day
If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
