Fly into the weekend with the Friday Grail news briefs!
- Mystery drone incursions in NATO airspace spark Europe-wide concerns over “hybrid warfare” threats.
- Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn’t be.
- ‘Tunnel vision’: how Israel is using archaeology to win US support for goals.
- The real stakes, and real story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist obsession. (Archived page link)
- Near-death experiences (NDEs): New research with limited understanding.
- Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb asks ‘Was the “Wow! Signal” emitted from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS?’
- The Netherlands returns major fossil collection, including ‘Java Man’, to Indonesia.
- A scientist reveals how to escape our simulation.
- ‘Failed star’ mimics a key sign of life — and that’s bad news for alien hunters.
- Demons, or disease? A brief history of depression in the ancient world.
- The haunted history of the ghost ship Dash.
- Image(s) of the Day: 31 jaw-dropping space photos that will change how you see the Universe.
Quote of the Day
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
H.P. Lovecraft
