A reminder that we do our best to source paywall-free links, but it’s getting harder all the time! (Where we can’t, we do try to provide an ‘Archived page link’ at the end of the news brief linking to a free, archived version.)
- Were these mysterious holes dotting a mountain in Peru an Inca spreadsheet?
- Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft – here are why these anomalies are not indications that it is.
- Meet the guru of the AI apocalypse.
- Two spooky flashes lit up the Moon – here’s what made them. (Archived page link)
- When Guillermo del Toro’s grandmother tried to exorcize him…twice.
- A Martian mystery may finally be solved: Scientists might have finally uncovered the origins of bold streaks on the Red Planet’s surface. (Archived page link)
- New research reveals humans have a hidden ‘seventh sense’ of remote touch.
- The chupacabra – how evolution made a mythical monster. (Archived page link)
- Centuries of Black Death misinformation started with a poem: A 14th century trickster tale was misread as fact.
- ‘Lion’ spotted in Irish woods turns out to be a Newfoundland dog named Mouse.
- Mind captioning: This scientist just used AI to translate brain activity into text.
- 2,300-year-old tool used for skull surgery unearthed at Celtic settlement in Poland.
- Designer babies: Is it ethical to choose your child’s traits?
Quote of the Day
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Laurence Binyon
