Ease your way into the weekend with our Friday news briefs:
- Russian spacecraft accused of tailgating US spy satellite by just 37 feet.
- Flying high with Utah’s most mysterious mogul: Brandon Fugal, the real estate tycoon and owner of Skinwalker Ranch.
- Did scientists just prove the existence of a mirror universe?
- ‘Gigantic jet’ that shot into space may be the most powerful lightning bolt ever detected.
- Woolly mammoths are making a comeback. should we eat them?
- Prehistoric Brits used rare rock crystals to mark burial sites, research finds.
- Two huge stone Olmec reliefs depict rulers in divine trance pose.
- Rare 400-year-old ship found in German river is a stunningly preserved ‘time capsule’.
- Did giant, extraterrestrial impacts start plate tectonics on Earth?
- Bright green fireballs have been sighted over New Zealand – here’s what’s probably happening.
- Alex Jones and the lie economy: the incentive to churn out fantasy is more powerful than any defamation suit.
- The ‘Mandela Effect’ is real, scientists confirm.
- Related: Parallel possibilities – are we remembering other universes?
Quote of the Day:
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Carl Sagan
