News Briefs 01-05-2026

Live your life like Area 51’s camo dudes are about to arrest you…

• The Rendlesham Forest mystery: ‘It’s the perfect storm of a UFO case’.
• Terra preta: This mysterious Amazonian soil is making trees grow six times taller – and nobody knows why.
• Do octopus brains work like humans’ – or is there another way to be smart? (Archived page link)
• 12,000-year-old discovery at Karahan Tepe, ‘the world’s first village’, reveals an ancient key to human survival.
• Longevity science is overhyped, but this research really could change humanity: A new therapy has the potential to cure hundreds of diseases — and even reverse aging. (Archived page link)
• Also: What if we could borrow anti-aging genes from a nearly immortal animal?
• The New York Times obituary for ufologist Nick Pope, who died last month at 60.
• Why did ancient Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal? A new study offers clues.
• Jeffrey Epstein obtained objects from Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba, for his island ‘mosque’. (Archived page link)
• Is Tatooine the norm? Planets may prefer living with two suns instead of one.
• 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets reveal ancient magic rituals from Syria’s lost temple archive.
• Trump elevates QAnon conspiracy theory (yet again) in late-night Truth Social post.
• NASA chief reignites debate over Pluto’s planetary status and yes we’re doing this again.
• Image of the Day: The explanation for why UFOs are now called UAPs.

Quote of the Day

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

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