News Briefs 24-04-2026

Have a good weekend everyone!

• Harvard geneticist proposes that Neanderthals are descended from humans.
• A giant ‘shadow’ has been creeping across Mars for 50 years — and scientists aren’t sure why.
• The secret history of LSD in psychiatry: In the 1960s, doctors sought a drug to induce madness – they found one.
• A physicist explains what the Kardashev scale gets wrong.
• The AI doomers who are playing with fire: For years, the dangerous rhetoric has been out of control…and things are now turning violent.
• Sightings of meteors have surged, and scientists aren’t sure why. (Archived page link)
• ‘Missing scientist’ cases have stoked wild speculation. For loved ones, the theories are hurtful.
• What allowed occultism to blossom in the United States at the turn of the 20th century? Investigating the forgotten history and (still living) world of mail-order magic.
• NASA’s Curiosity rover spots strange fish-scale patterns on Mars.
• A slew of new Bigfoot sightings, on-screen and off-Broadway.
• This radical ‘dark stars’ theory could solve our Universe’s greatest mystery.
• Scientists studied the dreams of people who nearly died – what they found is incredible.

Quote of the Day

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

David Friedman

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