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The fact that multiple high-ranking officials have claimed firsthand knowledge of secret UFO programs does not square easily with a “bizarre hazing ritual” involving bogus “alien projects.”

According to the Journal, Sean Kirkpatrick, the former director of the Pentagon’s UFO analysis office, uncovered broad hazing practices in which “thousands” of Air Force officers were briefed on secret “alien” activities over several decades. The prank apparently included requiring personnel to sign non-disclosure agreements that carried the threat of jail or execution, leaving officers “scared to death” if they revealed the nonexistent program.

But no evidence of such systemic, widespread hazing about extraterrestrials has yet emerged. Nor can Kirkpatrick and his former office keep their stories straight. A year after supposedly discovering such extensive hazing activity, Kirkpatrick and the Pentagon claimed that longstanding allegations of secret UFO retrieval and reverse-engineering programs are the product of “circular reporting” from a “small group” of alien believers. Yet now, supposedly, “thousands” of personnel were led to believe that such programs exist. Which one is it?

There are currently several rovers searching Mars for signs of life that could have existed back in those more habitable times, millions of years ago.

Earlier this year, NASA's Curiosity rover discovered a missing piece in this puzzle: rocks that are rich in carbonate minerals.

These "carbonates"—such as limestone on Earth—act as a sponge for carbon dioxide, pulling it in from the atmosphere and trapping it in rock.

Advice for finding a lover

The Roman poet Ovid (43BCE–17CE) wrote a poem called The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria). In it, he offered advice for those who are still single.

As suitable places to find a lover, Ovid recommends walking in porticos and gardens, attending the theatre, or (surprisingly enough) lingering near law courts.

Seek your lover in the daytime, says Ovid. Be careful of the night. You won’t choose the right person if you’re drunk. And you can’t see their face properly if it’s too dark – they might be uglier than you think.

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The model's findings show that under our current "business as usual" conditions—the Too Little Too Late scenario—humanity risks a gradual slide into ever-worsening breakdowns: a steadily grayer and more fragmented world.

However, the Giant Leap scenario demonstrates that a window of opportunity still remains open for global action to reverse declining well-being trends, keep global warming below 2°C, reduce inequality, and create the conditions for sustained prosperity throughout the century.

The study identifies five "extraordinary turnarounds" which, if enacted simultaneously, could fundamentally alter humanity's trajectory: ending poverty, reducing inequality, empowering women, and transforming global food and energy systems. "Extraordinary" refers to a substantial change in investments relative to the previous four decades.

Irrespective of human population increase or decrease, biodiversity losses continue among most species studied mainly because of change in agricultural land use, either due to urbanization, disuse and abandonment, or intensification. Only where human numbers are currently stable, biodiversity is also more stable, although we anticipate that this may also change as ageing deepens into depopulation in these areas. We conclude by urging countries facing depopulation to account for its outcomes in their biodiversity conservation and restoration strategies.

We present archaeological data from the lake landscape of Neumark-Nord (Germany), where Last Interglacial Neanderthals processed at least 172 large mammals at a water’s edge site.

Their (partial) carcasses were transported to this location for the extraction of within-bone nutrients, particularly bone grease.

This “fat factory” constitutes a well-documented case of grease rendering predating the Upper Paleolithic, with the special task location devoted to extraction of nutritionally important lipids forming an important addition to our knowledge of Neanderthal adaptations.

The evidence suggests that the subadult Tharsis specimens have been nibbling and sucking microbial mats or soft tissue remnants off a floating, dead belemnite and accidentally sucked in the “bulb” at the end of the hastate rostrum. Once this happened, the belemnite proved to be a deadly trap due to its peculiar shape and sheer size. Even though the fish tried to pass the obstructive item through its gills, there was no way of getting rid of it, leading to death by suffocation.

Rather than the plate tectonic processes we see today, the research points to a regime dominated by mantle plumes—towering columns of hot, molten rock ascending from deep within Earth. It also identifies a phenomenon known as sagduction, wherein surface rocks gradually descend under their weight into the planet's hotter, deeper layers. These findings shed new light on the dynamic processes that governed the early evolution of Earth's lithosphere.

Yellow? Green? White? 🤔🌞

Many people believe that the sun is yellow. However, the sun emits light that encompasses all the colors that our eyes can perceive and thus appears white to our eyes. When we see a rainbow, we witness the sunlight being split into its different colors. The passage of sunlight through a prism also reveals its diverse color spectrum.

Why Does the Sun Appear Yellow to Our Eyes?

This is due to the Earth’s atmosphere scattering the shorter-wavelength colors such as green, blue, and violet more strongly. When sunlight reaches the Earth’s atmosphere, it interacts with the gases and particles present in the air and gets scattered in various directions. Among the different colors of light, blue light is scattered to a greater extent compared to others. This is due to the fact that blue light travels as shorter, smaller waves, making it more susceptible to scattering effects in the atmosphere. This means we lose some of the blue tint of the sun as sunlight passes through the atmosphere. Consequently, only the longer-wavelength colors like yellow and red reach our eyes. This phenomenon is called Rayleigh scattering.

During sunrise or sunset, when the sun is positioned low in the sky, it can even take on an orange or red hue. The sunlight passes through a greater amount of atmosphere, so even more blue light is scattered and consequently, a larger proportion of the longest wavelength light (red) reaches our eyes.

We cannot, of course, go back and sniff to find out. But the literary texts, physical remains of structures, objects, and environmental evidence (such as plants and animals) can offer clues.

So what might ancient Rome have smelled like?

Honestly, often pretty rank

In describing the smells of plants, author and naturalist Pliny the Elder uses words such as iucundus (agreeable), acutus (pungent), vis (strong), or dilutus (weak).

None of that language is particularly evocative in its power to transport us back in time, unfortunately.

But we can probably safely assume that, in many areas, Rome was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. Property owners did not commonly connect their toilets to the sewers in large Roman towns and cities – perhaps fearing rodent incursions or odours.

The increasing frequency of rocket launches is crowding the region of space closest to Earth, known as low-Earth orbit—a zone that’s already peppered with tens of thousands of bits of decades-old hardware, some of it dating back to the Cold War. Experts caution that the danger posed by all this space junk is rising sharply. Incidents like the one in Saskatchewan “are going to become much more common,” says Lawler. Eventually, she says, “someone will die from this.”

In recent years, debris has fallen on Australia, Indonesia, India, Ivory Coast, Uganda, Kenya, Poland and several U.S. states. Aside from falling to Earth, objects may also smash into each other in orbit—as happened in 2009 when two communications satellites, one of them defunct, collided some 500 miles above Siberia; such collisions create even more debris. The International Space Station, meanwhile, was forced to dodge space junk twice in one week in 2023, and again last November.

Scientists also point to the potential danger to commercial aviation, as well as the pollution caused by debris burning up in the atmosphere. A report released by the European Space Agency in April noted that about 1,200 objects re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere in 2024. Experts estimate that at least 120 of these re-entries were uncontrolled, meaning they struck the Earth at some random spot beneath their orbital path. The agency said that more than 50,000 objects larger than ten centimeters (about four inches) across are currently in orbit, along with about 9,300 still-active satellites.

The Southern Television broadcast interruption was a broadcast signal intrusion that occurred on 26 November 1977 in parts of southern England in the United Kingdom. The audio of a Southern Television broadcast was replaced by a voice claiming to represent the "Ashtar Galactic Command", delivering a message instructing humanity to abandon its weapons so it could participate in a "future awakening" and "achieve a higher state of evolution". After six minutes, the broadcast returned to its scheduled programme.

On Saturday 26 November 1977, at 5:10 p.m. GMT, as ITN's Andrew Gardner presented a news summary where he reported on clashes in then-Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) between security forces and the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, the audio was replaced by a deep buzz, followed by a distorted voice delivering a message for almost six minutes. The speaker claimed to be Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command (Ashtar being a name associated with extraterrestrial communication since 1952). Reports of the incident vary, some calling the speaker "Vrillon" or "Gillon", and others "Asteron".

The interruption ceased shortly after the statement had been delivered, transmissions returning to normal shortly after the beginning of the 1947 Merrie Melodies cartoon The Goofy Gophers. Later in the evening, Southern Television apologised for what it described as "a breakthrough in sound" for some viewers. ITN also reported on the incident in its own late-evening Saturday bulletin.

Transcript

This is the voice of Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking to you. For many years you have seen us as lights in the skies. We speak to you now in peace and wisdom as we have done to your brothers and sisters all over this, your planet Earth. We come to warn you of the destiny of your race and your world so that you may communicate to your fellow beings the course you must take to avoid the disaster which threatens your world, and the beings on our worlds around you. This is in order that you may share in the great awakening, as the planet passes into the New Age of Aquarius. The New Age can be a time of great peace and evolution for your race, but only if your rulers are made aware of the evil forces that can overshadow their judgments. Be still now and listen, for your chance may not come again. All your weapons of evil must be removed....

Our models suggest that periods of habitability on Mars have been the exception, rather than the rule, and that Mars generally self-regulates as a desert planet.

When it comes to keeping a planet balmy and mild, it isn't enough just to start out that way—there need to be mechanisms for stability over time that can respond to changes on and around the planet.

Scientists think that Earth does this through a finely balanced system that moves carbon from sky to rock and back again. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere warms the planet, but warmer temperatures also speed up reactions that lock up carbon dioxide into rock, which eventually counteracts the temperature rise. Eventually, carbon leaks back out into the atmosphere via volcanic eruptions. Over millions of years, this cycle appears to have kept Earth relatively stable and hospitable for life.

On Mars, the researchers suggested, a similar cycle could also take place—but a self-limiting one.

Paper:

Carbonate formation and fluctuating habitability on Mars

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09161-1

Wooden tools from the early Paleolithic Period are extremely rare, with only two previously known discoveries, one in Europe and one in Africa. In both cases, the tools were hunting implements, spears, and spear tips. Liu et al. describe several wooden tools from a 300,000-year-old site in China. These tools were not used for hunting, but rather appear to have been designed to obtain and process plant foods. This finding shows that wooden tools were being used across a much wider range at the time, and also provides insight into how cultures from different environments may have developed locally useful implements.

Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (c. 1490) represents one of the most analyzed yet cryptic works in art history. While the drawing's symbolic significance as representing ideal human proportions has been extensively documented, the precise geometric system Leonardo used to establish the relationship between the circumscribing circle and square has remained mysteriously elusive for over five centuries.

The challenge originates from Vitruvius himself, who proposed in ‘De Architectura’ that the perfectly proportioned human figure could be inscribed within both a circle and a square, but provided no mathematical framework for achieving this geometric relationship. As Murtinho (Citation2015) documents, ‘nowhere in the Vitruvian treaty is there a clarification of the proportional system that establishes the relational factor between the square and the circle. This situation has led to immense geometric and symbolic speculation in terms of the search for and definition of the rules that will have guided Leonardo to the drawing of his Vitruvian man.’

This geometric question has attracted scholarly investigation for centuries because Leonardo achieved what Vitruvius only proposed – a precise mathematical relationship that successfully inscribes the human figure within both geometric forms. Understanding Leonardo's construction method has implications beyond art history, potentially revealing sophisticated mathematical and anatomical insights embedded within Renaissance artistic practice.

Unexplained sightings have puzzled Greater Manchester for decades – from glowing lights darting across the Pennines to strange shapes hovering silently over city rooftops.

Once taken seriously enough to warrant a dedicated desk at the Ministry of Defence, official investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena have since been shut down. But the questions remain for some: are we alone, and is someone keeping secrets?

In this podcast episode, we explore Manchester’s long history with the unexplained. We speak to UFO researcher and author of the Strange Britain series Adrian Finney, who sheds light on the eerie stories and sightings rooted in our region – and why public fascination is far from fading.

We also hear from a firm believer who argues the government isn’t telling us everything, and shares why they’re convinced we’ve only scratched the surface of the truth.

The object in question is currently at +18th magnitude, moving slowly along the border of the constellations Serpens Cauda and Sagittarius, right near the galactic plane. The object was captured on July 2nd by the Deep Random Survey remote telescope in Chile. The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) based in Rio Hurtado made the discovery on July 1st. Sam Deen soon backed this up with pre-discovery images from worldwide ATLAS sites in Chile, Hawaii and South Africa from June 25-29.

This allowed astronomers to plot a preliminary orbit. That’s where things get really interesting: the object has an eccentricity now estimated near 6.0—the highest seen yet. An eccentricity of 1.0 or lower is a closed orbit, signifying an asteroid or comet on an elliptical orbit in our solar system.

This one is coming from interstellar space on a high inclination 175 degree orbit, perhaps originating from the thin galactic disk.

The article presents a previously unknown hymn in praise of Marduk, the Esagil, Babylon and the Babylonians. It contains unparalleled descriptions of the healing powers of Marduk, the splendor of Babylon, the spring borne by the Euphrates to the city’s fields and the generosity of the Babylonians themselves. The text survives in 20 manuscripts, from the 7th to the 2nd/1st centuries BCE, and it can be shown that it was a fixture in the school curriculum of the time. The author of this highly accomplished piece immortalized his devotion to his city, gods, and people in words that resonated until the final decades of cuneiform culture.

Dust devils on Mars could be crackling with electric currents, according to a new study — and scientists are a little concerned about this because a buildup of such charge could harm rovers rolling along the surface of Mars.

As the sun heats the Martian surface, air near the surface gets heated. Hot air is lighter than cool air, and so it tends to rise. Pockets of hot air therefore rise through cold air, rapidly forming an upward current. The sudden uprush causes air to speed horizontally inward to the center of a newly forming vortex. If the conditions are right, the vortex completes formation and starts spinning. As the air continues to rise, the vortex gets stretched vertically — sort of like a noodle — making the vortex spin even more quickly. As the vortex picks up speed, the wind swirls and kicks up dust. This creates a dust devil.

In short, dust devils are like little gusts of dust high on adrenaline.

UCLA researchers have made a significant discovery showing that biological brains and artificial intelligence systems develop remarkably similar neural patterns during social interaction. This first-of-its-kind study reveals that when mice interact socially, specific brain cell types synchronize in "shared neural spaces," and AI agents develop analogous patterns when engaging in social behaviors.

This new research represents a striking convergence of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, two of today's most rapidly advancing fields. By directly comparing how biological brains and AI systems process social information, scientists reveal fundamental principles that govern social cognition across different types of intelligent systems.

The dark history of werewolves - Craig Thomson. TED-Ed

Altruistic behaviors such as prey sharing are prosocial acts that can instigate and perpetuate various forms of reciprocity. Subsequent relationship dynamics provide a foundation for the evolution of societal norms and associated encephalization in social taxa, like primates and dolphins. Some cultures within these families benefit from interactions with other mammal species but accounts of any wild animals attempting to provision humans are extremely rare.

In this article, we present 34 cases of both sexes and all age classes of killer whales (Orcinus orca) offering prey and other items to people who were on boats (n = 21), in the water (n = 11), and on shore (n = 2) in four oceans.

A total of 18 species were offered—six fishes, five mammals, three invertebrates, two birds, one reptile, and one seaweed.

In almost every case the whales awaited a human response before subsequently reacting.

The occurrence of these events suggests a limited cost to exploratory behaviors in some populations of this species. We suggest these apparently nonrandom cases may be representative of interspecific generalized altruism.

This behavior may represent some of the first accounts of any wild predator intentionally using prey and other items to directly explore human behavior and thus may highlight the evolutionary convergence of intellect between highest order primates and dolphins.

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