New on our YouTube channel: Our interview with Professor Jesse Bering, on the reincarnation research of Dr Ian Stevenson. Absolute banger of a chat, be sure to check it out!

• Astronomers may have been looking for alien megastructures around the wrong stars.
• Could ancient Mesopotamians have built a battery?
• They knew too much: Steven Spielberg’s new film is a discordant, ambiguous errand into the maze of ufology. (Archived page link)
• Related: Read RPJ’s review of Disclosure Day here on the Daily Grail.
• DNA analysis of a 4,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elaborate metalworking tool kit near Stonehenge has revealed that the individual, long assumed to be a male shaman, was actually a woman.
• Armed robots are on the horizon, as Silicon Valley pitches new military tech. (Archived page link)
• Why do some people who trust in science also believe in scientific conspiracy theories?
• Archaeologists decapitated Tutankhamun and then glued his body back together.
• ‘Most people don’t know we’ve set up a doomsday system’: Physicist Laura Grego on satellites, nuclear weapons and the battle for our skies.
• Fort Lauderdale police have hired a psychic to help crack one of their most widely known cold cases.
• The ancient aliens theory claims extraterrestrials built the pyramids, but archaeologists have found the workers’ villages, bakeries, healed bones, graffiti, and crew names — and all the evidence points back to ordinary Egyptians.
• Transit of wonder: Every 122 years, Venus crosses the Sun as a black and fleeting teardrop, kindling the awe of all those who dare to know.
• Archaeologists uncover first known evidence that prehistoric humans introduced freshwater fish to upstream lakes and rivers at least 5,000 years ago.

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Quote of the Day

Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with ‘facts’ that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend to reject conflicting observations…..Nevertheless, the history of science shows that new observations and theories can eventually prevail.

Dr Ian Stevenson