Early humans in Europe were making and controlling fire at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland have found.

Newly discovered worlds of microbes far beneath the ocean floor, inside old basaltic rocks, could point to a greater likelihood of life elsewhere in the universe.

While the QAnon phenomenon may have (thankfully) dissipated in the last couple of years after playing a prominent part in the the January 6 debacle, conspiracy culture in general has shown no signs of following the same path. Indeed, if anything, the online world is even more full of beliefs in grand secretive schemes by the elite to enslave or even kill the general populace, thanks perhaps largely to the COVID pandemic. Another important contributor to the spread of conspiracy […]

(with apologies to Jess Stearn; an introduction to a work-in-progress)