Imperial march your way into the weekend with the Friday Grail news briefs!
- Is this the world’s oldest image of a mind-altering plant?
- Scientists just analyzed more than 100 UAP videos released by the Pentagon’s ‘PURSUE’ program – this is what they learned.
- Is Turkey’s megalithic archaeological site Göbekli Tepe a temple?
- Something mysterious just passed between Earth and a distant star.
- Northampton woman ‘ran quicker than I have in my life’ after spotting huge mystery animal outside her home.
- DNA reveals a society organised around women in pre-Roman Britain – clans in north-east England were organised around maternal lineage, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals suggests. (Archived page link)
- Also: Stonehenge skeleton reassessment puts ‘women at the centre of early Bronze Age society’.
- Astronomers have discovered a giant, rocky ‘mega-Earth’ 23 times more massive than our planet.
- Bigfoot-like ancient apes might have been closer to humans than we realize.
- Thieves of ‘cursed’ rocks from the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona pen letters of remorse.
- Mathematician who used geometry to study a prehistoric burial chamber on Guernsey says he thinks the monument could also have been used as an ancient calendar.
- Can plants feel pain? On the dynamic sensitivity of the vegetal world.
- Video of the Day: Who killed Charlie Kirk? How conspiracy theories sparked a MAGA civil war.
Quote of the Day
How far can we go down the rabbit hole before we’re lost there?
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