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One of the scariest science fiction creations of all time comes from the fertile mind of Frank Herbert, who gave us the “Dune” series of novels and the gigantic snale-like creatures of the desert planet Arrakis known as the sandworms. Their arrival spelled terror and a potentially gruesome death for melange (“the spice”) hunters who knew that the sandworm was protecting the valuable drug produced by its own larvae. While we have only encountered sandworms…
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Excerpted with permission from Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions, written by Sabine Hossenfelder and published by Viking. The fact that the passage of time isn’t universal is pretty mind-bending already, but there’s more. Because the speed of light is very fast but finite, it takes time for light to reach us, so, strictly speaking, we always see things as they looked a little bit earlier. Again, though, we don’t normally notice…
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A barbed wire fence at a Gloucester farm holds a clue to a mystery that has baffled Britain for years: the existence of black panthers and other big cats in the wild. The fence was the site of a brutal sheep attack, and a strand of black hair was found tangled on it. The hair was sent to a forensic laboratory for DNA analysis, and the results were astonishing: a 99 percent match to a…
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This article is more than three years old. It’s known as a K-II or EMF meter in the paranormal world, but the actual name of this pocket-sized device is a “Safe Range EMF Meter.” It’s manufactured by New York based K-II Enterprises, who have been selling unique products since 1987. As well as the EMF meter, they sell a couple of electronic gadgets to help train pets and a device which promises to prevent dog…
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A DNA test ordered as part of an upcoming documentary investigating sightings of anomalous big cats in the UK, Panthera Britannia Declassified, may have provided crucial evidence in favor of their existence. According to documentary filmmaker Matthew Everett, strands of black animal hair were found on a barbwire fence following a sheep attack on a farm in Gloucestershire. The hair was reportedly sent to a forensic laboratory, which has requested anonymity, and analyzed using mitochondrial…