Witches, their legendary “familiars,” as they are known, and their eerie ability to disguise themselves as a variety of animals, cannot be overlooked when it comes to the controversies surrounding shapeshifters. Indeed, they are an integral part of the overall phenomenon. Warrington is a picturesque town located in the north of England, and is dominated by the expansive River Mersey. Its origins date back millennia, specifically to the Roman invasion of England, which began in…
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Drs. K. Barry Sharpless, Morten Meldal, and Carolyn Bertozzi, for two related advances. The first of this year’s prize-winning discoveries carries a catchy moniker: click chemistry. The other, bioorthogonality, is more of a mouthful. Both techniques share some similarity with last year’s winner, asymmetric organocatalysis. Namely, they are organic synthesis methods, designed to aid in research on the molecules making up living organisms, pharmaceuticals, agricultural…
Ultraterrestrials are a fascinating and controversial topic in the field of ufology and paranormal research. They are hypothesized beings that are believed to come from an entirely different realm than our own. This can be an alternative universe if there are multiverses out there, or even from a different dimension, and a reality that crisscrosses with ours. The term ultraterrestrial was coined by John Keel, a journalist and author who investigated UFOs and other strange…
There are countless ghost hunting apps that run on smartphones and tablets, which claim to use the device’s array of sensors and inputs to detect or communicate with spirits, but since one of the inputs built in to your phone is a microphone, how do you know it’s not just listening to you in order to fake responses? Recently mobile phone manufacturers have made it easy to address this question. Many new mobile phones show…
Earlier this month, a photograph featuring an unidentified object in the Madín Dam reservoir of Atizapán de Zaragoza in Mexico was shared to the municipality’s Facebook page. The photo was shared on March 19th, along with the following caption: Neighbors from the area surrounding the [Madín Dam] reported the sighting of a large silhouette in the depths of the aquatic body. This fact adds to comments from [Atizapenses] who claim that a dinosaur dedicated to…
