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In a world first, NASA has crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – is meant to test one potential approach that could prevent an asteroid from colliding with Earth. David Barnhart is a professor of astronautics at the University of Southern California and director of the Space Engineering Research Center there. He watched NASA’s live stream of the successful mission…
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Russian scientists claim to have discovered and decipher a message from the constellation Canis Major, reports kp.ru. “It is naive to expect radio broadcasts from brothers in mind: civilizations that are far ahead of us in development, probably own some other means of communication – more advanced than electromagnetic ones,” – says Nina Sokulina, candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences, head of research. In fact, if the addressee is tens, hundreds, or even thousands of…
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This article is more than one year old. Ghost Hunting Tools is a popular paranormal app but it comes with a disclaimer. It’s stated on the app stores that both the Android and iPhone version are intended for entertainment purposes only and do not provide true ghost hunting functionality. But despite this disclaimer the app still manages to spit out some uncannily fitting results, so if there’s no ghost hunting functionality at play here, then…
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Nearly 30 girls in Colombia were taken to the hospital earlier this month after playing with a Ouija board, according to a report from Jam Press. The students had reportedly suffered anxiety attacks after using the divinatory device at school. “There were 28 possible cases of anxiety in school students,” said Hugo Torres, head of the Galeras Educational Institution in Galeras, Colombia, where the incident took place. The girls reportedly suffered from fainting, anxiety, and…
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In this series, I take a look at some historical accounts of ghostly encounters published in newspapers. While the following is not a ghost story as such, it deals with spiritualism and psychic mediumship from the streets of Melbourne way back in 1882. Spiritualist L Morgan supposedly was able to gain knowledge from the spirits as to who the winner of the Caulfield Cup would be in great detail and it turns out, he was…