🔎 The Curiosity Files #29

Curiously exploring the mysteries of our past, present, and future

“Curiosity is its own reason. Aren’t you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure behind reality?” Albert Einstein

Welcome to The Curiosity Files!

Twice a week, I’ll journey through the most fascinating discoveries across ancient history, human origins, space, consciousness, cutting-edge science and the unexplained.

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🔥 Top Stories

• Spanish drought reveals massive 140-stone megalith…

• 5,000-year-old fire altar uncovered at ancient ceremonial site in Peru…

• AI analysis shows some Dead Sea Scrolls are far older than believed…

• 6,200-year-old cone-headed skull from Iran shows signs of violent trauma…

• 6-million-year-old footprints in Greece challenge out-of-Africa timeline…

• Cosmic airburst crater found in Louisiana dates to Younger Dryas era…

• Earth’s worst solar storm struck over 14,000 years ago, study shows…

• Most powerful explosions since Big Bang detected in deep space…

• Does stinky phosphine hint at life in Venus’ clouds?

• Scientists measure subjective experience—qualia—for the first time…

• Left and right brain process speech in surprisingly different ways…

• How much energy does it take to think? New study measures brain effort…

• How the brain tells imagination from reality—new insights…

• Worms form living towers in bizarre example of natural cooperation…

• Chimpanzees drum rhythmically to communicate through forests…

• Declassified CIA report details children moving objects with their minds…

• Secret program claims aliens live on dark side of moon and “look like us”…

• Quantum computers begin to uncover secrets of particle physics…

• 19th-century math explains why our universe keeps getting more complex…

and much, much more….

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📖 Today’s Book

• Oxygen: The molecule that made the world by Nick Lane

  Oxygen takes the reader on an enthralling journey, as gripping as a thriller, as it unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death. The book explains far more than the size of ancient insects: it shows how oxygen underpins the origin of biological complexity, the birth of photosynthesis, the sudden evolution of animals, the need for two sexes, the accelerated ageing of cloned animals like Dolly the sheep, and the surprisingly long lives of bats and birds.

  

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