This Week in Space: Insight News, the ISS Dodges Debris, and NASA Picks Its UFO Team  ExtremeTech

Well, if the Denisovans and Neanderthals were so smart, then why are they dead? Probably because scurrilous H. sapiens ripped off their advanced technology to use it against ’em. Noted Homo sapien Joel Hruska takes a moment to illustrate our species’s crowning achievement this side of the smartphone. Much like this 50,000-Year Old, Tar-Smeared Tool […]

ExtremeTech NASA Shares Photo of 'Flying Saucer' CrashExtremeTechNASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day has been operating for years, but something odd appeared in the feed recently. A photo entitled “Flying Saucer Crash Lands in Utah Desert” hit the internet, and it does look a bit like the traditional flying saucer UFO.and more »

Materialist analogies aside, Graham Templeton explores the curious region of the brain known as the claustrum. Scientists have been tickling and poking it, with surprising results, but is the brain merely slipping into neutral or does the signal wait for the receiver to flick back on? Such are the vagaries of this new frontier described […]