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They Claimed Aliens Abducted Them in New Hampshire. Under Hypnosis, They Recounted What Happened.
The trip had all the makings of a boring car ride—until the couple saw mysterious lights approaching from the sky. Getty Images It was a temperate summer evening on September 19, 1961, when husband-and-wife duo Barney and Betty Hill embarked on their drive home to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after a brief stay in Montreal, Canada. Their nighttime journey southward on Route…
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A Bizarre New Form of Dark Matter Could Uncover the Mysteries of Gravity—And Our Universe
This cosmic scavenger hunt just got even wilder. Getty Images For centuries, scientists have been hunting for an invisible glue that many believe holds our cosmos together. They have yet to observe this “dark matter,” but there are convincing signs it exists; the effects of the gravity it creates on nearby objects can be observed, for example. Learning more could be the key…
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Psychedelics Could Switch On a New Form of Consciousness, Opening Your ‘Mind’s Eye’
“As a neuroscientist, I’m encouraged that this could be a window into how your brain generates consciousness through your lived reality.” Getty Images As a cognitive neuroscientist, part of my research involves studying how the brain creates visual representations of the world—both the real world and the world that exists only in our imaginations: made up of memories, daydreams, or future plans.…
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Archaeologists Found the Lost ‘Book of the Dead’ Buried in an Egyptian Cemetery
They couldn’t get it on Amazon. Ancient Egyptians built burials for the next world with the same seriousness they brought to this one: canopic jars for preserved organs, amulets for protection, ushabti figures for labor in the afterlife, and, for some people, funerary papyri carrying spells from what modern scholars call the Book of the Dead. In central Egypt’s Al-Ghuraifa…
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The Allendale Wolf, a beast remembered in fire
A killer wolf once stalked the quiet Northumberland village of Allendale, and its fiery legend still burns today, writes GAYLE FIDLER Allendale is a rural, picturesque village near the market town of Hexham in Northumberland. The area has a long mining history, which began to decline by the end of the 19th century. It is now a popular tourist destination, with Hexham…
