Is Technology Driving a New Era of Cults?

When many of us think of cults, we think of the more than 900 followers of Jim Jones, who willingly committed mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid simply because he instructed them to do so. Or maybe even the members of Heaven's Gate who died in another mass suicide trying to catch an extraterrestrial spacecraft they believed was following the Hale-Bopp comet. But a new kind of cult might be emerging — one that uses technology to gain believers. See more

Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua Has Loads More to Tell Us

When interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua was seen speeding out of our solar system last October, astronomers knew it was something special. Traveling too fast to be captured by our sun's gravity, the strangely elongated asteroid obviously didn't originate in our interplanetary neighborhood. But how 'Oumuamua left its home star system is a puzzle that astronomers are just beginning to understand and, in doing so, they're getting a unique look into how planets may form around other stars. See More

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Medieval Coffin Yields Fascinating Skeleton

It's really too bad about the Middle Ages. They were doing the best they could, bless them, but sometimes you hear about the medical procedures people had to endure back then, and... well, it's awful. Whatever medical dramas we go through today, we should occasionally take a moment to remember the people who died because they lived in a time when cutting-edge science prescribed drilling a hole in a woman's head to treat a common, if serious, pregnancy-related illness. See More >>>