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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
Violent Deaths Said to Bring Swifter Rebirths, Virginia Study Claims
Researchers at the University of Virginia report a small but statistically significant link between sudden death and a shorter wait for reincarnation, while stressing that the evidence falls short of proof.
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Scientists Devise Test for Mirror Life Before Any Such Creature Exists
Researchers in Scotland and England propose using circularly polarized light to spot organisms built from reversed molecules, none of which are known to have been made.
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Dancing Plague, Duelling Magicians and Possible Trees Mistaken for Earhart's Plane
The Daily Grail's roundup of October 21 ranges from Maltese stone tracks to a computer built from living human brain cells.
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Brain Cells Read Braille, Neanderthal Bears Old Wound, and a Green Star Appears
The Debrief's weekly roundup reports on lab-grown brain tissue, a 75,000-year-old skeleton from Iraqi Kurdistan, and white dwarfs in unexpected colors.
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Government UAP Science Chief Suggests Mystery Dots May Simply Be Birds
Avi Loeb's first paper for the advisory council reports that brightness flicker in a declassified infrared video matches bird wingbeat rates.
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Podcast Turns to Reincarnation Records as Author Recalls Son's Fear of Booming Sounds
Season 3 of The Telepathy Tapes opens with researcher Carol Bowman, who says a child's talk of a former life eased his terror.
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University Researchers Said to Find New Correlation in Possible Reincarnation Cases
A post on r/HighStrangeness points to a study whose senior author reportedly says skeptics' explanations do not hold up against the data.
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Scientists Rehearse for a Second Tunguska, Though the Rock Has Not Yet Been Named
A NASA risk specialist says the 2027 Planetary Defense Conference exercise will center on a hypothetical Tunguska-sized object, and that uncertainties remain large.
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Bristol Scientists Teach Dish of Human Brain Cells to Read Braille, With Caveats
Three lab-grown organoids, working in concert, identified Braille letters with 83 percent accuracy, according to a new paper.
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Hobbyist Wires Circuit to Houseplants, Wonders Whether the Leaves Are Saying Something
A poster on r/Experiencers reports that sounds drawn from plants' electrical signals shifted with touch and sometimes seemed to follow no pattern at all.
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Green Star Found 326 Light-Years Distant; Sodium Blamed for Ghostly Hue
Astronomers report a white dwarf whose atmosphere absorbs orange light, leaving the object glowing an unusual green.
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Reddit Poster Asks Whether Moon's 'Wave' Looks Too Digital to Be Real
A user on r/HighStrangeness wonders aloud about a recorded lunar ripple and whether the Moon itself might be fake.
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Green Star, Long Thought Impossible, Is Found Among the Dead Suns
Astronomers report the first known white dwarf that would appear green to the human eye, along with pink, cyan, yellow and purple cousins.
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Magicians' Tricks and a Candle Flame Raise Old Questions About Whether Mind Shapes Matter
A digest item pairs a Madrid study of magic tricks with a Noetic Sciences experiment in which observers allegedly dimmed a flame by intention.
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Astronomers Say Odd Marks on Old Star Plates May Track Atomic Tests
Beatriz Villarroel and Stephen Bruehl argue that a link between nuclear testing and transient plate markings points to an intelligence watching Earth, according to a digest of recent coverage.
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Wiltshire Wheat Field Said to Bear Warning in Molecular Script
A Reddit user argues the 2011 Roundway Hill crop circle depicts melatonin and was meant to alert humanity to herbicide residues in wheat.
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Tiny Lord of the Plankton Sets Record for Smallest Genome Among Its Kind
Researchers report an archaeon with only 189 protein-coding genes, a creature never seen under a microscope and named for a thumb-sized Japanese deity.
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Magnetic Field in Solar Wind Found to Reverse Its Spin at a Certain Scale
An international team reports that turbulent plasma sampled by the Parker Solar Probe changes its direction of magnetic rotation, and that the point of change drifts with distance from the Sun.
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Congressman Sees Propaganda Stakes in UFO Transparency as Rivals Said to Eye 'Arms Race'
Rep. Eric Burlison suggests openness about unidentified phenomena could burnish America's reputation, while researchers trade notes on birds, sensors and Norwegian lights.
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Student Wakes at Rear of Bus After Boarding at Front; CCTV Sides Against Memory
A university commuter says she was certain she sat behind the driver, but onboard footage reportedly shows otherwise.
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Water Clouds Observed Thickening and Thinning on Frigid World 7.5 Light-Years Distant
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report the first direct confirmation of variable water clouds beyond our solar system, on the coldest known brown dwarf.
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Stalled Exeter Train Of 1841 Was Really A Train Of 1848, Researchers Find
An international team says a typographical error in an 1871 Nature article hid the true date of an early solar disruption of railway telegraphs.
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Government UFO Documents Released Without Context; Further Records Said to Be Under Compilation
Investigative journalist George Knapp reports that the Defense Intelligence Agency has begun gathering older files to fill gaps left by the recent releases.
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Reddit Poster Links Grusch Radio Remarks on Ocean Bases to Anonymous 4chan Claims
A user on r/UFOs asks fellow enthusiasts whether a viral podcast interview strengthens the case of the so-called 4chan whistleblower.
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NASA Backs Expedition to Plumb Mysterious Pit on the Moon
A project named GIMLI would combine radar, seismic and gravity instruments to learn whether the Marius Hills Pit leads to a lunar cave system.
