The brightest gamma-ray explosion ever caught on record, which was so bright it blinded scientific instruments, just got weirder.

GRB 221,009, first spotted in October 2022, outshone other cosmic explosions on record by “not just a little bit, but a hundred times,” George Washington University graduate student Brendan O’Connor said in a press release.

The explosion earned the nickname BOAT for “Brightest of All Time.”

Octopuses use RNA editing to rapidly respond to environmental temperature changes. The finding may influence RNA editing therapeutics in humans.

A vast fungal web braids together life on Earth. Merlin Sheldrake wants to help us see it.

Something had to diverge from the trunk eventually.

Las Vegas police officers investigated reports of two unknown entities falling from the sky on the same night in late April that a family reported something ‘not human’ in their backyard.

One officer drove to a home on the night of April 30 and interviewed the family who called 911 after making the sighting, according to body camera footage obtained by USA TODAY. One of the family members told the officer they saw “a big creature” that was “long, 10 feet tall.”

The officer told the family he was looking into the claims because another officer saw something in the sky that matched the family’s description eight minutes earlier.

A new study looks at people’s views of kindness, respect and honesty around the world and over seven decades.

To despair over oneself, in despair to want to be rid of oneself, is the formula for all despair.

Spiral

How does Walter Benjamin use the insights of Marxism and theology to conceptualize history and the future?