In this video, I’m counting down 5 Weird Alien Tech Sci-Fi You Need to Read—plus a few honourable mentions—for fans of mind-bending, physics-breaking, utterly baffling extraterrestrial inventions.
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A Death Doula’s Guide to Consciousness After Death with Mayim & Jonathan.
In this powerful and emotional Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown episode, licensed end-of-life counselor and death doula Dr. Martha Jo Atkins explores consciousness after death and what truly happens when we die. Drawing on decades of guiding people through their final moments, she reveals the spiritual, biological, emotional, and psychological changes that occur when consciousness leaves the body—offering profound insights into life after death and the mysteries of the dying process.
You’ll hear jaw-dropping stories of deathbed visions, including dream shifts, visits from deceased loved ones, and shared death experiences where relatives actually feel what the dying person is experiencing. Dr. Atkins shares what she’s witnessed that made her believe in the afterlife, what understanding death can teach us about living, and her own supernatural encounters—from speaking to deceased loved ones in dreams to eerie hospice hauntings.
Dr. Atkins also breaks down:
- Why we’re so afraid to talk about death—and how doing so makes us more human.
- How sensory perception shifts as people begin to let go, and the signs that death is near.
- The difference between a natural death and dying before your time—and what that means for the soul’s journey.
- Could Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy help us process grief in healthier ways?
- Why presence matters most in a loved one’s final days.
- How our treatment of elders reflects our values as a society, and why end-of-life care matters deeply.
Plus, Mayim opens up about the raw, painful, yet beautiful experience of caregiving for her father in his final days.
Whether you’re grieving, caregiving, or simply seeking answers to what happens when we die, or wondering what leaves the body when we die, this episode offers rare wisdom and comfort for life’s most inevitable transition.
In a new study published in Nature Physics, scientists have achieved the first experimental observation of phonon angular momentum in chiral crystals.
Phonons are the quantized lattice vibrations representing sound and heat in crystals. Theoretically, phonons have been predicted to carry finite angular momentum with potentially remarkable macroscopic consequences.
The famous Einstein-de Haas effect explains how quantum mechanical spin connects to classical angular momentum when a ferromagnetic cylinder rotates under magnetic fields. While this effect has been known for over a century, the phonon version had remained purely theoretical until now.
Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an explanation for one of the strangest stellar explosions ever seen.
The discovery was made by a team led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as part of the Young Supernova Experiment. The results are published in The Astrophysical Journal.
The blast, named SN 2023zkd, was first discovered in July 2023 by the Zwicky Transient Facility. A new AI algorithm designed to scan for unusual explosions in real time first detected the explosion, and that early alert allowed astronomers to begin follow-up observations immediately—an essential step in capturing the full story of the explosion. By the time the explosion was over, it had been observed by a large set of telescopes, both on the ground and from space.
Using NASA’s Chandra and ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatories, Indian astronomers have explored the population of ultraluminous X-ray sources in the galaxy NGC 5813, which resulted in the detection of a new source of this type. Results of the observational campaign were published August 7 on the pre-print server arXiv.
The next time you breathe, consider this: Photosynthesis of algae, powered by iron dust in the ocean, made it possible.
Now, a Rutgers University study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pulls back the curtain on this vital process.
Iron is a critical micronutrient for marine phytoplankton, the microscopic algae that form the foundation of the ocean’s food webs. It is deposited into the world’s oceans as dust from deserts and arid areas as well as from glacial meltwater.
Farmers might be able to get help tending and harvesting crops using a new sensing technology from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI). Researchers have invented a tool called SonicBoom that can find crops like apples based on the sound they make. The novel technology, still in the early stages of development, may someday be used by farm robots for tasks like pruning vines or locating ripe apples hidden among the leaves.
“Even without a camera, this sensing technology could determine the 3D shape of things just by touching,” said Moonyoung (Mark) Lee, a fifth-year Ph.D. student in robotics.
A paper describing this technology appears in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.