The cyber-security researcher was on a plane, about 20 minutes from its destination, Amsterdam, when it started. Fear gripped her. She knew immediately that something was wrong with her pacemaker, the...
He discovered that speakers of futureless languages were more likely to engage in future-focused activities. They were 31% more likely to have put money into savings in any given year and had accumula...
Things start to get really strange, however, when looking at what happens in the minds of people who speak more than one language fluently. "With bilinguals, you are literally looking at two different...
It's more likely that we would receive signs and signals from technologically advanced civilisations than receive an alien visit. If we received signs, there would not be any great urgency, because an...
"There wouldn't be any precedent or legal background for there to be responsibility," Stuart says, adding that if a UFO had been shot down and landed in a nation state, there may be a case that the co...
But according to the Drake equation, there’s a decent chance, statistically speaking, that intelligent extraterrestrials are out there somewhere – even if the stars would have to align for...
"It's all very game of thrones," said del Valle with a laugh. "The history of Val d'Aran can be simplified to fighting and then negotiating. Always trying to remain independent. But we weren't quite a...
Nonetheless, on arrival into Jungholz, a different message is proclaimed vividly in Germanic script on a gable-end mural on one of the first farmhouses visitors see when crossing the German-Austrian b...
After the war, the area saw action of another sort. Locals found they could make a tidy profit by smuggling coffee beans from Belgium into Germany, where the prices were three times higher, giving the...
Today, one of the enclaves created by the Vennbahn covers just 1.5 hectares and contains a single farm. Others include small towns or sections of villages, the biggest covering about 1,800 hectares. ...