This discovery hints at the potential of finding extraterrestrial life in places just as inhospitable to life as these caves.Alexander Van Driessche/Wikimedia Commons Giant crystals inside the Naica mine in Chihuahua, Mexico contain microbial life-forms that have been trapped for up to 50,000 years.
NASA scientists have discovered never-before-seen microbial life forms in crystal caves located deep below the surface in Mexico. Dormant for thousands of years, the researchers found the microbes hiding in tiny pockets of liquid buried inside the giant crystals residing within Mexico’s enormous Naica Mine. Read More...
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More than 50 years have passed since Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted several highly controversial experiments to determine just how far people would go in the name of following orders.
Now, a new study has built on Milgram’s experiments and come to a terrifying conclusion: 90 percent of participants would electrocute an innocent person simply because they were told to do so. The Milgram studies found a large proportion of participants willing to obey such instructions way back then, and the same apparently holds true after all these years. Read More...
Before his death in March 2024 at the age of 78, Paul Alexander earned a law degree, wrote a memoir, and rose to fame on social media — all while using an iron lung to breathe.The life of Paul Alexander could easily be viewed as one of tragedy: A man who could not breathe on his own, paralyzed from the neck down for seven decades due to polio. However, Alexander never let his polio or his iron lung stand in the way of him living his life. Read More...
