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Mark Blunden and Rachelle Abbott

OPINION - UFOs ‘defy physics and fly underwater’: Tech & Science Daily podcast

The truth about UFOs is out there, according to a congressman who claims he’s seen classified footage of physics-defying alien craft.

Republican Tim Burchett, sits on the House Oversight Committee probing UFO sightings, told the Event Horizon podcast he believes these extra-terrestrial ships can travel at light speed while not leaving heat trails and even fly underwater.

It comes after a Pentagon whistleblower claimed America runs a long-standing, top-secret UFO retrieval programme, including discovery of “non-human intelligence”.

Hear how Star Wars sounds played purely by plant power - as part of a digital organic orchestra created by Royal College of Art masters graduate Feiyang Xia, who was inspired to get city-dwellers outside more and boost mental health.

The artist built a microcontroller-based cube and sensors wedged into the ground to detect plants’ tiny bioelectrical voltage changes, which are connected to a pulsing 3D-printed ‘breath ball’ that helps with meditation guidance.

Pine trees were found to sound much like a cello, while bluebells have an ethereal timbre and Feiyang turned this digital information into Midi data for playing through a synthesiser.

Scientists have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope.

The CEERS 1019 galaxy - CEERS stands for Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science - existed about 570 million years after the Big Bang.

Plus, Twitter’s legal row with Meta over Threads app, future of Wikipedia fears in Online Safety Bill, Cabinet Office told to release Johnson’s Covid WhatsApp messages, PlayStation 5 Slim leak and the science behind how board games help children learn maths.

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