Watch Mars ‘Livestreamed’ to If the Government Has UFO Crash Materials, It’s Time to Reveal Them

This weekend’s stories include: Carl Sagan's bizarre theory in The Dragons of Eden about the reptilian ancestry of our brain and It took 150 million years for feathered dinosaurs to master flight.

Watch Mars ‘livestream’ by the European Space Agency – latest updates--The European Space Agency is about to attempt the first ever livestream from another planet - although the distance from Earth to Mars means there will be a short delay in broadcasting, reports New Scientist. 

Stephen Hawking's most famous prediction could mean that everything in the universe is doomed to evaporate, new study says reports Ben Turner for Live Science--"A new theory has radically revised Stephen Hawking's 1974 theory of black holes to predict that all objects with mass may eventually disappear."

May's Best Space Images --"Scientists used a radio observatory to peer below the clouds of Uranus and capture signs of a strong cyclone at the planet’s north pole. Here are five more images from May. NASA/JPL-Caltech/VLA.

Carl Sagan's bizarre theory in The Dragons of Eden about the reptilian ancestry of our brain--he developed the rest of his discussion around this idea without any indication of the status of the theory. He cites just enough people who have worked with these ideas to create an atmosphere of respectability, but he fails to indicate what objections there are, what alternative theories might have to offer, or the general degree of the theory’s acceptance by physiologists, psychologists, or anthropologists.”

Boeing and NASA Delay Launch of Starliner Astronaut Spacecraft Again, reports Michael Roston for the New York Times."Officials from NASA and Boeing announced during a news conference on Thursday that the Starliner spacecraft’s first crewed flight to the International Space Station, scheduled for July 21, had been delayed.The decision came after engineers discovered two new problems with the Boeing spacecraft: an issue with its parachutes, and potentially flammable tape that covers internal wiring.

How Did Birds First Take Off?--It took 150 million years for feathered dinosaurs to master flight and become the birds we see overhead today, reports Carl Zimmer for The New York Times.

If the Government Has UFO Crash Materials, It’s Time to Reveal Them--The benefits to humanity outweigh the fear of discovering we’re not alone in the universe, reports Christopher Mellon, a private equity investor, a research affiliate with Harvard University’s Galileo Project, and a senior advisor to Americans for Safe Aerospace. He is a former minority staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee and former deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Intelligence for Politico.