EARS TO THE SKY: China is building the world’s largest radio telescope in the hopes of detecting messages from intelligent life outside our galaxy. To make way for the giant alien eavesdropper, 9,110 residents of Guizhou’s Pingtang and Luodian counties will be relocated.

RELATIVITY GAINS RELEVANCE: Einstein can rest easy. A team of scientists have fulfilled the last prediction of his general theory of relativity. The researchers successfully recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, confirming Einstein’s vision of a universe in which space and time are dynamic, and...well, relative.

BIG BROTHER: The European Sentinel-3A satellite hitched a ride into orbit on a Russian rocket, making it the third in a network of twelve crafts that will be able to detect various environmental changes and provide early warnings of possible migrant flows.

ALL THAT GLITTERS ISN'T GOLD: Turkish police fired tear gas at demonstrators who had set up barricades to protest the construction of a gold mine in the ecologically pristine region of Artvin near the Black Sea.

DIRTY DEEDS: A U.S. antiques dealer plead guilty to trafficking elephant tusks, valued at $140,000. Upon further investigation, state officials found evidence that the 77-year-old dealer has illegally traded in approximately $350,000 of wildlife products.