The big science news, as you've probably heard, is the discovery of gravitational waves that seem to confirm the "inflation" theory of the Big Bang.
This is highly technical stuff, and if I tried to explain it, I would get it wrong, since I don't understand it. Luckily it's been explained in layman's terms by a blogger who uses the sobriquet Ace of Spades (he usually writes about politics, but there's nothing political about the linked post). Ace insists repeatedly that he doesn't understand this stuff either; even so, he does a good job of dumbing it down for the rest of us.
Here's a cool photo, lifted from Ace's post, of the Antarctic research station that made the discovery.
What does this have to do with psi or an afterlife? Nothing directly, I guess; but any (additional) confirmation of the Big Bang is clearly relevant to the issue of the anthropic principle, which often comes up in connection with the question of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to the physical world.