Who could have predicted it?! Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant device recently ran into some hiccups during its very first human trial. The Neuralink company, which is dabbling in the futuristic art of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), aims to let people control gadgets with their grey matter alone.

In a scientific development that sounds like it's been copied from the pages of a science fiction novel, researchers are entertaining the notion that our universe might have a shadowy counterpart — a parallel dimension where dark matter follows a bizarro version of our physical laws.