Mad science features aplenty in today’s Grail news briefs…
- Scientists create a hybrid brain fusing human neurons into baby rat brains.
- In other news: brain cells living in a dish have learned to play the classic computer game Pong, and scientists plan to get them drunk next.
- Skynet imminent: viral video shows China’s gun-toting robot dog getting dropped off by a drone.
- Swarmed Navy destroyer had its bridge illuminated by mystery drones.
- Is this company working with alien technology in Nevada?
- ‘Our patients aren’t dead’: Inside the cryogenic freezing facility with 199 humans on ice.
- Hyperrealistic reconstruction of the body under the Shroud of Turin to be exhibited in Spain.
- The US opts to not rebuild the famed Arecibo radio telescope.
- Could the discovery of alien life spark devastating war on Earth as nations fight over access to signals from outer space?
- A basic sense of numbers is shared by countless creatures.
- Prominent archaeologists call for Rosetta Stone to be returned to Egypt.
Quote of the Day:
I’m not concerned about machine minds becoming “AI overlords” or “Killer AI” or “Robot overlords,” I’m concerned about the values and beliefs of the human beings who design, build, train, and raise them.