Happy holidays to all – daily news briefs might be a little sporadic for the next week as we recharge our batteries for 2023!
- The last vital ingredient for life has been discovered on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
- Seeking immortality in space.
- Longtermism: why the million-year philosophy can’t be ignored.
- Are you living in a simulation? The strange reason you’ll never have the answer.
- For millennia, people slept in two shifts – why did the habit disappear?
- Meet Ramesses II: Scientists reconstruct the ‘handsome’ face of ancient Egypt’s most powerful pharaoh for the first time in 3,200 years.
- These ancient stone weapons may link the ice age peoples of North America and Northeast Asia.
- Holy fire disease: The hidden illness that’s plagued humanity for a millennium.
- Software lets researchers create tiny rounded objects out of DNA – here’s why that’s cool.
- The biggest science news stories of 2022 as chosen by New Scientist.
- These science discoveries from 2022 could be game changers.
Quote of the Day:
It’s a dangerous thing, to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth.
Benoit Blanc (in ‘Glass Onion’)