It’s Friday, time to party (unless you can’t)!
- Can lucid dreaming be harmful?
- Here are the major takeaways you (might have) missed from the recent US Senate hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena.
- Related: Musings on the AARO UFO hearing.
- Scientists recording ocean sounds picked up a mysterious ‘buzz’ they can’t identify.
- The first private Moon landing attempt has ended in failure.
- A sapphire Schrödinger’s cat shows that quantum effects can scale up to the macro world.
- Why Schrödinger’s Cat is still the most controversial thought experiment in science.
- Rosalind Franklin knew DNA was a helix before Watson and Crick, unpublished material reveals.
- Specter of ‘Soylent Green’ raised in legislative debate over human composting, which proponents say is an eco-friendly way to deal with remains.
- Peter Thiel’s Palantir demos an AI to fight wars but says it will be totally ethical don’t worry about it.
- China is building cyberweapons to hijack adversaries’ satellites, says US leak.
- Four incredible objects that made science history.
- 2,600-year-old stone busts of ‘lost’ ancient Tartessos people discovered in sealed pit in Spain.
- Image of the Day: Paris Moon.
Quote of the Day:
All things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe.
John Wheeler
