So glad you could make it for the Friday news briefs…
- LK-99: Excitement rises over possibly revolutionary ‘miracle material’ – but there is still no good reason to believe it exists.
- Also: DIY scientists and institutions are racing to replicate the room-temperature superconductor findings.
- Scientists control human DNA with electricity in ‘leap foward’, study reports.
- Related? This researcher has cracked the bioelectric code of the body and learned to reprogram it.
- How genetic surprises complicate the old doctrine of DNA.
- Eager for a mind-bending trip? A ‘psychedelic concierge’ can help.
- How we’ll find the first evidence of extraterrestrial life.
- Another robust phosphine signal from the clouds of Venus significantly bolsters case for alien life.
- Related, from 2020: Scientists appear to have found evidence for life on Venus.
- SETI Institute shreds UFO whistleblower’s claims about alien corpses.
- Is “groupthink” in science a problem or a myth?
- Video of the Day: How might the dreamworlds of other animals differ from our own?
Quote of the Day:
Everyone, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson