You have passed Go – collect your Grail news briefs:
- That time physicists were tasked with beating gravity.
- What we actually know about aliens, according to science.
- The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans. Because they have apparently never read or watched any science fiction?
- World’s oldest pyramid found not in Egypt or Americas, but in Indonesia.
- Contra: Is the oldest pyramid in Indonesia? Archaeologist Bill Farley offers his thoughts on the new paper about Gunung Padang.
- A Scottish boy digging for potatoes found a ‘masterpiece of Egyptian sculpture’ on his school grounds. How did it end up there?
- The hunt for extraterrestrial life in Alpha Centauri.
- These eerie photos are the only ones ever taken on Venus.
- Related: Remember that time Russian scientists found scorpions on Venus?
- How AI and quantum physics link up to consciousness.
- One dose CRISPR therapy cuts cholesterol by up to 55%.
- Image of the Day: Dust jet on the surface of a comet.
Quote of the Day:
Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness.
Graham Hancock
