Space Battleship Yamato any moment now!
- Japan has become the fifth nation to land a functioning robot on the Moon – but the mission could fall short of complete success due to a problem with the lander’s power-generating solar cells.
- Japan start-up eyes fusion laser to shoot down space junk from the ground.
- 10,000-year-old burials from unknown hunter-gatherer group discovered in Brazil.
- Study finds Bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations.
- Is it ever ethical for museums to display human remains?
- How the supposedly ancient Kensington Runestone became inscribed with 19th-century runes.
- Mindfulness meditation often fails the scientific test.
- Winner of Japan’s top literary prize announces she used ChatGPT to write some of the novel.
- Sam Altman says AI is using too much energy, and so will require a breakthrough energy source. Or, y’know, maybe we don’t need AI?
- The vanishing star enigma and the 1952 Washington D.C. UFO wave.
- The Eye of the Sahara is a geological mystery ‘staring’ into space.
- Video of the Day: Watch 5,000 fire ants create a raft with their bodies to save their colony and queen from death by swimming pool.
Quote of the Day:
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.
Gene Roddenberry
