- AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames. How far they’ve come in 40 years…
- Could we all be psychic? Research suggests that our brain acts as a filter that limits our psi abilities.
- Iconic sarsen stones of Stonehenge may have come from 120 kilometres away.
- Neolithic ‘plastered skulls’ have been found across the Middle East, and we don’t know why.
- Judge sets April hearing on release request from woman involved in ‘Slender Man’ attack as a child.
- Related: The Slender Man – the origin and evolution of a modern monster legend.
- On knowing who he was: Alan Watts, for all his faults, was a wildly imaginative and provocative thinker who reimagined religion in a secular age.
- “We know what ‘foo fighters’ that buzzed Second World War pilots really were”, say scientists.
- ‘It’s getting closer and closer for sure.’ How SETI is expanding its search for alien intelligence.
- Hidden DNA found in blue whales reveals they’ve been mating with other species — and their hybrid offspring.
- Tesla’s pigeon: How the great inventor fell for a bird.
- Three students reveal secrets of 2,000-year-old scroll in breakthrough discovery.
Quote of the Day:
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
Frank Herbert (‘Dune’)
