Kick back and enjoy the Friday news briefs before you party like a god all weekend…
- Paper claiming Gunung Padang in Indonesia is “world’s oldest pyramid” retracted by the peer-reviewed journal that published it.
- Doubts grow about the biosignature approach to alien-hunting.
- What’s this buzz about bees having culture? Inside a groundbreaking experiment.
- 7,000-year-old neolithic boats were incredibly sophisticated and surprisingly modern.
- Related: Archaeologists have discovered that humans and Neanderthals sailed the Mediterranean at least 130,000 years ago.
- China wants to fire astronauts into space using an electromagnetic railgun.
- Betelgeuse’s mysterious spin could be a cosmic illusion caused by its enormous ‘boiling’ surface.
- On the road to redemption: what psychedelics legalisation and decriminalisation looks like around the world.
- The Lindbergh baby kidnapping: a grisly theory and a renewed debate.
- Cutting back on one amino acid increases lifespan of mice up to 33%.
- How logic and reasoning can fail as scientific tools – our absurd Universe often defies our intuitive reasoning.
- “Like using the force”: Neuralink brain chip patient demonstrates ‘telepathy’ in livestream.
- Space makes noise – and here’s the eerie song an eclipse sings.
- Vernor Vinge, influential sci-fi author who warned of AI ‘Singularity,’ has died aged 79.
Quote of the Day:
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
Vernor Vinge (1993)
