Don’t be scared, it’s just the Wednesday Grail news briefs!
- The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’.
- Why so many of us see our loved ones after they have died.
- Trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida.
- 130,000-year-old stingray sand ‘sculpture’ on South Africa’s coast may be oldest example of humans creating an image of another creature.
- ‘Serious risks’: Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI develops voice cloning tool that works with just 15 seconds of sample audio.
- What’s so bad about asking where humans came from?
- Are neurons required for cognition and memory?
- The rise and fall of the jetpack.
- What are some of the world’s oldest megalithic structures?
- The most dazzling eclipse in the universe – did the bizarre cosmic coincidence of our Moon and Sun being the same relative size in the sky drive humans toward science?
- Video of the Day: Watch a 124-year-old video of a solar eclipse.
Quote of the Day:
Once we’re prepared to admit that after all we’re not the only beings with personalities, minds, and above all feelings, and when we start to think about the ways we use and abuse so many other sentient, sapient creatures on this planet, it really gives cause for deep shame.
