Listen up you clever little monkeys – the Tuesday news briefs are here!
- Intelligence exists only in the eye of the beholder: our human minds hold us back from truly understanding the many brilliant ways that other creatures solve their problems.
- An ancient library in Tibet is creating a digital archive of its 84,000 scriptures.
- Four years ago, mysterious metal monoliths began appearing all over the world, before suddenly stopping again. Another monolith has just been spotted in a Las Vegas valley.
- Planet Vulcan: the 19th century’s forgotten ninth planet, disproved by Albert Einstein.
- Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic.
- Is there life on one of Saturn’s moons? Scientists plan a mission to find out.
- Trump tells influencer Logan Paul that “pilots as ‘beautiful’ as Tom Cruise told me UFOs may exist. That’s a whole lot of stupid to pack into one headline.
- Neanderthal DNA sequences that have been found in less than 1 percent of people linked to autism.
- Study finds UFO witnesses may have personality traits that increase likelihood of sightings.
- The children who remember their past lives: why thousands of toddlers are being haunted by memories that aren’t theirs.
- What counts as consciousness? Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
Quote of the Day:
We are just a slightly advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet orbiting an average star. But we can understand the universe, and that makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking
