If Elon Musk can just find a way to power the world on pure cringe, he’s gonna be our saviour…
- New multispectral analysis of Voynich manuscript reveals hidden details.
- Man finds unusual spherical structure while browsing Google Maps – it could be a huge discovery.
- When will humanity become a Type I civilization? A new paper that explores our limits.
- “She convinces us that magic lives in our world” – a look back at Susanna Clarke’s classic Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, 20 years after its original publication.
- Related: Be sure to check out John Reppion’s wonderful 5-part series looking at the folkloric and magical ideas in Strange and Norrell.
- Researchers gave a mushroom a robot body. So we’re just gonna start mashing up Terminator and The Last of Us zombies?
- JWST finds distant galaxy with an “impossible light signature”.
- ‘Remarkable’ 1,000-year-old ring from Scotland’s ‘painted people’ found at destroyed fort.
- An existential mystery: do animals know that they will die? (Non-subscriber link)
- NASA postpones upcoming Mars mission, citing delays with Jeff Bezos’s big rocket.
- When was the last time Antarctica was ice-free?
Quote of the Day:
Man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
