Got questions? You might find some answers in today’s news briefs!
- Mysterious Assyrian symbols found in temple may represent constellations, spelling out ancient king’s name in the stars.
- Most dementia patients ‘return’ before death and it’s unclear why.
- Bumblebees surprise us again: new study reveals their impressive cooperative skills.
- AI in space: renowned artificial intelligence researcher Andrej Karpathy suggests AI chatbots as interstellar messengers to alien civilizations.
- The diverse shamanisms of South America.
- Neuralink co-founder suggests he left Elon Musk’s brain interface company over safety concerns.
- Why Venus may be our best bet for finding life in the Solar System.
- First Americans came over in 4 different waves from Siberia, linguist argues.
- Japanese scientists are set to kick off the world’s first clinical trials of “tooth regrowth medicine“.
- No, the James Webb Space Telescope probably didn’t detect signs of alien life — but it soon could.
- Monitoring the heavens: Space Force has 1,000 ‘priority targets,’ 600 sensors.
- DARPA’s futuristic Manta Ray unmanned underwater vehicle sees first full-scale ocean testing.
Quote of the Day:
The subjectivity of consciousness is an irreducible feature of reality, and it must occupy as fundamental a place in any credible world view as matter, energy, space, time and numbers.
Thomas Nagel
