Stay calm and enjoy today’s Grail news briefs:
- The Flores Man ‘hobbits’ – are they still alive?
- Archaeologists say mysterious boats depicted in ancient North Australian rock art were likely warships from the Maluku Islands in modern-day Indonesia.
- Medieval Indian engineers in the 7th century built robots powered by water and clockwork.
- Related: A history of artificial intelligence, from ancient Babylon to Westworld.
- Mind-reading machines could lead to a major neuroscience breakthrough.
- Earth may have debris from alien star systems trapped in its orbit, new research suggests.
- Some conspiracy theorists think the International Space Station is actually underwater.
- 20 of the best conspiracy theories.
- The Tunguska event was the biggest asteroid impact in recorded history. How did it vanish without a trace?
- Glaciers are not devoid of life – tons of microbes lie dormant within the ice.
- World’s oldest Homo sapiens footprint identified on South Africa’s Cape south coast.
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Quote of the Day:
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
Arthur C. Clarke
