Today’s Grail news briefs are mercifully free of poetry…
- Archaeologists found someone they never expected in an ancient Chinese tomb: a blonde man.
- Extraterrestrial tongues: Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages.
- Modern alchemy: The world’s largest atom smasher turned lead into gold — and then destroyed it in an instant.
- Ghost in the machine? How a ‘haunted’ N64 video game cartridge terrified children around the world.
- AI reveals title of ‘unreadable’ Vesuvius scroll for first time. (Archived page link)
- The new pope wants to take on AI, saying it is a challenge to ‘human dignity’.
- A Millennial saint: The canonization of Carlo Acutis.
- Archaeologists explored secret mountain rooms – and found ancient psychedelic paraphernalia.
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is adding facial recognition to its smart glasses.
- Visit the Arctic vault holding back-ups of great works.
- A rogue black hole of unusual size is devouring stars in a distant galaxy.
- Neuralink patient with ALS edits and narrates video using only his brain in historic first.
- Anti-government group threatens crucial weather radars, NOAA warns. (Archived page link)
Quote of the Day:
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
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