Crash land your way into the weekend with the Friday Grail news briefs…
- Ancient people claimed to hear the Northern Lights pop and fizz – and the legends are true, scientists say.
- Daily Grail readers would already be familiar with this – see this article from 2021 for instance.
- Could the Epic of Gilgamesh, previously attributed to the Sumerians around 4,000 years ago, date back more than 10,000 years?
- Study links moderate awe in psychedelic ayahuasca journeys to better well-being.
- Unreal amber fossils show ‘Last of Us’ zombie fungus terrorizing bugs 99 million years ago.
- On June 26, 1284, 130 children were disappeared by the ‘Pied Piper of Hamelin’ – take a look at the history and myths behind this famous story.
- Is gravity just entropy rising? A long-shot idea gets another look.
- Work has begun on a controversial project to create artificial human DNA from scratch.
- 40,000-year-old mammoth tusk boomerang is the oldest discovered in Europe — and possibly the world.
- New ‘breathalyzer’ could detect signs of disease in human breath, scientists say.
- Consciousness is the ‘hard problem’, the one that confounds science and philosophy. Has a new theory cracked it?
- The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, and snapped its picture .
- In the search for alien signals, the SETI Institute is partnering with SpaceX to mitigate satellite interference.
- Video of the Day: ChatGPT is becoming a religion.
Quote of the Day
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
Sydney J. Harris
