Sing it loud – the Wednesday Grail news briefs are worth reading beginning to end!
- Underworld discovery casts doubt on our understanding of human evolution: did an extinct ‘small-brained ape-man’ species develop a sophisticated culture millennia before we did?
- New evidence suggests the world’s largest known asteroid impact structure is buried deep in southeast Australia.
- 100-year-long ‘megastorms’ on Saturn are creating radio signals that scientists can’t fully explain.
- The truth about Poland’s ‘anti-vampire’ graves.
- Scientists recreate classic Pink Floyd track from the brains of listeners.
- Harvard professor says god-like aliens may be creating universes in labs.
- Even synthetic life forms with a tiny genome can evolve, researchers find.
- What’s the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas?
- Archaeologists refute claims that a comet destroyed Hopewell culture.
- Strange hexagonal patterns discovered on Mars offer tantalizing new evidence for ancient life on the Red Planet.
- ‘Hyper-synchronized’ brain waves may explain why different psychedelics have similar effects, study reveals.
- A big freeze previously unknown to science drove early humans from Europe for 200,000 years, but they adapted and returned, new research shows.
- Room temperature superconductivity is hard – ‘miracle material’ LK-99 illustrates why.
- Conspiracy theorists think the government used lasers to start Maui wildfires on purpose.
Thanks to @FringeQuest.
Quote of the Day:
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
Carl Sagan
