Well, there goes another week – let’s finish it off right with the Friday news briefs…
- Could we probe an interstellar object before it zips out of our solar system?
- Secrets of a vanished civilization before the Inca revealed in newly discovered lost temple.
- Elon Musk has failed in his bid to trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’.
- Psychedelics can quickly reorganize our brain functions, offering promise for lasting therapeutic approaches.
- The AI doomsday machine is closer to reality than you think.
- Xi and Putin discuss organ transplants and immortality in hot mic moment.
- The places where hearing voices is seen as a good thing.
- A new major trial shows that this common heart attack drug may actually be worthless for most people.
- Archaeologists uncover a network of secret tunnels under 4,500-year-old Chinese city, redefining the history of ancient China.
- Why this 17-year-old girl can’t forget: Some people have extraordinary powers of mental time travel. (Archived page link)
- ‘Almost unimaginable’: Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
- Techno-pipe dreams: Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything – let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking.
Quote of the Day
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
