Today’s stories include the Oldest known solar system discovered just 90 light-years from Earth to the BBC on Why there’s more to being smart than intelligence –the story of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, and much more.
The missing plan to make contact with aliens first.BBC Future. “Finding life or making contact is always going to be highly unlikely until the day we do [it],” says John Zarnecki, emeritus professor of space sciences at the Open University in the UK. “It reminds me of exoplanets: as a young researcher, it was a topic we talked about, and we all suspected exoplanets were out there, but there was no way that we’d ever find one because it was technically far too difficult.”
Are there pro- and anti-UFO groups in government? It wouldn’t be the first time, reports The Hill. “Among several eyebrow-raising quotes, one source sharply criticized their Office of the Director of National Intelligence colleagues, stating, ‘They don’t want to talk about [UAP], because they really, really don’t know what the hell they are.’”
It looks like a Shell, but inside it’s an Octopus with 40,000 eggs.–Scientists are studying how the argonaut octopus evolved the ability to produce a floating shell-like structure to care for its offspring, reports New York Times Science.
Why there’s more to being smart than intelligenceBBC Future reports that this is the case. Multiple psychological factors are responsible for astonishing feats in creativity and insight. This is the story Richard Feynman’s Nobel Prize-winning quantum electrodynamics theory, which revolutionized the study subatomic particles. As a young child, “Ritty,” as he was known, struggled with literature and foreign languages. Ritty was awarded the top spot in the state’s annual math competition by the time he graduated high school.
How did the biological theory on evolution become so important in modern life? “In An Intimate History of Evolution, Alison Bashford traces the story from Charles Darwin’s 1859 book On the Origin of Species, through the rise of scientific naturalism in the 1860s and 1870s and the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1940s, all the way to transhumanism, the idea that the limits of our bodies might be transcended,” reports Nature.
Only 90 light-years away from Earth, relics of the oldest solar system known were discovered.Keith Cooper reports Space.com. This finding further supports the theory that rocky planets could have formed in large numbers in the distant past.
Scientists made a material that doesn’t exist on Earth. It’s called tetrataenite. Scientists have now found a way for it to be made in a lab. It could be used in industrial applications to make green energy more affordable. It could also shake the rare earths market, currently dominated mainly by China, and cause a seismic shift within the industrial balance between China-West.
Does a Quantum “Game” between Observer and Nature Define Existence?“The Debrief” asks. “For over a century, the quantum realm has imposed an abundance of bizarre obstacles along the road to understanding universal existence.”
Strange ways language affects our senses of time and spaceBBC Future reports that this is the case. “The languages we speak can have a surprising impact on the way we think about the world and even how we move through it.
Can a Chaotic Climate Drive Human Evolution –A new 620,000-year climate record from East Africa reveals dramatic swings between wet and dry conditions that may have influenced human evolution, reports EOS.
Shattered by Nazi Bombs, a Fossil’s Lost Copies Are Just Being Found–The first full ichthyosaur fossil was thought lost to the ravages of World War II. Researchers recently found a copy of the fossil, and more have begun to emerge, New York Times Science reports.
500 Million Year-Old Fossils Solve a Centuries Old Riddle in Evolution of Life on EarthSciTechDaily reports. “Scientists have finally solved a centuries-old riddle in the evolution of life on earth, revealing what the first animals to make skeletons looked like. This discovery was possible due to an exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province.”
Researchers Discovered A Mutation that Significantly Increases Your LifespanSciTechDaily reports that this is the case. According to the study, faulty RNA processing may lead to a longer life expectancy.
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