Two surveys of millions of stars in our galaxy have revealed mysterious spikes in infrared heat coming from dozens of them. Astronomers say this could be evidence for alien civilisations harnessing energy from their stars by using a vast construction known as a Dyson sphere – although they can’t fully rule out more mundane...
Denver experimented with giving people $1,000 a month. It reduced homelessness and increased full-time employment, a study found. (www.businessinsider.com)
$750 a month was given to homeless people in California. What they spent it on is more evidence that universal basic income works. (www.businessinsider.com)
Exxon says world set to fail 2°C global warming cap by 2050 (www.reuters.com)
Adding spider DNA to silkworms creates silk stronger than Kevlar (www.freethink.com)
Iceland will tunnel into a volcano to tap into virtually unlimited geothermal power (www.zmescience.com)
'Work less and work better, this is the principle': Lamborghini makes history by agreeing to a 4-day workweek for its production workers (fortune.com)
The uncomfortable truth about AI’s impact on the workforce is playing out inside the big AI companies themselves (finance.yahoo.com)
AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames (www.newscientist.com)
Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why (www.cnbc.com)
Experts alarmed over AI in military as Gaza turns into “testing ground” for US-made war robots (www.salon.com)
Young Europeans more likely to quit driving and have fewer children to save planet (www.theguardian.com)
Remote work could cut the value of office buildings by $800 billion by 2030 — with San Francisco facing a 'dire outlook,' McKinsey predicts (www.businessinsider.com)
Device keeps brain alive, functioning separate from body (www.utsouthwestern.edu)
MIT’s New Desalination System Produces Freshwater That Is “Cheaper Than Tap Water” (scitechdaily.com)
Humanity 'staring down barrel' of potentially losing up to half of future medicines through plant extinction (news.sky.com)
Will the Earth breach its 1.5C guardrail sooner than we thought? (www.theguardian.com)
The existence of a new kind of magnetism has been confirmed (www.newscientist.com)
Dozens of stars show signs of hosting advanced alien civilisations (www.newscientist.com)
Two surveys of millions of stars in our galaxy have revealed mysterious spikes in infrared heat coming from dozens of them. Astronomers say this could be evidence for alien civilisations harnessing energy from their stars by using a vast construction known as a Dyson sphere – although they can’t fully rule out more mundane...
The renewable energy revolution is happening faster than you think (www.newscientist.com)
Just over half of Americans over the age of 65 are earning under $30,000 a year, and it shows how stark the retirement crisis is (www.businessinsider.com)
AI Will Transform the Global Economy. IMF report says AI will affect 40% of jobs globally (www.imf.org)
Intel to get $3.5 billion infusion from U.S. gov't to make chips for military: Report (www.tomshardware.com)
JPMorgan Says Its AI Cashflow Tool Cut Human Work Almost 90% | Entrepreneur (www.entrepreneur.com)
Bosses are becoming increasingly scared of AI because it might actually adversely affect their jobs too (www.techradar.com)
Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers (www.tomshardware.com)