Old Rome Reappearing

from The Charlotte Observer Roman ruins reappear from river in drought-stricken Europe almost 2,000 years later BY ASPEN PFLUGHOEFT Europe’s drought and heatwave revealed an ancient Roman military camp complex, Aquis Querquennis, as water levels in the Lima River in...

Definitely An Act of God

from The New York Post ‘Heard a big bang’: California man believes meteor may have destroyed his home by Isabel Keane Firefighters in California continue to investigate what hit Procita’s home, starting the fire. Twitter/@CALFIRENEU Now that’s a real kick in the...

Super-richocalypse

from The Guardian The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse by Douglas Rushkoff Time to bunker down… if you’ve got the cash. Photograph: Terravivos/Observer Design Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military...

Fake AI

from Common Sense There Is No Such Thing as A.I. Art DALL-E compiles, sifts, and analyzes. But it doesn’t dare. It doesn’t take risks. Only humans, our vulnerable species, can. Walter Kirn writes. by Walter Kirn (“Picasso style dramatic acrylic painting of a confused...

Super-mini Machines

from WIRED The Sci-Fi Dream of a ‘Molecular Computer’ Is Getting More Real Chemists have long conceptualized tiny machines that could fabricate drugs, plastics, and other polymers that are hard to build with bigger tools. by MAX G. LEVY PHOTOGRAPH: GETTY IMAGES DAVID...

lonsdaleite

from CNN Meet the mystery diamond from outer space By Madeline Holcombe (From left) Dougal McCulloch, a professor at RMIT University, with Salek and Tomkins at the RMIT Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility in Australia. McCulloch was another coauthor of the study....