Scientists think earth may have been born with life on it. See this Forbes article.
It discusses using carbon-13 to identify once living organisms. Living organism prefer C12 t the C13 isotope. Therefore, enriched C12 suggests a living organism.
The detective work used to unravel nature’s mysteries is truly fascinating.
Do not understand all that is involved, but it sure seems right for Apple to refuse to provide the government a backdoor. This case is only hard because the villains are so evil. Here is a learned discussion.
Microsoft created a bot that learns. Then they showed it the internet as example behavior. It promptly learned to be a “genocidal, foul-mouthed, sex-crazed nazi.” Why wasn’t that the expected result?
Just read about the Mundaneum is a PM article with (the over-blown) title of How the Humble Index Card Foresaw the Internet. It is not about the internet. The Mundenuem, created in 1905, was a databased that organized all knowledge in a card index. You could argue it was a precursor to Google–at least in goal. You could say it was a victim of its own success because it grow to 18 million card in 15 thousand drawers, which was unmanageable.
A Stanford chemistry professor has developed a way to extract hydrogen (and oxygen) from water using a 1.5V AAA battery. This is fantastic. Hydrogen is a great fuel. Faster, please!