This week in stories we’re covering at The Debrief: Scientists have a new plan that could help them detect alien life that may be too exotic to be spotted otherwise. Elsewhere, these new transparent OLED glasses use “gamma wave entrainment” to supercharge brain connectivity, and in Bulgaria, a mile-long ancient Roman megastructure has surfaced from beneath one of Europe’s most famous waterways.
Finally, here’s a look at all the top stories we’re covering right now at The Debrief:
- 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Organic Chert Reveals One of Earth’s “Earliest Known Occurrences of Biologically Generated Organic Matter”
Scientists studying ancient chert have found 3.5-billion-year-old signs of life on Earth, making it some of the oldest evidence ever found. - 4,000 Years Ago, These Ancient Seafarers May Have Brought Symbolic Art to Distant Lands Earlier Than Their First Neolithic Pottery
The ancient Austronesian maritime civilization may have carried painted art on its journeys before developing its first Neolithic pottery. - Space Is Getting Crowded—Now Surging Satellite Demand Prompts SEOPS ‘Waymaker’ Program to Add Second 2028 Mission
- Scientists Spot Dolphins Using Shells as Tools to Catch Fish, Further Challenging a Longtime Marker of Culture
- Something Sparked a Technological Revolution in China 146,000 Years Ago—Archaeologists Have Now Linked It to a Mysterious Extinct Human Species
- A Neanderthal Gene May Be Making Some Modern Humans Bigger and More Muscular
- Archaeologists Have Unearthed a Rare and Mysterious Runestone at an Ancient Site in the Faroe Islands
- “The Record Was Just Made”: Fastest Man on Earth Sets Hydrogen-Powered Land Speed World Record
- Solving This London Mystery Led to the Discovery of a New Species Almost 6,000 Miles Away
- This Hidden Structure Within the Building Blocks of Atoms May Dictate the Imbalance Between Matter and Antimatter
- A Mysterious 45,000-Year-Old Seafloor Discovery Reveals New Evidence Denisovans Were Extremely Large
- Inspired by Coral, These Scientists Are Regrowing Bone Under Some of the Most Challenging Conditions
- Newly Deciphered 1500-Year-Old Inscriptions Reveal Ancient Imperial Death Decree