Episode #1040

Episode #1040

News Items

• NASA Budget
• RFK Jr. Sacks Vaccine Panel
• Digital Life After Death
• Light out of Nothing
• Possible New Treatment for HIV

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  Researchers have demonstrated a brain-machine interface system that allows a subject with ALS who cannot physically speak to speak in real time and with 97% accuracy. https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/new-brain-computer-interface-allows-man-with-als-to-speak-again/2024/08

• Item #2 Fiction

  A new genetic analysis finds that Florida alligators are actual two distinct species, which may have resulted from interbreeding with introduced Asian alligators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_alligator

• Item #3 Science

  For the first time engineers have built a working computer entirely of 2- dimensional material without any silicon. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08963-7

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

“The progress of science depends less on the accumulation of facts than on the emergence of new ways of thinking about them, often by specialists deeply immersed in a problem.” ― Stephen Jay Gould (Paleontologist and evolutionary biologist)