Welcome and thanks for being here to read fun STEM articles. This week I have links about demon possessed tractors, a decoded alien signal from 2023, plastic that dissolves in water, and how artists might hide their work from AI software. And how humans have linked emotions to body parts. Plus rats driving cars. Apparently rats enjoy driving as much as we do. Probably because there’s no traffic jams in a lab? Enjoy!
Alien-like signal from 2023 has been decoded. The next step is to figure out what it means
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/science/seti-alien-signal-decoded-sign-in-space/
Adobe wants to make it easier for artists to blacklist their work from AI scraping | MIT Technology Review
Plastic that dissolves in water could combat global pollution crisis
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-plastic-dissolves-combat-global-pollution.html
Farmers Say Intelligent Tractors “Acted Like They Were Demon Possessed” After Signal Out of Space
https://futurism.com/the-byte/intelligent-tractors-demon-possessed-gps
Humans have linked emotions to the same body parts for 3,000 years
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/link-emotions-body-parts-3000-years
Rats learn to drive miniature cars and seem to enjoy it
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/world/video/rats-drive-cars-research-ldn-digvid
10 Docuseries About Ancient Civilizations That’ll Have You Hooked
https://movieweb.com/best-docuseries-about-ancient-civilizations/