X: A history of failure

Plus: Organs ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   ͏   [// Don’t forget to subscribe to our good friends at the AI Tool Report »]( [Advertise]( | [Talk to Us](mailto:letschat@getthefuturist.com) | [Shop]( | [Unsubscribe]( The Futurist is your daily tech, cosmic, and science (both weird or otherwise) newsletter with articles and content curated just for you. In today's edition: // X // Aliens // Superconductor // IRL Reardon Steel [/interesting] [Scientists create new material five times lighter and four times stronger than steel | SciTechDaily]( [Scientists create new material five times lighter and four times stronger than steel]( “Materials possessing both strength and lightness have the potential to enhance everything from automobiles to body armor. But usually, the two qualities are mutually exclusive. However, researchers at the University of Connecticut, along with their collaborators, have now crafted an incredibly strong yet lightweight material. Surprisingly, they achieved this using two unexpected building blocks: DNA and glass.” [// SciTechDaily »]( [/innovation] [Automate your life now | AI Tool Report]( [Automate your life now]( The AI Tool Report is your guide to the best ways to utilize AI so that it will help you, not replace you. Subscribe today and enjoy what hundreds of thousands of subscribers can’t get enough of! [Ad] [// AI Tool Report »]( [/science] [Scientists race to test claimed room-temperature superconductor | NewScientist]( [Scientists race to test claimed room-temperature superconductor]( “When researchers claimed recently that they had created a material that perfectly conducts electricity – a superconductor – and that it does so at room temperature and pressure, many people were understandably skeptical. Such a finding would be transformative to many areas of science and technology. Now, labs around the world have kicked into action in a race to create and test the new material, called LK-99, to see if it really is what its creators claim.” [// NewScientist »]( [/curious] [If Aliens Actually Crashed Into Earth, Would We Know About It? | Inverse]( [If Aliens Actually Crashed Into Earth, Would We Know About It?]( “If aliens actually crashed here on Earth, what would happen? Would the debris, and the aliens themselves, vanish behind a massive government cover-up, only to emerge as classified military technology years later? Or would altruistic civilian scientists work together to study the alien artifacts for the good of humanity? These questions seem like fodder for very trope-y science fiction, but last week, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer told Congress last week, with a straight face, that an unnamed source had told him that the U.S. Department of Defense (or possibly its contractors) has debris and “nonhuman biologics” from a crashed UFO.” [// Inverse »]( [/ai] [All the ChatGPT training you’ll ever need | The Complete ChatGPT Training Bundle]( [All the ChatGPT training you’ll ever need]( Imagine that, in only 4 hours, you can learn all you need to know to be able to understand and use ChatGPT. Combined with a subscription to the AI Tool Report, this complete course will make you (nearly) invincible. And at 61% off, you’d be a fool not to at least try it. 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