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Plus: this week’s One Question—“Why Are People Biased Against New Technology?”—and related Nautilus stories. [View in browser]( | [Become a member]( October 11, 2022   Did a friend forward this? [Subscribe here](. Good Morning! Here’s the top science news—plus this week’s One Question and related Nautilus stories [READ NAUTILUS](   DISCOVERIES The Top Science News This Week   [Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Universe]( Wormholes and entangled particles could be manifestations of the same phenomenon, and resolve paradoxes like information escaping a black hole. [The New York Times→](   [UN Human Rights Committee Finds Australia Violated Torres Strait Islanders’ Rights by Failing to Protect Them from Climate Change]( The “groundbreaking” finding has no way of being enforced, but states tend to go along with what the UN committee calls for. [ABC News→](   [What We Know About the Unfolding Ebola Outbreak in Uganda]( The new Ebola variant has claimed 29 deaths so far, and no vaccine for it exists. [Axios→](   [Click Chemistry, Nobel-Winning Science That May “Change the World”]( The breakthrough research makes the job of assembling molecules cheap and trivial, and will have countless applications. [Phys.org→](   [Why Scientists Fear Monkeypox Spreading in Wild Animals]( If monkeypox gets a foothold in rat populations beyond Africa, controlling its spread and halting outbreaks in humans will be much more trying. [Nature→](   [How Philosophy Turned into Physics—and Reality Turned into Information]( We have an Irish physicist named John Bell to thank for making the world irretrievably blurry. [The Conversation→]( Experience the endless possibilities and deep human connections that science offers [JOIN NOW](   [Capture the Night Sky]( You can’t spell astrophotography without [GoPro](. The new Star Trails feature make it easy to paint your videos with beautiful light trails with the world’s most versatile camera. [Save $150]( with the HERO11 Black + 1-year GroPro subscription. [Shoot the Stars](   [ONE QUESTION]( [Why Are People Biased Against New Technology?]( INTERVIEW BY BRIAN GALLAGHER One question for [Matthew Fisher](, a psychologist at Southern Methodist University who studies the strategies people use to digest the overwhelming amount of information they encounter, and the effects technology has on how people perceive their own abilities.   The big takeaway from what we found in our recent [study](, published in Psychological Science, is that people seem to have this status quo bias when it comes to technology. That’s why we titled it, “[The Golden Age Is Behind Us](.” In essence, technology invented before people were born gets granted this status, the status-quo status, so that it just is assumed to be a part of how the world works. People tend to have a more positive evaluation of that technology. They don’t really know a world where it didn’t exist, and therefore evaluate it more favorably, and that’s contrasted with technology invented after they were born. It’s for those technologies that people tend to be more skeptical. [Read the interview](   Related Nautilus Stories   [PSYCHOLOGY]( [Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot]( We predicted cell phones, but not women in the workplace. BY TOM VANDERBILT [Continue reading →]( [TECHNOLOGY]( [Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will]( How the attention economy is subverting our decision-making and our democracy. BY BRIAN GALLAGHER [Continue reading →]( [TECHNOLOGY]( [Deepfake Luke Skywalker Should Scare Us]( The power to create convincing deepfake icons could destabilize society. BY ALAN JERN [Continue reading →]( [TECHNOLOGY]( [The Uncanny Valley of Xenobots]( These tiny living robots can now replicate and evolve—and be put to work. 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