Several dozen scientists from five countries, led by Professor Cenker Atila, an archaeologist at Sivas Cumhuriyet University in Turkey, have spent nearly 90 days on the formation this summer with drones, ground-penetrating radar and core drills, collecting about a thousand soil samples for laboratory analysis. What they have found is tantalising, but far from conclusive. (Hagan, The Times)
Read MoreAlready a polarizing political issue this fall, the AI industry’s latest challenge is emerging from the pulpit. Unlike recent generations of technology, the Christian community appears poised to put its stamp on AI early in an attempt to ensure it benefits all of humanity rather than a few tech billionaires. (Higgins, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreHumans have believed in ghosts for thousands of years. Across cultures and centuries, people have told stories about the dead returning to the world of the living, whether as ancestor spirits or unsettling apparitions. But it wasn’t until the Middle Ages that shrouded figures became a familiar way of depicting spirits. (Bennington-Castro, History)
Read MoreIn 2026, partygoers are expected to follow celebrity trends and the most popular series characters, like JLo and Maverick from Amazon Prime's Off Campus, the recently deceased (and always iconic) Dolly Parton, and Bad Bunny's Super Bowl shrubs. (DeLoye, Mental Floss)
Read MoreNavi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief whose career has spanned from defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her efforts to promote international law as it comes under attack. (Dazio et al., AP News)
Read MoreSuicide is a public health crisis for the country — but that crisis is becoming acute in the Black community. Black suicide rates are climbing, increasing more than 50% over about the past 10 years according to CDC data. (Martin, NPR)
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