AI Confidential’s Prof Hannah Fry explores why it’s so easy to fall for AI, and why that can be so dangerous.

Stamps, space, and smuggling!

Using local resources will be key to any mission to either the Moon or Mars - in large part because of how expensive it is to bring those resources up from Earth to our newest outposts. But Mars in particular has one local resource that has long been thought of as a negative - perchlorates. These chemicals, which are toxic to almost all life, make up between 0.5-1% of Martian soil, and have long been thought to be a hindrance rather than a help to our colonization efforts for the new planet. But a new paper from researchers at the Indian Institute of Science and the University of Florida shows that, when making the bricks that will build the outpost, perchlorates actually help.

How could anything so frustrating, boring, and sometimes painful also not work?

Camel-riding warriors, mysterious symbols, and Arabic inscriptions all appear at the Umm Arak Plateau.