- A new hydrogel-based brain-machine interface is reported in Nature Communications; the probe is stiff when dry for easy insertion but becomes soft and “stealthy” once hydrated, enabling long-term neural recording and stimulation with reduced immune response.  
- The WHO released its first global recommendations on human genome editing, providing a governance framework for clinical use, safety oversight, and public engagement.  
- Michael Nielsen’s essay “All possible views about humanity’s future are wild” was circulated, arguing that any coherent 500-year outlook leads to seemingly bizarre conclusions about post-human scenarios.  
- Nick Bostrom’s 2003 paper “Astronomical Waste” was re-shared, quantifying the immense opportunity cost of delayed space colonization in terms of lost potential lives and computation.  
- Carl Shulman & Nick Bostrom’s 2012 paper “How hard is artificial intelligence? Evolutionary arguments and selection effects” was highlighted, analyzing why evolutionary analogies may mislead estimates of AI difficulty and timelines.  
- A 1674 Royal Society DOI (10.1098/rstl.1674.0007) was posted as a historical curiosity, illustrating the channel’s interest in very early scientific literature.  
- “Publicly Auditable MPC-as-a-Service with succinct verification and universal setup” (arXiv:2107.04248) was introduced, offering a practical construction for verifiable multi-party computation usable by non-experts.  
- Discussion of Sci-Hub noted that while the site still functions for papers older than one year, new content is no longer being added to its cache.