🔬 Ancient Humans Were Smarter Than We Thought, A Forgotten Planet Just Resurfaced & Ozempic's Jaw-Dropping New Discovery

About this episode

The episode discusses new findings on ancient human intelligence, a resurfaced lost planet, and the effects of GLP-1 drugs on addiction rates.

New research reveals that humans were strategically selecting firewood 780,000 years ago, suggesting a level of environmental intelligence far earlier than previously believed. A rare Saharan meteorite is offering stunning evidence of a lost planet that existed and was destroyed before Earth even fully formed. Scientists have uncovered a striking link between GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and dramatically reduced rates of addiction across multiple substances, with researchers scrambling to understand why. Astronomers have dropped a landmark catalogue of 161 newly detected black hole collisions, transforming gravitational wave astronomy into a data-rich science almost overnight. Plus: a wearable ultrasound patch that could revolutionize pregnancy monitoring, brain organoids exposing hidden differences between Alzheimer's patients, and what ten months trapped in Antarctica does to a group of people. Subscribe to Peer Review'd Newsletter: https://peerreviewd.com/ Love Science? Check out our other Science tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio

People in this episode

Host: Peer Review'd

Topics covered

• ancient humans
• environmental intelligence
• lost planet
• Ozempic
• addiction
• black hole collisions
• pregnancy monitoring

Keywords

• firewood selection
• Saharan meteorite
• GLP-1 drugs
• addiction rates
• gravitational waves
• wearable ultrasound
• Alzheimer's
• Antarctica

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Ozempic

Places: Sahara, Antarctica

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