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

10 min · 13. juni 2026
episode 🔬 Ancient Humans Were Smarter Than We Thought, A Forgotten Planet Just Resurfaced & Ozempic's Jaw-Dropping New Discovery cover

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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/ [https://peerreviewd.com/] Love Science? Check out our other Science tools: 60sec.site [https://60sec.site/] and Artificial Intelligence Radio [https://artificialintelligenceradio.com]

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