Innovative Starships and Missions Paving the Way for Interstellar Travel
This week in science, a design for a 400-year trip to Alpha Centauri was proposed, AI models were found to transmit potentially malicious secret messages, life may exist on icy worlds beyond traditional habitable zones, ancient cranial modifications in Europe were discovered, and new deep-sea creatures were filmed in extreme ocean depths. Additionally, concerns about reduced funding for mRNA vaccines and other scientific discoveries were highlighted.