August Science Bytes

A collection of science & technology news that I found interesting this month. Since this is the first of these posts, I have some catching up to do, so there are older links as well. Many of these relate to tech that’s covered in “Machinehood,” as well as other stories, but some are here purely for inspiration.

Could Planet 9 be a primordial black hole?

For several years, astronomers and cosmologists have theorized about the existence of an additional planet with a mass 10 times greater than that...