🔬 Ancient Dragonflies to Quantum Computing: Human Evolution, Spider Tricks & Plastic-Eating Caterpillars

Today's discoveries span millions of years, from a prehistoric dragonfly wing found in Canada that reveals a 30-million-year evolutionary gap, to new Ethiopian fossils showing our human ancestors followed a complex branching path rather than straight evolution. We explore Caltech's quantum computing breakthrough using sound waves, the James Webb Telescope's gemstone discoveries in the Butterfly Nebula, and Taiwan's ingenious firefly-trapping spiders. Plus, promising solutions emerge from plastivore caterpillars that eat plastic bags and simple lifestyle changes that cut diabetes risk by 31 percent.Love Science? Check out our other Science tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio