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A post on the Croppie website, for crop circle enthusiasts, described the new pictogram as a ‘reproduction, remaster, even, of the most iconic crop circle of all time’ Cover versions might never quite be as good as the original – but this remaster of a rock classic looks just like the real thing.

Researchers think they understand the conditions which see the precious stones erupt to the Earth’s surface from far below where they are formed.

The ancient town comes with pyramids, buildings, stone columns, and a ball field.

In Denver, people can now turn their bilingual skills into cash — and perhaps a promising future — thanks to a first-of-its-kind program being rolled out by the Denver Office of Immigrant & Refugee Affairs in which residents will be able to get free interpreter training and a chance at contract work with the city.

DOIRA officials are looking for anyone who is proficient in English and one of more than a dozen listed languages, including Vietnamese, Amharic, Cantonese, Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, French, Burmese, Karen, Farsi, Somali, Nepali, Korean, Urdu, Haitian Creole, Khmer Armenian and Swahili, and are open to those who speak additional dialects, as well.

With the city welcoming more and more foreign-born residents — including refugees looking for help with local services — the Office of Immigrant & Refugee Affairs is in need of interpreters. It plans to start training polyglots next month, with classes beginning on August 21 and running for about three weeks.

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City officials are looking to train anyone who is proficient in English and one of more than a dozen languages, including Cantonese, Arabic, Spanish and Swahili.

Just last week, the US Department of Agriculture gave the green light to two companies to make and sell their cultivated chicken products in the US. This is a major moment for the field—even if a lot of milestones are left ahead. In a stroke of luck, this week I’m at a conference called Future Food Tech, where people are talking about the biggest news and challenges for alternative proteins of all types. So for the newsletter this week, let’s check in on the world of lab-grown meat.

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Reaching commercial production won’t be easy.

China’s rising threat has splintered Europe while creating a need for global leadership.

With new off-the-shelf allogeneic options and armoring approaches, developers hope to target solid tumors more safely and efficaciously.

The OpenAI CEO’s ambitious, ingenious, terrifying quest to create a new form of intelligence.

By Ross Andersen