# 38: Science Highlights Daily | 2019-02-24

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This is a curated articles about the latest discoveries in science and interesting articles tackling technology and society.

Wolves are spreading in Germany by moving into military land: Chelsea Whyte

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Wolves have returned to Germany. The animals seems to be spreading by moving between military training grounds, preferring these to protected natural areas

Virgin Galactic reaches space again – this time with a passenger: Chelsea Whyte

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The first test passenger has gone to the edge of space aboard Virgin Galactic’s Unity space plane, a key milestone in the firm’s quest to send paying customers to space

Quantum experiment suggests there really are ‘alternative facts’: Anil Ananthaswamy

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A complex probe of the foundations of quantum mechanics suggests that the nature of reality depends on who is looking – there are no objective facts we can agree on

Four stars full of burnt nuclear ash are speeding through the galaxy: Leah Crane

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When a star goes supernova it is usually destroyed in a powerful explosion, but four stars have survived to tell the tale and are running away fast

How the zebra got its stripes: The problem with ‘just-so’ stories: Michael Marshall

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The mystery of why zebras have stripes has puzzled biologists for decades, and while we are closing in on the answer, the question isn’t settled yet

Liberals who want a Green New Deal must include nuclear power: David Titley

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The congresswoman who sponsored the US Green New Deal suggested the plan won’t include any new money for nuclear power – that’s a mistake, says David Titley

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 may finally kick-start the asteroid mining era: Leah Crane

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The turn of the decade saw a huge surge of interest in asteroid mining, but now this would-be industry has flopped. Can a tiny Japanese probe revive it?

Fears of OpenAI’s super-trolling artificial intelligence are overblown: Douglas Heaven

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Elon Musk-backed firm OpenAI has built a text-generating AI that it says is too dangerous to release because of potential misuse

No plugs needed: How wireless charging could set electric cars free: Michael Le Page

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The rise of wireless charging for electric cars means you may never have to worry about plugging in again

The US plans to launch swarms of attack drones from robo-submarines: David Hambling

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The US Navy has a project that plans to use an autonomous submarine to launch a swarm of attack drones from underwater