Quote of the Week
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do."
Mark TwainTODAY'S BRIGHTER SIDE NEWS
Earth’s magnetic field took 70,000 years to complete an ancient reversal
Two Eocene magnetic reversals lasted about 18,000 and 70,000 years, according to a detailed North Atlantic sediment record.
Scientists calculate how much information exists in the observable universe
A particle-based calculation uses information theory to estimate cosmic bits, without proving information is a new state of matter.
Why big dogs die younger: DNA study points to changes around jumping genes
Larger dogs show stronger age-related DNA changes around LINE1 elements, but their role in shortening lifespan remains unproven.
Jonathan the 194-year-old tortoise offers new clues to extreme human longevity
A study of Jonathan’s genome and epigenome finds preserved regulation in key cellular pathways, with important limits.