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, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
Mark TwainTODAY'S BRIGHTER SIDE NEWS
Dust from the Chicxulub asteroid baked dinosaurs alive within hours of impact
Fine impact dust may have baked Earth’s surface before helping trigger years of darkness and global cold.
Astronomers find four Barnard’s Star planets to be small, uninhabitable, with years lasting only days
The planets orbiting Barnard’s Star may be dry, airless worlds with magnesium-rich interiors that have long since lost most of their internal heat.
1.4 million-year-old footprints reveal an ancient group of human-sized hominins
Ancient footprints beside Kenya’s Lake Turkana capture eight large hominins moving together 1.43 million years ago.
Wandering black hole found 30,000 light-years from its galaxy’s center
An AI tool built to scan the whole sky helped researchers catch a black hole flaring far from where one was expected.