Quote of the Week
“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”
Franklin D. RooseveltTODAY'S BRIGHTER SIDE NEWS
Strange red object from the early universe could be the first ‘black hole star’
MoM-BH*-1 looks like a solar-system-sized star, but its extreme brightness points to a black hole buried inside dense hydrogen gas.
Belly fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI, study finds
A 20-year analysis finds waist measurements can expose major differences in heart risk among people with similar BMI scores.
Rutendo Shadaya wrote a fantasy book at age 9. Now she is one of Time’s Girls of the Year
A birthday gift became a writing career for Rutendo Shadaya, who turned rejection into books, readers and global recognition.
Dark matter and star clusters work together to reshape the centers of galaxies
A four-billion-year simulation links two very different stellar structures growing around the centers of barred galaxies.