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
Water-based guava extract targets elevated blood sugar, cholesterol and heart disease
A rat study links water-based guava extract with lower glucose, healthier blood lipids and reduced oxidative damage.
Astronomers capture the strongest evidence yet of Betelgeuse B
Betelgeuse B may be two to three times the Sun’s mass and could help explain the supergiant’s six-year brightness cycle.
Andromeda’s star formation has been slowing down for 500 million years
A census of 200 million stars shows Andromeda’s busiest star-forming ring has been losing momentum.
How did the first-ever clockmaker know what time to set?
The first clockmakers did not guess the hour. They calibrated their machines against the sky, beginning a long progression from local sundials to mechanical clocks, global time signals and quantum-based optical standards.