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
UPenn engineers created a flexible, durable insulator out of mylar to protect future lunar habitats
UPenn engineers found that coated Mylar stacks can retain vacuum insulation after repeated compression, a promising step toward durable lunar habitat materials.
Ancient viral DNA offers clues to why human and chimpanzee brains evolved differently
Lund researchers linked ancient viral DNA to a silenced chimpanzee gene, while human organoid tests revealed a role in developing nerve-cell extensions.
Can a black hole split into two in accordance with Einstein’s general relativity?
Could one black hole become two? A theoretical study tests entropy, rotation and escape conditions, revealing narrow possibilities without proving a split.
Scientists solve a 137-year-old mystery hidden in Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’
Researchers link the Moon, Venus and stars in Van Gogh’s Starry Night to a July 1889 dawn, raising questions about its established June painting date.