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
MIT’s origami construction offers a new way to build lightweight curved structures
An MIT-led origami construction method connects folded metal modules into curved shells. Prototypes and a library sculpture show how the approach can scale.
Turkey-sized ‘hell chicken’ dinosaur had a jaw suited to mashing fruit
A newly named ‘hell chicken’ dinosaur had a sliding jaw suited to mashing soft plants. Its unusual skull suggests fruit was an important part of its diet.
Two rings around a white dwarf offer a glimpse of our Solar System’s possible future
Astronomers found two chemically distinct gas rings around a white dwarf. Hidden planetary bodies may sustain them, offering clues to our Solar System’s future.
Why does the right side of our brain control the left side of our body? New research may have the answer
A new hypothesis links the brain’s crossed wiring to ancient visual maps, proposing that later sensory and motor pathways built on an inherited arrangement.