Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“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. Roosevelt

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TODAY'S BRIGHTER SIDE NEWS

Hidden wavelengths in white light can change how warm a room feels

Fossil insect wings reveal a Jurassic world already buzzing with ultrasound communication

Brain scans reveal what dogs see when they look at a human face

JWST reveals how young solar systems may lose the gas needed to build planets

Rock glaciers worldwide may hold about 48 gigatons of water

Life in the universe may have formed less than 300 million years after the Big Bang

‘Shark graveyard’ in Egypt’s Western Desert reveals a lost tropical sea from the age of the dinosaurs

Heartbeat-powered pacemaker could eliminate the need for battery replacements

A heartbeat-powered pacemaker from UW–Madison harvests cardiac motion to charge an experimental leadless implant.

Giant crocodylians may have ruled South America’s food chain 12 million years ago

Purussaurus neivensis predator evidence comes from bite marks on Miocene herbivore fossils from ancient South America.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to open a vast new window on the universe

Roman combines Hubble-like sharpness with a huge field of view to investigate dark energy, galaxies and thousands of distant worlds.

JWST’s mysterious ‘little red dots’ may hide early black holes inside tiny galaxies

Story excerpt: Faint galaxies surrounding JWST’s little red dots suggest massive black holes may have grown before their host galaxies took shape.

NASA’s giant space ‘starshade’ could help ground telescopes photograph another Earth

Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash has a newly discovered snake named after him

First epigenetic DNA clock can reveal a zebra shark’s age from a blood sample

MIT device creates linked microwave signals at room temperature without extreme cooling

Smartphone app helps blind users navigate faster and avoid obstacles

Old World War wrecks are still leaking TNT into the North Sea

Runaway supermassive black hole may be the result of a violent cosmic collision

Scientists develop a greener, catalyst-free, rocket thruster to power the next generation of spacecraft

Apophis will zoom past Earth in 2029, turning a rare flyby into a planetary defense test

UW researchers create the first building-level map of landslide risk across the United States

Scientists recycle plastic bottles and corn waste into protein-rich cookies

New light-based therapy targets gum disease without harming healthy bacteria

‘Cosmic Glitch’ could explain why gravity acts differently across the Universe

Astronomers develop a faster way to simulate the complicated motion of binary asteroids