

Quote of the Week
“Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow."
Vincent van GoghTODAY'S BRIGHTER SIDE NEWS

New wallpaper generates electricity from the moisture inside your home
Thousands of tiny moisture-powered generators hidden in wallpaper produced enough electricity to run a wireless keyboard.

Oklahoma crater may be 100 million years younger than thought, shifting it toward a mass extinction event
Microscopic zircons move an Oklahoma impact crater out of the Ordovician and close to one of Earth’s major extinction intervals.

Ancient ocean chemistry may explain how Earth kept its oxygen
A nutrient feedback between phosphorus, sulfur and microbes may explain how Earth repeatedly rebuilt its oxygen-rich atmosphere.

Physicists finally discover the elusive glueball, a particle made entirely of nuclear force
A strange decay pattern once weakened the glueball case for f0(1710. New models and experiments turned that problem into supporting evidence.






