Quote of the Week
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”
Amelia EarhartTODAY'S BRIGHTER SIDE NEWS
A ‘third eye’ helps fish navigate deep underwater
A brain region helps zebrafish combine light signals from eyes and a “third eye” to guide movement.
Technion scientists measure ultrafast quantum light pulses for the first time
A Technion team measured single bright squeezed vacuum pulses for the first time, finding they last just 27.2 femtoseconds.
Scientists are rethinking what loneliness does to the body
Feeling lonely despite social contact may raise health risks in ways that standard measures fail to capture.
Light can travel for billions of years yet experience no time
A photon crossing a billion light-years experiences no time at all. This is not metaphor. It follows directly from the mathematics of special relativity.