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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Coconut oil could offer airlines another path toward alternative jet fuel

AI can detect hypertension and diabetes by looking at your face and eyes

MIT’s new ‘bifur-circuits’ let smart devices change shape without losing power

The future of fashion: Living fungal fabric that repairs itself and blocks UV light

Scientists narrow the search for dark matter using new galaxy simulations

Could information be a fifth form of matter? Strange matter-antimatter experiment aims to find out

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

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

Scientists reconstructed Jurassic insect calls and found ultrasound evolved tens of millions of years before bats appeared.

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

Smiles activated a distinct canine brain network, while fear produced patterns different from other negative expressions.

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

JWST observations reveal a changing sequence of winds that may control how long young solar systems can keep building planets.

Rock glaciers worldwide may hold about 48 gigatons of water

A Utah rock glacier hides enough ice to fill 600 Olympic pools, revealing a vast mountain water reserve beneath loose rubble

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

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

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

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

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