Quote of the Week
“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. RooseveltTODAY'S BRIGHTER SIDE NEWS
Spending time with a dog helps teens to better cope with social anxiety
Companionship with a dog was linked to better coping, while heavy emotional reliance showed a more complicated pattern.
Milky Way’s fastest star revolves around the central black hole at 15,500 miles per second
S301 passes closer to the Milky Way’s central black hole than any known star, completing one orbit in only 8.7 years.
A 1-megaton nuclear blast could prevent 97% of a city-killer asteroid from hitting Earth
A 1-megaton blast damaged nearly an entire simulated asteroid, but researchers could not follow the fragments long enough to know their fate.
New form of ice can freeze at room temperature, study finds
Rapidly squeezed water can take several routes into ice, including a newly identified crystal with 152 molecules per repeating unit.