Quote of the Week
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
Mark TwainTODAY'S BRIGHTER SIDE NEWS
245-million-year-old reptile fossil preserves the oldest known intact digestive system
A rare fossil reveals the oldest reptile digestive system and shows how early reptiles adapted to life in the ocean.
New Gaia data is challenging a 50-year-old assumption about how stars and galaxies form
Milky Way star clusters reveal that stellar birth patterns change with environment, potentially altering how astronomers weigh galaxies.
New Thai lizard named after Syrax, Queen Rhaenyra’s dragon from House of the Dragon
The yellow-tinged mountain horned dragon lives high in Thailand’s Mae Wong forests and carries unusually tiny crests.
Small whirlpool-like structures reveal how the Sun stores and releases energy
The Sun’s smallest visible whirlpools could drive turbulence, magnetic mixing, and explosive solar activity.