Life rarely comes with a pause button. With endless work deadlines, responsibilities, and digital distractions, we often forget to check in on our own well-being, especially our mental health. While it is easy to prioritize everything else over ourselves, what if we told you that keeping your brain young and sharp could be as simple as a few daily habits? …
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Strange Halos Have Formed Around Barrels Of Chemicals Dumped Off Los Angeles Coastline Over 50 Years Ago
From the 1930s to the 1970s, barrels amounting to thousands of tons of chemicals were dumped off the coast of Los Angeles. It was an assault on the environment that would continue to unfold for decades to come, and worse still, we weren’t even sure what was inside the barrels. For a long time we thought it was the carcinogenic …
Read More »Ghost Shark Enters Program of Record — From Prototype to Fleet in Three Years – Anduril
Ghost Shark Enters Program of Record — From Prototype to Fleet in Three Years Anduril Australia to spend $1.1bn on underwater ‘Ghost Shark’ attack drones Al Jazeera Australia news live: Nampijinpa Price declines to back Ley’s leadership or apologise over Indian migrants comments The Guardian Australia to spend $1.1 billion on stealthy, long-range underwater attack drones AP News Australia to Spend $1.1 Billion on …
Read More »60 years later, Sandy Koufax’s perfect game is still amazing : NPR
Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches to Chris Krug of the Chicago Cubs in the top of the ninth inning, en route to his perfect game in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 9, 1965. Harold P. Matosian/AP hide caption toggle caption Harold P. Matosian/AP LOS ANGELES — For baseball aficionados, the name Sandy Koufax is almost mythical. In …
Read More »Earth’s ‘New’ Quasi-Moon Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight for 60 Years
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown quasi-moon that’s been shadowing Earth’s orbit for decades, undetected, and will likely remain there for a few decades more. The quasi-moon, named 2025 PN7, is one of around seven quasi-satellites that share Earth’s orbit around the Sun. The Pan-STARRS observatory in Hawaii spotted the quasi-moon on August 2, according to a paper published in …
Read More »The original PlayStation turns 30 years old in America today, so here are some nice stories about it
Feeling spritely? This shouldn’t help: the original PlayStation console was released 30 years ago today in the United States, on 9th September 1995. It was a machine that would change gaming forever. We celebrated the 30th anniversary of PS1 last December because that’s when it was first introduced, in Japan, on 3rd December 1994. Sony’s debut console was released in …
Read More »After 44,000 years under the ice, this wolf looked almost alive
In Siberia’s frozen ground, a predator from the Ice Age has been waiting to be found. Local residents came across the wolf’s body in 2021, sealed in the ice along a riverbank. Unlike most discoveries that are just bones or fragments, this wolf was almost whole. Its skin, fur, and even internal organs had survived tens of thousands of years …
Read More »"That Star Is Shooting Jets Every Nine Hundred Years": Japanese Astronomers Capture Young Star Formation 26,000 Light Years Away – Rude Baguette
“That Star Is Shooting Jets Every Nine Hundred Years”: Japanese Astronomers Capture Young Star Formation 26,000 Light Years Away Rude Baguette Scientists catch jets from a young star located 26,000 light-years from sun Interesting Engineering Jets from a newborn star reveal the birth of stars at the edge of the Galaxy Universe Space Tech Star formation secrets revealed by ALMA in distant Milky …
Read More »Most Earth-Like Planet Yet May Have Been Found Just 40 Light Years Away : ScienceAlert
One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere. In exciting new JWST observations, the Earth-sized exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e shows hints of a gaseous envelope similar to our own, one that could facilitate liquid water on the surface. Although the detection is ambiguous and needs extensive follow-up to find …
Read More »U.S. sees steepest decline of mothers of young children in the workforce in 40 years, study finds
For six years, Mackenzie Bruegge worked in medical billing. But with two young children at home, the West Branch, Iowa, mother says the math just didn’t add up. “The average day care we found was about $500 a week, and I made maybe $1,000 every two weeks. So then, with two kids, I was like, ‘This just doesn’t make sense.’ …
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