12 facts about space that will rock your world:

 
Click Here to Read: 12 facts about space that will rock your world: We live in a strange Solar System By Xavier Piedra and Dennis Green  on the Mashable website August 14, 2023

Artist’s illustration of an ‘isolated neutron star’ — one without associated supernova remnants, binary companions or radio pulsations.  Image: Casey Reed – Penn State University NASA.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

‘Mindblowing’: how James Webb telescope’s snapshots of infant universe transformed astronomy

Click Here to Read: ‘Mindblowing’: how James Webb telescope’s snapshots of infant universe transformed astronomy. Light from ancient galaxies took more than 13bn years to reach Nasa’s £6.8bn James Webb probe and have provided scientists with stunning images by Robin McKie on the Guardian website on July 15, 2023.
Antares and Rho Ophiuchi  Image: Adam Block/Steward Observatory/University of Arizona  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA

Click Here to Read: How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA: Epigenetics study finds that children born during the historic recession have markers of accelerated ageing later in life by Freda Kreier on the Nature website on November 21, 2022.

Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, 1931 Image: National Archives at College Park  Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism

Click Here to Read: Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism For most of human evolution, multiple species with different ways of walking upright coexisted By Jeremy DeSilva in the Scientific American issue of November 1, 2022.

Cast of the “Laetoli footprints” — the earliest known human footprints in the world, on display in the Hall of Human Origins in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. These footprints are those of Australopithecus afarensis. Image: Tim Evanson.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.