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An elderly woman wearing glasses, a black hat, and a patterned scarf smiles while seated indoors—reminiscent of Gladys West, the Einstein behind GPS technology.
Two main contributors enabled our modern global positioning system (GPS): Albert Einstein and Gladys West. Here's how she made it happen.
A man with short hair and a beard, wearing a light blue button-up shirt, sits indoors in front of a wooden wall.
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"By keeping people biologically younger, we can enjoy a longer health span, a longer period of healthy life where we're active, where we're happy, where we can engage in our hobbies, and play with our grandkids and great grandkids."
Green and red aurora borealis lights, sparked by a recent solar radiation storm, arc across the night sky and reflect over a calm lake with a rocky shoreline.
The Sun often produces solar flares and coronal mass ejections, but a rare solar radiation storm made the 2026's first great auroral show.
A silhouette of a monkey with brainwave patterns is shown beside a stylized computer, divided by a vertical line on a blue and gray background.
Researchers built a model that behaves like a brain. Without being trained on neural data, the model produced a peculiar signal — one that was later discovered in actual brain activity.
A person stands on a ladder trimming a green hedge decorated with pink flowers, while a large pair of scissors is visible in the foreground.
These cultural lies make normal struggle feel like failure. A habit of experimentation makes it feel like progress.
Book cover for "The Healing Power of Resilience" by Tara Narula, MD, featuring a flower entwined with an EKG line, symbolizing the healing power of resilience, on a beige background with a red border.
Tara Narula shares how journalist Richard Cohen challenged conventional ideas about illness, identity, and strength while living with MS.
Many view the development of fringe, alternative theories as a useless waste of time. But when they can be tested, it shows what reality is.