A multi-generational group of researchers have published the results of an 80-year-long study tracking the lives nearly 2,000 Americans. The study looked to answer an eternal question that has had philosophers, theologians and scientists consumed with curiosity: what is the secret to happiness? Happy Man[/caption] The Company You Keep IFLScience writes that the study was handled by “a team of scientists at Harvard University” that discovered, thanks to evolving medical research and technology, the key to happiness was the development and maintenance of strong relationships with other people.

California is used to earthquakes. There are small to medium tremors that occur monthly throughout the year. The last major quake to strike California was the shallow 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, often referred to as the ‘World Series Quake’ since it struck during a MLB playoff game. The quake killed 67 people, injured 3,000 and cost $5 billion in damages. Before that, in 1906, a vicious 7.9 shaker struck the San Francisco area, spawning a city-wide conflagration that killed 3,000 people, destroyed 28,000 buildings, and causing $350 million in damages.

It’s not the equivalent of the Scope Monkey Trial of 1925, but another legal case with a primate at the center of it has found its way into American culture. Unlike the Scopes trial, which addressed the weighty subject of biological evolution, this case is a comical farce of a lawsuit over photo selfies. ‘Monkey See Monkey Sue’ The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has recently ruled on a 2011 lawsuit filed by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) over photographs inadvertently taken of an Indonesian crested macaque, named Naruto, by British nature photographer David Slater, reports the Huffington Post.

If you’re an archaeologist, Egypt has got to be the place to go! Not only are they finding Eqyptian artifacts over there, but now they’re finding Roman ones, too! From Newsweek: Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed the bust of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who was best known for his philosophical interests. They made the discovery in the Temple of Kom Ombo, where a years-long project is being done to preserve the site from groundwater damage, The Associated Press reports.

When you think of the wealthy these days, you think of billionaires like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah, and Jeff Bezos. While all of these are busy stirring up their fortunes on terra firma, famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson believe that space will produce the first trillionaire. From the Daily Star: “The first trillionaire there will ever be is the person who exploits the natural resources on asteroids.

Thanks to the incredibly heroic actions of a physically impaired dog an Australian family has their three-year-old daughter back safe and sound, reports Fox News. The backstory is a heart-warming story of survival and loyalty. Every Parents Worst Nightmare On a cool and rainy April 20 day in Queensland, Australia the Bennett family was enjoying the beginning of the weekend when Leisa Bennett noticed that her three-year-old granddaughter, Aurora, had could not be found in the house and in the immediate vicinity.

If you are ever in the Canadian Yukon’s Dawson City, stop by the Sourdough Saloon for some food and drinks and be sure to experience a peculiar cocktail called the ‘Sourtoe’. Nick Griffiths would appreciate the visit. The Drink Has (Frost)bite Griffiths, a frequent contender in extreme racings, participated this last winter in the Yukon Arctic Ultra. The race is a punishing 300-mile jaunt via foot, dogsled and mountain bikes through inhospitable freezing landscapes, with temperatures getting down to 58 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, making it one of the coldest races in the world.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the same may be said of luck. A twenty-year-old Colorado native named Dylan McWilliams may either be the most unlucky or luckiest man, reports Sky News. On April 19, while enjoying a two week vacation to Hawaii, McWilliams was on his surfboard in the early morning waters of Shipwreck’s Beach, 50 yards off of Poipu. The avid surfer and survival instructor was enjoying a beautiful morning when he suddenly felt something clamp down on one of his submerged legs.

After two years of trying to determine what it was that was drifting above the clouds off the coast of Chile on November 11 of 2014, that nation’s version of our Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the CEFAA, has recently released nearly ten minutes of footage of an apparent UFO that has left Chilean officials at a loss to explain, reports Huffington Post. On the date mentioned above, two Chilean naval aviators flying an Airbus Cougar AS-532 helicopter on a routine daytime patrol, spotted what they later described as a white, semi-oval shaped “flat, elongated structure that had two thermal spotlights like discharges that did not coincide with the axel of motion”.

Last week a Space X Falcon 9 Rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida and launched a very special satellite named TESS into Earth’s orbit. TESS stands for Transiting Exoplanet Surevey Satellite and its mission is to discover new planets. NASA is very excited about the possibilities. From Space.com: “TESS is going to dramatically increase the number of planets that we have to study,” TESS principal investigator George Ricker, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said during a pre-launch briefing Sunday (April 15).