Kids Today Are Stronger Than You Think | Science News

A seventh grader challenges the myth that today’s kids are worse off, revealing how parental pressure and fragile friendships often fuel stress — not peer drama — while teachers’ strictness adds to the mental health crisis. Meanwhile, physicists tackle a mind-bending relativity puzzle: can a speeding object shrink so much it becomes a black hole? They explain that contraction is relative, but black hole formation depends on mass and density — not perspective. And in a futuristic twist, scientists propose using ancient, ultra-conserved bacterial genes as living time capsules, encoding human history into DNA for future civilizations to decode. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/11c006df7bc9c00c