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The National Zoo’s Baby Elephant Made Her Public Debut On Earth Day
Today is a very big day at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., where a two-month-old Asian elephant calf named Linh Mai is making her public debut for the first time since her birth, and the staff who have cared for her around the clock since February say she
A Cat Disappeared In 2022 And Was Just Found Exactly Two Streets From Home
A 10-year-old cat named Alfie is back home and purring loudly after a four-year disappearance ended in one of the most unexpected reunion stories that anyone in Portsmouth could have imagined. Alfie had gone missing in 2022, shortly after his owner Mandy Davis moved house, slipping out through a small
Animal Shelters Just Saved 34,000 More Pets Than Last Year And It Is The Best News In Years
American animal shelters just recorded their most life-saving year in recent history, and the numbers are giving animal lovers across the country genuine reason to celebrate. According to new data from the Best Friends Animal Society, 34,000 fewer dogs and cats were unnecessarily euthanized in U.S. shelters in 2025 compared
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A LEGO Set Just Broke A World Record By Floating To The Edge Of Space And Coming Back
To celebrate the worldwide release of the film Project Hail Mary, a team of engineers and space enthusiasts launched a LEGO set nearly 22 miles into the stratosphere using a high-altitude balloon, broke a Guinness World Record in the process, and brought the whole thing safely back to Earth. The
Happy Earth Day! This Year, There’s More Reasons To Be Hopeful
Today is Earth Day 2026, and while the headlines about our planet can feel overwhelming, there is genuine, data-backed reason to celebrate. The theme this year is “Our Power, Our Planet”, a rallying cry for the global clean energy movement, and the numbers show that movement is winning. According to
The Artemis II Crew Just Told The World What It Was Really Like To Come Home From The Moon
The four Artemis II astronauts held their first press conference since returning from the Moon this week, and the mood at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston was one of genuine pride and relief, with the crew offering glowing reviews of their spacecraft and setting the stage for what comes
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A Common Plant That Grows In Your Backyard Could Be The Answer To Microplastics In Drinking Water
Scientists in Brazil have discovered that seeds from the moringa tree, a plant native to India that grows widely across the tropics and is already consumed as food in many parts of the world, can remove microplastics from drinking water as effectively as the industrial chemical currently used to treat
Scientists Just Discovered A Protein That Has Been Silently Aging Your Immune System And They Found How To Stop It
Scientists at the University of Tokyo and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered an unexpected way that the immune system ages, and in doing so they may have uncovered a new path toward keeping it young for much longer. The culprit turns out to be a protein called MLKL,
95% Of People Carry This Virus For Life And Scientists Just Found A Way To Stop It
A virus that 95 percent of the global population carries silently for life has long resisted efforts to stop it, but scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle have just announced a breakthrough that could finally change that. The Epstein-Barr virus, which most people encounter in childhood and which