This Holiday Tradition Is Actually A Powerful Health Booster
Research has confirmed that while singing delivers numerous health benefits including improved disease resistance and faster injury recovery, performing with others creates superior effects compared to singing alone, making holiday caroling and choir participation powerful wellness activities backed by science. The activity activates the vagus nerve through the long breaths required to sustain verses and […]
What 500 Discarded Vapes Can Do Will Shock You
British engineer Chris Doel thought it was absolutely insane that disposable vaping pens contain fully rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, the same technology marketed as the alternative to throwaway batteries, so he decided to prove just how wasteful the entire industry really is. The 26-year-old Jaguar Land Rover engineer stripped the lithium batteries from 500 discarded vapes, […]
What 16,600 Footprints Reveal About Dinosaur Secrets
In Bolivia’s Torotoro National Park, paleontologists have documented an astonishing 16,600 dinosaur footprints at Carreras Pampas, making it the largest concentration of prehistoric tracks ever recorded in a single location. The remarkable site preserves dozens of trackways created by theropods, the bipedal meat-eating dinosaurs that included the famous Tyrannosaurus rex, as they traveled across what […]
The Turtle Comeback Of The Century
One million turtle nests have been counted along the western coastline of India, a number that leading sea turtle expert Kartik Shanker describes as “crazy high” and represents a stunning tenfold increase from just two decades ago when only 100,000 nests existed along the entire Indian coast. The olive ridley sea turtles, still listed as […]
The Knock On The Door That Led To A Beautiful Gift
Tim Swinburn from Melksham in Wiltshire knocked on Clare Brixey’s door in Standerwick, Somerset in 2004 with the worst news any parent can receive: her 20-year-old son Ashley had died in a car crash. As the family liaison officer from Wiltshire Police, Swinburn provided compassionate support and became someone Brixey found very easy to talk […]
Chocolate Waste Just Became The Future Of Food Coloring
Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia have discovered how to transform chocolate factory waste into a stunning natural blue food coloring worth over $275 million globally. The breakthrough uses an ancient strain of red algae called Galdieria sulphuraria that literally eats the sugars from discarded cocoa shells and factory […]
The Global Operation That Rescued 30,000
Law enforcement agencies from 134 countries joined forces in a massive global operation that rescued nearly 30,000 live animals from illegal trafficking networks. Operation Thunder 2025 ran from September 15 to October 15 and resulted in a record-breaking 4,640 seizures including tens of thousands of protected animals, plants, and illegally logged timber. Authorities identified 1,100 […]
The 80 Year School Lunch Rule That Finally Changed
The Senate just passed a bill that would end an 80-year federal requirement forcing public schools to serve only cow’s milk at lunch, opening the door for plant-based alternatives for the first time in American history. The Whole Milk For Healthy Kids Act passed unanimously in November and would allow schools to offer non-dairy milk […]
Miami Just Made History With This Groundbreaking Election
Miami voters made history this week by electing Eileen Higgins as the city’s first woman mayor in its 130-year history. The former Miami-Dade County commissioner defeated her Republican opponent in a special runoff election, marking the first time in nearly three decades that a Democrat will lead Florida’s second-largest city. Her victory came despite her […]
This State is Paying Homeless Students To Stay In School
New Mexico is tackling student homelessness with a groundbreaking initiative that pays qualifying high school students $500 per month to stay in school and graduate. The Guaranteed Payment for Attendance program started as a test in Cuba, New Mexico and is now expanding to 330 students across 12 school districts and one charter school statewide. […]