Students Invent Robot That Plants 200 Trees Per HOUR
Portuguese students Marta Bernardino and Sebastião Mendonça have created Trovador, an autonomous tree-planting robot designed to save and restore burned land from deforestation by placing seedlings in steep terrain that humans and other reforestation methods cannot easily access. The young engineers developed two prototypes, starting with a spider-like robot with six legs in 2023, where […]
Strangers Change a Veterans Life In Viral TikTok Moment
Ed Bambas, an 88-year-old veteran working 40 hours per week as a cashier at a Michigan Meijer grocery store, broke into tears when Australian social media influencer Sam Weidenhofer surprised him Friday with a check for more than $1.7 million. The extraordinary donation came after Weidenhofer learned about Bambas from a stranger’s comment on one […]
What This Mom Noticed In A Diaper Changed EVERYTHING
Meghan Jenkins noticed her energetic, Miami Dolphins loving toddler Malachi was tired and lethargic with a lingering cough, but when she changed his diaper and found black stool, she rushed straight to the emergency room where hours later doctors delivered devastating news: acute lymphoblastic leukemia with a life expectancy of just two and a half […]
Free Flights To NASA Turn Teens Into Future Pilots And Engineers
Every year Delta Airlines hosts a special one of a kind trip designed to place the heads of ambitious Black students squarely in the clouds, with 100 local teens climbing aboard a Boeing 757 departing from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta as the latest passengers on the Dream Flights program. The give-back initiative organized in […]
This Digital Project Lets You Travel Ancient Rome
A team of two dozen scientists have created Itiner-e, a spectacular digital road atlas of the Roman imperial world that functions just like Google Maps but for ancient highways that existed around the year 150 CE. This groundbreaking research project is the most expansive study on the topic to date, increasing the estimated length of […]
12 Year Old Endures Taunts To Change Another Child’s Life
Twelve year old Jack from Cardiff endured two years of playground taunts and name calling, earning the nickname Goldilocks from classmates who mocked his long blond curly hair, but he refused to cut it because he knew his growing locks were going to change a child’s life. The determined youngster ignored every jibe and insult, […]
The Baby Who Got Two Miracles When He Needed Them Most
Baby Cameron Casacci faced an unimaginable journey from his very first day of life, suffering a stroke and blood clot that permanently damaged the left hemisphere of his brain and later developed into treatment-resistant epilepsy that threatened his development. His parents Brad and Alyssa were told their son needed a rare and complex hemispherotomy, a […]
The 96-Year-Old’s Secret to Living Life at Full Speed
While many of his 96-year-old peers are spending their days in card rooms waiting for meals, Marty Friedman is out conquering treadmills, golf courses, and life with an energy that would exhaust people half his age. The Florida grandfather has become an internet sensation after sharing his incredibly disciplined daily routine that includes sleeping 9 […]
How Wolves Returning to Yellowstone Rewrote the Rules of Nature
For eight decades, young quaking aspen trees in Yellowstone struggled to grow taller than waist-high as elk continuously snipped off tender shoots year after year, leaving the forest understory barren and lifeless. That seemingly hopeless pattern finally changed when wolves returned to the park in 1995, setting off what scientists call a “trophic cascade”, a […]
The VR Study Results That Are Revolutionizing Pain Treatment
Researchers at Britain’s University of Exeter have made a groundbreaking discovery that could revolutionize how we treat pain: virtual reality experiences of beautiful Oregon waterfalls proved more effective at reducing pain than traditional methods, with effects lasting even longer than the 45-minute VR sessions themselves. The study involved participants experiencing electric shocks while immersed in […]