Meet The 10-Pound Dog With The Most Honest Adoption Profile Ever
When Renegade Paws Rescue in Savannah, Georgia needed to find a home for Igor, a 10-pound bundle of attitude and fur, they decided to take a completely different approach to writing his adoption bio. Instead of sugar-coating his personality, they leaned into his quirks with pure comedic gold, describing him as a “sentient middle finger […]
Meet the Real Tooth Fairy, She’s a Dentist in Seattle
For 20 years, Dr. Purva Merchant has been living a double life as both a pediatric dentist in Seattle and the real tooth fairy, secretly answering thousands of emails from children and frantic parents across the world. It all started accidentally in 2004 when her boyfriend created an email address containing “tooth fairy” to help […]
Your Organs Don’t Age at the Same Rate, And Now We Can Measure It
Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a groundbreaking blood test that can determine the biological age of your major organs, revealing why some people age faster than others and offering unprecedented insight into future health risks. By analyzing nearly 3,000 proteins in blood samples from over 44,000 participants, scientists created an algorithm that assigns biological ages […]
Scientists Transform Nature’s Most Dangerous Weapons Into Medicine
In a breakthrough that sounds like science fiction, researchers have used artificial intelligence to transform deadly animal venom into powerful antibiotics that could save millions of lives. Working with venom from snakes, scorpions, spiders, and other dangerous creatures, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed over 40 million venom-encoded peptides and identified 386 molecules with […]
From Empty Gum Wrapper to National Movement Helping 100 Kids
In 2013, Brian Martindale was down to his last piece of gum, so he took a simple walk to Liberty Food Store in Bay City, Michigan, to buy more. Inside the store, he picked up a copy of The Bay City Times and saw something that would change his life forever: a front-page photo of […]
The Glowing Comeback That’s Bringing Joy to Summer Evenings
If summer evenings in Michigan seem unusually magical this year, there’s a beautiful reason behind the extra sparkle: fireflies are experiencing an incredible population boom thanks to perfect weather conditions. Warm, wet conditions over the past year have created ideal circumstances for these beloved insects, leading to spectacular displays that some cyclists describe as feeling […]
This Antarctic Discovery Is Like Having a Climate Time Machine
In one of the most extraordinary scientific achievements of recent years, researchers have successfully drilled 9,186 feet into Antarctic ice to retrieve a core that dates back an incredible 1.2 million years. This massive ice sample, nearly as long as 25 soccer fields placed end to end, represents the oldest continuous climate record ever extracted […]
The Heartwarming Rescue That Gave This Horse a Second Chance
University of Calgary environmental science students Anna Gleig and Ava Haddad were enjoying a peaceful paddle down the Kananaskis River when they encountered something completely unexpected. A week-old floating baby horse was trapped against a concrete bridge, unable to escape the rushing water. The baby horse, weighing only 80 to 90 pounds, was pinned in […]
The Christmas Miracle That Happened in the Middle of Summer
When 9-year-old Kasey Zachmann’s parents learned she might only have weeks left due to terminal brain cancer, they decided to transform her original diagnosis day into a Christmas in June. With just six days notice, Kasey’s parents reached out to a handful of neighbors in Bethesda, Maryland, asking if they could put up Christmas lights […]
Bacteria Just Figured Out How to Make Rocks From Thin Air
In a discovery that sounds like science fiction, researchers have found a tiny soil bacterium called Bacillus megaterium that can literally eat carbon dioxide and transform it into solid limestone rock. Under laboratory conditions, this remarkable microbe achieved 94 percent efficiency in converting CO2 directly into calcium carbonate, completely outperforming most engineered carbon capture systems. […]