Around 900 patients with type 1 diabetes in the UK are being tested for an artificial pancreas that may change their lives. It will remove the necessity to do finger-prick tests and reduce the risk of hypoglycaemic attacks which can be life-threatening due to the blood sugar levels dropping too […]
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Video Gamers Doing Their Fair Share of Goodness: Fortnite Developer Raises $144 Million for Ukraine
Epic Games, the developer of the mega-successful video game Fortnite, recently revealed that they’ve raised $144 million for Ukraine. Together with Microsoft’s Xbox, the company pledged to donate all of the profits from the game to the relief efforts for Ukraine for two weeks. The fundraising pledge started on the […]
San Diego Rescue Pup Gets a “Pawty” to Celebrate His One Year of Being Cancer-Free
Phoenix is a Saint Bernard/shepherd mix who came to the San Diego Humane Society as a stray with malignant tumors. Today, he left Society and went home as a four-year-old cancer-free dog. This rescue dog had an important milestone to celebrate so the staff organized a party. On April 1st, […]
5 Warning Signs of Being Gaslighted in a Relationship
Gaslighting is a strategy of emotional abuse which triggers others to question their thinking, emotions, and sanity. People who gaslight will often try to convince the other side of their own perception and tell them theirs is wrong. They gaslight others to make the mistrust their own thoughts and instincts. […]
This Airbus Jump Completed Two Flights Powered by Cooking Oil
The aviation company Airbus announced that the biggest passenger airplane in the world, the A380, has finished a test flight powered by a 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel, i.e., SAF. The double-decker flew from Blagnac Airport in Toulouse on the 25th of March. The company notes that the flight lasted […]
Scientists Revive a Plant from the Pleistocene Epoch & It’s 32,000 Years Old
A lot of prehistoric secrets are hidden in the permafrost of the arctic regions. Whether it’s an ancient plant or a preserved mammoth, scientists learn so much from the biological findings there. Back in 2012, one team from Russia managed to regenerate fertile, flowering Silene stenophylla plants from seed pods […]
Police Officers from Oceanside PD Handing Out Money at the Gas Station as Part of their Act of Kindness Program
The Oceanside PD in California is helping out the community as part of their program called the Random Acts of Kindness. Their latest effort got a lot of attention after police officers handled gas cash as relief at gas stations to motorists. The department wrote on their official Facebook page […]
MIT Researchers Reverse Hearing Loss by Regenerating the Inner Ear Hair Growth
Every human is born with some 15,000 hair cells inside the left and right ear. When these hairs are damaged, they’re gone and unlike the case with other animals, humans are unable to repair them. The damage to these hair cells is one of the major reasons for hearing loss, […]
Augie, the Golden Retriever Celebrated Her 20th B-Day & Became the Oldest GR in History
August the golden retriever celebrated her 20th birthday surrounded by her loved ones and with a dog-friendly, beautiful cake back in 2020. Little did Augie know that as she licked off the frosting from her cake, she was actually making history. Although she crossed the rainbow bridge in 2021 when […]
Gardening Dad Breaks World Record by Growing 1,269 Tomatoes on a Single Stem in a Tiny Greenhouse
Douglas Smith from Hertfordshire in the UK has broken the world record for growing the most tomatoes from one stem. Back in 2021, September, while he was tending to the tomatoes, Douglas noticed that there was a single stem that had 1,269 cherry tomatoes on it! Pretty unbelievable, isn’t it?! […]