Thanks to this technological discovery, ultra efficient, hydrogen-fueled vehicles may be appearing on the market soon. This September, a team of researchers from the Techion Israel Institute for Technology published a paper in the journal Nature where they presented their development of a cheap, clean, safe, and very efficient method […]
Doctors from Duke University Medical Center have successfully ‘reanimated’ a heart in a groundbreaking transplant performed for the first time on an adult in the US. Heart transplants usually come from donations after someone’s cause of death was brain-related and whose heart is still beating. This method used by this […]
Even though it may take a village to raise a kid, it only takes a man to plant a forest. And, this man from India is a perfect example of this. Back in 1979, the then 16-year-old Padma Shri Jadav Payeng was devastated when we came across a bunch of […]
The Labour Party, the biggest one in the parliament of Norway, recently withdrew its support for the explorative drilling for oil off the Lofoten islands in the Arctic that are considered a natural wonder. This move created a majority against oil drilling in this sensitive offshore area and illustrates the […]
The Netherlands has no longer stray dogs living on their streets. They brought the stray dog population to zero by encouraging people to adopt instead of buying dogs. But, there have been other decisive factors too. Estimates show that there are more than 200 million stray dogs in the world. […]
If you ever find yourself in Rome and travelling from the Termini train station to the Vatican, don’t forget to pick up a few plastic bottles along the way to pay for your ticket. Rome is testing a new method where a subway ticket can be paid with plastic bottles. […]
In March this year, more than 6000 people came to bid and become potential stem cell donors for a young boy who was diagnosed with leukemia. The boy, aged 5 and named Oscar Saxelby-Lee, needed a transplant within a three-month period of his chemo; otherwise, his chances for recuperation would […]
Tory Ojeda is a 20-year-old woman living in Jacksonville, Florida and she’s in a polyamorous relationship with four men. Currently, she’s expecting her first child with one of the four partners as the biological father. She told that the five of them will raise the baby together as a family. […]
The first new drug in the world for the management of Alzheimer’s symptoms in almost two decades was approved by the Chinese government. This is probably the sole treatment with the possibility to reverse the condition. According to the National Medical Products Administration, the drug, named Oligomannate, is approved for […]
Rhea Bullos is an 11-year-old track athlete living in the Philippines who won three gold medals after running practically barefoot. She had ‘sneakers’ made from bandages featuring the Nike swoosh which the young girl draw by hand. After competing in a local running competition, the girl’s story went viral. She […]