During the pandemic, 17-year-old teen Benjamin Choi used his time to design a device that may remove the need for brain surgery in people with amputations. 10 years ago, when Choi was in third grade, he watched a documentary on 60 Minutes about prostheses controlled by the mind. The researchers […]
А team of scientists successfully used algae to power a low-energy computer chip for a period of six months. The team from the University of Cambridge closed a cyanobacteria colony (blue-green algae) in a metal enclosure the size of an AA battery. They left the unit near a window and […]
In the early period of the space age, Apollo astronauts participated in a visionary plan, i.e., to bring samples of regolith, a lunar surface material, back to Earth to be studied with premium equipment and also saved for research in the future. Rewinding 50 years in the future from that […]
More than 100 students who graduated from Wiley College were informed at the graduation ceremony that one donor, who wanted to remain anonymous, paid off their balances. Unfortunately, despite all the sense of achievement and the celebrations, graduating college also has a less happy side: the incoming loans and debts […]
Designed by Studio Gang, an architecture company, The Populus is a hotel built in Denver, Colorado, and the first of this type in the US: it’s not just carbon neutral, but carbon positive! The exterior of the Populus, as well as the name from the scientific name for the aspen […]
This sweet, three-legged dog is undergoing treatment for cancer and he came to the rescue of a lost baby otter in the St. Croix River in Lakeland, Minnesota on Easter Sunday this year. The friendly Goldendoodle named Gus who had to have an amputation because of a malignant tumor jumped […]
This dog is being called a hero after it helped rescuers find his owner who went missing on the 3rd of May in Katy, a suburb in Houston, Texas, while they were on a walk together. Sherry Noppe was luckily found alive on an early Friday morning after her black […]
Skin biopsies aren’t fun at all. Doctors have to cut away small sections of the tissue to be tested in the laboratory which results in aching wounds in the patients that can last for weeks. However, this is a price many individuals are ready to pay as it helps identify […]
The Portuguese reservoir Alqueva is the home to the biggest floating solar park in Europe and it will take shape this July. The two tugboats are moving the 12000 solar panels that are the size of four football fields to the mooring on the reservoir. This floating solar park is […]
Because of this unusual and mysterious game, residents of Miramichi, a Canadian city, are finding bills of $100 and $50 following clues. This exciting game has resulted in residents getting out of their homes and heading to fields and forests, at day and at night, hoping to find some of […]