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Realtor Transforms Abandoned Properties into Tiny Home Villages That Give Permanent Housing to Chronic Homeless
A realtor in Missouri is determined to make her hometown “a city where no one sleeps outside.”
For nine years Linda Brown and her husband...
Innkeeper’s Kindness to House People After Storms is Contagious – With Everyone Pitching in and Sharing
This story was chosen as one of the top ten nominations to win the Reader’s Digest annual “Nicest Places in America” contest: a crowd-sourced...
National Spelling Bee Takes Over Words With Friends for 8 Days, With Top Words From 8 Champions Who Tied in 2019
Words With Friends is collaborating with the Scripps National Spelling Bee, after the pandemic year that cancelled the Bee, to have fun around the...
Florida Just Enacted a Sweeping Law to Protect Its Vast Wildlife Corridors – And Save Panthers
From Everglades to Okefenokee, Florida legislatures just created one of the biggest wildlife corridors in the developed world with a $400 million funding seed.
The...
A Rose Inspired This Design For the Smartest Way to Collect And Purify Water
The rose may be one of the most iconic symbols of the fragility of love in popular culture, but now the flower could hold...
Scientists Have Figured Out How to Instantly Cure Hiccups
Many of us have some cure for the hiccups, whether that's drinking water upside-down or holding our breath, but a peculiar type of drinking...
She Spent Her Vacation Picking Up Trash Across the U.S., and Strangers Chipped in With Help and Gas
A Colorado woman has spent 23 days picking up 126 bags of trash across the country.
Having over a month off from her job at...
Scientists Partially Restore Vision in Blind Man Using Emerging Technique and Genes from Light-Sensitive Algae
By injecting a Parisian man's eye with genes from algae that encode for light-sensing proteins, scientists were able to slowly restore the patient's vision...
Harvesting Air Conditioning Condensation Could Replace Cities’ Potable Water Use
While looking for ways to make homes and offices more efficient, building managers have realized that something as seemingly insignificant as the water droplets...
Sheldon the Dog Flunked Out of Service-Animal Training, But Became an Ace at Sniffing Out Arson
“When one door closes,” the saying goes, “another door opens.” For one very special pooch, it appears that adage also applies to doggie-doors.
A Labrador-retriever...
Flowers Can Hear Buzzing Bees—And it Makes Their Nectar Sweeter
An evolutionary theorist has set out to prove that plants can hear their surroundings, and she was right; they can.
Her work, not yet peer-reviewed,...
Biden Administration Takes Steps to Reinstate Migratory Bird Protections After Trump Rule Struck Down by Court
As bird-lovers celebrated World Migratory Bird Day on May 8, new science had already determined that in the last half century around 3 billion...
Once a Janitor at the School, Now She’s Their Beloved Teacher After Continuous Study to Earn Degree
What’s the difference between having the dream and living the dream? Hard work and perseverance.
Wanda Smith always wanted to be a school teacher but...
In Learning to Use Her Left Hand Following a Stroke 60-Year Old Chen Lie Discovers She’s an Expert Painter
At the age of 60, Chen Lie suffered a hemorrhagic stroke which arrived "without my invitation or permission." But the temporary paralysis of her...
How One Developer is Turning Farm Storage into Soaring Yet Affordable Apartments
Produced by the U.S. Navy for use in World War II, and now consigned primarily for storage use on farms, the Quonset hut is...
She’s Starting College at Age 12, With Plans to Be a NASA Engineer
Over the course of the pandemic, the landscape of education has drastically changed, but that hasn’t kept one brilliant girl whose dreams have never...
Researchers Find They Can Weaken Fear Memories, a Discovery That Could Help Treat Trauma
Scientists could be a step closer to finding a way to reduce the impact of traumatic memories, according to a new study.
Stephen Maren, professor...
Walmart Commits to Helping Save Pollinators By Mandating Change For Supply Chains
Without pollinators like bees, butterflies, birds, and beetles, some of our favorite foods would not exist—and Walmart has announced a set of plans in...
For International Dark Sky Week, Here Are Some City-Adjacent Locations For Viewing Celestial Wonders
It's officially International Dark Sky Week, and officially the week of the new moon, which means there's no better time to look up and...
This Cancer Surviving Girl Scout Broke the Record, Selling 32K Boxes of Cookies – With Proceeds Going to Sick Kids
At age 8, Lilly Bumpus is already a warrior. As an infant, she took on rare Ewing’s Sarcoma and won.
The experience left her determined...