An 18-month-old bloodhound has been honored with the 2024 Hero Dog Award for his exceptional work saving lives and solving crimes. He has been instrumental in locating missing persons and assisting law enforcement in criminal investigations.
Mario Vangeel took first place in the European Pumpkin Championship with a massive pumpkin weighing 2,539 pounds (about the same as a 2007 Honda Civic)!
Belgian designer Mathilde Wittock repurposes used tennis balls into eco-friendly furniture, transforming a material that would take 400 years to decompose into functional art.
LEGO is paying to increase recycled plastic in its bricks to 50% by 2026. This is part of an 8-year, $350M plan to replace 50% of fossil fuels in their plastics with resin from used oil, food waste, or recycled plastic.
A new study that examined over 49,000 older women in the nursing profession found that grateful people have lower rates of early death, regardless of cardiovascular health, smoking, or chronic disease factors.
After studying mammograms, AI technology helped breast radiologists in Denmark improve screening performance, detect more cancers (0.82% vs. 0.70%), and significantly reduce false positives (1.63% vs. 2.39%).
Sixty years after being selected by the Air Force as a candidate to become the first African-American astronaut, 90-year-old Edward Dwight fulfilled his dream by blasting off with Blue Origin for a short trip into space.
Iceland has begun operating the world’s largest vacuum designed to capture carbon emissions. According to the company, this device can remove 4,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere annually.
An Australian ophthalmologist and biotech entrepreneur envisions a future where curing blindness globally is simple, achieved through advanced cell replication and 3D printing technologies.
Researchers found that broadcasting the sounds of a healthy coral reef led to a remarkable 7x increase in coral larvae settlement rates, encouraging new life in damaged reefs.
A 6-year-old boy, diagnosed with the usually fatal brain stem glioma, defied all odds and became the first child in the world to be cured, offering a beacon of hope in the fight against this brutal cancer.
In Central California, sea otters reintroduced to a deteriorated coastline, consumed sufficient crabs to restore ecological balance, leading to a remarkable 90% reduction in erosion.