197 years ago today, the first issue of the Cherokee Phoenix was published using the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah. Sequoyah, also known as George Gist, was a Cherokee polymath who was one of the few people in history from a pre-literate group who created the original written system for that group’s language. Just as […]
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An article at Our World in Data recently explored trends in air quality across a selection of high and middle-income countries, and found that not only is the West breathing better air than at perhaps any point since urbanization, but that developing nations likely won’t need 100 years or more to arrive at similar outcomes. […]
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Reprinted with permission from World at Large. Six years after their installation on the world’s longest sea crossing, thousands of bamboo panels have withstood six years of intense exposure to the elements without issue. A report published by engineers in the Chinese paper Science and Technology Daily claims the panels are “as solid as ever,” […]
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An intuitive piece of hardware is collecting days’ worth of renewable energy from airplane engine exhaust before take-off from a Dallas airport. “Boarding is completed” is a common refrain heard over the intercom system in the moments before taxiing to the runway. At that moment, the pilot will begin a series of engine tests and […]
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From the Magazine of the Archaeological Institute of America comes the jaw-dropping chronicle of an Egyptian temple, once covered in dirt and soot, that’s now revealing an ancient creation myth and the cult that worshiped it. Located far in the south, confusingly called “Upper Egypt” on the west bank of the Nile, the Temple of […]
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13 years ago today, a team of Russian botanists successfully regenerated 36 specimens of Silene stenophylla from frozen samples of the plant’s fruit buried in the Russian permafrost between 40 and 60,000 years ago by squirrels. Surpassing the previous record for regeneration by more than 10 times, placental cells extracted from the frozen fruit were radiocarbon […]
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What do you get when you cross some good eggs with a fire? In Los Angeles County, you get much-needed relief. In the wake of the Palisades and Altadena fires, and amid continual rising prices for eggs at the supermarket, a California farm has donated 324,000 eggs to victims of the recent wildfires. 54,000 will […]
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A young Australian ecologist travels from town to town building bee “hotels” and educating children and adults alike about the importance of making room for native insects. Australia has a high prevalence of solitary bee species: that is, bees that don’t live in colonies or hives and potentially don’t even make honey. Nicknamed the “Bee […]
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“I’m really excited to eat Korean fried chicken again,” said Bruce Yamate, a California teen who, after undergoing a marathon surgery, has a whole new reason to smile again. At 16 years old, Yamate would probably be focused on hanging out with his friends, finishing up high school, maybe chasing a girl or two—even thinking […]
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A woman who rescued a drowning toddler from a pool has met him again for just the second time—64 years later. CBS 8 San Diego was live at the reunion organized by siblings of Ben Colwell, now 66, with his savior Barabara Ribeiro—now 94. She was Barbara Urban back then—in 1961 when she made the […]
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40 years ago today, William J. Schroeder became the first artificial heart recipient to be discharged from a hospital. He was a hero to medical science for his willingness to be the second patient to get the Jarvik-7, after the first one died. Today, the modern version of the device has been implanted in more […]
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A modern-looking diving bird was living somewhere in Antarctica when a massive asteroid struck the Earth and caused the dinosaurs to go extinct. But unlike the dinosaurs, this early ancestor of today’s waterfowl survived that mass extinction event, and a nearly complete skull has now been recovered by a special paleontological project on the southern […]
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From Pennsylvania comes the story of a sweet old neighbor lighting up social media with his quirky annual tradition. Recounted to the Washington Post by local Michelle Hernandez, one morning whilst she was working from home, 87-year-old Doug Turner rang her doorbell. Having only moved to the neighborhood in Bucks County 5 months past, Hernandez […]
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Over 50,000 pounds of trash have been removed from the Arctic in 2023 after a multilateral effort flooded critical northern ecosystems with volunteers. Working during the brief Arctic summer, clean-up operations were carried out in Alaska, Greenland, Norway, and Iceland. Nearly 2,000 volunteers were enlisted across the treaty nations of the Arctic Council, an inter-governmental […]
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Maybe you were a kid the first time you ever saw dry ice: remember how strange it seemed compared to water ice? NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recently captured a short clip of dry ice clouds lit up with colors from the setting Sun drifting over the Red Planet. Martian clouds are almost always made of […]
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On this day last year, Singaporean Ashwath Kaushik became the youngest player ever to defeat a grandmaster in classical tournament chess at 8 years, 6 months, and 111 days. He beat out the previous record holder by 4 months after defeating Poland’s Jacek Stopa, 37, in round four of the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open in Switzerland. READ […]
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A pair of Florida residents are set to enjoy a show by former Tonight Show host Jay Leno as a deserved reward for snatching their neighbor from the jaws of death. Or, perhaps it should read the jaws leased by death, because at the time they belonged to a massive American alligator that ran down Rick […]
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Research into a cancer treatment over 10 years in the making has born remarkable fruit with the juicy potential to greatly improve existing radiation therapy. Throughout the 21st century, GNN has reported on how cancer research has broadened, expanded, become more precise and more forgiving on non-cancerous cells, and even shown how cancer may be […]
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In one of India’s few wildlife sanctuaries for gray wolves, a litter of 8 pups has inspired the conservation community working to protect one of the most endangered wolf subspecies. Located in the sub-continent’s southern state of Karnataka, the Bankapur Wolf Sanctuary is home to many wildlife species, including leopards, peacocks, blackbucks, and porcupines, but […]
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A protein found in oysters has been identified as an outright killer of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and to strengthen antibiotics’ overall effectiveness. The discovery was made by scientists in Australia who found the protein in the bivalve’s ‘hemolymphs,’ cells that act a little like blood cells in humans. Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Streptococcus pyogenes, may not […]
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100 years ago today, Hal Holbrook, the great actor, director, and writer was born. He received critical acclaim for playing Mark Twain in his original one-man stage show. He won the 1966 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for that role—and five Emmys throughout his career. WATCH him as Mark Twain giving hilarious […]
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Adults with high levels of playfulness showed strong resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to less playful individuals, new research shows. The Oregon State University study is important because playfulness is a vital but under-appreciated resource for building resilience and maintaining well-being during difficult periods such as the pandemic—and it’s a resource that individuals can […]
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After donating tens of millions of dollars, Michael Jordan is celebrating the opening of another vital community health hub—the fourth ‘Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinic’ to open in North Carolina. The latest is the second clinic opened in Jordan’s hometown of Wilmington, and all are founded in collaboration with Novant Health. It will officially welcome […]
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Any parent knows the heartbreak of a child losing their favorite stuffed animal. But thanks to a little airport magic, this drama has a “hoppy” ending! Well-worn, with long gray ears, Bunny—its real name—was turned into Patti Getty, who has worked for 11 years at the Information Desk in the Pittsburgh International Airport. “I wanted […]
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Introducing the first new class of pain medicine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in more than two decades. The FDA has approved the first drug in its class that targets moderate to severe acute pain in adults, without being addictive like opioids, which have been the standard of care in pain-killers for […]
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20 years ago today, the Kyoto Protocol went into effect after ratification by Russia. It commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO2 emissions are driving it. READ about the progress made… (2005) The first major attempt to curb global GHG emissions, […]
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The world’s oldest known bird has returned to her home island to hatch yet another chick, at nearly 74 years old. Named Wisdom, the Laysan albatross has been spotted this month caring for her youngster on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific Ocean. Like others of her species, Wisdom returns to the same […]
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NASA sent a valentine to space lovers on social media this week posting images of heart shapes found on Mars. The pictures were all captured from the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) in the past decades—but with Valentine’s Day on Friday, it was the perfect moment to share the compilation online. The post on Twitter/X made […]
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In the UK, a funeral company says they can now bury you in the ‘world’s first living coffin’, which is made out of mushrooms. Containing no wood, the coffins are formed out of a mat of fibers including pliable mycelium—the root structure of mushrooms—and up-cycled hemp plants. The thread-like mycelium, aids decomposition by breaking down […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […]
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79 years ago today, the US government’s first all-purpose computer—ENIAC—was unveiled. The Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer was digital and programmable, and therefore one thousand times faster than electro-mechanical machines of the day. In a fine example of how markets can drive down the price of goods through incremental improvement and specialization, ENIAC cost the […]
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According to a truly field-altering fossilized bird found in China, birds already existed in the Late Jurassic period, approximately 160 million years ago. The new discovery suggests that rather than a linear evolutionary path from dinosaur to bird, these two orders evolved somewhat simultaneously. Baminornis zhenghensis is the world’s oldest species of avid. A holotype […]
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This is Kynlee Rogers, born with a cleft lip; and her dog, Tennee, born with a cleft lip. Rogers used to ask her mom Kimberly why she was different from other kids, a challenging thing for any parent to have to answer. She doesn’t ask anymore though, because she’s not different; just look at her […]
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After a series of significant rains in Napa, a man-made lake’s unique drainage system was activated to the delight of onlookers. Known as the Morning Glory spillway in Napa County’s Lake Berryessa behind the Monticello Dam, a 72-foot-long hole empties the water of the lake down into a creek 200 feet below. Forming a perfect […]
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The restaurant and fashion industries are often and rightly critiqued for the mountains of landfill waste they produce, but the same can—and really should—be said about cosmetics and hygiene products. In response, an Ivorian immigrant to Arizona has created a fully compostable, plant-based refillable skincare dispenser made of sugarcane and bamboo pulp. Inventor Mory Diané […]
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130 years ago today, The Importance of Being Earnest, a play by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, debuted in the St. James Theater of London. It is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists use the age-old theater mechanism of disguises and alter egos to maintain fictitious personae as a means to escape burdensome, Victorian social […]
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When it comes to archaeological discoveries, few things excite as much as a soldier’s helmet. The epitome of looking into the face of the past, they’ve helped historians infer so much about ancient and medieval warfare. Recently in Denmark, archaeologists became elated when looking through an Iron Age excavation they identified the first Roman Imperial […]
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What would a bird feeder look like if you adapted it to feed coral reefs? The answer is something like a searchlight. Scientists at Ohio State have designed one that uses a special kind of light that attracts the microscopic organisms that coral feed on. The device, dubbed the Underwater Zooplankton Enhancement Light Array (UZELA), […]
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A tribal-led nonprofit is creating a network of native bison ranchers that are restoring ecosystems on the Great Plains, restoring native ranchers’ connections with their ancestral land, and restoring the native diet that their ancestors relied on. Called the Tanka Fund, they coordinate donors and partners to help ranchers secure grazing land access, funds needed […]
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Firms that conduct exploratory surveys for oil drilling have been sitting on mountains of geologic data that are now used to locate hidden aquifers of water for African communities. Two-thirds of the African population is affected by water scarcity, but while this basic human necessity costs so little, the costs of finding underground sources are […]
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This daily column at GNN.org features all the good news, anniversaries and notable birthdays from this day in history—February 13.
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Originally published on Mongabay by Shreya Dasgupta A tiny lizard found only on one tiny Caribbean island has seen a dramatic 1,500% increase in its population, after just a few years of island restoration efforts. In 2018, researchers estimated there were fewer than 100 individuals of the critically endangered Sombrero ground lizard (Pholidoscelis corvinus) on […]
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An English family has been reunited with their beloved Labrador Daisy who was stolen from their front lawn 7 years ago. Their tireless search and advocacy for their lost family member attracted the attention of British celebrity and even helped steer a law through Parliament, but the ultimate reward for the devotion to their lost […]
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Looking at the number of deforested acres in Colombia, the outgoing environment minister says 2024 will be one of the least damaging years in recent decades. Considering the level of paramilitary presence in rural Colombia over the past 50 years, it’s an incredible achievement to have seen it fall so low in one of the […]
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When parsing through images meant to test the camera on a new space telescope, scientists recently recognized a striking and rare phenomenon that had been perfectly captured by the craft. A galaxy, shining in the distance, was tightly encircled by a halo of white light—also known as an Einstein Ring, and the result of gravitational […]
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24 years ago today, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) – Shoemaker spacecraft successfully orbited and landed on the asteroid Eros 433, a first for humanity. The second-largest known near-Earth object, Eros was the perfect target for landing as NEAR Shoemaker could orbit its 13 by 33-kilometer bulk—which it did, for a whole year from […]
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What if the best course of action in the fight against cancer isn’t to fight at all? Rather than killing these mutated cells, a new study from Korea presents a treatment wherein they can be changed back to healthy cells at a key moment. The authors liken the method to the moment just before water […]
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A dyslexic Englishman who was never properly taught how to read in school has finally been able to enjoy a copy of a magazine he bought in 1985. Ted Midgely has learned how to read at 58 years old thanks to the help of a tutor, who told the BBC that adults without the ability […]
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In a staggering statistic, where it took a whole year to add one gigawatt of solar power in 2004, it now takes one single day. A gigawatt can power around 200,000 homes in the US, and in another staggering statistic, American businesses and governments funded the installation of 30 in 2024 alone. Indeed, 90% of […]
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A music conservatory has made a remarkable sacrifice in the name of providing the best education in the arts for its students. Crafted in 1714 and considered one of the greatest violins ever made or heard, the Joachin-Ma Stradivarius violin was owned by the New England Conservatory, but it’s now been sold to establish the […]
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