Virginia Pals Save Flowers From the Landfill, Redeploying Them to Bring Joy
nnA pair of Virginians who found themselves habitually dismayed by the amount of floral waste they saw over a series of weddings and funerals decided to launch a small nonprofit to reuse them.nnFriendly City Florals delivers flowers to hospice care homes, hospitals, and other events like funerals and weddings to make sure that the joy […]
Water Detected on Mars Could Harbor Life 12 Miles Underground
nnIf you want to get excited about scientific advancements from space, you have to accept sometimes that often the most exciting things are the most unactionable.nnTake for example a study just released from the University of California—that scientists may have finally found all that water that disappeared off the surface of Mars 3 billion years […]
Rare Ocelot Caught on Camera in Arizona, the First Sighting in the Area for 50 Years
nnFrom Arizona comes the story of a remarkable animal sighting: an ocelot, one of the world’s most well-known small wildcat species.nnMostly native to South and Central America, its range once upon a time extended up above the Rio Grande, and one was just recorded passing through the Atascosa Highlands of Southern Arizona’s Coronado National Forest.nnThe […]
Baldness May Be Treated by Sugar That Naturally Occurs in the Human Body
nnOnly 2 FDA-approved drugs exist for treating male pattern baldness, but a third may have just been found inside our own bodies.nnA naturally occurring ribose sugar has already been used to successfully stimulate hair growth in mice, say scientists, and can be applied to a variety of carrier gels inexpensively.nnScientists in the UK and Pakistan […]
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Repurposed peonies, ready for delivery in Harrisonburg. (Friendly City Florals
Infographic of the Insight Lander’s discovery – credit, Dr. Vashan Wright, UCSD.
credit – Phoenix Zoo, released
baldness – credit – Anthony Tran Unsplash
“The future is an infinite succession of presents.” – Howard Zinn
Quote of the Day: “The future is an infinite succession of presents.” – Howard Zinn nnPhoto by: Maurice Koop (licensed under CC BY-SA)nnWith a new inspirational quote every day, atop the perfect photo—collected and archived on our Quote of the Day page—why not bookmark GNN.org for a daily uplift?nn