UPDATE Long-Term Follow-up in Babies Born with ‘Bubble Boy Disease’ Still Seem Cured
Between 2012 and 2017, 62 babies and toddlers were treated with a genetic therapy for severe combined immunodeficiency, known colloquially as the “Bubble Boy disease.” In 2021, GNN reported on the results of the trial—that by 2019, 95%, or all but two of the young patients, showed complete immune system reconstruction. Now, the long-term follow-up […]
Winner of Weather Photographer of the Year Contest Shows There’s No End to a Rainbow (LOOK)
The Royal Meteorological Society has announced the winners of this year’s Weather Photographer of the Year Competition. Sponsored by the financial services and banking firm Standard Chartered, the competition is now in its 10th year. Chosen from over 4,000 images received from both amateur and professional photographers from 84 countries—the judges’ winners were chosen by […]
Bionic Arms Enable Mushrooms to Create Music Using Their Own Energy (LISTEN)
An English musical project helps plants and fungi branch out from their quiet natures and express their creativity thanks to a set of bionic arms. Translating their bioelectrical signals into movements of the arms, the mushrooms begin to jam out on keyboards and drum machines, allowing the listener to see and hear them in a […]
Miracle Recovery for World’s Rarest and Strangest Deer – Just 39 Became 8,200
Tramping through coastal marshlands in eastern China, a strange looking deer roams freely in herds of hundreds; a remarkable recovery from where they had been just a few decades ago. Described in ancient China as a beast with the antlers of a deer, hooves of an ox, face of a horse, and tail of a […]
Good News in History, November 4
101 years ago today, “Silent” Calvin Coolidge was elected to serve as the 30th President of the United States. Undoubtedly the greatest domestic/peacetime President in the 20th century, Coolidge embodied not only the Founders’ vision of the Executive, but many of the most quintessentially American qualities we struggle to find today in our political caste. […]
Woman Tracks Down Long-Lost Dad Using Newspaper Ad–and Discovers 11 Siblings
Thanks to a good old newspaper back page ad, an English woman has found a whole new side to life—her father’s, whom she had never met. It started when Louise Walters was 8 years old and found out the man she thought was her father, wasn’t. Louise’s mom, Angie Ishmael was in a relationship and […]
Greatest Spectroscope Ever Built Can Tell What 2,400 Cosmic Objects Are Made of Every 20 Mins.
The world’s largest spectroscopic telescope has just recorded the first observations from its new perch high in the mountains of Chile. Capable of revealing new information about any cosmic object or phenomena an astronomer cares to study, the telescope will feature in 25 important science programs over the next 5 years that involve 700 different […]
Farmworkers Are Heroes After Rescuing 20 Children from Burning School Bus in California
Two California farmers were honored recently for being the first ones to help save over 20 students aboard a school bus that caught fire. Long before the Madera Country Fire Department arrived on scene, Angel Zarco and Carlos Perea were there, and in fact, the pair noticed the smoke billowing from the back of the […]
World’s Largest Sailboat Moves Cargo Across Atlantic on Maiden Sustainable Voyage
A French shipbuilder has brought back the sail and schooner to decarbonize low to mid volume shipping. Only historians can say how eager the world’s merchants marine were to replace frigates with steamships when the technology became available. Now after more than 200 years of industrialization, new priorities will dictate to some firms that it’s […]
Good News in History, November 3
69 years ago today, The Wizard of Oz was televised for the first time, and was so successful—with 53% of US television viewers tuning in—that it was destined to become an annual event in American homes. CBS ran it again three years later during the holidays and gained an even larger television audience. READ more about […]