Stanford Cures Type-1 Diabetes in Mice Without Insulin or Immune Suppression
In an experiment that exceeded scientists’ expectations, mice had their type-1 diabetes cured through a double-transplant method. Additionally, there was no host rejection of one one of the two types of transplanted cells, and the immune system didn’t attack the other, resulting in a diabetes cure without any side-effects. Obviously caveats must be drawn from […]
NFL Delivers Net-Zero Super Bowl with Substantial Recycling of Trash and Other Materials
While Bad Bunny may have remained the highlight of Super Bowl LX’s post-mortem, GNN got in touch with the event organizers to unwrap a little of the full-time good behind half-time’s Bad. In partnership with the sustainable resource management company ENGIE Impact, the NFL worked with national and local partners in the Bay Area to […]
90 Million Year-old ‘Missing Link’ Fossil of Tiny Bird-like Dinosaur Discovered
As it often tends to, the fossilized remains of a tiny bird-like dinosaur are rewriting history. A team of North and South American scientists described Alnashetri cerropoliciensis as the “missing link”—not from dinosaurs to birds, as the phrase has often been used to describe—but for finally understanding a mysterious group of small, widespread prehistoric animals. […]
Total Lunar Eclipse Tuesday Morning Will Unveil Blood Moon for N. America, Australia and East Asia
The full Moon in March will appear orange-red in the early morning sky as a result of a total Lunar eclipse, and North Americans are positioned almost perfectly to see it. Sometimes called a Blood Moon in the media for the coloration, it should probably be called a coral or a jasper moon, because it […]
Good News in History, March 2
48 years ago today, Vladimir Remek became the first person not of Soviet or American citizenry to enter space, when we wore the patch of his native Czechoslovakia up to the Salyut 6 space station onboard the Soyuz 28 mission. He is considered today the first astronaut of the European Union, some 30 years before […]
Ultra-Rare Pokemon Card That Cost $2 Sells for $40,000 at Auction, as Prices Soar
An ultra-rare Pokémon card that cost $2 in 1999 just sold for a whopping $40,000 at auction. The 1st edition Shadowless Base Set Charizard card is known as the “holy grail” to collectors and enthusiasts, according to Hansons Auctioneers. The “mint condition” card went under the hammer as part of the UK’s largest ever sale […]
Rare Fossils in Amber Raise Questions About Secret Lives of Cretaceous Insects
Insects play a critical role in ecosystems but, because they are so rarely preserved as fossils, it’s hard to study their roles from habitats millions of years old. But fossilized tree resin can occasionally preserve an insect within its amber, freezing a moment in time. Most rare of all is when the moment in amber […]
Forget Yankee Candle, This Company has Hired Disabled Americans for 20 Years to Produce Superior Scents
We may need to allow our ‘flame’ for Yankee Candles to burn out, now that we’ve learned about this New Jersey small business that gives back to their community in life-changing ways. For over 20 years, the family-owned candle company has provided meaningful employment for adults with special needs, hiring them to place the wicks […]
Treacherous 43-Day Mountain Search Finally Reunites Dog With Owner After it Bolted During Road Trip: ‘It was amazing’
Steven Maa was worried his beloved dog wouldn’t survive the night in the Rocky Mountains. He was driving cross-country to California from New Jersey to start a new job on the West Coast when he stopped for some skiing in Montezuma, Colorado on Dec. 28. He left his dog Rocky with a local pet sitter, […]
Good News in History, March 1
245 years ago today, the Articles of Confederation were officially adopted by the Continental Congress after ratification by all 13 states as the supreme law of the land in post-Revolutionary America. Calling into existence the most limited and constrained form of government ever achieved by modern man, affording it only those powers the former colonies […]