New Elephant Ambulance Marks Inaugural Rescue, Bringing 27-year-old to Hospital with Leg Injury
An animal conservation/welfare organization has had to think big to solve a big challenge: how to transport elephants in need of veterinary care across long distances. Their response is the brand new “Elephant Ambulance,” a specially designed truck built to move elephants in a way that protects both them and everybody else on the road. […]
Scientists Successfully Mine Meteorites for Precious Metals on International Space Station
Last week, GNN reported that fungi were being trailed by scientists in Austria for their potential to extract valuable metals from electronic and industrial wastes. Now from the ISS comes a very similar story where, rather than ‘mushroom mining,’ scientists were able to extract platinum and palladium with ‘microbe mining.’ It’s actually ‘microbe meteorite mining,’ […]
Philly Man Uses Mobile Laundromat to Wash Homeless Residents’ Clothes
A man who felt he needed a more fulfilling line of work began a mobile laundromat surface the wash the clothes of Philadelphia’s homeless population. Joe Richardson admits it feels like second nature to wash and dry people’s clothes, something one supposes was engendered in him after he began work at his family’s laundromat business. […]
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 […]
Thailand’s Mythical ‘Fire Tiger’ Captured on Trail Cam, One of the Rarest Sightings in the Cat World
Thai conservationists were delighted with the news that a sighting of an Asian golden cat had been recorded by camera traps. The legendary “fire tiger” of Thai folklore and mythology, the Asian golden cat is one of the most scarcely seen of all wildcats. Filmed by a camera trap in the country’s northern Khao Luang […]
Chance Rediscovery of Fossils Found in the 1960s Retell the Story of Giant, Globetrotting Amphibian
250 million years ago, the giant ancestors of today’s salamanders swam from the area of today’s Norwegian Arctic to the west coast of Australia. This monumental trip placed it, many years later, under the brushes and picks of paleontologists who incorrectly identified it. The fossils would later travel all over the world much like the […]
Radioactive Isotopes Being Embedded in Rhino Horns Seen as ‘Magical’ Anti-Poaching Solution
Reprinted with permission from World at Large News In South Africa, a strategy 6 years in the making to protect rhinos from poaching, as ingenious as it is dramatic, is now being implemented on the ground in the country’s game reserves and parks. Called the Rhisotope Project, it involves embedding non-harmful radioactive isotopes into the […]