On December 20, 2025, Blue Origin made history by sending the first wheelchair bound person into space. Blue Origin completed the NS-37 mission successfully, launching a team of 6 crew members aboard their rocket, New Shepard. The crew included members: Joey Hyde, Michaela (Michi) Benthaus, Adonis Pourouslis, Jason Stansell, Neal Milc,h and Hans Koenigsmann. The...
A heartbreaking story of a dog in Wuhan who waited on the Yangtze Bridge, following its owner’s death, has captured the hearts of many people in China. The dog waited for 4 days on the Yangtze Bridge after the owner reportedly jumped from the bridge to his death. The incident occurred in late May and...
Over 60,000 African penguins have starved to death over the course of eight years. A new study documented the penguin colonies off the coast of South Africa, on Dassen Island and Robben Island. The researchers noticed a pattern: breeding penguins starving to death during the molting season. They attributed these losses to the climate crisis...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine under President Vladimir Putin has brought global fears of a possible nuclear war. This geopolitical crisis’s escalation has also brought back serious discussions about the devastating consequences that could unfold if tensions escalate into nuclear warfare. The threat of nuclear warfare currently seems distant to many Americans; however, experts warn that...
Solar energy is often praised for being cleaner and more sustainable than other power sources. For example, fossil fuels are finite, their sources are depleting, and they cause air pollution. Meanwhile, solar energy uses sunrays, which are unlimited and abundant (albeit weather-dependent). However, there’s an aspect to solar energy that is not environmentally friendly: land...
The sudden eruption of the Hayli Gubbi volcano shocked scientists and travelers who never thought this quiet mountain would wake up again. It sits in Ethiopia’s Afar Region, where the land feels cracked and restless. When the eruption started, it felt almost unreal because it had been silent for around twelve thousand years, maybe a...
Food waste is one of the world’s most pressing issues, affecting food security and costing billions in revenue every year. Every year, approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of food are wasted across the globe, whether spoiled or wasted. This staggering figure is statistically one-third of all food produced for human consumption that never reaches a plate....
Tim Sweeney is best known as the Epic Games CEO behind Fortnite and the Unreal Engine, yet his most important project may be invisible from space. While other billionaires buy superyachts or rockets, Tim Sweeney has quietly spent years buying forests, wetlands, and mountain slopes across North Carolina, then putting them under permanent protection. As...
A couple turned an abandoned land into a thriving rainforest. Pamela and Anil Malhotra were active environmentalists who wanted to protect and preserve wildlife. They founded the SAI (Save Animals Initiative) Sanctuary in 1993, the only private reserve in India. Their journey began in 1991 when they bought unused farmland that used to grow coffee...
Students gathered in Pasadena on October 1, 2025, expecting to hear the legendary anthropologist speak about protecting the environment and what young people could do to change the world, but Jane Goodall had died that morning in her sleep at 91 in Los Angeles, and the cause of death was natural. Months before her death,...
Long before the advent of Chat GPT and other AI technology began stirring fears of job obsolescence, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates proposed a radical idea that, in retrospect, makes sense: taxing robots. Back in 2017, he suggested taxing robots that replace human workers, just like governments tax human wages. At the time, artificial intelligence was...
What comes to mind when you think of the Sahara Desert? Today, the Sahara is a harsh environment where survival can be extremely challenging. However, it was not always this way, and once it was flourishing with life, including ancient human populations, such as the Takarkori. Recently, two 7,000-year-old Takarkori mummies were found to be...
