For those of us who aren’t scientists, a chance encounter with an inert ground-dwelling rodent probably wouldn’t turn into a decades-long quest for knowledge about the animal that is now linked with making space exploration safer for humans. But in 1992, for Kelly Drew, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Alaska, […]
A 101-year-old woman from the Isle of Wight has been awarded an honorary teaching degree from the University of London — eight decades after completing a teaching course at the now-defunct Nonington College of Physical Education. Centenarian Madge Brown, along with 94-year-old Sheila Gordon, received a bachelor of education degree during a special ceremony on
In a refreshing bit of good news, a new Gallup Poll has found that the vast majority of Americans are satisfied with their personal lives. The survey, completed in January, asked respondents to consider nine areas of their lives: family life, current housing, education, job, community, personal health, leisure time, standard of living, and household
Meet Landers Gaydosh: an ice climbing world champion who has competed across the globe by climbing up slippery ice walls with long-handled hammers with blades. In January 2022, at the Ice Climbing World Youth Championships in Switzerland, he scrambled all the way to the top of an 80-foot-tall ice wall — and bested others in
Someone has a heart attack approximately every 40 seconds in the United States, and one in five of those medical emergencies happens silently, meaning the damage is done without the person even knowing. But what if there were an AI system that could predict and prevent a heart attack long before one ever occurred? That’s
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Humans domesticated dogs about 30,000 years ago, even before we domesticated horses, and canines have continued to prove their importance to humanity ever since. We’ve observed emotional intelligence in our pups again and again — from sitting on our laps when we’re feeling low to saving their owners from danger. But do they show positive
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On March 15, 1955, when King Charles was a wee 6-year-old, he wrote a sweet letter to his ailing “Granny” — and it’s just about as cute as can be. On March 7, 2023, nearly 68 years later, the get well message sold at auction for over $8,000. Written on official Buckingham Palace stationery in
Teddi, a 19-month-old girl, was the first person in the U.K. to receive a new, potentially “life-saving” gene therapy for metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), a fatal genetic disorder, outside of a clinical trial. About six months after treatment, she is “a happy and healthy toddler showing no signs of the devastating disease she was born with,”
More than 500 years after Michelangelo Buonarroti finished painting the ceiling fresco of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, a chalk sketch has been identified as a study for the masterpiece. The red chalk drawing of a nude man on a sheet of paper that measures about 11 inches by 8 inches has been “linked
“My first big job in beauty and fashion came when I was at the tender age of 90,” late interior designer and fashion icon Iris Apfel wrote in her book Accidental Icon. We couldn’t be more inspired by this sentiment that life’s not a race, but something worth savoring and celebrating at every age.
