Hero of Dunkirk Who Was Still Pumping Weights at 100-yo Shares His Secret: ‘I’m So Full of Life’

One of Britain’s last remaining Dunkirk veterans still walks a mile every day after celebrating his 105th birthday. John Hamilton said the secret to staying young was keeping fit, and despite now living in a care home he continues to live an active lifestyle. To wit, the retired army major and great-grandfather spends 90 minutes […]

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A Pair of the World’s Rarest–and Most Adorable—Piglets Are Born in a UK Zoo

A pair of the world’s rarest piglets have been born at the Newquay Zoo in Cornwall. Known as Visayan warty piglets, one of the rarest breeds of pig in the world, there are thought to be as few as 200 of them left in the wilds of the Philippines. The pair of pigs is the second […]

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Skyscraper Bursting with 80,000 Plants Opens in Singapore

In case you’re planning a trip to the other side of the world’s richest city-state, the “biophilic” CapitaSpring tower in Singapore is now fully bursting with a publically accessible urban forest. In Singapore’s business district, you have to go 17 to 20 stories above street level to find wide open greenery. On CapitaSpring’s “Green Oasis” […]

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Mars Rover Discovers Liquid Salt Water on the Red Planet For the First Time

The Chinese Zhurong Martian rover recently found evidence of salty liquid water droplets that indicate it may have had snow and frost as recently as 400,000 years ago. To put that into perspective, scientists believe that Homo sapiens evolved around 300,000 years ago, meaning our earliest modern ancestors might have walked at the same time that water […]

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Good News in History, May 4

On this day 155 years ago, the world’s largest book was completed in the form of the entire Buddhist canon copied onto 730 marble tablets using chisels and gold ink. The monumental work saw a stonemason chisel out around 16 lines per day in the Burmese script, with each tablet capable of hosting 80 lines […]

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Man Summits Highest Peaks of England, Scotland and Wales with Fridge on his Back For Mental Health–WATCH

A man who attempted to summit the highest mountains in England, Scotland, and Wales to raise money for charity has now completed the challenge—with a refrigerator strapped to his back. The 38-year-old former soldier Michael Copeland conquered the three peaks challenge in just under 24 hours to raise money for the mental health charity Mind. […]

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May Stargazing Schedule–40 Shooting Stars Per Hour Under the Aquariid Meteor Shower

May is a relatively quiet month for stargazing, but three events stand out as the best chance to connect with the cosmos, and we start with number 2. On the pre-dawn hours of May 7th, the Earth will pass through the Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower, when 40 meteors may be seen per hour, with those […]

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Parrots Kept as Pets Were Taught to Video Call Each Other—and They Loved It

Over 20 million parrots are kept as pets in American households, and a study wanted to see if these social birds would enjoy video calling each other just like humans. The Birds of a Feather study recruited more than a dozen parrot owners and their birds, to see if parrot loneliness, a real danger to […]

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Life-Saving Breakthrough for Antibiotics Uses Shapeshifting Chemistry that Won 2022 Nobel Prize

New shape-shifting antibiotics could fight deadly medically-resistant bacterial infections responsible for more than 1.2 million deaths worldwide every year, according to a new study. The antibiotic can shape-shift by rearranging its atoms, using new “click” chemistry, a discovery that won the 2022 Nobel Prize. The drug’s creator, Professor John Moses at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory […]

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Good News in History, May 3

90 years ago today, the Godfather of Soul was born in South Carolina. James Brown, aka “Soul Brother No. 1” aka “Mr. Dynamite,” had a career that lasted more than 50 years, during which he influenced the development of several music genres. Brown was one of the first 10 inductees into the Rock and Roll […]

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Amid anti-trans bills targeting youth, Dwyane Wade takes a stand for his daughter

The father and sports legend has been outwardly supportive of his daughter Zaya as culture wars surrounding trans rights have continued to swell.

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Sweden’s First EV-Charging Road Will Power Electric Vehicles as They Drive

The “E-20” highway stretch in Sweden will soon become the nation’s first functioning charging road to juice the batteries of heavy vehicles carrying freight around the nation. E-20, (the E actually stands for Europe, rather than electric) runs between Hallsberg and Örebro in the middle of the country’s three major cities, Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. […]

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A Warthog, Hyena, and a Porcupine Walked into a Hole–and Decided to Live Together

So a porcupine, a hyena, and a warthog walk into a burrow… No, it’s not the setup to a bad joke, but the abstract in a scientific paper published in the African Journal of Ecology which found they all were able to co-habit the burrow. Despite the cramped confines of the dug-out den being flush […]

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Automakers Are Bringing Back Buttons and Knobs as Touch Screens Become Scourge for Drivers

For the consumer who wants a simple dashboard of buttons and knobs inside their car, the kind that everyone used to have before the rise of touchscreens, a few automakers are turning back the calendar to the days of tactile controls after a steady eruption of consumer frustration. As soon as smartphones became popular, the […]

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NBA playoffs enter round 2 with no clear favorite

NPR's A Martinez talks to Mike Vorkunov, the national basketball business reporter for The Athletic, about the second round of the NBA playoffs — just eight teams are left.

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Good News in History, May 2

Happy 76th birthday to the great modern inventor, Sir James Dyson, who founded Dyson Ltd. and invented the cyclonic separation technology that created the next generation of vacuum cleaners. As a child however, Dyson excelled above all his classmates at long-distance running, to which he attributes his determination. In 2002 he set up the James […]

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NHL Playoffs 1st round: A curse lifted, defending champions ousted and 14 overtimes

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with NHL senior writer Dan Rosen about the buzz surrounding the first round of playoffs, growing parity in the NHL, and matchups to watch as the next round starts Tuesday.

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Good News in History, May 1

270 years ago today, publication of the Species Plantarum marked the formal beginning of the plant taxonomy, which would later be adopted by the International Code of Plant Nomenclature. The tome was published by Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, who has been called the “Pliny of the North,” as well as “Princeps botanicorum,” and who famous Swedish author August […]

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Basketball legend Larry 'Gator' Rivers, longtime Globetrotter, has died at 73

Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah, died on Saturday.

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This Gel Stops Brain Tumors After Surgery, Offering Hope for Glioblastoma Cancer Patients

Medication delivered by a novel gel cured 100% of mice with an aggressive brain cancer, a striking result that offers new hope for patients diagnosed with glioblastoma, one of the deadliest and most common brain tumors in humans. “We think this hydrogel will be the future,” said study leader Professor Honggang Cui of Johns Hopkins […]

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