Category: News

The Roosevelt High School football team came to the rescue last week for a paralyzed man and his family after a Derecho wind storm battered the neighborhood with 100mph winds. Ray has been paralyzed for decades, cared for by his two sisters in Des Moines, Iowa. When four giant trees came crashing onto his property […]

According to a new study, mortality rates from the most common lung cancer have fallen sharply in the United States in recent years, due primarily to recent advances in treatment. The study was led by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. “Reduced tobacco consumption in the U.S. […]

A school has employed ROBOT cleaners to disinfect classrooms in a bid to make them Covid-19 safe for returning pupils and teachers. The autonomous self-cleaning droids have been used in hospitals and airports before, but this is the first time the pioneering technology has been used in a school. When the school is empty, the […]

“Somebody stop me-e-e.” That’s the first line of the new song that we can all relate to. “She’s at the fridge again!” KD French, a gospel singer in Atlanta, Georgia, posted a video of herself singing all the voices from a full gospel choir doing a rendition of a new anthem about snacking during lockdown. […]

As a kid, Easton LaChappelle was always fascinated by robotics and how things worked, leading him to take his passion and learn more about prosthetics engineering. That’s when he turned to YouTube to experiment and master everything from the core fundamentals of electronics to software interfaces and reading sensors. Eventually, 25-year-old Easton used his newfound […]

A pair of east coast scientists met and fell in love over an interest in researching mud, years before producing a paper that would change how the Eastern United States conducts river restoration. Though controversial among mud experts, their work has created flourishing stream and river ecosystems that resemble their pre-colonial states of low-banked, ecologically […]

A storm-chaser and photographer recently documented a fascinating natural event known as a “sprite” in stunning detail. He uploaded it onto his YouTube page, and now a viewer can see lighting bolts express themselves in a completely different way, while also learning how to photograph them. A phenomenon that might have been more commonly seen […]