A rare win for conservation was just scored in the fast-developing Travis County, Texas, where 30 minutes from Austin’s busy tech sector, music venues, and barbeque spots, a historic family ranch has just been converted into a public park. It wasn’t just converted, it was voluntarily sold by the family…

Part of the reason the James Webb Space Telescope is so sophisticated is that it had to be able to see stars from the earliest periods of the universe—just a few million years after the Big Bang. But a team of students at MIT has discovered that chances are very…

Spiders use their webs as giant microphones reveals new research that shows how the arachnids weave webs to do more than just trap their insect prey. Scientists at Binghamton University, New York, found that spiderweb silk moves at the velocity of particles in a sound field for highly sensitive, long-distance…

A recent study that looked at the effects of European bison on the ability of forests in Romania to store carbon found that these large animals have a ‘heroic’ effect. By increasing the carbon storage potential of forests by 10%, it’s the equivalent of taking 54,000 US gasoline-powered cars off…

GNN has reported several times over the last three years about large baleen whales returning to waters in which they haven’t been sighted for decades. Now again, news from Argentina shows that the benefits of the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling are still compounding, with sei whales…

The girl, pictured here third from right, is the first in world history to successfully undergo liver surgery for Wild Syndrome, a condition so rare it’s only been documented 21 times. After what seemed like an eternity in the hospital for 13-year-old Kai Xue and her mother Ning Chen, during…

An Assyriologist from Ireland believes he has discovered the meaning behind a series of symbols always presented together on the walls of the ancient Assyrian city of King Sargon II. His belief is that rather than being simple motifs or allegorical pieces, they were a way to imprint Sargon’s name…

  After less than a year of treatment with an experimental new cancer drug, a young woman has seen her tumor vanish, along with her fears that she would never be able to carry another child. It should have been the happiest days of Kelly Spill’s life, until shortly after…

Amsterdam’s roofs have just been converted into a giant sponge that will make the city more climate resilient. The Dutch have always been famous for their ability to control water, born out of the necessity of their homeland, much of which is below sea level. Now, their expert water management…

Maddison Crowell always knew she wanted to go to university, and her parents were all on board making it happen. Throughout her later high school years, they would regularly send admission applications to various schools, some nearer to their home in Liberty County, Georgia, some much farther away. When it…