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When Microchips Fail, Facial Recognition App is Reuniting Pets With Their Owners

The app connects hundreds of pet owners, veterinarians, and shelters together with a database of animal photos.
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Microchips to Protect Rhino Horns in Kenya

Efforts to conserve Kenya’s dwindling population of rhinos is set to get a significant boost when WWF-Kenya hands over 1,000 microchips and 5 scanners...

NASA to Send ‘Message in a Bottle’ Into Space Designed to Communicate With Extraterrestrials

In 1977 it was a golden record, now scientists are sending a "message in a bottle" into space to communicate with aliens. NASA's Europa Clipper...

Historic Effort Returns 136 Juvenile Galápagos Tortoises Conservationists Release into the Wild

The Galapagos Conservancy successfully airlifted 136 juvenile tortoises to the volcanic terrain on Isabela Island, their only natural habitat on Earth. The giant Galápagos tortoises...

Chicago Marathon Runner Rescues Stray Kitten During the Race–Bystander Gives it a Home

A Chicago Marathon runner gave up a record finish in order to save a stray kitten she found on the course. The story got sweeter...

Cat Missing for Five Weeks Found Trapped Beneath Neighbor’s Floorboards After They Hear Meowing

A “miracle” cat missing for five weeks was found still alive underneath a neighbor’s floorboards. The Russian blue's overjoyed owners believe he narrowly survived by...

Man Whose Dog Ran Away While He Was in a Coma Is Reunited Thanks to Strangers on Internet

Waking up from a coma, a man was devastated when he learned his dog had gotten lost, but his luck turned around after the...

All Dogs Have Completely Unique Nose Prints–like Fingerprints–And There’s an App to ID Each Pet

A South Korean startup has developed an AI-based app that scans your dog's nose print and places it into a crowdsourced database that anyone...

Scientists Have Used Mushrooms to Make Biodegradable Computer Chip Parts

The skin off the legs of a mushroom could potentially offer a sustainable alternative to insulative substrates in computing chips. As production of electronic devices...

Ukraine Girl Bereft Without Her Cat is Reunited Thanks to Kind Strangers in 5 Countries and 7,000 Miles–WATCH

A truly astonishing story of war-time goodwill to mend a 10-year-old's broken heart will bring a tear to almost anyone's eyes. Nearly a dozen people,...

One-eyed Cat Missing For 5 Years Shows Up on Offshore Oil Rig Baffling Owners

A five-year odyssey for a cat named Dexter seems to have finally come to an end, after a long, covert stay at a prison...

New Transistor Could Cut 5% of World’s Digital Energy Use While Upgrading Memory Capacity

Inside nearly every piece of electronic equipment, there's a transistor—a simple component that receives a current and sends it in one or more other...

‘Radical’ Solar Breakthrough Allows Energy to Now Be Stored for Up to 18 Years, Say Scientists

A pair of Swedish scientists designed a microchip that stores solar energy in liquid, and shipped it to China where three months later it...

Sound Waves Convert Stem Cells Into Bone in Regenerative Breakthrough

Researchers have used sound waves to turn stem cells into bone cells, in a tissue engineering advance that could one day help patients regrow...

Cat Reunited With Family After It Got Stuck in an Armchair They’d Donated to a Thrift Store

A family cat has been reunited with its owners after getting stuck in a reclining armchair that was donated to a thrift store. The family...

A Dog Rescued From a Ledge 50 Feet Above a Colorado Creek Had Been Missing for Weeks

Jessie Lee, a dog that had gone missing for two weeks, was recently discovered stranded on a precarious perch in the Pike’s Peak region...

Implanted Electrodes Could Offer Improved Vision for 148 Million Blind People

A "long-held dream" of science was realized when a team of researchers from Spain and Utah coordinated to restore basic vision to a blind...

This Repair Shop is on a Mission to Fix Our Throwaway Culture

The urge for most of us is to throw something away—even if it means we have to buy a new one for more money—as...

Never Give Up! Terrier Lost For 290 Days After Vacation is Found Thanks to Social Media

You’re on vacation and somehow, your family dog goes missing. You search and you pray and then you search some more. As the days...

Cat Was Thought to be a Goner in California Mudslides. 3 Years Later, the ‘Miracle Cat’ Showed Up Again

We don’t know whether or not cats truly have nine lives, but the tale of a California calico named Patches is something straight of...