Teen Started Painting in Lockdown and is So Good She’s Exhibiting in Galleries, and Getting $10,000 For One Canvas
How's your corona-hobby going?
A 14-year-old in Wales took up painting during lockdown, and is now selling her canvases for thousands of dollars.
Makenzy Beard from...
Scientists Find the Secret to ‘Unhackable’ Security Systems on the Wings of Butterflies
Sometimes solving the most complex technology and engineering challenges, as you might have guessed, involves looking towards nature for solutions. Such is the incredible...
Towering Over the City, This ‘Farmscraper’ Will Produce 270 tons of Food from Hydroponics on 51-Stories
Combining a vertical farm and office space into a single 51-storey concept out of Chinese mythology, an Italian architect is completing the Shenzhen skyline...
Naturally Occurring Antibiotic Kills Lyme Disease and Nothing Else: A Potential Breakthrough Treatment
Researchers studying naturally occurring antibiotics have isolated one which eradicated the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, potentially offering a revolutionary treatment for the pathogen...
You Could Win a Free Trip to Italy by Posting a Photo With #Salami Hashtags
A brand of salami known as Galileo is celebrating 75 years of making the cured meats by welcoming salami fans into their family with...
Prison Inmates Learned to Quilt and Now Make Amazing Personalized Gifts for Foster Care Children (LOOK)
While quilting bees generally conjure images of grandmas piecing together scraps of fabric to create family heirlooms for future generations, crafting the colorful, cozy...
Solar-Powered Desalination Device Will Turn Sea Water Into Fresh Water For 400,000 People
When someone invents a mass desalination plant to turn seawater into normal water without polluting the area, it will be a massive achievement, as...
A Mathematician Just Made a Musical Album Entirely Composed of Black Hole Wavelengths – Listen
Seeking to combine his love of numbers and data with music and emotion, a Belgian mathematician has created an electronic music album derived from...
Rescued Seal Celebrates Birthday With Ice Cake –Then Falls Asleep Right On Top of it (LOOK)
Last month the Cornish Seal Sanctuary celebrated the 31st birthday of one of their favorite residents—and the team spoiled him with a colorful layered...
A Floating Flower Garden in Tokyo Immerses Visitors With Orchids That Move as You Approach (WATCH)
A three-dimensional mass of floating flowers created by teamLab in Japan has been moving visitors not only with its technological magic, but with its...
A Grocery Line Where Slower is Better: Supermarkets Open ‘Chat Checkouts’ to Combat Loneliness Among Elderly
1.3 million people in the Netherlands are older than 75 years—and one large supermarket chain is making sure they’re not getting too lonely in...
Rent Winnie the Pooh’s Tree House in the Original Hundred Acre Wood at This ‘Bearbnb’
“Sometimes,” said Winnie the Pooh, “the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
And nowhere is that more true than the aptly...
First Artificial Kidney That Would Free People From Dialysis and Transplants Runs on Blood Pressure
The Kidney Project’s implantable bioartificial kidney, one that promises to free kidney disease patients from dialysis machines and transplant waiting lists, took another big...
She Invited a Homeless Man For Dinner – Now Her Crowdfunding Has Secured Her New Friend a Tiny Home
When you see a homeless person on the street, do you ignore them? Hand them some spare change? Direct them to the nearest social...
Listen to Millions of Monarch Butterflies Make One of the Rarest Sounds on Earth: ‘Just like a waterfall’
Monarch butterflies, fluttering in their millions on 3,000-mile journeys, as luminous as stained glass. Seeing them mass migrate is one of the world's great...
Babies Mixed Up in Hospital, But Then Families Decide to Raise Them Together and They’re All Best Friends Now
From the truth is stranger than fiction files comes this story of two babies swapped at birth due to a hospital error. The mixup...
Polish Girl With Down Syndrome Sends Painting to Queen Elizabeth and is ‘Over the Moon’ Receiving a Reply – LOOK
12-year-old Wanessa Bąkowska has been pouring her sensitivity through paints and onto canvas since she adopted as a little girl with Down syndrome.
From Lipka,...
Premature Baby Born So Small She Was Kept Alive in a Sandwich Bag Has Defied the Odds to Start School
A premature baby born the size of a bag of sugar and kept alive in a sandwich bag has defied the odds to start...
Doberman Dog Nurses Tiny Abandoned Kitten Alongside Her Pups – the Adorable Photos Will Melt Your Heart
In the classic Dr. Seuss children’s book, Horton Hatches the Egg, lazy bird Mayzie finagles hapless Horton the Elephant into sitting on an egg...
New Plant-based Biodegradable N95 Masks Close the Recycling Loop with Free Return of Used Ones
A company that GNN began supporting in 2017 when they were making fashion-forward scarves that filter the air at the level of N95 or...