It has taken 46 years and reportedly suffered many setbacks, but on Thursday, the People’s Daily wrote that Chinese workers have succeeded in ringing the entire Taklamakan Desert in trees. Last week, the final 100 trees were planted around the southern edge of the world’s most hostile desert, completing an epic…
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200 years ago today, the Reverend Minister George MacDonald was born in Aberdeenshire. A pious and valued member of his community, MacDonald achieved a state of prominence for his fantasy fiction writing and fairy tales which inspired some of the most well-known writers of the 189th and 20th centuries, including Lewis…
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Dogs first became “man’s best friend” at least 12,000 years ago, suggests new research. Indigenous people in the Americas began forming close relationships with the ancestors of today’s dogs around 2,000 years earlier than previously recorded on the continent, based on remains found in Alaska. Researchers unearthed a tibia, or lower-leg…
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Happy Birthday to Dame Judi Dench, one of the greatest actresses of our time who turns 90 today. A Hollywood and theatre legend, the British actress is a seven-time Academy Award nominee who has won a Tony, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globes, and seven Olivier Awards for her…
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With frustrating delays on the tarmac during holiday travel at one the busiest airport in the world, one might expect only cranky people to make the news. But on flight 1238, stuck in Atlanta, Georgia, last night, some unexpected holiday cheer broke out—and everyone joined in for the chorus. Passengers aboard…
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In the spirit of making really memorable holiday magic, two in three parents are even pulling all-nighters to get it done. That’s according to a new survey of 2,000 parents of school-aged children that examined the lengths parents will go to make the holidays special, and found 66% have stayed up…
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A novel combination resulted in tumor regression during preclinical lab testing by scientists at the nonprofit Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. Ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecological cancer, with low survival rates because it is naturally resistant to chemotherapy, so its presence is difficult to combat anywhere in the body. The cancer…
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