An animal therapy program at a psychiatric hospital in France is providing major improvements in care outcomes for patients. This is reported by the patients themselves, observed by hospital staff, and presented by the program organizers, who now want …
Okay, so you can’t read Japanese, but you’ll want to keep scrolling to see what this “almost too kind” 7-Eleven owner had to say to his customers. Located in several cities in Niigata Prefecture, western Japan, signs inviting cu…
An English inventor has partnered with home appliance giant Bosch to produce a laundry machine filter for artificial microfibers, the world’s most significant source of microplastic pollution. You’ve got to be a bit eco-conscious to fork ov…
A globally-important colony for seabirds has been sold to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to ensure the 100,000 gannets and 10,000 puffins that live there will benefit from top-notch conservation management. Owned by the Scottish noble Da…
In an impressive early demonstration of a potentially revolutionary technology, biotech engineers in Zurich used micro-sized robots and stem cells to restore normal movement in a mouse whose spinal cord was entirely severed. The tech was also demonstra…
From Chicago comes the story of a married couple who held up home construction to save a bird’s nest, and of the construction company who promised to halt work. Brought to us by the Tribune’s Audrey Pachuta, Ray and Shelly Romolt fancy them…
