Look at the ways music interacts with the soul Emotional Impact: Music can evoke a wide range of emotions, from joy and excitement to sadness and nostalgia.  The rhythms and melodies in music can activate specific brainwave patterns that create feelings of...

Japanese ‘Rental Grandmother’ Service Provides Much-Needed and Much-Loved Purpose for Older Women When a Japanese handyman contractor faced an oversaturated market, they turned to a pretty unusual solution: a ‘rent-a-grandma.’ With few other jobs available for women...

Space-Based Solar Power: The Future of Clean, Reliable Energy Space-based solar power (SBSP) is an innovative concept that involves capturing solar energy using satellites in space and transmitting it wirelessly back to Earth. Unlike traditional solar panels on the...

Hero Service Dog Senses Owner’s Irregular Heartbeat–Saving the Veteran From a Catastrophic Stroke The Labrador usually lets Hank sleep late—but not on this particular day. Something was wrong. Very wrong. The service dog named Tommy had been with Hank Ford since he...

Two-Legged Chihuahua Saves Owner’s Life by Detecting Heart Attack A two-legged Chihuahua named Champ detected a potentially fatal heart attack before his owner even felt symptoms, saving his life in the process. 63-year-old Andrew Kuzyk says Champ’s unusual...

Two-Legged Chihuahua Saves Owner’s Life by Detecting Heart Attack A two-legged Chihuahua named Champ detected a potentially fatal heart attack before his owner even felt symptoms, saving his life in the process. 63-year-old Andrew Kuzyk says Champ’s unusual...

Which of the Things You Love Make You Happiest? When we think about the emotion of love, we usually think of people. We love our friends, our families, our neighbors, and our communities. But what about other “loves” in our lives? For example, I love chocolate,...

Real Life Experience: I Was Attacked By A Wild Tiger  It was a chilly autumnal morning in October 2009 when I woke in my tent in Primorsky Krai, Russia, near the border with North Korea and China. My team of six had been catching wild Siberian tigers with snares and...

Love Conquers the Atlantic’–Newfoundland Couple’s Message in a Bottle Found in Ireland 13 Years Later A bottle containing a note from a Newfoundland couple is shown on a beach in southwestern Ireland – credit Kate Gay, handout From the shores of Newfoundland to the...

Experience: I am the world champion of ‘doing nothing’ The Space-Out competition involves sitting still for 90 minutes – no sleeping, no noise, no checking phones From an early age I worried if I was doing enough. Growing up in Hong Kong, a city where competition is...