Animals
June 9, 2022

Woolly Mammoth Tusk Is Unexpectedly Found Sticking Out of an Alaskan River Bank

We don’t expect to see a massive mammoth tusk in the wild. They belong in museums! But University of Virginia researcher Adrienne Ghaly shows that if you’re in Alaska, you might just see one on the side of a river bank. Ghaly snapped and tweeted a picture of a woolly mammoth tusk protruding from an embankment on the Koyukuk River near Coldfoot, Alaska.

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Health
June 8, 2022

All Patients in This New Cancer Drug Study Are Now in Remission

Cancer is one of the scariest six-letter words in the world. For decades, scientists and doctors have striven for a cure. Everyday people have run, walked, biked, and boated for a cure. In February 2022, President Biden even announced the re-ignition of the cancer moonshot to end the disease as we know it. Any victory in the war against cancer is worth celebrating.

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Cats
June 8, 2022

Neighborhood Cat and Museum Security Guard Have an Adorable Years-Long Rivalry

Each morning, when the security guard at the Onomichi City Museum of Art in Hiroshima, Japan, arrives to work, he is greeted by two mischievous cats. Ken-chan, a petite black cat, and Go-chan, his ginger partner in crime, are determined to slip through the sliding glass doors when the guard opens them for the day and enter the museum. Every time, the security guard gently carries them back outside, to a chorus of meowed protests.

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News
June 7, 2022

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Share Cute Portrait of Daughter Lilibet Celebrating Her First Birthday

The UK celebrated Queen Elizabeth II's 70 years of service with the Platinum Jubilee last weekend. However, there was another important royal occasion that overlapped with the monarch's anniversary—the birthday of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's daughter, Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. Born on June 4, 2021, in Santa Barbara, California, Lili turned one in her father's home country.

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