These Trees Survived Hiroshima, Group Plants Their Seeds Worldwide to Preserve Their Memory

by Andy Corbley | Aug 16, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN

In Japan, an organization is planning how to help ensure the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are remembered for thousands of years, rather than hundreds. Its plan revolves around the hibakujumoku or the A-bomb-surviving trees of Hiroshima. With the 80th anniversary of...

Scientists Identify a New Manta Ray Species, Just the Third Known in the World

by Andy Corbley | Aug 16, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN

Usually when scientists announce the discovery of a new species, it’s some small brown frog, a gnarly spider in a rainforest you’ll never visit, or a new sea-something. But Earth still has some curveballs to throw at us—like a new species of manta ray, just the third...

Nike Co-Founder Phil Knight Gifts Record $2 Billion to US University for Their Cancer Center

by Andy Corbley | Aug 16, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN

Co-Founder of Nike Phil Knight has opened his bank account and his heart in order to set a record for the largest charitable gift ever handed to an American university. $2 billion was given to a cancer institute bearing his name at the Oregon Health & Science...

Teenage Workers Save Restaurant as Owner Spends Months in Hospital

by Andy Corbley | Aug 14, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN

A family-owned restaurant was saved by a gaggle of teenagers after the owner’s wife fell into a coma. From Hudson, Minnesota comes the story of the team at the heart of Urban Olive & Vine, and their dedication to a woman they’d come to know and love, Carol...

A Jamaican Student Invented a Self-Disinfecting Door Handle for Hospitals: ‘Design that fits reality’

by Andy Corbley | Aug 14, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN

A Jamaican university student has invented a self-cleaning door handle that’s been described as a “life-saving design that fits” the reality of the Caribbean. Using ultraviolet light, similar to various automatic cleaning devices invented and deployed during the...

She Made History as Major League Baseball’s First Female Umpire–Walking on The Field to Huge Cheers

by Nathan Frederick | Aug 12, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN

After 30 years and 1,200 games, the phone call that Jen Pawol was waiting for finally arrived earlier this week. You’re going to the big leagues—and you’re going to make history. Just like that, Pawol became the first female umpire in Major League Baseball history on...