Incredible World First Electric Seaglider Vehicle Ready For Production After Successful Test
The seaglider is the first craft that can utilize all three modes of maritime operation—floating, foiling and flying.
The seaglider is the first craft that can utilize all three modes of maritime operation—floating, foiling and flying.
A unique opportunity for a fixer-upper is coming by way of the US General Services Administration (GSA)—6 historic American lighthouses.
Brown University's groundbreaking discovery found a non-chemical approach for preventing mosquito bites—and it could help stop the spread of deadly malaria.
Chobani is not just responsible for making delicious yogurt – they're also stepping forward to ensure that Rhode Island students are properly fed.
This toddler from Rhode Island was filmed hugging a pizza delivery driver—and it has since resulted in a ripple effect of kindness for a grieving family.
16-year-old teen Shane Jones of Rhode Island has been helping the owners of heirloom possessions be reunited with their items.
Roger Williams Park Zoo has announced the birth of a red wolf pup, the world's most endangered canid species, as part of its red wolf breeding program.
Some marriage proposals are elaborately staged affairs, but for one Rhode Island couple, a simple and spontaneous engagement in the rain, on a New York City sidewalk, will always be remembered, thanks to the priceless photos by a stranger.
In Rhode Island, teachers in a local public school have overcome animosity with charter school educators. Instead, they have joined together to dramatically raise reading scores for young children who choose their own books.
A 14-year-old from Rhode Island, Nicholas Lowinger, was chosen as a 2012 Huggable Hero, winning $10,000 for outstanding work in public service. His foundation, Gotta Have Sole, donates new footwear to children living in homeless shelters. New shoes not only provide the perfect fit for a child, but they also instantly increase a child's self-esteem. To date, Nicolas has purchased 5,000 pairs of shoes for homeless kids by raising tens of thousands of dollars.
Every night at 8:30PM, business signs and flashlights start to blink as a sparkling goodbye to the sickly children watching from the hospital windows.
The Rhode Island-based Ivy League school announced it will be waiving its application fee for the students who can't afford it.
The single mother of three has worked at Uncle Tony's Pizza in Cranston, Rhode Island for the last 15 years. She has regular customers that leave her good tips, but never like the cash she got from a couple last month to whom she served pizza.
After school was canceled due to snow, a Rhode Island principal should be nominated for a Grammy for his announcement to stay home–to the tune of "Hello".
After reading an article in the local newspaper, Cassandra Lin of Westerly, Rhode Island discovered that many residents could not afford to heat their homes. Inspired to do something, she formed a team of five seventh graders to recycle waste cooking oil and turn it into biofuel for distribution to needy families. Started in 2008, TGIF (Turn Grease Into Fuel) works with local biofuel companies to recycle the grease from residents and restaurants, and refine it into biodiesel. The award-winning project has been collecting more than 36,000 gallons of waste cooking oil a year, bringing an estimated value of $60,000 of alternative energy that keeps 92 needy families warm in the winter.
The electric guitar Bob Dylan was playing at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, when he got booed for playing rock 'n' roll, sold for $965,000 on Friday, which is a world auction record for a guitar. The 1964 Fender Stratocaster had been accidentally left on a private aircraft by the songwriter and his band in the months after the Rhode Island festival.
Officials from Rhode Island's Mystic Aquarium freed a 30-foot juvenile humpback whale from entanglement in a fishing net Monday.
U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin is encouraging other agencies to follow the lead of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority that recently bought 53 hybrid buses and upgraded 10 trolleys to run on a hybrid system.
Rhode Island's governor is expected to sign into law the first Homeless Bill of Rights in the United States as early as next week, formally banning discrimination against homeless people and affirming their equal access to jobs, housing and services, and public places.
Instead of getting abuse from state teachers whose pensions were cut, Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island's treasurer, who had quarterbacked the major reform, is receiving praise for saving the system from certain calamity. She is being called a fiscal Hero.
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