It's hard to truly describe the amazing bond between dads and their daughters.Being a dad is an amazing job no matter the gender of the tiny humans we're raising. But there's something unique about the bond between fathers and daughters. Most dads know what it's like to struggle with braiding hair, but we also know that bonding time with our daughters is immensely valuable. In fact, studies have shown that women with actively involved fathers are more confident and more successful in school and business.You know how a picture is worth a thousand words? I'll just let these images sum up the daddy-daughter bond.A 37-year-old Ukrainian artist affectionately known as Soosh created some ridiculously heartwarming illustrations of the bond between a dad and his daughter and put them on her Instagram feed. Sadly, her father wasn't involved in her life when she was a kid. But she wants to be sure her 9-year-old son doesn't follow in those footsteps. "Part of the education for my kiddo, who I want to grow up to be a good man, is to understand what it's like to be one," Soosh told Upworthy.“I always wanted to have a tender and loving relationship with my own father, but he didn’t know how to show his love so most of the time was distant and cold,” Soosh told The Huffington Post. "I drew what I lacked and very much wanted — to feel loved and protected by my big papa."There are so many different ways fathers demonstrate their love for their little girls, and Soosh pretty much nails them all.Get ready to run the full gamut of the feels.1. Dads can do it all. Including hair. A father does his daughter's hairAll illustrations are provided by Soosh and used with permission. 2. They also make pretty great game opponents. A father plays chess with his daughterAll illustrations are provided by Soosh and used with permission. 3. And the Hula-Hoop skills? Legendary. A father plays hula hoop with his daughterAll illustrations are provided by Soosh and used with permission.4. Dads know there's always time for a tea party regardless of the mountain of work in front of them. Tea time delight amidst piles of work.All illustrations are provided by Soosh and used with permission. 5. And their puppeteer skills totally belong on Broadway. A dad performs a puppet show for his daughterAll illustrations are provided by Soosh and used with permission. 6. Dads help us see the world from different views. A dad walks with his daughter on his backAll illustrations are provided by Soosh and used with permission. 7. So much so that we never want them to leave. A dad carries a suitcase that his daughter holds onto.All illustrations are provided by Soosh and used with permission. 8. They can make us feel protected, valued, and loved. A dad holds his sleeping daughter.All illustrations are provided by Soosh and used with permission. 9. Especially when there are monsters hiding in places they shouldn't. A superhero dad looks over his daughter.All illustrations are provided by Soosh and used with permission. 10. Seeing the daddy-daughter bond as art perfectly shows how beautiful fatherhood can be. A dad takes the small corner of the bed with his dauthter.All illustrations are provided by Soosh and used with permission. Soosh has made these paintings available for purchase for those who would love to have one of them grace their daughter's room. They're a rgeat reminder of how powerful the bond can be tween between a father and daughter. Take a look at Soosh's gallery here. This article originally appeared nine years ago.

A quote widely attributed to the Roman philosopher Seneca says, "Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity." In 2016, a doctoral candidate at the University of California Irvine proved that this is indeed the truth.Nine years ago, Mya Le Thai, PhD was playing around in the lab when she made a colossal discovery that could lead to a rechargeable battery—that could last up to 400 years. That means longer-lasting appliances, laptops, smartphones, cars and so much more, plus fewer lithium ion batteries piling up in landfills.A team of researchers at UCI had been experimenting with nanowires for potential use in batteries, but found that, over time, the thin fragile wires would break down and crack after too many charging cycles. A charge cycle is when a battery goes from completely full to completely empty and back to full again. Phone charging.Canva Photos.But one day on a whim, Thai coated a set of gold nanowires in manganese dioxide and a Plexiglas-like electrolyte gel."She started to cycle these gel capacitors, and that's when we got the surprise," said Reginald Penner, chair of the university's chemistry department. "She said, 'this thing has been cycling 10,000 cycles and it's still going.' She came back a few days later and said 'it's been cycling for 30,000 cycles.' That kept going on for a month."This discovery is mind-blowing because the average laptop battery lasts 300 to 500 charge cycles. The nanobattery developed at UCI made it though 200,000 cycles in three months. That would extend the life of the average laptop battery by about 400 years. The rest of the device would have probably gone kaput decades before the battery, but the implications for a battery that lasts hundreds of years are pretty startling. - YouTube www.youtube.com “Mya was playing around, and she coated this whole thing with a very thin gel layer and started to cycle it,” Penner added. “She discovered that just by using this gel, she could cycle it hundreds of thousands of times without losing any capacity.”“That was crazy,” he added, “because these things typically die in dramatic fashion after 5,000 or 6,000 or 7,000 cycles at most. ”"The big picture is that there may be a very simple way to stabilize nanowires of the type that we studied. If this turns out to be generally true, it would be a great advance for the community." Not bad for just fooling around in the laboratory! bill nye chemistry GIF by NETFLIX Giphy Since her discovery, Mya Le Thai earned her PhD and has gone on to a successful career as the Principal Scientist with the Enevate Corporation, a company set "to develop innovative battery technologies that accelerate adoption of electrified mobility," according to their website.She has also filed patents for her various inventions, the most recent of which being "Cells with blocking devices for delayed heat propagation" in July 2025. Her full list of patents can be found on Justia. This article originally appeared eight years ago. It has been updated.

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