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Caltech engineers built a nanoscale silicon surface that redirects one beam of light using another in just 74 femtoseconds — about the time light crosses a human hair.
Deutsche Bank staff in 50 countries logged over 300 million steps in 24 hours, setting a Guinness World Record and triggering a €500,000 children's charity donation.
Camera traps recorded 529 elephants crossing Tanzania's first protected wildlife corridor in 15 months, after 368 local farmers made way for the 14-km passage.
African Parks has translocated 745 southern white rhinos into 19 protected areas across Rwanda, the DRC, Uganda, and South Africa, with 89 calves already born.
University of Stuttgart physicists trapped supersized Rydberg atoms at room temperature, breaking three world records without costly cooling.
Michigan prosthetist Ben Hogan builds working legs almost entirely from recycled bicycles and gives the design away free to amputees worldwide.
A rare camera-trap photo of a male jaguar confirms the Bi-National Corridor still lets the big cats move freely between Guatemala and Honduras.
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