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Technology
New Mexico Hits 50% Clean Energy Six Years Early
New Mexico's investor-owned utilities weren't required to reach 50% renewable power until 2030 — they got there in 2024, and the state's largest utility has kept climbing since.
Science
Tasmania Replants Giant Kelp Lost Since the 1970s
Divers are hand-planting hatchery-grown giant kelp off Tasmania's coast, using a technique that can regrow a lost underwater forest within a single year.
News
Elephant Sandro, 54, Steps Onto 13 Acres of Freedom
After four decades at a Brazilian zoo, Asian elephant Sandro walked off a transport truck and into a 13-acre sanctuary habitat built for him to roam.
Technology
Quantinuum Hits 99.9995% Accuracy in Quantum Leap
Quantinuum's Helios computer hit a record 99.9995% logical fidelity, just five errors per million operations, moving fault-tolerant quantum computing closer to reality.
Human Achievements
13-Year-Old Wins $25,000 for Ocean Acidification Fix
Connecticut's Raji Doshi beat nine finalists to become America's Top Young Scientist with a seashell-inspired system to fight ocean acidification.
Science
Scientists Reverse 60 Years of Cell Aging in Bonn Lab
Researchers in Germany reprogrammed an 80-year-old donor's blood cells into neural stem cells with a molecular age under 20, reversing six decades of aging.
News
Critically Endangered Pangolin Found Near Shillong, India
Camera traps set up by India's Wildlife Institute recorded a Chinese pangolin for the first time in forests on the edge of Shillong city.
Technology
India Launches 25-Qubit Quantum Hub in Bengaluru
Manipal's new Q-HUB@MAHE brings a 25-qubit open-architecture quantum computer online in Bengaluru, with a roadmap to 1,000+ qubits and 100 trained engineers by December.
Human Achievements
3 Italian 'Hobbits' Return a Stranger's Lost Wedding Ring
Three strangers spent two days diving for an Irishman's wedding ring in an Italian river, then flew to Dublin dressed as hobbits to deliver it in person.
News
Canada Protects 81,400 Hectares of Ontario Taiga
The Nature Conservancy of Canada has secured over 81,400 hectares of taiga forest and peatlands south of Kapuskasing — an area 1.3 times the size of Toronto.
Science
Endangered Andean Cat Caught on Camera for 3rd Year
WCS Argentina's camera traps recorded the endangered Andean cat for a third straight year in Mendoza — proof a decade of habitat protection is working.
Human Achievements
99-Year-Old Becomes World's Oldest Wing-Walker
Helga Duffy spent five minutes strapped to the top of a flying biplane to claim a Guinness World Record her care home nurse talked her into trying.
Technology
Caltech Chip Cuts Visible-Light Loss by 20x
Caltech engineers printed fiber-optic-grade light pathways directly onto silicon wafers, a step that could sharpen lasers, clocks and quantum sensors.
News
Hilsa Fish Return to the Upper Ganga After 50 Years
A seven-year breeding and release program has brought the migratory hilsa fish back to stretches of India's Ganga it vanished from in 1975.
Science
Siberian Tiger Numbers Nearly Triple to 72 in China
Five years into China's national park program, wild Siberian tigers, Amur leopards and Tibetan antelope are all rebounding sharply in the wild.
Technology
Gene Therapy Goggles Help Blind Adults Detect Objects
A phase-1 trial combining a single eye injection with light-stimulating goggles restored partial light sensitivity in blind adults, letting several detect objects again.
Human Achievements
15-Year-Old's 800 Chest Compressions Save a Life
A Nottinghamshire teenager who had just bought CPR training manikins used his skills days later, performing up to 800 chest compressions to save a stranger.
Science
Sunken Warship Reef Grew 46 Species in 448 Days
Divers surveying a deliberately sunk Canadian destroyer off Nanaimo found 46 marine species colonizing the wreck within its first 448 days underwater.
News
Native Gardens Revive Lenape Corn on 3 Philly Lots
An Indigenous-led nonprofit turned three vacant Philadelphia lots into gardens of Lenape corn and Nanticoke squash, with 40,000 more lots to go.
Human Achievements
3,156-Pound Pumpkin Breaks World Record in Rhode Island
Ron Wallace's giant pumpkin outweighed a midsize car and became the first ever to cross 3,000 pounds — just a week after a rival record fell in the UK.
News
120 Camera Traps Spot a Jaguar Crossing Two Countries
Panthera's camera-trap network recorded a male jaguar moving through the Bi-National Corridor linking Guatemala and Honduras — proof the fragile wildlife passage still works.
Science
11,000+ Giant Wētā Released in New Zealand Comeback
A 15-year captive-breeding programme has pulled New Zealand's wētāpunga — believed to be the world's heaviest insect — back from near-extinction to four wild generations.
Science
World's Largest Armadillo: Baby Filmed in Peru's Amazon
A camera trap in Peru's Loreto region caught a baby giant armadillo on film for what researchers call the first time — and the clip is now fueling a new wildlife law.