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Science
Tasmania Has Lost 95% of Its Kelp — Divers Fix It
Warming seas and invasive sea urchins wiped out most of Tasmania's giant kelp forests. Now divers are hand-planting nursery-grown kelp to bring them back.
Human Achievements
Pig Kidney Keeps Man Dialysis-Free for 9 Months
A gene-edited pig kidney kept a New Hampshire man off dialysis for a record 271 days, bridging him to a successful human transplant in a world first.
Technology
Southampton's 15-Minute Course Helps Spot AI Faces
AI-generated faces already fool people more often than a coin flip would. A 15-to-20-minute course from Southampton flipped the odds, and it lasted 20 days.
News
AI Machine Saves 25M LEGO Bricks From Landfill
Lancashire's Brick-O-Matic sorts up to 100,000 LEGO pieces a day, recognizing 60,000+ shapes so incomplete sets can be resold instead of binned.
Human Achievements
Tennessee Student Rescues 3-Year-Old From Creek
Noah Mathews waded into rushing water outside his Tennessee campus to pull a wandering toddler with autism off a submerged tree branch.
Technology
Cornell Method Restores Dead EV Batteries to 95%
A new electrochemical bath developed at Cornell revives spent lithium-ion batteries without shredding them, cutting recycling costs by 56%.
Science
New Zealand's Kākāpō Population Hits 325 Birds
Down to just 51 birds in 1995, New Zealand's critically endangered kākāpō just posted its best breeding season of the recovery era, reaching 325.
News
17-Year-Old Sets 402-Pound Bench Press Record
Shenendehowa senior Liam Anderson broke the national bench press record twice in the same meet — and he's already chasing 500 pounds.
Technology
2.2 Billion People Get a Brine-Free Desalination Fix
University of Rochester scientists built laser-etched solar panels that turn seawater into drinking water without producing any liquid brine waste.
Human Achievements
Vet Couple Gives $15M After Cat Beats Cancer
Karen Waldron and Shawn Ricci's gift is the largest ever to Virginia Tech's Animal Cancer Care and Research Center — sparked by their cat's recovery.
Science
Assam's Pygmy Hogs Rebound From 6 to 194
Once feared extinct, the world's smallest wild pig has been bred and released across Assam's grasslands — and wild-born hogs may now outnumber captive ones.
Science
Utah's Hidden Rock Glaciers Hold 1 Billion Tons of Ice
University of Utah geologists used gravity readings to map 836 rock glaciers, revealing a billion-ton ice reserve hidden under Utah's peaks.
News
Ohio Family Offers to Donate Land for 450-Acre Wetland
Ross County is expanding a rare Ohio fen to 450 acres, and the family living there is donating their house and land to help seal the deal.
Technology
America's Largest Wind Farm Powers On With 916 Turbines
New Mexico's SunZia project is fully online, with 916 turbines sending 3.5 GW of clean power 550 miles to Arizona and California.
Human Achievements
Mom and Teen Daughter Set World Record in 50K Race
Natalia and Cienna Lazarus ran 31 miles side by side to set a Guinness World Record — and raised $7,500 fighting human trafficking.
Human Achievements
29 Hours, 6 Swimmers: First Asian Catalina Double Swim
Bengaluru's SwimLife Orcas became only the 12th team ever - and the first from Asia - to swim the Catalina Channel there and back.
Technology
AI Cuts NHS Stroke Treatment Time by Over an Hour
Brainomix's AI tool now screens brain scans across England, tripling the share of stroke patients who recover with little or no disability.
Science
6 to 25 Red Pandas Found Hiding in Nepal's Forests
Motion-triggered cameras placed high in the canopy confirmed a previously unstudied population of endangered red pandas in central Nepal.
News
50 Endangered Fish Thrive in Oregon Farmer's Wetland
A barley farmer turned 70 acres into a marsh in 2021 - now endangered c'waam and koptu suckers are surviving to adulthood there.
News
Bhutan Eliminates Dog-Transmitted Rabies After Zero Deaths
WHO validated Bhutan as the first country in its South-East Asia Region to eliminate dog-transmitted rabies, crediting a decade-long vaccination push.
Technology
109 Solar Mini-Grids Will Power 230,000 Nigerian Homes
Two Nigerian entrepreneurs won contracts to build the mini-grids, nearly doubling IEEE Smart Village's reach to over 4 million people served.
Human Achievements
Virginia Student's Backyard Pond Project Becomes a Thriving Wildlife Ecosystem
A Virginia student's backyard pond project, dug by hand for a 2017 class assignment, is now a certified wildlife habitat — a 12-foot backyard ecosystem where three amphibian species breed.
Science
2,000 Acres Along Wisconsin's Sugar River Now Protected
Ducks Unlimited and Groundswell Conservancy's largest-ever land deal links wetlands, prairie and forest into one continuous wildlife corridor.