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One health system cut anesthetic emissions 45%—and spending nearly 40%.

Six hospitals changed everyday anesthesia practice, lowering estimated emissions and anesthetic spending without worsening tracked outcomes.

SOURCEAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists
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NATURE

Bleached corals came back to full health in seven weeks.

A brief tissue bridge moved helpful algae within three days—and recovery continued after the corals were separated.

SOURCEStanford Doerr School of Sustainability / Science Advances
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SCIENCE

Roman's main camera is seeing nearly 30% sharper than expected.

NASA's newly launched space telescope has cleared an early commissioning test with more optical precision than its requirement demanded.

SOURCENASA
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SCIENCE

A major Alzheimer's prevention trial has randomized its first participant.

The study will test whether clearing amyloid, then adding a second mechanism, can delay inherited Alzheimer's.

SOURCEBanner Health
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ANIMALS

Fifteen frogs the size of a pencil tip just made history.

The first Afia Birago's puddle frogs ever born under human care are now hopping at London Zoo.

SOURCELondon Zoo (ZSL)
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NATURE

Nine funders just put more than $500 million behind species recovery.

A new alliance is coordinating five years of targeted recovery funding.

SOURCERe:wild
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SCIENCE

Ghana cut malaria deaths 98%.

Reported malaria deaths fell from 3,259 in 2011 to 52 in 2025.

SOURCEGhana Health Service
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SCIENCE

EU regulators backed a new pancreatic-cancer pill.

An EMA committee recommended a once-daily oral RAS inhibitor for eligible adults with metastatic pancreatic cancer.

SOURCEEuropean Medicines Agency
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SCIENCE

A tiny sensor gave people with type 2 diabetes five more hours in range.

A randomized trial found continuous glucose monitoring added about five hours a day in the target range—even without insulin.

SOURCENew England Journal of Medicine
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NATURE

The world's rarest ape has grown to 44.

Forty-four, from the brink.

SOURCEHainan International Media Center
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SCIENCE

A Swedish CAR-T trial saw complete responses in 8 of 12 patients.

Eight complete responses. Twelve patients.

SOURCEElicera Therapeutics
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SCIENCE

Vaccines prevented 2.2 million future deaths in one year.

The future changed 2.2 million times.

SOURCEGavi, the Vaccine Alliance
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SCIENCE

An experimental drug shielded celiac patients during a gluten challenge.

A 32-person study found less injury and fewer symptoms—but it is still early.

SOURCEReuters / AnaptysBio
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SCIENCE

Patient feedback cut an epilepsy monitor’s false alarms by about 80%.

A monitor improved when patients could explain what its sensors got wrong.

SOURCENational Institutes of Health / Nature Medicine
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SCIENCE

A rare-disease drug reported zero new bone lesions through 84 weeks.

In the OPTIMA extension, adults who stayed on Pasatru had no new lesions detected between weeks 56 and 84; the placebo group had nine.

SOURCERegeneron / The Lancet
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SCIENCE

River blindness transmission is gone from 11 of 13 Americas foci.

A new WHO review says transmission now remains only in the remote cross-border Yanomami Focus Area shared by Brazil and Venezuela.

SOURCEWorld Health Organization
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SCIENCE

Taiwan reached a 92.7% Hepatitis C treatment rate.

More than 7.86 million people have been screened. Diagnosis reached 92.4%, treatment 92.7%, and treatment in key high-risk groups 95%.

SOURCECommercial Times (Taiwan)
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NATURE

Togo’s cotton yields rose from 570 kg to over a tonne per hectare.

The national average rose above one tonne per hectare in 2025–26; some farmer-field-school groups reached 1.4 to 2 tonnes while cutting pest treatments.

SOURCEBird Story Agency via AllAfrica
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ANIMALS

Georgia counted a record 4,292 loggerhead nests.

The 2026 count was the highest in Georgia’s statewide record. The long-run nesting trend has risen about 4% a year since the early 1990s.

SOURCEThe Current / Georgia DNR
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ANIMALS

Eight orangutans were moved from fire-threatened forest to a protected home.

Three mother-and-young pairs and two adolescent males passed health checks before being released into a protected 23,000-hectare forest.

SOURCEANTARA News / YIARI
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SCIENCE

A phase 3 lung-fibrosis drug preserved breathing better than placebo.

The lower dose met the trial’s main goal over 52 weeks. The higher dose did not, and the detailed results are not yet published.

SOURCEReuters / Bristol Myers Squibb
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SCIENCE

An mRNA vaccine formulation kept working after two months at body-heat temperatures.

A preclinical formulation held onto its biological activity for more than two months at 37°C—and matched fresh material in mouse immune-response tests.

SOURCENature Biotechnology
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SCIENCE

Latvia’s new alcohol rules were followed by a 27% drop in alcohol-specific deaths.

WHO/Europe calls the result an early signal: the evaluation covers five months and independent peer review is pending.

SOURCEWorld Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
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NATURE

$18 million will help ranchers keep great plains grassland intact.

The fund starts with $9 million from Walmart Foundation and $9 million in aligned investment from McDonald’s USA and suppliers.

SOURCENational Fish and Wildlife Foundation
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