HUMANS + SCIENCE + ANIMALS + NATURE + PROGRESS — Page 3

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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A health worker opens a vaccine cooler as a family waits nearby, rendered in a premium cream, black and yellow cut-paper editorial collage.

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

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

Eight complete responses. Twelve patients.

SOURCEElicera Therapeutics

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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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PROGRESS

California will offer electrification cash instead of some gas-line replacements.

A pipe budget can become a heat pump.

SOURCECalifornia Legislature / AB 2313

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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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PROGRESS

Teenagers are unplastifying 400+ schools.

A school challenge has engaged 3,500+ young people in 23 countries to redesign everyday plastic use.

SOURCEUnplastify / Reasons to Be Cheerful

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PROGRESS

Hungary is reusing fish-farm water on drought-hit land.

Post-harvest pond water is getting a second job on farms and wetlands.

SOURCEReuters

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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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PROGRESS

Old buildings made room for 21,934 homes.

Nine hundred thirty-nine completed rehabilitations turned underused historic buildings back into homes, businesses, workplaces and community spaces while supporting an estimated 163,000 jobs.

SOURCENational Park Service

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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

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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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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PROGRESS

Australian homes installed 276,011 batteries in six months.

Battery installations jumped 52% from the previous half-year while households added a record 1,894 MW of rooftop solar.

SOURCERenewEconomy / Clean Energy Council

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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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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

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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PROGRESS

Texas’ grid had a boring summer.

Demand broke records. The emergency alerts did not arrive. Since 2023, Texas added 19.5 GW of solar and 16 GW of battery storage.

SOURCEU.S. Energy Information Administration / ERCOT

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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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PROGRESS

10 NYC food carts just went quiet.

A six-month pilot will replace gasoline generators with batteries, cutting fumes and noise while gathering real-world data for thousands of street vendors.

SOURCENYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice

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