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They lined the surgery cavity with radioactive tiles. Surgical-site recurrence fell to 1.3%.

A Phase 3 trial turned the walls of a surgical cavity into the radiation treatment.

SOURCEUT MD Anderson Cancer Center / Journal of Clinical Oncology
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After brain-metastasis surgery, three to five radiation sessions beat one.

A small scheduling change produced a surprisingly large clinical difference.

SOURCEAmerican Society for Radiation Oncology
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The ocean can take their land. It can’t take their country.

The first global political declaration on sea-level rise says an island state does not stop being a country because rising water makes its land uninhabitable.

SOURCEAlliance of Small Island States / United Nations
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A urine-and-swab test ruled out womb cancer 98.8% of the time.

A painless test using urine and a vaginal swab showed it could accurately rule out womb cancer for most women with postmenopausal bleeding.

SOURCEUniversity of Manchester
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The last of 65 offshore turbines just clicked into place.

The final turbine is installed at Revolution Wind, a 704-megawatt offshore project built to serve Rhode Island and Connecticut.

SOURCEConnecticut Governor’s Office / Revolution Wind
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Kosovo spent 27 years clearing landmines. The job is done.

HALO Trust has concluded humanitarian mine clearance in Kosovo, 27 years after the war left fields, roads and villages contaminated.

SOURCEThe HALO Trust / Positive News
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Germany wrote down how it will quit fossil fuels. Deadline: 2045.

Europe's largest economy published a sector-by-sector plan to leave coal, oil and gas behind, only the third country to do so.

SOURCEGerman Federal Environment Ministry / DW
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A vitamin-derived molecule reached its target in mitochondrial disease patients.

A Cambridge-led study gave nicotinamide riboside to eight people with mitochondrial DNA disease. It was well tolerated and showed early signs of working.

SOURCEGenome Medicine / University of Cambridge
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Nairobi revived two old libraries. Patronage jumped 240%.

Book Bunk and Nairobi City County restored Eastlands and Kaloleni public libraries as free civic hubs. Book Bunk reports patronage up more than 240%.

SOURCEBook Bunk Trust / Reasons to Be Cheerful
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An experimental drug gave mice with MS-like disease their movement back.

In a mouse model of multiple sclerosis, the experimental drug K-9 restored function after paralysis and vision loss had already set in. It has not been tested in people with MS.

SOURCENational Institutes of Health / UVA Health
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Chagas treatment just got cut from 60 days to 30.

In the TESEO trial, 450 adults received different benznidazole regimens. The 30-day, once-daily option matched the standard 60-day course in the trial and caused fewer side effects.

SOURCEUTEP
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On Leith Walk, bikes just outnumbered cars at rush hour.

During one May morning count, Cycling Scotland recorded more bikes than cars on Leith Walk from 8 to 9 a.m.—a first for that route, not a claim about the whole city.

SOURCECycling Scotland / The Scotsman
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THE LINE HELD.

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A high school football team pulled a pontoon out of a flash flood.

When flash flooding hit New Richland, Minnesota, players from the New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva football team helped with a pontoon rescue instead of watching from the bank.

SOURCEKEYC News
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THE SCAN CAME BACK EMPTY.

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Two doses of a new immunotherapy cleared a child's liver cancer.

Researchers at Texas Children's, Baylor College of Medicine and Seattle Children's reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that a child with hepatoblastoma had complete regression of disease after a novel immunotherapy given as part of the CARE study.

SOURCETexas Children's Hospital
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THE HAND FELT BACK.

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He lost his arm at 16. Now he can feel his wife's hand.

Seventeen years after an amputation, Alexander “Avi” Davidson became the first participant to take Utah's thought-controlled bionic arm home — with a nerve interface that gives it a sense of touch.

SOURCEUniversity of Utah Health
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A WALL THAT BREATHES.

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They skipped the seawall and put 22 concrete arches in the lagoon instead.

A 200-foot eroded bank at Sebastian Inlet State Park got 22 honeycomb reef arches and up to 90 red mangroves instead of a wall — finished September 10.

SOURCESebastian Daily
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TWO ORIGINS. ONE BRAIN.

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The human brain may have been built from two ancient systems.

Stanford researchers found the forebrain/midbrain and hindbrain arise from distinct progenitor cell populations — and used that insight to grow functional human hindbrain motor neurons in the lab.

SOURCEStanford Medicine
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FIFTY YEARS. NO DOG-MEDIATED HUMAN CASES.

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Chile just got WHO validation for eliminating dog-transmitted rabies.

Chile became the first South American country validated by WHO for eliminating dog-transmitted rabies as a public-health problem after more than five decades without a dog-mediated human case.

SOURCEWorld Health Organization
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Côte d’Ivoire connected 3.56 million more people…

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Côte d’Ivoire connected 3.56 million more people to electricity in one year.

684,735 new connections. Around 3.56 million more people with access.

SOURCEAfrican Development Bank
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THE GENOME GOT A BIGGER TOOLBOX.

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Gene editing just learned to move bigger pieces of DNA.

A new lab method can place gene-sized DNA at targeted sites in human cells. No patients yet.

SOURCENature
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CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE: 1. POTHOLES: 0.

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New York filled its 200,000th pothole. Yes, that counts.

Two hundred thousand holes became not-holes.

SOURCENYC Department of Transportation
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LAB BENCH HOPE.

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Scientists found antibodies that blocked the red-meat allergy in the lab.

42 antibodies made. Two blocked the reaction. In a dish, for now.

SOURCENIH
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STAGE 1 AND 2, CAUGHT ABOUT 87% OF THE TIME

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A blood test just got better at finding pancreatic cancer early.

An investigational blood test flagged stage 1 and 2 pancreatic cancer about 87% of the time in a study of roughly 1,800 people. Not FDA-cleared. Still a big deal.

SOURCENature Medicine
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800 VILLAGERS. 350,000 OBSERVATIONS.

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They used to hunt the wildlife. Now the photos pay better.

About 800 villagers across nine Borneo villages get paid for verified photos, video and audio of wildlife. Two villages have since banned hunting themselves.

SOURCEBorneo Futures
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