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THE HAND FELT BACK.
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.
THE CLEANING CREW HAS SHELLS.
About 1,500 rare native freshwater mussels — including two endangered species — were released into the Paint Rock River on August 25 after years of streambank repair.
FIVE LEFT. STILL HERE.
Karure black robins fell to five birds in 1980. Decades of conservation brought them back to around 350 adults — and on September 21 the species won New Zealand’s 2026 Bird of the Year.
THE PATIENT KNOCKED.
A brown pelican tangled in fishing line, with a treble hook in its wing and cactus spines in its foot, repeatedly tapped on NOAA’s Panama City Laboratory door. Biologists freed it in about 10 minutes, and it flew away.
TWO ORIGINS. ONE BRAIN.
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.
THE GENOME GOT A BIGGER TOOLBOX.
A new lab method can place gene-sized DNA at targeted sites in human cells. No patients yet.
184 CHICKS. NEW RECORD.
99 pairs. 184 chicks. Best season since the 1986 endangered listing.
THE LETTUCE LIVES UPSTAIRS.
The brewery put a lettuce farm upstairs. In Skagway, that actually works.
THE DINOSAUR LEFT RECEIPTS.
Four footprints. Twenty-three feet. One 66.5-million-year-old walk.
THE HERD GOT BIGGER.
Twenty-three became about 500. Now the herd is helping start other herds.
NAMED BY LOCALS FIRST.
Locals already had a name for it. Genomics gave science one.
LOUD AND INCREASING.
285 counted in a single day, almost 100 more than last year.
LAB BENCH HOPE.
42 antibodies made. Two blocked the reaction. In a dish, for now.
STAGE 1 AND 2, CAUGHT ABOUT 87% OF THE TIME
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.
EIGHT LESSONS. NEARLY 2,000 SCHOOLS.
An eight-lesson learn-to-ride curriculum is now in nearly 2,000 US elementary schools. Balance bikes first, pedals when you are ready, gym class credit either way.
TWO WIRES, SWITCHED OFF.
The fix was two unpowered wires.
18.5 MONTHS INSTEAD OF 10.
18.5 months vs. 10.0. Promising, not approved.
EIGHT POUNDS OF RARE CAT.
Eight pounds of extremely rare cat.
SHE WENT BACK. SHE STAYED.
Rescued at 18 months. Rewilded eight years later. Now Lulingu is raising a baby of her own in the forest.
FOUR MILLION LAKES, WATCHED.
Four million Arctic lakes are now being watched in near real time for signs that frozen ground is giving way.
653 FROGS, RELOCATED HOME.
653 endangered frogs. Two mountain-stream releases. One species getting a real shot at coming back.
A SHED FULL OF GLOW.
After a century away, tiny green lights are blinking again in North Yorkshire.
HE BOUGHT THE MARQUEE.
A century-old neighborhood movie house just got a very determined new owner.
NINE MONTHS HE DIDN'T HAVE.
A genetically modified pig kidney kept Tim Andrews off dialysis for 271 days — the longest such stretch yet in a living person. He later received a human kidney, making this the first reported pig-kidney transplant to serve as a bridge to a human one.