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DirectHop uses a tiny motor and three folding legs to make controlled, repeated jumps. The prototype can clear a standard stair and twitch itself upright after a fall.
NINETY-NINE, IN SQUASH.
Sunnyfields Farm unveiled a giant mosaic portrait of Sir David Attenborough assembled from pumpkins, breaking its own world record for the largest pumpkin mosaic.
THE SCAN CAME BACK EMPTY.
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.
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.
NOBODY REINTRODUCED IT.
Mongabay reports a giant anteater turned up in an Argentine reserve on its own, decades after the species vanished locally — a case for letting recovering habitat do the work.
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 LETTUCE LIVES UPSTAIRS.
The brewery put a lettuce farm upstairs. In Skagway, that actually works.
THE GENOME GOT A BIGGER TOOLBOX.
A new lab method can place gene-sized DNA at targeted sites in human cells. No patients yet.
THE DINOSAUR LEFT RECEIPTS.
Four footprints. Twenty-three feet. One 66.5-million-year-old walk.
THE SPACE UNDER THE PANELS GOT BUSY.
Panels up. Wildflowers in. Insects followed.
LAB BENCH HOPE.
42 antibodies made. Two blocked the reaction. In a dish, for now.
DONE BY HAND.
Ten days, wooden dams, no machinery. Pools are already forming.
DAMS OUT. SALMON IN.
Four dams gone. 21,052 adult Chinook counted upstream across two seasons. Eighty-eight percent of their documented historic range reoccupied — early, and encouraging.
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.
18.5 MONTHS INSTEAD OF 10.
18.5 months vs. 10.0. Promising, not approved.
208 TURTLES, HAND-DELIVERED.
235 eggs in. 208 tiny turtles out.
FOUR MILLION LAKES, WATCHED.
Four million Arctic lakes are now being watched in near real time for signs that frozen ground is giving way.
THE LAND CHANGED HANDS.
An English grouse-and-sheep estate is being reworked around peat, wildlife and long-term restoration instead.
ONE BIRD BOUGHT THE LAND.
A bird nobody had scientifically recorded helped trigger a conservation network protecting habitat across Ecuador.
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.