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Book Bunk and Nairobi City County restored Eastlands and Kaloleni public libraries as free civic hubs. Book Bunk reports patronage up more than 240%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A WALL THAT BREATHES.
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.
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.
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.
FIFTY YEARS. NO DOG-MEDIATED HUMAN CASES.
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.
Côte d’Ivoire connected 3.56 million more people…
684,735 new connections. Around 3.56 million more people with access.
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 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.
CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE: 1. POTHOLES: 0.
Two hundred thousand holes became not-holes.
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.
18.5 MONTHS INSTEAD OF 10.
18.5 months vs. 10.0. Promising, not approved.
THE MAP WAS THE PROBLEM.
Africa was not small. The map was weird.
FOUR MILLION LAKES, WATCHED.
Four million Arctic lakes are now being watched in near real time for signs that frozen ground is giving way.