SCIENCE
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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ALL THE SLOP
Every serving. No expiration date. Page 5 of 7.
PROGRESS
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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SCIENCE
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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NATURE
New York City planted 18,261 trees. It started with the hottest blocks.
New York City planted its most trees in a decade and prioritized neighborhoods where extreme heat hits hardest.
SOURCENew York City Mayor’s Office
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PROGRESS
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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PROGRESS
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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SCIENCE
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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PROGRESS
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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NATURE
THE MEADOW GREW BACK.
NATURE
They stopped dragging chains. The seagrass erased 94% of the scars.
Ten traditional chain moorings were replaced with eco-moorings that move with the tide instead of scraping circles through the seabed. Five years later, the damaged patches had shrunk by an average 93.6%.
SOURCENational Trust / Studland Bay Marine Partnership
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PROGRESS
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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SCIENCE
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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SCIENCE
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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PROGRESS
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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HUMANS
THE LINE HELD.
HUMANS
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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SCIENCE
THE SCAN CAME BACK EMPTY.
SCIENCE
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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SCIENCE
THE HAND FELT BACK.
SCIENCE
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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PROGRESS
A WALL THAT BREATHES.
PROGRESS
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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NATURE
NOBODY REINTRODUCED IT.
NATURE
They stopped interfering. Forty years later, an anteater walked back in.
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.
SOURCEMongabay
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SCIENCE
TWO ORIGINS. ONE BRAIN.
SCIENCE
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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PROGRESS
FIFTY YEARS. NO DOG-MEDIATED HUMAN CASES.
PROGRESS
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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PROGRESS
Côte d’Ivoire connected 3.56 million more people…
PROGRESS
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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SCIENCE
THE GENOME GOT A BIGGER TOOLBOX.
SCIENCE
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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NATURE
THE SPACE UNDER THE PANELS GOT BUSY.
NATURE
The solar farm planted wildflowers. The bees noticed.
Panels up. Wildflowers in. Insects followed.
SOURCEEnvironmental Research Letters
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PROGRESS
CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE: 1. POTHOLES: 0.
PROGRESS
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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