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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 LETTUCE LIVES UPSTAIRS.

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Alaska found the place vertical farming actually makes sense.

The brewery put a lettuce farm upstairs. In Skagway, that actually works.

SOURCEReasons to Be Cheerful
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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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THE DINOSAUR LEFT RECEIPTS.

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A T. rex took four steps. 66.5 million years later, a teacher found them.

Four footprints. Twenty-three feet. One 66.5-million-year-old walk.

SOURCEJournal of Vertebrate Paleontology
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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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EIGHT LESSONS. NEARLY 2,000 SCHOOLS.

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Kindergarten PE now includes learning to ride a bike.

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.

SOURCEAssociated Press
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$650 AND JEOPARDY AT 7.

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The rent was too high. Then she met her 77-year-old roommate.

Affordable rent, useful help, and Jeopardy at 7.

SOURCEGood Good Good / HomeShare Vermont
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18.5 MONTHS INSTEAD OF 10.

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The experimental lung-cancer drug nearly doubled median survival.

18.5 months vs. 10.0. Promising, not approved.

SOURCEBioNTech / OncoC4
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THE MAP WAS THE PROBLEM.

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The world map is finally admitting how big Africa is.

Africa was not small. The map was weird.

SOURCEAssociated Press
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FOUR MILLION LAKES, WATCHED.

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The Arctic has a new early-warning map. It watches lakes disappear.

Four million Arctic lakes are now being watched in near real time for signs that frozen ground is giving way.

SOURCEAlfred Wegener Institute
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SAME BLOOD DRIVE. DIFFERENT DOORS.

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The church and mosque next door keep giving blood together.

They started as new neighbors. Fifteen years later, the annual blood drive is still on the calendar.

SOURCEMemphis Islamic Center
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RUBELLA, OFF THE LIST.

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Thailand just knocked rubella off the public-health list.

Decades of vaccination and surveillance turned a dangerous pregnancy infection into a preventable public-health victory.

SOURCEWorld Health Organization
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THE BOAT ADAPTED.

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The wheelchair stays on shore. The sailor doesn’t.

Sometimes inclusion looks like a hoist, a custom boat and a wide-open sea.

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A SHED FULL OF GLOW.

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The glowworms came back. A garden shed was involved.

After a century away, tiny green lights are blinking again in North Yorkshire.

SOURCEThe Guardian
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STONE IS LOAD-BEARING AGAIN.

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They built a high-rise out of stone. Like, structurally.

The future of lower-carbon construction might involve a material humans have been stacking for thousands of years.

SOURCEDezeen
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HE BOUGHT THE MARQUEE.

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Rick Steves bought his hometown movie theater so it wouldn’t die.

A century-old neighborhood movie house just got a very determined new owner.

SOURCEKNKX Public Radio
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NINE MONTHS HE DIDN'T HAVE.

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The pig kidney bought him nine months. It was enough.

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.

SOURCEMass General Brigham / The Lancet
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SNAKES, APPARENTLY, HAVE FRIENDS.

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The baby rattlesnakes are cuddling. Please adjust your worldview.

Livestream cameras in California, Colorado and Pennsylvania captured live rattlesnake births, dozens of newborns and baby snakes cuddling adults for protection. Apparently even rattlesnakes have a snuggle phase.

SOURCECal Poly / Project RattleCam
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YOUR TREE PHOTOS HAVE A JOB.

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The AI still needs your tree photos.

AI-generated images helped species-identification models when real photos were scarce — but actual photographs from people in the real world still performed better. Your random tree picture remains scientifically employed.

SOURCENC State University
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TINY TRACKERS, BIG MIGRATION.

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The warblers have backpacks now.

Researchers are fitting tiny songbirds with Tic Tac-sized geolocator backpacks that record light and atmospheric pressure across entire migrations. Serious science has once again required an extremely small backpack.

SOURCESmithsonian Migratory Bird Center / The Conversation
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