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RUBELLA, OFF THE LIST.
Decades of vaccination and surveillance turned a dangerous pregnancy infection into a preventable public-health victory.
A SHED FULL OF GLOW.
After a century away, tiny green lights are blinking again in North Yorkshire.
STONE IS LOAD-BEARING AGAIN.
The future of lower-carbon construction might involve a material humans have been stacking for thousands of years.
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.
SNAKES, APPARENTLY, HAVE FRIENDS.
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.
YOUR TREE PHOTOS HAVE A JOB.
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.
TINY TRACKERS, BIG MIGRATION.
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.
THE CLINIC RUNS ON SUN.
Twenty-three students built Stella Juva, a solar-powered mobile clinic that drove more than 800 km across Kenya and, while stationary, generated enough energy to power all its onboard medical equipment at once. It hasn’t treated real patients yet — this was field testing — but the sun appears to be doing rounds.
TRACHOMA, REGION-WIDE, GONE.
WHO has validated Timor-Leste’s elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. Because it was the last country in WHO’s South-East Asia Region where the disease was still suspected to be a public-health problem, the entire region has now cleared that threshold.
AN EMOTIONAL SUPPORT LOG.
Point Defiance Zoo welcomed its first prehensile-tailed porcupine baby in 121 years. Then the internet spotted the tiny porcupette clutching a log and named it an “emotional support log.” For once, the comments improved the story.
COWS ON FIRE DUTY.
In Galicia, small, agile Cachena cattle and other grazers are being used to chew down fire-prone vegetation. A regional pilot is even using GPS virtual fencing to steer cattle toward areas that need clearing. Cow-based infrastructure has entered the chat.
RABIES LOST ITS FOOTHOLD.
WHO has validated Bhutan’s elimination of dog-transmitted human rabies as a public-health problem — the first country in WHO’s South-East Asia Region to reach the milestone. Bhutan has gone more than two years without a human death from dog-transmitted rabies. Vaccines, surveillance and people showing up worked.