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A custom mRNA cancer vaccine cut melanoma relapse or death by 42%.

One tumor. One recipe. A 42% lower relative risk.

SOURCEAssociated Press / Merck & Moderna

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Free eviction lawyers were linked to fewer ER visits in NYC's highest-risk neighborhoods.

Housing stability may be health care.

SOURCEUCLA Health

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Six online sessions cut reported campus sexual aggression odds 73%.

A prevention program built for men paired consent, empathy, alcohol-risk awareness, and bystander practice.

SOURCEReasons to be Cheerful / RealConsent randomized trial

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One health system cut anesthetic emissions 45%—and spending nearly 40%.

Six hospitals changed everyday anesthesia practice, lowering estimated emissions and anesthetic spending without worsening tracked outcomes.

SOURCEAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists

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London's super sewer cut modeled storm-overflow volume 86%.

London's new tunnel intercepted most of the storm-overflow volume its designers modeled for 2025.

SOURCETideway

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A major Alzheimer's prevention trial has randomized its first participant.

The study will test whether clearing amyloid, then adding a second mechanism, can delay inherited Alzheimer's.

SOURCEBanner Health

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Fifteen frogs the size of a pencil tip just made history.

The first Afia Birago's puddle frogs ever born under human care are now hopping at London Zoo.

SOURCELondon Zoo (ZSL)

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EU regulators backed a new pancreatic-cancer pill.

An EMA committee recommended a once-daily oral RAS inhibitor for eligible adults with metastatic pancreatic cancer.

SOURCEEuropean Medicines Agency

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Teenagers are unplastifying 400+ schools.

A school challenge has engaged 3,500+ young people in 23 countries to redesign everyday plastic use.

SOURCEUnplastify / Reasons to Be Cheerful

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River blindness transmission is gone from 11 of 13 Americas foci.

A new WHO review says transmission now remains only in the remote cross-border Yanomami Focus Area shared by Brazil and Venezuela.

SOURCEWorld Health Organization

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Georgia counted a record 4,292 loggerhead nests.

The 2026 count was the highest in Georgia’s statewide record. The long-run nesting trend has risen about 4% a year since the early 1990s.

SOURCEThe Current / Georgia DNR

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Eight orangutans were moved from fire-threatened forest to a protected home.

Three mother-and-young pairs and two adolescent males passed health checks before being released into a protected 23,000-hectare forest.

SOURCEANTARA News / YIARI

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Texas’ grid had a boring summer.

Demand broke records. The emergency alerts did not arrive. Since 2023, Texas added 19.5 GW of solar and 16 GW of battery storage.

SOURCEU.S. Energy Information Administration / ERCOT

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The UK made a free emergency plan for every neighborhood.

Eight practical modules help communities turn names, skills and local knowledge into a plan before the next disruption arrives.

SOURCEReady Together

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Rwanda cut maternal mortality 27%.

Five years, a 27% decline, and a health system still pushing: Rwanda is pairing community care with faster records and referrals.

SOURCENational Institute of Statistics of Rwanda

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Hot rock is now feeding a commercial power grid.

The first 33-megawatt block is earning revenue under a power-purchase agreement. Two more blocks are due to complete the 100-megawatt first phase.

SOURCEFervo Energy

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Thailand counted 210 wild tigers.

The national estimate is up from 148–189 in 2022. A monitored tigress has raised three litters—nine cubs—and one daughter is already breeding.

SOURCEWorld Wildlife Fund

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California legalized plug-in balcony solar.

SB 868 treats certified portable solar more like a household appliance: utilities may require a simple online registration, but not prior approval.

SOURCECalifornia Legislative Information — SB 868

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Six people with advanced retinal disease became measurably more sensitive to light.

In a 10-person safety trial, an experimental optogenetic treatment produced clinically meaningful light-sensitivity gains in six participants. It did not restore normal sight.

SOURCENew England Journal of Medicine

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A new framework makes moving endangered species less of a guess.

More than 250 practitioners and community members helped shape a decision process for high-stakes conservation moves.

SOURCEConservation Science and Practice / University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Two of the world’s rarest rhinos are pregnant.

Ratu and Delilah are both due in May 2027.

SOURCEInternational Rhino Foundation / Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia

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Bumblebees delivered bacteria-killing viruses to cherry blossoms.

The pollinators carried a precise biological treatment to as many as 88% of flowers.

SOURCEUniversity of Warwick / Biological Control

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A paper-thin robot swam through a maze on muscle cells.

Two fins. One layer of living muscle. A light to follow.

SOURCEMIT News

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