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Good News Network reported that confirmed blue and fin whale sightings off southern Africa have risen in recent years.
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NASA is asking filmmakers, songwriters, poets and other storytellers to help share mission stories with the public.
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NASA researchers found a heat-resistant material that could support future systems for using lunar resources.
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Reasons to be Cheerful highlighted a washing-machine filter designed to catch clothing fibres before they reach waterways and oceans.
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Good News Network reported on the Hackney Mosaic Project, where volunteers create public art while finding calm, confidence and connection.
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NASA shared Webb observations of Messier 51 as part of a study of nearly 9,000 star clusters in nearby galaxies.
Read the full story →NASA’s Hubble team shared a fresh view of galaxy cluster MACS J1141.6-1905, adding another useful image to a deep public archive.
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RHINOSHIELD’s Circular Blue platform uses drones and solar-powered collection vessels to target ocean-bound plastic near Taiwan.
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A Reasons to be Cheerful report shows how school-day cycling programs can support attention, confidence and calmer classrooms.
Read the full story →NASA is asking teams about CubeSats that could fly on future Artemis missions, opening small doors for big science.
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NASA’s AWE mission has finished collecting data after mapping atmospheric waves from the International Space Station.
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NASA brought lunar-robotics ideas to the 2026 FIRST Robotics Championship, reaching more than 51,000 students and mentors.
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New drilling and superhot-rock techniques are helping geothermal energy move toward cheaper, cleaner power in more places.
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NASA researchers have built an AI tool that combines satellite data to help detect harmful algal blooms in complex coastal waters.
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A Massachusetts ice-cream truck owner gave one child a free scoop, inspiring donations to fund more free treats for kids.
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A California fourth-grade class turned a bald-eagle livestream into action, raising awareness and money to help protect Big Bear Lake habitat.
Read the full story →More than 200 volunteers helped place 20,000 oysters in the Solent, supporting a major UK reef-restoration effort near Portsmouth.
Read the full story →NASA's 2026 technology-priority list folds in hundreds of stakeholder responses to guide future Moon, Mars and space-infrastructure work.
Read the full story →Near Mackay in Queensland, dozens of old tidal gates and embankments are being removed so salt water can return, reviving marshes, mangroves and fish nurseries.
Read the full story →NASA's new Shock Detectives citizen-science project lets volunteers help sort MMS mission data and improve understanding of how solar wind energy reaches Earth.
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A £12.4m fostering innovation fund in England is backing more flexible ways for adults to support children in care, including long-term weekend relationships.
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When caterpillars attack in large numbers, oak trees fight back by delaying leaf growth by just three days the following spring — leaving newly hatched caterpillars with nothing to eat and cutting leaf damage by more than half.
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A retired chicken farmer unknowingly built one of Australia's most remarkable prehistoric discoveries into his garden wall. Scientists have now identified the 240-million-year-old amphibian — complete with rare preserved skin.
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A strange form of matter that 'ticks' forever without energy input has just taken a major leap toward practical use — scientists at Aalto University have connected a time crystal to an external device for the first time ever.
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A UK-led clinical trial found that just nine weeks of immunotherapy before surgery left colorectal cancer patients with zero relapses after nearly three years — dramatically outperforming standard chemotherapy.
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Researchers found that arginine — a cheap, widely available amino acid — can reduce toxic amyloid protein buildup in the brain, improve behaviour, and lower brain inflammation in Alzheimer's models.
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Scientists at UC San Diego have created an injectable biomaterial that travels through the bloodstream to find and repair damaged tissue, reducing inflammation and kickstarting healing after heart attacks and brain injuries.
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Solar and wind output hit all-time highs in the US, with clean sources supplying more than a quarter of the country's electricity for the first time ever — despite federal policies favouring fossil fuels.
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Britain has officially crossed the 2 million solar installations mark, with 27,000 new systems installed in March alone — the highest monthly total since 2012. Two-thirds are on ordinary homes.
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Hundreds of charities, faith groups, and community organisations across Britain are launching A Million Acts of Hope this May — a campaign to prove there's more hope than hate in our communities.
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The FDA has awarded priority review vouchers to three psychedelic drug programmes — including psilocybin for depression and methylone for PTSD — in a historic move that could bring these treatments to patients faster than ever.
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Researchers at Edith Cowan University applied the physics concept of entropy to tourism and found that positive travel experiences may help the body stay balanced, boost immunity, and slow biological aging.
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The 2026 Breakthrough Prizes — worth $3 million each — have been awarded to scientists whose gene therapy breakthroughs are curing inherited blindness, sickle cell disease, and beta-thalassemia, changing millions of lives worldwide.
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Fewer than 10,000 fishing cats remain in the wild, and the species 'borders on myth.' But trail cameras in Cambodia just caught one prowling restored wetlands — proof that 15 years of community conservation is working.
Read the full story →A landmark study tracking over 9,000 people for 14 years has found that higher optimism is linked to a significantly lower risk of developing dementia — even after accounting for depression and major health conditions.
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Once hunted to extinction in Germany, Europe's largest deer species is crossing the border from Poland, where 30,000 moose now thrive thanks to decades of protection. Sightings near Berlin are becoming increasingly common.
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In Kerala, India, lifelike mechanical elephants are being donated to Hindu temples so that ancient ceremonial traditions can continue without animal suffering — and over 26 temples have already made the switch.
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Finland's longest bridge is dedicated entirely to pedestrians, cyclists, and trams — no cars allowed. Over 50,000 people crossed the stunning 1,191-metre Kruunuvuori Bridge on its opening weekend.
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After disappearing from Wellington's hills over a century ago, New Zealand's beloved kiwi birds are being brought home by a grassroots project. The 250th bird was carried into Parliament's banquet hall as people wept with joy.
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Seeds from the Moringa tree can remove over 98 percent of harmful microplastics from drinking water, performing as well as or better than chemical treatments — and at a fraction of the cost.
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A species once declared extinct in the wild in Australia is making a remarkable comeback — and its return is helping restore entire ecosystems through natural soil engineering.
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In one of the most dramatic wildlife recoveries ever recorded, Kazakhstan's saiga antelope population has surged from fewer than 50,000 to over four million animals — proof that nature can bounce back when given the chance.
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In one of conservation's greatest success stories, the IUCN has upgraded giant pandas from endangered to vulnerable status, with the wild population reaching approximately 1,900 — proof that sustained habitat protection truly works.
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In a landmark public health achievement, Chile has been officially verified by the World Health Organization as having eliminated leprosy — the first country in the Americas and only the second globally to reach this historic milestone.
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A groundbreaking treatment using stem cells from a mother's own placenta to repair her baby's spine in the womb has shown extraordinary results, with researchers calling it a major step toward a new kind of fetal therapy.
Read the full story →Once choked with plastic and barely flowing, a 3-km canal in Tamil Nadu, India, was cleared, restored, and lined with mangroves, offering a model for how cities can bring dying waterways back to life.
Read the full story →In a major medical breakthrough from January 2026, scientists have developed a new anti-aging drug that successfully regrows knee cartilage in preclinical trials. This discovery could potentially end the need for knee replacement surgeries for millions suffering from osteoarthritis.
Read the full story →UCSF researchers published a breakthrough in Nature on March 18, 2026: a single injection that reprograms T cells into cancer-killing CAR-T cells directly inside the body. No need to extract cells, modify them in a lab, and re-infuse them. In mice, it cleared aggressive leukemia in 18 of 20 cases — and also worked against myeloma and solid sarcoma tumours.
Read the full story →Scientists from the University of Florida and the Wildlife Conservation Society used drones to count an astonishing 41,000+ Amazon giant river turtles nesting together along the Guaporé River — the largest freshwater turtle nesting aggregation ever documented. Published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, it's a remarkable beacon of hope for a species threatened by poaching and habitat loss.
Read the full story →In a once-in-a-generation lucky accident, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope happened to be pointed at Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) just as it began disintegrating — capturing the first-ever footage of a comet fragmenting so early in its breakup process. The findings were published in Icarus in March 2026.
Read the full story →Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand and Huzhou University have discovered 48-dimensional topological structures hidden within entangled quantum light — a finding that creates a vast new 'alphabet' for storing and protecting quantum information, published in Nature Communications, March 2026.
Read the full story →Researchers from Stanford, Colorado, and Baylor discovered that Burmese pythons produce a molecule called pTOS that surges 1,000-fold after a big meal — suppressing appetite and triggering weight loss in obese mice, without the nausea that plagues GLP-1 drugs.
Read the full story →ETH Zurich researchers have built the world's most efficient CO₂-to-methanol catalyst using individual indium atoms — each one doing the job a whole cluster used to do. Published in Nature Nanotechnology, it's a potential game-changer for fossil-free chemistry.
Read the full story →Marcus Johnson, 23, became the first person in Louisiana to receive gene therapy for sickle cell disease in March 2026. His doctors say the treatment should cure him — and his story is part of a wave of individual breakthroughs happening across America as life-changing therapies reach more people.
Read the full story →Mexico unanimously banned the use of marine mammals in entertainment, captive breeding, and swim-with programmes. Signed into law in 2025, the legislation is relocating ~350 captive dolphins to seaside sanctuaries through 2026 in a landmark animal welfare victory.
Read the full story →Buru Island once saw 94% of leatherback turtle nests raided every season. A decade of community-led conservation — including village laws, nightly patrols, and economic alternatives — has brought poaching to zero and earned the island formal protected status.
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The LHCb experiment at CERN has confirmed the discovery of a new proton-like particle made of two charm quarks and one down quark, named Ξcc⁺ (Xi-cc-plus). It's four times heavier than a proton, confirmed at 7-sigma significance, and is only the second doubly-charmed baryon ever found. It's the first new particle discovered since the LHCb detector was upgraded in 2023.
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The 2025 nesting season at Zakynthos, Crete, and the Peloponnese produced record numbers of Caretta caretta nests for the third consecutive year. Decades of beach protection, reduced light pollution, and community engagement are paying off for one of the Mediterranean's most iconic species.
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A major new report from Breathe Cities and C40 identifies 19 cities — including Beijing, London, Warsaw, and San Francisco — that slashed both PM2.5 and NO2 levels by at least 20% since 2010. Some achieved cuts of nearly 45%. Cycling infrastructure, clean transport, and emission zones led the way.
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CSIRO, RMIT University, and the University of Melbourne have demonstrated the world's first proof-of-concept quantum battery capable of a full charge-store-discharge cycle. Published in Light: Science & Applications in March 2026, it confirms decades of theory: quantum collective effects allow the battery to charge faster as it scales up — the opposite of conventional batteries.
Read the full story →Stanford researchers have developed Merlin, an AI foundation model trained on over 15,000 abdominal CT scans that can predict the onset of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis within the next five years with 75% accuracy. Published in Nature on March 4, 2026, it could transform how routine scans are used in preventive medicine.
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A randomised clinical trial published in The Lancet found that sulthiame, a repurposed epilepsy drug, reduced breathing interruptions in sleep apnea patients by up to 47%. Experts say it could be the first effective pharmacological treatment for a condition affecting over 1 billion people worldwide.
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Decades after local extinction, bearded vultures have returned to the Alps in force: 118 wild individuals, 100+ breeding pairs, and a bird named Balthazar — released in 1988 and presumed long dead — found alive at over 37 years old, making him the oldest wild bearded vulture ever recorded.
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In one of the most promising Parkinson's disease trial results ever presented, eight patients treated with sasineprocel — a personalised stem cell therapy made from their own cells — showed improved motor function, more hours of effective symptom control, and better quality of life at 12 months.
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River otters, once nearly wiped out from most of the Great Lakes region, have made a sweeping comeback. Thriving populations are now documented across Ohio, New York, Michigan, and Ontario — a direct result of the 1972 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and decades of patient conservation.
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Eight-year-old Amelia Kolpa from Rowley Regis, England, has neuroblastoma and a wish: to break a world record on her 8th birthday. She asked for 8,000 cards. On March 3rd — her birthday today — over 250,000 cards had arrived from across the globe.
Read the full story →Nicola Doran from Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, had her leg amputated in June 2025 after years of chronic pain. Just months later, the 52-year-old single mum broke her own Guinness World Record for the longest female para ice swim.
Read the full story →Researchers at MUSC have secured $1 million to develop a revolutionary therapy: lab-grown insulin cells protected by engineered immune 'bodyguards' that could finally cure Type 1 diabetes without lifelong drugs.
Read the full story →Cold Spring Harbor researchers used data from monkey neurons to compress a 60-million-variable AI vision model down to just 10,000 variables. The result works nearly as well and reveals how biological brains achieve so much with so little.
Read the full story →A frightened, injured dog trapped in a water retention pond was located using thermal imaging and rescued by a coordinated team of firefighters and police. Now nicknamed 'Sweetie,' she's recovering and will soon be up for adoption.
Read the full story →For the first time since the mid-1800s, giant tortoises roam the Galápagos island of Floreana. 158 animals — bred from survivors found on a neighbouring island — have been reintroduced in one of conservation's most ambitious comebacks.
Read the full story →The eastern quoll was declared extinct on mainland Australia in 1963. Now, in a fenced nature reserve in Victoria's Grampians region, they are breeding in the wild again — 19 animals born free so far.
Read the full story →A green sea turtle found tangled in fishing line in the San Gabriel River — with a hook in its mouth and a dying flipper — has been nursed back to health and released into the ocean. Meet Porkchop.
Read the full story →British company First Light Fusion has validated that its FLARE reactor design can breed its own fuel — tritium — at a ratio of 1.8, the highest ever announced. This cracks one of fusion energy's most stubborn engineering barriers.
Read the full story →The bright yellow Panamanian golden frog vanished from its native habitat in 2009, wiped out by a lethal fungus. Now, after 17 years of painstaking work by conservationists at the Smithsonian-affiliated rescue project, the species is being reintroduced to the wild.
Read the full story →For the first time, researchers in Spain have converted methane directly into a complex pharmaceutical compound, using a custom iron catalyst. The breakthrough could turn an abundant greenhouse gas into the building blocks for drugs, chemicals, and clean industry.
Read the full story →The eastern quoll — once wiped out on mainland Australia by invasive foxes — has successfully bred in the wild in Victoria for the first time in over six decades. Conservationists have confirmed wild-born quolls thriving in a fenced reserve near Dunkeld.
Read the full story →Przewalski's horses — the only truly wild horse species on Earth — are settling into Kazakhstan's vast steppe after being reintroduced from European zoos. Specialists confirm the herd adapted better than expected through a brutal winter, and the first wild-born foals are expected this summer.
Read the full story →OMI has developed a cathode material that charges batteries from zero to full in approximately three minutes, validated across thousands of cycles. No cobalt, no compromise.
Read the full story →India's highest court has ruled that menstrual hygiene is a fundamental right, requiring all schools to provide free period products to girls within three months. The landmark decision aims to end period-related school absenteeism.
Read the full story →Oxford-based First Light Fusion has validated that its FLARE reactor design achieves a tritium breeding ratio of 1.8 — meaning it produces nearly twice the rare fuel it consumes, potentially solving fusion energy's biggest supply problem.
Read the full story →When a dog fell 30 feet into a sinkhole in Allen County, Kentucky, a shelter worker and local volunteers rigged a pulley system, rappelled down, and brought the shaking pup back to the surface. Minutes later, the dog was walking around as if nothing had happened.
Read the full story →Cutting two amino acids common in animal protein — methionine and cysteine — made mice burn significantly more energy through thermogenesis, nearly as powerful as constant cold exposure. No exercise needed.
Read the full story →In an extraordinary conservation milestone, 158 juvenile Floreana giant tortoises have been released onto Floreana Island in the Galápagos — the first of their kind to roam there since whalers drove them to extinction in the 1840s.
Read the full story →Researchers at Flinders University have created a packaging film from milk protein that safely degrades in soil in just 13 weeks — offering a genuine alternative to conventional plastic packaging.
Read the full story →A veteran diver and her daughter, working as citizen scientists, have found what researchers believe is the largest documented coral colony on Earth — a single organism stretching 364 feet across the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns, Australia.
Read the full story →Ty Sperle, a university student from British Columbia, has been cured of chronic granulomatous disease using a groundbreaking gene editing treatment — the first successful cure of the condition in medical history, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Read the full story →A Spanish research team has developed a way to transform methane — the main component of natural gas — into pharmaceutical building blocks, synthesising a hormone therapy drug directly from the greenhouse gas for the first time.
Read the full story →Researchers at Fermilab and MIT Lincoln Laboratory have successfully trapped and manipulated ions using cryogenic electronics, clearing a critical hurdle toward building large-scale, practical quantum computers.
Read the full story →In one of the most ambitious ecosystem recovery projects ever attempted, 158 giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in the Galápagos — the first time the species has roamed there since whalers and invasive species wiped them out in the 1800s.
Read the full story →The Welsh Parliament has passed a landmark Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill that shifts the focus from crisis response to early intervention — requiring public bodies to work together to prevent homelessness before it happens.
Read the full story →The Akuntsu people of the Brazilian Amazon were down to just three women. Many expected the tribe to vanish entirely. Then in December, the youngest daughter gave birth to a boy named Akyp — a symbol of survival against impossible odds.
Read the full story →Stanford Medicine researchers have cured Type 1 diabetes in mice using a combined transplant of blood stem cells and insulin-producing islet cells — no ongoing insulin injections, no immune-suppressing drugs. The breakthrough could transform treatment for millions.
Read the full story →158 hybrid giant tortoises have been released on Floreana Island in the Galápagos, marking the return of the species to the island for the first time in 175 years — a landmark conservation milestone decades in the making.
Read the full story →When pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist Amy Beethe met a small, underweight 4-year-old who had arrived alone for heart surgery at Children's Nebraska, she couldn't walk away. She and her husband adopted him — and his cardiologist says he's alive today because of it.
Read the full story →UC Santa Barbara chemists created a lightweight molecule that captures sunlight, locks it into strained chemical bonds, and releases it as heat on demand — boasting 1.6 MJ/kg energy density, roughly double that of lithium-ion batteries, and it's fully reusable.
Read the full story →Animal behaviourists from Palm Beach Zoo travelled to Zimbabwe and taught anti-poacher scouts to give eyedrops to a wild white rhino named Thuza — saving his sight and protecting a pioneering community conservation programme.
Read the full story →University of Waterloo researchers created a bio-inspired iron catalyst that uses sunlight to convert common plastics — including PVC, PP, PE and PET — into acetic acid (vinegar), offering a groundbreaking way to upcycle plastic pollution without burning fossil fuels.
Read the full story →Chinese scientists used lab-grown cyanobacteria — 3.5-billion-year-old microorganisms — to convert barren desert sand near the Taklamakan Desert into stable, fertile soil, offering a scalable solution to desertification threatening billions of people worldwide.
Read the full story →EPFL scientists used a three-gene cocktail to reset the molecular clock of specific memory-storing neurons, successfully restoring both recent and long-term memories in aged mice and Alzheimer's models — a potential new paradigm for treating cognitive decline.
Read the full story →158 juvenile giant tortoises descended from the Floreana subspecies have been released on the Galápagos island of Floreana — the first time the species has roamed the island since whalers hunted them to extinction in the 1840s.
Read the full story →By restoring traditional cattle herding and a GPS-based lion early warning system, communities in Botswana's Okavango Delta have slashed cattle losses and lion poisonings — boosting the lion population by 50% and reopening ancient wildlife migration corridors.
Read the full story →A landmark randomized controlled trial in Singapore proved that releasing mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia bacteria cut the insect population by 77% and reduced dengue fever diagnoses by 70% — the first trial of its kind to demonstrate real-world disease reduction at city scale.
Read the full story →Oregon State University researchers have developed a method to observe and reverse the metal-driven protein clumping linked to Alzheimer's disease in real time, second by second — opening the door to smarter drug design for the most common form of dementia.
Read the full story →Indian teacher Rouble Nagi has won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize for establishing over 800 learning centers across India's slums and villages — bringing more than one million children into formal education using art, recycled materials, and giant interactive murals.
Read the full story →A government-backed deal will transform east London's Barking Eurohub into an international logistics hub, unlocking £15 million in investment and restoring regular freight trains through the Channel Tunnel to France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Read the full story →MIT researchers have built a multi-material 3D-printing platform that can fabricate a complete electric motor in hours using five materials costing just 50 cents — a breakthrough that could revolutionize manufacturing and supply chains.
Read the full story →Kenyatta National Hospital has made history by performing Kenya's first balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty on a premature newborn with a life-threatening heart defect — and the baby is now breathing on her own and gaining strength.
Read the full story →Baby Hugo has become the first child in Britain born using a womb transplanted from a deceased donor — a groundbreaking moment offering hope to thousands of women born without a viable womb.
Read the full story →In a historic milestone for conservation, 158 juvenile giant tortoises of Floreana lineage have been released into their ancestral habitat — the first time the species has walked the island since the mid-1800s.
Read the full story →Princeton's new Stellar-AI platform combines AI, supercomputers, and quantum processors to accelerate fusion reactor design — bringing the dream of nearly limitless clean energy closer than ever.
Read the full story →Rouble Nagi, who has brought over one million children into the formal education system through 800+ open-air learning centres in slums and villages, wins the 2026 Global Teacher Prize and plans to build a free vocational institute.
Read the full story →THON 2026, the world's largest student-run philanthropy, shattered its own record with $18.8 million raised for Four Diamonds at Penn State Health Children's Hospital — marking the fifth consecutive year of record-breaking totals.
Read the full story →Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and RIKEN have identified two brain receptors that boost the brain's own ability to clear amyloid beta, potentially leading to affordable small-molecule drugs instead of expensive antibody treatments.
Read the full story →After a decade of research, scientists from Canada and China have created a kidney that can theoretically be accepted by any patient — a breakthrough that could dramatically cut transplant waiting times and save thousands of lives.
Read the full story →Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an experimental nasal spray vaccine that shields against a broad range of respiratory viruses, bacteria, and allergens — potentially replacing multiple yearly shots with a single spray.
Read the full story →The Paul E. Farmer Maternal Center of Excellence opened on Valentine's Day with 166 beds, bringing critical maternal and neonatal care to a country where 1 in 52 women previously died during pregnancy or childbirth.
Read the full story →New EU regulations prohibit companies from destroying unsold textiles and footwear, targeting an industry that sends 92 million tonnes of textiles to landfills every year.
Read the full story →While neighboring wild reefs experienced 80% bleaching, Dr. Nadeem Nazurally's heat-resistant corals showed 98% survival. This natural breeding breakthrough could protect coral ecosystems from climate change for decades to come.
Read the full story →Teresa Ng, partially blind since her teenage years, will soon navigate buses and shop independently thanks to AiSee—an AI-powered headset developed by NUS researchers that lets users 'see' their surroundings through voice commands.
Read the full story →When a water main break flooded the street outside Jamieson Elementary, Chicago crossing guard Joe Sass carried students to safety. Now the community is paying his kindness forward—and Sass plans to support local businesses with the donations.
Read the full story →Scientists discover that Polygonum multiflorum, a centuries-old Chinese medicinal root, shows remarkable promise for treating common hair loss by working on multiple biological pathways at once.
Read the full story →When a water main break flooded an icy street outside Jamieson Elementary, crossing guard Joe Sass didn't hesitate—he carried students to safety. Now the community is paying his kindness forward.
Read the full story →When Peggy Rouse's Georgia home was destroyed by Hurricane Helene and subsequent storms, her Rincon community raised over 40 contractors who donated $160,000 worth of work to rebuild it.
Read the full story →Doctors at NIH and Emory performed the world's first coronary artery bypass through blood vessels in the legs, eliminating the need to crack open the chest. The breakthrough VECTOR procedure could revolutionize heart surgery for high-risk patients.
Read the full story →Scottish doctors treated the world's first patient with cardiac gene therapy during routine bypass surgery, strengthening grafted blood vessels to prevent future failure. If successful, it could eliminate the need for repeat heart surgeries.
Read the full story →After 34 years of excruciating pain crises, Victoria Gray became the first American cured of sickle cell disease using CRISPR gene therapy. Four years later, she's crisis-free and living the life she never thought possible.
Read the full story →After thousands of advocates fought to protect Juristac—a sacred landscape south of Gilroy—the proposed Sargent Ranch mine has been defeated. The land will be permanently conserved, protecting wildlife corridors and the most sacred site of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band.
Read the full story →Manchester Royal Infirmary became the first NHS hospital to deliver a revolutionary new CAR-T cell therapy for an aggressive blood cancer, offering hope to patients who previously had no treatment options.
Read the full story →Scientists at MIT have developed a solar cell that converts nearly half of all sunlight into electricity, potentially making solar energy cheaper than any fossil fuel within two years.
Read the full story →From personalized cancer vaccines to protein degraders and radioligand therapy, Dana-Farber researchers are pioneering treatments that are transforming cancer from a death sentence into a manageable condition—and in many cases, a curable one.
Read the full story →After Action News 5 found Christine Marshall, known as 'Momma,' living in her car because her home had fallen into disrepair, a contractor and the community rallied to build her an entirely new house — set to be ready in March.
Read the full story →McKinney, Texas went from a 10% cardiac arrest survival rate to 47% in just two years by equipping every police vehicle with AEDs and training citizens. Now they're deploying 200 neighborhood AEDs to become one of America's first '4-Minute Cities.'
Read the full story →Liam Tait of St. Thomas, Ontario wanted a $600 Lego set, so he started making cinnamon rolls from scratch. Three weeks later he had the Lego — and a booming business with customers lining up every weekend.
Read the full story →Zeus, a 140-pound Great Dane, insisted on hugging every single shelter volunteer before leaving for his forever home. The heartwarming moment has gone viral, highlighting the bond between rescue dogs and the staff who care for them.
Read the full story →A freezing stray dog ran into a Target store seeking warmth and found something even better: a forever home. A shopper saw her, bought a leash and food right there in the aisle, and walked out with her new best friend.
Read the full story →Scientists have developed a new CRISPR system that reverses antibiotic resistance in superbugs, forcing them to become vulnerable to medication again. This breakthrough could save millions of lives.
Read the full story →Scientists at Northwestern University have achieved a staggering first: using miniature lab-grown human spinal cord organoids, they replicated the full cascade of spinal cord injury and then treated it with 'dancing molecules' — producing substantial nerve regrowth and dramatically reduced scarring.
Read the full story →When a 2-year-old goldendoodle mix named 'JetBlue' was left at the ticket counter of Harry Reid International Airport, more than 2,400 adoption applications poured in from across the country. The shelter had to stop accepting inquiries because the response was so overwhelming.
Read the full story →Rouble Nagi, who has brought over one million children into formal education through 800+ learning centers in slums and villages, wins the 2026 Global Teacher Prize. She plans to build a free vocational institute with the prize money.
Read the full story →Lio Cundiff didn't hesitate when he saw a gust of wind blow an 8-month-old girl's stroller into Lake Michigan—even though he can't swim. He jumped in and saved her life.
Read the full story →When Casey Curtis saw a car flip into a canal in his rearview mirror, he turned around and pulled three children and their unconscious mother to safety—even giving her a life-saving breath.
Read the full story →After Juba's municipal garbage collection collapsed, young South Sudanese volunteers organized via social media to clean streets, train students in environmental policy, and build an informal waste disposal system — turning a public health crisis into a community movement.
Read the full story →The community of Kuruwitu on Kenya's coast transformed a devastated reef into a thriving marine sanctuary through grassroots conservation — attracting global attention, a royal visit, and new partnerships that are now inspiring reef restoration across the region.
Read the full story →Korean researchers developed an 'intelligent protective layer' using thiophene molecules that dynamically guides lithium ions, preventing the dangerous dendrite growth that has blocked lithium-metal batteries from reaching electric vehicles.
Read the full story →Baby Myla, born at just 24 weeks weighing 1 pound 5 ounces, was cared for by the same neonatologist who treated her mother as a premature baby at the same hospital over three decades earlier. After 285 days, she finally went home to cheers and tears.
Read the full story →Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a nasal spray vaccine that teaches the lungs to fight virtually any respiratory threat — from coronaviruses to bacteria to allergens — potentially replacing multiple yearly shots with a single spray.
Read the full story →A goldendoodle abandoned at a Las Vegas airport was rescued, went viral on social media, and found a loving forever home within weeks — proving that even the saddest beginnings can have the happiest endings.
Read the full story →Northwestern University engineers have built an electrolyzer that converts waste-derived syngas into ethylene using renewable electricity — 60% more efficient than previous methods — potentially transforming the dirtiest corner of the chemical industry.
Read the full story →Once down to just 60 individuals, Sardinia's griffon vulture population has exploded to over 500 thanks to feeding stations, lead-free ammunition campaigns, and a remarkable cross-border breeding programme with Spain.
Read the full story →A community-based approach linking HIV diagnosis directly to treatment and prevention slashed new infections by 70% across rural populations in East Africa — proving that ending the epidemic is possible even in the hardest-to-reach communities.
Read the full story →Tatyana Thompson, 32, who suffered excruciating pain crises throughout her life and during pregnancy, is now completely cured of sickle cell anemia thanks to a new half-match bone marrow transplant technique that dramatically expands who can be a donor.
Read the full story →After 17 years of captive breeding, conservationists have successfully reintroduced Panama's iconic golden frogs back into the wild — the first time the fluorescent amphibians have hopped through their native habitat since a devastating fungal disease wiped them out.
Read the full story →ElliQ, a proactive AI companion robot designed for older adults, is being distributed free by government programmes in New York, Florida and New Jersey — and seniors who use it report a 95% reduction in loneliness within 30 days.
Read the full story →In one of the most ambitious ecosystem recovery projects ever attempted, 158 juvenile Floreana giant tortoises have been released onto the Galápagos island where their ancestors were wiped out by whalers in the 1840s — the first time the species has roamed Floreana in nearly two centuries.
Read the full story →The Welsh Parliament has unanimously passed the Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill, a landmark law that will intervene up to six months before people lose their homes, abolish barriers to support, and require all public services to cooperate on preventing homelessness.
Read the full story →Wales has passed a landmark Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill that will provide earlier intervention for people at risk of losing their homes — hailed by charities as potentially 'life-changing' for thousands of Welsh families.
Read the full story →Punch, a six-month-old macaque abandoned by his mother at a Japanese zoo, became an internet sensation clutching a stuffed orangutan toy for comfort. Now he's been adopted by an adult troop member named Onsing — and the two are inseparable.
Read the full story →The flat-headed cat — an endangered wild feline with distinctive webbed feet adapted for hunting fish — has been spotted in Thailand for the first time in almost three decades, with camera traps even capturing a mother with her cub.
Read the full story →Halfway through a historic ten-year fishing ban, Asia's longest river is showing a dramatic recovery: fish biomass up 209%, species richness rising, endangered porpoises returning, and an ecosystem healing faster than anyone predicted.
Read the full story →After four decades of protection and collaborative recovery efforts, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has ruled that America's only native stork is no longer endangered — with breeding colonies now thriving across the Southeast.
Read the full story →Qunnect and Cisco have demonstrated the first metro-scale quantum entanglement swapping over commercial fibre in New York City — achieving rates nearly 10,000 times better than previous benchmarks and bringing the quantum internet closer to reality.
Read the full story →A new Nature Astronomy study reveals that hidden liquid oceans beneath the icy crust of Saturn's and Jupiter's moons may be actively boiling due to tidal heating — making them even more promising candidates for extraterrestrial life.
Read the full story →The Regeneron Science Talent Search 2026 has recognised 300 of the most brilliant young minds in America — high schoolers who built AI cancer detectors, quantum computing tools, and climate models — awarding $1.2 million to fuel the next generation of scientific pioneers.
Read the full story →Chinese scientists have built an eco-friendly, non-toxic battery using organic electrodes and an electrolyte as safe as tofu brine. It lasts 120,000 recharge cycles — and could transform electric vehicles and grid storage without the risks of lithium-ion.
Read the full story →Scientists in China have cracked a stubborn problem inside solar cells using a 'crystal seeding' technique. The result: inverted perovskite solar cells hitting 23% efficiency — and a pathway to cheap, large-scale clean energy manufacturing.
Read the full story →Ty Sperle of Kelowna, BC, spent his childhood fighting a rare immune disease that could have killed him at any time. A groundbreaking new gene-editing treatment — 'prime editing' — has cured him completely. He's the first person in the world.
Read the full story →A bold new approach at the Medical University of South Carolina combines stem cells and engineered immune cells to restore insulin production — without immunosuppressive drugs. Backed by $1 million from Breakthrough T1D, it could change everything.
Read the full story →In a landmark study, Stanford researchers gave diabetic mice a dual transplant of islet cells and blood stem cells — and the results blew them away. For six months, the mice needed no insulin and showed no immune rejection. Human trials are the next horizon.
Read the full story →A pair of condors reintroduced by the Yurok Tribe in Northern California appear to be incubating the region's first wild-laid condor egg in more than a century. Hidden inside an old-growth redwood, it could be the most important nest in American conservation history.
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In what conservationists are calling one of the most dramatic rewilding successes in American history, Chinook salmon have restored their ancient migration patterns on the Klamath River — within a single year of the largest dam removal project ever undertaken in the United States.
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The NHS scheme that lets worried families request an urgent review of a patient's care has triggered 446 potentially life-saving interventions in its first 16 months. One in three calls identified rapidly worsening conditions.
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A new immunotherapy drug, VIR-5500, has produced 'stunning' early results in men with advanced prostate cancer — a disease previously considered immune-resistant. In the highest dose group, 82% of patients saw major PSA drops, nearly half had measurable tumour shrinkage, and one patient's 14 liver metastases resolved completely.
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In the world's first in-utero stem cell therapy for spina bifida, surgeons applied a stem-cell-coated patch directly onto fetuses' exposed spinal cords during fetal surgery. All six babies had their brain abnormalities reversed. One child, now four, walks and has normal bladder control. Published in The Lancet.
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A heartwarming TikTok showing 35 fathers sitting in a London pub with mannequin heads and beers, learning to braid their daughters' hair, went viral with 15 million views in under 24 hours. People called it 'what generational healing looks like.'
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For the first time in history, wind and solar panels generated more electricity than fossil fuels across the European Union in 2025, reaching 30% of total EU power output versus just 29% from coal, oil and gas. Renewables overall hit a record 47.3% of EU electricity — a genuine energy tipping point.
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A landmark study published in Science reveals that koalas in Victoria, which recovered from just 102 individuals to nearly 500 over 35 generations, have also regained their lost genetic diversity — upending a key belief in conservation biology that genetic bottlenecks cause irreversible damage.
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This Sunday, March 22, is World Water Day 2026 — and there is genuine good news to mark it. Since the year 2000, 2.2 billion people have gained access to safely managed drinking water. Rural coverage has climbed from 50% to 60%. One organisation alone is providing clean water to a new person every 10 seconds.
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What started as a simple workshop in a London pub — dads learning to braid and style their daughters' hair over a quiet pint — turned into a viral moment watched by over 15 million people. The 'Pints and Ponytails' night, run by Secret Life of Dads, struck a nerve with something the internet rarely offers: uncomplicated, wholesome joy.
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A world-first trial at UC Davis Health has shown that applying placenta-derived stem cells to a fetus's spine during in-utero surgery for spina bifida is safe — and the early outcomes are remarkable. None of the six babies needed brain shunts. All had their brain herniation reversed. A new era of fetal medicine may have just begun.
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The large tortoiseshell butterfly, last seen as a resident of Britain in the 1980s, has been officially declared a breeding species again by Butterfly Conservation. After 40 years of absence, this striking orange butterfly is now raising caterpillars in Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Dorset, and beyond — and its return is a genuine conservation triumph.
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In November 2025, an anonymous person walked into Osaka's Waterworks Bureau and left 21 kilograms of gold — worth $3.6 million — with one request: fix the city's ageing water pipes. The city was stunned. No one knows who did it. And they're honouring every yen of the wish.
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Richard Pulley was DoorDashing at 78 because his wife had lost her job and they needed to cover their bills and medication. Then a customer posted a video — and thousands of strangers, including the DoorDash CEO, rallied behind him. Nearly $1 million raised. And Richard? He still wants to keep working.
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In one of the most astonishing wildlife rediscoveries in recent memory, two marsupial species — a pygmy long-fingered possum and a ring-tailed glider — last seen in the fossil record 6,000 years ago have been found living in the remote rainforests of West Papua. The discovery was led by Professor Tim Flannery and made possible by Indigenous knowledge from local Tambrauw and Maybrat communities.
Read the full story →In a world first, stingless bees in the Peruvian Amazon have been granted legal rights — the first insects ever to receive this status. Local ordinances passed in late 2025 protect 175+ species of these critical pollinators, allowing humans to file lawsuits on their behalf. They pollinate 80% of Amazonian plants.
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Researchers have uncovered extraordinarily complex topological structures hidden within entangled light beams — structures existing in 48 dimensions. The discovery opens a vast new alphabet for encoding quantum information that is far more stable and information-dense than anything previously known, potentially transforming quantum communication and computing.
Read the full story →In the small coastal village of Chelem, Mexico, a group of fourteen Maya women called 'Las Chelemeras' spent fifteen years restoring a dead mangrove forest using artificial islands woven from coconut fibre. The forest came back. Then the flamingos came back. Then the fish came back — by over 40%. Now the Mexican government plans to replicate their method in twelve other coastal communities.
Read the full story →Northwestern University engineers have created 'legged metamachines' — modular Lego-like robots that snap together into novel forms evolved by AI, traverse rugged terrain, flip themselves upright when overturned, and keep functioning even after being chopped in half. Severed parts crawl back to rejoin the machine. Published in PNAS, March 2026.
Read the full story →Death Valley National Park is experiencing its most spectacular wildflower superbloom since 2016, triggered by over a year's worth of rainfall between November 2025 and January 2026. Vast carpets of desert gold, phacelia, and Mojave star have transformed one of Earth's driest places into an explosion of colour — the first superbloom of the decade.
Read the full story →World Water Day 2026's theme is 'Water and Gender: Where water flows, equality grows.' New research across 44 water projects shows communities with women in leadership roles access water more reliably, sustain systems longer, and share resources more equitably. In Uganda, one minister's gender strategy raised safe water access from 51% to 61% in just two years. Today's a good day to notice what works.
Read the full story →Researchers have documented 22 North Atlantic right whale calves during the 2025-2026 calving season — more than double last year's 11 calves. The population has climbed to an estimated 384 individuals, up from a low of 358 in 2020, offering cautious hope for one of the world's most endangered large whales.
Read the full story →NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere surrounding a rocky exoplanet. TOI-561b — a scorching super-Earth that orbits its star in under 11 hours — was expected to be a bare rock. Instead, Webb found it far cooler than predicted, indicating a thick, volatile-rich atmosphere that's rewriting assumptions about planetary evolution.
Read the full story →Scientists extracted DNA from seven naturally mummified cheetahs discovered in Saudi Arabian caves — the first time genetic material has been recovered from mummified big cats. The surprising results show two distinct subspecies once roamed Arabia, which could significantly expand the potential gene pool for reintroduction efforts.
Read the full story →New research published in early 2026 reveals that China's 10-year fishing moratorium on the Yangtze River — which began in 2021 — has produced extraordinary results. Fish biomass in the world's third-longest river has more than doubled, species richness has increased by 13%, and the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise population has rebounded by a third. Decades of ecological collapse are reversing.
Read the full story →In a historic milestone, homegrown clean power generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the European Union last year, marking a major turning point in the global energy transition.
Read the full story →European hedgehog populations have plummeted by 30% over the last decade, but a new ultrasound discovery could change their fate.
Read the full story →A 'genetic blueprint' approach developed at Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre has shown a reported 95% long-term remission rate in early-stage patients.
Read the full story →A rescue pony that was too weak to even stand is now living a full, happy life thanks to the incredible dedication of an animal rescue team.
Read the full story →A new 'genetic blueprint' therapy from Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre has achieved a 95% long-term remission rate in treated patients.
Read the full story →A revolutionary new enzyme that rapidly dissolves microplastics in seawater is being successfully deployed in major ocean cleanups, showing remarkable early results.
Read the full story →Over the past 20 years, electricity from wind power and utility-scale solar power has skyrocketed, increasing to 17% of generation in the United States compared to less than 1% in 2005.
Read the full story →NASA says Artemis II completed a crucial crewed lunar flyby phase, a major step toward future Moon landings.
Read the full story →NASA says Artemis II has successfully completed its around-the-Moon mission, marking humanity’s first crewed deep-space return since Apollo.
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In a major breakthrough announced on April 24, 2026, WHO prequalified the first malaria treatment designed specifically for newborns and young infants weighing just 2 to 5 kilograms, closing a dangerous long-standing treatment gap.
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WHO certified The Bahamas on April 22, 2026 for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV, after years of universal antenatal care, free treatment, and rigorous testing helped protect babies across the island nation.
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In the small coastal village of Chelem, Mexico, a group of fourteen Maya women called 'Las Chelemeras' spent fifteen yea…
March 21, 2026Northwestern University engineers have created 'legged metamachines' — modular Lego-like robots that snap together into …
March 21, 2026Washington University scientists engineered astrocytes — the brain's most abundant support cells — with the same CAR 'ho…
March 21, 2026Death Valley National Park is experiencing its most spectacular wildflower superbloom since 2016, triggered by over a ye…
March 22, 2026World Water Day 2026's theme is 'Water and Gender: Where water flows, equality grows.' New research across 44 water proj…
March 22, 2026A pair of California condors reintroduced by the Yurok Tribe appear to be incubating an egg in an old-growth redwood for…
March 22, 2026A new report by the Breathe Cities initiative found that 19 major global cities — including London, Beijing, and San Fra…
March 22, 2026Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have presented compelling evidence that an alloy of ni…
March 22, 2026Researchers have documented 22 North Atlantic right whale calves during the 2025-2026 calving season — more than double …
March 22, 2026The FDA has approved nivolumab (Opdivo) in combination with standard chemotherapy as a frontline treatment for Stage III…
March 22, 2026Rocket Pharmaceuticals' gene therapy Kresladi is awaiting FDA approval by March 28, 2026, for a rare immune disorder cal…
March 22, 2026NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere surrounding a rocky exoplanet…
March 22, 2026University of Utah geoscientists have found a massive, ancient freshwater system buried thousands of feet beneath the Gr…
March 22, 2026New statistics from Cancer Research UK show that cancer death rates have fallen nearly 29% since their 1989 peak — from …
March 22, 2026A six-year study of 184 bull sharks in Fiji has revealed that the famously solitary species actually forms stable social…
March 22, 2026A new vaccine platform called DoriVac uses 'DNA origami' — precisely folded DNA nanostructures — to present antigens to …
March 22, 2026Scientists extracted DNA from seven naturally mummified cheetahs discovered in Saudi Arabian caves — the first time gene…
March 22, 2026Seville, Spain — one of Europe's most heat-stricken cities — is testing an ancient Persian technology called qanats: und…
March 22, 2026In February 2026, 158 juvenile giant tortoises descended from the extinct Floreana subspecies were reintroduced to Galáp…
March 22, 2026New research published in early 2026 reveals that China's 10-year fishing moratorium on the Yangtze River — which began …
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