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100 teachers were called into a meeting with no explanation. Then the envelopes came out

Aug 21, 2026

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8 min read

100 teachers were called into a meeting with no explanation. Then the envelopes came out

Plus: a fisherman who survived 15 days in a pitch-black Mexican cave, archaeologists who just tripled the known scale of an ancient Amazonian civilization, and a Johns Hopkins vaccine that generated immune responses against pancreatic cancer in 90% of high-risk participants

White storks just returned to Derbyshire for the first time in 600 years

Aug 20, 2026

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7 min read

White storks just returned to Derbyshire for the first time in 600 years

Plus: Italian military police recovered a Renoir, a Cézanne, and a Matisse stolen by thieves who used a tractor to batter down a villa gate, Zion National Park's new all-terrain wheelchair, and a DoorDash driver's handwritten note that went viral

A construction worker in Belgium just hit a gold bar with his jackhammer

Aug 19, 2026

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8 min read

A construction worker in Belgium just hit a gold bar with his jackhammer

Plus: how cement kilns could actually remove carbon from the atmosphere, a desert plant that produces more fiber than pine trees without irrigation or pesticides, and a tiny songbird given hand-made foot casts after being hit by a car

Researchers just restored two hours of sleep a night in Alzheimer's brains

Aug 18, 2026

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8 min read

Researchers just restored two hours of sleep a night in Alzheimer's brains

Plus: a Wendy's in Cape Cod that paid for a Brazilian immigrant's community college — he just got into Yale with a full ride, Italian garbage workers who spent a whole day searching a truck for a million-euro lottery ticket, and a rescue horse in California who learned to play guitar

He promised his great-granddaughter he'd attend her graduation from his med school. 60 years later, he was there

Aug 17, 2026

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He promised his great-granddaughter he'd attend her graduation from his med school. 60 years later, he was there

Plus: rescued orangutans in Sumatra raising babies in the wild for the first time, a radiation-free lung scan finding things CT scans miss, and a cat named Toast Malone who survived a 4-alarm fire in a closet for 72 hours

A duck saved a golden retriever's personality. Barley is smiling again

Aug 14, 2026

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9 min read

A duck saved a golden retriever's personality. Barley is smiling again

Plus: ancient farmers who built a water system three times the size of London without a government or a chief, a chewing gum that reduces cancer-linked bacteria to near zero, and a Virginia Tech security guard whose 3D-printed rhino statues have become a campus institution

A 99-year-old woman broke four ribs and still showed up to throw the first pitch

Aug 13, 2026

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9 min read

A 99-year-old woman broke four ribs and still showed up to throw the first pitch

Plus: the Great Barrier Reef got a monsoon reprieve, a Brown student spending his summer teaching immigrant teens English in Providence, and a multi-state team that freed an entangled manatee while her calf watched

NASA just pulled off an irreversible fix on a 49-year-old spacecraft running out of power, and it worked

Aug 12, 2026

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8 min read

NASA just pulled off an irreversible fix on a 49-year-old spacecraft running out of power, and it worked

Plus: a new drug that nearly doubled motor function scores in toddlers with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, zoo elephants that adapted to the wild with remarkable ease, and a plant whose first flower grew 18 feet through a greenhouse roof.

Leo DiCaprio just committed $200M to save 100 species from extinction

Aug 11, 2026

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8 min read

Leo DiCaprio just committed $200M to save 100 species from extinction

Plus: 60,000-year-old ostrich eggshells with geometric carvings that reveal a visual grammar in embryo, new evidence that full-fat cheese won't hurt your cholesterol, and a blind horse winning dressage competitions by feel

Kazakhstan just released a tiger into the wild for the first time in 70 years. They named her Hope

Aug 10, 2026

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Kazakhstan just released a tiger into the wild for the first time in 70 years. They named her Hope

Plus: the highest resolution images ever taken of the Sun's surface, a bride who lost her ring swatting a bee mid-ceremony, and 7 beluga whales completing the largest captive whale transport in US history

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