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An EMT ran back down a mountain for blood, then back up 1,000 feet in 31 minutes to save a dying climber

Sep 9, 2026

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9 min read

An EMT ran back down a mountain for blood, then back up 1,000 feet in 31 minutes to save a dying climber

Plus: Callum Smith was born without arms and is hitting 110 mph steering with his feet, aiming for Le Mans. Aubry Allbridge has Down syndrome and just led a fitness class of 60. And seven critically endangered penguin chicks hatched in Myrtle Beach

A backpack saved a former college football star from homelessness

Sep 8, 2026

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8 min read

A backpack saved a former college football star from homelessness

Plus: a Hawaiian high schooler who discovered coconut fungi can biodegrade sunscreen and plastic, a baby kept alive by an air-powered mechanical heart while he waits for a transplant, and a $1.7 billion solar project being built next to a Texas coal plant

30,000 endangered coho salmon just returned to California rivers that hadn't seen one in 20 years

Sep 7, 2026

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8 min read

30,000 endangered coho salmon just returned to California rivers that hadn't seen one in 20 years

Plus: scientists just revived dying Red Sea coral using probiotics in open water for the first time, a Paris gym installed in a homeless shelter where 80% of residents report improved health, and a 24-year-old in Washington Heights who cleaned his block every day for 100 days until his neighbors joined him

New Yorkers eat 3 million oysters a year and the shells are rebuilding the harbor

Sep 4, 2026

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8 min read

New Yorkers eat 3 million oysters a year and the shells are rebuilding the harbor

Plus: omega-3 and a daily aspirin matching antibiotics for severe gum disease, scientists just ranked every bird song for beauty and the blackbird won, and a Kerala home that stays cool all summer without ever turning on the AC

Last-minute flood warning saved over 900 Nepal students

Sep 3, 2026

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8 min read

Last-minute flood warning saved over 900 Nepal students

Plus: Libya's rival factions just agreed to hold elections after a 6-year standoff, a Milwaukee landlord found a stolen Picasso hanging in a vacated apartment, and a stray cat with frozen-shut eyes who became a Japanese train stationmaster

Uganda just declared Ebola over

Sep 2, 2026

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8 min read

Uganda just declared Ebola over

Plus: a Long Island man who gave $3,000 to a Bronx fire victim he saw on the news, a Pokémon convention where strangers rallied to replace a child's stolen card, and Rhossi the sea turtle, two years in the making and almost home

NASA's Roman Space Telescope launched Sunday

Sep 1, 2026

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8 min read

NASA's Roman Space Telescope launched Sunday

Plus: London children's lungs are growing faster as traffic pollution falls, two Florida siblings whose pizza app has delivered 25,000 slices to food-insecure families, and the quiet civic victory of 93 American cities terminating surveillance camera contracts in a single month

She turned 117 last week. Her secret? Never arguing, and rarely compromising

Aug 31, 2026

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8 min read

She turned 117 last week. Her secret? Never arguing, and rarely compromising

Plus: deep sleep brain waves that appear to protect against Alzheimer's, three elderly dogs doing their final shift at London's Waterloo station before retirement, and a mobile dental unit heading to UK homeless shelters in October

A retired fisherman just gave CPR to a baby otter, and the otter still recognizes the woman who sang it a lullaby

Aug 28, 2026

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8 min read

A retired fisherman just gave CPR to a baby otter, and the otter still recognizes the woman who sang it a lullaby

Plus: Pakistan creates 249 miles of connected river dolphin habitat, a startup turning logging waste into a replacement for polystyrene foam, and a sidewalk robot named Dax who has become a local celebrity in five American cities

A surgeon in Turin just gave a blind woman her sight back using parts from her own two damaged eyes

Aug 27, 2026

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8 min read

A surgeon in Turin just gave a blind woman her sight back using parts from her own two damaged eyes

Plus: India's Asiatic lion population is up 70% in a decade, a desert plant sugar is stabilizing vaccines so they no longer need refrigeration, and we say goodbye to Dolly Parton by looking at what she built

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