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

Sep 4, 2026

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

A 745-pound bluefin tuna just showed up in the North Sea for the first time in 60 years

Aug 26, 2026

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A 745-pound bluefin tuna just showed up in the North Sea for the first time in 60 years

Plus: the FDA just approved the first drug to target the root cause of narcolepsy, an Oklahoma high school where seniors mob the parking lot demanding freshmen kiss their parents goodbye, and 3,000 endangered mountain frogs released into the California wilderness

He promised his paralyzed wife they would die on the road together, not in a hospital

Aug 25, 2026

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He promised his paralyzed wife they would die on the road together, not in a hospital

Plus: a NASA engineer who built a waterless toilet for astronauts realized it could solve a sanitation crisis for a billion people, California joining 30 states requiring personal finance in every high school, and a tiny dog rescued from a ravine on England's third-highest peak after three weeks

Scientists just cracked a centuries-old mystery about the narwhal's spiral tusk

Aug 24, 2026

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Scientists just cracked a centuries-old mystery about the narwhal's spiral tusk

Plus: Africa's largest renewable energy storage plant just switched on in South Africa, a Minneapolis pizza joint that survived COVID and the George Floyd riots is getting its neighborhood's help after a fire, and a gas station near Albany offering 20% off for anyone willing to dance

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