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He broke his neck diving into a pool. Four years later, he can pet his dog again

Jul 24, 2026

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He broke his neck diving into a pool. Four years later, he can pet his dog again

Plus: the avocados hiding in Nicaragua that could save the ones on your toast, five new marine reserves off New Zealand's South Island, and India's first private rocket reaching orbit

For decades, his family ate dinner on it. Turns out it was a 200-year-old imperial diploma
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Jul 23, 2026

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For decades, his family ate dinner on it. Turns out it was a 200-year-old imperial diploma

Plus: an off-duty Texas firefighter who made the grab of his career on the 4th of July, Mexico's six-year drought finally breaking, and a 14-year-old who stopped to help a stranger in 103-degree heat

He called his shot at the start of the year. Then he broke a 27-year-old world record in the mile

Jul 22, 2026

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He called his shot at the start of the year. Then he broke a 27-year-old world record in the mile

Plus: the 2-year-old who became her sister's bone marrow donor, a coral reef off West Africa that scientists assumed was dead, and a new monkey species with orange lips found for the fifth time in 75 years

A fungus wiped out the American chestnut a century ago. A startup just brought it back
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Jul 21, 2026

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A fungus wiped out the American chestnut a century ago. A startup just brought it back

Plus: Norway is drilling a 16-mile tunnel 1,000 feet below the North Sea, a Kansas City cop who spent a month finding a stolen bike for a cancer patient, and the Oakland pigeon who walked up to firefighters and asked for oxygen

He was 4 years old, lonely, and new to the neighborhood. So he waved at everyone who walked by

Jul 20, 2026

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He was 4 years old, lonely, and new to the neighborhood. So he waved at everyone who walked by

Plus: a King's College drug that may repair DNA at the earliest stages of Alzheimer's, Spain's donkey fire brigade with a perfect 9-year record, and the daughter who saved her dad's shoe shop with one TikTok

30 beluga whales have been waiting in a shuttered theme park for two years. They're finally getting out

Jul 17, 2026

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30 beluga whales have been waiting in a shuttered theme park for two years. They're finally getting out

Plus: the first sugar ever detected in interstellar space, Maine's 20 million river herring comeback, and India's first bullet train built with Japanese engineering

Brazil's humpback whales were nearly gone. Now there are 35,000 of them passing Rio de Janeiro

Jul 16, 2026

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Brazil's humpback whales were nearly gone. Now there are 35,000 of them passing Rio de Janeiro

Plus: a 3,200-year-old tomb discovered in Luxor, a restaurant owner who found $12,000 in a cabinet and called the previous owner live on air, and four orphaned bobkittens getting a second chance together in California

She couldn't speak, move, or remember. Then she was given psilocybin
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Jul 15, 2026

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She couldn't speak, move, or remember. Then she was given psilocybin

Plus: Bloomberg's $260 million bet on the High Seas Treaty, the rice farmers who solved a disease problem by adding fish, and why your morning coffee might be protecting your liver

A tiny desert mouse lives 5 times longer than any mouse should. Scientists just figured out why
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Jul 14, 2026

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A tiny desert mouse lives 5 times longer than any mouse should. Scientists just figured out why

Plus: the young man who has spent every day for 10 years interviewing WWII veterans, the first advanced nuclear reactor groundbreaking in America, and a new injection that reversed osteoarthritis in animals within weeks

Women with endometriosis waited an average of 9 years for a diagnosis. A saliva test just changed that

Jul 13, 2026

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8 min read

Women with endometriosis waited an average of 9 years for a diagnosis. A saliva test just changed that

Plus: the frog bacteria that wiped out cancer tumors in a single dose, a Quebec firm that extracts gold without cyanide, and Britain's first hospital for houseplants

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