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🐋🌍 Somewhere1 Sept

This Ancient Insect Had 24 Legs—and Could Help Explain How the Ancestors of Modern-Day Bugs Took Over the Land

Smithsonian

🇧🇷 Brazil8 Sept

Giant new dinosaur discovered beneath construction site in Brazil

ScienceDaily

🇫🇮 Finland4 Sept

After 30 Years of Estranged Trains, Sweden and Finland Re-Connect Their Railway Lines

Good News Network

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan9 Sept

Two wild Przewalski’s horse foals born in Kazakhstan after 200 years

Mongabay

🇺🇸 United States3 Sept

3 Million Oysters Eaten by New Yorkers Are Rebuilding the City’s Reefs

Good News Network

🇮🇳 India3 Sept

Indian Home Stays Cool Without A/C Through Clever Clay Architecture

Good News Network

🌍 Somewhere10 Sept

Gondwana really was a supercontinent—and it may have helped kickstart life on Earth

Phys.org

The Renoir Museum occupies the Impressionist&#39;s final home.

🇫🇷 France8 Sept

Thieves Broke Into a French Museum and Made Off With Renoir Paintings Worth More Than $2.5 Million

Smithsonian

🇬🇧 United Kingdom10 Sept

Celebrating 10 years of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

Positive News

🇬🇧 United Kingdom9 Sept

Devil’s Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55,000-pound stones 11 miles for Britain’s tallest stone row

ScienceDaily

🌍 Somewhere8 Sept

Armless Racing Driver Hits 110 mph Steering with His Feet–Aims to Make History at Le Mans

Good News Network

🌍 Somewhere6 Sept

Antarctica gained a record 695 billion tons of ice. Scientists found the surprising reason

ScienceDaily

🇺🇸 United States10 Sept

NYC schools issue the country’s broadest AI ban, covering pre-K through eighth grade

The Optimist Daily

🌍 Somewhere10 Sept

What the record-high cost of diesel means for you

Grist

🌍 Somewhere3 Sept

Ancient “living fossils” may reveal how complex life began

ScienceDaily

For the first time in more than a century of cookie sales, Girl Scouts of the USA has launched a dedicated dog treat.

🌍 Somewhere10 Sept

Girl Scouts of America Announces a First for Its Iconic Cookie Lineup—One Created Exclusively for Dogs

Smithsonian

🇳🇬 Nigeria3 Sept

Former Poachers Are Protecting One of Nigeria’s Last Rainforests

Reasons to be Cheerful

🇩🇰 Denmark9 Sept

Yard Work Reveals Largest Trove of Viking Silver Ever Discovered in Denmark

Good News Network

🇺🇸 United States7 Sept

Firm Buys Texas Coal Plant to Leverage its Grid Connections for New Massive Solar Project

Good News Network

🇺🇸 United States4 Sept

Neighbors Get Swept Up in Man’s Viral Journey to Clean a NYC Street Block Every Day for 100 Days

Good News Network

The treasure was found at a home in Rebild, a municipality&nbsp;in northern Denmark.

🇩🇰 Denmark8 Sept

Routine Yard Work Reveals a Trove of Viking Silver—the Largest Treasure of Its Kind Ever Discovered in Denmark

Smithsonian

A nabarlek on Augustus Island, an uninhabited island in Western Australia. This is not one of the newly discovered wallabies.

🇦🇺 Australia10 Sept

Australia’s Second-Smallest Rock-Wallaby Reappears in a Region Where It Had Not Been Seen for 50 Years

Smithsonian

🇸🇪 Sweden8 Sept

Ozempic and Wegovy may have an unexpected mental health benefit

ScienceDaily

Scientists make a seaweed coating that beats the fridge for cutting food waste

🇨🇦 Canada14 Aug

Scientists make a seaweed coating that beats the fridge for cutting food waste

Anthropocene

🇺🇸 United States10 Sept

Court rules residents of a US city don’t have a constitutional right to lead-free water

Mongabay

🎨🌍 Somewhere3 Sept

Scientists Recreated the Long-Lost Chirps of Jurassic Insects. Listen to the Simulated Soundscape of 165 Million Years Ago

Smithsonian

🇺🇸 United States4 Sept

Endangered Salmon Return to California Rivers in Incredible Numbers: ‘Everybody’s just ecstatic’

Good News Network

🇹🇭 Thailand4 Sept

Scientists discover a bizarre “devil flower” hidden in Thailand

ScienceDaily

🇮🇳 India10 Sept

‘Forgotten fauna’: Little known river sharks and rays face increased extinction risk

Mongabay

🇧🇷 Brazil10 Sept

Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil

Mongabay

🌍 Somewhere9 Sept

A ‘Living Roof’ is Growing Atop Ford’s Largest Factory–Saving Energy and Boosting Birds

Good News Network

🇺🇸 United States10 Sept

First PLP-dependent enzyme that influences bacterial protein production discovered

Phys.org

🇨🇴 Colombia9 Sept

Colombia’s Indigenous guardians adapt as pressures mount on the ‘Heart of the World’

Mongabay

The Silver Snoopy pin, awarded to NASA astronauts and employees for &quot;outstanding achievements related to human flight safety or mission success.&quot;

🇺🇸 United States4 Sept

A New York City Exhibition Celebrates Snoopy’s Enduring Influence on Art and Fashion

Smithsonian

🌍 Somewhere9 Sept

Scientists Recreated Chirps of Jurassic Insects, Simulating a 165 Million-yo Soundscape (Listen)

Good News Network

Since calorie restriction is known to slow aging, researchers wanted to know if GLP-1s&mdash;which curb appetite&mdash;could do the same.

🌍 Somewhere4 Sept

GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Can Slow Aging and Extend Life Span, Mouse Study Suggests

Smithsonian

🇮🇳 India8 Sept

Sickles, sarees and smoke: Women on the frontlines of Uttarakhand forest fires

Mongabay

🌍 Somewhere10 Sept

Indigenous fisherwoman finds ‘lost’ spinach pipefish, not seen by science in 40 years

Mongabay

🌍 Somewhere8 Sept

Scientists observe Einstein’s gravity in the quantum world for the first time

ScienceDaily

The researchers have collected thousands of coral samples since 2006.

🇪🇨 Ecuador2 Sept

Corals Reveal El Niño Events Have Become Stronger in Recent Decades, Probably Because Humans Have Been Heating Up the Planet

Smithsonian

Ancient buffalo DNA lays out a roadmap to rehabilitating healthy herds

🌍 Somewhere19 Aug

Ancient buffalo DNA lays out a roadmap to rehabilitating healthy herds

Anthropocene

🌍 Somewhere6 Sept

Popular brain supplement linked to shorter lifespan in men

ScienceDaily

🌍 Somewhere6 Sept

Teen Discovers Coconut Fungi Can Filter Plastic and Sunscreen From Sea—And Wins Science Fair

Good News Network

🌍 Somewhere8 Sept

Scientists discover a powerful new antivenom hidden in rattlesnake blood

ScienceDaily

🌍 Somewhere8 Sept

The neuroscience of motivation: what orexin neurons reveal about staying the course

The Optimist Daily

A majority of Americans don't actually fit either climate camp

🌍 Somewhere4 Aug

A majority of Americans don’t actually fit either climate camp

Anthropocene

🌍 Somewhere10 Sept

'CRISPR-Combo' system speeds regeneration of hard-to-breed perennial crops

Phys.org

🌍 Somewhere4 Sept

Scientists reveal the hidden instructions that build the human brain

ScienceDaily

🌍 Somewhere10 Sept

The ‘National Park’ That Stretches From Coast to Coast

Reasons to be Cheerful

Elongated scales form leg-like structures at the tip of the spider-tailed horned viper&#39;s tail, creating a decoy arachnid that the predator can use to attract birds.

🌍 Somewhere10 Sept

The Tip of This Snake's Tail Looks Like a Spider. But Inside, Its Bones Are 'Bizarrely Normal'

Smithsonian

Urban heat's overlooked fix: Greening the land upwind of cities

🌍 Somewhere25 Aug

Urban heat’s overlooked fix: Greening the land upwind of cities

Anthropocene

🌍 Somewhere9 Sept

A simpler path to treating degenerative blindness: photoswitchable eye drops

The Optimist Daily

🌍 Somewhere9 Sept

Beyond the thrift store: where your donations do more good

The Optimist Daily

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