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Ary Scheffer's Home Welcomes Visitors Again After Years of Restoration

A Dutch-French painter's former home became a museum on the most romantic day of the year—Valentine's Day.

Solid-state batteries just ditched the pressure problem—and gained liquid speed

Chinese researchers created a flexible solid electrolyte that mimics liquid performance without external pressure—potentially solving the speed-versus-stability crisis in next-generation batteries.

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Washington state moves to ban forced employee microchips

Economic

Washington state protects workers from forced microchip implants

Washington lawmakers are racing to ban workplace microchip implants before dystopian fiction becomes reality. Two Democrats introduced legislation to criminalize the practice.

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Brain Blood Flow May Predict Alzheimer’s Risk Before Memory Loss

Subtle shifts in brain blood flow offer a window to Alzheimer's risk before memory fades

Brain blood flow patterns may reveal Alzheimer's risk before symptoms appear. New noninvasive imaging tools detect subtle oxygen shifts that mirror early disease markers.

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NFL Delivers Net-Zero Super Bowl with Substantial Recycling of Trash and Other Materials

Sports

Did the Super Bowl just prove major sports events can run on zero emissions?

The NFL just pulled off a net-zero Super Bowl, diverting massive amounts of waste from landfills through aggressive recycling efforts.

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TED makes multi-million-dollar investment to boost safe abortion in 10 countries

Progress Maker

Can safe abortion access finally reach the millions who need it most?

TED's Audacious Project just made history—funding an abortion access organization for the first time.

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What a single afternoon of psilocybin reveals about healing depression and anxiety

What took mystics years of cave meditation now takes an afternoon—and a psychedelic drug. Clinical trials suggest psilocybin and LSD can trigger profound spiritual experiences in hours.

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Mongabay launches new desk reporting on, with and for Indigenous communities

Education

Mongabay centers Indigenous voices in environmental reporting through new dedicated desk

Indigenous peoples protect Earth's biodiversity better than anyone—yet mainstream media barely covers their voices or knowledge.

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Mystery stone is actually ancient Roman board game

What if that puzzling stone artifact was Romans playing strategy games 2,000 years ago?

Ancient Romans played strategy games like chess and backgammon—and historians are still uncovering their complete catalog of tabletop pastimes.

While Stockholm's diesel ferries dominated the headlines, a hydrofoil quietly cut commute times in half and slashed emissions by 94 percent.

Stockholm's new hydrofoiling electric ferry glides above water—and the results are undeniable. The Swedish capital is transforming its 14-island waterways into cleaner, quieter infrastructure.

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Single Daily Tablet Shows Powerful Results for People With Drug-Resistant HIV

Momentum

One Daily Tablet Unlocks simpler treatment for people with hard-to-treat HIV

A major clinical trial reveals a breakthrough treatment for people with highly resistant HIV—offering hope where options were scarce.

Watch trees glow invisible light during storms—scientists finally caught it on camera.

Leaves generate electrical discharges when weather strikes. Scientists discovered weak currents spark in the air surrounding foliage during storms.

Lost Rembrandt emerges after sixty years.

A lost Rembrandt emerges after 60 years: The Rijksmuseum confirms "Vision of Zacharias in the Temple" (1633) is authentic, overturning decades of scholarly doubt.

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Scientists Discover Plant Compound That Forces Aggressive Breast Cancer Cells Into Self-Destruction

A plant compound stops triple-negative breast cancer cells from multiplying

Scientists discovered a plant molecule that attacks cancer cells through an unexpected mechanism, potentially opening new treatment pathways.

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Family friendly tiny house packs three bedrooms into 32-ft layout

Innovation

Three bedrooms bloom in 32 feet of living space.

Dragon Tiny Homes just shattered expectations with the Avalon 32'—a towable tiny house that fits three bedrooms and full-time family living into one compact package.

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Experts think naloxone is saving new moms, as maternal overdose rates plummet in Colorado

Breakthrough

Naloxone in mothers' hands cuts Colorado's maternal overdose deaths by 60%

Overdose killed more pregnant Colorado women than childbirth itself—until a dramatic shift. Maternal overdose deaths plummeted 60% in one year.

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After 144 years, construction finishes on Barcelona’s most iconic architectural project

Arts

While the world moved on, Barcelona finally completed its 144-year love letter to Gaudí.

After 144 years of cranes dotting Barcelona's skyline, Gaudí's Sagrada Família finally reached its full height in February 2026—a monumental moment for one of architecture's greatest unfinished dreams.

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Food

Six films reveal how farming choices reshape health and land.

Language is reshaping how we grow and eat. A new BBC film series explores the innovators and ideas transforming food systems—from alternative proteins to school lunches.

Astronomers spot a galaxy hiding in plain sight—99% dark matter, just four star clusters give it away

Astronomers discovered a nearly invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, revealed only by four glowing star clusters embedded within the Perseus cluster.

While astronomers debated where life begins, Jupiter's moons were already assembling the chemistry for it.

Jupiter's moons may have harbored the chemical building blocks for life from their very formation—a discovery that reshapes our search for extraterrestrial biology.

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A tiny twist creates giant magnetic skyrmions in 2D crystals

Twisting ultrathin crystals unlocks magnetic patterns engineers can finally harness for low-power devices

Twisting atomically thin magnetic layers spawns giant skyrmion-like patterns hundreds of nanometers wide—far larger than predicted—reshaping how we engineer magnetic electronics.

What a technician's bare hands revealed about EV batteries—and how two engineers solved it

A technician's bare hands on a burning e-bike battery sparked Shubham Mishra's mission to transform EV safety.

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A regional network is racing to save the Midwest’s native seeds

Food

What a small army of seed savers discovered in the Midwest's forgotten vaults

Marty Landorf's careful fingers reveal tiny black seeds destined to join 46 million others in frozen storage—each one a different key to survival at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

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Kickapoo Chef Crystal Wahpepah Showcases Oakland’s Native American Side

Food

From Oklahoma summers to Oakland tables: Chef Crystal Wahpepah reclaims Indigenous foodways across two homelands.

Chef Crystal Wahpepah weaves her Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, and African-American heritage into every dish at her Oakland restaurant. Wild rice fritters and bison chili tell the story of two homelands.

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Country diary: Taking the long view of the farm and these fells | Andrea Meanwell

Environment

One farmer's quiet revolution: fruit trees and wildflowers rewild an abandoned farm in the Lake District

Every 200 metres, a fruit tree transforms bare hedgerows into thriving ecosystems. Today, planting continues at Low Park's new apple and damson orchard.

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Treacherous 43-Day Mountain Search Finally Reunites Dog With Owner After it Bolted During Road Trip: ‘It was amazing’

Community

Can a dog survive 43 days alone in the Colorado Rockies? One owner's relentless search says yes.

A dog missing for 43 days in the mountains is finally home. The treacherous search that reunited the runaway with its owner proves some bonds refuse to break.

While the headlines celebrated divisions, this Chennai temple quietly proved compassion transcends faith.

A Hindu temple in Chennai has quietly broken religious boundaries for 37 years, opening its doors to Muslims during Ramadan—a rare act of interfaith solidarity in India.

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Peace

Watch how mobile clinics are reaching families violence left behind in Arauca.

Conflict-torn Arauca faces a healthcare crisis. MSF's mobile clinics bring emergency care to villages where violence has cut off medical access entirely.

Rethink acute pain relief: New evidence shows opioids deliver less than we thought.

Opioids may be far less effective for acute pain than doctors have long assumed, according to the largest review of its kind.

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60,000-year-old markings on ostrich egg shells reveal world’s oldest ‘geometric grammar’

Humans invented geometry 60,000 years ago.

Humans were etching geometric codes onto ostrich eggs 60,000 years ago—the oldest known patterns that foreshadowed writing itself.

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Women more likely to choose wine from female winemakers

Business

Female winemakers find their audience as women gravitate toward their bottles

Women winemakers are a sales secret: highlighting female ownership boosts purchases among women, who dominate U.S. wine consumption.

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Researchers praise ‘stunning’ results of new prostate cancer treatment

Immunotherapy drug shrinks advanced prostate tumors, offering new hope to men worldwide

A new prostate cancer drug shrinks tumors in early trials, offering hope for the most common male cancer affecting 1.5 million men worldwide annually.

While museums focused on what you could see, scientists unlocked what ancient Egypt actually smelled like.

Museums are literally letting visitors smell history—from Queen Elizabeth II's car to ancient Egyptian tombs—revealing sensory worlds lost to time.

Horses produce two voices at once—and scientists just figured out how

Everyone knows a horse's whinny—but scientists just discovered how they actually make it. After 4,000 years together, we're finally cracking equine communication.

Aluminum's hidden form offers a path away from rare earth metals

Scientists just discovered aluminum behaves nothing like we thought. King's College London researchers found an entirely new form of this abundant metal that rewrites the rules.

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Breadcrumbs (literally) lay path away from fossil fuels

Rising Impact

Waste bread transforms how the world makes chemicals, cutting fossil fuels from a trillion-dollar industry.

In the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, the children’s use breadcrumbs to lay a path back out of the woods. That might not have gone as expected, but now breadcrumbs could create a path to free the chemical industry from much of its fossil fuel use. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have now d...

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Vacation Film Forgotten in 70-yo Vintage Camera Was Developed for the First Time: Do You Know These Skiers?

Community

While everyone scrolls past old cameras at thrift shops, this Salisbury photo lab uncovered 70 years of frozen memories waiting to be found.

A thrift shop camera held a decades-old secret: pristine photos of a Swiss ski trip, waiting 50+ years to be seen.

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Scientists Just Solved the Mystery of Triceratops’ Giant Nose

From fossilized bone to living truth: How Triceratops' giant nose reveals a cooling system 66 million years later.

Triceratops' massive nose wasn't just for show—it may have been a sophisticated cooling system for its enormous head.

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Does dark showering help you sleep better? Experts explain the viral bedtime trend

Watch how dimming your shower transforms your bedtime routine into better sleep.

A viral sleep hack is turning off the bathroom lights before bed. Dark showering mimics your body's natural temperature drop and blocks melatonin-suppressing light—and sleep experts say the science checks out.

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Environment