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What if the stories we tell are reshaping how we treat the Earth?

Indigenous scholar Tyson Yunkaporta reveals how the stories we tell shape society—and how they could save our species and planet.

Suicide attempts and deaths plummet in hospitals using 'zero suicide model'

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Suicide attempts and deaths plummet in hospitals using 'zero suicide model'

Hospitals in 25 countries now use the Zero Suicide Model—a 2001 framework that restricts access to lethal means while providing mental health treatment to people at risk.

Airport Therapy Pig Hogs All the Attention in San Francisco

Travelers at San Francisco Airport Found Calm in an Unlikely Friend Named LiLou

Meet LiLou: the therapy pig who's been calming anxious flyers at San Francisco International Airport for years—the world's first certified airport therapy animal.

‘Cards Against Humanity’ Offers to Refund ‘Obviously Illegal’ Tariffs to Customers After Supreme Court Decision

Business

Cards Against Humanity Pledges Refunds to Customers Caught in Tariff Overcharge

Cards Against Humanity is offering refunds to customers, claiming new tariffs are "obviously illegal.

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World's biggest astronomy camera seeks to answer pressing questions about the universe

Where darkness once held secrets, Rubin Observatory reveals the universe's hidden stories.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory just unleashed its first cosmic discoveries—and thousands more arrive weekly. Supernovae, variable stars, asteroids: a decade-long survey is about to transform astronomy.

Intelligence emerges when the whole brain works as one

Unified brain networks unlock what intelligence truly is.

Your brain's separate networks somehow feel unified—but neuroscientists just discovered why: intelligence isn't housed in one "smart" region.

Clever cycling gadget puts power metering where your cleat is

Where your cleat meets the pedal, power data finally arrives

One power meter. One bike. Until now. CycloWatt's cleat-integrated design lets you measure power across your entire bike fleet.

April 3 is officially declared 'Jane Goodall Day,' a new holiday promoting climate action

April 3 becomes Jane Goodall Day globally.

The Jane Goodall Institute is honoring the legendary primatologist with a special birthday tribute, celebrating her transformative 91-year legacy in conservation.

2,500-year-old settlement found during fire station construction

Construction unearths 2,500-year-old settlement in northern Germany

A 2,500-year-old Iron Age settlement halted a German fire station's construction—and archaeologists couldn't be happier. Local firefighters? Less thrilled.

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Food

Solar farms beneath crops: the harvest boost nobody expected

Solar farms could boost global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, a Canadian study reveals—by creating a protective microclimate beneath their panels.

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Two Observatories, One Cosmic Eye: Hubble and Euclid View Cat’s Eye Nebula - NASA Science

Hubble and Euclid captured the Cat's Eye Nebula in unprecedented detail, revealing cosmic structures invisible to either telescope alone.

Man Leaves Wife Love Letter Before Losing His Memory to Alzheimer s

Community

A Husband's Love Letter Survives What Alzheimer's Cannot

A husband's sticky note during his Alzheimer's journey reveals the heartbreaking reality of watching someone you love transform into a stranger—and their enduring bond.

Microbes Mine Meteorites in Groundbreaking Space Station Experiment

Fungi unlock metals from space rocks—a glimpse at mining beyond Earth

Fungi can extract valuable metals from meteorites in microgravity—opening a new frontier for asteroid mining powered by microbes, not machines.

James Webb spots a galaxy with tentacles in deep space

What made galaxies grow tentacles 8.5 billion years ago

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity streaming long, tentacle-like trails of gas and newborn stars as it speeds through a dense galaxy cluster. The galaxy appears as it was 8.5 billion years ago, revealing that ...

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Could life actually survive being blasted between planets?

Scientists blasted the toughest bacterium on Earth with asteroid-impact pressures—and it survived. Deinococcus radiodurans could be Mars's first stowaway.

Injectable “satellite livers” could offer an alternative to liver transplantation

Thousands waiting for liver transplants could get a second chance with injectable cell therapy

MIT engineers just created injectable "mini livers" that could save thousands waiting for transplants—a breakthrough for patients too sick for surgery.

Birds are changing — and Indigenous memory is the longest record we have

Progress Maker

Indigenous memory reveals bird changes science missed for eighty years.

Ecosystems shifted centuries before we started measuring them. Now scientists are mining memory, language, and daily practice—not databases—to understand what we missed.

European Alliance Pledges Financial Support for Artistic Freedom, Iranian Artists Both Terrified and Joyful as War Continues, and More: Morning Links for March 3, 2026

Arts

Europe's $2 Million Lifeline Gives Embattled Artists Room to Create

Europe's art academies just pledged nearly $2 million to defend artistic freedom as pressure mounts. Meanwhile, Iranian diaspora artists grapple with hope and fear.

Stanford Cures Type-1 Diabetes in Mice Without Insulin or Immune Suppression

What Stanford's diabetes cure in mice reveals about insulin-free futures for humans

Stanford researchers have achieved a breakthrough: curing type-1 diabetes in mice without insulin or immune suppression—a discovery that could transform treatment for millions.

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New Scottish Dark Sky Observatory plans in Galloway approved

Education

Scotland's Dark Sky Observatory rises again in Galloway after fire destroyed its home.

A new dark sky observatory will finally rise in Galloway, replacing the facility destroyed by fire over four years ago.

When Two Quiet Children Need Two Kinds of Support

Education

The same silence, two different stories: why quiet children need different kinds of help

Two silent children. Same withdrawn behavior. Completely different stories—a discovery that changed how one teacher understands silence in the classroom.

Vancouver Art Gallery Announces Major Gift of Stephen Shore Photographs

Arts

Vancouver Art Gallery receives 800 Stephen Shore photographs, reshaping how a generation sees color photography.

The Vancouver Art Gallery just acquired 800+ photographs from Stephen Shore's iconic "Uncommon Places" series—a landmark collection documenting North America's overlooked landscapes from 1973-1981.

Kazakhstan Plants 37,000 Seedlings to Prepare for Imminent Return of Tigers

Tigers return to Kazakhstan as 37,000 seedlings rise along the Ile River

Kazakhstan is planting 37,000 seedlings to restore tiger habitat before the big cats return to the region.

The hidden technology that could unlock commercial fusion power

Fusion diagnostics get a closer look as DOE charts path to commercial power plants

Fusion's future hinges on one critical challenge: seeing inside a plasma inferno. Scientists need advanced diagnostic tools to measure the extreme conditions that make or break fusion reactions.

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Watch arthritis patients discover an unexpected heart benefit in their existing medication.

Methotrexate, a decades-old rheumatoid arthritis drug, may protect hearts too. Researchers discovered the immune-calming treatment offers unexpected cardiovascular benefits beyond easing joint pain.

Teeth smaller than a fingertip reveal the first primate ancestor

A shrew-sized creature in Colorado just rewrote where your earliest ancestors lived.

Tooth-sized fossils just rewrote primate history. Scientists discovered the earliest known primate ancestor farther south than ever before—in Colorado, not Montana.

How to Grow Pepper, Clove, Turmeric & 15 Types of Indian Spices At Home

Food

Can a terrace garden deliver your spice cabinet's entire flavor profile?

Dr Anshu Rathi's Roorkee kitchen overflows with turmeric, saffron, and cardamom—all grown in her own 1,500 sq ft garden of 400 plants.

Radical winter tires automatically deploy retractable studs for traction on icy roads

Drivers on icy roads now get grip without thinking—studs emerge when cold arrives

Nokian's decade-old dream is finally real: a winter tire that deploys studs on demand. The Finnish brand's radical concept is now becoming an actual product.

Explaining Belgium’s ‘wedding flight’ of 1,000 queen bees and how it is reviving Europe’s endangered dark bee

While markets chase trends, Belgium's quiet bee revival is saving Europe's native honeybee from extinction

Every summer in a Belgian town, 1,000 virgin queen bees take flight for their "wedding"—a deadly ritual where males die after mating mid-air.

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How a 20-YO Helped 70 Delhi Waste Pickers Earn More While Recycling 450 Tonnes

Karan unlocks steady wages for seventy waste pickers.

A chance conversation with a waste picker named Dharma transformed how 20-year-old Karan sees Delhi's recycling crisis—and the invisible workers behind it.

Light-powered soft robot jumps 188 times without motor, carries 1,700x its weight

Watch this robot leap 188 times on nothing but light and material physics.

A robot smaller than an insect just jumped 188 times—powered by nothing but light and physics, no electronics required.

Mysterious Greek Inscription May Reveal Lost Temple of a Roman Emperor

While historians debated Homs's past, a hidden inscription revealed its true layers of worship.

A Greek inscription reveals the Great Mosque of Homs sits atop a Roman Temple of the Sun, exposing centuries of overlapping pagan, Christian, and Islamic worship in ancient Emesa.

Cutest Koala Hitches a Ride on Empty Bus

What a bus driver's split-second choice reveals about Brisbane's safety culture

A Brisbane bus driver became an unlikely hero when he spotted a koala dodging traffic—and stopped his bus to rescue it.

Uber Driver Picks Man Up from Dialysis and Changes His Life

Watch an Uber ride turn into a second chance at life.

An Uber driver became a stranger's lifesaving answer: Tim Letts donated his kidney to passenger Bill Sumiel Jr., who'd waited years on the transplant list.

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Ingenious invention turns wheelchair users into Steadicam operators

The wheelchair-mounted camera rig that lets filmmakers capture cinema-grade motion from anywhere

Christopher Lynch seized his moment: the award-winning Irish filmmaker invented the world's first wheelchair-mounted Steadicam—turning his disability into cinematic innovation.

Why NASA's Artemis 3 Mission Isn't Sending Astronauts to the Moon Anymore

While everyone watched Artemis 3, NASA quietly reset the lunar timeline to something more achievable.

Artemis 4 will attempt humanity's first lunar landing in years. NASA has four missions planned within the next three years.

New Device Detects Brain Waves in Mini Brains Mimicking Early Human Development

The flower-shaped device that finally listens to what mini brains are saying.

Scientists wrapped a flower-shaped device around pea-sized brain organoids to capture nearly all their electrical chatter—revealing how mini brains could unlock autism and schizophrenia secrets.

Local communities are conservation’s most undervalued asset (commentary)

Communities hold the key to conservation that actually lasts

African conservation leaders converge in Nairobi to answer a critical question: why does record funding fail to stop biodiversity collapse and climate change?

World’s smallest possum may live beyond its known range in Australia