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Oregon State University chemists report a light-driven material that produces hydrogen from water using sulfur-containing organic parts instead of an added expensive metal catalyst, a design they say could help lower the cost of green hydrogen.
A young Philippine Eagle found weak in Cotabato was carrying three airgun pellets. Vets removed two, and the critically endangered bird is now recovering under close veterinary care.
A $1.4 million Japanese grant, run by the FAO with Laos's agriculture ministry, has finished 31 small irrigation schemes and 17 road improvements in Luang Prabang and Oudomxay, and 1,150 households earned wages building them.
Rezolv Energy has energised the first phase of its VIFOR wind farm in Buzău County, 30 Vestas turbines producing 192 MW, the largest wind project switched on in Romania in more than a decade.
In a randomized trial of adults under 45, 54% of those on a low-calorie diet with supervised exercise reached type 2 diabetes remission at 24 weeks, versus 4% receiving usual care, researchers at McGill and Leicester report.
Stanford researchers' urine test, uRARE-seq, detected localized bladder cancer with 95% sensitivity at 90% specificity in 683 samples and flagged which patients were more likely to respond to BCG immunotherapy.
A 15-year breeding and release program has moved 11,000 wētāpunga, the world's heaviest orthopteran, to 10 new wild sites, improving the species from Nationally Endangered in 2004 to Nationally Increasing in 2022.
Placing a thin superconductor inside a specially built terahertz cavity strengthened the quantum fluctuations of empty space around it and raised its critical temperature by up to 5.4%, a team at the University of Science and Technology of China reports.
Kentucky's $2.5 million investment in Undue Medical Debt has already wiped out $103 million owed by 46,000 residents, and the program aims to reach more than 130,000 people and $250 million. No application is needed.
Kevin Sinfield ran seven ultramarathons in seven days, visiting all 12 Super League clubs before finishing at Old Trafford on October 3, in the last of his annual challenges for motor neurone disease charities.
The Saint Simeon church complex in Aleppo province, one of the oldest surviving church complexes in the world, has reopened after 14 years of closure, a 2016 airstrike and the 2023 earthquake.
Two captive-bred Great Indian Bustards entered a soft-release enclosure at Rajasthan's Desert National Park this weekend, the first step in returning birds from a 97-strong captive flock to a wild population of roughly 130.
Exceptionally preserved Mongolian microfossils with no animals in them undercut a key argument for a late origin of animals, and molecular-clock analysis points to animal origins between 800 and 700 million years ago, Oxford-led researchers report.
The Bangladesh Navy pulled 65 people from a drifting, flooding wooden boat 81 nautical miles off St Martin's Island and detained 11 suspected traffickers who were allegedly taking them to Malaysia.
Fifteen young northern bald ibises were guided to Spain behind ultralight aircraft flown by their human foster parents, part of a project to re-establish a migratory population of a species extinct in Europe since the 17th century.
The FDA has approved pirtobrutinib (Jaypirca) for adults with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia, after a 282-patient trial found it cut the risk of progression or death by 80% compared with chemoimmunotherapy.
Nigeria Customs officers rescued a baby female gorilla named Bili from wildlife traffickers in 2023. After three years of rehabilitation, a DNA test traced her to Congo and she was airlifted there in September.
In a before-and-after study of 68 adults, patients who received free weekly plant-based grocery packages for an average of 2.7 years saw their diastolic blood pressure, weight and BMI fall in step with how many packages they received.
The three-turbine wind farm powering McMurdo Station and Scott Base has cut the bases' fuel use by roughly 463,000 liters, about 122,000 gallons, a year since 2009, and larger turbines with batteries are due by 2030.
On a Red Sea reef during a real marine heat wave, corals treated with a custom bacterial mix kept their color and photosynthetic health while untreated corals declined, researchers at KAUST report.
A&W Canada's annual Burgers to Beat MS campaign raised $1.56 million this year, pushing its 18-year total toward $25 million for multiple sclerosis research and support in Canada.
China's ENN Group says its EXL-50U device produced hydrogen-boron fusion reactions at over 100 million per second, a world first for a commercial fusion company using this cleaner, neutron-free fuel.
Three children, one 9 and two 6 years old, wandered a mile and a half from their Colorado campsite before a sheriff's K9 named Arch picked up their scent and led searchers straight to them, unharmed.
A 365-meter wind turbine in Schipkau, Germany, has reached full height, making it the world's tallest and taller than the Eiffel Tower, with high-altitude winds expected to power 7,500 households.
Northwestern University researchers built self-assembling molecular threads that boosted neuron growth and synapse formation in lab tests, pointing toward future materials for brain and nerve repair.
A genetic analysis of 25 years of whale data suggests Oman's resident Arabian Sea humpback whales, isolated for tens of thousands of years, may be a fourth humpback subspecies found nowhere else.
Fifteen looted Greek artifacts spanning roughly 5,000 years, including bronze helmets and a marble bust, have been returned to Greece after being traced to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Three years after vandals illegally felled the famous Sycamore Gap tree in England, a ring of new shoots up to 3 feet tall is growing from its stump, and the National Trust says recovery measures are working.
India's cabinet approved a $19.4 billion program to expand power grids for renewable energy and add 50 gigawatt-hours of battery storage, enough to evacuate 135 gigawatts of clean power.
A fisherman in Vietnam's Ca Mau province freed a rare 70-kilogram sea turtle caught in his fishing net, and border guard authorities released it back into the sea the next day.
UC San Diego Health is the first West Coast health system to use new coil and liquid embolization technology that treats chronic brain bleeds through blood vessels instead of open surgery.
University at Buffalo researchers grew miniature salivary glands from human stem cells that functioned after transplant into mice, a step toward treating severe dry mouth from cancer therapy and autoimmune disease.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope opened its coronagraph instrument to space for the first time, testing technology designed to block starlight and directly image planets around other stars.
Two olive ridley sea turtle nests were found in Orange County, California this September — the first sea turtle nests ever recorded on the US West Coast. More than 100 eggs are now being cared for at an aquarium.
Binghamton University engineers built wallpaper embedded with moisture-electric generators that convert everyday indoor humidity into usable electrical current — enough to power a wireless keyboard.
University of Hawaiʻi researchers identified 31 blood markers linked to future lung cancer risk that can be detected up to a decade before diagnosis, with 95% accuracy in their computer model.
For the fifth year running, 12-year-old Sloan organized a diaper drive for Nourish Phoenix, this year collecting nearly 30,000 diapers for families who can't easily get help with the cost.
New York City reached a $131.5 million settlement with DoorDash after finding the company underpaid more than 260,000 delivery workers, with over $115 million going directly to affected workers this fall.
The Buffalo Bills Foundation's annual Huddle for Hunger drive collected a record 70,626 pounds of food and raised $205,859 for 20 hunger-relief charities across Western New York.
A program called KehatiKu pays villagers in Indonesian Borneo for verified wildlife photos and sightings, turning more than 800 former hunters into citizen conservationists tracking orangutans and other endangered species.
An all-volunteer search and rescue team spent 15 hours reaching climber Rob Martin, stranded on a six-inch ledge 10,000 feet up California's Laurel Mountain, and brought him down safely overnight.
The Jade Apartments, 40 affordable homes in Portland's Jade District, are the seventh and final project this year funded by a regional housing bond that has delivered well over 5,300 homes, beating its original target of 3,900.
Fueled by AI-driven demand for memory chips, South Korea posted its 15th consecutive month of export growth in August, with shipments up 68.7% to a record $98.25 billion.
A University at Buffalo team led by Amit Goyal has built a sensor that measures recycled plastic content directly, without relying on paperwork, earning two 2026 R&D 100 Awards and a patent application.
Sixty FedEx employees partnered with Rise Against Hunger Philippines to pack 10,000 fortified meal kits, enough to support 166 schoolchildren for four months, as the country faces its first rise in child stunting in a decade.
MIT researchers have built 3D-printed "bifur-circuit" blocks that reconfigure into a huge range of stable shapes while keeping their electrical connections fully intact, a step toward furniture and gadgets that can physically transform.
A large Danish study found that people who started statins within a year of a type 2 diabetes diagnosis had a 15 percent lower relative risk of dementia over the next decade than those who never started treatment.
Three fox cubs pulled from a narrow gap between two Leicester houses by firefighters have been released into the countryside after four months of rehabilitation, following a rescue that initially left one cub's survival in doubt.
Bhutan has commissioned the Sephu Solar Power Project, the country's first utility-scale solar plant designed and built entirely by Bhutanese engineers, with the government already approving an expansion to 22.38 megawatts.
Laos has designated a 217,400-hectare national park in the Annamite Mountains, protecting habitat for the critically endangered saola and several other species found almost nowhere else on Earth.
Ho Chi Minh City forest rangers released 84 rescued animals from 13 species into the Dong Nai Nature and Culture Reserve, part of an ongoing program that has returned over 1,400 animals to protected habitats since 2022.
A German trial found that a minimally invasive tricuspid valve repair cut the risk of death or heart failure hospitalization by roughly 60 percent over three years in high-risk patients, resolving a question that had lingered since earlier trials.
Polish scientists have published the first complete lab protocol for mass-producing Groenlandia densa, a critically endangered aquatic plant, turning a handful of tissue fragments into thousands of new plants for river restoration.
A nurse-coordinated care model tested in 1,507 patients across 22 Indian hospitals cut heart failure deaths by 22 percent over two years, addressing one of cardiology's most persistent gaps: patients not receiving medications proven to save lives.
Six children and seven women held captive after a deadly gang attack on Kenscoff, Haiti, have been released. UNICEF called it "a rare moment of hope" while renewing calls to free everyone still being held.
Harvard and Stanford scientists engineered marine bacteria that speed up natural rock weathering, a process that traps atmospheric carbon dioxide in seawater, achieving a 2.6-fold increase in mineral dissolution in early pilot tests.
More than 100 restaurants across 13 countries joined a global Pay What You Can Day, serving their regular menus while allowing diners to decide what they could afford to pay.
A major international study involving more than 55,000 families found that children receiving free monthly books through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library were more likely to be read to regularly and have more books at home.
Nine schoolchildren who were stranded for two days by devastating flash floods in Nepal have safely found their families again with support from emergency responders.
Threatened Hood Canal summer-run chum salmon are making a remarkable comeback in Washington, with average annual returns nearly tripling in recent years as major river restoration work gives the population an even stronger chance to recover.