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Twenty blight-resistant hybrid American chestnut trees were planted at the Bronx Zoo, where the zoo's chief forester first documented the disease that killed nearly 4 billion of the trees.
The World Health Organization has issued its first guidelines on treating obesity in children and adolescents, putting diet, activity and behaviour support first and limiting medicines and surgery to teenagers.
After almost 60 little penguins on Barunguba Montague Island got their first dose, NSW teams have started vaccinating birds on Big Island and Bowen Island against H5 bird flu, with two more islands to follow.
A $2 million Adaptation Fund project managed by IFAD will help at least 4,000 herding families in Mongolia’s Bayankhongor and Dundgobi provinces cope with severe winters and droughts through water points, early warnings and processing centres.
Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo and Kyoto University grew long DNA strands on protein tubes and used motor proteins to move them, forming networks within minutes, a step toward materials that can build and reshape themselves.
Since St Martins High School in Lesotho’s Mokhotlong district was connected to solar power, its 170 students can study early in the morning and after sunset, and teachers can use laptops and online resources.
Oral health leaders from 20 Asian countries met in Malaysia at the midpoint of a WHO "100-Day Sprint" to build essential dental care into their universal health coverage plans.
The neonatology centre in Kragujevac, Serbia, has received a mobile X-ray machine, funded by UNICEF donors and OTP Bank, that images preterm and sick babies beside their incubators so they do not have to be moved.
Researchers at the Australian National University spent three years making two specialized beamsplitters for LIGO, coated to within a nanometre or two across almost half a metre, for an upgrade that will make the detectors more sensitive.
Pushed out of school by pregnancy at 13, Amina is now a 17-year-old secondary student in Uganda’s West Nile region thanks to cash support and mentoring from an EU-funded program, and she plans to become a nurse.
Ovarian tissue grows about 2.5 times stiffer with age, and that stiffness cuts the links between eggs and their support cells, a National University of Singapore team found. Blocking the protein SMAD7 partly restored egg maturation in lab cultures.
Seven prototype Living Coast signs unveiled in Hermanus combine Braille, large print, seated-height access, several languages and audio guides, the start of a planned national series of 97 accessible coastal signs.
Attacus Acoustics, a new University of Bristol spinout, is commercializing a sound-absorbing material inspired by moth wings that it says can be up to ten times thinner than conventional soundproofing.
The Saving Wildcats project has now released 50 critically endangered wildcats into Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park since 2023, and released females have given birth in the wild for three years in a row.
Volunteers in Masaka, Uganda, have received the first doses of ChAdOx1 BDBV, an Oxford-developed vaccine against Bundibugyo virus disease, a severe form of Ebola that has no licensed vaccine. The phase I trial will test safety and immune response.
ACME Solar has brought 107 MW / 437 MWh of new battery energy storage online at two projects in Rajasthan, taking the company’s operational storage capacity in India to 4.96 GWh.
In a first-in-human trial in Murcia, Spain, 10 women with advanced osteoporosis received their own stem cells with a sugar tag that steers them to bone marrow. No serious side effects occurred and fractures fell sharply, but the study had no control group.
Today FM's first Power Hour campaign raised €500,000 for the Jack and Jill Children's Foundation, enough for 25,000 hours of in-home nursing care and respite for families of children with complex medical needs across Ireland.
Teedee, a poodle mix taken from an Idaho hoarding case, had a dangerous heart defect fixed at Washington State University. The WSU veterinarian who fostered him through a month of enforced rest has now adopted him.
In a Vanderbilt pilot study of 16 women with obesity and prediabetes, empagliflozin reduced blood cell clumps linked to heart disease within two weeks. Women on a low-calorie diet did not show the drop. A larger placebo-controlled trial is now enrolling.
Australian Wildlife Conservancy has released the first 18 endangered northern quolls into a feral predator-free fenced area in north Queensland, the start of a plan to build a secure population of up to 300.
Young Musicians Unite runs free in-school and after-school music classes in 131 Miami-Dade public schools and counts 21,166 students this school year, more than double the 9,000 it served in 2024-25.
Researchers at Northeast Normal University made a carbon material from invasive staghorn sumac, loaded with nano-magnesium oxide, that captured up to 469.64 mg of fluoride per gram in lab tests. Larger real-world trials are still to come.
Lulingu, a Grauer's gorilla rescued from the wildlife trade as an 18-month-old orphan and returned to the forest in 2024, gave birth on Mount Tshiaberimu in Virunga National Park in May. Mother and baby are healthy.