Wildfire satellites, Seine city cooling, and parenting securely attached kids
Greece just launched the world's first satellite constellation built specifically for wildfire detection. It can spot a fire measuring only a few feet across, a huge improvement on conventional satell...
17 Jul 28min
500 years of the soccer cleat, a world-first burn treatment, and green hydrogen in California
Every player at this year's World Cup is wearing the end result of 500 years of iteration on a single piece of equipment. It started with factory workers hammering hardware store nails into their boot...
10 Jul 25min
Coffee waste as fuel, Nepal same-sex marriage rights, and understanding heat domes
Stanford researchers took cartilage from patients already getting knee replacements (about as degraded as joint tissue gets) and discovered how it could regenerate itself. The cells weren't replaced o...
2 Jul 23min
Gig worker rights, cervical cancer wins, and a hopeful take on human cooperation
A study of more than 100,000 people across 125 countries found that people cooperate far more than they assume other people will. Hopeful news to receive in a world that feels so divided. This week Ar...
26 Jun 21min
(Guest Interview) Hope can rise: two sisters in Gaza turning rubble into building blocks | Earth Prize 2026
Tala and Farah Mousa received thousands of messages after they won the Earth Prize. "You gave us hope we had completely lost," people wrote. "You showed us we can be seen." They were sheltering in a t...
19 Jun 17min
From a 340-year slavery law finally repealed to pancakes for cigarette butts: 10 solutions this week
A high-risk breast cancer diagnosis used to mean one thing: chemotherapy. A large UK trial just found that 68 percent of those patients could skip it safely, based on a genomic test that already exist...
12 Jun 22min
Pancreatic cancer cracked, hepatitis B cleared, and wild mice who run for joy
An oncologist cried at her desk when she read these latest trial results. Researchers put exercise wheels in empty fields and sand dunes, and wild mice found them and ran, unprompted, for no reward. A...
5 Jun 22min
David Attenborough's 100-year secret and seven other solutions this week!
Sir David Attenborough just turned 100! Arielle and Karissa cover his 10-minute secret to a long life along with seven other solutions this week — belugas who prove that their species is capable of re...
29 Mai 18min
