From a 340-year slavery law finally repealed to pancakes for cigarette butts: 10 solutions this week

From a 340-year slavery law finally repealed to pancakes for cigarette butts: 10 solutions this week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 exists and is already in use.

Arielle and Karissa also get into the pigeon liver finding that stumped scientists for over a century, a California city that voted to permanently ban data centers, and France formally repealing a law that had been sitting on the books since 1685.

Stay tuned until the end for this week's Emissary Shout Out!

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