🇺🇸 United States
1000 Views from Orbit: Florida, Cuba, Bahamas Mark ESA Milestone
The European Space Agency has released its 1000th Earth from Space image, and it shows the same turquoise wate
🏆 Breakthroughs
Breakthroughs
Historic firsts, records, public milestones, and leaps people will remember for years.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
At 90, a rainforest activist pedals 104 miles down the Thames on a water bike
A 90-year-old rainforest campaigner with a bad knee, failing balance, and malfunctioning arms and shoulders ha
🇨🇳 China
Chinese scientists create brain implant thinner than a human hair
A team of scientists in China has built the world's thinnest brain implant electrode array, a flexible mesh so
🇵🇪 Peru
Peru grants legal rights to stingless bees, a world first for insects
Two municipalities in the Peruvian Amazon have granted native stingless bees legal rights, making them the fir
🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo
At 84, a Congolese doctor still fights Ebola on the front lines
The oldest person on the front lines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's latest Ebola outbreak is not a
🇺🇸 United States
Mississippi teen law grad, 18, takes aim at social media addiction
An 18 year old from Mississippi graduated from law school in May, making him one of the youngest people ever t
🇨🇳 China
China's first female PhD was also a sword-wielding assassin
She was China's first woman to earn a doctorate, a pioneering lawyer, and a judge. She was also a sword-wieldi
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Parrot unseen for decades found alive on remote Indonesian peak
A parrot that had not been officially recorded in nearly three decades has been spotted alive on a remote moun
🇿🇦 South Africa
South Africa Rolls Out Twice-Yearly HIV Prevention Injection
South Africa has become one of the first countries in the world to offer a new HIV prevention injection that w
🇦🇺 Australia
Australia creates first Sea Country Indigenous Protected Area
Australia has declared its first Sea Country Indigenous Protected Area, a stretch of ocean larger than Portuga
🌍 Mozambique
Mozambique rebuilds white rhino breeding herd after decades of absence
For the first time in decades, Mozambique has a breeding population of white rhinos on its soil. Nineteen of t
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
Hongkongers can soon talk to the city's first astronaut in space
Hong Kong's first astronaut is about to take calls from home. Over the next two months, residents of the city
🇨🇳 China
China builds world's first 3-lane optical fibre for faster data
A team of researchers in China has built the world's first commercial optical fibre cable that works like a th
🇨🇳 China
One-Legged Teen in China Dreams of Basketball Stardom
A 14-year-old boy in China who lost his leg to bone cancer now spends hours each day dribbling and shooting on
