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After beating college football powerhouse Notre Dame 28-24, BYU jumped to No. 2 in the nation and earned long-awaited respect. The upset victory marks a transformational moment for the program that critics once dismissed as a fluke.
Researchers left AI agents alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours with no instructions. The agents started playing, exploring, and setting their own creative goals.
A groundbreaking team of scientists, linguists, and AI experts is working to crack the code of sperm whale communication. Project CETI aims to decode millions of whale vocalizations and potentially unlock interspecies conversation.
Austrian designer Stefan Sagmeister transformed renewable energy statistics and homelessness data into colorful sneakers that spark conversations about global progress. The shoes are part of his Paris exhibition celebrating long-term positive trends.
When Hassan's mobile phone shop was destroyed just three months after opening, strangers across France rallied to help. A grassroots fundraiser pulled in over €88,000 in a single day.
Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten and his partner Nicolás Keenan are welcoming their first child in 2027, with the help of friends who stepped up to make their family dream possible. The announcement celebrates love, friendship, and the power of choosing to help someone build their future.
Nearly 3,000 athletes from 45 countries gathered in Nagoya for Japan's first time hosting the Asian Para Games. The competition runs through Saturday across 18 sports, with Japan's 280-athlete team aiming to shatter their previous medal record.
Over 1,000 years ago, nearly everyone in Japan wrote poetry, from emperors to farmers. The Manyoshu anthology preserves 4,000 poems that reveal a surprisingly joyful civilization where verse was part of daily life.
Ghanaians can now order copies of their Constitution and Acts of Parliament online and have them delivered anywhere in the country. The new service eliminates costly trips to the capital just to access basic legal documents.
A historic Hall of Fame celebration in Nigeria's Idoma region is sparking a powerful movement toward unity and collective progress. Community leaders are calling for collaboration over division as they chart a path forward together.
After beating breast cancer that went undetected for six months, Karyn Baxter is making sure her daughter starts screenings at 26. Her story shows how early detection can save lives and spare families from aggressive treatments.
A new accelerated therapy for treatment-resistant depression shows results in just five days instead of six weeks. UC Davis Health now offers SAINT, a personalized brain stimulation treatment that helped 90% of patients in a small Stanford study.
New AI models from Northeastern University can detect tricky precancerous colon polyps with 70% accuracy, potentially catching cancer before it starts. The breakthrough could help doctors identify dangerous lesions that look identical to harmless ones under traditional analysis.
A company just drilled into an underwater volcano 300 miles off Oregon's coast and briefly generated electricity from Earth's heat 5,000 feet below the ocean surface. This first-of-its-kind test could unlock a massive new source of clean energy.
A two-month trial at Norway's Sunndal aluminum plant proved new carbon-capturing technology works in real industrial conditions. The breakthrough marks an important step toward cleaning up one of manufacturing's toughest pollution challenges.
A group of teenagers at an indoor adventure park in Bellingham, Massachusetts, turned a lonely moment into 40 minutes of joy when they invited 7-year-old Tristan, who has autism, to join their fun. For his mom Christina, watching strangers welcome her son with such warmth became a memory she'll treasure forever.
A Florida sixth grader used the scientific method to answer a question cat owners everywhere have secretly wondered about. Spoiler: you can finally relax about your kitchen counter.
A team of Chinese artists spent three years at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art copying every crack and brushstroke of a massive ancient Buddhist mural. Their collaboration uncovered that the museum had accidentally mounted Buddha's head crooked for decades.