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These mice tried to revive their unconscious friends. Facing an anesthetized cage mate, mice groomed it, bit at its mouth and pulled out its tongue, widening its airway. They got a ball out of its mouth 80% of the time, and tended mice woke up faster. (Sun et al., 2025)
A small brown house mouse with big pink ears, shiny black eyes and long whiskers, sniffing a sunlit stone floor with its long tail stretched out behind it.

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Pennsylvania just made most vapes illegal to sell. Since Oct 19, shops can only sell nicotine vapes listed in the state attorney general's approved directory. Products not on the list, including many disposables, have to come off the shelves, and retailers face fines of up to $500 per product. The law targets what's sold, not who vapes: the aim is to squeeze out unregulated disposables.
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A Stanford gadget built to swim through the body turned out to be great at shrinking blood clots. The milli-spinner spins at a catheter tip, using suction and shear to roll a clot's fibrin into a tight ball, as small as 5% of its volume. In flow models and animal tests it more than doubled clot-removal success versus current devices. It isn't approved for patients yet.
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The easiest pet ever made a man a millionaire. In 1975, ad executive Gary Dahl put ordinary beach stones in cardboard carriers with straw and air holes, plus a training manual. He sold nearly 1.5 million at just under $4 each before the fad died after Christmas. No food, no vet bills, no walks. Half a century later, people are still buying the joke.
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Istanbul's most famous commuter never needed a ticket. Boji, a street dog, became a celebrity for riding the city's buses, metro, trams and ferries on his own. In January 2022 he was adopted by Ömer Koç, chair of Koç Holding, after the mayor announced he'd found a home. His clips are going viral again, and he's still proof that city dogs know exactly where they're going.
A large gray-and-white street dog standing on the wooden deck of an Istanbul ferry.

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17-0 is not a typo. The US U-17 women opened their World Cup in Morocco by beating Samoa 17-0, the biggest win at any level of a FIFA World Cup. Maddie DiMaria, 17, scored six, the first player to hit six at a FIFA finals since Erling Haaland in 2019. It also shows the cost of a bigger 24-team field: debut teams can get blown out. The US plays Kenya on Thursday.
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Mariah Carey just won a five-year fight with her own brother. A New York judge dismissed Morgan Carey's $20 million defamation suit over her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey. The ruling said he failed to show actual malice, meaning she knowingly lied or recklessly ignored the truth. His lawyer says he'll appeal. In court, the bar for defamation is high for a reason.
Mariah Carey singing on stage in a sparkly pink dress, holding a microphone.

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There's one crop you can't trade futures on in America: onions. University of Chicago students rallied in downtown Chicago on Monday to repeal the Onion Futures Act of 1958. The ban came after two traders cornered the Chicago onion market and crashed prices to under 10 cents a 50-pound bag. The law still stands 68 years later, and it now covers movie box office futures too.
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Somebody is winning their first World Series ring. The Tampa Bay Rays beat Cleveland in Game 6 of the ALCS and will face the Milwaukee Brewers. Neither franchise has ever won it all. Milwaukee is back for the first time since 1982, Tampa Bay for the third time after 2008 and 2020. Game 1 is Friday in Milwaukee. Two small-market teams, one guaranteed first.
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These lizards learned a trick just by watching. Bearded dragons saw another dragon slide a wire door open with its head for a mealworm. All 8 then opened it, pushing it the same way they had seen. Dragons that saw the door move on its own never did. (Kis et al., 2015)
A pale sandy bearded dragon raising its head beside a rough sandstone rock, with a golden eye ring, spiky scales along its jaw and one front foot resting on the stone.

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Nintendo just admitted it underestimated Zelda fans. The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 and its Pro Controller sold out almost instantly when pre-orders opened. A Nintendo Latin America exec called it a global phenomenon and said restocks are coming, with no dates yet. The console launches Oct 29 and the Ocarina of Time remake on Nov 5. Forty years in, Link still moves hardware.
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Octopus skin has thousands of chromatophores wired to the brain, and they're colorblind yet still match backgrounds perfectly. Researchers think the skin itself may sense light.
Wonder of Science
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An incredible example of color changing and camouflage by an octopus filmed off the coast of Mozambique. 📽: Nick Ruberg
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Netflix's biggest hit movie didn't save the guy who greenlit it. Film chief Dan Lin is out after less than three years, days after content chief Bela Bajaria's exit and about 1,000 layoffs, roughly 6% of staff. His run included KPop Demon Hunters, Netflix's most-watched film ever. When a record hit can't protect an exec, the problem is bigger than one movie: viewers' time is drifting to YouTube-style video.
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The man who picks the Super Bowl halftime act may have finally picked himself. Puck reports Jay-Z, whose Roc Nation has produced the show with the NFL since 2019, will headline Super Bowl LXI in Los Angeles on Feb 14, 2027. Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber were reportedly considered. Neither the NFL nor Roc Nation has confirmed it, and he once said picking himself too early would be selfish.
Jay-Z on stage with a microphone, in sunglasses and a dark T-shirt, stage lights behind him.

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Yes, volcano scientists really scoop molten lava with a rock hammer. USGS geologists at Kilauea grab a blob from an active flow and drop it straight into a bucket of water. The instant quench freezes its chemistry before crystals can grow. That sample tells them how hot the magma was and whether the plumbing under the volcano is changing. Few lab samples are harder-earned.
A geologist in an orange protective suit bends over a glowing lava flow to take a sample.

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Boundless and fierce: A mother elephant's determination to rescue her calf.
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New look at Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides in ‘DUNE: PART 3’. (Source: @empiremagazine)
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POV: You’re going to the World Series #Clinched (MLB x @BudweiserUSA)
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This blind cat is feeling the rays of sunshine on his face.. 😊
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Dogs at a birthday party are the best guests. Honestly, I'd trust a dog's read on the room over most people's.
Massimo
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Her friend invited her to a birthday party where the invitation said, “Pets welcome.” So she brought her dog, and the pet was more excited than anyone.
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The determination here is wild. Elephants seem to treat a calf in trouble as the whole herd's emergency, not just the mother's.
Gabriele Corno
@Gabriele_Corno13h
Boundless and fierce: A mother elephant's determination to rescue her calf.
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