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They also reported lower rates of subjective cognitive decline (7.8% versus 9.5%) and performed better on certain objective cognitive tests.

Source: 43-year-long Study Found Coffee Was Associated with 18% Lower Risk of Dementia

Sign me up.

What started as a routine meal delivery turned into a life-or-death moment—and a 19-year-old volunteer stepped up in a way no one will ever forget.

Source: Volunteer Delivery Driver Arrives Just In Time To Save Woman’s Life

Well done.

Researchers have discovered that cancer spread isn’t random—it follows a kind of biological “program.” By studying colon tumor cells, they identified gene patterns that signal whether a cancer is likely to metastasize. Their AI model, MangroveGS, can predict this risk with about 80% accuracy and even works across multiple cancer types. This could transform how doctors decide who needs aggressive treatment and who doesn’t.

Source: New AI tool predicts cancer spread with surprising accuracy

Now this is a use of AI that gives me a lot of hope.

After 65 hours of training with a professional counselor, these teens are taking on roles as peer-to-peer mentors.

Source: With this helpline run by teens, for teens, empathy is something AI can’t replace

Great idea.

The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.

Source: King opens world’s longest coastal path around England

Pretty cool.

It could have been called a DoorDawdle order, as in his old age he could hardly ‘dash’ up the steps to her front door.

Source: Woman’s Viral Video of Elderly DoorDash Driver Channels $1 Million to Help Him Retire

Lovely.

Claire Adamson started a toad patrol after witnessing “an absolute toad massacre” on the roads.

Source: I walk toads across the road so they don’t get squashed

Toad Patrol!

The Quapaw Nation is the only US Native community to carry out a cleanup of one of the country’s worst sites of environmental contamination

Source: Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life

Nice.

One night in 1997, fuelled by boredom, trainee ship bartender Erika Boyero filled some empty bottles with handwritten notes and threw them overboard in Norway. Last week, she met with the Tasmanian woman who found one of her messages.

Source: Message in a bottle leads to 25-year intercontinental friendship

For some reason I love message in a bottle stories.

An imaging test could safely halve the number of people who need a biopsy for suspected prostate cancer following inconclusive or reassuring results from an MRI scan, new research has found.

Source: Scan that makes prostate cancer cells glow could cut need for biopsies

Very cool.