Not All News is Bad!

The Alis lost their life savings to unsafe building work on their Southampton home.

Source: Deaf couple from Southampton watch ’emotional’ DIY SOS rebuild

Nice.

By using what would otherwise be an industrial waste in new road pavements, the future of highways and byways could reduce impacts on climate change and potentially save lives.

Source: Scientists Discover a Genius Use For Leftover Steel Waste – And It Could Save Lives

Very cool.

The rides have drawn smiles, selfies and attention from passersby while putting the dogs in front of a much larger audience.

Source: Bryan Reisberg’s New York City dog backpack rides help shelter pups find homes

Owner of the extremely popular and photogenic Maxine the Fluffy Corgi.

Graham Porter was unflappable as swans circled him during his latest rescue.

Source: Watch a man calmly untangle a baby swan from a fishing hook while keeping its parents at bay

The TikTok video is very cool.

Scientists have found a surprising way to regrow damaged knee cartilage by blocking a protein that becomes more abundant with age. In old mice, the treatment restored naturally lost cartilage and also helped prevent osteoarthritis after ACL-like knee injuries, while human cartilage taken from knee replacement patients began producing new, functional joint cartilage after exposure to the same inhibitor.

Source: Goodbye joint replacements? Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis

Want!

Identical twin brothers who grew up in poverty in Virginia are now leading the emergency department at a hospital in the same city where they were raised.

Source: Identical Twin Brothers, Who Grew Up in Poverty, Returned to Their Hometown to Co-Run an ER Together

Inspiring.

A Michigan man is turning discarded bicycle parts into prosthetic legs — and hopes the low-cost design can eventually help millions of amputees around the world.

Source: Man Makes Prosthetic Legs from Easy-to-Find Bike Parts, and He’s Giving the Revolutionary Design Away for Free

So cool.

“There really wasn’t much of a discussion about it,” skydiver Sean Plastine said. “It was just, ‘People need help. Okay, let’s go.’”

Source: These skydivers parachuted 3,000 feet to help people in a plane crash (gift link)

Very cool.

An entangled humpback whale off Westport is swimming free again, thanks to a fast 911 call and a careful cutting sequence.

Source: Westport, WA Crews Free Entangled Humpback Whale

Well done.

This week in Leawood, Kansas, a police officer was patrolling a residential neighborhood when he noticed a dog standing in the middle of the roadway.

Source: Dog Standing in Road Leads Police to Owner Who Needed Help

A very good dog.