Lifestyle programs beat expectations, and beavers are rebuilding rivers

The program, published in The Lancet, didn't just translate the earlier U.S. POINTER model into Spanish and Portuguese. Working groups in every country decided what had to stay fixed and what could flex: exercise became salsa and tango classes or outdoor group workouts in public parks, and the MIND diet swapped in avocado, quinoa, açaí, aguaymanto, chia, and pumpkin seeds, whatever was actually on hand locally 4. Lead author Lucia Crivelli, at Buenos Aires's Fleni institute, called it a program built to be "practical, affordable and feasible as a public health strategy" 4.

Working in Anthony Amend's lab at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, she then went looking for what actually happens to the pollutants once they're caught, and found fungi living naturally in the coconut fiber that can biodegrade both sunscreen and plastic. Genetic testing on some of those fungal strains turned up no match in the world's largest gene database, meaning she may have found species nobody has named yet 112. She won first place in microbiology at the Hawai'i State Science & Engineering Fair and is headed to the international competition in Arizona next May.

Oregon State scientists eventually noticed something odd: stretches of river with beaver ponds were producing far more fish than stretches without. Beaver ponds and alcoves made up just 9% of the habitat in one study system but held 66% of the coho salmon found there, and in British Columbia, young coho that overwintered behind beaver dams survived at 60% or better, well above the regional average 115. The dams do exactly what an engineer might: they slow the water, cool it, and give young fish somewhere to hide.

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket lifted off Saturday from Andøya Spaceport, inside the Arctic Circle in Norway, and reached orbit seven minutes later 74. Co-founder and CEO Daniel Metzler started the company in 2018, when he says people told him it would never work; it took eight years, roughly $1 billion raised across several funding rounds, and a workforce that's grown to nearly 500 74. "Europe now has sovereign access to space," Metzler said. "We have entered into a new chapter for European spaceflight."

The most massive is a rare O-type star roughly 19 times the mass of the sun. Astronomers now estimate the cluster is about 1.3 million years old, a substantial revision from earlier guesses that it might be as young as 100,000 9. Nearby, the famously violent star Eta Carinae, about 100 times the sun's mass, is blasting the cloud's thinner gas away and slowly sculpting its shape.

Most panels show birds, fish, and cats, with a gorgon and a winged horse worked in for good measure. But two of the animals are named: a pale cat, seated on a cushion, labeled in Greek letters as Zmaragdin, meaning Emerald, and a dog named Ocean. The villa dates to the late second or third century A.D., and Özgen suggests the cushion is the giveaway that Emerald was a pet, not a stray 7.

Freezing the gelled purée from one side pushes ice crystals to grow in parallel, squeezing the gel into thin fibrous layers that survive thawing; doctoral researcher Andrea Bach says the method works on legume species covering 96% of global production and is "simple that it can be performed easily by anyone in a household kitchen" 100. Meanwhile in the UK, shoppers appear to be arriving at the same idea from the grocery aisle: unit sales of beans, pulses, tofu, and tempeh grew 7.3% in the first half of 2026 while conventional vegan meat alternatives kept sliding, down 4.3% in units, with tempeh sales up 71.5% 101.