A Weekly Kickabout in Dublin Is Turning Strangers Into Friends
Casual football in Dublin started as a small kickabout and grew into weekly friendships, group chats, and an open welcome for anyone who turns up.
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Josh Kerr Makes Good on ‘Project 222’ With the First Sub-3:43 Mile in History
Josh Kerr ran 3:42.66 at the London Diamond League to break a 27-year mile world record and become the first man under 3:43 for the distance.
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For the First Time, Solar Supplied a Quarter of the EU’s Electricity in June
In June, more of the EU’s electricity came from the sun than from any reactor, gas plant, wind farm, dam or coal station, and for the first time it added up to a full quarter.
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To Keep Drivers Alert, the World’s Longest Undersea Tunnel Will Shift Color
Norway’s Rogfast will be the world’s longest undersea road tunnel, and its engineers are answering half an hour of gray rock with a hall lit in shifting color.
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A Montana Teen Roped a Drowning Man to Safety on His First Throw
Jory Thomas spent the past year learning to rope cattle on a Montana ranch, then used that skill to pull a stranger from the Yellowstone River.
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A Century After Blight, DNA Is Helping Breed the American Chestnut Back
By reading a seedling’s DNA, scientists can now predict which young American chestnuts will best resist the blight that all but erased the species, cutting years off the effort to bring it back.
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A Daughter’s TikTok of Her Father’s Old Kitten Heels Saved His Shoreditch Shoe Shop
After 32 years on Hackney Road, Rachid Lazraq had a closing-down sign in his window, until his daughter filmed his vintage Italian heels for TikTok and the queues came back.
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El Salvador Becomes the First Central American Country to Eliminate Blinding Trachoma
Health teams went looking for the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness in El Salvador’s most at-risk towns and found none, earning the country a WHO first for Central America.
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How a 16-State Team Helped the American Oystercatcher Rebound
Along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, a coalition of 35 groups in 16 states has helped a football-size shorebird grow its numbers by 45% since 2008, one banded chick at a time.
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The Kerala Village That Beat Alcoholism With a Chessboard
At the foot of the Western Ghats mountains, in the Thrissur district of Kerala, sits Marottichal, a village of about 6,000 people where the most common way to spend a free hour is over a chessboard. More than 4,500 residents of the village, or roughly three in four, play, and play well. Most households have…
