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- The Open Door + The Vial From the Tumour | Bright Side Daily
Ebro Ahmed was kicking a football outside his family's shop when a school bus went past with the door open. He jumped on and got it stopped. Also on today's episode: a vaccine built from one tumour, seabirds on islands the rats no longer hold, and a health class that changed who people would lend to.
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8 min - A pronghorn crossed Interstate 25 | Bright Side Daily
A pronghorn crossed a grass bridge over Interstate 25, the first of its kind on that stretch in decades. Then a man who has woken tired since he was eight, a hive laid out like an immune system, and a sugarbush in Maine with a signature on it.
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10 min - The Salmon Swim + 75 to 1 | Bright Side Daily
Bright Side Daily for 20 October 2026. Jake Lawy got into the River Tone and came back with two asks. Brazil's Senate voted 75 to 1 to cut the working week to 40 hours, wages unchanged. Mauritius measured diabetes the hard way for 34 years, and the line bent. A rare fibronectin mutation held the blood-brain barrier in the mice. No patient has been dosed.
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0 min - A Knitted Speed Gun + An Ice Cliff That Stopped | Bright Side Daily
Heather Badham went looking for a knitted RAF man in Fillongley, and he was gone. Then an ice cliff that fell and stopped, a drug that stopped new bone and raised infections, and a conservation map that was short eight points.
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11 min - A Woman on a Wing + a Bridge Over Ten Lanes | Bright Side Daily
Helga Duffy was strapped to a biplane wing at Rendcomb. A bridge over ten lanes of the 101 has a date, and it is not open. Indonesia's extreme-poverty share fell from 86 percent to under 4, on a line that is not the national one. A Melbourne lab says a rare immune cell can see a lung cancer that hides. No new drug was approved.
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10 min - Amazon at a 38-Year Low + The Leap Second Ends | Bright Side Daily
João Paulo Capobianco stood in Brasília and called a satellite reading stratospheric. The forest he was talking about is still on fire in one of the states.
Also today: 69 countries voted to end the leap second, nine donors pledged 500 million dollars they have not yet split, and six patients still had a vision gain at 24 months.
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10 min - On the Desk, Not in the Deed + Five Lived. Five Did Not. | Bright Side Daily
Melissa Gilman walked the old Elwha project lands with park staff. Congress has sent the bill to the President. It is not law until he signs.
Also in this episode: five bleached coral fragments that recovered after touching a clone, 5,358 megawatts of Australian wind and solar decisions that are not yet built, and a repair festival in Chornomorsk moved into a shelter.
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11 min - Eight Weeks of Pills + a Rhino's Fourth Calf | Bright Side Daily
Bright Side Daily for 15 October 2026. An eight-week hepatitis C course matched twelve weeks in an Indian trial. The world's mangroves gained 477 square kilometres, and Indonesia lost 2,043. Three people are the first human test of a partial-reprogramming injection. A Sumatran rhino is carrying a fourth calf, and the other sire is an uncle.
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11 min - Sierra Leone's Triple Zero Push + EU Clears a Lead Gunshot Ban | Bright Side Daily
Bright Side Daily for 14 October 2026. A nurse finds the children the clinic missed in Congo Town. Europe's parliament lets a lead-gunshot restriction proceed. New Zealand's heaviest insect has four wild generations. A local group in South Kivu is about to co-manage a reserve.
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12 min - High Court Blocks Mount Pleasant + El Salvador Eliminates Trachoma | Bright Side Daily
Australia's top court has blocked the Mount Pleasant coal expansion. El Salvador has eliminated trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness. The medicine Nobel goes to the scientists who turned a light-seeking alga into a switch for single nerve cells. And London is drawing a 200 kilometre ring of trees that is not finished yet.
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Your daily dose of positive news. Uplifting stories about science breakthroughs, environmental wins, human kindness, and progress — delivered fresh every morning by Rory and Elizabeth.