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A mockup of a 3D-printed house surrounded by trees in Houston

These futuristic 3D-printed homes start at just $200K. One city is building 80 of them.

It's being hailed as the world’s first large-scale affordable housing development to be built using 3D printing technology.

Philadelphia is using AI cameras to keep bus lanes clear. Here's how they could be even more effective

More than 150 Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority buses across Philadelphia are equipped with cameras that detect vehicles blocking bus lanes.

The upper half of The White House with the bright, blue sky in the background

4 ways states are putting guardrails around artificial intelligence, despite a lack of federal regulation

All 50 states have introduced various AI-related legislation in 2025.

A photo collage of a mother and daughter hugging with their back turned away from the camera, a guy poses for a photo-op while holding a certificate in his hands, a field of wildflowers, Mr. Beast posing while he shows off his t-shirt that says '#TeamWater', and a lady stands on the sidewalk with her back turned away from the camera

Good News This Week: August 9, 2025 - Books, Butterflies, & Water

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A person's forearm is covered in a 3D-printed turquoise cast

This student's life-changing injury made him realize how 'outdated' traditional casts are. So he 3D-printed a better one

The design student invented Morphapaedics after the restrictive and isolating experience of his own painful injury.

A small lab and garbage collector called CircularBlue sits on stilts in the middle of the ocean

This 'vacuum cleaner for the ocean' uses AI to detect and remove plastic waste from coastlines

Developed by phone accessory company Rhinoshield, the CircularBlue marine cleanup initiative hopes to clean up coastlines with ease.

The interior of a well-lit bookstore with light tan timber shelves and luminous columns

This abandoned office building was transformed into a floating bookstore — and you'll never want to leave

The Xixi Goldmye Bookstore is unlike any other.

A mockup of the Common Grounds apartment building in LA

LA contest challenges 350 designers to create cutting-edge affordable housing. The winners will actually be built

The “Small Lots, Big Impacts” design competition received 356 submissions from 36 different countries.

A photo collage of a man carrying a ghost trap, a wooden structure in the middle of a garden, the black stony coral, a forest full of trees, and two men standing at the top of a scaffolding while holding a hammer

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A scientist pokes a hole in the horn of a sedated rhino in South Africa

Scientists have a new way to halt illegal poaching in South Africa: Turning rhino horns radioactive

The “Rhisotope Project” is now in full swing.

A close-up of a woman with melanated skin flossing her teeth with a floss pick in a bathroom mirror

Scientists have found a way to administer shots with dental floss. Could this be the future of vaccines?

In lab mice trials, researchers found the vaccine delivery method to provide a “far superior” antibody response compared to nasal sprays.

The Roman Colosseum lit up at nighttime.

Steel in modern concrete rusts and expands, forming cracks. Now engineers are revisiting the 'self-healing' concrete of Ancient Rome

Engineers are looking to Ancient Roman architecture like the Colosseum and the Pantheon when it comes to future “recipes” of sustainable concrete.