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A group of six teenagers smile and take a selfie together inside a restaurant as they hold up small balls of dough.

This restaurant prides itself on exclusively hiring teenagers. When their boss fell ill, those same teens stepped in to save the business

Carol Trainor was the bedrock of Wisconsin’s local restaurant Urban Olive & Vine. When she was hospitalized, her employees came together to help save her business.

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This student's life-changing injury made him realize how 'outdated' traditional casts are.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 closeup of a building with sage green, bubblegum pink, and yellow brick details

Colorful affordable housing complex looks like it came straight from a Wes Anderson movie

Volante, a new social housing scheme in the Netherlands, flips the script on affordable homes.

Two activists – one dressed in a polar bear costume – are shown holding up protest signs

Local climate activism really does work, new report finds

Efforts to pass laws and advance clean energy projects can significantly reduce emissions, and at a low cost.

On the left, the subtropical forests of eastern Cuba. On the right, a Polymita tree snail with a bright orange snail climbs on a branch.

British scientists join global effort to save 'world's most beautiful snails' from extinction

All six species of Polymita tree snail are in danger of extinction due to illegal shell trading — and two scientists from across the globe are on a mission to save them.

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.

Two men stand atop a deep-sea submersible as it is launched just beneath the ocean's surface. A ship is in the background, as well as a blue sky

Deep-sea submersible stumbles upon 'unusually large' sea creature nearly 6,000 meters below the surface

An unassuming sea creature surprised scientists by withstanding ocean pressures nearly 600 times greater than surface level.

A blue tile sign with white letters reading "Los Angeles Public Library"

This librarian brings books, resources to homeless people on Skid Row. Now she's gaining national recognition

Amanda Mellor has been named a Mover & Shaker by the Library Journal for her efforts to support people experiencing homelessness.

A still from the kid's show Bluey, where two small dogs play with one larger dog

Researchers watched 150 episodes of 'Bluey.' They learned it teaches kids real-life resilience

Bluey, the animated Aussie pup, has captured the hearts of families around the world. She has intrigued researchers, too.

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 Black male teacher high-fives a white female student

Black teachers play a vital role as mentors for high school seniors, new study finds

In Pennsylvania, nearly 15% of students are Black, but less than 4% of teachers are.