🐍 Beneath the Hollywood sign, snakes curl in the shade, bobcats roam and hawks glide overhead. The closed-off hillside has become a wildlife refuge in the middle of Los Angeles. A famous landmark — and a secret little wild world. Source: The Guardian

🎺 More than 20,000 Miami students are getting free music classes at school—and some say it gives them a reason to show up. At 131 schools, kids learn instruments, teamwork and confidence. School with swing can change a lot. Sources: Good News Network, CBS News Miami

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🌌 A planet appears to have formed from the ashes of its own dead star. Astronomers say it’s the first known second-generation world around a white dwarf — a “reborn” planet where none was expected. Sources: Interesting Engineering, Nature Astronomy

🛋️ Two men were pulled over in North Carolina for driving an actual couch on the road. Police used the bizarre stop to remind everyone to put safety first. Some traffic stories really do come with cushions. Source: UPI

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🦠 Scientists watched a virus-like shell build itself by failing over and over. Its protein pieces kept snapping apart until five clicked into a stable ring. After that, the shell grew fast — trial and error at molecular scale. Source: Earth

🐶 A pit bull striking a pose, a galgo staring like royalty, and an Aussie mid-frisbee are among this year’s Dog Photography Awards winners. Proof that dogs can be adorable, solemn and epic all at once. Source: Smithsonian

🌍 Earth from space City lights trace the U.S. northeast Atlantic coast from Norfolk, Virginia, to Boston, Massachusetts. At far right, an aurora in northern Canada crowns Earth’s horizon. 📷 NASA · taken Nov 15, 2023

💻 An old laptop now keeps a mother and son on a 24/7 video call across continents. He used Claude to auto-reconnect it if it crashes, so if she wakes at 3 am for water, she can still look up and say hi. Sweet, simple future. Source: Hindustan Times

🚶‍♀️ She crossed from India into Bhutan and said the change was instant: clean air, quiet roads, cars stopping for pedestrians, and feeling safe walking alone at night. Her point: civic sense can change daily life. #WorldNews Source: Hindustan Times

🦐 A Texas seventh-grader turned discarded shellfish shells into a powder that helped clear polluted Rio Grande water. He even built a raft prototype to test water and release it when needed. Clever science from restaurant waste. Sources: The Times of India, Society for Science

✈️ An Indian man in Canada told his family he’d miss their new-home puja—then flew to India and showed up at the door instead. “Money cannot buy back missed memories” feels very real here. Source: Hindustan Times

🦋 A 35-year Florida study found something unexpected: hurricanes hurt the endangered Schaus' swallowtail at first, but a few years later the butterfly population bounced back stronger. Source: The Times of India

Built by researchers at Maynooth University in Ireland, it ran 10 programs, including adding, dividing and checking bits. Fast runs gave answers in under a minute; slow cooling reached about 95% of ideal signal. #Science Source: Earth

🧬 A DNA computer in a droplet of salty water solved math by cooling down and letting molecules snap into the most stable answer. One big calculation took 14 hours. Here's what happened 👇

The team traced lactoferrin through mammal evolution, recreated ancestral versions in the lab, and tested them on bacteria like E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Even one tiny mutation could make a big difference. #Science Source: The Times of India