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Karla Sofia Gascon, for article on Cannes Film Festival history

2024 C.E. May 30

Karla Sofía Gascón becomes the first trans woman to win award for Best Actress at Cannes

Karla Sofía Gascón became the first openly transgender woman to win Best Actress at Cannes, sharing the 2024 honor with her three Emilia Pérez co-stars in a collective award chosen by Greta Gerwig's jury. Gascón plays a Mexican drug lord who transitions in Jacques Audiard's genre-bending musical, which also took home the festival's Jury Prize. In her speech, she dedicated the win to "all trans people who suffer so much and must keep faith...

Aral Sea time lapse 1989 2014, for article on Aral Sea afforestation

2024 C.E. May 30

Uzbekistan plants millions of acres of forest where the Aral Sea once lay

Aral Sea afforestation has covered 1.7 million hectares of dried lakebed with saxaul trees and other desert-tolerant plants over the past five years, transforming what was once the world's fourth-largest lake into a slowly recovering landscape. The work is led on the ground by Karakalpak communities, where women gather seeds each autumn and men join planting crews through the winter. A single mature saxaul shrub can hold back several tons of moving sand, shielding...

A neuron or nerve cell is an electrically excitable cell, for article on ALS synapse-regenerating pill

2024 C.E. May 29

Breakthrough synapse-regenerating ALS pill moves to phase 2 human trials

A once-daily ALS pill designed to rebuild neural connections — not just slow their loss — has cleared FDA approval to begin Phase 2 trials, with patients across the U.S. starting doses in April 2024. SPG302 works on synapses, the tiny junctions where neurons talk to each other, which start vanishing before motor neurons themselves die. Every ALS drug currently on the market aims to slow decline; this one is being tested for whether...

Good news for public health, for article on CAB-LA HIV prevention, for article on lenacapavir HIV prevention, for article on HIV infections in young men

2024 C.E. May 23

HIV transmissions in the U.S. dropped 12% between 2018 and 2002

HIV infections among young men in the U.S. dropped 30% between 2018 and 2022, the steepest decline of any age group in the latest CDC surveillance data. Researchers credit expanded testing, faster connection to treatment, and the growing reach of PrEP — a daily pill that cuts transmission risk by up to 99% when taken consistently. The South, long carrying the heaviest HIV burden in the country, saw the largest regional drop, and Black...

Vast salt flat, for article on Chile salt flat protection network

2024 C.E. May 22

Chile to create network of protected salt flats

Chile's salt flats just got a major boost: a new protected network will triple formal safeguards for these high-altitude ecosystems, covering 14 salt flats and 13 lagoons across the country's north. These aren't just mineral-rich landscapes — they're living wetlands where three of the world's six flamingo species breed, and where a tiny fish called Orestias ascotanensis exists nowhere else on Earth. The move brings Chile closer to the global goal of protecting 30%...

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