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• A fish elevator on a Maine dam could reopen 600 miles of river to a small fish, and the whales people keep mentioning are not part of the story yet
• A German startup sells a quantum computer that runs at room temperature in an ordinary server rack, but the qubit count on the label is not the one that matters
• A graduate student in Maine turned wood into a foam that keeps a cooler almost as cold as plastic does, and the part that still fails is not the temperature
• Mushroom gatherers walked into a Nepalese forest and found a nest built by the only snake known to make one, and officials have now restricted access to the site
• Ethiopia put 805 million seedlings in the ground in twelve hours with 26 million people helping, and the number that will actually decide whether it worked is still years away
• Scientists say one thousandth of the ocean holds enough lithium and magnesium to last 50,000 years, but an Olympic pool of seawater shows why almost nobody can get it out