The home of good newshttps://happynewsoftheday.com/enhttps://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/beavers-return-loch-ness-500-years-dundreggan/https://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/beavers-return-loch-ness-500-years-dundreggan/A family of six beavers has been swimming in a lochan at Dundreggan, in the Loch Ness catchment, since 4 November. It is the first release of the Ness Beaver Project, through which Trees for Life and Beaver Trust plan to return at least 15 beaver families to the area over three years under a NatureScot licence. Beavers were last recorded beside the loch about 500 years ago, before hunting wiped them out in Scotland.Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:15:00 GMTAnimalshttps://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/boraceia-frogs-atlantic-forest-bounce-back-chytrid/https://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/boraceia-frogs-atlantic-forest-bounce-back-chytrid/Between 1979 and 1982 the frogs at Boracéia field station in São Paulo, Brazil, crashed. A study by the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Penn State points to chytrid fungus and finds that most species have recovered: 12 of the 17 studied are still there. The other five have not been found, and the authors stress the result applies to that site, not the whole Atlantic Forest.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:55:00 GMTAnimalshttps://happynewsoftheday.com/education/shincal-inca-dig-livestream-argentina-fundacion-azara/https://happynewsoftheday.com/education/shincal-inca-dig-livestream-argentina-fundacion-azara/From 17 to 20 November, 11:00 to 13:00 Argentina time, Fundación Azara will stream an excavation at El Shincal de Quimivil (Londres, Catamarca), an Inca provincial capital, on its YouTube channel. Archaeologists from CONICET and the universities of La Plata and Catamarca will show their field and lab work and answer viewers' questions in the chat.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:55:00 GMTEducationhttps://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/silt-right-whale-38-sixth-calf-anticosti/https://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/silt-right-whale-38-sixth-calf-anticosti/Researchers from the Mingan Island Cetacean Study photographed Silt off Anticosti Island, Quebec, on 25 September with a calf nobody had recorded. It is her sixth known calf. It is welcome news for a critically endangered species: the latest count put North Atlantic right whales at about 384 in 2024.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:55:00 GMTAnimalshttps://happynewsoftheday.com/science/ann-francis-padlock-code-ance-ct-scan-museum-wales/https://happynewsoftheday.com/science/ann-francis-padlock-code-ance-ct-scan-museum-wales/The Ann Francis was wrecked on Margam beach, in Wales, on 28 December 1583 on its way back from Spain. Museum Wales and Cardiff University have looked inside the brass combination lock it carried, using micro-CT scanning and without damaging it: the letters were A-N-C-E. What the word means is still unknown.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:50:00 GMTSciencehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/sport/matar-diop-judo-bronze-senegal-first-medal-dakar-2026/https://happynewsoftheday.com/sport/matar-diop-judo-bronze-senegal-first-medal-dakar-2026/Matar Diop won bronze in the under-66 kg category on Sunday 1 November in Diamniadio, at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, the first Olympic event ever held in Africa. According to Le Soleil, it is the first medal credited to Senegal in the history of these Games: a Senegalese judoka's 2010 silver came in a mixed team event, and those medals do not count for any country.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:50:00 GMTSporthttps://happynewsoftheday.com/science/cave-lion-ormola-spain-complete-young-skeleton/https://happynewsoftheday.com/science/cave-lion-ormola-spain-complete-young-skeleton/Cavers from the Burumendi group found it in 2023 in a new gallery of the Ormola cave in Mendaro, in Spain's Basque Country: a male cave lion that died aged 2 or 3, about 31,500 years ago. The Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, which unveiled it on 3 November, says it is the first complete skeleton of a subadult of the species found on the Iberian Peninsula. The research is still under way, including a DNA study.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:55:00 GMTSciencehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/health/selpercatinib-medullary-thyroid-cancer-libretto-531/https://happynewsoftheday.com/health/selpercatinib-medullary-thyroid-cancer-libretto-531/In the international LIBRETTO-531 trial, presented at the ESMO 2026 congress by oncologist Jaume Capdevila of Vall d'Hebron Hospital and VHIO in Barcelona, 92% of patients with advanced medullary thyroid cancer and a RET gene mutation were alive at three years on selpercatinib, compared with 75% on standard drugs. The treatment is only for tumours with that mutation, and the trial is funded by drugmaker Eli Lilly.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:00:00 GMTHealthhttps://happynewsoftheday.com/health/vhio-liver-cancer-weak-spot-cdk16-cdk18/https://happynewsoftheday.com/health/vhio-liver-cancer-weak-spot-cdk16-cdk18/Some liver cancer cells rely on two proteins, CDK16 and CDK18, which cover for each other to repair their DNA. Remove both and the damage builds up, tumour cells stop multiplying and, in mice, tumours shrink. It is a preclinical result from Marcos Malumbres's group at the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), published in PNAS: there is no drug or patient trial yet.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:00:00 GMTHealthhttps://happynewsoftheday.com/wins/margarita-garcia-robayo-herralde-prize-querida-sharik/https://happynewsoftheday.com/wins/margarita-garcia-robayo-herralde-prize-querida-sharik/The Cartagena-born writer, who lives in Buenos Aires, won the 44th Herralde Novel Prize from the Spanish publisher Anagrama on Thursday 5 November, worth €25,000, with «Querida Sharik» (Dear Sharik). It was chosen from 2,223 manuscripts from 43 countries, a record for the prize, according to the publisher. The book reaches shops in Spain and Latin America on 12 November; there is no English edition yet.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:10:00 GMTWinshttps://happynewsoftheday.com/science/spanish-scientists-decoy-halves-aphid-crop-viruses/https://happynewsoftheday.com/science/spanish-scientists-decoy-halves-aphid-crop-viruses/Researchers at Spain's Institute of Agricultural Sciences (ICA-CSIC) and the Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP) have designed empty, non-infectious virus-like nanoparticles that take up the spot in an aphid's mouthparts where viruses attach. In the lab they cut transmission of two crop viruses by about half, without killing the insects. The method has not yet been tested in the field; CSIC has applied for a European patent.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:10:00 GMTSciencehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/health/gene-correction-alpha-1-antitrypsin-mhh-shanghai/https://happynewsoftheday.com/health/gene-correction-alpha-1-antitrypsin-mhh-shanghai/Doctors at Hannover Medical School (MHH) and Shanghai's Renji Hospital have used base editing to correct the genetic error behind alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, an inherited disease that damages the lungs and liver. Katrin H., 55, is making the missing protein again and no longer needs her infusions. The treatment is experimental and not yet approved: the first published case covers a single patient and the trial is ongoing.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:15:00 GMTHealthhttps://happynewsoftheday.com/people/asador-etxebarri-worlds-best-restaurant-the-50-best-2026/https://happynewsoftheday.com/people/asador-etxebarri-worlds-best-restaurant-the-50-best-2026/The 50 Best Restaurants 2026, announced in Lima on 4 November, put Víctor Arguinzoniz's Asador Etxebarri in Axpe (Atxondo, Basque Country) at No.1. It cooks almost everything over wood fire and was No.2 in 2025. The list is a vote by more than 1,100 chefs, critics and industry experts, not an objective measure of quality. The 50 Best has shared its images with us.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:15:00 GMTPeoplehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/science/hydrogen-between-metal-atoms-university-of-sydney-nature/https://happynewsoftheday.com/science/hydrogen-between-metal-atoms-university-of-sydney-nature/A University of Sydney team led by Julie Cairney has directly observed hydrogen dissolved in the gaps between atoms in several alloys, something until now understood only in theory. The work is published in Nature. Knowing where hydrogen sits will help design metals that do not crack when storing or carrying hydrogen. This is basic science: there is no new material yet. The university has shared its images with us.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:15:00 GMTSciencehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/ghana-cuckooshrike-photographed-tai-cote-divoire-ibcp/https://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/ghana-cuckooshrike-photographed-tai-cote-divoire-ibcp/Two researchers from the International Bird Conservation Partnership (IBCP) photographed the Ghana cuckooshrike (Lobotos lobatus), a canopy bird of West Africa's rainforest with no record since 2013, in Taï National Park in June. IBCP has shared its photos with us. The find was announced in the summer; it is not a studied population, but proof the bird is still there.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:50:00 GMTAnimalshttps://happynewsoftheday.com/health/ultrasound-microrna-glioblastoma-mice-uva-health/https://happynewsoftheday.com/health/ultrasound-microrna-glioblastoma-mice-uva-health/A UVA Health team at the University of Virginia uses focused ultrasound and microbubbles to briefly open the barrier that protects the brain, letting through nanoparticles carrying microRNAs that switch off several tumour genes at once. In mice it slowed tumour growth and extended survival. It has not yet been tested in people.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:50:00 GMTHealthhttps://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/texas-horned-lizards-released-wild-zoos/https://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/texas-horned-lizards-released-wild-zoos/San Antonio Zoo and Zoo Miami released them on a Texas ranch on 26 October: 25 came from Miami, 2 hatched in San Antonio and 28 were rescued earlier this year. The reintroduction project has now returned 428 lizards since 2017. The species has been declining for six decades, and researchers have seen earlier releases survive and show signs of breeding.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:55:00 GMTAnimalshttps://happynewsoftheday.com/planet/artificial-mangrove-roots-slow-erosion-bangkok-coast/https://happynewsoftheday.com/planet/artificial-mangrove-roots-slow-erosion-bangkok-coast/Where the Chao Phraya meets the sea, the coast loses 20 to 60 metres of land a year. In a 15-month trial at 11 sites in Samut Prakan, Chulalongkorn University placed structures that mimic mangrove roots: at 10 of them they trapped between 16 and 88 centimetres of sediment. An independent expert warns it is not a permanent fix, but a way to help the mangroves come back.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTPlanethttps://happynewsoftheday.com/science/odon-de-buen-sets-sail-antarctica-40-years-spanish-science/https://happynewsoftheday.com/science/odon-de-buen-sets-sail-antarctica-40-years-spanish-science/The Odón de Buen, the most modern ship in Spain's scientific fleet, left Cádiz on Wednesday for the 40th Spanish Antarctic Campaign, with more than 350 people involved and around 30 projects. For the first time it will open Spain's Antarctic bases. The voyage comes 40 years after the first Spanish camp on Livingston Island, set up on 27 December 1986.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:55:00 GMTSciencehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/science/termite-nests-400000-years-calitzdorp-south-africa/https://happynewsoftheday.com/science/termite-nests-400000-years-calitzdorp-south-africa/In the early 2000s, a local artist in Calitzdorp, in the Little Karoo, came across pipe-like rock structures that looked like old ovens. A team led by Miengah Abrahams of the University of Cape Town has shown they are fossilised termite nests between 323,000 and 401,000 years old, and has described them as a new kind of trace fossil named after the town.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:15:00 GMTSciencehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/health/blood-vessels-grow-without-vegfr2-cnic-nature/https://happynewsoftheday.com/health/blood-vessels-grow-without-vegfr2-cnic-nature/Rui Benedito's team at Spain's CNIC and Germany's Max Planck Institute shows that blood vessels can keep growing without VEGF-VEGFR2 signalling, long thought essential. It may help explain why some tumours stop responding to anti-angiogenic drugs. This is basic research in animal models: there is no treatment or patient trial yet.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:10:00 GMTHealthhttps://happynewsoftheday.com/health/vall-hebron-digital-twins-patients-test-treatments/https://happynewsoftheday.com/health/vall-hebron-digital-twins-patients-test-treatments/Vall d'Hebron University Hospital will work with tech companies on virtual replicas of organs built from each patient's own data, to predict how their disease will progress and which treatment will suit them best. The project has €11.7 million in EU regional development funding and three years to run. It is only just starting: there are no results yet, and no companies have been chosen.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 09:50:00 GMTHealthhttps://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/frosted-elfin-butterfly-returns-ontario-guelph/https://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/frosted-elfin-butterfly-returns-ontario-guelph/A University of Guelph-led team will breed frosted elfins brought from New York and release them in Norfolk County, on Lake Erie. It has done it before: the endangered mottled duskywing, reintroduced about five years ago, now numbers several hundred at Pinery Provincial Park. The release depends on there being enough wild lupine, the only plant its caterpillars eat.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 07:55:00 GMTAnimalshttps://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/galapagos-524-species-wasps-ants-bees/https://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/galapagos-524-species-wasps-ants-bees/An inventory by the Charles Darwin Foundation, Ecuador's Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo and the National University of Colombia brings together 21,364 records and raises the islands' tally of bees, ants and wasps to 524 species and morphospecies; the most complete list, from 2017, had 84. Many have yet to be given a scientific name, and almost half of the named ones were introduced.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 07:55:00 GMTAnimalshttps://happynewsoftheday.com/people/katerina-harvati-einstein-award-cordoba/https://happynewsoftheday.com/people/katerina-harvati-einstein-award-cordoba/Katerina Harvati, of the University of Tübingen, received the award on Monday 2 November at the Teatro del Libertador in Córdoba, Argentina, for her research into the origins of Homo sapiens. It was the first time the prize has been presented in South America. The World Cultural Council has presented the prize since 1984; the National University of Córdoba hosted this year’s ceremony and also honoured 12 local scientists and students.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 07:55:00 GMTPeoplehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/sport/cecilia-dieleke-gold-dakar-2026-south-american-record/https://happynewsoftheday.com/sport/cecilia-dieleke-gold-dakar-2026-south-american-record/The 17-year-old won the 200m backstroke at the Youth Olympic Games on Sunday 1 November in 2:10.05, more than five seconds clear of second place. It is a senior South American record and Argentine swimming's first gold at these Games, which are for young athletes, not the senior Olympics.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:55:00 GMTSporthttps://happynewsoftheday.com/health/immune-cells-chemical-switch-cancer-hospital-del-mar-cnio/https://happynewsoftheday.com/health/immune-cells-chemical-switch-cancer-hospital-del-mar-cnio/Researchers at the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Spain's National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) and the i+12 institute of Madrid's 12 de Octubre Hospital have engineered T cells that make the two halves of a tumour-targeting antibody separately. The halves only join when a drug is given, and the dose sets how strong and how long the response is. So far it has only been tested in the lab and in mice: safety studies and patient trials are still needed.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:15:00 GMTHealthhttps://happynewsoftheday.com/health/drug-free-electronic-implant-lowers-blood-sugar-diabetic-mice-eth/https://happynewsoftheday.com/health/drug-free-electronic-implant-lowers-blood-sugar-diabetic-mice-eth/A team at ETH Zurich has built an implant that, when glucose rises, turns it into gluconate, a substance the body passes out in urine. In obese mice with type 2 diabetes it brought blood sugar back to normal within an hour, and after six weeks the animals weighed less. So far it has only been tested in mice: there are no human trials yet.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:00:00 GMTHealthhttps://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/corvo-azores-lights-out-shearwater-chicks/https://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/corvo-azores-lights-out-shearwater-chicks/Every autumn, the smallest island in the Azores goes dark for several nights so that young Cory's shearwaters are not dazzled on their first flight. Residents pick up the ones that fall and release them the next day. The blackout doesn't stop every fall, but Portuguese media report that about 6,000 chicks have been rescued on Corvo since 2015.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:30:00 GMTAnimalshttps://happynewsoftheday.com/wins/la-bola-negra-third-highest-grossing-spanish-film/https://happynewsoftheday.com/wins/la-bola-negra-third-highest-grossing-spanish-film/Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi's film had taken €36.7 million by 1 November and sold about 5.5 million tickets, according to Rentrak figures reported by the Spanish film press. It has overtaken 'Ocho apellidos catalanes' and now trails only 'Ocho apellidos vascos' and 'The Impossible'. Box office totals vary slightly between sources.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:55:00 GMTWinshttps://happynewsoftheday.com/science/megapodius-rokusi-giant-bird-hobbit-cave-flores/https://happynewsoftheday.com/science/megapodius-rokusi-giant-bird-hobbit-cave-flores/A leg bone found at Liang Bua, the cave on the Indonesian island of Flores where Homo floresiensis was discovered, belonged to a megapode weighing about 3.9 kg, several times heavier than the one living on the island today. A team from the University Museum of Bergen describes it in the journal Alcheringa, and the species honours Rokus Due Awe, the Indonesian zooarchaeologist who identified the 'hobbit' remains. It is a single bone: nobody knows yet whether it could fly or when it died out.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:55:00 GMTSciencehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/planet/un-honours-desaa-forest-restoration-ethiopia/https://happynewsoftheday.com/planet/un-honours-desaa-forest-restoration-ethiopia/The United Nations has named the work of the NGO WeForest and local communities in Ethiopia's Desa'a forest, between Tigray and Afar, a World Restoration Flagship. More than 23,000 hectares are under restoration and nearly 16,000 job opportunities have been created, 60% of them for women. The caveat: the forest once covered about 154,000 hectares, and the 2030 target is 38,000.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:58:00 GMTPlanethttps://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/kazakhstan-releases-second-tiger-amur-ile-balkhash/https://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/kazakhstan-releases-second-tiger-amur-ile-balkhash/Amur, a male tiger brought from Russia, stepped into the Ile-Balkhash reserve on 31 October, where the female Umit has been hunting on her own since July. The Ministry of Ecology wants a population that breeds by itself, but for now there are two collared adults and two cubs still under observation.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:47:00 GMTAnimalshttps://happynewsoftheday.com/science/romania-intact-roman-child-sarcophagus-tomis/https://happynewsoftheday.com/science/romania-intact-roman-child-sarcophagus-tomis/Archaeologists from the Museum of National History and Archaeology in Constanța opened it on 27 October: inside was a wooden coffin with clay toys, bronze ornaments and flower garlands from about 1,800 years ago. It is rare because no one had looted it; the study has only just begun and there are no conclusions yet about the child.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:47:00 GMTSciencehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/health/huntingtons-gene-therapy-amt130-fda-priority-review/https://happynewsoftheday.com/health/huntingtons-gene-therapy-amt130-fda-priority-review/The US Food and Drug Administration has agreed to review uniQure's AMT-130 gene therapy under its fast routes and will decide by 1 May 2027. There is currently no treatment that slows Huntington's. The caveat: the data compare treated patients with an external control group rather than a randomised trial, and the confirmatory study has not started yet.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 22:10:00 GMTHealthhttps://happynewsoftheday.com/planet/bacterial-cellulose-beer-coffee-waste-nisenbaum-conicet/https://happynewsoftheday.com/planet/bacterial-cellulose-beer-coffee-waste-nisenbaum-conicet/Melina Nisenbaum, a CONICET researcher at the National University of Mar del Plata, has won the 2026 Franco-Argentine Innovation Award (junior category) for a process that feeds brewery waste, coffee grounds, yerba mate and gin pomace to bacteria that make cellulose, the basis of a kind of bio-leather. The caveat: the process works in the lab and still has to be scaled up.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:20:00 GMTPlanethttps://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/elephant-seal-pups-bahia-jackson-tierra-del-fuego/https://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/elephant-seal-pups-bahia-jackson-tierra-del-fuego/WCS Chile has counted 32 southern elephant seal pups this season at Bahía Jackson, in Karukinka Park, on the Chilean side of Tierra del Fuego. In early October there were 104 animals on the beach, 72 of them adults, and no bird flu has been detected. The caveat: it is a mid-season count, and the species is still listed as vulnerable.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:20:00 GMTAnimalshttps://happynewsoftheday.com/people/five-cancer-survivors-cross-senegal-bike-kayak/https://happynewsoftheday.com/people/five-cancer-survivors-cross-senegal-bike-kayak/Vanesa Amigo, Irantzu Pinillos, Noemí Carrasco, Milena Amelibia and Marta García Bodí, chosen from more than 500 applicants in nine countries, will spend 17 days crossing Senegal, from Dakar to Casamance, starting on 24 November. It is the 12th Reto Pelayo Vida challenge, run with the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology. Their message: exercise is part of treatment too. The caveat: the benefits oncologists cite are estimates from several studies, not a guarantee for each patient.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:20:00 GMTPeoplehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/planet/off-grid-solar-149-million-people-gogla/https://happynewsoftheday.com/planet/off-grid-solar-149-million-people-gogla/Lamps, kits and solar home systems that do not depend on the power grid now serve 149 million people, 26% more than in 2023, according to the 2026 market trends report by ESMAP (World Bank) and the industry association GOGLA. 95% of surveyed systems still work four years after purchase. The caveat: for at least 398 million people without power this is still the cheapest option, and reaching them would cost about $11.4 billion between 2027 and 2030.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:20:00 GMTPlanethttps://happynewsoftheday.com/science/rinconraptor-pipoae-dinosaur-patagonia-laura-pipo/https://happynewsoftheday.com/science/rinconraptor-pipoae-dinosaur-patagonia-laura-pipo/A team led by Ariel Méndez of Argentina's CONICET has described Rinconraptor pipoae in Palaeontologia Electronica: a megaraptorid about 7 metres long that lived 86 to 83 million years ago near Rincón de los Sauces, in Neuquén. Its name honours María Laura Pipo, a CONICET palaeobotanist who helped dig it up and died in 2020, aged 30. The caveat: it is known from only a few bones, and its size is an estimate.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:20:00 GMTSciencehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/science/chile-chemists-break-down-nylon-lower-heat-recycling/https://happynewsoftheday.com/science/chile-chemists-break-down-nylon-lower-heat-recycling/Susan Lühr's team at the University of Chile's Faculty of Sciences breaks down nylon 6, the plastic in many fishing nets, using formic acid and alcohols at 150-180 °C, less heat than standard methods. The result is aminoesters, compounds the chemical industry can reuse. It is a lab result, published in Macromolecules: the team is now trying it on discarded fishing gear, but it does not yet work at industrial scale.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:05:00 GMTSciencehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/people/karl-bushby-home-hull-28-year-walk/https://happynewsoftheday.com/people/karl-bushby-home-hull-28-year-walk/Karl Bushby left the southern tip of Chile in 1998, aged 29, vowing not to return to Hull unless it was on foot. On Monday he reached his mother's house after some 50,000km. The catch: not all of it was walking. He crossed the Bering Strait over frozen sea, swam the Caspian Sea and the English Channel, and the journey stalled for years over visas, money and the pandemic.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTPeoplehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/science/bronze-age-burial-cave-palma-mallorca-rituals/https://happynewsoftheday.com/science/bronze-age-burial-cave-palma-mallorca-rituals/A team from Spain's National Research Council (CSIC) and the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology has excavated hypogeum SSU9, a rock-cut burial chamber found in 2024 at the Son Sunyer necropolis in Palma. They found human bones, including those of children, pottery fragments and other objects linked to funerary rites. The caveat: the age of about 3,500 years is provisional until radiocarbon results come in.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:10:00 GMTSciencehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/bull-donkey-bond-ethiopia-current-biology/https://happynewsoftheday.com/animals/bull-donkey-bond-ethiopia-current-biology/Achille, a bull, and Patroclo, a donkey, live on an Ethiopian plateau, belong to different owners and only meet at pasture. There they seek each other out, lick, rub and stay close, even with other animals around. Researchers at the University of Pisa describe it in Current Biology as a social and sexual bond between species. The caveat: it is a single pair, watched for two weeks.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:10:00 GMTAnimalshttps://happynewsoftheday.com/planet/eu-project-farm-fish-mussels-seaweed-less-feed-csic/https://happynewsoftheday.com/planet/eu-project-farm-fish-mussels-seaweed-less-feed-csic/Two institutes of Spain's National Research Council (CSIC) are part of AQUALICIOUS, a four-year, €6.2 million European project with 14 partners. It aims to make fish farming less dependent on feed made from wild-caught fish by combining species that eat little or none of it. The project has only just begun: results will come over the next few years.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:55:00 GMTPlanethttps://happynewsoftheday.com/planet/spain-protects-11000km-droving-routes-transhumance/https://happynewsoftheday.com/planet/spain-protects-11000km-droving-routes-transhumance/Spain's government has approved a royal decree setting out its National Network of Drove Roads: about 11,393km of ancient livestock routes that are now mapped and better protected as public land, with priority given to moving herds and to transhumance. Day-to-day management stays with Spain's regions; the decree organises and coordinates the network.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:55:00 GMTPlanethttps://happynewsoftheday.com/sport/alcaraz-wins-vienna-third-spaniard-most-titles/https://happynewsoftheday.com/sport/alcaraz-wins-vienna-third-spaniard-most-titles/Carlos Alcaraz beat Alex de Minaur 6-1, 6-4 in 97 minutes in the Vienna final on Sunday 1 November. It is the 28th title of his career and takes him past David Ferrer (27): in the Open Era only Rafael Nadal and Manuel Orantes have won more among Spanish men.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 10:30:00 GMTSporthttps://happynewsoftheday.com/sport/edy-tavares-liga-endesa-all-time-blocks-record/https://happynewsoftheday.com/sport/edy-tavares-liga-endesa-all-time-blocks-record/Real Madrid's Cape Verdean centre reached 739 blocks on Sunday 1 November in a 90-79 win over San Pablo Burgos, passing the 738 of Fran Vázquez, who had held the Liga Endesa record since 2013. He needed 408 games, fewer than any other all-time leader in a major league statistic, according to the ACB.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 10:30:00 GMTSporthttps://happynewsoftheday.com/people/egypt-lends-fayum-portraits-rome-exhibition/https://happynewsoftheday.com/people/egypt-lends-fayum-portraits-rome-exhibition/“Egypt and Rome. The Faces of Fayum” opens on 5 November at Rome's Ara Pacis Museum with more than 110 works, almost 50 of them portraits painted about 2,000 years ago for mummies. For the first time, Egypt is lending almost all the Fayum panels in its collections, which had never left its museums, according to the organisers. It runs until 2 May 2027.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 10:30:00 GMTPeoplehttps://happynewsoftheday.com/health/litmus-study-tests-spare-liver-biopsy/https://happynewsoftheday.com/health/litmus-study-tests-spare-liver-biopsy/The European LITMUS programme, coordinated by Newcastle University, compared blood tests, liver stiffness scans and MRI with biopsy, the test currently used to measure fatty liver damage, in more than 1,500 patients. Several reliably detect advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis. The catch: at the stage that decides entry into drug trials only one test met the bar, and biopsy will still be needed there.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 07:59:00 GMTHealth