Spider-Man Helps Man In Wheelchair Cross Busy Street
by Francesca Regalado, The New York Times
Christopher Hellenthal could have changed out of his Spider-Man costume before leaving work on Tuesday. It was high noon and over 100 degrees in his Arkansas town. Instead, he kept the costume on, mask and all, for the short drive home from his job at a trampoline park in Jonesboro. “It’s skintight, but it’s breathable,” he said in a phone interview. As Mr. Hellenthal, 20, stopped his red truck at a multilane intersection, he saw a man in a wheelchair struggling to cross the street at a red light. Mr. Hellenthal put the truck in park and jumped out to push the wheelchair to the other side. Then he sprinted back and drove away when the light turned green.
Catnip Lotion As Effective As Deet At Repelling Mosquitoes, Study Finds
by Kat Lay, The Guardian
A homegrown catnip lotion has proven “just as effective as Deet” as a mosquito repellant in trials carried out in Uganda. Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is a common herb from the mint family. The chemical in the plant that causes feline euphoria – nepetalactone – also has insect-repelling properties but this has not previously been commercialised. New tools are vital in the fight against malaria, the disease spread by mosquitoes that infects about 282 million people a year and killed 610,000 in 2024 – the majority of them young children in African countries. There are concerns about rising resistance to insecticides, as well as the frontline drugs used to treat the disease.
First Puffin Chick In 30 Years Spotted Emerging From Cliffs Along England’s South Coast
by Good News Network
Conservationists were holding their breaths this Spring as the last remaining colony of puffins was in danger of being lost altogether, but relief turned to joy as, not only did the adult puffins return, a baby was born. For the first time in 30 years, a newborn bird—called a PUFFLING—was spotted emerging from its cliffside nest along the Dancing Ledge in Dorset. The last puffin colony on mainland England’s southern coast shrank to just six birds in recent years—so the National Trust renewed its quest to understand why the birds had been failing to produce chicks.
War‑Induced Fertilizer Shortage May Be Reducing US Soil And Water Pollution
by Kimberly Van Meter and Nandita Basu, The Conversation
American farmers are expected to plant several million fewer acres of corn in 2026 than they did in 2025, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz throttles a key fertilizer trading corridor, along with the energy and raw materials needed to produce and transport fertilizer. The closure is disrupting deliveries of about one-third of the world’s traded agricultural fertilizers. Fertilizer prices are rising, and farmers worldwide are cutting back on fertilizer use or shifting to less fertilizer-intensive crops. Corn is one of the most fertilizer-intensive and widely grown crops in the United States, but the disruption extends far beyond a single crop or a single nation.
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