Spotless giraffe! Freddie Mercury's Piano! Artificial Kidney Breakthru!

0:02 The Shark Deck. I'm Jenny Mack with five good news stories. Two pole vaulters agreed to share the golden medal. Well, here's the deal. Nina Kennedy and Katie Moon both made it over the four point nine zero meter bar, but neither one could get over the four point nine five one. This happened at the World Athletics Championships. I didn't think she'd want to share it. I thought we might have to keep jumping, But you know, I kind of looked at her and said, hey, girl, maybe you want to share this. After the relief on her face and you could see it on my face, it was mutual and yeah, absolutely incredible to share a medal with Katie Moon. You know, we've been friends for so long. It's super special. Moon agreed, saying it had been a long battle and that for four jumps that basically done the same thing, no one was going to make it, so all right, let's move on. Hey, good news from Mary Austin. She was a friend of Freddie Mercury's and she's got two point two million dollars. Now why she sold the baby Grand piano that Freddie Mercury used to compose some of queen's most beloved and claim works, including Bohemian Rhapsody. This all at an auction recently for nearly two point two million dollars. It's a nineteen seventy three Yamaha G two, and it's part of an auction series in which hundreds of Freddie Mercury's personal possessions from his Kensington home, including costumes, song, drafts, art, jewelry, furniture and more, are going up for sale, leaving fans waiting for another kind of quote hammered a fall that was cheesy. Mercury left his home and all of its belongings to Mary Austin, who kept his residence preserved almost exactly as he left it for more than three decades after Freddy's death in nineteen ninety one. Austin

1:33 said it was important to her that she handled his belongings in a way that Freddy would have loved. Good news, bad news for scientists. A new species was discovered, so that was good, and then they determined it was a critically endangered species, so that was kind of sad. The Kapunji was only identified in two thousand and three, living on the slopes and forests of Mount Rungway and Livingstone Mountains in Kitsulo National Park in Tanzania was identified after locals told SI there were monkeys there. Now twenty years later, the monkey has been the beneficiary of quote holistic conservation undertaken by scientists at the Wildlife Conservation Society. These monkeys are not very big. They have small black faces and large triangular crests of hair like a pompadour. The Tanzanian government quickly established nature reserves in the areas of the kampunji's habit that weren't already protected. When the scientists said, it's not perfect by any means. There's still pressures, and just as anywhere in the world of legal activities, they're still poverty around the edge, but it's in a considerably better place than it used to be. This is really cool. As next one, the sufferers living with kidney failure might have an option. Some folks at the University of California and San Francisco have produced an implantable device that mimics the kidney's functions. Their first clinical trials show that kidney sells housed within a device called a bioreactor can work quietly in the background like a pacemaker and does not trigger the recipient's immune system to go on the attack. More than five hundred thousand people in the US required dialysis several times a week. Can you imagine if they get this thing to work, that would just be literally life changing for people. Wow, really amazing.

3:05 The device developed by the university's Kidney Project has successively been implanted and tested in pigs for seven days. The next step will be a month long trial, first and animals and then humans. The scientists plan to fill the bioactor with additional kidney cells that can mimic all the functions such as balancing the body's fluids and releasing hormones to regulate blood pressure. Then a full artificial kidney will be born. Wow. Hey, good news. If you like giraffes but you hate spots. A giraffe in Limestone, Tennessee at the Brights Zoo was born without spots. They held a contest to name the spotless giraffe and they went with Kapiki. Do you know why because that's the Swahili name for unique staff Say, Kapiki has been fully accepted into the giraffe heard you see her?

3:49 No differently? Born on July thirty. First, this is the rarest living giraffe on the planet. What makes her so rare, simply put, it's because she was born without a pattern. The last time that was known to take place was in Okio in nineteen seventy two. So if you want to see the spotlashterra f, head to Bright Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee. And that's your good news for today. I follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. You have an awesome day.