Amid wars, AI doom and a super El Nino, good news can seem in short supply. But it is there if you go looking. In Nature's latest collection of stories selected to bring readers joy, learn about a country that has reversed its rates of diabetes and umbrella that keep corals cool. But first, you might have heard about reports of the first new wild cat species in a century, announced last month1. The spotted feline, called Leopardus tilcayo, was found in the forested Yungas region of Bolivia. But did you know that a new member has also been inducted into the penguin family this year' A population of penguins on the remote Kerguelen Islands ' around 2,000 kilometres north of Antarctica in the Indian Ocean ' has been designated as a new species, the southeastern gentoo (Pygoscelis kerguelensis)2. This addresses a long-running debate about whether the gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) is one species or several. Using genetic analysis, scientists say the southeastern gentoo is its own...
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