Quick summary of the top good news stories from last week.

Voyager 1 amazed us again this week. After 47 years, having crossed into interstellar space, you’d think the spacecraft would stop surprising us. No chance. Unprompted, it decided to phone home from 15 billion miles away using tech last deployed in 1981.
And, back on Earth, a new piece of music by Chopin has been discovered nearly 200 years after it was written. The unknown waltz was found in the vault of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Superstar pianist Lang Lang was invited to record the waltz for the New York Times. Want to hear it? Click here. Meanwhile, in other news...
Women's Soccer UK: Sky Sports and the BBC have agreed a new five-year, shared domestic broadcast rights deal to show almost every Women’s Super League football match live on TV from next year. It's worth approximately £65m ($84m) and represents a huge increase on the current deal, which is worth in the region of £7m to £8m a season.

New Monument: During the Civil War, Robert Smalls famously donned Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship and sail his family and a dozen others to freedom. But South Carolina is honoring him with the state’s first-ever monument to an African American for another reason - Smalls helped rewrite the state’s constitution to give Black men equality post-Civil War.
What's a Dime Worth? In this case, $506,250. Three sisters from Ohio inherited the dime after the death of their brother, who had kept it in a bank vault for more than 40 years. It was just sold in an online auction for over half a million dollars.
Nature & Wildlife

New Amazon Park: The new Giant Trees of the Amazon State Park in Pará will protect some of the oldest and most majestic trees in the Amazon rainforest. Spanning 5,600 km2 (1,384,000 acres), the park will protect a rare tropical forest which is home to angelim vermelho, the tallest tree species in the tropical Americas, reaching 88.5 metres. These trees are unique; their carbon stock is equivalent to 500 average sized trees.
Australia's Bird Migrations: The migratory habits of birds in eastern Australia have been revealed for the first time, with the help of technology that is normally used to track storms and should "help us better protect birds in Australia and globally.”
600+: The number of mountain gorillas now in Rwanda, after the animals were driven nearly to extinction by the 1980s, reports World Economic Forum. The gorilla families are doing so well that they are in need of more space.
Brazilian Beef: Brazil’s environmental protection agency, has fined meat packers and cattle ranchers - including the largest on the planet, JBS - $64 million for buying or raising cattle on illegally deforested land in the Amazon rainforest. “We are inspecting the production chain to hold offenders accountable for acquiring products from deforestation and to ensure that crime does not pay.”
Ancient Discoveries

Valeriana: After swapping machetes and binoculars for computer screens and laser mapping, a team of researchers have stumbled on a lost Maya city of temple pyramids, enclosed plazas and a reservoir, all of which had been hidden for centuries by the Mexican jungle. Their analysis turned up a dense and diverse range of unstudied Maya settlements, including an entire city they named Valeriana, after a nearby freshwater lagoon. If you would like to learn more, here's a 2 minute video explainer by the BBC.
Wooden Spade: While most wooden artifacts disintegrate after thousands of years, archaeologists were thrilled to discover a 3,500 year old oak tool that has remained intact and in remarkable condition.
Public Health & Sustainability
The End of Disposable Vapes: UK is about to outlaw them. Australia already has. EU members are amending their laws. In America, it's illegal to sell most of them. That's good news for both public health and our environment.
Water From Air: Extracting water from the air is not new. Several developments in this arena have brought the initiative closer to its goal: to create a technology that isn’t bulky or energy-inefficient. A research team from the University of Ohio might have the solution, says Interesting Engineering. It’s simpler, more efficient, and more portable than the standard desiccant wheel dehumidifiers used to pull water from the air, and uses half the energy compared to the current methods.
US Batteries: In the past four years, the U.S. power grid has added battery capacity equivalent to 20 nuclear reactors. Helping maintain renewable energy when the weather interferes with solar and wind generation, the batteries are already starting to help prevent power blackouts.
India's Renewables: After years of effort to build solar parks, wind farms, and hydroelectric projects, renewable energy capacity in India now accounts for 46 percent of the country’s total power.
Miracle Powder: Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have invented a material in powder form that adsorbs carbon dioxide with astonishing performance. This is the sort of breakthrough the world needs.
World's First: As Candela’s P-12 gracefully flew over the waterways in Stockholm on Tuesday morning, the event marked the first-ever commercial operation of a hydrofoil electric ferry.
And Finally...

Vengeance Most Fowl: Feathers McGraw is back and implacably frightening as ever in Aardman’s latest, belated outing for everyone’s favourite cheese eating duo. This Christmas, the BBC are giving Brits a cracker - the first new Wallace and Gromit for 16 years. Vengeance Most Fowl has all the trimmings: Nick Park as co-director; a starring role for the Pontcysyllte aqueduct; and, of course, cheese. But before its 25 December TV debut, the new film premiered at the American Film Institute festival in Los Angeles on Tuesday - presumably to enable an Oscar run next year.
This Made us Laugh: Thousands more people than expected are at the COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, and hotels are full - leading the city’s council to press less orthodox accommodation into service. Robert Baluku, a Ugandan delegate, is among them after his team’s accommodation was abruptly cancelled. The city’s hotels were packed to capacity with thousands of country leaders, scientists, government ministers and UN negotiators, and Baluku was left scrambling for options - until the Motel Deseos (Desires) came to the rescue. Now, Baluku finds himself among dozens of delegates accommodated by the city’s hourly rate motels, which come equipped with circular beds, “love machine” chairs, dance poles and sex swings.
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