5 Good Things: He Died Laughing & Came Back to Life
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🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome, welcome. It's a good day to look at the bright side, isn't it? |
| 0:04.5 | This discovery won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and it's like a Harry Potter spell come to life. |
| 0:10.1 | And the UN estimates that half of the world's languages will disappear by the end of the century. |
| 0:15.7 | Meet the Gen Z inventor who's trying to keep her culture alive. Plus, a comedy set no one expected ended with a really |
| 0:22.7 | sweet encore day later. I was so moved by it. I was truly just a spectator of the human spirit. |
| 0:31.9 | You don't see anything like that anymore. I'm so excited for you to hear that story. It's so |
| 0:37.2 | heartwarming, and so is the unexpected reunion will tell you about 10 years in the making. |
| 0:42.7 | From CNN, I'm Christabel Polanco, and this is Five Good Things. |
| 0:47.0 | Stick with us, all these stories, and more after this. |
| 0:49.4 | Thank you. A trio of scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a new form of molecular architecture that can help tackle problems like climate change, lead to more customized cancer treatments, and so much more. |
| 1:13.4 | If you're having a hard time comprehending what that means, same. |
| 1:16.9 | But Nobel officials compared their work to Hermione Granger's enchanted handbag you see |
| 1:21.4 | in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1. |
| 1:24.7 | Oh, we're ready. |
| 1:26.1 | On a detectable extension, Sean. |
| 1:28.0 | In the Warner Brothers film, Hermione reaches into what looks like a small handbag on the outside. |
| 1:36.0 | But it can hold a large amount on the inside. |
| 1:40.5 | So Sumu Kittagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yagi developed molecular frameworks that can store huge |
| 1:46.0 | amounts of gas in a tiny volume, which can be used for things like harvesting water from desert |
| 1:51.2 | air or capturing carbon dioxide. |
| 1:55.2 | Hello. |
| 1:56.3 | Hello, Professor Yagi. |
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