| TGIF, QuickTake readers! Start your weekend in high spirits with these 10 uplifting stories from the past week.  1. "Dinosaur trees" were rescued from ruin. In a secret mission, Aussie firefighters saved the world's last groves of the prehistoric Wollemi Pines. 2. U.S. cancer deaths saw a sharp decline. Breakthrough treatments for lung cancer spurred the largest single-year drop ever from 2016 to 2017. 3. NASA got a new star. Harvard doctor and ex-Navy SEAL Jonny Kim is among the agency's newest astronauts and the first Korean-American.  4. Microsoft set a bold climate goal. It pledged to go "carbon negative" and scrub from the atmosphere all the carbon it's ever emitted by 2050. 5. An SOS signal truly worked. 30-year-old Tyson Steele endured 23 shelterless days of subzero temps and snow before pilots saved his life.  6. Spike Lee picked up a historic gig. He'll serve as jury president of the Cannes Film Festival, making him the first-ever black person in the role. 7. Adam Gorlitsky never gave up. Paralyzed from the waist down, he set a world record for the fastest marathon time in an exoskeleton suit.  8. We met the xenobot. It's a fully new class of "living robots" that may one day be used to clean the oceans or deliver drugs inside our bodies. 9. A pub that beat Prohibition flourishes. Established in 1854, McSorley's in NYC is still serving patrons as one of the city's oldest bars. 10. Diego retired a hero. The 100-year-old giant tortoise returned to the wild after fathering 800 offspring in captivity, saving his entire species.  Have a great weekend! Watch your inbox for our next newsletter on Tuesday. Follow us on Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. Thanks for reading!
-Andrew Mach | 
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