Good news on malaria prevention, brain microrobots, violets for a landfill

As usual, I hope you’ll have time to scan the many items of good news that are free in our Fix the News edition for this week.

Among the items behind the paywall:

— Insecticide-treated malaria nets have helped prevent more than 2 billion cases and nearly 13 million deaths since 2000, says the World Health Organization.

— The French startup Robeauté is developing microrobots the size of a grain of rice that can navigate inside the brain, delivering targeted treatments and collecting samples without invasive surgery, reports the online publication EU-Startups.com.

— Staten Island’s Freshkills Park, once the world’s largest landfill, is planting 50,000 native violets to attract monarch butterflies and bees, says SILive.com.