Vincent van Gogh

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“Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow."

Vincent van Gogh

Today's Good News Index

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Two-year trial finds diet drinks perform like water for weight management

Scientists find a simple control change that could significantly boost wind turbine output

Canadian radio telescope (CHIME) is turning hydrogen into a map of cosmic expansion

Chang’e-6 samples reveal a form of magnetic iron never before found on the Moon

Ice Age spears reveal how America’s earliest hunters learned to survive

Scientists redesign the camera lens using graphene and artificial muscles

Scientists find a way to boost plant grow without sacrificing immunity

Squirrel colors spotlight local evolutionary changes in urban species

A survey of 1,734 squirrels found dramatic coat-color differences across Montreal linked with trees, winter cold and geographic barriers.

Supermassive black holes leave a glowing trail far beyond their host galaxies

DESI and LOFAR reveal a directional H-alpha glow showing where black hole jets disturb cool gas far beyond their host galaxies.

NASA finds a surprisingly complex history of water on ancient Mars

Mars’ Margin Unit records repeated encounters with groundwater, possible lake water and heated fluids long after its igneous rocks formed.

Earth’s inner core may be quietly changing the length of our days

Tiny changes in Earth’s rotation may reveal a tug-of-war between its deformable inner core, liquid outer core and deep mantle.

The eruption that buried Pompeii is helping scientists synchronize Earth’s geological clocks

Climate shifts sparked rare bursts of bird evolution

Scientists reshape light to control magnetic memory and a material’s magnetic properties

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus may make alien life easier to find than scientists thought

Scientists study 221,000 people to find which exercise works best for pain relief

Quantum memory stores single photons for record time in major leap towards a quantum internet

Playing alone does not necessarily mean feeling lonely, gaming study finds

MIT study finds brain circuits may work like reusable building blocks for thought

Asteroid Bennu may have formed much closer to the Sun than scientists thought

JWST finds early galaxies were already spreading the ingredients for planets and life

Humans possess a ‘seventh sense’ that detects hidden objects

Ozone layer recovery comes with an unexpected climate consequence

Buried volcanic structure suggests that our Moon once had a powerful magnetic field

Parkinson’s drug helps restore pleasure and motivation in depression patients