Quote of the Week

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."

Mark Twain

Today's Good News Index

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4.0% higher

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TODAY'S BRIGHTER SIDE NEWS

New study challenges a long-held assumption about human childbirth

Scientists finally confirm the cause of Earth’s greatest mass extinction

Earth may be hotter today than at any time in the last 540 million years

Smelling chocolate before lifting weights could make your workout easier

People are falling in love with AI. Researchers reveal what that actually looks like

Why Antarctica turned into an ice world millions of years before the Arctic

Astronomers are finding space junk too small to track, and it’s getting dangerous

Radio observations reveal once hidden structures around the Orion Nebula

Neutral hydrogen maps made with two of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes just revealed Orion Nebula structures and a mass estimate that nobody expected.

550-million-year-old fossil may reveal first-ever ‘right-handedness’ in the animal kingdom

A strange Ediacaran fossil may reveal the earliest known sign of handedness in the animal kingdom.

PAC-MAN and AI join forces to fight the world’s deadliest infection

Tuberculosis kills more than a million people a year, and one reason treatment is so hard lies in the bacterium’s unusually tough outer coat.

New MIT gel could revolutionize treatment for esophageal diseases

New MIT gel coats the esophagus to deliver drugs directly, improving treatment and reducing side effects.

Organic molecules can survive violent supernova explosions – fueling star and planet formation

The real story behind Moana: Why Polynesians suddenly sailed east

A cosmic gateway near Earth may connect us to other distant worlds

Human brain cells may be far more powerful computers than scientists thought

NASA is looking for four volunteers willing to spend a year inside a simulated Mars mission

NFL players 4x more likely to die due to neurodegenerative disease

CUNY researchers bring black hole theory to life in the lab

Scientists achieve the impossible by creating matter from empty space

MIT scientist reveals a new method to detect nuclear weapons in space

Myanmar’s deadliest earthquake results in 500 km rupture and signs of a rare supershear break

Mountain soils store twice as much carbon as scientists thought

Seaweed compound may block norovirus infection – helping 685 million people each year

Water seeping into Earth’s mantle 3.1 billion years ago fueled early volcanic activity and plate tectonics

New study reveals how dark matter formed shortly after the Big Bang