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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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

Returned asteroid grains link Bennu, Ryugu and CI meteorites to a mixed dust reservoir shaped by ice and the young Jupiter.

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

Story excerpt: Three infant galaxies already contained disturbed, metal-rich gas, showing that cosmic chemical recycling began remarkably early.

Humans possess a ‘seventh sense’ that detects hidden objects

Human fingers sensed tiny disturbances in sand before reaching a hidden cube, outperforming a robot in overall detection precision.

Ozone layer recovery comes with an unexpected climate consequence

New research finds ozone recovery and pollution could make ozone the second-largest source of warming by 2050.

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

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

Quantum computer simulates how stored energy can become new particles

Hairy legs and red eyes: Two bizarre new sea spiders found in British Columbia’s Salish Sea

Earth’s magnetic field is influencing how we age, study finds

Blood test detects breast cancer more than a year before scans

New 3D model finds Earth may have become ready for life 4.33 billion years ago

Future quantum computers may be built like modular data centers

NASA’s Juno reveals how Jupiter’s giant magnetic shield absorbs the solar wind

Scientists find an ancient predecessor of CRISPR hiding in viruses

Astronomers discover a strange planet circling its red dwarf star in the wrong direction

Lifestyle choices can outweigh genetic risk for type 2 diabetes

Tiny extracellular vesicles delivered through the nose found to improve memory in Alzheimer’s study

MIT researchers use light to identify aging cells without destroying them