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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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

Study finds Parkinson’s drug pramipexole may restore pleasure and motivation in depression patients with anhedonia.

Quantum computer simulates how stored energy can become new particles

Trapped ions recreated charge confinement and showed simulated particle pairs emerging from the edges of an energetic quantum string.

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

Microscopy and DNA revealed two overlooked marine arthropods with unusual mouths, grooming limbs and extraordinary reproductive biology.

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

Fruit flies reacted differently when shielded from geomagnetism, revealing links among weak magnetic fields, metabolism and aging.

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

South Africa’s MeerKAT array detects the first radio signal directly from an exoplanet

CERN scientists find no evidence that the Large Hadron Collider created microscopic black holes

Amateur astronomer leads scientists to a massive 390-million-year-old impact crater in Quebec

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Evolution has a surprisingly clear answer

Scientists turn carbon dioxide into fully recyclable high-performance plastics