Mark Twain

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."

Today's Good News Index

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TODAY'S BRIGHTER SIDE NEWS

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

Researchers found seaweed sugars may stop norovirus from attaching to human cells and causing infection.

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

Pilbara volcanic rocks suggest deep water recycling shaped Earth’s mantle and volcanism 3.1 billion years ago.

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

Dark matter may have started out near light speed, then cooled during reheating and still helped form galaxies.

Gut microbes linked to type 2 diabetes years before diagnosis

A Swedish study found gut bacteria shifts years before type 2 diabetes, opening a path to earlier warning signs.

AI can quickly spot and catalog lunar craters, but accuracy remains a major problem

ISS test finds that moon dust could be effective as a lunar building material

New one-hour brush swab test can detect oral cancers without painful biopsies

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may come from a solar system much older than our own

Euclid finds 31 distant quasars dating back 800 million years

Vehicle tire wear pollution linked to Alzheimer’s risk – impacting over 30 million people globally

Scientists use microbubbles and nanobubbles to remove 90% of microplastics from water

Scientists discover what gives artisan cheeses their distinct flavors

Octopus-inspired robot arm can feel and grasp like living creatures

Ozone depletion actually began decades before holes in the ozone layer were first discovered

NASA’s risky bid to save Swift telescope before solar drag pulls it into Earth’s atmosphere

New blood test finds different body parts age at different speeds

Scientists discover sugar molecules that predict disease years early

Scientists unlock the secret role of ocean microbes in Earth’s climate