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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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

Researchers show modular quantum computers can remain fault tolerant even with noisy chip-to-chip connections.

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

Jupiter’s bow shock uses multiple plasma-wave harmonics and recurring structures to turn incoming solar-wind energy into particle heating.

Scientists find an ancient predecessor of CRISPR hiding in viruses

A virus-built molecular weapon targets DNA with a strange gapped code and may reveal how bacteria acquired the foundations of CRISPR immunity.

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

GJ 3090 b follows a 136-degree retrograde orbit with no massive companion nearby to explain how the unusual system became tilted.

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

Treasure-hunt game offers a new window into perception across the autism spectrum

A tropical ocean hot spot helped Antarctica gain 695 billion tons of ice

Scientists propose a light-matter quantum state inside living cells

NASA discovers a massive new lunar impact that blasted a 728-foot crater into the Moon

Fruit fly-inspired AI learns smells quickly with far less memory

Wild orangutans repeatedly combine and consume plants linked to healing and inflammation