The Morning Lift

A midweek bonus from The Morning Lift: “ASKAP J1745 — the Rosetta Stone for long-period radio transients” — one of our most-loved stories, re-read for you. Originally from our June 4 episode. Hear a new lift every morning at themorninglift.org.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) FDA takes up the first optogenetic therapy for retinitis pigmentosa; (2) Kyoto team makes brilliant white with no pigment and no PFAS; (3) Best feather from the age of dinosaurs found inside fossilized droppings; (4) California's first foster village built to keep siblings together opens in Palmdale.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Human hearts grow new muscle cells after a heart attack; (2) A room-temperature nanolaser that could halve a computer's energy use; (3) Track and field's first Ultimate Championship compresses the sport into three nights; (4) The UN votes to replace the Mercator world map with Equal Earth.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A 91-year-old just became the oldest person ever to finish the Appalachian Trail; (2) The first big trial aimed at stopping Alzheimer's before symptoms start began screening; (3) Parents who agree together to delay a child's first smartphone measurably improved child mental health; (4) Germany reached a Women's Basketball World Cup semifinal for the first time in its history.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) An arthritis drug regrew hair in more than half of a 1,400-person alopecia trial; (2) Memphis broke ground on Orange Mound's first community land trust home; (3) The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens September 22 in Los Angeles; (4) Washington's I-90 wildlife overpass logged its 10,000th crossing with near-zero roadkill.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Denmark's largest Viking Age silver hoard turns up under a back garden; (2) Nina Simone's childhood home comes out the far side of a full restoration; (3) China's solar capacity passes its coal capacity for the first time; (4) BepiColombo begins its arrival at Mercury, carrying a question about the Moon.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A 22-year-old with Down syndrome got certified to teach barre and led a class of sixty; (2) A urine test caught 92% of bladder cancers, and could replace a camera for most patients; (3) Turkmenistan plugged eight of its largest methane leaks after satellites handed over the coordinates; (4) MIT engineers built liver tissue you can deliver with a syringe.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Bats carry two separate sets of antibody genes — an arrangement never before seen in a mammal — Science/Immunology; (2) Coral probiotics work in open water for the first time, and the dead version works too; (3) A Kerala house cools itself with clay lattice, laterite and a north-south axis; (4) Sweden and Finland run trains across their northern border again after ~30 years.

A midweek bonus from The Morning Lift: “Zero-waste solar desalination — University of Rochester” — one of our most-loved stories, re-read for you. Originally from our June 2 episode. Hear a new lift every morning at themorninglift.org.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A natural enzyme just read an eight-letter DNA alphabet without being redesigned; (2) Timor-Leste eliminated trachoma, clearing the world's leading infectious cause of blindness from all of South-East Asia; (3) Six countries made their U-20 Women's World Cup debut as the tournament opened in Poland; (4) Plug-in solar panels went on sale in Britain for the first time.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A single unexplained flash under South Dakota is physics' best dark matter hint yet; (2) Erin Brooks opened the Fiji Pro with a perfect ten and won the whole event; (3) Harvard engineers knitted a fabric that snaps between shapes and stays there; (4) Mozambique's worst flood in living memory killed nobody, and a drone class is why.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Software reads an ordinary ECG and finds heart disease no cardiologist can see; (2) Half a million more English children became eligible for a free school meal; (3) Three million pounds of restaurant oyster shells are rebuilding New York Harbor; (4) The blackbird has the most pleasant song in the bird world, and the acoustics explain why.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A Milwaukee landlord found a Picasso stolen eight years ago hanging behind a door; (2) Hundreds of sea shanty bands have formed across the UK, and the audiences keep getting younger; (3) Twenty-eight farmers set slug traps for three years and built a map that halves pesticide use; (4) A near-dead sea turtle found on a Welsh beach has been flown 5,000 miles home to Texas.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Children inside London's low-emission zone are growing measurably bigger lungs; (2) Uganda's Ebola outbreak is over, closed without a vaccine; (3) US high school sports hit an all-time participation record, driven almost entirely by girls; (4) A 35-inch robot is surveying sidewalks in five US cities so planners know which to fix.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) FBI data shows the sharpest single-year fall in US violent crime ever recorded; (2) Physicists entangle distant qubits with no measurement and no active control; (3) First Przewalski's horse born on the central Kazakh steppe in 200 years; (4) A hundred-plus restaurants in a dozen-plus countries ran a Pay What You Can day.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) FDA approves the first-ever treatment for warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia; (2) A record 40,000-plus field runs the Sydney Marathon in its second year as a World Marathon Major; (3) London's Natural History Museum reopens a gallery closed to the public since 1943; (4) Chicago opens a grant program aimed at the corner stores that are already the food system.

A midweek bonus from The Morning Lift: “Science / Paleontology — Kank australis, new heron-niche raptor dinosaur from Patagonia” — one of our most-loved stories, re-read for you. Originally from our June 1 episode. Hear a new lift every morning at themorninglift.org.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) The FDA approved the first targeted therapy ever cleared for metastatic pancreatic cancer; (2) Thirty years in, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library finally has hard evidence it works; (3) California became the first state to regulate the efficiency of replacement tires; (4) A 270,000-square-mile ocean reserve around Easter Island would be run by the Rapa Nui, six votes to five.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A protein frogs make naturally is the first thing to reverse red-tide poisoning; (2) London surgeons remove a brain tumour with AI guiding them in real time; (3) A toilet designed for astronauts is now serving 20,000 households without plumbing; (4) Nine countries pool their data to fix a research gap in women's sport.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Two hurdles world records fall in one night in Zurich; (2) Light-activated eye drops restore visually guided behavior in blind mice; (3) Europe's Right to Repair directive takes effect; (4) Gravity survey finds a hidden ice reservoir under a Utah rubble slope.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Chinook salmon reclaim 88% of their lost Klamath range in two seasons; (2) FDA approves the first-ever therapy for glycogen storage disease type Ia; (3) AI finds a cheap recipe for 3D-printing a NASA rocket alloy in 40 experiments; (4) U.S. wins wheelchair rugby world title for the first time since 2010.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) NASA's Roman Space Telescope launches tomorrow with a camera a hundred times wider than Hubble's; (2) An 11,000-year-old sculpture of a human riding a leopard, the first of its kind ever found; (3) Batteries have broken solar's daylight-only limit; (4) A desert plant's survival sugar just made a vaccine that doesn't need a fridge.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) FDA approves the first narcolepsy drug that treats the cause instead of the symptoms; (2) Virginia pays seven mentor-apprentice pairs to move a craft from one person to another; (3) A 21-year-old becomes the first woman to represent the US in welding at WorldSkills; (4) Shingles shot linked to 24% lower dementia risk in half a million older adults.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) The Bayeux Tapestry's missing ending is being handed to British schoolchildren; (2) Blind tennis holds its first full World Championships in Vilnius; (3) California will require every high schooler to pass a personal finance course; (4) Ethiopian farmers replace diesel pumps with solar irrigation.

A midweek bonus from The Morning Lift: “Environment / Conservation — Floreana giant tortoise returns” — one of our most-loved stories, re-read for you. Originally from our June 10 episode. Hear a new lift every morning at themorninglift.org.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A Norfolk farm field became a species-rich wildflower meadow with nobody sowing a seed; (2) UT Dallas cuts the slowest step in 3D-printed zirconia crowns from 100 hours to under 30 minutes; (3) AI decodes the DNA "initiator," the start signal in about 60% of human genes; (4) Lynn teenagers are painting the murals they designed onto four-story walls.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Kate Douglass breaks the 50m freestyle world record twice in a single day; (2) World's largest all-electric aircraft completes its first flight on about $5 of electricity; (3) UK maternal RSV vaccine halves newborn intensive care admissions in its first full year; (4) Greenland shark retinas show almost no aging after four centuries.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) LiDAR survey triples the known size of an Amazonian civilization; (2) Caltech gets fiber-grade optical performance onto a silicon chip; (3) Porto makes public transport free for residents; (4) Italy's art squad recovers stolen Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A Johns Hopkins vaccine taught 18 of 20 high-risk patients' immune systems to hunt pancreatic cancer before it forms; (2) An 18-year-old ranked 92nd with no full-time coach beat the 14th seed at badminton's World Championships; (3) A fisherman survived 15 days in a flooded Mexican cave in an air pocket, and the search never stopped; (4) Livermore crushed diamond past Neptune-core pressures, fixed a 1,000-degree error, and may have tripled fusion's ceiling.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Minnesota's breeding duck population jumped 63% in a year the wetlands didn't improve; (2) An intact 4,000-year-old "enigmatic tablet" came out of a Bronze Age site near Lake Garda; (3) Silver nanoparticles cut DNA more precisely than the enzymes biologists have used for 50 years; (4) 58 rehabilitated wild animals were released back into a Philippine protected landscape.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Cement kilns could be run backward to pull carbon out of the air; (2) A magnetar delivers the strongest evidence yet that empty space isn't empty; (3) Little League World Series opens with twenty teams and two girls on the field; (4) Italian sanitation crew digs through a full garbage truck to recover a million-euro lottery ticket.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Finland and Sweden restored cross-border passenger trains after 38 years; (2) Treated polyethylene and polypropylene biodegraded in soil in under a year; (3) The first public nature library in the US opened in Colorado; (4) Brain scans showed dogs distinguish specific human facial emotions.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A dime-a-day heart drug from the 1700s cut hospitalizations by 25%; (2) Canada beat the USA 27-20 for flag football world gold and the sport's first Olympic place; (3) AI is reassembling the Oseberg Viking ship textiles — and found a join specialists missed — Culture/Museum Conservation; (4) Two Wendy's franchise owners paid a shift manager's tuition — he starts at Yale this fall — Community/Generosity.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Three-drug regimen clears HIV in newborn primates with no rebound; (2) Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR20 releases 3 million spectra, free and usable; (3) Prairie Creek restoration doubles young salmon growth and ocean survival; (4) At 97, a doctor keeps a promise and coats his great-granddaughter.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Lani Pallister beat Katie Ledecky in the 400 free at Pan Pacs; (2) First cyclic quantum heat engine built in a superconducting circuit; (3) Estrogen-only hormone therapy linked to fewer Alzheimer's hallmarks in brain tissue; (4) The Last Museum indexes ~5 million artworks across 4,903 museums.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) The adult brain rebuilds tissue it was never supposed to replace; (2) A soft robot hand out-maneuvers the human hand; (3) Fossils suggest our mammal ancestors gave birth to live young; (4) A prescription app measurably improves life with MS.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Professional women's baseball returns to an American field for the first time since 1954; (2) NASA's 'Big Bang' power maneuver buys Voyager 2 another year of science; (3) A monsoon gives the Great Barrier Reef its first real bleaching reprieve in years; (4) Wool-derived keratin regrows bone better-aligned than the standard scaffold.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) New "SS-H2" stainless steel survives the electrolyzer and could cut green-hydrogen material cost ~40x; (2) India crosses 300 GW of non-fossil power capacity, past 60% of its 2030 goal; (3) Nearly 100-year-old Herron's Crown Theater reopens as a community theater in Collinsville, OK; (4) Miltiadis Tentoglou wins a 4th straight European long-jump title (8.44 m), most successful in event history.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) First-in-class narcolepsy drug oveporexton wins FDA approval; (2) Brazil's Amazon deforestation falls to lowest since 2013; (3) Tate Taylor's sprint double and a U20 relay world record in Eugene; (4) 13-year-old Zac Waters 3D-prints a custom wheelchair for a toddler.

A midweek bonus from The Morning Lift: “Superconductivity record at 151K, ambient pressure” — one of our most-loved stories, re-read for you. Originally from our May 29 episode. Hear a new lift every morning at themorninglift.org.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) FDA approves Tudriqev, a living virus that turns melanoma tumors against themselves; (2) A near-extinct Amazon language, Taushiro, gets a formal revival; (3) The surprise comeback of 2026 is the compact disc; (4) Michaela Walsh becomes first boxer to win four Commonwealth Games medals.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A Queens basketball court that swallows 330,000 gallons of floodwater; (2) Ma Rainey's buried notes recovered a century later; (3) Quantum entanglement sent 62 km over ordinary overhead fiber; (4) A Spokane bootmaker outfitting wildfire crews for free.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A bean-grown chewing gum stripped up to 93% of HPV from patients' saliva in lab tests; (2) Chelsea Gray won one WNBA game with back-to-back buzzer-beaters; (3) A Green Bay home-repair program drew record demand from neighbors; (4) Bison and fire are rebuilding an Illinois prairie, and the birds are returning.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Colossal 2,500-year-old marble statue unearthed at ancient Sardis; (2) Scientists identify the brain cells that sustain motivation; (3) Compressorless hydrogen turbine runs 303 seconds and makes electricity; (4) D.C. reading pilot posts 54% more growth for students furthest behind.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A hidden magma reservoir the size of a country is mapped beneath Tuscany; (2) A complete early Christian monastic complex is uncovered in Upper Egypt; (3) A new 3D-printing method makes tungsten carbide tools harder with less raw material; (4) Stanford names the "ruptoblast," an immune cell that explodes to kill invaders.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A bionic eye implant that restores central vision just cleared Europe; (2) Finland's town-scale sand battery cut heating emissions 70%; (3) A Czech axewoman set two world records at the Lumberjack World Championships; (4) A 64-year-old qualified as a nurse, studying alongside his own son.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Japan hits 90% lithium recovery from dead EV batteries; (2) Autonomous AI eye-scans deliver a verified diagnosis at the pharmacy in about a minute; (3) Why cancer cells and viruses go invisible to the immune system; (4) Two poisonous plants give up the recipe for a promising medicine.

A midweek bonus from The Morning Lift: “Sunlight-powered quantum photon pairs” — one of our most-loved stories, re-read for you. Originally from our May 20 episode. Hear a new lift every morning at themorninglift.org.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Global hunger falls below 8% for the first time since the pandemic; (2) Micronesia's internet access jumps twentyfold after its telecom monopoly ends; (3) Heat pumps are on the verge of becoming America's default home HVAC; (4) An Atlanta dad's weekly library trip grew into the 'Library Dads'.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Laser scans reveal a lost Amazon civilization of up to three million people; (2) Australia's citizen 'Bug Hunt' passes one million observations and catches invasions early; (3) The American oystercatcher climbs back while other shorebirds fall; (4) Oakland opens a free library that lends sports gear so no kid is priced out.