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The research behind why your favorite songs make you push your workout harder
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Most people assume music makes workouts feel better because it’s distracting or energizing. Both are tr…
Optimist Daily
California sends newborns home with a month of free diapers
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM New babies go through eight to ten diapers a day, and diapers run about $100 a month. For families alre…
NASA Breaking News
Fire Chars Santa Rosa Island
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Fire Chars Santa Rosa Island Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Top…
NASA Breaking News
NASA’s Psyche Mission Images Mars’ Huygens Crater
1 Min Read NASA’s Psyche Mission Images Mars’ Huygens Crater PIA26775 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Photojournal Navigation Science Photojou…
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NASA’s Psyche Mission Spies Mars’ Wind-Blown Craters During Close Approach
1 Min Read NASA’s Psyche Mission Spies Mars’ Wind-Blown Craters During Close Approach PIA26774 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Photojournal Na…
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Psyche’s High-Resolution View of Mars’ South Pole
1 Min Read Psyche’s High-Resolution View of Mars’ South Pole PIA26773 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Photojournal Navigation Science Photojou…
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NASA’s Psyche Mission Sees Mars’ South Pole After Flyby
1 Min Read NASA’s Psyche Mission Sees Mars’ South Pole After Flyby PIA26772 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Photojournal Navigation Science Ph…
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NASA’s Psyche Mission Images the Crescent of Mars
1 Min Read NASA’s Psyche Mission Images the Crescent of Mars PIA26771 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Photojournal Navigation Science Photojou…
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NASA’s Psyche Mission Aces Mars Flyby, Targets Metal-Rich Asteroid
5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This view of a crescent Mars was captured on May 15, 2026, at…
NASA Breaking News
Moon-Venus Conjunction
The Moon and Venus, center, are seen in conjunction above the Washington Monument, Monday, May 18, 2026, as viewed from the Mary W. Jackson …
NASA Breaking News
Johnson’s Cindy Evans Prepares Artemis Teams for Lunar Science
4 Min Read Johnson’s Cindy Evans Prepares Artemis Teams for Lunar Science Cindy Evans, Artemis exploration scientist and geology training le…
NASA Breaking News
NASA’s New Shock Detectives Project Invites Volunteers to Help Study Solar Wind
The Sun sprays an extremely fast stream of charged particles called the solar wind. At approximately 56,000 miles (90,000 kilometers) in fro…
ScienceDaily Top News
Rare graves reveal a lost world of Bronze Age Europe hidden for 3,000 years
Scientists have uncovered remarkable new details about Bronze Age life in Central Europe by studying rare burials untouched by cremation. Th…
ScienceDaily Top News
A strange ripple in spacetime could be the first fingerprint of dark matter
Black holes crashing together may be revealing clues about dark matter hidden across the universe. Physicists created a new model predicting…
ScienceDaily Top News
String theory suddenly emerged from simple physics rules
Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory - the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibratin…
ScienceDaily Top News
NASA’s powerful Roman Space Telescope is about to transform astronomy
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now aiming for an earlier launch in September 2026. Designed to explore dark matter, dark energy…
Phys.org Latest
Birds clap in the dark to flirt: Nightjars reveal a hidden language of sound
Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit forests and shrublands of northern Argentin…
Phys.org Latest
SIRT6 protein could protect against age-related breakdown in chromatin, possibly help reverse aging
Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have successfully restored youthful patterns of DNA organization in the livers of old mice, reversing key…
Phys.org Latest
Amazonian cocoa has a new edge: Two standout cultivars could change how growers fight witches' broom
Witches' broom disease, caused by the fungus Moniliophthora perniciosa, decimated cocoa crops in southern Bahia state, Brazil, in the 1990s.…
Phys.org Latest
Integrated solar reactor paves way to make 'clean' chemicals, plastics and food using solar energy
A new study led by Dr. Lin Su of Queen Mary University of London, published today in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, describes…
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Beyond 0 and 1: Ferrotoroidic material can store four magnetic states
Today's computers store information using only two values: 0 and 1. But as electronic devices become smaller and reach their limits, scienti…
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Seaweed study unlocks surprising solution for cattle nutrition and sustainable agriculture
Cows eat grass...everyone knows that. But climate change is forcing producers and scientists to rethink some of our long-held assumptions ab…
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Migrating charges unlock hard-to-reach C-H bond edits in organic molecules
A team at the University of Vienna, led by chemist Nuno Maulide, has developed a new method for controlling chemical reactions in a more tar…
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Chemists use sea sponge bacteria to create new molecules for drug discovery
Florida State University chemists have synthesized new molecules derived from bacteria found in a Pacific Ocean sea sponge, a breakthrough f…
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TriPcides target MRSA, suppress infection and kill dormant bacteria to open a new front against antibiotic resistance
In a new study, researchers show how so‑called TriPcides can target the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, including antibiotic‑resistant stra…
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Good News Network
Salt Water Restores Native Queensland Ecosystems After Dozens of Tidal Gates Removed
From Queensland, Australia, comes the story of how a little salt can go a long way to restoring an ecosystem. Near the area of Mackay, tidal…
Good News Network
Finance App Analyzes Your Jewelry and Puts it in a Digital Portfolio Where You can Track it Like a Stock
Since 2023, the price of gold has more than doubled, turning people’s spare jewelry or heirlooms into valuable assets - in many cases withou…
Good News Network
Passionate ‘Tortoise Guardians’ Help Critically-Endangered Giant Tortoise Slowly Return to India
In the far-eastern Indian state of Nagaland, locals are protecting mainland Asia’s largest tortoise species, an animal they used to hunt. Go…
Good News Network
Good News in History, May 19
115 years ago today, the world’s first national park department, Parks Canada, was established, 5 years before its counterpart in the US Tod…
Positive News
A new way into fostering
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Life lessons: Arlo Parks on what life so far has taught her
Nice News
Artist, 87, Turned His Small Town Into a “Safari” With Hundreds of Animal Sculptures
This article was originally written by Elizabeth Hunter for SWNS - the U.K.’s largest independent news agency, providing globally relevant o…
Nice News
This Former Engineering Student Builds Massive Rubik’s Cube Mosaics: “I Have a Lot of Fun in My Life”
When Dylan Sadiq was 21, he emptied his savings account on something his mother (perhaps understandably) considered a completely frivolous e…
Tech for Good
Phys.org Latest
AI-driven framework enables precise prediction of RNA splicing and isoform usage
RNA is the means of translating the genetic code embedded in DNA into proteins, which serve as enzymes, transporters, signaling molecules, r…
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Quantum-scale simulations and AI uncover promising 2D perovskites for future energy tech
Researchers at Clarkson University are advancing the use of artificial intelligence and computational physics to accelerate discovery of nex…
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Field-ready tool identifies rare and zoonotic parasitic worms missed by standard tests
Parasitic nematodes (commonly known as roundworms) are a large, diverse and poorly studied group of disease-causing organisms that severely …
MIT Technology Review
Colossal Biosciences is growing chickens in a 3D-printed artificial eggshell
The baby chicks were shifting and starting to pip - or trying to hatch. But not from an egg. Instead, these chickens were growing inside tra…
Animals
BBC News Science
Animal park welcomes four Sumatran tiger cubs
There are fewer than 400 of Sumatran tigers left in the wild, according to the park.
Phys.org Latest
Intrepid tails - fluke photos confirm humpback whales mount 14,000 km open ocean crossing to breeding grounds
An international team of scientists have documented, for the first time, humpback whales traveling between breeding grounds in eastern Austr…
