Not All News is Bad!

The New Carlisle mobile route passed out about 150 food boxes last Wednesday.

Source: Nearly 20% of US kids don’t have access to meals during the summer, so this mobile gives them out for free

Nice. Similar programs exist in many places.

Drawing together evidence from laboratory research, clinical trials and real-world studies, the review also highlights the technology’s potential beyond COVID-19.

Source: mRNA vaccines safe and effective, confirms Lancet review

Yup. Amazing stuff, at that.

The UK is funding a closed-loop battery anode recycling project, a move that could support cleaner electric transport by reusing more battery materials and reducing reliance on fresh extraction.

Source: UK Backs Battery Recycling Project As Electric Travel Gets A Little Less Resource Hungry

Good to see this happening.

A Canadian burn team used exosome therapy on a burn patient for the first time in the world, helping a student heal without skin grafts.

Source: Exosome therapy heals burn patient’s face in world first | The Optimist Daily

How cool.

The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, have previously demonstrated that a solar-powered reactor can convert plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel and valuable industrial chemicals, but only at laboratory scale. Now, they have shown a clear path for converting this technology to a commercial scale, in outdoor, real-world conditions.

Source: Scientists demonstrate solar-powered plastic recycling at real-world scale

Promising.

Undoubtedly more of these scrolls will be decoded as the years progress and the yet-young methods of their decoding are refined further.

Source: Yet More Scrolls Burned by Vesuvius Are Decoded by AI–Revealing Insights by Unknown Stoic Philosopher

This is just so cool. I’ve posted related before here and here.

Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office.

Source: Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump

Awesome.

At 104 years old, Doris Hill of Baltimore has a simple message about aging: don’t let a number define you.

Source: At 104, a Baltimore centenarian shares the mindset she credits for a joyful life

Inspiring.

She finished in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. The American is also the youngest woman to row the route solo.

Source: Kelsey Pfendler becomes fastest person of any gender to row solo from California to Hawaii

I followed the updates as she made her way. Truly amazing.

A Stanford study found that blocking 15-PGDH, a protein that doubles in aging joints, regenerates cartilage and prevents post-injury arthritis.

Source: How blocking one protein regenerates knee cartilage in aging mice and human tissue | The Optimist Daily

Promising.