Not All News is Bad!

An engineering team at Stanford University have developed solar cells which can actually draw a little bit of power at night.

Source: Nocturnal solar panels: not an oxymoron | The Optimist Daily

Cool idea. (No pun intended.)

Sessions with virtual-reality headset helped people overcome anxiety and complete everyday tasks

Source: VR role-play therapy helps people with agoraphobia, finds study

Yes, it’s part of the over-hyped “metaverse”, but VR can have some very practical, real-world applications.

“Immediately I heard a voice inside my head saying, ‘pay for the groceries’, “Maria explained in her now viral Facebook post.

Source: Young H-E-B bagger displays act of kindness, pays for family’s groceries

I keep hearing good things about H-E-B.

A Tennessee woman who launched a message in a bottle into the ocean during a trip to Georgia said she received word more than two years later that it had been found in France.

Source: Message in a bottle travels from Georgia to France in just over 2 years

Cute. Cue Sting.

It can eliminate the need for finger prick tests and prevent life-threatening attacks, say experts.

Source: Artificial pancreas to revolutionise diabetes care in England

Very cool.

A Richmond animal shelter received more than 400 requests for snuggle sessions with seven Pyrenees puppies after offering the chance for folks to “forget about the worries of the world.”

Source: Richmond animal shelter gets 400+ requests for puppy snuggle sessions: ‘Kiss these love buckets’

How cool. Looks like complete fun.

Cortney Gensemer suffers from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Now, she may have discovered a gene responsible for it.

Source: Ph.D. student has rare disease. Her own research discovered a potential breakthrough.

Very cool.

“We’d both gone through some tough things in life,” Kelvin Simmons said about the dog he is training as part of a diversion program.

Source: They were facing jail time. Instead, they’re training shelter dogs.

Great idea.

A team of researchers are studying the possibility of using caffeine as a therapeutic treatment to alleviate some attentional based symptoms of ADHD.

Source: Could caffeine be used to treat ADHD? | The Optimist Daily

Behold the power of coffee.

The MIT spinout Frequency Therapeutics uses a new kind of druggable regenerative therapy that targets progenitor cells to create hair cells of the inner ear and reverse hearing loss.

Source: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

Pretty cool. I hope it pans out.