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Podcast Transcript May 22, 2026 - (Guest Interview) She calls herself a mermaid now: How Swim Sista Swim Is Changing Who Belongs in the Water
Episode Description: Stephanie McKenzie has been swimming since she was a child. She came to Swim Sista Swim as an instructor and, as you’ll…
Optimist Daily
Amsterdam strips meat and fossil fuel ads from its public spaces
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Since May 1, Amsterdam’s billboards and tram shelters no longer carry ads for burgers, petrol cars, or …
Optimist Daily
A bedtime alarm could be the only sleep habit you actually need
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM You know that moment when you look up from your phone, realize it’s well past midnight, and think, “not…
NASA Breaking News
Call for Creatives: NASA Seeks Help Illuminating Mission Storytelling
Credit: NASA As NASA pushes the boundaries of exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity, the agency is looking for partners to …
NASA Breaking News
NASA Sets Coverage for Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station
Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov is pictured at the end of the European robotic arm as he works on a high‑resolution camera during a six‑…
NASA Breaking News
Webb Studies Star Clusters
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Pedrini, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team This near-infrared image released on May 6, 2026, …
NASA Breaking News
Keeping NASA Flying: Ground Crews Ensure Aircraft Readiness
4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA crew chief Walt Kondracki checks an F-15 aircraft Tuesda…
NASA Breaking News
NASA to Compete Contract for Jet Propulsion Laboratory Management
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.Credit: NASA NASA announced plans Friday to compete the next contract for managing a…
NASA Breaking News
NASA Announces Realignment to Accelerate Mission Delivery
Credit: NASA Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated May 22, 2026 to include a retirement. NASA announced Friday an agencywide realignment …
NASA Breaking News
New Material Could Help NASA Melt Moon Rocks, Harness Lunar Resources
4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Researchers Dr. Kevin Yu, left, and Dr. Jamesa Stokes prepare…
NASA Breaking News
Hubble Captures Galaxy Cluster
Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers …
NASA Breaking News
Tornado Draws a Jagged Line in Mississippi
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Tornado Draws a Jagged Line in… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All …
ScienceDaily Top News
“Zombie cells” aren’t always bad and that could transform anti-aging medicine
Scientists are uncovering a surprising truth about aging cells: some may damage the body, while others help protect it. The discovery is fue…
ScienceDaily Top News
Ancient asteroid craters may have sparked Earth’s oxygen-producing life
A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discov…
ScienceDaily Top News
James Webb discovers a rare giant planet with surprisingly Earth-like temperatures
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a rare world unlike anything in our solar system - a giant planet about t…
Phys.org Latest
Just outside Jupiter, one region may have forged six meteorite parent bodies
When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust gradually clumped…
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Making biomolecules glow: New dye solves imaging interference problem
Biomolecules, also known as organic molecules, include sugars, proteins and lipids and are the building blocks of all life. They play a role…
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Nickelate reveals nodeless gap, providing key clue to high-temperature superconductivity
The mechanism of high-temperature (TC) superconductivity is a key challenge in condensed matter physics. Recently, Chinese scientists made s…
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Scientists discover thriving hard-substrate fauna in Oceania's deep sea
In the crushing darkness of the hadal zone - deep ocean trenches plunging 6,000 m to nearly 11,000 m - scientists have uncovered a hidden co…
Phys.org Latest
'Designer' superconducting diamond: Researchers uncover path to multi-modality quantum chips
Diamond is extremely valuable to science and technology not for its sparkle but for its extreme hardness, high thermal conductivity, transpa…
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South China Sea coral reefs reveal carbon stores rivaling mangroves and seagrasses
A collaborative research team has revealed the long-overlooked carbon storage potential of coral reef ecosystems and how reef-dwelling fish,…
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Rediscovering science: New knowledge hidden in old data
What if the knowledge that could fuel the next scientific breakthrough has simply been forgotten in an old graph or table? Valuable scientif…
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Key switch controlling soil fungi symbiosis could solve a longstanding agricultural problem
Over the course of evolution, plants have developed an elegant strategy to counteract a lack of phosphate in the soil - they form symbiotic …
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Sequential antibiotic strategy can weaken dangerous pathogens
A research team from Kiel University has demonstrated which specific cellular mechanisms lead to the targeted weakening of bacterial pathoge…
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Good News Network
AI Used to Pinpoint Whale Heat Signatures to Prevent Ship Collisions in San Francisco Bay
Scientists in California are using heat-sensing AI to save grey whales transiting through San Francisco Bay. More and more sightings of grey…
Good News Network
Police Deputy Praised After ‘Run-of-the-Mill’ Call Turns into Emergency Baby Delivery
A call about suspicious activity saw a California police officer race to save a newborn’s life. A woman was sitting between two bushes near …
Good News Network
Britain’s Largest Iron Age Hoard on Display for the First Time Includes Evidence of First 4-Horse Carriage
5 years after its discovery and 2 years after preservation, the largest collection of Iron age artifacts ever found in Britain is revealing …
Good News Network
Phone Case Brand Designs Autonomous Floating Plastic Collection Platform to Combat Ocean Waste
In a stunning act of corporate responsibility, one of the world’s largest makers of smartphone cases has designed and built a seaborne drone…
Good News Network
Good News in History, May 22
180 years ago today, the Associated Press organized in New York City as a nonprofit news cooperative to reduce the cost of covering the even…
Positive News
What went right this week: the good news that matters
Nice News
UK’s Oldest Candy Shop Has the Same Bestselling Sweets After Nearly 200 Years
This article was originally written by Charlie Fenton for SWNS - the U.K.’s largest independent news agency, providing globally relevant ori…
Nice News
Your Local Storm Forecast Is Likely Based on Weather Miles Away - Mesonets Can Help Bridge That Gap
This article was written by Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist and research program manager at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for The Conv…
Tech for Good
BBC News World
The space race to create gym equipment for future astronauts
Scientists are attempting to build exercise equipment to be used on future space flights.
BBC News Health
From decades to years - AI could speed search for brain drugs hiding in plain sight
Researchers hope the work will help identify affordable, effective drugs to treat conditions like MND.
Phys.org Latest
Novel porous gel changes color, shrinks and hardens when it detects target molecules
Researchers at Kyoto University and Tohoku University have developed a new porous polymer gel that selectively recognizes specific molecules…
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Student talent drives simpler method for programming artificial muscles in soft robots
An interdisciplinary student research team at the University of Waterloo has achieved an advance in materials science with the creation of a…
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AI makes a major breakthrough in a math problem that had stumped experts for decades
For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit dis…
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BBC News Science
Tropical house with thousands of butterflies opens
The new Sussex Butterfly Gardens will be home to thousands of butterflies for people to visit.
Phys.org Latest
Blue and fin whale sightings on the rise in the Southeast Atlantic
More than 40 years after the end of commercial whaling, new research reveals a recent increase in sightings of the world's two largest whale…
