Five Things Going Right

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Washington University in St. Louis researchers report a plant-derived lignin-and-fatty-acid coating (SLIP); UCSF scientists report an engineered immune cell therapy completely eliminated an aggressive childhood brain; New South Wales has legislated the 478,000-he...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Arizona State University researchers report a water-treatment system that destroyed more than 90% of each of; Russian and Ukrainian officials coordinated a humanitarian escort corridor that evacuated over 750 Ukrainian; Governor Gavin Newsom signed a California b...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: A single psilocybin dose produced rapid improvement in depression symptoms in a small Swedish clinical trial; The Atlanta-based Star-C Program's Eviction Relief Fund, launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, has raised; A B-vitamin derivative showed "encouraging" r...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Cells across the body retain a memory of past training that lasts longer than previously thought, though the; Six Irrawaddy dolphin calves were confirmed born in Cambodia this year, raising the population of one of the; The American Exchange Project runs an inter...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: A device designed by Princeton alumni, which mimics water-shedding plants to attract and remove microplastics; Residents across Republican, Democratic, and Independent lines are jointly opposing AI data center; A CSIRO-led team estimated that up to 2.8 million ba...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Osaka Metropolitan University researchers report, in Macromolecules, a technique that uses Laplace pressure; Researchers at the University of Bonn reprogrammed cells from an 80-year-old donor to a molecular age below 20; A JAMA research letter by Brown, VCU, and...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine made from each patient's own tumor, given with pembrolizumab, reduced the; An AI system called REDMOD identified early warning signs of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma an average of; Six calves were born in the most recent calv...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: The 2026 London Register of Subsurface CO₂ Storage annual report, led by Imperial College London, found that; More than 300 California condors have been restored to their natural environment after decades of captive; Ebro Ahmed, a 27-year-old worker in St. Paul,...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Congress passed, and President Trump signed, a law redesignating the 12,000-acre (4,860-hectare) Chiricahua; Indonesian authorities have paused, and possibly ended, a project described as the world's largest; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County) nurses won what is descr...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Aquaculture could help bolster food security by complementing wild fish, which are an affordable source of; In a full-scale flume experiment with waves up to 2 m, salt marsh seabed dropped only about 7 mm after 21; A JAMA Pediatrics study led by Tulane's Evan Kru...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Evidence-based methods to reduce campus sexual assault exist, but it is uncertain whether more colleges will; Jersey's new regulations, set to take effect September 1, will protect 21.7% of its territorial waters from; Mozambique's government published a decree o...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: An experimental drug targeting three metabolic pathways improved blood sugar control and produced weight loss; Severely bleached corals fully recovered within seven weeks of contact with healthy, genetically identical; Scientists reportedly revived bleached, dyin...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Researchers at the University of Kent report that including wildlife-supporting areas recorded in national; Satellite observations show some Antarctic ice cliffs stabilizing after unexpectedly rapid collapse; Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel were...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Additional NASA engineering analysis confirmed that the Orion heat shield performed as expected on Artemis; Fossils from Zimbabwe's beds point to a newly named dinosaur, Musango, that represents a distinct prehistoric; Researchers at the University of Massachuset...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: US homicide rates fell sharply, and the Council on Criminal Justice's survey of nearly 50 crime scholars; Floating PVC-and-mesh shades over 20 brain coral colonies in the lower Florida Keys in August 2024 helped the; Unplastify, a Latin American social enterprise...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Blocking an immune attack in Alzheimer's-model mice preserved more brain tissue and improved memory-test; About 11,000 of the world's heaviest insect have been released into the wild, and the species is now breeding; In an 80-week trial, the investigational weekl...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: A low-calorie diet and exercise program helped over half of participants with early-onset type 2 diabetes; Two new trials found that the experimental drug aficamten improved exercise capacity and self-reported health; On Saturday, September 22, solar and wind met...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: An experimental treatment combining gene therapy with specialized goggles helped some people with advanced; A BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine study found that adults who first did four weeks of isometric exercise; A University of Sydney review of more than...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: A randomized trial across four African countries found that adolescents with HIV were more likely to keep the; The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology was awarded for optogenetics, a technique for controlling the brain with; Demining teams have cleared just over 14,00...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Women across Africa are leading a grassroots movement to put local communities at the heart of elephant; One year after NYC launched congestion pricing, fine particulate pollution in Manhattan's congestion relief; Researchers developed a polystyrene containing 50...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: An orphaned eastern lowland gorilla was successfully rewilded and gave birth on May 21st in Virunga National; Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust launched the Silent Hospital Pilot Project in 2023, a three-year study to; Researchers at Oregon State University deve...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: U.S. prison admission rates are predicted to fall an additional 50% within the next two decades, driven by; A 30-year forest experiment in Australia found that heavily thinned mountain ash forests grew unusually large; A study of 52 women and their young children...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: A drug directly activating a cellular energy sensor extended lifespan by more than 25% in three different; Plant Armor textile covering boosted strawberry yields by as much as 3.56 times in tunnel field tests; Chinese engineers achieved nuclear fusion using hydro...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: A wildlife overpass on I-25 in Colorado cut vehicle collisions by 91 percent in nine months after opening in; Microorganisms can be used to alter amino acid composition of plant-based foods, enriching them with; UC Santa Cruz researchers developed a method using...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Indigenous Asháninka communities in Peru reduced wildfires from 25 in 2023 to 9 in 2024 (81% reduction); Depaul USA opened Denver's first student housing for homeless college students, a residence that will house; A textile fabric called Plant Armor increased str...