Five Things Going Right

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Ethiopian farmers are slashing growing costs, increasing food production, and cutting emissions by switching; Niger restored 5 million hectares of degraded savanna through Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR); Carefully planned rewilding that restores funct...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Smoking and vaping rates among U.S. youth ages 11-18 reached historic lows in 2025, with e-cigarette use; Nearly 1 in 5 beginning teachers in North Carolina previously worked as teaching assistants, and these former; An abandoned farm field in Norfolk doubled its...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: A mobile library bus in Syria is bringing books, puppets, and art workshops to children in camps and rural; Natural forest regeneration can be up to 96% cheaper than traditional tree-planting while delivering; An experimental mRNA modification (ac4C) allows ribos...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: A shigellosis vaccine candidate (WRSs2) showed 89% efficacy against Shigella sonnei in a trial published in; An international research team led by IPK Leibniz Institute published a high-quality reference genome; A new model simulates how solar panels can cool cro...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Coral Catch, a nonprofit in Indonesia, is training women in diving and coral conservation skills while; A growing number of music festivals are implementing land restoration and environmental change programs that; Researchers at Yale identified lacosamide, an FDA...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Researchers have developed an experimental compound that attacks cancer cells by exploiting their sugar; Cleared tropical rainforests recover 90 percent of their species diversity within a single human generation; Médecins Solidaires is sending traveling doctors...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Researchers restored two hours of sleep in Alzheimer's brains in a research breakthrough; Creek restoration in California resulted in young salmon growing twice as fast and doubling their survival; A brief 15-minute firearm safety intervention more than doubled w...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: The East Kolkata Wetlands recycle approximately 900 million liters of Kolkata's wastewater daily through; A study of 204,907 adults across 22 countries found that fulfilling friendships and close social; A Bournemouth University study of 54 years of osprey data i...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: The Great Barrier Reef experienced six mass bleaching events between 2016 and 2025, and a monsoon earlier; Sport in Mind has supported more than 60,000 people since its founding in 2010; University of Hong Kong researchers created a corrosion-resistant stainless...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Pangenome-guided breeding of Tartary buckwheat successfully combined stress tolerance and higher yields by; Researchers at University at Buffalo developed an early warning system using publicly available data and; Legal reforms on same-sex relationships in Asia (...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: The FDA approved Moderna's mFlusiva, the first mRNA flu vaccine in the US, for adults 50+, and it; Solar eclipsed all other electricity sources in Utah for the first time in May 2026, generating nearly 1; CJ Biomaterials has developed sugar-based bioplastic pelle...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Anti-amyloid treatment removed most amyloid plaques in some brain regions and reduced neurodegeneration; Researchers at Kyoto University used orbital changes from approximately 1,200 Starlink satellites to map; Researchers at IMDEA Materials Institute developed a...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: The European Transplant Games in Arnhem, Netherlands in June 2026 brought together 600 organ and stem cell; Researchers at UC Santa Cruz used paleogenomics on 160 ancient and modern bison genomes spanning 20,000 years; A pilot trial found that the social robot Pe...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: The U.S. is experiencing a second historic 'Great Crime Decline' with homicide rates now at or near the; An injectable biomaterial restored near-normal movement in mouse brains after stroke by converting brain; New HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths are at th...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Today's children could be the first generation since the 1970s to earn more than their parents, driven by; Wildlife sniffer dog squads deployed across 22 Indian states assist forest departments in detecting poaching; A cat-training program with 36 children ages 8...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Experimental eye drops restore sight in blind mice by mimicking photoreceptor cell function; India connected 124 million additional rural households to tap water between August 2019 and July 2026; Rice husk biochar composite material captured toxic dyes in labora...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Amber 1800 K LEDs reduce insect attraction by 39-51% compared to high-pressure sodium and cool-white LEDs; The Pimentel Barbosa Indigenous Territory (329,000 hectares) has maintained ecological stability and; Researchers demonstrated quantum entanglement over 24...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: A two-year treatment targeting SCN2A-related epilepsy mutations reduced seizures and enabled a teenager to; Global hunger fell below 8% of the population for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, continuing a; Mark Scotch donated a kidney to a stranger in l...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: A Vermont research team achieved disease control in 67% of mesothelioma patients by targeting cancer's energy; Leopard numbers are rebounding in western Zambia following a switch from real leopard skins to synthetic furs; Paris is unearthing the Bièvre, a 36-kilo...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Prescribed burns in the previous 10 years made giant sequoias nearly four times more likely to survive recent; Europe's air quality improved over 10 years with emissions from major pollutants declining 39-59%; A medically formulated THC and CBD treatment signific...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Materials surrounding a fusion reaction can dramatically increase how often it occurs, particularly at low; Natural sights and sounds are associated with significant positive mental health effects compared to urban; A new test detects Rocky Mountain spotted fever...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: A paralyzed man regained hand and arm control through double neural bypass surgery connecting his brain to; Mexico's 6-year drought may end by October 2024 due to wetter-than-normal El Niño rains; A brush test called qMIDS achieved 95.5% accuracy in diagnosing or...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Beijing has improved from one of the world's most polluted cities to 589th globally in air pollution ranking; UC Riverside researchers developed ruthenium nanoparticles that can convert captured perchlorate into; Sand tiger sharks (Carcharias taurus) complete the...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Swiss architect Barbara Buser's K.118 project used 70% reclaimed materials and cut embodied carbon emissions; A cobalt aluminum nanolaminate has been developed that is up to 10 times stronger than structural steel while; QUT researchers achieved record thermoelec...

Five real advances in science, medicine, technology, and the environment, each verified against the original reporting. In this episode: Sagarmatha National Park was established in Nepal 50 years ago today (July 19) as the country's first; Harvard scientists built a silicon chip that writes DNA using electricity and water; An experimental drug repaired gut damage and reversed severe fatty liver di...