Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Madhusmita Jena sets Guinness World Record for fastest marathon in a saree; (2) Girls' high school flag football grows 60% in one year, 17 states sanction; (3) Social prescribing rises during Mental Health Awareness Month; (4) Boosting Sox9 protein wakes brain's astrocytes to clear Alzheimer's plaques.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Cherie DeVaux becomes first female trainer to win the Kentucky Derby; (2) JAMA study links 988 crisis-line launch to ~11% drop in young-adult suicide deaths; (3) Malawian innovator wins ICT Award for AI eye-control system for motor disabilities; (4) Yangtze River fish biomass doubles after sweeping 2021 fishing ban.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Crabs' famous sideways walk traces to a single 200-million-year-old evolutionary moment (Science); (2) Soil microbe fuel cell powers underground sensors without batteries or solar (Innovation/Energy); (3) Two University of Melbourne engineering students recreate Sir William Hamilton's 1775 mechanical volcano (Culture/Science); (4) An Ohio woman bought the wrong lottery ticket by mistake — and won $1,852,212 (Community/Quirky).

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Detroit Pistons erase a 24-point deficit to force Game 7 against Orlando (Sports); (2) Over 100 ancient game boards carved into the ruins of Ptolemais (Culture/Arts/Archaeology); (3) FDA approves Otarmeni — first gene therapy for a form of inherited deafness, provided free of charge in the U.S. (Innovation/Health); (4) Ancient Maya communities traded live dogs across hundreds of miles, fed them human-quality food (Culture/Science).

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Sir Henry Raeburn's lost portrait of Robert Burns rediscovered after 200+ years (Culture/Arts); (2) Vaccine cyclists deliver HPV vaccines to remote villages in rural Zimbabwe (Community/Health); (3) McLaren Racing + Great Barrier Reef Foundation unveil "Machine One" — coral seeding goes industrial (Environment/Innovation); (4) CATL launches the world's first mass-production sodium-ion EV (Innovation/Energy).

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Six-year-old Saffie Sandford has her sight restored by NHS gene therapy (Health/Medicine); (2) World-first footage: a Sumatran orangutan crosses a canopy bridge in Indonesia (Environment/Conservation); (3) A 23-year-old Polish streamer raises over $68 million for kids with cancer in nine days (Community/Generosity); (4) DESI completes the largest, sharpest 3D map of the universe ever made (Science/Space).

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) The Paiter Surui Lead Conservation Lessons in the Amazon — WWF feature; (2) The "Call a Boomer" Payphone — Boston-to-Reno Line for Generational Loneliness; (3) Hamburg Undergrads Build a Cavity Detector and Set New Limits on Dark Matter; (4) A 100-Year-Old Problem in Organ Preservation Just Got Smaller.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Book Fairies + ThriftBooks deliver 25,000 books to NYC kids (Community); (2) Camera-trap photos turn up an unexpected refuge for endangered Asian tapirs in Thailand (Environment); (3) 132-million-year-old dinosaur tracks discovered on South Africa's coast — youngest ever in southern Africa (Culture / Discovery); (4) A 30-year, 100,000-person study finds variety in exercise — not just amount — extends life (Science/Health).

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) London Marathon: First sub-2-hour official marathon (Sports); (2) Lusatian Lakeland: Final coal-mine-turned-lake opens (Environment); (3) Iliad found inside Roman-era mummy at Oxyrhynchus (Culture/Archaeology); (4) Rock climbing as therapy for Parkinson's disease (Health/Innovation).

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) 6,500 volunteers build 10,000 beds in 24 hours for kids who don't have one — Charlotte, NC; (2) NASA's Curiosity rover finds the strongest chemical signature yet of an ancient Martian lake; (3) A 1,300-year-old maize god sculpture, found by surprise during a backyard dig in Tlaxcala; (4) The largest clean-energy project in U.S. history starts sending power — SunZia.