Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) FDA approves the first cholesterol pill as powerful as the injections; (2) Sharmila Dhankar wins India's first-ever Commonwealth para-athletics gold at 40; (3) Physicists build an "electron lighthouse" — steering current through a chip with light, no electric field — Science/Physics; (4) Santa Monica's unsheltered homelessness falls 18.7% in a year.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Hollywood's Cinerama Dome will be restored and reopened after going dark in 2020; (2) Sharmila Dhankar wins India's first-ever Commonwealth Games gold in para athletics; (3) A wild Houston toad is confirmed for the first time in over 50 years after a reintroduction effort; (4) NASA details a dual-lander docking rehearsal for Artemis III, its dress rehearsal for returning to the Moon.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Amazon deforestation falls to a 10-year low in the first half of 2026; (2) Tetanus-diphtheria vaccine clears first human trial in a fridge-free form; (3) Jingdezhen porcelain sites named a UNESCO World Heritage site; (4) FDA approves gedatolisib, a first-in-class drug for advanced breast cancer.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Eighteen sealed tombs opened at Egypt's Marina El Alamein; (2) A pill that prevents COVID after exposure wins approval; (3) WNBA All-Star Game draws its largest-ever crowd; (4) AI uncovers a "natural Ozempic" the body already makes.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Lisbon's Gulbenkian Museum reopens after a top-to-bottom renovation; (2) Researchers solve why lithium dendrites crack solid-state batteries; (3) Kansas City nonprofit converts a shuttered motel into 45 transitional homes; (4) All 56 patients in a fully-implanted cochlear implant trial pass the three-month milestone.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Glasgow saves the Commonwealth Games by making them smaller; (2) A photonic chip that slows light on demand, replacing racks of fixed hardware; (3) Global mangrove forests are no longer in net decline; (4) Scientists revive vancomycin against a resistant superbug.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A defeated antibiotic kills again once a molecule strips the bacteria's defenses; (2) Mexico is climbing out of a six-year drought as a record-wet season refills its reservoirs; (3) Josh Kerr calls his shot and breaks a mile world record that stood for 27 years; (4) A 14-year-old on a bike stops to rescue a woman with dementia in 103-degree heat.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A laptop solved a problem said to need a quantum computer; (2) India's rooftop solar more than doubled in the first half of 2026; (3) UK to turn public libraries into free recording studios; (4) Vermont micro-grants pay neighbors to throw block parties.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A biotech startup bred a blight-tolerant American chestnut without genetic engineering; (2) Norway is blasting the world's longest undersea road tunnel; (3) A UK trial restricting teen social media improved sleep, mood and concentration across every group; (4) Tom McKievick finished 50 years at one job without ever using a sick day.

A midweek bonus from The Morning Lift: “AI tool confirms 118 new exoplanets hidden in NASA's TESS data” — one of our most-loved stories, re-read for you. Originally from our May 23 episode. Hear a new lift every morning at themorninglift.org.