Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A rebuilt MRI antenna makes existing scanners see sharper; (2) Cincinnati community overshoots its goal to build a 14-home veterans village; (3) Matt Olson plays his 741st straight game to become the Braves' Iron Man; (4) A 1611 Brueghel painting recorded a bat behavior science confirmed only in 2025.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Europe's air is measurably cleaner than a decade ago; (2) 800 million people have gained electricity access since 2010; (3) Britain's Cerne Abbas Giant is being re-chalked; (4) 80+ volunteers restored eight Scranton seniors' homes in a day.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A silicon chip that writes DNA in water; (2) The ocean has been braking global drought for over a century; (3) AI predicted two new superconductors before they were made; (4) A British wildcard into his first Wimbledon semifinal.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Kelsey Pfendler — first American woman to row solo from California to Hawaii; (2) Dolly Parton musical sets Broadway opening — on her 81st birthday; (3) Montana Bar Fairies — gift cards instead of tickets for people who didn't drive drunk; (4) New walking shark species confirmed off Papua New Guinea.

A midweek bonus from The Morning Lift: “Saturn's rotation puzzle solved by JWST (Science/Planetary)” — one of our most-loved stories, re-read for you. Originally from our May 31 episode. Hear a new lift every morning at themorninglift.org.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Paris reopens the Seine to public swimming; (2) Lost Leonora Carrington painting "Villa Pilar" goes on public view; (3) Astronomers find DF9, a third dark-matter-free galaxy on a collision trail; (4) Duke-NUS identifies DEAF1, the gene "switch" behind exercise reversing muscle aging.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Perovskite-silicon solar cell hits a certified 34.82% efficiency; (2) Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens in London; (3) Tour de France 2026 opens with a Grand Départ in Barcelona; (4) Kākāpō have their biggest breeding season on record.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) A 22-year-old's 3D-printed dentures; (2) The marathon-running nun's food pantry; (3) Ann Patchett wins the Library of Congress Prize; (4) Low-inflammatory diet linked to lower dementia risk.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) FDA expands Casgevy gene therapy to children as young as two with sickle cell disease; (2) Anonymous "Dutch School" painting revealed as an early Rembrandt after a decade of restoration; (3) Jordan's Aqaba Marine Reserve recommended for UNESCO World Heritage — a heat-resilient coral refuge; (4) Finnish qualifier Otto Virtanen upsets fourth seed Ben Shelton at Wimbledon.

Four positive stories to start your morning: (1) Robots fight strawberry-farm pests with UV light instead of pesticides; (2) First synthetic cell to complete a full life cycle — "SpudCell"; (3) Magnetic ripples ("magnons") made to last ~100× longer — toward penny-size quantum computers; (4) Dubuque free community meal returns after six years dark.