- The suicide rate in Japan has fallen by 20%, the biggest drop in five years. People spending more time at home with their families, fewer people were commuting to work and delays to the start of the school year are seen as factors in the fall. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/japan-suicides-fall-sharply-as-covid-19-lockdown-causes-shift-in-stress-factors
- Oxford COVID-19 vaccine shows effective results in animal trials. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/oxford-vaccine-candidate-shows-promise-small-study-monkeys-n1206926
- U.S. Approves Plan to Build the Nation’s Largest Solar Project in the Desert by 2022. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/us-government-approves-gemini-project/
- A team of virologists from Frankfurt University have managed to inhibit the growth and behavior of SARS-CoV-2 in a controlled human cell culture, using already approved drugs, and are now moving to clinical testing. https://mondestuff.com/til/virologists-figure-out-ways-to-stop-sars-cov-2-from-replicating-itself-inside-the-host-cell/
- A team of 20 students in the US have linked farmers with food banks to save tens of thousands of kilograms of food from being wasted. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/these-students-are-sending-thousands-of-pounds-of-food-waste-to-food-banks/ar-BB13VEH2
