Good News: Mysterious return of Darwin's notebooks and a new record for women's football

Welcome to the Good News round-up. Here's this week's pick of what's going well in the world:

The genome now covers every chromosome from end to end with no gaps, and unprecedented accuracy.

The breakthrough is so momentous that Professor Benedict Paten, biomolecular engineering associate director at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, said many people in the field didn't expect it to actually happen.

The development, called T2T-CHM13, was made possible by state-of-the-art technology and worked on by more than 100 scientists.

The first working draft of a human genome sequence was achieved back in 2000, and the research led to huge advances in our understanding of human biology and disease, even though crucial regions of the genome were still hidden from scientists.

"Now with this reference, we can begin to look more closely at the genome and see if there's new information that can guide new discoveries,” said Karen Miga, one of the lead researchers in the discovery and assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at the Genomics Institute.

Being able to see the entire sequence unlocks the potential for scientists to better understand the role of genetic variants in disease, allowing developments such as improved health screening, better identification of treatment options for cancer patients, more accurate early screening in pregnancy and better understanding of human genetic heritage.

The sequence was made publicly available when it was first discovered back in the year 2000, and the newly discovered full sequence is also freely available, allowing scientists around the world to keep pushing the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare.

A crowd of more than 91,000 broke the attendance record for a women’s club match