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Science

Does dark showering help you sleep better? Experts explain the viral bedtime trend
Feb 27 · The Optimist Daily
Pomegranates, Walnuts and Berries Could Unlock Heart Failure Treatment By Producing Urolithin A
Oct 4 · Good News Network
Rare 1-in-100M ‘Ghost Lobster’ Goes to School to Help Scientists Crack Genetic Mystery–in Time for Halloween
Oct 4 · Good News Network
AI Chatbots Will Never Replace Advice From Elders, Say Seven of 10 in New Poll
Oct 4 · Good News Network
Underwater Umbrellas Could Protect Coral Reefs From Heat Damage
Oct 3 · Good News Network
NASA’s MAVEN Makes 1st Discovery of Atmospheric Effect at Mars
May 18 · NASA (News Releases)
NASA to Unveil Complete Roman Telescope, Host Media Briefing
Mar 26 · NASA (News Releases)
A simple neuroscience brain trick to stay quiet instead of saying impulsive things you'll regret
Feb 13 · Upworthy
Hunter-Gatherers Don’t Have Trouble Sleeping: Why? and What Can We Learn from Them?
Oct 2 · Good News Network
NASA Model Wing Lights Up During First Pressure Sensitive Paint Tests
Oct 2 · NASA (News Releases)
She thought it was just a panic attack. But then remembering a 15-year-old Elizabeth Banks PSA saved her life.
Oct 1 · Upworthy
10 Things: Movie Night
Oct 2 · NASA (News Releases)
Chinese Commercial Reactor Achieves Nuclear Fusion with Clean Hydrogen-Boron Fuel
Oct 1 · Good News Network
Genetic Analysis All But Confirms the Most Unique of Humpback Populations Is Actually a Subspecies
Oct 1 · Good News Network
A guy went viral for tracking the taste of his own urine. Doctors used to do it all the time.
Feb 11 · Upworthy
New Gobi Desert Fossil Rewrites a Chapter of Mammal Evolution
Sep 30 · Good News Network
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the impossible concept of 'nothing' in less than one minute
Feb 11 · Upworthy
Arctic Winter Sea Ice Ties Record Low, NASA, NSIDC Scientists Find
Mar 26 · NASA (News Releases)
This Massive, Deep-Sea Roly Poly Can Go Years Without Food Thanks to a Huge Stomach and a Stolen Gene, Study Suggests
Sep 28 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
Satellite Images Reveal Greenland and Antarctica Have Lost More Than 12 Trillion Tons of Ice Over the Past 50 Years
Sep 28 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
NASA ORBIT Challenge 2027
Sep 28 · NASA (News Releases)
Meet the 'Fire Amoeba,' a Newfound Blobby Organism That's Defying Expectations About How Much Heat Complex Life Can Handle
Sep 28 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
Researchers Unearth a Clay Tablet Inscribed With the World’s Oldest Peace Treaty
Sep 28 · Good News Network
Newly Identified Frog-like Creature Named by Student Scientists After Their Moms
Sep 28 · Good News Network
CA Researchers Identify Odors That Repel Honeybees From Pesticides
Sep 27 · Good News Network
Archaeologists Risked Their Lives to Save 30,000 Treasures from ISIS Terrorists—New Study Shows How
Sep 27 · Good News Network
Web of undersea cables poised to become marine observatory
Feb 16 · Positive News
Cornell Students Aid NASA with Drone Safety in Sky
May 7 · NASA (News Releases)
Two Thousand Years Ago, Julius Caesar Conquered the Settlement That Eventually Became Paris. Archaeologists May Have Just Found It
Sep 25 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
Some Birdsongs Are More Pleasing to Human Ears Than Others. Higher-Pitched, Complex Calls Tend to Sound More Beautiful to Us
Sep 24 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
The tilcayo: new wildcat species discovered in Bolivia’s cloud forest
Sep 24 · The Optimist Daily
NASA Unveils Winning Designs for Mars Space Food Systems Challenge
Sep 24 · NASA (News Releases)
NASA’s Hubble Telescope Reaches Milestone, Looks for Elusive Supernova
Sep 23 · NASA (News Releases)
US-India Satellite Captures Time-lapse Video of Volcanic Eruption
Sep 24 · NASA (News Releases)
NASA to Study Human Health, Performance During Crew-13 Mission
Sep 24 · NASA (News Releases)
Bikes Outnumbered Cars on Scottish Rush Hour Route for the First Time Ever
Sep 23 · Good News Network
Long-Lost Gertrude Abercrombie Painting Bought by a Bargain Hunter for $30 Could Fetch $250,000
Sep 23 · Good News Network
NASA Modernizes Commercial Airline Systems
Sep 23 · NASA (News Releases)
An Otter Just Returned to New York City's Bronx River for the First Time in a Century. Now, You Can Help Name It
Sep 23 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
Scientists Pioneer Chemical Bath Method to Restore Aging EV Batteries Without Breaking Them Down
Sep 23 · Good News Network
Pomegranates and berries produce a gut metabolite that may improve IBD outcomes
Sep 23 · The Optimist Daily
Exceptional Detection Rates of Bladder Cancer Recorded in Study of Simple, Yet State-of-the-Art Test
Sep 22 · Good News Network
Mercury Has Wrinkles That Show It's Shrinking. Now, Scientists Say the Planet Has Shriveled Far More Than Previously Thought
Sep 22 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
Scientists Say the Human Brain Might Be Made of Two Distinct Nervous Systems That Got Squished Together
Sep 22 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
This Curious Bird Had Never Been Seen Before, and its Discovery Changed Ecuador–Perhaps Forever
Sep 22 · Good News Network
Brazil’s new law blames platform design for harming kids, not parents
Mar 26 · The Optimist Daily
How a Boat Full of Goats Saved an Island
Nov 8 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
New AI Model Can Detect Heart Disease Markers in Simple Electrocardiogram Readings–a Breakthrough
Sep 21 · Good News Network
NASA Discovery Reveals Complex Water Systems on Early Mars
Sep 21 · NASA (News Releases)
Ontario teen says he’ll live in ‘modular home’ invention for a year to prove it can end homelessness
Sep 21 · Upworthy
Cavemen Used Mammoth Tusk Patterns to Create Unique Art, Reveals New Research
Sep 21 · Good News Network
The high school student whose filter uses magnetic oil to trap microplastics
Mar 30 · The Optimist Daily
New study: Parks are good for the economy — even the tiny ones
Jan 23 · Good Good Good
Artemis Moon Tree Dedicated in Honor of Mary W. Jackson
Mar 25 · NASA (News Releases)
NASA Research Proposes Technology to Seek Earth-Like Exoplanets
Mar 24 · NASA (Technology)
Unsealed for the First Time, This 600-yo Tomb in Peru Was Just Declared the ‘Discovery of the Decade’
Sep 18 · Good News Network
New Cat Species Identified for the First Time in Over 100 Years–Meet the Tilcayo
Sep 18 · Good News Network
Liquid Lifeline: NASA Tech Could Create IV Fluid In Space
Apr 23 · NASA (Technology)
Researchers Have Analyzed the Roman Empire’s 190,000-Mile Network of Roads. Turns Out, Not All of Them Led to Rome
Sep 17 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
Students Win James Dyson Award for Device That Screens Students for Concussions in Just 60 Seconds
Sep 17 · Good News Network
That’s it for Science. Keep scrolling for more good news from the full archive.

More from the Archive

Scientist Discovers New Species of Wildflower That Only Grows in New Jersey
May 23 · Good News Network
Animal DNA Samples Can Pinpoint Hotspots of Illegal Wildlife Trade Routes
May 23 · Good News Network
UK startup turns festival urine into forest-grade fertilizer
Apr 14 · The Optimist Daily
Good Morning, Moon
Mar 13 · NASA (News Releases)
6th-grade teacher quits rather than remove harmless sign from her classroom
Mar 4 · Upworthy
AI Used to Pinpoint Whale Heat Signatures to Prevent Ship Collisions in San Francisco Bay
May 22 · Good News Network
Good News in History, May 22
May 22 · Good News Network
Richmond hospital’s 73-year-old ‘baby cuddler’ whispers these 6 words into every newborn’s ear
May 2 · Upworthy
Cat Rescued in Portsmouth Reunited After 4 Years Missing
Apr 13 · The Good News Post
NASA Wallops Supports First Rocket Lab HASTE Launch of 2026
Mar 5 · NASA (News Releases)
Police Deputy Praised After ‘Run-of-the-Mill’ Call Turns into Emergency Baby Delivery
May 22 · Good News Network
Britain’s Largest Iron Age Hoard on Display for the First Time Includes Evidence of First 4-Horse Carriage
May 22 · Good News Network
Phone Case Brand Designs Autonomous Floating Plastic Collection Platform to Combat Ocean Waste
May 22 · Good News Network
US-French Satellite Takes Stock of World’s River Water
Mar 4 · NASA (News Releases)
26 words that have gone nearly 'extinct' in the English language
Feb 19 · Upworthy
Louvre Announces Mona Lisa Will Have Her Own Building in Major Redesign to Ease Tourist Scrum
May 21 · Good News Network
Man Gathers Up Family Acres- Home to Moose and Mountain Lion– and Returns Them to Indian Tribe
May 21 · Good News Network
I Am Artemis: Tim Goddard
May 20 · NASA (News Releases)
A Sacramento ‘food desert’ is getting a transformative, first-of-its-kind public market
May 20 · Upworthy
The research behind why your favorite songs make you push your workout harder
May 19 · The Optimist Daily
Growing Coffee in the World’s Densest City: Hong Kong Roastery Hails Beans That Aren’t Imported
May 21 · Good News Network
With Each Free Clean, Window Washer Influencer Spotlights Great, Struggling Restaurants in Kansas City
May 21 · Good News Network
Good News in History, May 21
May 21 · Good News Network
A Technical Resource for the Agency
Mar 10 · NASA (News Releases)
NASA Invites Media to Discuss Next Steps for Artemis Campaign
Feb 26 · NASA (News Releases)
Florida Man Spends Days Searching for Owner of Lost $30,000 He Found: ‘it wasn’t mine to take’
May 20 · Good News Network
India’s New ‘Good Samaritan Laws’ Reward Any Citizen Who Stops to Help with Traffic Injuries
May 20 · Good News Network
Prince William is Selling 20% of His Duchy Landholdings to Build Affordable Housing and Restore Nature
May 19 · Good News Network
19 years after writing it, the Bee Gees finally performed ‘Grease’ for the first time ever
Apr 3 · Upworthy
How embracing the 'Empty Boat Theory' can help you keep anger and anxiety in check
Feb 8 · Upworthy
Free Ice Cream Gift for One Child Prompts Donations to Fund Free Sweets For Kids the Entire Summer
May 20 · Good News Network
Instead of Arresting Indigenous Fishermen, Australia Begins to Pay Them to Control Sea Urchin Plague
May 20 · Good News Network
Good News in History, May 20
May 20 · Good News Network
This Vincent van Gogh Painting Was Found Wrapped in an Ikea Bag and a Blood-Stained Pillow. Now, the Artwork Has Been Restored to Its Former Glory
Apr 10 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
Podcast Transcript April 11, 2026— (Guest Interview) Given Two Weeks, She Lived a Year: The Woman Who Built a Rescue for the Dogs Everyone Overlooks | National Pet Day 2026
Apr 10 · The Optimist Daily
NASA’s New Shock Detectives Project Invites Volunteers to Help Study Solar Wind
May 19 · NASA (News Releases)
Finance App Analyzes Your Jewelry and Puts it in a Digital Portfolio Where You can Track it Like a Stock
May 19 · Good News Network
Scientists Discover Microscopic Traces of Leaves, Seeds and Toxic Berries on Pots Used by Stone Age Cooks Thousands of Years Ago
Mar 13 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
People share the '10 second decisions' that meaningfully improved their lives forever
Feb 22 · Upworthy
Young people share their petty 'boomer' complaints, proving old folks can be right
Feb 12 · Upworthy
Salt Water Restores Native Queensland Ecosystems After Dozens of Tidal Gates Removed
May 19 · Good News Network
Passionate ‘Tortoise Guardians’ Help Critically-Endangered Giant Tortoise Slowly Return to India
May 19 · Good News Network
Good News in History, May 19
May 19 · Good News Network
Young woman surprises 87-year-old neighbor who lives alone by paying off his hearing aid bill
May 7 · Upworthy
NASA’s Artemis II Mission Leaves Earth Orbit for Flight around Moon
Apr 3 · NASA (News Releases)
Ancient Egyptian Crypt of 22 Singing Priests Unsealed for the First Time in Luxor
May 18 · Good News Network
Good News in History, May 18
May 18 · Good News Network
The Spark: Building Community One Meal at a Time
Apr 2 · Reasons to be Cheerful
Webb Maps Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere
Feb 24 · NASA (News Releases)
Small But Mighty Lab Device Could Transform NASA Research
Feb 19 · NASA (News Releases)
6 alternatives to saying ‘let me know if you need anything’
May 18 · Upworthy
Village’s Honored Oak with its Own Stone Wall Wins European Tree of the Year
May 18 · Good News Network
Over 200 Volunteers Lead Largest-Ever Oyster Reef Restoration Off England’s Portsmouth
May 18 · Good News Network
Students Work to Fundraise to Save Habitat Where They Watch Bald Eagle Chicks on Livestream
May 18 · Good News Network
NASA Invites Media to Learn About Upcoming X-59 Test Flights
Mar 16 · NASA (News Releases)
College Commencement Speaker Announces He’s Paying Off Final Year of Loans For Graduates, in Honor of Father
May 17 · Good News Network
Jogger’s Call for Help Saves Critically-Endangered Penguin Found Face-Down on the Beach
May 17 · Good News Network
Woman Crochets More Than 100 Baby Blankets to Thank Hospital That Saved Her Sight
May 17 · The Good News Post
Good News in History, May 17
May 17 · Good News Network
Humans Might Struggle to Make Babies in Space. Sperm Gets Disoriented in Microgravity, a New Study Suggests
Apr 1 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
Hero British Cop ‘Saves Life’ of American Officer While on Holiday in Nashville
May 17 · Good News Network
Celebrating 15 Years of Matching Disabled Youth with College Athletes–Over 4,500 Kids Discover the Power of Belonging
May 17 · Good News Network
These Space-Faring Mice Are Helping Scientists Figure Out How to Keep Astronauts' Muscles Working Properly
Mar 16 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
Astronauts’ Perspectives on NESC Contributions to Mission Safety and Success
Mar 13 · NASA (News Releases)
Weekends on the Space Station
Mar 6 · NASA (News Releases)
18 Rescue Workers Toil for 6 Hours to Save Dog Trapped Underground (Watch Her Joyful Release)
May 16 · Good News Network
Good News in History, May 16
May 16 · Good News Network
Astronomers Discover a Rare Primitive Star That Provides a Chemical Snapshot of the Early Universe
Mar 30 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
Landsat 9: More Than Just A Picture
Feb 26 · NASA (News Releases)
Reaching Top Speed in the Dolomites
Feb 12 · NASA (News Releases)
Sampling DNA in Seawater Can Reveal the Health of Dolphin Populations, in First for Conservation
May 16 · Good News Network
Artsy Types May Age Better: Music and Museums Act as Exercise, Slowing Age By 4% Says Study
May 16 · Good News Network
Another Trawling Ban, Another Big Recovery for Sea Life
May 15 · Good News Network
About Airspace Operations and Safety Program (AOSP)
Mar 5 · NASA (News Releases)
Man's 'robot' dance moves are so smooth that people are convinced he's not real
Feb 19 · Upworthy
3 Teens Win Earth Prize for Asia Inventing Tamarind Powder That Easily Removes Microplastics
May 15 · Good News Network
Polish Influencer Raises $67 Million for Cancer Research During 9-day Livestream
May 15 · Good News Network
Good News in History, May 15
May 15 · Good News Network
We Use Many of the Same Brain Cells to See and to Imagine Objects, a Study Suggests. The Findings Provide a New Window Into Memory
Apr 22 · Smithsonian Mag (Smart News)
Stonebreen’s Beating Heart
Feb 13 · NASA (News Releases)
Extraordinary Breakthrough for Physics as Scientists Put Building-Size Magnet into the Palm of Your Hand
May 15 · Good News Network
LAPD’s 90-year-old ‘Volunteer of the Year’ just happens to be Bruce Willis’ mom
Mar 30 · Upworthy
Transforming girls’ education across the world takes a village.
Mar 30 · Upworthy
What nobody mentions in the return-to-office debate: babies
Mar 27 · The Optimist Daily
Crew-12 Launches
Feb 13 · NASA (News Releases)
With Mills Shuttered, Grassroots Effort Hopes to Give Welsh Valley New Purpose with Gorgeous 83-mile Hiking Trail
May 14 · Good News Network
Iraq Embarks on Preservation Work for the Ziggurat of Ur Using Bricks of Identical Material to 5,000-yo Original
May 14 · Good News Network
Senior Scholar Fulfills Life-long Dream to Graduate Medical School–a Doctor at 73-Years Young
May 14 · Good News Network
GVIS Test Facilities Visualizations
Mar 13 · NASA (News Releases)
Sunlight Extracts Oxygen From Regolith Using Solar Chemistry
Feb 13 · NASA (News Releases)
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