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Science

Nokia and NASA Team Up to Bring 4G to the Moon and Our Astronauts
Oct 6 · Good News Network
Speed friending: one cafe’s answer to America’s growing friendship recession
Mar 31 · The Optimist Daily
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)
That’s it for Science. Keep scrolling for more good news from the full archive.

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Dec 28 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
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Dec 21 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
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Dec 14 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
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Dec 9 · CNN Heroes (Press Room RSS)
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Dec 7 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
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Dec 3 · CNN Heroes (Press Room RSS)
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Dec 2 · CNN Heroes (Press Room RSS)
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Nov 30 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
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Nov 23 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
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Nov 16 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
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Oct 30 · CNN Heroes (Press Room RSS)
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Oct 30 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
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Oct 12 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
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Oct 5 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
A New View of Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’
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Jul 20 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
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Jun 15 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
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May 25 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
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May 18 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
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May 4 · CNN 5 Good Things (Podcast RSS)
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Dec 11 · CNN Heroes (Press Room RSS)
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