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Half-blind, 12-yo Dog Fights off Hungry Bear to Protect Family and Pets in New Mexico: “She’s our little savior ’

Hedgehogs Could Avoid Extinction by Silent Ultrasound Installed on Cars to Prevent Roadkill

Someone Used This Coin as Bus Fare and Worker Discovers it was Minted by the Phoenicians 2,000 Years Ago

Satellites Can Help Predict Bridge Collapses by Spotting Tiny Changes, Thanks to Scientist’s Solution

Pink noise for sleep: what it is and whether it actually helps you rest
Fossil Remains of ‘Weird’ Creature with Twisted jaw and Sideways Teeth Discovered
Researchers Train Bacteria to Consume Tumors from the Inside Out

Scientists Discover Lab Gloves Are Skewing Microplastics Data – Perhaps By A Lot

China’s Great Green Wall turns Taklamakan desert into a growing carbon sink
Stanford Cures Type-1 Diabetes in Mice Without Insulin or Immune Suppression

Native Americans Were Making Dice and Gaming Thousands of Years Before Anyone Else

Good News in History, April 3
Overcoming 3D-Printer Challenges, MIT Produces an Electric Motor in Just 3 Hours

Teen Finds 6-Inch Megalodon Tooth Millions of Years Old While Diving for Fossils on Florida Coast
Lead Pollution Has Dropped 100-Fold in the U.S. Over the Last Century
Good News in History, February 7

Yangtze River sees major ecological recovery after China’s fishing ban
90 Million Year-old ‘Missing Link’ Fossil of Tiny Bird-like Dinosaur Discovered

Banana Breakthrough: Scientists Discover Key to Fighting Devastating Crop Disease
Planting Billions of Trees Turned Barren Desert into a Carbon Sink That Lowers CO2
Rare Fossils in Amber Raise Questions About Secret Lives of Cretaceous Insects

Lost Page from Archimedes Manuscript Found in Museum with Hidden Text Beneath Illustration
Astronomers Say They Have Solved One of Saturn’s Greatest Mysteries
Transcendental Meditation Found to Calm Genes Associated with Both Aging and Stress
Whiskers on Elephant’s Trunk Are Key to its Amazing Sense of Touch

Wag-atha Christie Dog May Have Resolved Victorian Murder Digging Up Poison Bottle From 160 Years Ago
Good News in History, February 6

Watch 78-Year-old Lady Jump From Rock Cliff on 300-foot Rope Swing in Utah, ‘What a Legend!’

New Drug Could Change Lives of Kids with Resistant Epilepsy, Patient Trials Concluded

Seniors Who Eat More Meat Are Less Likely to Develop Dementia Study Find

Diver Finds Crusader Sword in the Same Place He Found a Crusader Sword 5 Years Ago

Multiple Types of Plastic Are Turned into Vinegar Using Sunlight-Powered Process Without Emissions
The Tiger Population Doubled in India in Just Ten Years

43-year-long Study Found Coffee Was Associated with 18% Lower Risk of Dementia

Significant Heart Disease Risk Can Be Detected from Routine Mammograms Using AI – Up to 70% Greater

Gene from High Altitude Yak Protected and Repaired Myelin Sheath in Early MS Study

3 New Lizard Species Discovered in Australia–Including Stunning Orange-Headed Rock Monitor
Good News in History, March 7
First-of-its-kind study reveals a potential 'seventh sense' in humans: Remote touch

Waste Plastic Turned into Parkinson’s Drug Thanks to Helpful Bacteria

Rare Species of Pink ‘Fairy Club’ Fungus Discovered in UK for First Time

Message in a Bottle Discovery on Tasmanian Beach Leads to 25-year Intercontinental Friendship

Young ‘Sun’ Caught Blowing Bubbles by NASA’s Chandra
A ‘Planet Parade’ is Now in Alignment for Viewing Our Solar System This Week
Giant Seed Vault Freezes Beneath Atacama Desert, Preserving Chile’s Floral Diversity For the Ages
A Passing ‘Angel’ Rescues Woman 8-Months Pregnant from Her Sinking Car
The TikToker Who Changed a Veteran’s Life
NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars
By Collecting Whale Breath, Researchers Detected a Deadly Virus in the Arctic for the First Time
All Nine of Jan van Eyck's Surviving Portraits Are Coming Together for the Very First Time in History
A Cow Named Veronika Can Scratch Her Back With a Broom. Watch the Video That Scientists Are Calling the First Documented Evidence of Cattle Using Tools
Wild Chimpanzees Love to Eat Boozy Fruit. Scientists Say the Proof Is in Their Pee
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