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Mom breaks down in tears after another parent called her about her daughter’s lunch

Teacher explains how ’90s kids never had water bottles in school and ‘somehow’ survived

Surprise Audio Played at Wedding Shocks Everyone When Bride Accurately Predicts Husband’s Name as a 4-Year-old

Crow Takes to Teaching a Starving Orphan Bird How to Eat (Watch)

The ‘Buy Nothing Rebellion’ is growing as more people opt out of modern consumerism

Giant Gorilla Maze Celebrates Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday

Voice Changes Measured by Phone Can Predict Asthma Flare-Ups 3 Days in Advance

50 emotions that don’t exist in the English language, but we all have experienced

More movement, more energy burned: new study challenges metabolism myth

Good News in History, July 1

Northwest Earth and Space Science Pathways Project Celebrates Student Innovation Through ROADS from Earth to Venus National Challenge
Feeding the soul: Teaching the food truck business

Ontario teen says he’ll live in ‘modular home’ invention for a year to prove it can end homelessness

High Tech Jacket Prototype Pulls Drinking Water From Thin Air – Up to 1.5 Pints Per Day

Hospital Opens Roof Garden Where Critical Care Patients Can Enjoy the Outdoors for Hours With Full Care

Frugal people share 20 smart financial decisions that saved them $10,000 or more

6 party ideas that actually make it easier to invite people over

From senior class to senior home: over 50 classmates from Austin High School now live together

Good News in History, June 24

Study Finds Many Older Adults Will Improve Over Time–Depending on Their Mindset

18-year-old took her college savings and bought the restaurant where she was a dishwasher

40 years after grade school, Gen X friends reunited. Their shared childhood crush was the only guy there.
A Golden-Ringed Jewel: Britain’s Longest Dragonfly Hitches Ride on Woman’s Thumb (LOOK and LEARN)

How the act of learning to read rewires the brain and changes the way you hear

A teacher helped a woman plant trees in the desert. She found him 27 years later.

Every December, a school in Ireland ditches homework and does ‘kindness’ assignments instead

B&Q Volunteers Transform Hampshire Centre Supporting Older People

NASA Testing Wastewater Treatment Facility for Future Moon Base

Florida teacher says she’s quitting her job because of school’s ‘course recovery’ shortcut

Help for a desperate mom who couldn’t find size 23 shoes for her teenage son

6-Year-old Finds Ancient Viking Sword on School Field Trip, Buried for 1,300 Years

What Is Pi? (Grades 5-8)

NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York

New Solar Method Turns Ocean Into Drinking Water, While Extracting Valuable Lithium Without Waste

Therapy Donkeys Prove Such a Balm of Calm to Psychiatric Hospital That Organizers Look to Expand

Good News in History, June 11

Mouse with Severed Spinal Cord Recovers ‘Normal’ Movement After Potentially Revolutionary Treatment

'Adults' are honestly confused by these 15 strange things the younger generations do

People rally behind an older woman who refused to train her 25-year-old replacement

Struggle Sleeping? These 3 Sleep Habits Are Tied to Signs of Brain Aging, Study Finds

Woman gets shamed at CVS for 'son's' unusual name. The reality has people rolling.
27 English words people have a hard time enunciating properly, even native speakers

Boyfriend shows up with flowers after being ‘ignored.’ When the door opened, his heart stopped.

Teachers share the tell-tale signs they know a parent truly cares about their kid

Astronomy Activation Ambassadors: Embracing Multiple Perspectives

No Vaccine No Problem: Papua New Guinea Malaria Deaths Fall by 92%

A fun personality test determines 'how you love' based on your animal archetype

How Japanese Fish Printing Grew from Documenting Day’s Catch to Acclaimed Artform

Britain’s First Furniture Orchard Grows Chairs Right on the Trees (WATCH)
Fourth grade teacher beautifully explains what grief is to her students using a vase

Welcome to the Gas Giant Planet Where Clouds Turn to Stone

Bruce Springsteen Celebrates His New Center for American Music Opening Soon with All-Star Concert for the Ages

A New York Cemetery Was Hiding Over 5 Million Burrowing Bees, One of the World’s Largest Concentrations
Happiness researcher explains how making a 'reverse bucket list' can change your life

Girl Scouts Event Brings Space Science to the Next Generation
Americans share 31 awesome things that can only be found here in the States

Helping Children Laugh Can Make Their Brains More Resilient and Learning Easier

Mom shares controversial take on why she limited her kids' college major choices

For NASA’s TESS, Stellar Eclipses Shed Light on Possible New Worlds
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Police Deputy Praised After ‘Run-of-the-Mill’ Call Turns into Emergency Baby Delivery

Britain’s Largest Iron Age Hoard on Display for the First Time Includes Evidence of First 4-Horse Carriage

Phone Case Brand Designs Autonomous Floating Plastic Collection Platform to Combat Ocean Waste
US-French Satellite Takes Stock of World’s River Water

26 words that have gone nearly 'extinct' in the English language

Louvre Announces Mona Lisa Will Have Her Own Building in Major Redesign to Ease Tourist Scrum

Man Gathers Up Family Acres- Home to Moose and Mountain Lion– and Returns Them to Indian Tribe

I Am Artemis: Tim Goddard

A Sacramento ‘food desert’ is getting a transformative, first-of-its-kind public market

The research behind why your favorite songs make you push your workout harder

Growing Coffee in the World’s Densest City: Hong Kong Roastery Hails Beans That Aren’t Imported

With Each Free Clean, Window Washer Influencer Spotlights Great, Struggling Restaurants in Kansas City

Good News in History, May 21

A Technical Resource for the Agency

NASA Invites Media to Discuss Next Steps for Artemis Campaign

Florida Man Spends Days Searching for Owner of Lost $30,000 He Found: ‘it wasn’t mine to take’

India’s New ‘Good Samaritan Laws’ Reward Any Citizen Who Stops to Help with Traffic Injuries

Prince William is Selling 20% of His Duchy Landholdings to Build Affordable Housing and Restore Nature

19 years after writing it, the Bee Gees finally performed ‘Grease’ for the first time ever
How embracing the 'Empty Boat Theory' can help you keep anger and anxiety in check

Free Ice Cream Gift for One Child Prompts Donations to Fund Free Sweets For Kids the Entire Summer

Instead of Arresting Indigenous Fishermen, Australia Begins to Pay Them to Control Sea Urchin Plague

Good News in History, May 20
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
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NASA’s New Shock Detectives Project Invites Volunteers to Help Study Solar Wind

Finance App Analyzes Your Jewelry and Puts it in a Digital Portfolio Where You can Track it Like a Stock
Scientists Discover Microscopic Traces of Leaves, Seeds and Toxic Berries on Pots Used by Stone Age Cooks Thousands of Years Ago

People share the '10 second decisions' that meaningfully improved their lives forever
Young people share their petty 'boomer' complaints, proving old folks can be right

Salt Water Restores Native Queensland Ecosystems After Dozens of Tidal Gates Removed

Passionate ‘Tortoise Guardians’ Help Critically-Endangered Giant Tortoise Slowly Return to India
Good News in History, May 19

Young woman surprises 87-year-old neighbor who lives alone by paying off his hearing aid bill

NASA’s Artemis II Mission Leaves Earth Orbit for Flight around Moon

Ancient Egyptian Crypt of 22 Singing Priests Unsealed for the First Time in Luxor

Good News in History, May 18

The Spark: Building Community One Meal at a Time

Webb Maps Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere

Small But Mighty Lab Device Could Transform NASA Research

6 alternatives to saying ‘let me know if you need anything’

Village’s Honored Oak with its Own Stone Wall Wins European Tree of the Year

Over 200 Volunteers Lead Largest-Ever Oyster Reef Restoration Off England’s Portsmouth

Students Work to Fundraise to Save Habitat Where They Watch Bald Eagle Chicks on Livestream

NASA Invites Media to Learn About Upcoming X-59 Test Flights

College Commencement Speaker Announces He’s Paying Off Final Year of Loans For Graduates, in Honor of Father

Jogger’s Call for Help Saves Critically-Endangered Penguin Found Face-Down on the Beach

Woman Crochets More Than 100 Baby Blankets to Thank Hospital That Saved Her Sight

Good News in History, May 17
Humans Might Struggle to Make Babies in Space. Sperm Gets Disoriented in Microgravity, a New Study Suggests

Hero British Cop ‘Saves Life’ of American Officer While on Holiday in Nashville

Celebrating 15 Years of Matching Disabled Youth with College Athletes–Over 4,500 Kids Discover the Power of Belonging
These Space-Faring Mice Are Helping Scientists Figure Out How to Keep Astronauts' Muscles Working Properly

Astronauts’ Perspectives on NESC Contributions to Mission Safety and Success

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18 Rescue Workers Toil for 6 Hours to Save Dog Trapped Underground (Watch Her Joyful Release)

Good News in History, May 16
Astronomers Discover a Rare Primitive Star That Provides a Chemical Snapshot of the Early Universe
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Reaching Top Speed in the Dolomites

Sampling DNA in Seawater Can Reveal the Health of Dolphin Populations, in First for Conservation

Artsy Types May Age Better: Music and Museums Act as Exercise, Slowing Age By 4% Says Study

Another Trawling Ban, Another Big Recovery for Sea Life

About Airspace Operations and Safety Program (AOSP)

Man's 'robot' dance moves are so smooth that people are convinced he's not real

3 Teens Win Earth Prize for Asia Inventing Tamarind Powder That Easily Removes Microplastics

Polish Influencer Raises $67 Million for Cancer Research During 9-day Livestream
Good News in History, May 15
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
Stonebreen’s Beating Heart

Extraordinary Breakthrough for Physics as Scientists Put Building-Size Magnet into the Palm of Your Hand

LAPD’s 90-year-old ‘Volunteer of the Year’ just happens to be Bruce Willis’ mom

Transforming girls’ education across the world takes a village.

What nobody mentions in the return-to-office debate: babies

Crew-12 Launches

With Mills Shuttered, Grassroots Effort Hopes to Give Welsh Valley New Purpose with Gorgeous 83-mile Hiking Trail

Iraq Embarks on Preservation Work for the Ziggurat of Ur Using Bricks of Identical Material to 5,000-yo Original

Senior Scholar Fulfills Life-long Dream to Graduate Medical School–a Doctor at 73-Years Young
GVIS Test Facilities Visualizations
Sunlight Extracts Oxygen From Regolith Using Solar Chemistry

Study Shows Littering Declined 34% Across America Since 2020

Good News in History, May 14

BELLS FINALLY RING OUT! 150-Year Wait Ends in Easter Celebration
Like an 'Eight-Ton Chicken,' Tyrannosaurus Rex May Have Run on Its Tiptoes to Catch Speedy Prey

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Launches to International Space Station
The Relaxation of Regularly Listening to Songs or Drawing Pictures May Actually Slow Cellular Aging, New Research Shows

Family of 7 takes in 82-year-old widower neighbor as their new ‘grandpa’

Butterfly That Went Extinct in Britain a Century Ago Set for Return to Famous Rewilded Estate Land

Australia is on track to eliminate a form of cancer entirely
A Football-Size Creature That Lived 307 Million Years Ago May Have Been One of the First Land Vertebrates to Eat Plants
