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People share the '10 second decisions' that meaningfully improved their lives forever

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

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

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

Celebrating 15 Years of Matching Disabled Youth with College Athletes–Over 4,500 Kids Discover the Power of Belonging

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

Transforming girls’ education across the world takes a village.

Senior Scholar Fulfills Life-long Dream to Graduate Medical School–a Doctor at 73-Years Young

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Homeless Man Helps Find and Return Stolen Dog’s Ashes, Receives Thousands to Get Back on His Feet

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Scientists Still Have So Much to Learn About Archaeopteryx, the Dinosaur That May Have Flown Like a Bird

Scientists Successfully Mine Meteorites for Precious Metals on International Space Station

Philadelphia Schools Now Guarantee Water and Bathroom Breaks and Daily Recess–With a Ban on Silent Lunches

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Preparing Home-Cooked Meals Once in a While May Reduce Dementia Risk in Seniors by 30%

Students Use Makeshift Stretcher to Rescue Injured Hiker, a Skill They Had Been Practicing

Papyrus Fragment of Homer’s Iliad Found in 1600–Year-old Mummy is First Time Literature is Discovered in a Burial

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Women DJs over 60 Take Stage at German Music Festival Rocking the Crowd, ‘It Was Fantastic’ (WATCH)

Not 1, Not 2, but 5 Students Jump into Lifesaving Action as School Bus Driver Loses Consciousness

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Success! Sumatran Orangutan Uses Rope Bridge to Cross Road for the First Time Connecting Habitats

‘Lightning in a Bottle’ Transforms Methane into High-Demand Methanol Through Breakthrough Process

Apes Show Ability to Imagine in ‘Tea Party’ Experiments, and Scientists are Very Excited

Scientists Discover How the Iconic ‘Twelve Apostles’ Rock Formations Were Created in Australia

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Researchers Develop Way to Get Natural Gas That’s Renewable Directly From Sewage

The Uplift: A power couple and a moving mentor

NASA Celebrates Decade of University Innovation in Aeronautics

First Ever Complete Skeletal Cast of 30-Foot Extinct Alligator–See it in Georgia

NASA’s Hubble Unexpectedly Catches Comet Breaking Up

Teacher’s Opera Karaoke Goes Viral and Lands Him Audition on Britain’s Got Talent (WATCH His Nessun Dorma)

Unlikely Prom King Is School Principal Who Disarmed an Active Shooter in the Lobby (WATCH)

Endangered Bird Was Losing its Song, So Captive Breeding Now Includes ‘Singing Lessons’ from Wild Males

Study Debunks Myth of Native Hawaiians Brutishly Causing Bird Extinctions

Meet the Oxford Library Cat Who’s Purr-fectly Content Being the Unofficial College Mascot

Hawaii University Hauls 84 Tons of Derelict Fishing Gear from Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch

Soaking in a Hot Tub Bestows Surprising Health Benefits, Even More Than Saunas, New Study Says

Chicago Turns All Public School IDs into Library Cards to Boost Student Access

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Researchers Turn Car Battery Acid and Plastic Waste into Clean Hydrogen and New Plastic

Tree They Planted as Teen Sweethearts Suddenly Had Baby Offshoot Growing After She Got Pregnant

19 Cities Including London, San Francisco, Hong Kong Achieve ‘Remarkable Reductions’ in Air Pollution

Toddler Loves Telling Stories, So Music-Teacher Dad Turns Them Into THE Catchiest Bops Ever (Listen)

Good News in History, April 12

8-year-old’s ‘Sweet Monsters’ Drawing Chosen as Winning Design to Decorate Real Train

College Freshman Brings a Nostalgic General Store Back to Olde Towne Community in Virginia

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

Researchers Train Bacteria to Consume Tumors from the Inside Out

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

If ‘Free Pianos’ Show Up in Your Feed, Don’t Be Duped: Industry Pioneers Warn Against Them

Stanford Cures Type-1 Diabetes in Mice Without Insulin or Immune Suppression

High Schoolers Build Unlikely Friendships With Seniors Through Chair Volleyball

Students Bring Annie to Life and Wow the Entire Community

Amazing Ukulele Effort Raises Over £10,000 for Charity

An Athlete with Terminal Cancer Tackles an Ironman

The Runner with the Streak to Beat at the NYC Marathon

Top 5 CNN Heroes to Be Honored at the 18th Annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute Hosted by Anderson Cooper and Laura Coates

Top 5 CNN Heroes of 2024

Mozart Dropped a New Single

A Big Baby Penguin with an Even Bigger Following

A New View of Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’

A Woman Bikes 700 Miles to Honor Her Late Brother’s Memory

MLB All-Star Joins Backyard Wiffle Ball Game

TikTok Says This Car Dealership’s Videos Are Emmy-Worthy

Why This Olympics Marks a Big Moment for Women’s Sports

All Aboard the Googly-Eyed Train

We Can Sip Wine Because the Dinosaurs Died

America’s Best Towns to Visit

Irish Kids’ Rap Song is ‘The Spark’ You Need

A Chicago Teen Earns a Doctorate Degree

Can Bacteria be the Future of Fashion?

Why We Should Be Buzzing About the Bees

What if we Could Speak to Whales?

The Island Where Goats Outnumber People

Hundreds of Couples Are Eloping During the Eclipse

A Happy Ending for a Furry Wedding Crasher

Dapper Day, ‘Assume I Can,’ March Meowness & more

Sailing into history, surprise wedding, luck of the Irish & more

Dr. Kwane Stewart Named 2023 CNN Hero of the Year

Edie Falco and Sterling K. Brown Join Star-Studded CNN Heroes Presenter Lineup

The West Faces Snow Drought

NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars

Goldstone’s DSS-15 Antenna and the Milky Way

A Winter Blanket Covers North Carolina

The Year's First Bright Supermoon and the Colorful Quadrantid Meteor Shower Coincide This Weekend

Hundreds of Mysterious Victorian-Era Shoes Are Washing Up on a Beach in Wales. Nobody Knows Where They Came From

U.S. Military Ends Practice of Shooting Live Animals to Train Medics to Treat Battlefield Wounds

New Fossil Analysis Suggests This Seven-Million-Year-Old Primate Walked on Two Legs, Potentially Making It the Oldest Known Human Ancestor

By Collecting Whale Breath, Researchers Detected a Deadly Virus in the Arctic for the First Time

Claude Monet Painted This Palace Overlooking Venice's Grand Canal. Now, the Legendary Mansion Is Officially for Sale

Meet the National Zoo’s Adorable 1-Month-Old Sloth Bear Cubs—the First Born There in More Than a Decade

Many Americans Will Soon Have Access to At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening Tests at No Cost

Man Arrested in Connection With Theft of Sword From Historic Joan of Arc Statue in Paris

Archaeologists Unearth Ancient War Trumpet That Once Struck Fear in the Hearts of Enemies on the Battlefield

See the Record-Breaking Bluefin Tuna the Size of a Grizzly Bear That Sold for $3.2 Million at a Tokyo Fish Market

Eating Large Amounts of Certain Preservatives Might Increase Your Risk of Developing Cancer and Type 2 Diabetes

This Mysterious Gas Cloud Spotted Around a Dead Star Is Beautiful—but Astronomers Say It Shouldn’t Be There

New Livestream Tour Takes Tourists Underneath Rome Into Never-Before-Seen ‘House of Griffins’

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

Oscar Wilde's Portraits, Poems, Letters and Manuscripts Head to Auction 125 Years After His Death

This Plant Produces Plump, Fake Berries to Trick Birds Into Spreading Its Offspring Far and Wide

Astronomers Discover a Mysterious Bar-Shaped Cloud of Iron Within the Iconic Ring Nebula

This Detachable Robotic Hand Can Scurry Around and Grasp Objects Just Like Thing From the Addams Family

See How These Wristwatches Reimagine Famous Masterpieces by Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Edgar Degas and Paul Klee

United Nations Declares That the World Has Entered an Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy'

Frida Kahlo's Image Is on Paintings, Posters, Socks and Sanitary Pads. How Did Fridamania Come to Dominate Popular Culture?

Why Do These Tudor-Era Portraits of Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I Look So Strikingly Similar?

See How Alex Honnold Climbed a Dizzying 1,667-Foot-Tall Skyscraper Without Ropes

You Can Buy This 438-Year-Old Mill in Wales That Inspired a Stunning J.M.W. Turner Painting

Beach Erosion Reveals Fragments of a 136-Year-Old Shipwreck That Sank in New Jersey's 'Graveyard of the Atlantic'

Dozens of Items That Once Belonged to Nelson Mandela Can Head to Auction, South African Court Rules

Dinosaur National Monument Construction Work Turns Up New Fossils, Leading to the First Excavation at One Site in More Than a Century

'Rising Star' of a Prominent Yellowstone Wolf Pack Was Illegally Killed, Sparking a Poaching Investigation

A New App Can Match Footprints to the Dinosaurs That Made Them

Snow Drought Hits the Western United States, Worrying Experts About the Region's Water Supply

'Golden' From 'KPop Demon Hunters' Just Won K-Pop's Very First Grammy

Medieval Monks Wrote Over a Copy of an Ancient Star Catalog. Now, a Particle Accelerator Is Revealing the Long-Lost Original Text

A.I. Could Help Doctors Spot Hard-to-Detect Signs of Breast Cancer During Routine Screenings, a Clinical Trial Suggests

You Can Buy Jack Kerouac's Early Draft of 'On the Road,' Which He Typed on a 121-Foot-Long Scroll

Is This Copy of a Long-Lost Northern Renaissance Portrait Actually an Original Albrecht Dürer?

Ron Teasley, Pioneering Baseball Player and One of Two Surviving Negro League Veterans, Dies at 99

See the Beauty of Corals, Beehives, Mushrooms and More in These 11 Images From the Close-Up Photographer of the Year Awards

What Is a Stoat? Learn Five Fun Facts About the Adorable Weasels Chosen as the Olympic Mascots

Hundreds of Tourists Flock to This Instagram-Famous Italian Church Every Day. Locals Are Pushing Back Against Visitors Who Seek the Perfect Photo 'at All Costs'

Physicists Create Homemade Cosmic Dust, Which Could Help Them Figure Out How the Building Blocks of Life First Reached Earth

Masked Thieves Steal Statue of British Boxer Teddy Baldock From a London Park, Leaving Only His Boots Behind

Couples Have Been Kissing Under the Lovers' Arch in Italy for Years. On Valentine's Day, It Collapsed Into the Sea

A Man Bought a $13 Camera at a Thrift Shop—and Found 70-Year-Old Film Still Inside. Do You Recognize the Faces in the Photos?

Investigators Unravel $12 Million Ticket-Fraud Scheme at the Louvre

NASA Report Reveals the Failures That Left Two Astronauts 'Stranded' on the International Space Station

See the First Known Footage of an Elusive Southern Sleeper Shark Swimming in Antarctica's Near-Freezing Waters

The Oldest State Park in America Is About to Expand

Rare and Original Watercolor Illustrations of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’ Go Up for Auction

A Mass Grave Uncovered in Serbia Hints at a Violent Iron Age Massacre That Targeted Women and Children

What Does This 150-Year-Old Bottle of Mystery Booze Taste Like? Fruity, With a Hint of Leather

Wild Chimpanzees Love to Eat Boozy Fruit. Scientists Say the Proof Is in Their Pee

The Eerie 'Blood' Moon Will Grace the Night Sky Next Week, Thanks to a Total Lunar Eclipse

The Berlin Cathedral Is Reopening Its Massive Crypt—Home to the Bones of One of Europe’s Most Powerful Dynasties

JPL 3D-Printed Part Springs Forward

Chesapeake Bay Locked in Ice

Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ by Rob Brezsny

Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ by Rob Brezsny

50 years later, the iconic ‘Sesame Street’ counting song is overwhelming Gen X with nostalgia