Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the first adult T. rex trackway, providing new insights into how this emblematic predator moved. While a myriad of isolated footprints made by adults in the T. rex species have been found, this is the first time scientists can report a sequence of tracks, or a trackway, left by […]
Good News Network•Good News Network12 Sept
A homeless man who was recorded playing piano in a church on a cold January night says his whole life has turned around, in the two years since his performance went viral. Rhys Wynne-Jones had been homeless for a decade in England when he sought refuge at St. Mary’s Church in Penzance—one of Britain’s ‘Night […]
Good News Network•Good News Network12 Sept
Our partner Rob Brezsny, whose latest book is Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: […]
Good News Network•Good News Network12 Sept
2,516 years ago today was one of two days in the ancient era of world history that, if events had gone a different way, Western Civilization as we know it may never have sprouted. Athenian citizen soldiers, demonstrating superb athleticism and courage, ran a little over a mile in their heavy armor to smash a […]
Good News Network•Good News Network12 Sept
The US Environmental Protection Agency has approved the first permit under the its new “Good Samaritan” law to remediate abandoned mine workings. The permit has been issued to Trout Unlimited, a fishing and sportsmen focused nonprofit that engages in riverine conservation all over the West. The Good Samaritan act passed in 2024 with broad bipartisan […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley11 Sept
A Sicilian hotel recently went above and beyond the call of the reception bell in reuniting a young woman with a cherished childhood stuffed animal. Visiting the Four Seasons in Taormina recently was a mother and her daughter Julia—who as always brings her dear stuffed animal, Rosie, on any trip. After a lovely stay, Julia […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley11 Sept
From Serbia comes the story of a technically-impressive and luxurious Roman bath complex discovered for the first time. Containing three different bathing pools and a sauna, it was designed for Emperor Maximinus Daza, who briefly held the throne before dying in a civil war. The bath complex, known in Latin as a balneum, was found […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley11 Sept
In Kenya, an entrepreneur has created a robotic hand that can translate a teacher’s voice into sign language for deaf students. Some 300,000 children in Kenya are either deaf or hearing impaired, and not only are just a fraction them enrolled in school, but Kenya lacks any standardized signed language, making concepts like math and […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley11 Sept
65 years ago today, the World Wildlife Fund was formed to save diverse species across the planet. With 35 million supporters and offices in nearly 100 countries, WWF has helped establish protected areas like the Galapagos National Park and worked to conserve iconic species including pandas, tigers, rhinos, and elephants—giving these animals and many more […]
Good News Network•Good News Network11 Sept
On September 3rd, the European Space Agency marked the successful arrival of its BepiColombo mission to Mercury, just the third spacecraft to ever visit our solar system’s innermost planet. Despite being so close to Earth, it takes roughly as much time to arrive in orbit around Mercury as it would to arrive at Pluto: more […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley10 Sept
It’s a beautiful stone no, the Grand Condé diamond? Its presence in the public eye was almost lost 100 years ago, but thanks—of all people—to a hungry cleaning lady, it can still be part of new exhibitions like the one upcoming at the Château de Chantilly near Paris. But first, some outrageous history. Suzanne Schiltz […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley10 Sept
Not long ago on a lonely peak in Maine, a 91-year-old grey-bearded man stood taking in the sights, as he observed the sensation of success that came with being the oldest person to complete a hike along the famous Appalachian Trail. Born to the Kentucky backwoods in 1935, before the AT route had even been […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley10 Sept
It’s so tempting to dismiss social media as all doom scrolling through AI-generated slop and political arguments, but it also just turbo boosted this young comic book author’s career. @slow_comics has accumulated 40K followers on his TikTok account through his own series of comics, and by his passion of visiting comic book conventions and stopping […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley10 Sept
35 years ago today, Nirvana’s single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was released in the US. The unexpected success of the Seattle band’s song propelled their second LP Nevermind to the top of the charts—an event often marked as the point where alternative rock entered the mainstream. WATCH the band taunt the audience by opening the […]
Good News Network•Good News Network10 Sept
The year was 1915, and before Henry Ford decided to turn a 2,000 acre stretch of land along the Rogue River into one of America’s largest manufacturing centers, he thought of turning it into a bird sanctuary. In a strange, roundabout way, that vision was recently achieved at the gargantuan Rogue Factory in Dearborn, Michigan, […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley9 Sept
An arthritis drug of all things was recently found in a study to restore up to 100% of hair in patients with severe alopecia. Around 2% of the world population live with alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder where the human immune system mistakes hair follicles for harmful invaders. The condition can be reversed but it’s […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley9 Sept
It wasn’t just the roars of the dinosaurs that made up the soundscape of the animal world during the Jurassic period. Crickets and grasshoppers communicated through a variety of songs and high-pitched sounds, some of which you can now listen to thanks to Thorin Jonsson from the Institute of Biology at the University of Graz. […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley9 Sept
When a man in Denmark broke ground in his backyard on home improvement work, it was a new terrace that he was looking forward to seeing at the end of the sweaty job. Yet merely half an hour had passed when he realized there was something else to look forward to—the reward for an enormous […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley9 Sept
On this day in history, two masters of early ocean exploration returned to their prospective homes—Vasco da Gama 527 years ago to Lisbon, and Thomas Cavendish 438 years ago to Plymouth. The former had chartered the first European course to India via the Cape of Good Hope, while the latter completed the world’s first intentional […]
Good News Network•Good News Network9 Sept
Pancreatic cancer has long been a death sentence, and a rapid one at that, but a new two-a-day pill has seen patients live twice as long even after chemotherapy fails. “Surviving” cancer refers to living more than 5 years post-diagnosis. Under that criteria, just 3% of patients survive pancreatic cancer, which usually requires particularly grueling […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley8 Sept