Good News Network
The Good News Network (GNN) is a website dedicated to sharing positive and uplifting news stories from around the world. Founded in 1997, it aims to counterbalance the often negative focus of mainstream media by highlighting acts of kindness, scientific breakthroughs, inspiring individuals, and other heartwarming developments. The site covers a wide range of topics, including health, environment, culture, and technology, with the goal of promoting optimism and hope. GNN also features a daily newsletter and encourages readers to contribute their own good news stories.
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Rescued Crow Is Boy’s Best Friend, Waiting for Him to Get Home from School Every Day: ‘We’re his flock’
Get ready to drop your jaw when you see the images that a Danish family has shared on Instagram of how a wild Eurasian crow has become part of their flock. The crow will come and visit all of them, including the dog and the cats, but it’s for the little boy Otto whom Russell […]
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Website Lets You Listen to Cat Purrs Whenever You’re Stressed–And Can Calm Your Kitty, Too
A website has designed an artificial purr-engine that plays customizable cat purring sounds to calm you or your kitty during moments of turmoil. We can’t always have a purring lap cat with us, but Purrli.com is a good, dare we say, purrfect solution. “The internet has a cat” says Purrli.com. Visitors can start a purring […]
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Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ by Rob Brezsny
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, 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 […]
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Huge 2,000-Year-old Roman Leather Shoe Discovered Exquisitely Preserved–Worn by a Soldier
A Roman legionary’s shoe has been discovered near Hadrian’s Wall by resident archaeologists. The hefty leather sole measures a whopping 12.8 inches from toe to heel and is believed to have been worn by a giant Roman soldier. Archaeologists dug up a total of 32 shoes from a so-called ‘ankle-breaker’ trench at the Magna Roman […]
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Musician Infuses Dad’s Ashes into His Guitar Fretboard- to Be with Him at Future Gigs
Over the years, GNN has reported on multiple creative ways to infuse the ashes of cremated loved one into meaningful objects, whether a tattoo, a vinyl record, or an elegant stone. Now, English media have reported on a man whose inlaid his father’s ashes into the fretboard of his guitar, saying “will still be with […]
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LOOK at All the Dark Matter in This New Image from the James Webb Telescope
Of course nothing and no one can actually see dark matter, but the accurate mapping of its warping influence on this new image from the James Webb Space Telescope is as good as it gets. Containing two very large galaxy clusters, together known as the Bullet Cluster, the blue hues in the image represent where […]
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Whale Sightings Hit Record High During Citizen Science Migration Count
In Australia’s latest survey of whale populations, humpbacks have been seen migrating north along the eastern coastline in record numbers. Over 5,000 confirmed sightings were made by mariners and others in the state of New South Wales so far, as the animals make their way out of the southern oceans with their calves. The Organization […]
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Airport Workers Save the Day After Wife’s Diamond Goes Missing at Baggage Claim
‘Caring’ is a word that many Americans wouldn’t choose if asked to describe commercial aviation, but a story recently touched down from Pittsburgh International Airport of humanity and kindness that left a woman’s jaw suspended in disbelief. April Schmitt had just returned home to Pittsburgh on June 13th from a hectic business trip in Los […]
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Small Town Tradition Sends off its Graduating Class Every Year with a Free Scholarship
For the last 30 years a tiny Minnesota town has played a huge role in the lives of its graduating students. Despite the population of Swanville sitting at a comfortable 328, what is essentially one big family comes together every year to send off their seniors with a scholarship. Through bake sales, chili cookoffs, bingo, […]
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Wisdom Teeth Contain Unique Stem Cell That Can Form Cartilage, Neurons, and Heart Tissue
If they don’t grow in right, most people will treat their wisdom teeth as bio-baggage, useful only for preventing money from burning a hole in one’s pocket due to the surgical costs of removing them. But an astounding new discovery has found that this third set of molars contain a unique form of human stem […]
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A Mass Blossoming Is Occurring in Wake of Floods to Feed Honeyeater Birds in Australia Where Just 300 Remain
Recent wet season rainfall along the east coast of Australia has shattered hundred-year records, but as the floodwaters recede, a feast of epic proportions seems ready to explode among the hills and valleys. Soaking up all that water, New South Wales’ various eucalypt tree species are preparing for a mass blossoming that may all but […]
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Two Meteor Showers Will Peak on the Same Night in July and Be Visible in the Southern US
Two meteor showers are visible in the late July skies, and they happen to peak at the same evening in a rare case of perfect timing. Especially visible in the Southern Hemisphere, but also visible farther south in the Northern Hemisphere, the α-Capricornids and the Southern δ-Aquariids will light up the night of July 30th-31st […]
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In Maine, Students Choose a Hike Over Detention–and Feel the Benefits
Getting in fights, texting too much in class, skipping school—they are the kinds of stories that the parents of most high schools will have heard of before, and know the ending of. But at Morse High School in Maine, detention is enforced with an altogether different approach—a hike. Misbehaving students can, of course, choose normal […]
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Newly Unveiled T-Rex Relative Was Sitting in Museum Drawer for 50 Years and ‘Rewrites’ Family Tree
Paleontology may be entering another great era of discovery: characterized by serial misidentification in decades past. For an example one need look no further than the newly-dubbed “Dragon Prince of Mongolia,” a small tyrannosaurid from the earlier days of the lineage’s evolution. It had been sitting in the drawers of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences […]
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James Webb Telescope Debuts New Trick: Blocking Out Stars and Photographing Their Planets
Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, stars, and even our own solar system’s planets. Now, the most expensive telescope ever made has unveiled a new trick—a coronagraph, which allows it to block the light of a star and see what small […]
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