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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London Design Museum Turns its Massive Warehouse Collection into Another Museum—with 250K Items
In London, organizers and staff have flipped a museum. Suddenly, the collection is the museum, and the exhibitions are whatever you decide. At V&A East Storehouse, over 250,000 items sit inside carefully constructed storage warehouse wings waiting for a day that might have never came: the call that they would be included in a new […]
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Tourists Stranded After Kangaroo Crash Receive 23 Days of ‘Unforgettable’ Help from Loving Locals
From West Australia comes the story of some ‘lucky’ misfortune, as a pair of road-tripping Frenchmen found a “second home” in a small town. Nannup has just 1,500 inhabitants—many of whose hands were on deck to help the tourists after they hit a kangaroo and wrecked their car just 4 hours into what was supposed […]
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World’s Most Famous Waltz to Be Beamed into Space on Composer 200th Birthday, and EU Space Agency’s 50th
You’ve heard the famous “Blue Danube” waltz—even if the name doesn’t ring any bells. Trust us on this one. Composed by the Austrian “Waltz King” Johann Strauss II, it has been borrowed for every kind of media imaginable, from commercials to Looney Tunes shorts. Today in Europe, and interesting confluence will occur when the Waltz […]
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Viral Photo of Teen Working the Night of Graduation Raises Praise and $20k for College
A Georgia woman was so blown away by the work ethic of a teen who clocked in for a late evening shift at Burger King just after graduating high school, she decided to help with his college tuition. Setting up a GoFundMe to tell the youth’s story, it raised $20,000 in no time at all, […]
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Heroic Youngsters Pictured Saving Couple and Baby from Flipped Car
From the south of England comes the eyewitness account of a road rescue by a hoard of good, young, Samaritans. A photograph taken by a bystander shows one of the rescuers on top of the vehicle after it crashed, as well as a man and his 11-month-old son, who had been dragged from the wreckage […]
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This German Town Carefully Reconstructed a 5,500-Year-Old Monument Lifting 13 Tons of Stone
People find time to volunteer for all manner of projects, and in Germany, a community recently got together to pitch in for the sake of their local, 5,500-year history. The Neolithic burial site of Küsterberg is located in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt’s Haldensleben forest, and dates back to the time of Stonehenge. It was […]
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Hyper Efficient Solar-Powered Desalination System Requires No Extra Batteries to Purify Groundwater
An engineering team from MIT have designed a solar-powered groundwater desalination device that could supply over 1,000 gallons per day and doesn’t require batteries. Envisioned as a way to provide water to communities whose groundwater is too brackish to drink, the device’s real trick is that it adjusts its desalination activity in response to the […]
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Locals Release 10 Endangered Siamese Crocodiles into Laos Wetlands to Save Species from Extinction
While less than 1,000 Siamese crocodiles remain in the wild, community members in Laos have released ten of the rare animals into a local wetlands to boost the population. While crocodiles are not hunted, the species (Crocodylus siamensis) is ranked as Critically-Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature because of the threats of […]
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Japan to Begin Clinical Trials for Artificial Blood This Year
Japan is the first country to begin clinical trials of artificial blood, a medical innovation which if proven successful, would solve one of the largest hospital challenges of our age. Beginning back in March, a clinical trial organized by Nara Medical University will look to build on the success of an early-stage trial in 2022 […]
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Ancient Tombs More Than 3,000 Years Old Unearthed in Egypt’s Luxor
The tombs of three ancient Egyptian officials have been discovered in Luxor, the Egyptian government has stated, marking yet another discovery from the famous city on the Nile. In February, the tomb of pharaoh Thutmose II was found not far from the Dra’Abu El Naga, an important non-royal necropolis where this new trio of discoveries […]
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Supermom Sticks to Breastfeeding Schedule While Running 60 Mile Ultramarathon 6 Months Postpartum
Hoping to get her “sanity and slight insanity” back after giving birth to her first child, a Canadian runner has completed a 60 mile run through Wales just 6 months postpartum. It didn’t get in the way of her duties as a mother, however, and Stephanie Case was determined to breastfeed all along the way. […]
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Vets Borrow a Horse’s CT Scanner to Fit Giant, 302-Pound Sea Turtle and Get a Nice Surprise
When a massive loggerhead sea turtle was hit by a boat and admitted to a Florida veterinary hospital, the doctors didn’t know what to do. They needed to ascertain the extent of her injuries, but the CT scanner at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach was too small. ‘Pennywise’ as they named her, was […]
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A 19-year-old Won $100,000 for Inventing a Cheaper, Faster Way to Make Antiviral Drugs Out of Corn Husks
Self-described as merely “someone from a small village in a small European country” young Adam Kovalčík won the top prize in America’s most prestigious science fair with his invention of a quicker, cheaper method of making a popular antiviral drug out of corn husk. Reducing the cost per gram from $75.00 to just $12.00, and […]
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NBA’s Warriors Host Unique Sneaker Repair Clinic Teaching Youth How to Refresh Old Kicks
Educating and encouraging people to reduce their waste footprint doesn’t always have to be done through fear or social pressure, it can be fun and empowering as well. That’s what the SoleSpace Lab in Oakland is doing—reducing the amount of waste from the footwear industry by teaching kids and teens how to level up their […]
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‘Remarkable’ Right Whale Saga Continues as Vagrant Pair Become First Ever Seen in Bahamas
Down near the Bahamas, a bizarre story is unfolding as two critically-endangered North Atlantic right whales continue a rebellious streak. Maybe they’re fans of Bob Dylan or The Ramones, but the whales, named Curlew and Koala, have spent the last few months cruising down from the Mid-Atlantic coast to the tropical Caribbean seas, something described […]
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