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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Astronomers Say They Have Solved One of Saturn’s Greatest Mysteries
A neat feat of calculation and deduction may have solved one of our solar system’s greatest mysteries. Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is bigger than Mercury, yet for all its conspicuousness, scientists don’t know exactly how it came to be so large that it’s gravitational influence causes Saturn to tilt and wobble. There are […]
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UK’s First Geothermal Power Plant Begins Using Underground Heat to Power 10K Homes
The UK’s first geothermal power plant has just begun operations, using hot water from deep underground to create renewable electricity. The United Downs plant in Cornwall has been in development for nearly two decades, and will now begin providing enough electricity to power 10,000 homes. Geothermal power generation comes via energy stored in the form of […]
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2 Dogs Rescued By ‘Animal Lover’-Plow Driver After He Saw Them Running Middle of a Blizzard
A snow plow driver was crawling through near-white out conditions on Long Island when he saw something strange. Kenny McGowan has had to stop his snow plow in the past for all manner of hidden obstacles and hazards, from buried cars to fallen branches. Instead, two slight figures were running along the asphalt/ice/snow/salt poutine that […]
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Sub-Zero Temperatures Didn’t Affect Madison’s Electric Bus Fleet This Year–A Major EV Milestone
In January, GNN reported on how the brain-disabling cold of the Norwegian winter couldn’t affect the performance of an all-electric ferryboat plying the waters in the country’s far northern district of Finmark. Well closer to home, a fleet of all-electric buses in Wisconsin have made it to the Vernal Equinox with similar performance statistics: the […]
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Vacation Film Forgotten in 70-yo Vintage Camera Was Developed for the First Time: Do You Know These Skiers?
From the charming British countryside of Salisbury comes an equally-charming story of a roll of lost film found lodged in a thrift shop camera. Developed by Ian Scott of Salisbury Photo Center, he and the new owner of the antique camera were suddenly looking at crisp memories of a skiing trip to St. Moritz, Switzerland. […]
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Scientists Wanted Eco-Friendly Battery, Realized They Could Use the Brine Needed to Make Tofu
Capable of undergoing 120,000 charge cycles and being disposed of anywhere, an experimental new battery design might be thought of as truly state-of-the-art. To the contrary, the magnesium chloride or calcium chloride electrolytes used to carry the charge between the negative and positive electrodes were quite familiar to the Hong Kong-scientists that designed the battery […]
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Thailand’s Mythical ‘Fire Tiger’ Captured on Trail Cam, One of the Rarest Sightings in the Cat World
Thai conservationists were delighted with the news that a sighting of an Asian golden cat had been recorded by camera traps. The legendary “fire tiger” of Thai folklore and mythology, the Asian golden cat is one of the most scarcely seen of all wildcats. Filmed by a camera trap in the country’s northern Khao Luang […]
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Chance Rediscovery of Fossils Found in the 1960s Retell the Story of Giant, Globetrotting Amphibian
250 million years ago, the giant ancestors of today’s salamanders swam from the area of today’s Norwegian Arctic to the west coast of Australia. This monumental trip placed it, many years later, under the brushes and picks of paleontologists who incorrectly identified it. The fossils would later travel all over the world much like the […]
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Radioactive Isotopes Being Embedded in Rhino Horns Seen as ‘Magical’ Anti-Poaching Solution
Reprinted with permission from World at Large News In South Africa, a strategy 6 years in the making to protect rhinos from poaching, as ingenious as it is dramatic, is now being implemented on the ground in the country’s game reserves and parks. Called the Rhisotope Project, it involves embedding non-harmful radioactive isotopes into the […]
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After Soccer Ball Slams into Seagull, Watch a Player Use CPR to Gently Revive it (WATCH)
A soccer player for an amateur league team in Istanbul had to unexpectedly deputize as an emergency veterinarian during a match in the Turkish city last weekend. The goalkeeper for a team playing in red went to boot the ball upfield, but instead left the entire pitch in shock when the ball traveled a mere […]
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Bride Goes Viral on Wedding Night Dancing While Doing Vital Cystic Fibrosis Treatment (WATCH)
A bride who was filmed dancing at her wedding reception while undergoing treatment for cystic fibrosis has gone viral. “CF doesn’t stop no party ✨” was Dannika Evans’ opinion when she posted the video to her TikTok account, where she was doing her best to dance while wearing a special oscillation vest with a nebulizer […]
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5,000-yo Bacteria Shows Antibiotic Resistance Is Ancient, Which May Help Us to Combat it
Long before antibiotics were invented, biotics—i.e. bacteria—had developed resistance to them. When researchers examined a bacterial strain called Psychrobacter discovered in 5,000-year-old layers of cave ice, they found it was resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. Yet it also showed promising enzymatic activities and could inhibit the growth of ‘superbugs’ resistant to multiple antibiotics,
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Good Samaritans Sprang into Action to Save Baby That Fell into Lake Michigan
From Chicago comes the story of a pair of heroes rescuing an infant that had been blown into Lake Michigan. 30-year-old Lio Cundiff was on the phone with his aunt at Belmont Harbor when he felt the wind pick up fiercely, followed by a bloodcurdling scream from a woman close by. Cundiff knew exactly what […]
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Abandoned Las Vegas Airport Dog Finds a Forever Home with the Officer Who Saved Him
A little goldendoodle has a brighter future ahead of him after abusive treatment by his owner saw her arrested, and an officer leap at the chance to adopt. The story must, unfortunately, include some rather ugly details before one can salute Officer Skeeter Black for his compassion towards animals. It begins on February 2nd at […]
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China’s Yangtze River Rebounds After Fishing Ban and Investment to Reemploy 200,000 Fishermen
The mighty Yangtze river has experienced a dramatic improvement in ecological health halfway through a 10-year fishing moratorium. The focus of a $2.7 billion restoration project, this crucial aquatic artery had been severely degraded by decades of damming, overfishing, fragmentation, pollution, and neglect. Now, a new study reports a tripling of fish biomass, increases in
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