Not All News Is Bad!

"Not All News Is Bad" is a website dedicated to curating and sharing positive, uplifting, and heartwarming news stories from around the world. The platform aims to counterbalance the often overwhelming negativity found in mainstream media by highlighting stories of kindness, resilience, innovation, and progress. It covers various topics, including acts of goodwill, environmental breakthroughs, medical advancements, and inspiring personal achievements.

In terms of its relationship to providing uplifting news, "Not All News Is Bad" serves as a refreshing antidote to the typical focus on conflict, crisis, and despair in traditional news outlets. By showcasing stories that celebrate human potential and collective progress, the site seeks to inspire hope, foster connection, and remind readers that there is still much good happening in the world. Through its carefully curated content, the platform encourages readers to engage with the world more optimistically and constructively, reinforcing the idea that not all news has to be bad.

1. Meningitis Can Now Be Quickly Spotted in Babies Thanks to New Non-Invasive Test to Replace Spinal Taps

   Meningitis can be quickly spotted in babies with “great accuracy” thanks to a new non-invasive test that negates the need for a spinal tap. Source: Meningitis Can Now Be Quickly Spotted in Babies Thanks to New Non-Invasive Test to Replace Spinal Taps Very cool.

2. New Brain Implant Decodes ‘Inner Monologue’ of People With Paralysis

   Thoughts are translated into speech in real time—with a passcode to prevent broadcasting private musings. Source: New Brain Implant Decodes ‘Inner Monologue’ of People With Paralysis This could be such a game changer for some people. Wow.

3. Reusable ‘Jelly Ice’ Keeps Things Cold — Without Meltwater

   No matter whether it’s crushed or cubed, ice eventually melts into a puddle — but an alternative called jelly ice doesn’t. Source: Reusable ‘Jelly Ice’ Keeps Things Cold — Without Meltwater Fascinating. Apparently has positive health implications.

4. Golden eagles poised for reintroduction in England

   Exclusive: Study expected to confirm there are enough suitable sites to support bird of prey’s return Source: Golden eagles poised for reintroduction in England Very cool.

5. These solar-powered shipping container homes look straight out of a Marvel movie. They’re built for the homeless

   The new X-WING facility is a new approach to helping homeless residents get off the street and into somewhere safe and cool. Source: These solar-powered shipping container homes look straight out of a Marvel movie. They’re built for the homeless Neat idea.

6. Wiggling magnetic micro-robot goes after kidney stones

   Recurring kidney stones can be an agonizing, debilitating problem, particularly if they can’t be treated by orally-administered medication. There may be new hope on the horizon, however, in the form of a tiny magnetically-steerable stone-dissolving “robot.” Source: Wiggling magnetic micro-robot goes after kidney stones Less painful is good.

7. AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA

   Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study. Source: AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA Exciting.

8. Teen workers save restaurant as owner spends months in hospital

   Without teen workers stepping up, owner of Hudson, Wisconsin’s Urban Olive & Vine says he’d no longer have a restaurant. Source: Teen workers save restaurant as owner spends months in hospital Wow.

9. Novel protein therapy shows promise as first-ever antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning

   University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers, along with their colleagues, engineered a new molecule that appears promising as an effective antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning with fewer side effects than other molecules currently being tested, according to a new study published in the journal PNAS. Source: Novel protein therapy shows promise as first-ever antidote for carbon...

10. Solar on the tracks

    Swiss startup Sun-Ways inaugurated its railway PV project in April in Neuchatel, Switzerland, after more than two years of planning. Joseph Scuderi, founder of Sun-Ways, tells pv magazine that the pilot is attracting international attention. Source: Solar on the tracks Cool idea.