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A breakthrough in understanding how and why some cancer tumors are particularly aggressive and non-responsive to treatments has placed blame on breakaway strands of roguish DNA. The discovery imp...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/study-raises-hopes-of-treating-aggressive-cancers-by-identifying-fragments-of-rogue-dna/

Facing one obstacle after another, the operators of NASA’s Voyager 1 probe continue to find creative solutions to keep the farthest manmade object from Earth transmitting radio communications. ...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/aging-voyager-1-restarts-a-radio-it-hasnt-used-since-1981-prompted-from-15-billion-miles-away/

Going on 10 years, the municipal government of Seoul has been collecting used furniture from luxury hotels and donating it to low-income earners and homeless city residents. Over that time, partn...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/14-luxury-hotels-are-donating-outdated-furniture-to-low-income-families-in-need/

In late October, word broke that the owner of the NHL team representing Tamba Bay—the Lightning—was selling up. Millions were coming his way via a pair of money managers from New York set to ...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/nhl-team-owner-is-giving-50000-to-every-employee-sharing-the-profit-from-sale-of-his-stake-in-the-franchise/

733 years ago today, the Republic of Venice passed a law confining the city’s growing glassmaking industry to the island of Murano, giving birth to the tradition of Murano glass, one of the cit...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/events061108/

A massive new marine protected area (MPA) has been established in the eastern Atlantic off the coast of the Azores. Covering 287,000 square kilometers of ocean makes it the largest MPA network in...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/azores-protects-whales-and-corals-with-marine-preserve-as-big-as-virginia-and-georgia-combined/

This is the moment a man became overwhelmed with emotion after trying on colorblind glasses for the first time. Kris Sipe, 47, who has been colorblind his whole life, bought the glasses on a whim...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-is-overwhelmed-with-emotion-trying-color-blind-glasses-for-first-time-my-god-this-is-amazing-watch/

In an English safari park, keepers are celebrating the arrival of a calf from the world’s most endangered species of antelope, the eastern mountain bongo. Born October 16th, first-time mom Otha...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/britain-celebrates-birth-of-baby-bongo-antelope-with-fewer-than-100-left-on-earth/

A Wichita courtroom rang out with sobs and cheers when over two dozen people learned that their life savings had been recovered after being lost by a local bank. Over $8 million in children’s u...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/life-savings-of-an-entire-small-town-recovered-from-the-depths-of-a-cryto-scam-by-fbi/

Happy Birthday to Joni Mitchell who turns 80 today. The Canadian singer-songwriter and painter is one of the most influential female musicians of the late 20th century. Her many hit songs include...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/events061107/

What we English speakers refer to as grief is actually a complex web of not only emotional, but also physical states. A newly established non-profit founded last fall is pursuing a mission to sup...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/pioneering-non-profit-illuminates-the-path-of-grief-with-somatic-healing-techniques/

In Front Royal, a black-footed ferret named Antonia has just given birth to two healthy kits. Antonia was cloned from the DNA of a ferret taken into captivity in Wyoming. Her name was Willa and s...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/black-footed-ferret-cloned-to-add-diversity-just-gave-birth-to-two-new-kits-helping-save-species/

When a Canadian professor lost his class ring while splashing around in Barbados with his son, finding a needle in a haystack must have seemed like a breeze by comparison. Yet miraculously, after...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/sunken-class-ring-returned-to-canadian-who-lost-it-in-1977-off-barbados-coast/

From the depths of the Brazilian Amazon comes the incredible news that a massive new protected area, guarding the tallest and most valuable trees in the great rainforest, has been established in ...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/grove-of-100-giant-trees-discovered-in-2019-are-tallest-in-the-amazon-and-now-protected-by-state-park/

807 years ago today, the Charter of the Forest was signed in England by King Henry III. This law document is sometimes described as the sister of the Magna Carta, and granted rights of free men t...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/events061106/

In central Pennsylvania, a couple are the happy new owners of a dog that was seriously in need of a loving, calm, disciplined home after spending a year at a shelter. This pit bull/rottweiler mix...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/couple-take-chance-on-mouthy-dog-overlooked-in-shelter-have-zero-regrets/

From Kansas comes the story of a timeless American: a great-great-grandmother who sings, dances, and plays pickleball twice a week. Lois White puts the elder in ‘elderly,’ and has lived a lif...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/95-year-old-pickleball-player-dominates-the-courts-i-keep-moving/

Amy Schmitt and her son love to dress up for Halloween. The house is always festooned with decorations, and locals know it’s a must-visit stop along any trick-or-treating route. However, after ...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/kids-leave-halloween-candy-on-doorstep-after-noticing-sign-about-sons-hospitalization-leaving-family-overwhelmed/

It is a disease that has been plaguing commoners and kings alike for millennia (as well as armadillos), but for the first time in history, a country has completely eliminated leprosy. The Hashemi...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/jordan-recognized-as-first-in-the-world-to-eradicate-leprosy/

555 years ago, Guru Nanak, the spiritual teacher and founder of Sikhism, was born. A poet, mystic, philosopher, and singer, Guru Nanak’s philosophy centered on belief in one God for all of cre...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/events061105/

In the same way that artificial coral reefs can jumpstart marine ecosystems, solar farms, if they’re constructed properly, can create more biodiversity than agricultural fields. That’s the ke...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/experts-uncover-side-effects-of-solar-farms-they-become-hubs-for-biodiversity-enhancement/

In a new study, scientists seeking to better understand how physical activity protects against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s found it’s because exercise makes the brain larger. ...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/a-new-study-of-over-10000-people-revealed-regular-physical-activity-is-linked-to-larger-healthier-brains/

Charlotte stood on the train tracks ready for a train to come sweeping down the rails and end it all. However the driver of that train, 47-year-old Dave Lay, had other plans. Slamming the brakes ...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/she-was-going-to-take-her-own-life-then-married-the-train-driver-who-spotted-her-on-tracks/

287 years ago today, the Teatro di San Carlo was inaugurated in the city of Naples with the opera Achille in Sciro. It is the oldest continuously working opera house in the world, and a beautifu...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/events061104/

With tomorrow being the day of decision, it’s worthwhile to take a second and applaud an American business ensuring that citizens can exercise their right to vote. The ride-hailing firm Lyft is...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/lyft-ride-hailing-service-to-lyft-up-voters-offering-discounted-or-free-rides-to-the-polls/

Parents are prioritizing creative activities with their young children to prepare them for the future, according to a new poll. The survey of 2,000 parents of Gen Alpha children—born after 2010...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/parents-are-preparing-gen-alpha-kids-for-the-future-by-prioritizing-creative-thinking/

Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old spade, one of the oldest and most complete wooden tools ever discovered in the UK. The spade was discovered during archaeological excavations in Dor...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/buried-3000-year-old-spade-is-one-of-the-oldest-wooden-tools-ever-found-in-uk/

A bow-legged African girl was given life-changing surgery to straighten her legs, ending her pain and letting her stand tall—a full five-and-a-half inches (14cm) taller. Fudia was born with a p...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/schoolgirl-with-severely-bowed-legs-gets-life-changing-surgery-to-straighten-them-and-is-now-5-inches-taller/

Every election year America needs around one million volunteers to work at polls across 50 states and territories to arrive before dawn, gather in community centers, schools, and fire stations to...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/vet-the-vote-recruits-over-163000-poll-workers-for-us-elections-dedicated-to-rules-and-fair-play/

119 years ago today, the prolific African-American painter Lois Mailou Jones was born. With her best works exhibited in a half-dozen fine arts museums across the US, including the Met and Smithso...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/events061103/

A dog was rescued after it was found floating down an Arizona canal on a submerged shopping cart—and no one knows how long it was stranded. Passersby alerted the Humane Society after they spott...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/dog-rescued-after-it-was-seen-floating-down-canal-on-shopping-cart-and-gets-adopted-into-loving-home/

Rats with tiny backpacks are being used to sniff out illegally trafficked wildlife items. African giant pouched rats have been trained to recognize the scent of illegal animal parts such as eleph...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/rats-with-tiny-backpacks-being-used-to-sniff-out-wildlife-smugglers-trafficking-in-animal-parts/

The world’s second-smallest vertebrate has been discovered—a tiny toad living in a Brazilian rainforest. Researchers measured the flea toad at just over a quarter-inch in length (6.95 millime...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-flea-toad-discovered-in-brazil-is-second-smallest-vertebrate-ever-found/

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 Fre...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/horoscope-from-rob-brezsnys-free-will-astrology-11-2-2024/

This daily column features all the good news, anniversaries and birthdays from this day in history—November 2. The post Good News in History, November 2 appeared first on Good News Network .

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/events061102/

For the ultimate Beatles fan, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has come around to bid on the recording console used to track Abbey Road. Acquired by a second-hand music equipment outlet called Re...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/you-can-buy-the-recording-console-the-beatles-used-to-make-their-iconic-album-abbey-road/

A Missouri K-8 school was debating long and hard over what to rename their school. The decision-makers could have picked any number of famous Missouri natives, or perhaps a national figure that w...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/when-missouri-school-wanted-to-rename-their-building-they-all-agreed-to-honor-the-longtime-janitor/

The final ruling from an FTC decision made in August that will combat fake reviews and testimonials by prohibiting their sale or purchase entered into effect today. During a proposal and comment ...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-us-rule-banning-fake-online-reviews-and-testimonials-is-now-in-effect-thanks-to-ftc/

Alongside a spider’s web of dirt roads in south Miami-Dade, sandwiched between the mighty Everglades and an Air Force Reserve base, a man can be seen driving a pickup truck every morning. His n...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-fights-everyday-to-help-homeless-pups-in-miami-dades-dead-dog-alley/

68 years ago today, the Indian government passed the States Reorganization Act, something the British really should have done themselves, which redivided large swaths of India according to the co...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/events061101/

A museum curator uncovered a previously unknown waltz written in the hand of composer Frédéric Chopin, something which hasn’t happened since the late 1930s. Found in the Morgan Library & Muse...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/lost-chopin-music-unearthed-200-years-after-composers-death-is-his-most-intriguing-waltz/

A major Mayan urban center has been found in a recent lidar survey on the Yucatan Peninsula that includes pyramids and ball courts. The archaeologists triumphantly declare that the world is yet f...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/have-we-discovered-all-the-mayan-cities-newly-found-metropolis-with-pyramids-shows-were-not-even-close/

German scientists have found a way to extend the lifespan of zinc-ion batteries more than 100-fold, allowing the fringe battery technology to potentially replace the controversial lithium-ion sta...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-innovation-could-extend-little-used-zinc-battery-lifespan-hundreds-of-times-to-create-battery-revolution/

It’s a paradox found all over the world: why is it so common for hospital food to be essentially bad for you? Tackling the problem head-on, Boston Medical Center—already one of the greenest h...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/boston-hospital-is-treating-food-as-medicine-with-its-own-rooftop-garden/

On this day, 74 years ago, the British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid was born. Described as the “Queen of Curves,” who “liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive ident...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/events061031/

When added together, Boone and Rellie spent over 450 days at a shelter in a South Carolina human society. One was deaf, the other shy, but a prospective owner who had been following their stories...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/2-unwanted-dogs-spending-months-in-shelter-become-best-friends-now-theyre-family-after-adoption-of-both/

From the BBC comes a delightfully educational story about a pair of identical twins who developed their own language. ‘Umeri’ is not anything you’ll find on Google Translate: it has only tw...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/30-50-of-twins-develop-a-language-exclusive-to-them-during-childhood-but-these-polyglots-never-stopped/

It was the easiest payday that master carpenter Jerry Hicks ever made—and the biggest too. He must have thought it was his lucky day when he stopped outside a convenience store and noticed $20 ...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/20-bill-found-on-ground-leads-to-1-million-win-for-north-carolina-lottery-player/

For many young people, teachers play the role of mentors, counselors, and friends, but for one isolated New Jersey student, his teacher became a guardian. Outnumbered 5 to 1, a student at William...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-jersey-teacher-uses-body-as-human-shield-to-protect-teen-from-group-attack/

51 years ago today, the Bosphorus Bridge was completed, linking mainland Europe with Anatolia over the Bosporus Straits for the first time. It’s a gravity-anchored suspension bridge with steel ...

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/events061030/