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Botanists Vote to Remove Apartheid Slur from Plant Species Names in Africa
Over 200 plants will have their species name changed to remove an offensive South African apartheid-era racial slur after the results of a vote...
German Zoo Honors Little Lynx’s Wish to be Free After Repeat Escape Attempts
Despite being brought up in the Nuremberg Zoo a young Carpathian lynx named Chapo was born to be wild.
Respecting his wishes, the German zookeepers...
Giant New Species of Dinosaur Named Loki-ceratops for Horns That Look Like the Norse God
A remarkable new genus of giant horned dinosaur has been unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah.
First discovered in the badlands of northern...
Oxford Breakthrough Could Allow Cancer to be Detected 7 Years Earlier Than Current Methods
Oxford University scientists have discovered proteins in the blood that could warn people of cancer more than seven years earlier than currently possible.
In two...
Mountain Chickadees have Remarkable Memories–with Ability to Recall Locations of 10,000 Hidden Snacks
Lost your keys? Can’t remember where you parked the car? If only you had the memory of a mountain chickadee.
These half-ounce birds, with brains...
Good News in History, April 14
41 years ago today, EMI released David Bowie's 15th studio album Let's Dance. The album became Bowie's greatest commercial success, with 11 million albums sold and...
New Research into Beethoven’s DNA Reveals He Didn’t Inherit his Musical Talent
The famous composer Ludwig van Beethoven did not inherit much musical talent from his ancestors, according to a new study that shows his genes...
Kombucha Can Mimic the Effects of Fasting in the Body, According to a Study
The microbes in the fizzy, fermented drink called kombucha, make several changes to the way fat is metabolized in the gut and intestines that...
Good News in History, March 21
180 years ago today, the Bab began teaching the Baháʼí faith, marking forever both the Holy Day and Day 1, or New Year's Day...
Good News in History, February 28
2,226 years ago today, the Gaozu Emperor (given name Liu Bang) claimed the Mandate of Heaven and established the Han Dynasty—one of the three...
Scientists Find Potential Universal Anti-Venom to Treat Snakebites, from Kraits to King Cobras.
By screening billions of human antibodies, scientists may have taken the first steps towards developing a universal antivenom for snakebites. Their screen identified one...
Glow-in-the-Dark Petunias Emit Bioluminescence Like Fireflies–Now For Sale in 48 States Online
Unfortunately for the human taste of beauty, forest plants have no need to glow in the dark like those in the movie Avatar. Fortunately for...
New Synthetic Compound Can Kill Superbugs Resistant to Antibiotics
Harvard researchers have created an antibiotic that can overcome many drug-resistant infections, which have become a deadly global health menace, killing a million people...
Charlotte the Stingray, Single for 8 Years, Celebrated V-day with ‘Impossible’ Litter of Non-Fertilized Eggs
It's hard being alone on Valentine's Day—something that Charlotte the round stingray had experienced for eight years in a row.
But this year she decided...
Good News in History, February 15
33 years ago today, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary created the Visegrád Group, a cooperation agreement to reorient their nations away from communism and toward...
Good News in History, February 13
This daily column at GNN.org features all the good news, anniversaries and notable birthdays from this day in history—February 13.
Good News in History, February 2
53 years ago today, The Ramsar Convention on the Sustainable Use of Wetlands was signed in Ramsar, Iran. When stopping to think about it,...
Good News in History, January 30
104 years ago today, Mazda was incorporated as "Toyo Cork Kogyo Co. Ltd." a cork-making factory, by Jujiro Matsuda. 11 years later, it started...
Good News in History, January 27
210 years ago today, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was born in Paris. As an architect, his fame blossomed from his work restoring dozens of France's most...
Good News in History, January 17
63 years ago today, President Eisenhower went on television to deliver his farewell address after two full terms as president. He prepared it along...