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Senators Pushed Big Pharma to Cap Inhaler Prices at $35 – Successfully Bringing Relief to American Families
Less than three months after U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin and her colleagues launched an investigation into the four major American manufacturers of inhalers, three...
Good News in History, March 10
826 years ago today, the Giralda Minaret was designed for the Almohad Mosque in what was Islamic Seville, Andalusia. This UNESCO World Heritage Site...
These Are the 20 Best Cities in America By the Numbers… 7 Are in California and 7 in the Midwest
As the International Day of Happiness approaches on March 20, an interesting comparison of cities in the US was published, which provides helpful benchmarks...
Good News in History, February 16
19 years ago today, the Kyoto Protocol went into effect after ratification by Russia. It commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based...
Good News in History, February 1
60 years ago today, the British Invasion arrived in the US after The Beatles reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with I Want...
Good News in History, December 4
128 years ago today, Feng Youlan was born. This Chinese academic and philosopher was instrumental in reintroducing the Chinese classics of philosophy to the...
Good News in History, December 3
31 years ago today, engineers at the Sema Group used the Vodaphone network and a computer to send the world's first SMS. It revolutionized...
Good News in History, November 28
Happy 80th Birthday to singer-songwriter and composer Randy Newman. Best known for his distinctive voice and film scores for 8 Pixar films—as well as...
The Hubble and Webb Telescopes Join to Create Unprecedented Photo of Universe
In a tour de force of techno-stargazing, NASA trained both the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes on the same patch of galaxies to...
Good Cardiovascular Habits Can Knock 6 Years off Your Biological Age: New Study
Good cardiovascular health can knock six years off your biological age, says a team from Columbia University Medical Center in New York City
The researchers...
Deaf Children Are First Humans to Have Hearing Pathway Restored in Dramatic Demonstration of New Gene Therapy
In China, a true medical breakthrough has been achieved in a human trial that had as many as 10 children born deaf have their...
He Found the Largest Old Growth Cedar in BC – The Tree of His Lifetime (LOOK)
Logging still goes on in British Columbia where nature lovers would prefer it didn't, but rather than bemoan the decision from afar, photographer TJ...
Maine Sets Records for Atlantic Herring and Salmon Runs in the Penobscot River
Maine's rivers are the only ones left in the US where Atlantic salmon can return to spawn, and the most productive of these rivers...
British Museum Sends Totem Pole Back to its Indigenous Home in Canada–LOOK
A 36-foot totem pole carved by the House of Ni’isjoohl in British Columbia a century ago is on a sacred journey back home thanks...
Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel
Materials that are both strong and lightweight can improve everything from cars to airplanes to medical equipment. Now, researchers have created an extraordinarily strong...
500 Million Year-Old Jellyfish–Oldest Ever Found–May Have Swallowed Prey Whole
Cast the metaphorical (and metaphorically real) net back into the sea 500 million years ago and you'd pull up a variety of strange creatures...
1912 Schoolhouse Not Only Saved from Demolition—But Moved to a Tribal Reservation That Needed One–WATCH
In a neighborhood of Vancouver, a small antique schoolhouse that had looked over Maple Avenue since 1912 became slated for demolition.
But it turned out...
Another Study Shows Daily Multivitamin for People Over 60 Slows Memory Decline That Comes With Aging
People over 60 who take a daily multivitamin pill may be slowing age-related memory decline, according to a new study that amplifies similar findings...
Download a Free Native-Plant Garden Plan for Your Specific Region
Native gardening isn't only beneficial to the animals in your environment, it's also a lot less of a hassle because you don't need to...
Researchers Develop Water Treatment that Zaps ‘Forever Chemicals’ for Good
There's been a lot of talk recently about so-called "forever chemicals" and how our society can use new technologies to remove these old toxins...