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Affordable Housing Built by Inmates Teaches Construction Skills
Community groups in Minnesota concerned with affordable housing are teaming up with groups of prison inmates who want to learn constuction skills while behind...
Natural Reconstruction of Breasts from Stem Cells in Fat
Cytori Therapeutics is testing a breast reconstruction therapy that uses stem cells derived from fat to reconstruct breast tissue in women who have...
United Arab Emirates to Allow Construction Unions
The BBC reports that the United Arab Emirates is drafting a law that will allow laborers to form...
Construction Worker Acts on Kindness Urge During Lunch Break
A family's car ran out of gas on a midwestern road. And it was decided that the father would walk the long way to...
New Low-Carbon Concrete Outperforms Today’s Highway Material While Cutting Costs in Minnesota
A private-public partnership has paved a section of Minnesota road with an experimental low-carbon concrete mixture that resulted in greater strength and lesser cement...
Good News in History, November 16
79 years ago today, UNESCO was first formed to promote world peace by uniting countries through education, the arts, sciences, and culture. Fostering universal...
Thousands of Circular Homes Are Surviving Hurricanes Across the US Thanks to North Carolina Company
When Hurricane Milton recently smashed into Florida's Crystal River, a peculiar house stood firm even while a neighbor's was heavily damaged by the powerful...
Good News in History, November 14
86 years ago today, the Lion's Gate Bridge opened in Vancouver. Crossing the Burrard Inlet, the total length of the bridge including the north...
Good News in History, November 13
97 years ago today, the Holland Tunnel opened connecting New York and New Jersey under the Hudson River. Consisting of two tubes and made...
Good News in History, November 10
101 years ago today, one of the most famous dogs in the world, Hachikō the Akita, was born in Ōdate. He is beloved, revered,...
Good News in History, November 7
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...
Good News in History, November 4
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...
Good News in History, October 25
23 years ago today, Microsoft released Windows XP, one of the most widely-used operating systems in the history of personal computing. Released to critical...
Sicily Will be Reachable Via World’s Longest Suspension Bridge That Italians Have Wanted for Centuries
Dreamt of since the Roman Empire, the men and women, taxpayers and taxspenders of the Italian Peninsula are preparing for an engineering project unrivaled...
Good News in History, October 23
Happy 70th Birthday to Ang Lee, the filmmaker who was a stay-at-home dad before gaining fame for directing the Oscar-winning films Brokeback Mountain and...
After Getting $4.99 Cheese-making Kit for Christmas He Now Runs His Own Creamery And Wins Awards (LOOK)
A father-of-five who was given a $4.99 cheese-making kit as a Christmas present now runs his own artisan creamery in his garage—and is winning...
Hydrogen-Powered Car Fueled by Sewage Attempting to Break Land Speed Records
A hydrogen-powered car fueled by sewage and manufactured with various recycled materials may soon attempt to break several land speed records.
The car was built...
A Celebrated Ocean Liner Is Being Turned into the World’s Largest Artificial Reef
For decades, the SS United States has been moored off Philadelphia as a reminder of the nation's seafaring past, but looking now to the future,...
Long Ago The Earth May Have Had a Ring Like Saturn–As Astroids Defied All Odds Hitting Only Around Equator
Researchers have found evidence suggesting that Earth may have had a ring system that formed 466 million years ago, a discovery that challenges the...
Before and After Photos of World’s Largest Dam Removal in Calif. Will Have You Cheering for Team Salmon (LOOK)
For years, California was slated to undertake the world's largest dam removal project in order to free the Klamath River to flow as it...