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Rare Ocelot Caught on Camera in Arizona, the First Sighting in the Area for 50 Years
From Arizona comes the story of a remarkable animal sighting: an ocelot, one of the world's most well-known small wildcat species.
Mostly native to South...
13,000 Years Ago, These Ancient Builders Carved a Calendar into Stone to Mark Destructive Occasion
Whatever we learned in school about the earliest human civilizations, the discovery of Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey has made it all null and...
Good News in History, August 12
174 years ago today, Issac Singer received his patent for the improved sewing machine, paving the way for his eventual invention to spread across...
Good News in History, August 4
And, 40 years ago today, Prince began a 24-week run at the top of the US album charts with Purple Rain. His sixth studio...
Good News in History, August 1
59 years ago today, Frank Herbert's epic science-fiction novel Dune was published. Set in the distant future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which various...
NASA Stunned by Discovery After Mars Rover Breaks Open a Rock
NASA’s old but still kickin' Curiosity rover drove over a boulder, which crumbled to reveal yellow sulfur crystals.
Rocks made of pure sulfur have never...
First Beaver in 400 Years Born in English Countryside as Reintroduced Pair Gives Birth–and Spurs Return of Nature
England is celebrating the first pair of beaver kits born in the country since they were reintroduced back into the country's north last year.
Landscape...
Families in Tiny Texas Town Have Adopted 77 Hard-to-Adopt Kids Inspired By Their Baptist Church Leaders
On the 4th of July, over 2,000 theaters across America ran the film adaptation of the incredible true story from a small town in...
Two Rare Parrots Sent From Different Zoos So They Might ‘Fall in Love’ and Save Species With Just 300 Wild Birds Left
Two of the world's most endangered parrots have been united as part of a breeding program to help save the beautiful species from extinction.
The...
Four Frugal Methods to Cool Down Without A/C This Summer
Depending on where you live, air conditioning in summertime is a luxury or a necessity. Depending on the size of your bank account and...
Good News in History, June 25
68 years ago today, the renegade travel host and chef Anthony Bourdain, was born. With his food and culture show, No Reservations, and the...
Good News in History, June 5
171 years ago today, Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, was first published in the abolitionist periodical The National...
Man Finds Meteorite After Seeing Green Light in the Sky: It was Warm and Burnt and ‘May Be From Halley’s Comet’
An English homeowner described his shock after watching a suspected meteorite burst through the sky and land near his property.
Dan Charlton was standing in...
Endangered Pupfish Found Only in a Death Valley Cave Springs Back to Life in Numbers at 25-Year High
Quick: Where is the most unlikely place to find a fish in the USA? Unless your answer was Death Valley, you were probably wrong.
The...
Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny
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...
Take a Trip to the Earth’s Quietest Room Where You Can Hear Yourself Blink
If you were asked where the most silent place on Earth is, you might respond Antarctica or somewhere in the Sahara Desert, but you'd...
Astronaut Training Pays Off at 90: Ed Dwight Finally Reaches Space, Making History as Oldest to Ever Do it
60 years after passing Air Force selection as a candidate to be the first African-American astronaut, Edward Dwight fulfilled that dream by blasting off...
Good News in History, May 19
27 years ago today, the Sierra Gorda Biosphere was established as a protected area through grassroots efforts. The most ecologically diverse landscape in Mexico...
Good News in History, May 18
On this day 976 years ago, the astronomy and mathematician of the Seljuk Dynasty of Persia, Omar Khayyam, was born. Most famous for calculating...
Good News in History, May 12
565 years ago today, Jodhpur, the "Sun City," the "Blue City," was founded amid the stark lands of the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India....