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🇺🇸 United States28 Sept

Newly Identified Frog-like Creature Named by Student Scientists After Their Moms

Good News Network

🌍 Somewhere2 Oct

The early universe wasn’t nearly as pristine as scientists thought

ScienceDaily

🌍 Somewhere2 Oct

Antarctica’s Wind Farm Saves 122,000 Gallons of Diesel Over 15 Years Powering McMurdo Station

Good News Network

🇯🇵 Japan29 Sept

What Japan’s 107,677 centenarians reveal about diet, lifestyle, and aging

The Optimist Daily

🇬🇷 Greece1 Oct

Stunning Collection of Stolen Greek Artifacts Spanning 5,000 Years Were Just Returned to Greece

Good News Network

🌍 Somewhere18 Sept

In Remote Alaska, the Promise and Limits of Vertical Farming

Reasons to be Cheerful

🌍 Somewhere30 Sept

A record-breaking X-ray flash may reveal the birth of a magnetar

ScienceDaily

🌍 Somewhere29 Sept

Colorado’s largest wildlife overpass cut I-25 collisions by 91 percent

The Optimist Daily

🌍 Somewhere30 Sept

Bats may have first evolved in Europe 65 million years ago

ScienceDaily

🇬🇧 United Kingdom1 Oct

‘Flourishing’ Sycamore Gap Tree Has Ring of New Shoots Already 3-Feet Tall

Good News Network

🇨🇳 China1 Oct

Chinese Commercial Reactor Achieves Nuclear Fusion with Clean Hydrogen-Boron Fuel

Good News Network

A bronze helmet with hammered decoration from Heraklion, Crete

🇬🇷 Greece25 Sept

See a Stunning Collection of Stolen Greek Artifacts, Spanning 5,000 Years, That Were Just Returned to Greece

Smithsonian

🇺🇸 United States27 Sept

New York City Collects $131 Million From DoorDash for Delivery Workers Unfairly Paid After $13 Billion Earnings

Good News Network

Archaeologists found a slate arrowhead they estimate to be between 5,000 and 6,000 years old.

🇳🇴 Norway1 Oct

In an Exciting but ‘Brutal’ Find, a 5,000-Year-Old Arrow Emerges From Norway’s Rapidly Melting Mountain Ice

Smithsonian

🇻🇳 Vietnam28 Sept

Vietnam Swiftly Protects Forests Containing the Last of the World’s Most-Endangered Monkey

Good News Network

🌍 Somewhere2 Oct

Ultrafast X-rays reveal how the light-responsive molecular switch azobenzene changes shape

Phys.org

🇦🇺 Australia1 Oct

Rising seas could cost Australia economic losses of $855 billion, study finds

Mongabay

🌍 Somewhere30 Sept

Why noise is an underestimated health hazard and what to do about it

The Optimist Daily

The indri is the only known species of lemur that sings.

🇲🇬 Madagascar2 Oct

These Wild Lemurs Sing Just Like Opera Stars, Widening Their Mouths as They Hit the High Notes, Study Suggests

Smithsonian

🌍 Somewhere29 Sept

A Place to Sleep for Denver’s Homeless College Students

Reasons to be Cheerful

🇩🇪 Germany25 Sept

What went right this week: a brighter future for Kosovo, plus more

Positive News

🇺🇸 United States3 Oct

Newly discovered hair cells on squid may offer clues to understanding hearing loss in humans

Phys.org

Scientists make a seaweed coating that beats the fridge for cutting food waste

🇨🇦 Canada14 Aug

Scientists make a seaweed coating that beats the fridge for cutting food waste

Anthropocene

Built in the mid-16th century, the&nbsp;Villa Silvestri Rivaldi sat abandoned for decades just a short walk from Rome&rsquo;s Colisseum. A new improvement project is revitalizing the complex and bringing its interior artworks to light.&nbsp;

🇮🇹 Italy29 Sept

In One of Rome’s Most Famed and Neglected Villas, Centuries-Old Risqué Frescoes, Painted Over by Nuns, Have Reappeared

Smithsonian

🇬🇭 Ghana28 Sept

18 Year-Old from the Bronx Starts Nonprofit to Sponsor School Children in Ghana

Good News Network

🇺🇸 United States30 Sept

First Ever Recorded Sea Turtle Nests on America’s West Coast

Good News Network

🌍 Somewhere2 Oct

NASA’s Roman telescope just opened its planet-hunting eye

ScienceDaily

🇫🇷 France28 Sept

Resilient French Farmers Use Warming Climate to Grow the Country’s Own Tropical Fruit

Good News Network

A display case featuring &quot;Dolls as Designers,&quot; including Yves Saint Laurent (second from left) and Anna Sui (second from right)

🇺🇸 United States28 Sept

Centuries Ago, Royals Dressed Up Their Dolls to Share the Latest Fashions. See How Barbies, Baby Dolls and Other Tiny Trendsetters Have Inspired Designers Ever Since

Smithsonian

🇫🇷 France29 Sept

This Stone Wall Seems to Have Finally Settled Debate About The Town That Became Paris

Good News Network

🇺🇬 Uganda2 Oct

Uganda and NGO to co-manage sector of national park home to tree-climbing lions

Mongabay

🌍 Somewhere4 Oct

AI Chatbots Will Never Replace Advice From Elders, Say Seven of 10 in New Poll

Good News Network

🇮🇳 India2 Oct

Women shoulder the burden of expanding wildfires in rural India

Mongabay

The 3,000-year-old skeleton of an Egyptian horse, believed to have been used in battle, was unearthed from an archaeological site in the Nile River Delta.

🇪🇬 Egypt24 Sept

A 3,000-Year-Old Warhorse Burial and a Ramses II Tablet, Among Other Relics, Have Been Discovered in an Ancient Egyptian Fortress

Smithsonian

🌍 Somewhere2 Oct

Researchers turn America's scattered local laws into a free searchable database covering all 50 states

Phys.org

🇧🇷 Brazil1 Oct

A first in Brazil: Black-faced lion tamarins vaccinated

Mongabay

🌍 Somewhere3 Oct

ESA’s Juice just used Earth as a slingshot to Jupiter

ScienceDaily

🇦🇷 Argentina1 Oct

How Argentina’s battery-powered Tren Solar is recharging an ancient Andean route

The Optimist Daily

The exhibition features damaged art from all over the world.

🌍 Somewhere2 Oct

A New Exhibition Spotlights 4,500 Years of Broken, Shot-Up and Degraded Artworks to Explore the ‘Power of the Fragment’

Smithsonian

A newly identified stick insect species, Anchiale&nbsp;mabiensis, can be found in the Mabi Forest of Australia.

🇦🇺 Australia25 Sept

Two New Stick Insect Species Have Been Discovered in Australia—and Another One Was Hiding in Plain Sight

Smithsonian

🌍 Somewhere1 Oct

This diet may slow brain aging by 2.5 years

ScienceDaily

Left: An olive ridley turtle nesting near the Huntington Beach Pier. Right: Eggs laid near Seal Beach.&nbsp;

🇨🇷 Costa Rica25 Sept

In a First, Sea Turtles Were Spotted Nesting on the U.S. West Coast. Scientists Say the 'Super' El Niño Could Have Brought Them There

Smithsonian

An 1857 storage jar signed by David Drake

🌍 Somewhere29 Sept

The Milwaukee Art Museum Just Returned Two Ceramics Made by Enslaved Potter David Drake to His Descendants

Smithsonian

🇵🇹 Portugal2 Oct

Fighting dengue with sterile insects: Lisbon’s experimental approach

The Optimist Daily

🌍 Somewhere30 Sept

Cannabis users were twice as likely to commit violence, review finds

ScienceDaily

The wall is made of stone and wood; initial radiocarbon dating places its origin between 200 B.C.E. and 10 B.C.E.

🇫🇷 France25 Sept

Two Thousand Years Ago, Julius Caesar Conquered the Settlement That Eventually Became Paris. Archaeologists May Have Just Found It

Smithsonian

Jason Graziadei, editor in chief of the Nantucket Current, snapped this photo after getting a tip from a reader.

🌍 Somewhere29 Sept

In 1884, Gale-Force Winds Ran a Ship Aground Near Cape Cod. Now, the Nor’easter Lashing the East Coast May Have Uncovered Part of It

Smithsonian

Ancient buffalo DNA lays out a roadmap to rehabilitating healthy herds

🌍 Somewhere19 Aug

Ancient buffalo DNA lays out a roadmap to rehabilitating healthy herds

Anthropocene

🌍 Somewhere3 Oct

Chang’e-6 lunar soil contains a surprising magnetic time capsule

ScienceDaily

A 100-year-old freezer rule has a hidden climate cost

🌍 Somewhere25 Sept

A 100-year-old freezer rule has a hidden climate cost

Anthropocene

The life-size statue depicted Benjamin Harrison, the nation&rsquo;s 23rd president.

🌍 Somewhere2 Oct

An Arson Investigation Is Underway After a Suspected ‘Senseless Act of Vandalism’ Destroys a Newly Installed Benjamin Harrison Statue

Smithsonian

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