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Good News in History, March 16
184 years ago today, Shibusawa Eiichi was born in Japan. Known as "The Father of Japanese Capitalism" this economist and industrialist introduced Western free...
High School Student Invents an A.I. Powered Trap That Zaps Invasive Lanternflies
A New Jersey high school senior has won a place as a finalist in the nation's most prestigious science fair with a clever new...
Wasabi Can Be Used as Ecofriendly Preservation Tool for the Ancient Knowledge Contained on Papyrus
Papyrus was the premier writing material of the ancients, and an international team of researchers has discovered that wasabi, the spicy green goop you...
Tube of Red Lipstick 4,000 Years Old Unearthed in Iran Bears ‘Striking Resemblance’ to Modern Ingredients
While the ancient Egyptians may have made eyeliner famous, a stunningly detailed archaeological find shows that ancient Iranians may have held the first patents...
Deep Sea Octopus Nursery With 4 New Species Confirmed by Marine Biologists
The Schmidt Ocean Institute recently announced a set of absolutely incredible results from one of their expeditions 2 miles below the seas of Costa...
Images of Mars Eclipse Sparks Amusement Because it Looks Like a Googly Eye
The Perseverance rover on Mars recorded the potato-shaped moon of Phobos crossing in front of the Sun last week—a Martian eclipse.
The rover was able...
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...
Child Naturalist Discovers a Giant New Stick Insect Then Co-Authors the Paper and Names the Bug
By Ebed de Rosary
In March 2021, Davis Marthin Damaledo set out on foot accompanied by his father, Dantje, to pursue his childhood fascination with...
Explorers Think They’ve Found Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Airplane After Using Undersea Sonar
The mystery behind the disappearance of Amelia Earhart over the Pacific Ocean has fascinated people for years. But after a recent deep-sea sonar survey,...
1,000 Manatees Converge on Florida State Park to Keep Warm in Record-Breaking Sighting
Those are not rocks you see in this beautiful turquoise water. They aren't fish either; as incredible as it sounds, those are manatees.
At Blue...
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...
Dozens of Strange 12-Sided Objects from Roman Times Have Been Found—No One Knows What They’re For
Across Europe, but particularly in Britain where residents love a weekend out with a metal detector, dozens of 'dodecahedrons' from the Roman Empire have...
Cicadas Are Coming: Rare ‘Dual Emergence’ Could Awaken a Trillion Bugs of 2 Species – First Time in 221 yrs
No one alive today will see it again—the convergence of two cicada broods that will practically shake the Midwest with their chirping.
The appearance of...
Good News in History, January 23
80 years ago today, the classic film Casablanca premiered on screens across the US. Beloved for the onscreen chemistry between the two lead actors,...
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Cities Hidden in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Another ancient and lost city has been identified by archaeologists working with LiDAR in the Amazon Rainforest—with this most recent society dating as far...
Elton John Just Achieved EGOT Status with Emmy Win–Only 19 People Have Done it in History
It's not referring to a tropical disease to say that someone has an EGOT. It means they've got a mantlepiece at home where stand...
Protecting The Great Wall of China From Erosion, Lichen Soil Crust Shields Monument from Weather Damage
For centuries, soldiers stood guard along the Great Wall of China, defending the heartland of the North China Plain from nomadic invaders like the...
These 385 Million-year-old Tree Roots Look Just Like Ours, and Tell a Tale Just Like Ours
Trees were one of the oldest dominant life forms on Earth, but the most important component of a tree, the roots, are currently shrouded...
NASA Turns Light into Sound Frequency Creating a Milky Way Symphony (LISTEN)
A collaboration between NASA and musicians has seen a photograph of the Milky Way from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory turned into a musical piece...
A Forgotten Masterpiece Was Hanging Above a French Woman’s Hot Plate–Now, it’s Heading to the Louvre
A few years ago, the art world was abuzz with news that a painting by the 13th-century master Cimabue was discovered and was going...