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Monarch Butterflies Use Medicinal Plants to Treat Offspring for Disease
Monarch butterflies appear to use medicinal plants to treat their offspring for disease, research by biologists at Emory University shows. Their findings were published...
Mexico Invests to Protect Monarch Butterflies
Mexico's president pledged $4.6 million to protect the forested nesting grounds which are the winter home for millions of monarch butterflies. (Nat'l Geographic )...
Good News in History, February 24
188 years ago today, one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America, Winslow Homer, was born. Born in Boston to a father always seeking...
Good News in History, January 18
80 years ago today, the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosted its first-ever jazz concert. A star-studded lineup of performers was acquired...
Good News in History, December 28
50 years ago today, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published The Gulag Archipelago, a literary investigation of the prison-labor camp system in the Soviet Union between 1918...
Good News in History, December 10
199 years ago today, the Reverend Minister George MacDonald was born in Aberdeenshire. A pious and valued member of his community, MacDonald achieved a...
National Geographic Unveils Top ‘Pictures of the Year’ Captured From Nat Geo Photographers in 2023
Each year, National Geographic photographers canvass the globe to uncover stories that offer a new understanding of our world; and every day, Nat Geo’s...
Good News in History, November 3
118 years ago today, the prolific African-American painter Lois Mailou Jones was born. With her best works exhibited in a half-dozen fine arts museums...
Good News in History, October 20
50 years ago, the Sydney Opera House was officially opened by then-monarch Elizabeth II. Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, it is widely regarded...
Good News in History, October 9
On this day, in Game 2 of the 1909 World Series, Ty Cobb stole home base. The details around this famous of all capers...
Good News in History, October 5
Happy 65th Birthday to popular science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson. Born in the Big Apple without a star in the sky to look up...
New Colored Films Can Significantly Cool Cars And Buildings–Inspired by the Surface of Butterflies
New nanofilms could significantly reduce the energy needed for cooling buildings or vehicles.
Just like white clothing feels cooler than other colors due to reflecting...
Good News in History, August 13
118 years ago today, the Norwegian people voted themselves out of the union with Sweden that they had been subjected to for centuries following...
Good News in History, July 30
Happy 80th Birthday to the Jamaican ska and reggae musician, singer, and actor, Jimmy Cliff. After scoring his first hit at age 14, he...
Good News in History, July 28
130 years ago today, the Vizcaya Bridge, Spain's only UNESCO World Heritage Site of industrial heritage was completed. Spanning the two banks situated at...
Good News in History, July 26
Happy 80th Birthday to Sir Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. Born in Kent, England to a teacher and hairdresser, he’s spent more than...
Good News in History, July 24
48 years ago today, Giorgio Armani and Sergio Galeotti founded Giorgio Armani S.p.A (joint stock company) in Milan, Italy. Armani had no education in...
Good News in History, July 17
621 years ago, Zhu Di, one of the most impactful emperors ever to take the Mandate of Heaven assumed power in Beijing. Known as...
Good News in History, July 11
130 years ago today, a Japanese entrepreneur named Mikimoto Kōkichi created the first cultured pearl and subsequently started the cultured pearl industry with the...
Good News in History, June 17
90 years ago today, Harry Browne, among the first men to introduce Libertarianism to a national audience, was born in New York. Browne was...