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Good News in History, September 11
On this day across history, imperial aggression was resisted or rolled back by indigenous peoples in both the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest (9)...
Good News in History, September 1
59 years ago today, relief pitcher Masanori "Mashi" Murakami trotted onto the mound for the SF Giants to pitch the final inning of a...
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...
AI Can Accurately Detect 20% More Breast Cancers than Traditional Screening by Radiologists
A trained radiologist assisted by artificial intelligence was able to spot 20% more breast cancers in mammogram screenings without any increase in false positives,...
Good News in History, July 14
40 years ago today, an arcade game designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi featured a pair of Italian brothers—Mario and Luigi, sent to...
24 Million Miles Ahead of Tesla, Autonomous Semi Truck Logs Accident-Free Milestone on Delivery Routes
China’s leading developer of autonomous driving technologies for heavy-duty trucks, today announced it has powered more than 24.8 million miles (40 million km) of...
Good News in History, July 7
71 years ago today, SS United States passed Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship...
Good News in History, June 12
372 years ago today, Gian Lorenzo Bernini finished La Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, or the fountain of four rivers, in the Piazza Navona, in Rome. It depicts...
June Stargazing: Planning A Summer Soltice Spectacle
The first day of summer; June 21st; the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It's a time marked by most ancient...
Good News in History, June 6
Happy 67th birthday to tennis star and heartthrob Björn Rune Borg, winner of 11 Grand Slam singles titles consisting of 6 French Opens and...
Much Like Stonehenge, Solstice Sunlight Would Have Danced on the Walls of This Neolithic Spanish Tomb
Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness.
Archaeologists working in Spain’s most famous...
Good News in History, May 30
48 years ago today, the European Space Agency was founded by ten member states: Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden,...
Good News in History, May 28
170 years ago today, the quite magnificent watercolor painter Carl Larsson was born in Sweden. Known for his portraits, Larsson was able to convey...
Good News in History, May 20
80 years ago today, the skeleton of the Luttra Woman, or Hallonflickan (Raspberry woman) was discovered in a bog near Luttra, Sweden. Hers are...
8-Year-Old Norwegian Girl Discovers Neolithic Flint Knife Among Stones on School Playground
A child's imagination can turn a molehill into a mountain, or a stick into a sword.
That wasn't necessarily required when Elise's teacher saw the...
1,000-Year-Old Viking Coins Found by Young Girl With Metal Detector in a Cornfield
A girl metal detecting in northwestern Denmark discovered nearly 300 silver coins dating back more than 1,000 years ago.
The hoard was discovered in a...
FDA Clears First Study of CRISPR Gene-Editing in Human Patients
In a national first, the Food and Drug Administration has given Intellia Therapeutics the go-ahead to begin testing a drug that uses CRISPR gene...
Refrigerator-Sized Data Center Transfers Its Heat to English Swimming Pool, Saving Thousands in Energy Costs
A refrigerator-sized data center is being used as an innovative solution to pool heating, saving thousands in fuel costs in England.
The "digital boiler" was...
Turning Problematic Sea Algae into a Replacement for Plastic in Common Products
After a Finnish scuba diver saw how harmful out-of-control algae blooms could be to the marine environment below their green clouds, she founded a...
2 Viking Swords Buried Upright May Have Been a Guide to Odin and Valhalla – Discovered By Road Crew
Swedish archeologists have unearthed two Viking swords from a burial mound in which they had been buried vertically, as if resting on their points.
As...