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In response to a steep rise in obesity among children, some public schools are taking action. It shocked me to learn that only 6...

CTV reports on Bioengineers at the University of Calgary who have successfully grown insulin-producing cells in a lab, which they say marks a major...

VLADIVOSTOK — The first birth of Amur tiger cubs in over a century has been reported in southeast Siberia, according to World Wildlife Fund. Scientists...

February 15, 2006 — Two lost worlds were in the news last week. One was discovered halfway around the world, but the other is right...

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A new coral reef was discovered off the Thai coast, which is home to over 30 types of hard corals and at least 112...

What is human nature? Are we basically good, evil, or a little of both? Philosophers have debated this throughout the ages, but today science...

The European Space Agency (ESA) agreed to launch a copy of its lost Cryosat Satellite to definitively measure the effect of climate change on...

Good news is often considered too soft and unimportant to be valuable in one’s real life. The truth is, good news can create concrete,...

CBS Evening News Katie Couric's Notebook (Video) "The Good News Network is devoted to all the good news that's fit to print... When...

Chicken Fat Heats Buildings - Alternative to Imported Oil University of Georgia scientists say chicken fat, restaurant grease, and other ‘bio-fuels’ are a good...

A revolution has turned around Central Alternative High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, and its ‘problem kids’, sent there from twelve area schools. Respect, achievement,...

Scientists have discovered a microbe that interacts with a hazardous industrial chemical in tainted groundwater rendering it biodegradable. Trichloroethane (TCA) is an industrial solvent and...

Steller sea lions in Alaska are making a comeback. An aerial survey of the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands spotted more than 19,000...

A group of upstart scientists, scholars and researchers in the field of psychology have decided that it is more important to focus on what...

A quick rundown of 11 bright spots that are healing the globe, from Cairo to California, from Bolivia to British Columbia, From Moroco to...

For the first time in more than a century, whooping cranes will migrate across the skies of eastern North America this fall. It all started...

In a rare show of consensus, scientists, fishermen, environmentalists and area residents are joining together to restore the Chesapeake Bay's historic shellfish bars, or...

Hours before the final deadline, Pacific Lumber agreed to accept federal and state funds totaling nearly a quarter billion dollars in exchange for the...

The Trumpeter Swan, native to the Atlantic seaboard for thousands of years, was killed by settlers in such numbers that by 1932 only 69...