Good News About Potential Upcoming Asteroid Colliding with Earth: We’ve Deflected Them Before and Can Do So Again

Got any plans for December 22nd, 2032? You may consider canceling them, as there’s a non-zero percent chance that an asteroid will strike the Earth with an explosive force equivalent to thousands of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima. But don’t worry! Despite being the only id … | Continue reading


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Cornell Researchers Create First-of-its-Kind Durable and Recyclable Plastic

The most durable plastic polymers used in society are never recycled, but a new discovery from Cornell University may be about to change that. Known as crosslinked thermosets, or thermosets for short, these plastics can be found in bowling balls, replacement hip joints, and car t … | Continue reading


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World’s Smallest Heart Pump ‘A Game-changer’ in Keeping Failing Hearts Going Without Major Surgery

A heart pump no bigger than a fountain pen has just been approved by the FDA for use in children, having already saved adult lives in a revolutionary way. Cardiologists don’t even need to open a chest cavity to install the Impella 5.5, the world’s smallest heart pump that can kee … | Continue reading


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Charcoal-like Substance Can Clean Industrial Pollution by Converting Toxic Heavy Metal into Essential Nutrient

Researchers from the University of Waterloo have discovered that a special form of charcoal is highly effective at absorbing chromium and transforming it from a toxic industrial waste form into the form seen in nutritional supplements. Chromium is a heavy metal that exists in two … | Continue reading


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The Rice Revolution: Slashing 70% of Methane Emissions While Boosting Yields

Scientists in China experimenting with rice cultivars have been able to crossbreed a non-GMO variety that produces 70% less methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is emitted in large amounts through rice cultivation. The team is now seeking to demonstrate the importance of this ne … | Continue reading


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Cats With Arthritis Are Wearing Caps in Groundbreaking Research to Understand and Relieve Their Pain

Cats are wearing hats for science—as researchers use brain scans to understand pain in arthritic felines, and find a way to soothe it. It’s a world first for veterinary scientists at the University of Montreal (UdeM): they found a way to scan the brains of cats while they’re stil … | Continue reading


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Ominous and Helmeted, New Species of Giant Deep-Sea Crustacean Named After Darth Vader

Though recently gaining the limelight as a superior alternative to lobster tail, a species of giant isopod is making headlines for another reason: it was never officially entered into the scientific record. Now that it has, it happened to be through the work of Peter Ng, a “carci … | Continue reading


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Sample of Asteroid Bennu Found to Contain More Building Blocks for Life Than Any Other Inside its Ancient Brine

In 2018, a NASA mission arrived at the near-Earth asteroid Bennu to collect pristine samples to be analyzed on Earth. By a country mile, there have never been more ingredients for life identified in a single extraterrestrial material of any kind, with Bennu carrying all five DNA … | Continue reading


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A Breath Away from Alzheimer’s Cure: How Xenon Gas Could Transform Treatments

A general anesthetic has been found to have the potentially added benefit of stimulating a neuroprotective effect against Alzheimer’s disease. Xenon is a colorless, odorless noble gas used for many purposes in science, but a recent study in mice found it stimulated the brain’s re … | Continue reading


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New Class of Matter Behaves Like a Solid and a Granule in Way Never Seen Before

From the depths of the engineering department at California Technical Institute comes a big one: a new class of matter. Though scientists are trained not to be, maybe laboratory director Chiara Daraio was being hyperbolic when she described the new material as such, but she and t … | Continue reading


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New Base Editing Gene Therapy Cures its First Patient: A Sickle-Cell Sufferer Now in the ‘Gym Every Day’

Though GNN has reported that several sickle cell disease patients have already been successfully treated with CRISPR gene editing technology, a new method of addressing this debilitating condition has been successfully demonstrated. Braden Baptiste has had sickle cell crises sinc … | Continue reading


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Rare Pterosaur Fossil Bears a Crocodile Bite from 76 Million Years Ago

76 million years ago, a young pterosaur dropped down from the skies to the water’s edge. Perhaps looking for a snack in the form of a prehistoric fish, the juvenile almost ended up becoming a meal itself. Or it may actually have, we’ll never know for certain, but a punctured vert … | Continue reading


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Mysterious Clay Mounds on Mars Were Formed by Ancient Water, Says New British Study (Photos)

A new British study reveals the mysterious mounds found on Mars were formed by ancient water. Thousands of mounds and hills in the Red Planet’s barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks here were once soaked with water. These mounds are a … | Continue reading


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Breakthrough Single-Dose Drug Wipes Out Breast Tumors in Mice Without Side Effects

In the search for better and better treatments for breast cancer, medical researchers at the Univ. of Illinois have synthesized a remarkable substance. In small tumors, a single dose of ErSO-TFPy eliminated them entirely, while the same dose significantly shrank large tumors. In … | Continue reading


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Researchers Identify Grooves and Indents in Cave Floor as World’s Oldest 3D Map

In a proud moment for our heritage, researchers have found evidence that Stone Age humans carved a map of their territory into the floor of a cave in modern France. Chipping away to create indentations for basins, these pioneering cartographers then cut grooves into the cave floo … | Continue reading


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Carrots May Be Key to Unlocking Microbiome’s Diabetes Defense System

An anti-fungal agent produced naturally by carrots has been suggested in a new study to substantially aid in the regulation of blood sugar. The authors suggest that carrots may be a useful, low-cost, non-pharmaceutical diabetes treatment, although as the study was only conducted … | Continue reading


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Scientists Drill Ice Core–2 Miles Down–Extracting 1.2 Million Years of Climate Record On Earth

An international team of scientists in the Antarctic has successfully extracted what is believed to be the world’s oldest ice—a historic milestone for climate science. They drilled down almost two miles to extract 2.8-km of ice core, reaching the actual bedrock beneath the Antarc … | Continue reading


@goodnewsnetwork.org | 19 days ago

When Car’s Windshield is Smashed, Clever Son Spots Nearby Rock and Discovers a Meteorite as the Culprit

A family woke up and found their car windshield with a hole in it, but their curious son soon cracked the mystery. Paul Butler and his family were watching TV the night before when they heard a loud bang outside, but dismissed the noise as holiday fireworks and went to bed. The n … | Continue reading


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Scientists Turn Industrial Waste into Batteries for Storing Renewable Energy

A team at Northwestern University has transformed an industrial waste product into a battery for storing sustainable energy. While many iterations of these batteries are in production or being researched for grid-scale applications, using a waste molecule, in this case, triphenyl … | Continue reading


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Scientists Develop Biodegradable Smart Textile–A Big Leap Forward for Eco-Friendly Wearable Technology 

Wearable electronic textiles can be both sustainable and biodegradable, shows a new study. A research team led by the University of Southampton and UWE Bristol in the UK tested a new sustainable approach for fully inkjet-printed, eco-friendly e-textiles. Named SWEET—for Smart, We … | Continue reading


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Beyond the ‘Dragon Arc’ Astronomers Unveil a Treasure Trove of Hidden Stars

Observing individual stars halfway across the observable universe has generally been regarded as impossible in astronomy, akin to trying to use binoculars to see individual grains of dust in the Moon’s craters—yet that’s exactly what the James Webb Space Telescope just accomplish … | Continue reading


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Coffee Drinkers Less at Risk of Head and Neck Cancers, New Research Suggests

The last 15 years have seen a remarkable change in the clinical considerations of coffee. Studies examining the caffeinated beverage for its potential effects on more than several different biological systems, from the kidneys to mood, have pinned it as something like a health dr … | Continue reading


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Hummingbirds Live an Extreme Lifestyle Thriving on All Sugar Diet That Would Put Us in a Coma

(Originally published by Knowable Magazine—Written by Bob Holmes) Everyone loves to watch hummingbirds—tiny, brightly colored blurs that dart about, hovering at flowers and pugnaciously defending their ownership of a feeder. But to the scientists who study them, hummingbirds offe … | Continue reading


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Astronomers Finally Pin Down the Origins of Fast Radio Bursts–By Analyzing Their Powerful Twinkling

Mysterious radio bursts from outer space first discovered in 2007, last only a millisecond but can carry an enormous amount of energy—enough to briefly outshine entire galaxies. Since that first fast radio burst, or FRB, astronomers have detected thousands more, whose locations r … | Continue reading


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Itching Solution: New Approach Could Treat Inflammatory Skin Conditions Like Eczema with ‘Huge Benefits’

A new way of treating common inflammatory skin conditions such as eczema is on the horizon, according to a new study. American researchers discovered that a compound called SYM2081 inhibited certain cells that drive inflammation in mice and human skin samples. They say it paves t … | Continue reading


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January Night Sky Lit by a ‘Planet Parade’ with Excellent Viewing of Mars, Venus, and Jupiter

It’s not an alignment, but the January sky will be lit up with the lights of our solar system neighbors. As the eight planets move about our star along the plane of the ecliptic, certain periods of certain years offer extra-special opportunities to see them shining bright. This J … | Continue reading


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Study Finds First Evidence That Heart Muscles Can Regenerate

A study looking at the bearers of artificial hearts found that a subset of them can regenerate heart muscle tissue—the first time such an observation has ever been made. It may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure, the deadliest non-communicab … | Continue reading


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Scientists Make Key Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Identifying Cellular Stress-Related Mechanism Driving the Disease

Scientists investigating Alzheimer’s disease have made a key breakthrough, identifying a vital cellular mechanism driving the most common cause of dementia. The research from the City University of New York (CUNY) provides a promising target for drug therapies that could slow, an … | Continue reading


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Cotton-and-Squid-Bone Sponge Can Soak Up 99.9% of Microplastics, Scientists Say

A matrix of squid bone and cotton cellulose offers a low-cost, scalable solution to global microplastic poisoning according to a new study from China. Attempting to find a material that would address all common concerns with microplastic filtration, the scientists’ cotton-squid s … | Continue reading


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Solar Eclipses ‘On Demand’ Mark New Era for Scientists Studying the Physics of Our Sun

Using a pair of satellites, the European Space Agency is set to be able to create artificial solar eclipses on-demand to study one of the most important features of our Sun. Lost in the sheer brightness of the star, the corona, or crown of the Sun, is hotter and larger than the S … | Continue reading


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Robot ‘Grasshopper’ Helps Restore Lost Seagrass Meadows Around the World

One of the least respected but most important ecosystems on Earth are seagrass meadows, and a pioneering robotic solution is helping marine scientists restore these underwater gardens. The ReefGen Grasshopper can plant dozens of seagrass seeds per minute. Not only is this faster … | Continue reading


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Australia to Jump into Space Exploration with the ‘Roo-ver’ the Nation’s First Lunar Robot

Meet the little buggie that’s going to take the nation Down Under, up and over. This is the ‘Roo-ver’, Australia’s first major contribution to robotic space exploration as the first Lunar rover ever launched by the prosperous country. A consortium of 21 different private firms, u … | Continue reading


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Astro-Photographer Reveals a Cosmic Grinch in a Holiday-Themed Star Cluster 

Just in time for the holidays, a new version of the so-called “Christmas tree cluster” shows a green-tinged image of young stars that resembles the grumpy Grinch character. The Grinchy Christmas tree cluster, named NGC 2264, is a group of young stars between one and five million … | Continue reading


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Revolutionary Infertility Treatment Uses Tiny ‘Robots’ to Clear a Pathway in Clogged Tubes

Tens of millions of people worldwide affected by infertility due to fallopian tube obstruction may soon benefit from a tiny robotic screw capable of clearing the pathway. Researchers at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) developed the innovative solution using … | Continue reading


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Face of Real St. Nicholas Reconstructed with 3D Tech Shows He Did Look Like Santa Claus

In one of the more fascinating pieces of Christmas news you’ll read this year, scientists studying the skull of the real man who became St. Nicholas, found that his facial proportions match pretty well with those described in Twas the Night Before Christmas. Using 3D digital faci … | Continue reading


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New York Homeowner’s Yardwork Reveals Complete Mastodon Jaw Bones and Teeth

From New York comes the story of a complete adult mastodon jaw unearthed during yard work. The jaw, along with additional bone fragments and teeth, was recovered by researchers from the New York State Museum and are scheduled for carbon dating and comprehensive analysis to determ … | Continue reading


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Scientists Finally Discovery Why Some Cats Are Orange–and Why They Tend to Be Males

Orange cats have won a reputation for being energetic rascals. In Italy, it’s said the red cat is always the leader. That’s probably because red/orange cats are almost always males, and now we know why thanks to two teams of scientists probing the genetic lineage of the orange co … | Continue reading


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These Tiny Implantable Sensors Helped Broken Bones Heal in Weeks Rather Than Months

Scientists have invented a set of tiny sensors that can help tailor rehabilitation programs for those recovering from broken bones. Proper rehabilitation is key to ensuring the natural repair process is carried out correctly, and the devices offered crucial feedback that sped up … | Continue reading


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Tiny Planet Makes Big Splash as Surprise Study Shows it May Be Producing its Own Organic Compounds

In 2017, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft sent data back to Earth from the dwarf planet Ceres, located in our solar system’s main asteroid belt, that the body contained deposits of organic compounds. At first, it was hypothesized that these were deposited by comet or asteroid impact, but a … | Continue reading


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Stanford Scientists Transform Ubiquitous Skin Bacterium into a Topical Vaccine Against Tetanus

Imagine a world in which a vaccine is a cream you rub onto your skin instead of a needle a health sector worker pushes into one of your muscles. Even better, it’s cheap, entirely pain-free, and not followed by fever, swelling, redness, or a sore arm. No standing in a long line to … | Continue reading


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Cure for Pre-Eclampsia is On Horizon as Researcher Discovers Lipid Nanoparticle to Deliver Directly to Placenta

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have made a critical breakthrough that promises better outcomes for pregnancies threatened with pre-eclampsia, a condition that arises due to insufficient blood flow to the placenta, resulting in high maternal blood pressure and restric … | Continue reading


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Eating Dark Chocolate Is Associated with Lower Risk of Diabetes Type 2 in Large Study

In a US study of 192,000 participants, five servings of dark chocolate a week was associated with a lower risk of developing type-2 diabetes. This was in direct contrast to milk chocolate consumption, which was not associated with any protective effect, and rather was linked to h … | Continue reading


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Archaeologists Discover Huge Iron Age ‘Weapon Sacrifice’ – A Curious Custom Predating Vikings

During work on the E45 motorway in Denmark, archaeologists uncovered a large ‘weapon sacrifice’ consisting of hundreds of bladed weapons from the late Iron Age. Alongside the iron armaments, an incredibly valuable chainmail cuirass and other artifacts were also interred, indicati … | Continue reading


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Trillions of Microscopic Sea Plankton Recruited to Solve the Carbon Problem

American scientists have proposed a new method for recruiting trillions of microscopic sea creatures and their insatiable appetites for the fight against climate change. The technique harnesses the animals’ daily habits to essentially accelerate the ocean’s natural cycle for remo … | Continue reading


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Shipwreck Near Kenya May Be from Vasco da Gama’s Final Voyage and Would Be ‘Archaeological Stardust’

Not far off the Kenyan coast, maritime archaeologists believe they have found the wreckage of a galleon belonging to Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese navigator who found the route to India around Africa. While the true provenance of the vessel is unclear, the discovery would be of m … | Continue reading


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UPDATE: High Schoolers Who Found ‘Impossible’ Proof of Pythagorean Theorem Discover 9 More Solutions to it

Last year GNN reported on two Louisiana high schoolers who used trigonometry to properly demonstrate Pythagoras’ Theorum, a mathematical concept that remained unsolved for more than 2,000 years. Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson made national headlines, won their school a large … | Continue reading


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Dogs Were Already ‘Man’s Best Friend’ at Least 12,000 Years Ago in the Americas

Dogs first became “man’s best friend” at least 12,000 years ago, suggests new research. Indigenous people in the Americas began forming close relationships with the ancestors of today’s dogs around 2,000 years earlier than previously recorded on the continent, based on remains fo … | Continue reading


@goodnewsnetwork.org | 2 months ago

First Human Skin Map Provides ‘Recipe’ That Could Prevent Scarring And Facilitate Hair Transplants

Skin is the largest organ of the human body, measuring on average two square meters. It provides a protective barrier, regulates our body temperature and can regenerate itself. But I bet you didn’t know that skin develops in the sterile environment of the womb, with all hair foll … | Continue reading


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