DATE: April 06, 2025 at 08:51AM
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TITLE: 300-Year-old Trees Along Detroit River Gain Recognition as Old-Growth Forest

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Who would ever guess that right outside Detroit a native forest has stood undisturbed for centuries—but now, the 300 year-old trees are gaining more respect. The Old-Growth Forest Network, dedicated to protecting trees in the U.S., has officially recognized 32 acres of centuries-old forest near one of the largest metropolitan areas in America. The grove […]

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DATE: April 06, 2025 at 03:00AM
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TITLE: Good News in History, April 6

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60 years ago today, the first commercial communications satellite, Intelsat I, was placed in geosynchronous orbit. The tiny 2-foot device (nicknamed Early Bird for the proverb “The early bird catches the worm”) was the first to provide direct and nearly instantaneous contact between Europe and North America, handling television, telephone, and fax transmissions. READ about […]

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DATE: April 05, 2025 at 07:53PM
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TITLE: Philadelphia Zoo’s 100-Year-old Galapagos Tortoises Hatch 4 Babies–to Help Ensure Species Survival

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The Philadelphia Zoo is overjoyed to announce the hatching of four critically endangered Galapagos tortoises for the first time in the Zoo’s 150 year history. The parents, Western Santa Cruz tortoises, are the Zoo’s two oldest residents, each estimated to be around 100 years old. Additionally, the female named Mommy is considered one of the […]

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DATE: April 05, 2025 at 03:38PM
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TITLE: Man is ‘Overwhelmed’ as His Bengal Cat is Returned After 16-year Absence

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A missing kitten has been finally reunited with her owner sixteen years after vanishing from the backyard. Sunshine disappeared from owner Carl Pullen’s garden in 2009 when she was around three-years-old. Carl presumed the pedigree Bengal cat was stolen because the breed can be sold for many hundreds of dollars in England—and she was never […]

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DATE: April 05, 2025 at 01:20PM
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TITLE: Those Who Got Shingles Vaccine Were 20% Less Likely to Get Dementia in Study of 280,000 Seniors 

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Older people who received the vaccine for shingles had a 20% lower risk of dementia, according to researchers who called the results “remarkable”. The study looked into the health records of seniors in Wales and revealed that those who received the shingles vaccine were 20% less likely to develop dementia over the next seven years […]

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DATE: April 05, 2025 at 03:00AM
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TITLE: Good News in History, April 5

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49 years ago today, the April 5th Incident helped pave the way for the end of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, and with it, Maoist communism in the country via rule by the Gang of Four. Leaders at the time along with eyewitnesses believed there was nothing organized about the incident, and it was in fact […]

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DATE: April 04, 2025 at 02:30PM
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TITLE: World’s Smallest Pacemaker is Made for Newborns, Activated by Light, and Requires No Surgery

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Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so small that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe and be non-invasively injected into the body, according to a new study published in Nature. Although it can work with hearts of all sizes, the pacemaker is particularly well-suited to the tiny, fragile hearts of newborn […]

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DATE: April 04, 2025 at 11:30AM
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TITLE: A Treetop Walkway Perched Above Zoo Animals in Minnesota is Winning Awards and Hearts (LOOK)

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There’s no better way to observe and enjoy wildlife than when they aren’t aware of your presence, and hoping to create these conditions at the Minnesota Zoo, the administration has converted an old monorail track into a pedestrian walkway that’s winning awards. Opened in 2023, the Treetop Trail was recently called the Best Specialty Construction […]

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DATE: April 04, 2025 at 09:00AM
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TITLE: Village Saves its Phone Booth with Campaign to Make More Calls – and Preserve a ‘Lifeline’

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When non-Britons imagine the classic red phone box, it would seem like the strangest decision ever to get rid of one, charming and iconic as they are. Yet a rural village called Sharrington, in Norfolk, woke up one morning to find a notice on their neighborhood British Telecom phone box saying that not enough calls […]

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DATE: April 04, 2025 at 07:00AM
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TITLE: Sunshine Coast Recycles Wastewater to Irrigate Farms–Instead of Dumping in River

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After 10 years of planning and AUD$120 million in investments, one of Australia’s fastest-growing areas will be diverting 500 million gallons of treated wastewater from being dumped into rivers and eventually the sea. What’s more, the water is set to take over irrigation needs for thousands of acres of farmland—all the better considering this is […]

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DATE: April 04, 2025 at 03:00AM
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TITLE: Good News in History, April 4

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/events060404/

50 years ago today, Microsoft was founded as a partnership between childhood friends and computer whiz-kids Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The company became the largest seller of software in the world, developing MS-DOS for early IBM PCs, and later, Windows, and Microsoft Office. Its market capitalization has topped $1 trillion, and through various acquisitions […]

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DATE: April 03, 2025 at 02:30PM
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TITLE: Uncovered Plesiosaur Fossil Suggests Multiple Types of Long-Necked Reptiles Prowled Oceans 180 Million Years Ago

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The nearly complete specimen of a known plesiosaur species is opening scientists’ eyes to the diversification of these ancient marine reptiles during the Early Jurassic period. Found in southern Germany, Plesiopterys wildi, a relatively small species measuring 10 feet long, is the only member of its genus, and a study published in the journal PeerJ Life […]

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DATE: April 03, 2025 at 11:30AM
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TITLE: ‘Angel Eye Cameras’ Let Parents of Premature Babies Check-in on Neonatal Ward Whenever Anxiety Strikes

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1 in every 10 women in the United States will experience the premature birth of their child. A heroic organization is helping these women keep two eyes on their baby even if they are miles away. Called the AngelEye System, developed by the firm of the same name, it’s a camera with a remotely-accessible 24-hour […]

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DATE: April 03, 2025 at 10:17AM
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TITLE: Record Number of 736,000 Sandhill Cranes Flock to Nebraska in Spring Migration–with No Bird Flu

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Fears that Nebraska’s annual spring migration of sandhill cranes could be the avian equivalent of a “superspreader” event have been completely abated, as a record-setting stopover in Nebraska of thousands of birds was enjoyed without any sign of a bird flu outbreak. Three-quarters of a million cranes migrating north to their spring habitat landed in […]

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DATE: April 03, 2025 at 07:00AM
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TITLE: 3-year-old Finds Ancient Egyptian Scarab Seal at the Site of David and Goliath’s Battle

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A child in central Israel could have picked up any old stone lying on the ground, but the one she nabbed turned out to be rather more than just an old stone. Believed to have been brought to modern-day Israel by the Ancient Egyptians, 3-year-old Ziv Nitzan found a scarab amulet that could be 3,800 […]

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DATE: April 03, 2025 at 03:00AM
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TITLE: Good News in History, April 3

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Happy Birthday to Dame Jane Goodall who turns 91 years old today. The beloved British primatologist first observed chimpanzees creating tools in 1960 (and 2 years earlier had been a secretary). It was the first time that an animal was observed to modify an object to create a tool for a specific purpose. She studied […]

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DATE: April 03, 2025 at 12:57AM
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DATE: April 02, 2025 at 02:30PM
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TITLE: Kazakhstan Efforts to Restore Last Wild Equine Species Receive Huge Boost of 150 Horses

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With the imminent arrival of 150 Przewalski’s horses to the Kazakh steppes, the future of the world’s last non-domesticated horse species is poised to bolt. Following up on a successful introduction of 5 mares and 2 stallions from Berlin and Prague, Hungary’s Minister of Agriculture István Nagy announced the country would be shipping 150 horses […]

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DATE: April 02, 2025 at 11:30AM
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TITLE: Shelved Movie ‘Wile E. Coyote vs. Acme’ Will Finally Hit Screens with a Hilarious Plotline

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Few in America will likely be aware that a critically acclaimed live-action/animated Looney Tunes movie starring Wile E. Coyote was wholly made, then shelved by Warner Bros. studios. However, after a raucous outcry from the creative team who fell in love with the project and spent months bringing it to life, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) […]

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DATE: April 02, 2025 at 09:00AM
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TITLE: Mausoleum with Gladiator’s Epitaph Discovered in Imperial Roman Colony in Southern Italy

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In the southern Italian region of Campania, excavations in a known Roman colony called Liternum have uncovered a necropolis of substantial historic interest containing a gladiator’s tomb bearing an inscription in his honor. One of the most romanticized of all ancient warrior societies, the mausoleum where the inscription was found suggests that these gladiators could […]

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