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After 5-yo Diagnosed with Rare Disease, Little Sister Wanted to Be Her ‘Brave’ Bone Marrow Donor

From Salt Lake City comes the touching story of a 5-year-old girl saved thanks to a bone marrow transplant from none other than her 2-year-old sister. Emma Meline was diagnosed with an extremely rare bone disease after her mother Amanda brought her to the pediatrician with a rash and swelling on her leg. Little Lucy, The post After 5-yo Diagnosed with Rare Disease, Little Sister Wanted to Be Her […]

Biotech Startup Breeds Blight Tolerant American Chestnut Without Any Genetic Defects

At the intersection of big data, forestry, and genomics, a biotech startup has birthed a generation of “elite” blight-resistant American chestnut trees without deep genetic tinkering. The company is inspired by saving American hardwoods that have been ravaged by an introduced fungal disease, and says their proprietary approach could be replicated to help save American The post Biotech […]

The underground fridge that keeps food cool – even in a heatwave

Inspired by olden days ice houses, this underground fridge uses the earth’s stable temperature to keep food cool The post The underground fridge that keeps food cool – even in a heatwave appeared first on Positive News.

Senior Center Worker Celebrates 50 Years on the Job Without Using a Single Sick Day

Tom McKievick says his job is challenging yet entertaining, a good combination for a perspective career. Yet when he saw the newspaper ad for the job at Fredericka Manor senior living community in Chula Vista, California, all the way back in 1976, he wasn’t intending to embark on a career. Now, 50 years later, the The post Senior Center Worker Celebrates 50 Years on the Job Without Using a […]

This Grandpa Has Spent 8 Years Cuddling a Hospitaland#039;s Tiniest Fighters Every Week

Longest Undersea Road to Shorten Travel Times by 5 Hours and Feature ‘Great Hall of Lights’

1,000 feet below the North Sea, blast after blast brings Norwegian engineers closer and closer to completion of the longest undersea road tunnel on Earth. No one better to do it than Norway either, given that their citizens already built the world’s longest undersea road tunnel: the 9-mile-long Ryfylke. The Rogfast—short for Rogaland Fixed Link—will The post Longest Undersea Road to […]

Good News in History, July 20

57 years ago today, men first stepped on the moon during NASA’s Apollo 11 mission; Neil Armstrong first, at 10:56pm EST, because he was closest to the door and Buzz Aldrin second. WATCH a look back from the 50th anniversary… (1969) When the lunar module finally landed on the moon at 4:17 p.m., only 30 The post Good News in History, July 20 appeared first on Good News Network.

JD and Usha Vance Celebrate Arrival of Fourth Child

Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady

What watching soccer does to your body, according to science

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Forty-eight teams. Sixty-four matches. A final played yesterday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. And a victory for Spain, the country taking all the glory home. The 2026 World Cup was the most expansive in the tournament’s history, and for US, Canadian, and Mexican fans, the first played on The post What watching soccer does to your body, according to […]

Could this popular gym supplement strengthen cancer immunotherapy?

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Cancer immunotherapy has transformed treatment for some patients. For the 60 to 80 percent who don’t respond, the problem often isn’t the killer T cells at the end of the immune chain. It’s the cells responsible for training them. A new UCLA study published in iScience identifies creatine, the The post Could this popular gym supplement strengthen cancer […]

Pigeon Walks Up to Firefighters Who Offer Oxygen to ‘Clear its Lungs’

Video footage of a fireman giving oxygen to a pigeon following a fire has gone viral on social media. After attending to a vehicle fire on Wednesday evening, the E29 crew of Oakland Firefighters noticed a pigeon in distress. “The crew reported, the pigeon came up to them seeking help. The bird seemed to have The post Pigeon Walks Up to Firefighters Who Offer Oxygen to ‘Clear its Lungs’ […]

Kansas City Cop Won’t Stop Until He Finds Stolen E-Bike for Cancer Patient One Month Later

On May 10, when someone stole the e-bike that this cancer survivor needed to get to her oncology appointments, Officer JP Young of the Kansas City Police Department told her he would do everything he could to find it. Ever since it went missing on Mother’s Day, Officer Young had never stopped looking for Olivia’s The post Kansas City Cop Won’t Stop Until He Finds Stolen E-Bike for Cancer […]

Robert Irwin Extends Incredible Offer to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have officially

Firefighters Spend 4.5 Hours Carrying Exhausted 100-Pound Dog Down Mountain to Safety

Pharaoh’s Daughters Were Skilled at Archery 4,000 Years ago, Reveals New Research

For decades, experts have disputed whether weapons found in ancient burial chambers of Egyptian princesses were actually their tools or placed there in a purely symbolic way. Now, a reassessment of five royal women who lived 4,000 years ago showed they were skilled at archery. Strong muscle attachments and healed fractures were observed in multiple The post Pharaoh’s Daughters Were Skilled at […]

Good News in History, July 19

50 years ago today, Sagarmatha National Park was established in Nepal as the country’s first National Park. Enshrining the summit and breadth of the mountain known in the west as Everest, its total area encompasses 443 square miles, or 1,148 square km. In the north, it shares the international border with Qomolangma National Nature Preserve The post Good News in History, July 19 appeared first […]

People Advised a Basketball Career, But Giant Man Wanted to Help Others–As a Texas Police Officer

Although everyone urged the giant man to pursue a basketball career as a 7-foot-3-inch athlete, but that was never his dream. Jordan Wilmore would rather help others, so he trained to become a Texas policeman. He was one of the tallest players in college basketball, but now, he’s going to be one of the tallest The post People Advised a Basketball Career, But Giant Man Wanted to Help […]

Daughter Saves Dad’s Struggling Shoe Shop With TikTok Appeal—And Customer Lines Out the Door

A daughter helped save her father’s vintage Italian shoe shop by posting about a pair of Y2K kitten heels on TikTok—and now it has lines outside the door. For over 30 years Rachid Lazraq has owned Rich Collection Italia, but the emergence of online shopping practices, and an aging clientele, left the store in East The post Daughter Saves Dad’s Struggling Shoe Shop With TikTok Appeal—And […]

Florida Football Surprise Coach with Cancer by Jogging to His House

At University Christian School in Jacksonville, Florida,

Drug May Repair DNA at Earliest Stages of Alzheimer’s – And it’s Already Passed Safety Trials

A drug, that has previously been shown to be safe and tolerated by humans, reduces multiple disease-linked features of Alzheimer’s in a lab model of the disease, say neuroscientists in London. The team from King’s College has developed an approach that targets a key protein to tackle several features of Alzheimer’s disease at the same The post Drug May Repair DNA at Earliest Stages of […]