Tiny Planet Makes Big Splash as Surprise Study Shows it May Be Producing its Own Organic Compounds
nnIn 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.nnAt first, it was hypothesized that these were deposited by comet or asteroid impact, but a new analysis of the data has suggested that, in […]
Three Children Receive ‘the Best Christmas Present Ever’ – Bionic Arms
nnThree children were overjoyed after receiving ‘the best Christmas present in the world’—bionic arms.nnZoey Hampton-Pigeon, Finley Jarvis, and Colette Baker were given their new ‘life-changing’ Hero Arms on December 12th thanks to the fundraising work of a woman whose own child needed a prosthetic years ago.nnSarah Lockey saw her daughter Tilly lose both hands to […]
US Passes HEARTS Act to Fund Defibrillators For Schools–Urged By NFL’s Damar Hamlin Who Almost Died on Field
nnIn Washington, the Senate recently passed a bill to fund training programs for CPR and defibrillator use in schools.nnIt had been advocated for months by Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who in 2023 suffered cardiac arrest on the field during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals.nnCalled the HEARTS Act for ‘Cardiomyopathy Health Education, Awareness, Research, […]
Stanford Scientists Transform Ubiquitous Skin Bacterium into a Topical Vaccine Against Tetanus
nnImagine 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.nnEven 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 get it either.nnThis […]
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain
Quote of the Day: “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark TwainnnPhoto by: Jr Korpa (cropped)nnWith a new inspirational quote every day, atop the perfect photo—collected and archived on our Quote of the Day page—why not bookmark GNN.org for a daily uplift?nn
Good News in History, December 16
251 years ago today, members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians stole aboard trade ships in Boston harbor and began throwing tea shipments into the water in protest of tea taxes on the Colony. The precise details were the passage of the Tea Act in British parliament, which the colonists believed violated […]