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Mushrooms Were Used to Filter E. Coli From a River in England. It Worked So Well They're Rolling It Out Immediately.

Good News Network / Anglian Water

Wellbeing

Scientists Found a Way to Read Alzheimer's Risk in a Photo of Your Eye — Years Before Any Symptoms Show. Science Alert

She Wrote This Children's Book Four Decades Ago. This Week, It Finally Hit the Bestseller List. Sunny Skyz

One Brain Chemical May Be the Key to Breaking Any Habit. Scientists Just Identified It. Science Alert

Gallup Asked 2,000 Americans If the People Around Them Are Kind. The Answer May Restore Your Faith. Gallup / Good Good Good

Harvard Tracked 147,000 People for 30 Years. They Found Exactly How Much Exercise Adds Years to Your Life. U.S. News & World Report

Science

The World's Largest Whale Graveyard Is Teeming With Deep-Sea Life — Including Species Nobody Has Ever Named.. Good News Network

A Flowerpot That Sat on Someone's Windowsill for 200 Years Just Turned Out to Be a Rare Historical Treasure. Science Alert

A NASA Astronaut Turned the Camera on the Southern Lights From the Space Station. The Footage Stopped People Mid-Scroll. Good News Network / NASA

Butterflies That Eat Pollen Live Dramatically Longer Than Those That Don't. Scientists Want to Know Why. Science Alert

Scientists Mapped the Fungal Networks Under Our Feet and Found 62 Quadrillion Miles Nobody Had Counted. Good News Network

Animals & Pets

A Photographer Just Captured Images of an Animal Scientists Had Written Off as Extinct. InspireMore

Scientists Discovered How to Talk to Your Cat. It Takes About Three Seconds. Science Alert

Cape Hatteras Is Training Volunteers to Sit With Sea Turtle Nests Through the Night. The Waitlist Is Long. Good Good Good

Scientists Just Counted the Most Right Whale Calves Born in 17 Years. The Number Surprised Everyone. Good News Network

A Sea Turtle Survived the Most Severe Boat Strike Rescuers Had Ever Seen. Then She Made a Full Recovery. Good Good Good

Acts of Kindness

A 172-Pound Loggerhead Turtle Was Found With Four Fishing Hooks in His Body. Volunteers Gave Him a Second Chance. Good Good Good

Knicks Fans Destroyed a Taxi Driver's Car During the Championship Celebrations. Then 75,000 Strangers Showed Up for Him. Good News Network

A Stranger Helped Him Survive a Heatstroke a Decade Ago. Now His Convenience Store Signs Are Helping Thousands. Good News Network

Uplifting Videos

A Bird Started Showing Up at a Woman's Window Every Evening at 5:30 to Sleep Inside Her House. GeoBeats Animals — YouTube

A Military Dad Pulls Off the Best Homecoming Surprise He Was Deployed for a Year. His Kids Had No Idea He Was Coming Home. youtube

Heroes Among Us

Teens Saved a Toddler's Life Days After Getting CPR Certified. They Almost Didn't Take the Class. InspireMore

Medical Breakthroughs

Doctors Sprayed a New Treatment Directly Onto Third-Degree Burns Across Someone's Face. It Was a World First — and It Worked. Good News Network / Hamilton Health Sciences

Geologists Went Digging for Gold. They Found Something the Earth Has Never Shown Us Before. Science Alert

Christian Eriksen's Heart Stopped Again During a Match. A Device the Size of a Matchbox Saved His Life. Science Alert

Around the World

Conservationists 'ecstatic:' Trail cameras spot one of the world's rarest mammals — with a baby in its pouch Good Good Good

Scientists Just Discovered a Shark That Walks on the Ocean Floor. Nobody Had Ever Seen This Species Before. Good Good Good

Community Wins

The 'Civic Hour' Is Changing How People Volunteer — and Cities Are Taking Notice. Reasons to Be Cheerful

Young Women Are Moving Into NYC Convents to Save Money. Rent Is $200 a Week. No Boys After Curfew. Good Good Good

A Community Rallied Around a Woman Stranded in Mexico After She Broke Her Neck. InspireMore

Environmental Victories

A Laundry Filter Invented by One Person Is Already Keeping Tons of Microplastics Out of Waterways. Good News Network

Scientists Spent Five Years Without Finding a Single Living White Abalone. Then a Research Team Looked Down. Good News Network

A Phone Case Company Built a Robot That Hunts Plastic Across the Ocean Good News Network

Reddit

A Teacher Carried a Paralyzed Student on His Back for an Entire Field Trip So She Wouldn't Miss a Moment. r/BeAmazed

This Dog Quietly Joined the Ice Cream Line and Waited His Turn Like Everyone Else. r/BeAmazed

A German Shepherd Encountered Kittens for the First Time. His Reaction Said Everything. r/MadeMeSmile

Kids Making a Difference

15 Teenagers Were Handed $20,000 and Told to Do Something Good With It. Here's What They Chose. Whig

This Newark High School Has Sent Every Freshman Into the Wilderness for 53 Years Running. Here's Why. CBS News