People helping people. Quiet heroism in plain view.
The kindness section highlights people helping people: strangers stepping in during emergencies, communities rallying around neighbors, small acts that ripple outward. These are not performative charity stories; they are moments where someone chose to act when they did not have to.
British startup Bactery says its battery, powered by bacteria, uses nature’s microbes to generate an unending trickle of power-and by stringing the prototypes together they can generate a stream. Bact…
It’s estimated that 30,000 Scottish football fans descended on the city of Boson last week, and the ensuing shenanigans have been so generational that folk songs are being written about it. The World …
At the age of 14, Dylan was diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer-and doctors gave him just eight months to live. But he’s alive today thanks to Dr. Mary Austin, who not only treated his disease, but t…
A woman was stunned when Britain’s longest dragonfly stopped to hitch a ride-on her thumb. Sarah Hawkes came across the striking Golden-Ringed Dragonfly when walking near the Ceiriog River in Wales. T…
Happy 59th Birthday to eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. The computer geek entrepreneur became a billionaire at age 31 when the company’s stock was offered for sale to the public three years after the firs…
This article was written by Kirk Bowman, a professor of international affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, for The Conversation - a nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the know…
After Samurai Blue sweep aside Tunisia, Japan fans clean up Monterrey stadium Reuters
Meet the women who got new hearts - then donated their old ones to medical science MSN
From Cancer Survivor To Community Hero, Meet Delhi’s 77-Year-Old ‘Matka Man’ News18
Thawing permafrost is considered a growing source of greenhouse gases as our climate warms and releases ancient carbon once stored in the frozen soils. But a new study reveals an overlooked plus side:…
A California relief organization is sending more than a quarter million N95 respirators to help protect health workers on the front lines of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Res…
In a triumph for conservation, thousands of flamingo chicks have hatched at one of the world’s key flamingo breeding grounds-a salt lake that had nearly dried up five years ago. Lake Tuz, once the sec…
Our partner Rob Brezsny, whose latest book is Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astr…
31 years years ago today, Greenpeace activists bolstered by international pressure forced Shell Oil of the UK into a dramatic reversal of its decision to dispose of a massive oil rig by submerging it …
This article was written by Jennifer M. Grossman, a senior research scientist in family, sexuality, and communication at Wellesley College, for The Conversation - a nonprofit news organization dedicat…
We all depend on the advice of those we look up to, and many of us have been fortunate to receive meaningful words of wisdom from our dads. Our team recently asked Nice News readers to share some of t…
Romeo and Juliet at the Public Theater's Delacorte Theater in New York'/>At Free Shakespeare in the Park in New York, real weddings are happening every night after a production of Romeo and Juliet. Bu…
West Wales finalists for BBC Make a Difference Awards southwalesguardian.co.uk
Chinese scientists have discovered the world’s largest “whale graveyard” in a trench deep below the Indian Ocean-and it teems with life. Bivalves, brittle stars, different kinds of worms, and jellyfis…
An awesome study that could help clean up rivers world-wide at negligible cost leveraged fungi as a pollution control filter. The mushrooms in question were the very delicious and very helpful turkey …