Good News Notes: “A team of Chinese scientists has discovered a giant new sinkhole with a forest at its bottom. The sinkhole is 630 feet (192 meters) deep, according to the Xinhua news agency, deep enough to just swallow St. Louis’ Gateway Arch. A team of speleologists and spelunkers rappelled into the sinkhole on Friday (May…
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New snail species are the world’s smallest, tinier than grains of sand
Good News Notes: “Scientists have discovered two new snail species the size of a grain of sand—the tiniest known land snails on Earth. “It’s amazing how small they are—we wouldn’t have expected that,” says Adrienne Jochum, a researcher with Natural History Museum Bern in Switzerland. The new record-holder’s diminutive nature is reflected in its scientific name, Angustopila…
Newly discovered rainfrog species named in honor of climate activist Greta Thunberg
Good News Notes: “A new species of rainfrog was officially named in a scientific article published on Monday. The new species, Pristimantis gretathunbergae, has been named the Greta Thunberg Rainfrog and described in a new article in thePensoft scientific journal ZooKeys. The new rainfrog species was discovered by an international team headed by Abel Batista and…
Newly Discovered Symbiosis Could Power Carbon Removal in The Sea
Good News Notes: “Tropical rainforests are often called the lungs of our planet, sucking vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and puffing out oxygen in exchange. As it turns out, however, there are even bigger lungs in our oceans. Seagrass meadows are vast fields of underwater plants capable of capturing carbon 35 times faster than tropical…
Seleucid, Parthian and Islamic relics unearthed in west-central Iran
Good News Notes: “The sixth archaeological season to discover Laodicea Temple has so far led to the discovery of artifacts from the Seleucid, Parthian, and Islamic (Ilkhanid) periods, while archaeologists continue to their search for the ancient temple,” Mohsen Khanjan, who leads the excavation, said on Wednesday, ILNA reported. One of the walls of Dokhaharan’s…
Rescue Labrador Retriever Adopts Orphaned Kittens
Good News Notes: “A rescue dog is paid it forward by looking after a litter of orphaned kittens. According to a release from the U.K. animal rescue charity Battersea, Bertie, a one-year-old Labrador retriever, is helped the Battersea shelter that found him a forever home raise a group of kittens. Bertie started looking after the seven kittens…
A Never-Before-Seen Type of Signal Has Been Detected in The Human Brain
Good News Notes: “Scientists have discovered a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that’s not been seen before. Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more powerful units of computation than we realized. Early last year, researchers from institutes in Germany and Greece reported a mechanism in the brain’s…
New prehistoric human unknown to science discovered in Israel
Good News Notes: “A new type of early human previously not known to scientists has been discovered in Israel, Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University researchers announced Thursday as their extraordinary findings appeared in the prestigious academic journal Science. Researchers believe the new “Homo” species intermarried with Homo sapiens and was an ancestor of the…
Egg of Extinct Dwarf Emu Discovered in Australian Sand Dune
Good News Notes: “A recently discovered extinct dwarf emu egg has offered the global scientific community valuable information into the deceased species. According to a report from Live Science, a researcher with the United Kingdom’s Natural History Museum and an Australian historian found the surprisingly large egg was on King Island, situated between Tasmania and Australia….
Archeologists discover 3000-year-old gold mask
Good News Notes: “One of archeologists’ most impressive findings so far is the remnants of a 3,000-year-old gold mask, with the outline of its ears and mouth intact. In the No. 8 pit, the largest of all the sacrificial areas, archeologists have unearthed more than 1,800 pieces of relic, including sacred trees, gold artifacts, and…