Star births seen on cosmic scale in distant galaxy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It’s a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison, our MilkyContinue Reading
Coach Surprises Walk-On Football Player with Full Scholarship
Calling all “Rudy” fans. This one’s for you. Marc Panu is a fourth-year walk-on on Vanderbilt University’s football team. During the preseason camp, head coach James Franklin was showing the team a film of their plays when all of a sudden, to Panu’s surprise, the attention turned to him. FranklinContinue Reading
Google launches endangered language project
Did your high school teacher tell you that you could only learn English, Spanish, French, Mandarin, or German? Well Good World News is showing you that there are MANY more options 🙂 There are roughly 7000 languages spoken throughout the world!! Unfortunately, if nothing is done, 50% of these areContinue Reading
Recycling hotel soap and saving lives
Atlanta (CNN) — That bar of soap you used once or twice during your last hotel stay might now be helping poor children fight disease. Derreck Kayongo and his Atlanta-based Global Soap Project collect used hotel soap from across the United States. Instead of ending up in landfills, theContinue Reading
Mayas may have used chocolate as spice
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Archaeologists say they have found traces of 2,500-year-old chocolate on a plate in the Yucatan peninsula, the first time they have found ancient chocolate residue on a plate rather than a cup, suggesting it may have been used as a condiment or sauce with solid food.Continue Reading
“Hour Children” nun program helps moms in prison
Good News story from CNN – Queens, New York (CNN) — Kellie Phelan doesn’t mince words when she looks back at herself five years ago.“I was basically a crackhead,” Phelan said. “I literally was getting arrested every other week. I got pregnant by a drug dealer. … I was sevenContinue Reading
11 yr old tennis player from Liberia gets chance to train in Spain
Some say “Luck is when preparation meets opportunity”. This is definitely the case for 11 year old Alfred Saah Kandakai from Liberia. The young man played a tennis match against Mr. Tani Hanna, the Chairman of Games World International in Liberia. Mr. Hanna was surprised at how skillful Saah playedContinue Reading
Hernandez throws perfect game
NY Times – In what has become the year of the perfect game, Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners added his name to the list Wednesday, marking the first time that three pitchers have pulled off the feat in the same season. For a man nicknamed King Felix, Wednesday’s performance is whatContinue Reading
Girl lifts car, performs CPR and saves father
GLEN ALLEN, VA (WWBT) – Lauren Kornacki learned CPR several times. For years, she’s worked as a lifeguard. The 22-year-old just graduated from Mary Washington with a physics degree, but while looking for work, she decided to return to something familiar to earn a little money. Two days ago, her supervisorContinue Reading
Jetman soars over Rio, flies circles around historical landmarks
Why would you want to leap out of a perfectly good aircraft? To fly a winged jetpack over the city of Rio de Janeiro, of course. It sounds nuts, but it’s just a day in the life for Yves Rossy, the self proclaimed “Jetman” who flew over the Grand Canyon last year. SinceContinue Reading