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Sunday 18 October 2026 · US edition · 18 minutes to read all ten · 6 sources
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🌿 Nature
The Good News Desk likes this one: Fewer animals are hit on the highway, and fewer drivers are hurt in the crashes that follow.
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Good News Network · 2 min read
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🌿 Nature
The Good News Desk likes this one: A rare owl family has settled in Manhattan, giving city residents a wild neighbour to watch.
PBS NewsHour · 2 min read
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🌿 Nature
The Good News Desk likes this one: Removing old barriers lets migrating fish reach spawning grounds they had lost access to.
Smithsonian · 3 min read
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🔬 Science & health
The Good News Desk likes this one: Could help doctors place electrodes more precisely for people with severe depression that has not responded to other treatment.
ScienceDaily · 2 min read
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🔬 Science & health
The Good News Desk likes this one: Offers an early marker for ancient seafaring, based on pottery cargo and tentative dating.
Phys.org · 1 min read
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🎨 Culture & ideas
The Good News Desk likes this one: A possible physical trace of a Welsh legend, tied to a real fourth-century ruler.
Smithsonian · 2 min read
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⚽ Sports
The Good News Desk likes this one: Two Florida players scored three goals each, extending a record-setting run of scoring for their team.
ESPN · 1 min read
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🔬 Science & health
The Good News Desk likes this one: A possible way to shield memory from excess salt, so far shown only in mice.
ScienceDaily · 2 min read
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⚽ Sports
The Good News Desk likes this one: Shows that age is no barrier to a record, with a 99-year-old now holding a Guinness title.
Good News Network · 1 min read
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⚽ Sports
The Good News Desk likes this one: Milwaukee fans get a first World Series trip in 44 years, after long years of waiting.
ESPN · 2 min read
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🗞️ All ten at a glance
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🌿 Nature
Colorado's Largest Wildlife Overpass Cuts Animal Collisions by 91%
The Good News Desk likes this one: Fewer animals are hit on the highway, and fewer drivers are hurt in the crashes that follow.
Good News Network · 2 min
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🌿 Nature
A rare family of barn owls nests on Manhattan's Upper West Side
The Good News Desk likes this one: A rare owl family has settled in Manhattan, giving city residents a wild neighbour to watch.
PBS NewsHour · 2 min
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🌿 Nature
Old Dams Come Down and Herring Return to Northeastern Rivers
The Good News Desk likes this one: Removing old barriers lets migrating fish reach spawning grounds they had lost access to.
Smithsonian · 3 min
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🔬 Science & health
Researchers Find Three Brain Pathways Tied to Lasting Depression Relief
The Good News Desk likes this one: Could help doctors place electrodes more precisely for people with severe depression that has not responded to other treatment.
ScienceDaily · 2 min
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🔬 Science & health
Archaeologists find what may be the world's oldest shipwreck off Turkey
The Good News Desk likes this one: Offers an early marker for ancient seafaring, based on pottery cargo and tentative dating.
Phys.org · 1 min
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🎨 Culture & ideas
Archaeologists Find Fort Linked to Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus in Wales
The Good News Desk likes this one: A possible physical trace of a Welsh legend, tied to a real fourth-century ruler.
Smithsonian · 2 min
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⚽ Sports
Panthers record natural hat tricks in three straight NHL games
The Good News Desk likes this one: Two Florida players scored three goals each, extending a record-setting run of scoring for their team.
ESPN · 1 min
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🔬 Science & health
Soy-derived compound protects mice brains from high-salt diet
The Good News Desk likes this one: A possible way to shield memory from excess salt, so far shown only in mice.
ScienceDaily · 2 min
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⚽ Sports
Helga Duffy, 99, is named world's oldest wing-walker
The Good News Desk likes this one: Shows that age is no barrier to a record, with a 99-year-old now holding a Guinness title.
Good News Network · 1 min
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⚽ Sports
Brewers reach first World Series since 1982 after beating Dodgers
The Good News Desk likes this one: Milwaukee fans get a first World Series trip in 44 years, after long years of waiting.
ESPN · 2 min
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✍️ From the editorThings Finding Their Way Back
Some of today's best news is about return. Herring are swimming back up northeastern streams now that small, obsolete dams are coming out. A family of barn owls has nested on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the first documented nesting on the island in modern history. In Milwaukee, the Brewers are going back to the World Series for the first time since 1982.
Some of that is luck, and some is work. Someone took out the dams. Someone built an overpass over Interstate 25 in Colorado, and collisions between animals and vehicles there fell by 91 percent. Repair tends to look like that: a specific fix, then a number.
The science section is worth a slow read today. Researchers have identified three brain pathways tied to lasting relief from treatment-resistant depression. A soy-derived compound protected mice from harms of a high-salt diet, though that work is early and in animals only.
And Helga Duffy, 99, is now the world's oldest wing-walker, according to Guinness World Records.
Have a quiet Sunday.
The editor
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