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First hormone-free male birth control pill shown safe in early trial
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM To wrap up our Best of 2025 series, we’re sharing something a little more personal… our Staff Picks! These...
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Rethinking the “best friend” ideal: why you don’t need a BFF to feel fulfilled
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM To wrap up our Best of 2025 series, we’re sharing something a little more personal… our Staff Picks! These...
How Finland’s giant sand battery is storing clean energy (and cutting emissions by 70 percent)
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM To wrap up our Best of 2025 series, we’re sharing something a little more personal… our Staff Picks! These...
12-Year-Old Student Compares Having Autism to Being Like a “Limited Edition LEGO Set”
12-Year-Old Student Compares Having Autism to Being Like a “Limited Edition LEGO Set” @lara.birdy Let’s help Leo go viral again with this new...
Podcast Transcript December 19, 2025— Holiday gifts for a loved one with cancer + a powerful Miwuk land-back victory near Yosemite
Episode Description: This week, Arielle and Karissa dive into two very different but deeply connected stories about what it means to truly support...
Gift shopping for a loved one with cancer this holiday season? Here’s what actually helps
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The holiday season tends to magnify the pressure to find the perfect gift, especially when the recipient is...
Meet the Winners of the National Portrait Gallery’s 2025 Teen Portrait Competition
Meet the Winners of the National Portrait Gallery’s 2025 Teen Portrait Competition Every three years, the National Portrait Gallery hosts a major...
A microscopic upgrade with massive potential: scientists block malaria with a single gene edit
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM To wrap up our Best of 2025 series, we’re sharing something a little more personal… our Staff Picks! These...
After an Epilepsy Diagnosis at 19, This National Sprinter Came Back & Broke Her Personal Best
The track feels predictable to Devaki Dhar. The grip of spikes on rubber. The steady tension of the starting blocks. The straight, measurable...
Surprise: your hobbies might be building better self-discipline (and you didn’t even notice)
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM If you’ve ever tried to become more disciplined by sheer force of will, you already know it’s exhausting. All...
Good News in History, December 17
92 years ago today, the first American football championship game was played—on the diamond at Wrigley Field—between the Chicago Bears and the New...
Merry Kiss-mas: Thousands Gather Under 10-Foot Mistletoe in DC to Set Guinness Record for Festive Smooches
Suspended 30-feet in the air, a Christmas beacon hangs in Washington, DC—a 10-foot bundle of greenery and ribbons that locals are calling the...
World Junior Championship guide: Top contenders, key players to watch
The tournament starts Thursday, with the best under-20 players in hockey. Here are gold medal favorites, players set to break out.
More US states and cities are boosting minimum wages in 2026. What does it mean for workers?
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM As the federal minimum wage remains frozen at $7.25 an hour, unchanged since 2009, cities and states across...
Mom and Baby Beat 1-in-a-Million Odds to Survive the ‘Rarest of Pregnancies’
A Los Angeles woman recently celebrated the first Christmas with her baby boy, Ryu, born to truly remarkable circumstances. Ryu developed outside...
Moss is So Unique it’s Acted Like Fingerprints to Help Solve a Dozen Crimes
Tiny plants, like moss, are easy to overlook. They’re often as small as an eyelash, and they tend to grow on the ground in dark, wet places. But...
2025 Was ‘Year of the Octopus’ Says UK Wildlife Trust, Amid Record Cephalopod Sightings
It was 75 years ago the last time there were as many octopus in British waters as there are now, with the UK’s Wildlife Trusts declaring that 2025...
A Trio of AD100 Talents Bring Rigor and Romance to a Historic NYC Town House
Elizabeth Roberts Architects, Grace Fuller Marroquin, and Leonora Hamill team up to revive a historic Upper West Side home
From future HOF pitchers to a veteran catcher: Best fits for under-the-radar MLB free agents
Did your favorite team miss out on the biggest stars of this winter? Here are 15 players to sign instead.
Lando Norris In 2025: The Champion Who Believed Before the World Did
The year was 2024. The calendar read late November, and Max Verstappen had just clinched yet another drivers’ championship — a feat that was...
Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation regains ancestral lands near Yosemite in major cultural restoration
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Nearly 900 acres of ancestral territory have been officially returned to the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation,...
London Soccer Team Switches Beef Burger for Sustainable Venison to the Fans’ Delight
An English football team has replaced the beef patties in the stadium hamburgers with wild British venison, a change that’s proving popular with...
The 2026 championship parlays: From conservative plays to huge potential payouts
We go on record picking this year's champions, beginning with the CFP and ending with the World Series.
IU tops Tide in 'dream come true'; Ducks up next
Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza and the top-seeded Hoosiers won the Rose Bowl Thursday in convincing fashion, authoring a 38-3 victory over...
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