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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, weâre sharing something a little more personal⊠our Staff Picks! These...
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Rethinking the âbest friendâ ideal: why you donât need a BFF to feel fulfilled
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM To wrap up our Best of 2025 series, weâre sharing something a little more personal⊠our Staff Picks! These...
How Finlandâs 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, weâre sharing something a little more personal⊠our Staff Picks! These...
Meet the Winners of the National Portrait Galleryâs 2025 Teen Portrait Competition
Meet the Winners of the National Portrait Galleryâs 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, weâre sharing something a little more personal⊠our Staff Picks! These...
Buzz: Hoosiers-Ducks winner likely to be favorite in national championship game
The winner of Friday's semifinal between Indiana and Oregon is expected to be the favorite in the national title game, regardless of opponent.
Moss is So Unique itâs Acted Like Fingerprints to Help Solve a Dozen Crimes
Tiny plants, like moss, are easy to overlook. Theyâre often as small as an eyelash, and they tend to grow on the ground in dark, wet places. But...
2025 Was âYear of the Octopusâ 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 UKâs 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
Good News in History, January 3
100 years ago today, George Martin, the English record producer, composer, audio engineer, and musician, was born. Known as âthe 5th Beatleâ for...
ZooTampa Released 26 Rehabilitated Manatees Back into Florida Waters in 2025âthe Most on Record
2025 was a big year for one of Floridaâs premier manatee rescue organizations. ZooTampa released 26 rehabilitated manatees back into Florida...
Zero Rhinos Poached in Indiaâs Stronghold for the Second Year on Record
Indiaâs rhino stronghold of Assam reported zero deaths due to poaching among its populations of greater one-horned rhinos in 2025. The success...
The âShip Itâ Habit: Reliability as a Visible Practice
Build this habit when youâre tired of hearing yourself say âalmost doneââand watching trust quietly drain anyway. Your team canât plan around...
Grading the Trae Young trade: How did the Hawks and Wizards fare?
Trae Young is headed from the Hawks to the Wizards for CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert. Which team fared best? We graded the trade.
'Tuna King' pays record ÂŁ2.4m for giant bluefin at Tokyo auction
Kiyoshi Kimura will turn prized 243kg fish into sushi rolls selling for ÂŁ2.4o at his restaurant chainA sushi entrepreneur has paid a record 510.3m...
How Trevor Lawrence's grill gift was kept a surprise -- and came together
The quarterback's grill came from a collaboration of his mom, wife, former Clemson teammate and the Jaguars social media team.
Pound-for-pound rankings: Fundora moves up; a new name in the top 10
Gabriela Fundora keeps moving up and Elif Nur Turhan scored another impressive TKO victory. Here's the latest women's pound-for-pound rankings.
Unexpected oscillation states in magnetic vortices could enable coupling across different physical systems
Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have uncovered previously unobserved oscillation statesâso-called Floquet statesâin...
Seasonal Switch 2 sales show significant slowing as annual cycle sunsets
After record-setting launch, Western holiday sales are down compared to the first Switch.
MLB Power Rankings: Where every team stands in the new year
Though there are still free agents to be signed, let's reassess the standings now that we're midway through the offseason.
Moroccan Cave Fossils Yield a Possible Missing Link in Human Evolution
Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africaâs fossil record of...
This Million Dollar Whiskey Collection Is Going Up for Auction
The collection is about more than record-breaking prices.
The bizarre world of arbitration -- and the ace whose record raise could rock the system
Baseball's unique offseason contract process is built on comps. Enter the pitcher who is beyond comparison.