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A 5th-century Christian heritage site has reopened to visitors in Aleppo, Syria, after rehabilitation, restoration, and clearing the remnants of war. Syria’s Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums officially reo…

If you thought adults sloths were cute, wait 'til you see this baby.

"You feel comfortable talking to them, and you find yourself sharing things with them that you don’t typically share."

Elementary school teachers make an average salary of $63,820.

Helmuth von Moltke, born in 1800, is the oldest known person to have their voice preserved.

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4,483 years ago today, or so it’s said, the sky above the Korean Peninsula opened and Hwanung, the mythical progenitor of Korean People descended from heaven. Today, it’s marked as National Foundation Day in both the So…

In the mid-19th century, some 400,000 people traversed the Oregon Trail to settle in the American west. Given that this migration occurred nearly two centuries ago, none of the settlers who made the journey are alive to…

Just days after she was born, Twiggy was found hiding amongst a herd of zebras for protection.

The BBC recently spoke with a sleep scientist who’s spent much of his career studying the sleeping habits of the last remaining, contactable, hunter-gatherer societies on Earth. What he found might surprise you—it might…

Climate Reserve is quietly building a lifeline for America's lost climate workforce, one job at a time.

Jane Doe’s lawyer alleged that Cornell University refused to refund her tuition following the assault outlined in her new lawsuit.

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The ‘alternative Nobel prize’, global progress on ageism, and a boost for gorillas, plus more

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Researchers at the University of Manchester developed a non-invasive womb cancer test that correctly identified most cancers and returned a negative result for 93 percent of women wh…

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Portugal has released 30,000 sterile male mosquitoes in Lisbon as part of a push to bring down populations of the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), a species that can carry de…

The right to vote, the right to freedom of speech, the right to due process, and … the right to read? You may not think of the ability to dive into a good book as a civil right, but one nonprofit does — and it’s changin…

If you’ve been through a wildfire, you may never forget the torrid heat, the acrid smell of smoke and the threatening sight of flames closing in. On January 7, 2025, the Goodyear family joined 200,000 other Angelenos in…

Listening is often overlooked as a leadership skill, but it can challenge assumptions and lead to better decisions

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Every fall, the same conversation starts about how to stay well through cold and flu season. Most of the advice points to supplements: vitamin C, zinc, elderberry. Useful, but not th…

Can you entice kids away from screens with a screen? A new kid-friendly phone called Freckle is betting on it. The phone resembles a handheld gaming device (think Tamagotchi or Game Boy) but works like a cell — that is…

What changes when you swap the daily doomscroll for journalism that asks not just what’s wrong, but what’s working? Oliver Balch finds out The post I stopped reading bad news for 48 hours. Here’s what happened appeared…

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Fifty years ago, disco was dominating nightclubs, punk had emerged from underground, and the nascent hip-hop scene was budding in the Bronx. Stevie Wonder released his masterpiece album Songs in the Key of Life, and the…

How do you get the world to pay attention to a problem it thinks it's already solved?Around a billion children are exposed to dangerous levels of lead. It can be hiding in cookware, spices and cosmetics, or released thr…