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College Students Invent Vibrating Vest to Give Blind Pup a “Second Set of Eyes”

Tech / 3 min. read

From Braille displays to smart canes and AI apps, visually impaired people can turn to a variety of innovative devices to help them navigate everyday life. The technology available to blind dogs isn’t quite as advanced — but some future engineers at Houston’s Rice University are out to change that. When Grant Belton and AJ […]

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A Man Climbed Mount Everest to Install a Defibrillator — 3 Weeks Later, It Saved a Life

Health / 3 min. read

A campaigner who climbed Mount Everest to install a defibrillator has revealed the device saved a woman’s life — just three weeks later. David Sullivan founded Code Blue CPR, an organization that teaches people lifesaving CPR and installs defibrillators across England, after he lost four close friends, all under the age of 45, to cardiac arrest.

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The Winners of the 2025 National Geographic Photography Competition Capture Powerful Moments Around the Globe

Environment / 2 min. read

The winners of the 2025 National Geographic Traveller Photography Competition have been revealed — and the subjects range from a vibrant rainbow staircase in France to a geothermal pool that looks like a dragon’s eye and more. Every year, National Geographic Traveller (UK) organizes the contest, which is open to amateur and professional photographers from the United Kingdom and Ireland, to highlight the best in travel photography.

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Arguing Is Inevitable in Any Relationship — Here’s How to Do So More Constructively

Humanity / 5 min. read

In a perfect world, no one would ever bicker or fight with the people they love, but over here in reality, arguments happen. Sometimes they’re over politics or instances of hurt feelings, other times over what temperature the thermostat should be set to. Since arguing is inevitable, the best we can do is get better

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For South Korea’s Iconic Female Free Divers, Aquatic Abilities Are in the DNA: Study

Science / 3 min. read

About 50 miles off the coast of South Korea, a group of women — some of them in their 80s — start many days by free diving into frigid waters to collect conch, sea urchin, abalone, octopus, and other ocean dwellers for their communities to eat. Jeju Island’s Haenyeo, or “women of the sea,” are

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Why Curiosity Expert Scott Shigeoka Suggests Creating a “Powerful Questions List”

Exclusive, Humanity / 6 min. read

When Nice News first interviewed Scott Shigeoka about curiosity in 2023, he was on the cusp of publishing his book on the subject, Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World. Shigeoka has been busy since then: He took his ideas to the TED stage in November, focusing on curiosity’s potential to

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This Rustic Spanish Village Has Become a Gay Wedding Hot Spot

Culture / 6 min. read

In a tiny village in Spain, the streets are lined with black slate buildings, and the majority of residents are in their golden years. It’s perhaps an unlikely destination for celebrating gay marriage — and yet the municipality of Campillo de Ranas, one of the country’s appropriately dubbed “black villages” because of its dark-stoned dwellings,

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“Shark Spy Technology”: Why Massachusetts Scientists Will Tag Sharks With Cameras This Summer

Environment / 3 min. read

Forget shark week — it’s shark season in New England. The first great white sighting of the season was confirmed May 11 when a seal with a shark bite washed ashore on Nantucket in Massachusetts, and for the second year in a row, researchers in the state will be using an innovative method to help

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What Was the First Human Pest? Scientists Pinpoint the Likely Culprit (That Still Bugs Us Today)

Environment / 3 min. read

Our planet is home to around 1 million known insect species, and about 1%-3% of them are considered pests, per the National Pesticide Information Center. But which one has been bugging humans the longest? A team of scientists led by two Virginia Tech researchers think they’ve figured it out: In a study published Wednesday, they suggest that bed bugs were the first human pest.

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One of New York’s Most Popular Hiking Destinations Is Getting an Eco Transformation

Environment / 4 min. read

The Breakneck Ridge Trail is one of the most popular day hikes in not just New York state but the entire country — the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference estimated in 2018 that the destination receives around 100,000 visitors each year. That’s partially thanks to its proximity to the Big Apple: It takes under 90

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