- Dog lovers, gather round
Daily Edition • January 6, 2026 SUPPORTED BY From weighted vests and protein-maxxing to beef tallow and creatine supplements, 2025 was rife with wellness trends. But are any of them worthy of taking into the new year? NPR’s science team dove deep into some of last year’s most pervasive health fads, delivering verdicts on which ones you might want to pay attention to and which you can leave in 2025. Must Reads An underrated health resolution that has nothing to do with diet or exercise Never…Read more
- Today’s Pick: A very furry field trip
Editors’ Picks • October 8, 2025 Today’s story is a bit of a tearjerker if you’re a pet lover, in a good way. Across the country, animal shelters are implementing programs that allow caring people to take dogs and cats on “field trips.” These rendezvous can last a couple hours or the entire weekend, and they benefit both our four-legged friends and the people chaperoning them — most profoundly, by helping the animals find their forever homes. Learn how the programs work and how to get...
- Cancer care win
. Daily Edition • October 8, 2025 SUPPORTED BY If you’re intimidated by meditating, you might benefit from the concept of mini-mediatations — particularly as a tool for finding moments of peace during the workday. “I think there’s a stigma around it, that you have to be in complete silence, and you have to have some room setup, or do some chanting, or some serious breathing,” wellness coach Michelle Beyer told the Associated Press. “There’s one-minute meditations you can do to make yourself...
- Eating for two (yourself and Earth)
. Daily Edition • October 7, 2025 SUPPORTED BY It’s Nobel Prize week! The first award, for medicine, was given yesterday to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work studying the immune system. The prize for physics will be awarded today, chemistry on Wednesday, literature Thursday, and the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Things will wrap up next Monday, Oct. 13, with the prize in economics. Stay up to date on the winners. Must Reads These silly games aren’t just for...