- All aboard!
Sunday Edition • January 25, 2026 SUPPORTED BY The enormous stone heads on the remote Easter Island in the South Pacific make it one of the world’s most fascinating archaeological sites — and now you can marvel at the moai statues right from your couch. A research team created a first-of-its-kind 3D model of Rano Raraku, one of the island’s quarries, that lets home viewers explore it in unprecedented detail. “You can see things that you couldn’t actually see on the ground,” one researcher…Read more
- 2026 events to add to your calendar
. Daily Edition • January 2, 2026 SUPPORTED BY Later this month, the World Sports Photography Awards will announce its 2026 winners — stunning images across 24 categories that capture the grit, triumph, and thrill of athletic achievement. But for now, we can peruse this year’s finalists (you might just come out of it with a new appreciation for sport). Must Reads Go inside the oldest restaurant in the world, which recently turned 300 What a traditional Kashmiri coat can teach us about health...
- Try this practice before making resolutions
. Daily Edition • January 1, 2026 SUPPORTED BY Happy New Year! To ring in 2026, we’ve crafted a special newsletter that will hopefully get you prepared for and excited about the year ahead. And before you spend the morning drawing up a resolutions list, consider commencing a search for a renewed purpose in life instead — expert tips on that below. Must Reads Book Riot’s 2026 Read Harder Challenge is here — see this year’s tasks From black-eyed peas to lucky lentils, learn about different New...
- Healing through art
Best of 2025 • Humanity Edition Happy New Year’s Eve! We’re wrapping up 2025 on an especially inspiring note with the humanity edition of the Best of Nice News. The stories below are just a glimpse of the many ways people continue to remind us of the good that exists (and has always existed) in the world, even in the toughest of times. All that goodness adds up, and we hope it leaves you feeling as hopeful for the year ahead as we are. We’ll be back with regular programming tomorrow! Humanity...