- How clean is airplane air, really?
Daily Edition • December 5, 2025 SUPPORTED BY If you’ve ever volunteered for a food bank, animal shelter, trash cleanup event, or any other cause, you know about the rush of positive emotions that comes with doing a kind deed. So why does doing good feel so good? It mostly comes down to community. “When we feel grateful for all we have, that motivates us to do good things for other people who have helped us, and also to do good things for new people,” psychologist Sarah Schnitker recently…Read more
- Whales may be trying to talk to us
. Daily Edition • June 12, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Prepare to be mesmerized: Oceanographers on a National Geographic expedition captured the first-ever footage of a Gonatus antarcticus, a rare deep-sea squid that lives in the Southern Ocean. Little is known about the elusive creature — the scientists didn’t even plan the run-in; they happened upon the squid accidentally after ice floes forced them to change their plans. Watch the newly released footage. Must Reads Explore the life and legacy of...
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. Daily Edition • June 11, 2025 SUPPORTED BY One of the joys of TikTok is the platform’s ability to make something old new again. Case in point: Connie Francis’ 1962 song, “Pretty Little Baby,” which has now been used in more than 17 million videos. The tune’s viral success even prompted Francis, 87, to join the app — “To think that a song I recorded 63 years ago is captivating new generations of audiences is truly overwhelming for me,” she said in a video. Give the song a listen, and prepare...
- 13.5 billion years, captured in 1 map
. Daily Edition • June 10, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Look out (or rather, up) for the Strawberry Moon! June’s full moon will peak around 3:45 a.m. ET tomorrow, but the best time to spot it for non-night owls will be around sunset this evening. Naturally named for the peak strawberry season, it’s the last full moon before the summer solstice, coming up on June 20. Must Reads Sly Stone died yesterday at age 82 — revisit some of his greatest hits Advice for young job seekers in the era of AI Science...