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. Daily Edition • July 3, 2025 SUPPORTED BY You might soon experience some of the shortest days of your life. That may sound scary, but it’s really just an oddity relating to Earth’s rotation. Over the past few years, our planet has been overall spinning faster on its axis, to the point that timekeeping experts have said our clocks might have to skip a second around 2029. In the shorter term, the quicker rotation means that there are a few days coming up that are expected to be shorter than…Read more
- 5 deaf children can hear after gene therapy
Wake up to good news. Supported By Saturday • January 27, 2024 Valentine’s Day is less than three weeks away! While the upcoming holiday is all about love, it’s not just for lovers: Feb. 14 is an opportunity to celebrate the many special people in your life, from best friends to grandchildren — essentially, anyone and everyone you hold dear. Spending quality time together is a wonderful way to acknowledge how much they mean to you, but let’s be honest, who doesn’t love giving and receiving...
- You can wear the world’s oldest Scottish tartan
Wake up to good news. Supported By Friday • January 26, 2024 Need to beef up your 2024 reading list? The BBC recently rounded up 45 of this year’s most highly anticipated books. The list includes Stephen King’s forthcoming short story collection, Gabriel García Márquez’s “lost novel,” and the latest from romance writer Emily Henry. And if you prefer to be the one telling your friends about the hottest up-and-coming writers, keep an eye out for some exciting debuts, like Kaliane Bradley’s The...
- This is how animals see the world — in vivid color
Wake up to good news. Supported By Thursday • January 25, 2024 Could you go a month without your smartphone? How about if you got $10,000 to do it? Siggi’s, the Icelandic yogurt brand based in New York, is offering select winners $10K (and three months’ worth of yogurt) in exchange for putting their smartphones in a lockbox. All you have to do to enter the contest is agree to the no-phone terms and submit a short essay on how your life would benefit from a digital detox. “We believe in the...