- How exercise affects overall energy
Daily Edition • January 14, 2026 SUPPORTED BY If you find yourself wanting to express the word “pickle” in the form of an emoticon, you’re currently faced with a not-quite-right alternative: the cucumber emoji. But that could soon change — Unicode, which sets the world standard for text and emoji, seems to have a new slate of emoji coming down the pipeline this year, and it includes the pickle. Other promising additions include a meteor (as opposed to the existing comet) and a lighthouse:…Read more
- A surprising CPAP benefit
Daily Edition • December 6, 2025 SUPPORTED BY It’s the most wonderful time of the year: New York Times Cooking’s cookie week. Each year, the paper enlists bakers to put together a slate of unique cookie recipes for readers to try, and the 2025 lineup is inspired by the team’s favorite “non-cookie things.” That means delectable concoctions like popcorn bucket cookies (think: movie night, packed into one treat), Vietnamese coffee swirl brownies, and, perhaps most interestingly, shortbread that...
- 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...
- Brains have distinct eras
Daily Edition • December 4, 2025 SUPPORTED BY When you go to turn on the Christmas tunes, you likely veer toward the classics — Vince Guaraldi, Mariah Carey, Bing Crosby, and the like. But there are some new songs you might want to consider adding to this year’s playlist, too. Check out 2025’s best holiday albums. Must Reads See the winners of the 12th International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition 2025’s top pop culture trends, as reported by YouTube Science What “Era” Is Your...