- North Dakota to hit nation-first milestone
Daily Edition • December 16, 2025 SUPPORTED BY The Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is home to Wisdom, the world’s oldest-known banded bird. But the 75-year-old is just one of many (i.e., roughly 1.5 million) albatrosses living on the atoll, and now the public can get a glimpse at the thriving wildlife. The refuge is not open for visitation, so the nonprofit Friends of Midway Atoll set up a 24-hour wildlife camera on one of the atoll’s three islands to “bring the place to the people.”…Read more
- 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...
- Today’s Pick: Should guests remove their shoes?
Editors’ Picks • December 3, 2025 Do you ask guests to remove their shoes upon entering your home — or, more importantly, should you ask them to? That is, personal preferences aside, is it unhealthy to wear footwear indoors? There’s a lot of information on the web about what’s on the bottom of our shoes, so Nice News decided to reach out to doctors and scientists to decipher what that intel actually means for our hygiene. Take a walk with us to learn the four main factors the great shoe...