Technology
There has been no era like ours for the rapid development of technology. Stay updated on the hottest trends and advancements from all over the world.
Brazil's new law blames platform design for harming kids, not parents
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM If you have ever lost an hour to a video feed you never meant to open, you understand what Brazil just decided to make illegal for children. The Digital Statute of Children and Adolescents took effect in Brazil last week, and what makes it different from Read More...
Giant sequoia clones from 3,000-year-old trees are taking root in Detroit
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In California's Sierra Nevada, giant sequoias have stood for millennia. The largest trees top 300 feet, live past 3,000 years, and are among the biggest living things on Earth by mass. Now, clones of specific ancient trees are being planted in Read More...
What governments and households are being asked to do in the oil crisis
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The International Energy Agency has already done something it has never done before: ordered the largest release of government oil reserves in its history. Now it is turning to the demand side... and asking a lot of people to make some small changes Read More...
How robots and drones are cleaning the ocean floor across Europe
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Most ocean cleanup efforts work on the same assumption: the problem floats. Skim the surface, collect the plastic, done. The trouble is that most marine litter doesn't float. It sinks to the seabed, where it sits undisturbed and largely out of reach of the Read More...
The DNA database built to protect lions just helped convict the people who killed one
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM When conservation biologists fitted a male lion with a radio collar near Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, they were studying his movements. They drew blood, logged his health information, and stored his DNA profile in a database. They had no way of knowing Read More...
Scotland legalizes water cremation, giving families a greener third option
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A quick note: this article walks through how water cremation works, including some detail about the process. If you'd prefer to jump straight to the environmental and policy context, feel free to scroll to the subheadings. Scotland is making history in Read More...
A wireless eye implant is helping people with macular degeneration read again
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Age-related macular degeneration eliminates the center of your vision – the ability to read, to recognize faces, to see what's right in front of you. For the more than five million people worldwide living with its most advanced form, geographic atrophy, Read More...
A new drug is producing "stunning" results in men with advanced prostate cancer
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Immunotherapy has reshaped cancer treatment over the past decade. It has worked for melanoma, lung cancer, and several other tumor types. Prostate cancer, though, has largely been left out. Researchers classify it as "immune-cold," meaning the body's immune Read More...
Cancer-fighting bacteria: how engineered microbes could "eat" tumors from the inside out
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Cancer treatment has no shortage of big ideas, but this one has a certain dark charm: send in bacteria that thrive where healthy human cells struggle, then let them chew through a tumor's interior. A research team led by the University of Waterloo is Read More...
China’s Great Green Wall turns Taklamakan desert into a growing carbon sink
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For decades, the Taklamakan Desert was described in stark terms: a “biological void,” a vast expanse of shifting sand where little could survive. Slightly larger than the state of Montana and ringed by mountains that block most incoming moisture, it Read More...