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From 300 to 3,000: how Australia brought the numbat back
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Great news! The (adorable) numbat is no longer endangered. The IUCN has moved Western Australia’s animal emblem from Endangered to Near Threatened on its Red List, after more than 40 years of conservation work. “The downlisting of the numbat from Read More...
Salsa dancing reduced depression and anxiety in young adults, Oxford study finds
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Do eight weeks of salsa classes sound like an intervention to you? Show up, learn the footwork, rotate partners, move to music with a room full of people you probably don’t know. And at the end of those eight weeks, if you danced as part of this recent Read More...
Fashion’s dirty secret: the EU just banned brands from incinerating unsold clothes
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Large fashion companies in the EU can no longer destroy unsold clothing, shoes, or accessories. As of this week, that’s illegal. The change is part of the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, which applies to companies with more than 250 Read More...
Short HIIT sessions can offset sleep debt’s metabolic toll
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Most people treat sleep debt as a tiredness problem. Get some extra rest on the weekend, recover, move on. The reality is messier. Missing sleep for several nights triggers a cascade of metabolic and cardiovascular changes that don’t reverse cleanly when Read More...
Scientists trial a painless brush test for oral cancer that returns results in 60 minutes
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A brush swab of the mouth. Four genes. Results in under an hour. Researchers from Queen Mary University of London, working with partners in India, have shown that this simple approach can match the diagnostic accuracy of a surgical biopsy, without a scalpel Read More...
5 habits that build lasting happiness, according to research
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Most people treat happiness as something that arrives when conditions are right. The last decade of psychological science tells a different story. Happiness isn’t mainly a mood or a simple feeling. It’s an output of how your life is structured, the Read More...
In Cuba’s fuel crisis, solar tricycles took the streets
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Cuba has long been known for its vintage cars — the American ones that kept rolling through decades of embargo and scarcity, repaired with ingenuity and improvised parts. That ingenuity hasn’t gone anywhere. What it’s being directed at now is something Read More...
Why summer slips away so quickly and how to make it feel longer, according to brain science
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM It's hard to believe it's almost August; if you're anything like us, you’re probably wondering where June and July went. It happens every year: the long days, the plans you made back in May, the feeling that this summer would be different somehow. Then Read More...
What watching soccer does to your body, according to science
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Forty-eight teams. Sixty-four matches. A final played yesterday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. And a victory for Spain, the country taking all the glory home. The 2026 World Cup was the most expansive in the tournament’s history, and for US, Canadian, Read More...
Could this popular gym supplement strengthen cancer immunotherapy?
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Cancer immunotherapy has transformed treatment for some patients. For the 60 to 80 percent who don’t respond, the problem often isn’t the killer T cells at the end of the immune chain. It’s the cells responsible for training them. A new UCLA study Read More...