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“Shark Spy Technology”: Why Massachusetts Scientists Will Tag Sharks With Cameras This Summer

Forget shark week — it’s shark season in New England. The first great white sighting of the season was confirmed May 11 when a seal with a shark bite washed ashore on Nantucket in Massachusetts, and for the second year in a row, researchers in the state will be using an innovative method to help […]

This Rustic Spanish Village Has Become a Gay Wedding Hot Spot

In a tiny village in Spain, the streets are lined with black slate buildings, and the majority of residents are in their golden years. It’s perhaps an unlikely destination for celebrating gay marriage — and yet the municipality of Campillo de Ranas, one of the country’s appropriately dubbed “black villages” because of its dark-stoned dwellings, […]

Why Curiosity Expert Scott Shigeoka Suggests Creating a “Powerful Questions List”

When Nice News first interviewed Scott Shigeoka about curiosity in 2023, he was on the cusp of publishing his book on the subject, Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World. Shigeoka has been busy since then: He took his ideas to the TED stage in November, focusing on curiosity’s potential to […]

JEJU, SOUTH KOREA - OCTOBER 29: 'Haenyeo' women harvest mollusks, seaweed, and other sea creatures to sell to the tourists and make a living in Jeju Island, South Korea on October 29, 2023. Meaning 'mermaid' in English, the Haenyeo are mostly elderly women who can dive up to 9 meters deep without scuba equipment, and can last up to 90 seconds underwater. They are featured on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list. (Photo by Serhat Akkan/Anadolu via Getty Images)

For South Korea’s Iconic Female Free Divers, Aquatic Abilities Are in the DNA: Study

About 50 miles off the coast of South Korea, a group of women — some of them in their 80s — start many days by free diving into frigid waters to collect conch, sea urchin, abalone, octopus, and other ocean dwellers for their communities to eat. Jeju Island’s Haenyeo, or “women of the sea,” are […]

The Winners of the 2025 National Geographic Photography Competition Capture Powerful Moments Around the Globe

The winners of the 2025 National Geographic Traveller Photography Competition have been revealed — and the subjects range from a vibrant rainbow staircase in France to a geothermal pool that looks like a dragon’s eye and more. Every year, National Geographic Traveller (UK) organizes the contest, which is open to amateur and professional photographers from the United Kingdom and Ireland, to highlight the best in travel photography.

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Arguing Is Inevitable in Any Relationship — Here’s How to Do So More Constructively

In a perfect world, no one would ever bicker or fight with the people they love, but over here in reality, arguments happen. Sometimes they’re over politics or instances of hurt feelings, other times over what temperature the thermostat should be set to. Since arguing is inevitable, the best we can do is get better […]

A Man Climbed Mount Everest to Install a Defibrillator — 3 Weeks Later, It Saved a Life

A campaigner who climbed Mount Everest to install a defibrillator has revealed the device saved a woman’s life — just three weeks later. David Sullivan founded Code Blue CPR, an organization that teaches people lifesaving CPR and installs defibrillators across England, after he lost four close friends, all under the age of 45, to cardiac arrest.

College Students Invent Vibrating Vest to Give Blind Pup a “Second Set of Eyes”

From Braille displays to smart canes and AI apps, visually impaired people can turn to a variety of innovative devices to help them navigate everyday life. The technology available to blind dogs isn’t quite as advanced — but some future engineers at Houston’s Rice University are out to change that. When Grant Belton and AJ […]

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Ancient Pollen Reveals Stories About Earth’s History, From the Asteroid Strike That Killed the Dinosaurs to the Mayan Collapse

If pollen allergies are getting to you, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks of male reproductive material that many of us notice only when we get watery eyes and runny noses. However, pollen grains are far more than allergens — they are nature’s time capsules, preserving clues about Earth’s past environments for millions of years.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Made “the World a Better One for Living in” Through His Designs: Dive Into 4 Iconic Works

How many architects can you name off the top of your head? Whether that list is on the long or short side, Frank Lloyd Wright likely nabbed a spot. Even if you don’t know much about the man himself, we’d bet the iconic spiral featured in one of his most famous works, the legendary Guggenheim […]

Denali National Park’s Sled Dog “Puppy Cam” Is Live: Meet This Year’s Litter

Stop the presses! There’s another animal live stream to get glued to, and this one features some adorable future heroes: the next generation of sled dogs at Alaska’s Denali National Park. The Denali Sled Dog Kennels’ seasonal “Puppy Cam” is turned on when the newest recruits to the mushing squad are old enough to wander […]

The Donation Collection Gives Formerly Incarcerated Individuals — and Fallen Trees — a Second Chance

These intricately crafted, Japanese-style end tables don’t just make beautiful additions to your home — they also help formerly incarcerated individuals transition to independent living. The Donation Collection, a new initiative in which historically marginalized communities build furniture from construction waste and fallen trees, gives both artisans and discarded materials a second chance. The designs […]