50 million Africans living in 40 countries now have access to electricity for the first time thanks to a $15 […]

70 years ago today, the Interstate Highway System was established in the US to create a national road grid that […]

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM You know the skincare aisle. You’ve stood there long enough to know that the […]

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Researchers at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources developed a plasma-based process that […]

A new high tech jacket developed by engineers at the University of Texas can pull drinking water from thin air. […]

Two ‘super-puff’ planets lighter than cotton candy have been discovered by scientists—and they’re bigger than Jupiter. They are among the […]

A 48-year-old woman who won a million in the lottery immediately gave her neighbors a gift of five thousand, so […]

A shipwreck off the British coast, including a treasure of hundreds of gold coins, has finally been identified after 30 […]

Happy 100th Birthday to Mel Brooks, the comic and writer who became the legendary director of comedies like Blazing Saddles, […]

Two “worthless” garden statues thought to be made of cheap concrete were discovered to be rare 18th-century Italian marble masterpieces, […]