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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM

Running, climbing stairs, squatting to pick something up from the floor: every one of these movements passes through the knees. It is easy to take that for granted until they start to complain.

“Everybody could probably benefit from some sort of strengthening to improve stability of the knee,” says


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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM

In long-term studies where people had their cognitive ability tracked from youth into old age, one finding keeps standing out. “One of the most important factors explaining someone’s cognitive ability at age 70 is their cognitive ability when they were 11,” researchers


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With Mother’s Day just behind us, conversations about everything that mothers give are top of mind. However, the biology of pregnancy has something more to say: the exchange runs in both directions, and some of it lasts a lifetime.

There is a phenomenon in pregnancy that sounds more like science fiction than medicine. During gestation, some of a baby’s DNA can c...


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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM

In many cities, entering a park is a deliberate act. You adjust your route, find a gate, and cross from public pavement into a space that operates by its own rules, even if those rules are minimal.

Hanoi is dismantling that dynamic. Across four major parks, including Cầu Giấy, Bách Thảo, Thống Nhất, and Indira Gandhi, ...


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Europe’s first stadium built exclusively for women’s football is going up in Brighton! And the most interesting design decision wasn’t the pitch. It was the size.

Arielle and Karissa cover ten solutions this week, including a single injection that gave a child...


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