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The Daily Dish · No. 001November 5, 2026 · Founding issue
Around Our World · Featured story 01

A forest between two worlds

Where land meets sea, mangroves turn a difficult place into a home.

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Mangrove trees and their exposed roots at Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge, Florida.

Photograph: Jess Sutt / USFWS · Ten Thousand Islands, Florida. Nature, technology, and art. There is more than one way to explore.

A little further. A lot more wonder.

Three stories worth taking your time with. Follow the questions. Go Deeper.

Webb infrared observations of rusty gold pillars of gas and dust surrounded by stars.02
How Cool Is That?

How invisible light becomes a picture

Meet the technology—and the people—behind a colorful Webb image.

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Hokusai’s Great Wave: a curling blue wave above three narrow boats, with a small Mount Fuji in the distance.03
The Bigger Picture

The wave that makes a mountain look small

Hokusai’s famous print has a clever trick hiding in plain sight.

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The Daily Dish / Pick your next discovery

Where will curiosity take you?

Five ways into one extraordinary world. Pick a starting point. See where it leads.

Blue Pacific water along the Big Sur coast near Bixby Canyon Bridge.

Why does the ocean look blue?

Water is doing more than reflecting the sky.

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An orange-and-black monarch butterfly drinking nectar from a flower.
Something Wonderful · One last good thing

The butterfly journey that takes generations

Eastern monarchs make a remarkable living relay.

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