Millie Giles

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The 2025 US Open Pickleball Championships, May 3, 2025 (Photo by Bruce Yeung/Getty Images)The world’s largest pickleball franchise is going to Japan. If your local park, gym, or sports club isn’t already awash with a constant din of the distinctive “pock” of a plastic pickleball ball, it probably will be soon. A tennis-badminton-ping-pong-hybrid, the sport has seen a dizzying upsurge in the US over the past few years.

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Shares of e.l.f. Beauty are up 8% in trading this morning after the company announced Wednesday that it’s agreed to buy rhode, a fast-growing skincare brand founded by Hailey Bieber, for $1 billion. In a press release, the beauty giant cited rhode’s “incredible growth,” having more than doubled its consumer base over the past year and driven a total of $212 million in net sales in the 12 months to March 31.

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Analysis from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, published Friday, revealed that less than 1 in 5 (~18%)federal government workers spent time teleworking or working at home for pay in April, down from ~31% in the same month last year. It also marks a decline of more than 14% since January, when the White House formally released a memorandum instructing all government agencies to “terminate remote work arrangements” for federal workers.

2 weeks ago | sherwood.news | Millie Giles

The method could make removing atmospheric carbon 6x more efficient, meaning even more carbon credits for companies like Microsoft to buy. MIT engineers reported on Tuesday that they’ve developed nanofiltration membranes to help solve the bottleneck hindering current carbon capture methods. Put simply, carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems rely on two reactions: one that removes dilute CO₂ from the air, and one that releases pure CO₂ from the system to be stored.

2 weeks ago | sherwood.news | Millie Giles

It’s big brain time (Getty Images)The search engine is helping millions learn “Adulting 101.”Harking from the same millennial handbook as “Live, laugh, love” and “But first, coffee,” anyone who went to the laundromat or filed their taxes in the early 2010s might be familiar with the adage, “Adulting is hard.”However, for any number of reasons — from confidence in the future dwindling to losing hope about owning a home — “adulting” may have only gotten harder since then.