Happy National Arbor Day! The 154-Year-Old Holiday That Asks You To Plant Just One Tree
April 24 is National Arbor Day, one of the oldest and most quietly powerful environmental holidays in the world, and a perfect opportunity to do something genuinely good for the planet in about 20 minutes. The holiday was born in Nebraska in 1872, when journalist and tree enthusiast J. Sterling Morton convinced the state to […]
Replacing Opioids With A Cannabis Compound That Has No High And No Addiction
Scientists are closing in on something the medical world has been searching for for decades: a way to treat chronic pain as effectively as opioids, without the addiction, overdose risk, or mind-altering effects that make opioids so dangerous. Two separate research teams have recently made significant progress toward that goal using compounds derived from the […]
The Worlds Oldest Doctor Ever Worked Until He Was 103 And Guinness Made It Official
Dr. Howard Tucker, a neurologist from Cleveland, Ohio, who became the oldest practicing doctor in recorded history and spent more than seven decades caring for patients and training future physicians, passed away on December 22, 2025, at the age of 103, and Guinness World Records has now honored his life with the formal title of […]
A Michigan Man Won The Lottery And Then Won It Again A Year Later
A 47-year-old man from Muskegon County, Michigan, has won a $1 million lottery prize, which would be a remarkable story on its own, except that it is actually his second major lottery win in just over a year. The man, who chose to stay anonymous, had already won roughly $367,000 playing the Fantasy 5 game […]
YouTube Is Turning 21, Here Are The Record-Breaking Moments That Defined A Generation
Happy birthday to the website that changed everything. YouTube turns 21 this week, and it’s almost impossible to overstate what the platform — launched on February 14, 2005 by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen — has meant to global culture. It began with the most humble of origins: the very first video ever […]
The National Zoo’s Baby Elephant Made Her Public Debut On Earth Day
Today is a very big day at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., where a two-month-old Asian elephant calf named Linh Mai is making her public debut for the first time since her birth, and the staff who have cared for her around the clock since February say she is already showing exactly the […]
A Common Plant That Grows In Your Backyard Could Be The Answer To Microplastics In Drinking Water
Scientists in Brazil have discovered that seeds from the moringa tree, a plant native to India that grows widely across the tropics and is already consumed as food in many parts of the world, can remove microplastics from drinking water as effectively as the industrial chemical currently used to treat water supplies. Microplastics, tiny fragments […]
A LEGO Set Just Broke A World Record By Floating To The Edge Of Space And Coming Back
To celebrate the worldwide release of the film Project Hail Mary, a team of engineers and space enthusiasts launched a LEGO set nearly 22 miles into the stratosphere using a high-altitude balloon, broke a Guinness World Record in the process, and brought the whole thing safely back to Earth. The LEGO Icons Project Hail Mary […]
Happy Earth Day! This Year, There’s More Reasons To Be Hopeful
Today is Earth Day 2026, and while the headlines about our planet can feel overwhelming, there is genuine, data-backed reason to celebrate. The theme this year is “Our Power, Our Planet”, a rallying cry for the global clean energy movement, and the numbers show that movement is winning. According to a new report from the […]
The Artemis II Crew Just Told The World What It Was Really Like To Come Home From The Moon
The four Artemis II astronauts held their first press conference since returning from the Moon this week, and the mood at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston was one of genuine pride and relief, with the crew offering glowing reviews of their spacecraft and setting the stage for what comes next. Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot […]