Lifelong Friends Keep Tradition Alive for 64 Years

YouTube Is Turning 21, Here Are The Record-Breaking Moments That Defined A Generation

April 23, 2026

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 National Zoo’s Baby Elephant Made Her Public Debut On Earth Day

April 23, 2026

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

A Common Plant That Grows In Your Backyard Could Be The Answer To Microplastics In Drinking Water

April 23, 2026

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