The countdown to the 2020 Summer Games has begun. On July 23, 2021, about 11,000 athletes from  206 countries will gather at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, for the opening...

Mark your calendars! It is once again time for the world's biggest and most spectacular meteor showers. The Perseids have been flashing in the night skies at a rate of about a d...

The seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently encountered an unexpected and potentially dangerous situation.  The Russian laboratory module, Nauka, ...

Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos and Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson have dreamed of going to space since childhood.  The billionaires have also been competing to become the first to ...

Thanks to hours of training, gymnasts seem to effortlessly fly through the air at impossible heights. However, a psychological condition, known as "the twisties," can sidetrack ...

Graphic novel lovers rejoice!  Saturday, August 14, 2021, is Free Comic Book Day (FCBD).  This means you can walk into any one of the 2300+ participating retailers and obtain a ...

Snipping off the sides of an acclaimed painting to fit an assigned space would be unheard of in modern times. But that is exactly what was done to one of Rembrandt van Rijn's mo...

The COVID-delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics ended on August 8, 2021, with a spectacular closing ceremony and a fireworks show. To mark the occasion, the seven astronauts aboard the In...

The social distancing mandates, imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, isolated family members from each other in 2020.  However, it also resulted in some lifelong friendships be...

On August 8, 2021, the United Nations'  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its first assessment of climate science since 2013. The news was not good. The ...