Why Do Fall Leaves Change Color? Have you ever wondered why the trees seem to put on a spectacular show every fall? The reds, oranges, yellows, and even purples we see aren’t simply painted onto the leaves. They are the result of a fascinating change taking...
61-Year-Old Grandmother Breaks Her Own World Record with Staggering 5-Hour Plank A 61-year-old grandmother has beaten her own world record for the longest plank, holding it for five hours. DonnaJean Wilde, a retired teacher, from Canada achieved the record at the...
A $400 Garden Ornament Turns Out to Be a 300-Year-Old Treasure Imagine buying an old garden decoration for a few hundred dollars, only to discover that it is a rare work of art nearly 300 years old! That is what happened in England, where a marble sculpture of a pope...
The Workplace Then and Now Imagine walking into your workplace in 1985. You might see a typewriter on one desk, a telephone on another, and filing cabinets filled with folders and papers. If you needed to send someone a document, you might mail it, hand-deliver it, or...
NASA’s Next Giant Leap: A Crew Launch, a Space Docking, and the Mission Ahead Space exploration is entering an exciting new chapter! When NASA launches astronauts into space, docks their spacecraft with a space station, or sends a crew toward the Moon, it is doing...
