Your guide on celebrating and honoring Juneteenth — on June 19th, and all year long. Minnesota state lawmaker Melissa Hortman, her husband, and their family dog were fatally shot Saturday morning. A ...

Your weekly roundup of the best good news worth celebrating... African forest elephants have become so rare in this Senegalese national park that they are simply called “ghosts.” But one beloved ...

Every year, an estimated 1 billion birds die in building collisions in the United States. Birds are also vulnerable to becoming injured in urban environments, getting their delicate legs stuck in ...

According to a new survey by Road Scholar — a nonprofit that provides travel and education services to seniors — 94% of older adults who “age adventurously” report higher levels of happiness, with ...

South African entrepreneur Phumla Makhoba is on a mission to solve the “global south housing crisis.” And she’s doing it by using clothing waste. Her invention, Texiboard, is a material that combines ...

As a hot summer approaches and experts continue to figure out the most affordable and environmentally-friendly ways to cool buildings, German researchers have invented a new facade to automatically ...

This summer, any American can add ‘Harvard University’ to their resume — for free. The university has offered free online courses for several years, but with tensions rising in relation to the Trump ...

A new study from researchers at Swansea University, Wales, revealed a surprising truth about the social behavior of baboons. In the Cape Peninsula of South Africa, the research team studied 78 ...

Last summer, a gaggle of Oregon State University students mingled with bee-loving locals as they attended classes at a “mini bee school” in the Dufferin Park Wetlands of Kamloops, British Columbia.

When Texan high schoolers Samuel Skotnikov, Changyoung Kim, and Eeshaan Prashanth found out that their friend Aiden’s prosthetic leg was uncomfortable and difficult to use, they decided to make him a ...

For decades, Asheville, North Carolina, has served as a “go-to” vacation destination. Framed by the Blue Ridge Mountains and Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the idyllic city has long been known ...

A group of undergraduate engineering students at Rice University — Adam Vuong, Cristiana De Sousa, Issy Tai, and Santiago Brent — aren’t just classmates. They’re Kunde’s Friends. Kunde is a Houston ...