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306 years ago today, Maria Agnesei was born in Milan. She is the first woman in the Western World ever to be appointed as...

In late April, Honda Motor Company announced plans to build a comprehensive electric vehicle (EV) value chain in Canada with an approximate investment of...

198 years ago today, Frederic Edwin Church, one of the foremost painters in the American landscape movement known as the Hudson River School, was...

Happy 64th Birthday to Jeremy Clarkson, the journalist and television personality who hosted the iconic motoring show Top Gear. Since hanging up his BBC...

As Americans prepare for the wondrous celestial spectacle of a total solar eclipse on April 8, cloudy skies or thunderstorms have been forecast for...

Oregon is now the new home of the world’s 19th dark sky sanctuary, offering pristine views of the night sky across over 3,800 square...

A solar eclipse is coming on April 8th, 2024, and unlike when it drifts across the Indian Ocean or somewhere equally remote, this year's...

After listening to the media, you might think America has sunk into a political civil war, with neighbors fighting neighbors—and each side convinced the...

86% of American homeowners are inspired by watching home renovation shows—on average, about seven hours of remodeling content each week—enough to become armchair experts...

180 years ago today, the Bab began teaching the Baháʼí faith, marking forever both the Holy Day and Day 1, or New Year's Day...

196 years ago today, the first issue of the Cherokee Phoenix was published using the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah. Sequoyah, also known as...

Happy 70th Birthday to John Travolta, star of such films as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Hairspray, and Swordfish. His accolades...

"You know what you call it a cobbler is just getting waves and waves of shoes in? A 'shoenami.'" This A+ dad joke can...

100 years ago today, the first ever Olympic gold medal was won in a Winter sport. American speed skater Charles Jewtraw (right) won the...

Astronomers have discovered an enormous celestial entity so unusual they named it 'the Barbenheimer Star' – a moniker referring to the recent cultural phenomenon...

89 years ago today, The Wilderness Society was formed by an "organization of spirited people who will fight for the freedom and preservation of...

In the UK, farmers are combatting flooding by returning areas of their farms to a more natural state, and seeing the benefits not only...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a series of rock tombs in Saqara, 1,800-4,800 years old, that contained colorful mummy masks, plates, statues, and artwork. The...

On this day 375 years ago, perhaps the greatest physicist the world has known, Isaac Newton, was born. Widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, he invented his own calculus when he was 26 years old. An English mathematician, astronomer, and theologian, his book Principia, “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, formulated our understanding of the mechanics of motion and gravity, which dominated scientists’ view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. This farmer’s son also built the first practical reflecting telescope, and made pathbreaking observations in optics, figuring out that white light is really made of multiple colors. WATCH a cool video... (1543)

102 years ago today, Visva-Bharati University was founded in West Bengal by the Indian poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore. The brilliant Nobel Prize-winning humanist...