Easter, which will be observed on April 4, 2021, is
the oldest and most important Christian festival.
Many adults commemorate the holiday, which
celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the
third day after his Crucifixion, with prayers and
fasting for 40 days before the event. For children in
the US, Easter is largely about fun activities like se...
The idiom “shoot for the stars” has just taken on a
literal meaning for cancer survivor Hayley
Arceneaux. On February 22, 2021, the Memphis,
Tennessee, native was selected to be one of four
crew members of the SpaceX Inspiration4 — the
world's first civilian astronaut mission. The
29-year-old will make further history as the younge...
On July 31, 1697, a French lawyer named Jacques
Sennacques wrote an urgent message to remind a
cousin in the Netherlands to send him a relative's
death certificate. To prevent others from reading the
confidential memo, the note was carefully folded, or
"letter locked." The ancient technique, which
transformed the letter into its own secure package...
Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, has been
erupting regularly since 2011. However, the latest
series of explosions, which began on February 16,
2021, has been particularly noteworthy. Emanating
from the youngest of the volcano's four craters —
the Southeast Crater— they have spewed
spectacular fountains of lava as high as 0.9 miles (...
St. Patrick may have been an Irish clergyman, but
his death anniversary — observed annually on
March 17 — is celebrated worldwide, even in cities
and towns with few or no ethnic Irish people. Here is
a brief history of the man behind the holiday and
the origins of some of the fun traditions associated
with the commemoration.
A team of Swedish scientists has successfully
extracted and reconstructed the world's oldest DNA
from the tooth of a Siberian mammoth, which
roamed Earth over a million years ago. Also known
as deoxyribonucleic acid, the all-important molecule
— which contains the genetic instructions for the
development and function of living things. — provi...
On March 14, 2021, millions of Americans and
Canadians will mark the start of Daylight Saving
Time (DST) by moving their clocks forward an hour.
The time manipulation — which will result in the loss
of sixty minutes of precious sleep or leisure time on
Sunday — is designed to enable North Americans to
enjoy longer days during the upcoming spring and...
In 2011, conservationists moved eight Rothschild's
giraffes to Longicharo Island, a rocky peninsula on
Lake Baringo in Western Kenya. The scientists hoped
the isolated area would save the endangered
animals from poachers and allow their numbers to
multiply. However, intense rainfall in August 2020
caused the lake water levels to rise substantially, c...
If you have been paying any attention to the news
over the past few weeks, you may have heard of the
exponential rise and the equally dramatic drop in
the share price of video game retailer GameStop
(GME) and other "meme" stocks — those favored by
millennials — like AMC Theaters. The two-week
frenzy, which pitted individual amateur investors a...
