A few weeks ago, I mentioned the story of Timmy the humpback whale who was “rescued” off the coast of Germany after being stranded. It was somewhat of a controversial effort because some thought it to be a futile effort. […]
Have you heard the story about Timmy the whale and his rescue? Timmy is a juvenile humpback whale who became a media sensation after getting stranded for nearly two months in Germany’s shallow Baltic Sea waters (starting March 2026). Following […]
“America’s Top Young Scientist” goes to an eighth grader from California this year. Kevin Tang, age thirteen, won the $25,000 prize for inventing a new kind of device that detects when a person takes a fall. The invention was inspired […]
I recently saw an article about the “most expensive things on Earth.” The item that topped the list was antimatter. It had an estimated price tag of $59.8 trillion per gram! Most people know what matter is—it makes up everything […]
If you enjoy music and have a history of listening to pop songs, you already can listen to a song and identify which decade it was released because of the sound and style. It’s interesting to learn that a new […]
In 2016, I was able to travel to Australia for the first time. One of the highlights of my trip was to hold an adorable koala named Barney. This happened at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Queensland. The Lone […]
Did you know that the Internet as we know it depends on 22 ships to function? It likely wouldn’t occur to most people that there are fiber-optic cables running through our oceans all around the world. In fact, there are […]
The Guinness Book of World Records has announced that the hottest pepper in the world is now Pepper X and no longer the Carolina Reaper as of Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Ed Currie, a pepper expert from South Carolina has […]
A first of its kind housing project with 3D homes has begun this month to sell them near Austin, Texas. This is the first large-scale 3D-printed housing development project in the United States. There are around 100 3D printed homes […]