Did you make a New Year’s resolution to travel more in 2024? If so, you’re not alone: Experts are predicting that there will be an airline passenger boom in 2024 — a prediction based in part […]
Oxford University Press has just announced its word of the year, but if you’re not in Gen Z, you might not know this popular term. Oxford’s choice, “rizz,” beat out words like “Swiftie” and “situationship” […]
You might not have much of an opinion about pigeons unless you live in a big city — and if you do, that opinion is probably a bad one. These cooing, eternally hungry birds are […]
Can you bring a species back from extinction? In the case of one fish, you can — if it never really disappeared! Houting, a whitefish once common to the North Sea area of Europe, was […]
After a two-year absence from international competition, Simone Biles roared back in 2023, including at the 2023 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Belgium over the weekend. She collected five medals — four golds and one […]
Which countries are happiest? Believe it or not, there’s actually a report for that. The most recent World Happiness Report was released in 2023, using data collected from more than 150 countries. Researchers at the […]
If you’ve ever dreamed of going to Hogwarts and getting a wizarding education, you are in luck. The University of Exeter is now offering a new graduate program for people who love spooky season all […]
Michael Jordan is still making history. The 60-year-old basketball legend became the first-ever athlete on the Forbes 400 list. For the last 42 years, Forbes has released a list of the top 400 wealthiest people in […]
How much would you pay for two tickets to the April 14, 1865 performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre? That was the question of the moment when auction house RR Auction put the […]
NASA’s investigations into the cosmos just keep getting cooler and cooler. Think: the James Webb Space Telescope, the Curiosity rover on Mars, and the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission, which ends with a live broadcast on Sunday. […]