Most 19-year-olds are still trying to perfect their driving skills. But Zara Rutherford had her eyes set a little higher. The  British-Belgian teenager wanted to be the youngest...

On February 6, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Platinum Jubilee — 70 years to the day she became queen. The 95-year-old is the first British monarch and one of only four...

The infamous Salem witch trials, which took place in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693, were a dark period in America's legal history.  More than 200 people were wron...

Thanks to the hard work of companies like SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and Blue Origin, space tourism is well on its way to becoming a reality.  Now, California-based Orbital Assemb...

Here is some good news for those wilting in the sweltering summer heat — July is National Ice Cream Month!  The "cool" holiday can be credited to Proclamation 5219, signed by fo...

A fish with the body of a shark and the face of a pig may sound like something straight out of a science fiction movie. But that precisely describes the dead shark retrieved fro...

The western false asphodel — an herb-like plant found in abundance along North America's West Coast —  has been known to science since 1879.  But it is only recently that resear...

The pandemic-delayed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, which took place from Aug. 24 to Sept. 5, 2021, attracted a record number of competitors.  A total of  4,403 athletes — 2,550 m...