On April 22, 2021, for the second consecutive year, the US House of Representatives voted 216-208 to make Washington, DC,  the nation's 51st state.  Though the symbolically titl...

Since landing on Mars on February 18, 2021,  NASA's Perseverance rover has achieved numerous "firsts," including beaming audio sounds from the Red Planet's surface. It also made...

Given that white was one of the first colors used in art in the 15th century, one would think that there is little room left to improve its "whiteness." It turns out that is far...

British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor has made it his mission to use his talent to conserve our ecosystems by creating underwater museums. Over the years, the environmentalist ...

A  collection of 1,000  prehistoric structures dubbed mustatils — the plural form of the Arabic term for rectangles —  scattered across 124,274 miles (200,000 kilometers) in nor...

When Jennifer Johnson and her team embarked on their annual quest to survey the sturgeon population in the Detroit River in mid-April 2021, they had fully expected to find some ...