The U.S. Women’s Soccer team is competing in Australia and New Zealand—hoping to bring home its fifth World Cup! If the team is successful, it would be their third straight title win, which is something no team, men or women, has done before.
The 23-player roster includes long-time, well-... Read more
Two Rembrandt paintings previously unknown to art scholars will be up for auction this summer after not being seen in public for 200 years!
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, often known simply as Rembrandt, created the paintings in 1635. They feature an elderly husband and wife from a... Read more
“Trinity” the Tyrannosaurus rex sold at auction last month for $5.3 million.
The T. rex is composed of 293 bones excavated from three sites in Montana and Washington. The bones were dug up between 2008 and 2013 and assembled into a single skeleton, known as a composite. The figure... Read more
A giant blob of seaweed is slowly floating toward Florida’s beaches. The collection of seaweed weighs more than 10 million tons, and stretches more than 5,000 miles—twice the width of the continental United States!
The seaweed at issue is called sargassum, and it’s a leafy BUOYANT... Read more
In the early morning darkness of Feb. 6, a major earthquake struck south-central Turkey, collapsing houses and multi-story apartment buildings as people slept.
First was the 7.8-magnitude earthquake, which shook the ground for 75 seconds and destroyed buildings over a huge area, including... Read more
Have you ever heard of elaliite and elkinstantonite?
You’re certainly not alone if you haven’t—because they were just recently discovered on Earth! Scientists IDENTIFIED two minerals that have never been seen on our planet from a slice of meteorite that was discovered in Somalia in... Read more
Archeologists in Norway discovered the world’s oldest dated runestone.
Runestones are the oldest known form of writing in Scandinavia. They are stone blocks with markings of the runic alphabet, which was first used about 2,000 years ago, according to the University of Oslo. Archeologists... Read more
Have you ever heard of elaliite and elkinstantonite?
You’re certainly not alone if you haven’t—because they were just recently discovered on Earth! Scientists IDENTIFIED two minerals that have never been seen on our planet from a slice of meteorite that was discovered in Somalia in... Read more
