Your guide on celebrating and honoring Juneteenth — on June 19th, and all year long. Minnesota state lawmaker Melissa Hortman, her husband, and their family dog were fatally shot Saturday morning. A ...

Your weekly roundup of the best good news worth celebrating... African forest elephants have become so rare in this Senegalese national park that they are simply called “ghosts.” But one beloved ...

Every year, an estimated 1 billion birds die in building collisions in the United States. Birds are also vulnerable to becoming injured in urban environments, getting their delicate legs stuck in ...

Earlier this week, a photo of a large transgender pride flag hanging atop the famous face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park made the rounds. Reports shared that the 55-by-35-foot flag was hung ...

When Texan high schoolers Samuel Skotnikov, Changyoung Kim, and Eeshaan Prashanth found out that their friend Aiden’s prosthetic leg was uncomfortable and difficult to use, they decided to make him a ...

South African entrepreneur Phumla Makhoba is on a mission to solve the “global south housing crisis.” And she’s doing it by using clothing waste. Her invention, Texiboard, is a material that combines ...

A group of undergraduate engineering students at Rice University — Adam Vuong, Cristiana De Sousa, Issy Tai, and Santiago Brent — aren’t just classmates. They’re Kunde’s Friends. Kunde is a Houston ...

Last summer, a gaggle of Oregon State University students mingled with bee-loving locals as they attended classes at a “mini bee school” in the Dufferin Park Wetlands of Kamloops, British Columbia.

As a hot summer approaches and experts continue to figure out the most affordable and environmentally-friendly ways to cool buildings, German researchers have invented a new facade to automatically ...

In March of this year, comedian and actress Hannah Einbinder accepted the Visibility Award from the Human Rights Campaign for expanding LGBTQ+ representation on-screen through her role in HBO’s “Hacks ...

This summer, any American can add ‘Harvard University’ to their resume — for free. The university has offered free online courses for several years, but with tensions rising in relation to the Trump ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. In December 2022, Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on ...