“No pain, no gain” is a mantra often used to motivate those hard slogs at the gym. But could a…
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Founder of Girls’ School Wins $1M “Do Something Prize”
Jessica Posner, who received the 2010 Do Something grand prize Monday, will return to Nairobi, Kenya, with $100,000 to bring…
California to ban plastic bags
California is to become the first US state to ban plastic bags in supermarkets in a move Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger…
A Pink Bus and a Dream
HTML clipboard An imaginary bus struck 9-year-old Amiya Alexander at 1:06 in the morning. The outside was pink and the…
13-year-old climbs Everest
The youngest climber to reach the peak of Mount Everest hugged his tearful companions and told them he loved them.…
Woman, 80, skydives
At 80 years old, Bakersfield resident Ruth Shivers got to accomplish one very extreme goal. She went skydiving Saturday in…
woman gives birth while driving
Joseph Phillips ran into the North Country Regional Hospital emergency room early morning calling for help because his newborn son…
Flashmobbing locusts have redesigned brains
Come together, right now Young solitary locusts, known as hoppers, are green, which camouflages them when they are feeding on…
13-Year-Old Wins National Geographic Bee
National Geographic Bee winner Aadith Moorthy of Florida proved he could carry a tune—and carry home top honors. After the…
Mesoamericans Were The First Polymer Scientists
Ancient Mesoamerican peoples manufactured rubber from latex some 3,500 years before the modern invention of vulcanization and even compounded it…