Saturday, April 25 is Independent Bookstore Day! This annual celebration is an opportunity to celebrate and support independent bookshops across the United States — both online and in your community.

On Wednesday evening, Randall Lane, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, announced a new layer to the publication’s wealth-tracking of billionaires: How much money they are giving away. Lane is the ...

Mark Rober, a NASA engineer turned YouTube sensation with over 75 million subscribers, has spent his internet career making creative, silly, engaging science experiments for viewers, many of them ...

The Builders Movement is a community organization that has worked with renowned humanitarians like Chef José Andrés and Dr. Bernice A. King. Partnering with organizations like the Bay Area Rescue ...

On April 13, officials in Bangladesh rescued an endangered Bengal slow loris, locally known as the Lajjabati Banor, which roughly translates to “shy monkey.” The adult male slow loris had wandered ...

On Monday, April 13, Malala Yousafzai gave her first-ever TED Talk. Many already know her as the Pakistani activist who, at just 15 years old, was shot in the face by the Taliban for her outspoken ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are concerned with spreading the net wider — or getting more helping hands on ...

In August 2023, Florence Welch — the lead singer of Florence + The Machine — had a miscarriage. Soon after, she realized that the pregnancy had been ectopic, a dangerous condition where the fertilised ...

When the mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, Alyia Gaskins, discovered that the agency overseeing the city’s public housing owed $1 million in back rent, nearly 450 tenants suddenly faced eviction. “I was ...

December may have ushered in wintry weather to the United States, but over in New South Wales, Australia, the weather was heating up for summer. And as the temperatures climbed, more and more sea ...

Find four hobbies you love: One to make you money, one to keep you in shape, one to be creative, and one to make the world a better place.

In 2012, Brooklyn’s Mike Matthews was at work when one of his coworkers came into the office, lamenting a recent breakup. As she opened up to him, a singular thought crossed his mind: She needs to ...