“It takes a special energy, over and above one’s creative potential, a special audacity or subversiveness, to strike out in a new direction once one is settled.”

On March 21, 1861, former U.S.

“Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.”

A new moon on Sunday, Jan. 18, means dark skies and some of the best stargazing conditions of the year. Here are the bright stars, constellations and objects to see.

As Republicans have restored the ACA's income cap on subsidies for now, those with projected income modestly over the 400% FPL cap should look for legal ways to reduce the income that counts

In her 1949 MGM film, In the Good Old Summertime , Judy Garland sings a lovely but oft-overlooked Christmas song appropriately titled, “Merry Christmas.” Fred Spielman, who had been a prominent cabar...

On January 1, 2026, works from 1930—including Nancy Drew, early Betty Boop, and The Maltese Falcon—hit the U.S. public domain. Here’s what it all means.

The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.

Parenting Musically explores ways to make music an important and meaningful part of our families’ lives. This podcast features interviews with well-known musicians and their parents paired with interv...

Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way,” William Blake wrote in his most spirited letter. “As a man is, so …

The global High Seas Treaty, decades in the making, will become international law. It aims to create vast maritime conservation areas.

Oceana’s Chief Scientist Dr. Katie Matthews says, “For the first time, we have the legal foundation to safeguard marine diversity in waters that belong to everyone and no one at the same time. What ma...

For their first assignment of the school year, high school journalists from our network of Student Reporting Labs asked educators in their schools about the significance of teaching 9/11, what the events meant to them, and why it’s important to study the history before and after that day.

YouTube and Sesame Workshop have agreed to a new deal that will bring full episodes of Sesame Street to the platform.

COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation. It comes as California students return to the classroom after RFK Jr. nixed the CDC's recommendation that th...

Speed and flexibility have made mRNA a blockbuster technology

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,” Einstein reportedly told one mother who wished for her son to become a scientist. “If you want them to be ver…

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In a laboratory-scale study, green roof mockups kept 97.5 percent of microplastic particles out of runoff

Get Happy! The Judy Garland Songbook is coming to the National Concert Hall in Dublin and Wexford Opera House. RTÉ Entertainment's John Byrne talks to the conductor and brains behind the show, Niall K...

The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it would add more than $3 trillion to the national debt.

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