On Monday, December 14, 2020, critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay of Long Island Jewish Medical Center became the first American to receive the COVID-19 vaccine after nine, long and arduous months battling the pandemic on the front-lines. Lindsay smiled under her mask after receiving the vaccine and stated,...

In the weeks since he was confirmed as President-Elect of the United States, Joe Biden has announced his appointees for several high-level Cabinet positions. In order to assume their new responsibilities, most, but not all, of the men and women Biden has named to his Cabinet will need to be officially...

The Winter Solstice 2020: More Than Just A Day Just within the past few days, the world experienced a day filled with astronomical activity. On top of a stunning and vibrant meteor shower on December 17th and the Jupiter-Saturn conjugation in which both planets are visible to us here on Earth...

         Do you think that you can tell a bear apart? To us, these big, fuzzy brown bears all truly look the same, and we would have great difficulty telling the difference between these animals. However, a special biologist, Melanie Clapham has been spending decades studying the special characteristics...

Kaavan the elephant was recently given a glimmer of hope that he has needed after decades: love. Elephants are one of the most sensitive and intelligent species, and it is often said that elephants can and will die of a broken heart, or loneliness, with Kaavan’s story being something quite similar...

A New Region of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Has Been Discovered Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/science/great-barrier-reef-new-coral.html  A team of explorers released a report of their findings from a recent trip to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef where a new pinnacle of corals...

   It is hard to believe that 2010 was ten years ago. In that year, when everything was pretty normal, movie theaters were still and new movies were coming out all the time. One of these blockbusters that came out that year was Inception directed by the one and only, Christopher Nolan.     To...