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A custom-crafted wetsuit may have helped Pierre the African penguin, seen here, recover from a bout of baldness. Biologists at the Californi...

Flowers "wave" at insects to get their attention, scientists have discovered. The finding helps explain why many flowers waft in t...

1936: A German zeppelin called the Hindenburg made its first transatlantic flight between Europe and the United States in 1936. Named after ...

Chockablock: Brought close together; very full. Sentence: When we got to the destination, our briefcae was chockablock.

Dorrie McQuaid, 16, walks along a hiking trail on St. John, an island in the U.S. Virgin Islands where her family is on vacation. She asks h...

1895: Although the question of who owns Taiwan, the island off the southeast coast of China, remains current to this day, it is not a modern...

Scavenger: One who collects or salvages garbage or junk. An organism that typically feeds on refuse or carrion. Sentence: They once voluntee...

Text By Melissa Riggio, a teenage girl with Down Syndrome. When I first started to work on this story, I thought maybe I shouldn’t do it. I ...

1992: On this day in 1992, Michigan ratified the 27th Amendment to the Constitution. The proposed amendment was 203 years old, having been f...

Beau Geste: Graceful or magnanimous gesture. An ingratiating conciliatory gesture.