Source: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) The diameter of our closest star, the Sun, is 1,392,000 kilometers. The Sun is thought to be 4.6 billion years old. The Sun is a…
What to Read While You're Waiting for the Next Harry Potter:
Favorites from Other Fantastic Series
by Holly Hartman
Harry Potter wasn't the first child to…
The Wright Brothers Centennial A Century of Flight The Wright Brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk Wilbur and Orville Wright with their second powered machine; Huffman Prairie, Dayton…
Albatross Flies Off Course to New Jersey by David Johnson To the delight of bird watchers and the surprise of biologists, a yellow-nosed albatross, one of several species…
Things Get Rough in Kashmir 50 years later the struggle continues by Ben Snowden "If we want to save not only South Asia from nuclear war, but the world as a whole, Kashmir is the root."—…
ICE SHEETSFIND OUT MOREAbout one-tenth of Earth’s dry land and one-eighth of its oceans are covered with ice. This ice is made of snow that collects and becomes compacted (pressed down).…
journalist and authorBorn: April 10, 1934Birthplace: New York CityDied: April 23, 2007 (Menlo Park, Calif.) David Halberstam made his mark as a journalist during…
