This is the sun's time to shine: Sunday is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Sunday is the solstice, marking the start of astronomical summer north of the equator. It's the ...

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Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

Being a stewardess always had a certain glamour for Joan Prince Crandall. It opened doors to new experiences and gave her a chance to fly all over the world and learn new things. She remembers the ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

A standard soccer match lasts 90 minutes, plus added stoppage time in league play. In knockout competitions, however, games can stretch to 120 minutes if the score is level after 90, with an ...

On May 7, Clarence Thomas became the second-longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history. With more than 34 years on the bench, he is now just over two years shy of beating the record held by ...

Clint Henderson is a managing editor at TPG who has worked in the journalism industry for more than 25 years. He is obsessed with travel and has used points and miles to explore the world. The cards ...

Everyone knows about Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. But did you know Ted Williams once had an 84-game on-base streak? Williams accomplished that feat during the 1949 season, setting a Modern ...

Finland's just inaugurated its longest bridge, and not a single a car or motorcycle will ever be allowed on it. That's because the Kruunuvuori Bridge, officially opened to the public over the past ...

The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in South Louisiana is the longest bridge in the U.S. and is the longest continuous bridge over water in the world. The causeway consists of two parallel bridges ...