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In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. ***Donna Summer – “Hot Stuff”HIT #1: June 2, 1979 STAYED AT #1: 3 weeks Donna Summer wanted…

Dariia Atamanchuk, left, with Doug Wallace in front of the SeaCycler. Credit: Danny Abriel Much more oxygen than previously thought is transported deep into the ocean interior through a 'trap door" in the Labrador Sea that some researchers say could be closing as a result of climate change. This was…

Robert C. Johnson is both the metaphorical pilot of TeamSupport, his fast-growing Dallas-based company, and a real-life stunt pilot in airshows, flying vintage military airplanes to entertain crowds around the country. On t… Read More

Do you ever feel like your December wardrobe is a metaphor for Jason Alexanders life? He played George Costanzas character on Seinfeld and effectively went onwhile Julia Louise Dreyfus became VEEP, and Michael Richards became problematic and Jerry Seinfeld dr…

Credit: Michael Blann/Getty They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and yet that was exactly what was on the menu once a week during graduate school. Every Thursday, PhD students in our department took a guest speaker from a different university out to a local Indian buffet…

Fiona the hippo and her boyfriend Timothy don’t let the distance between them get in the way of their adorable relationship. While Fiona lives over a thousand miles away at the Cincinnati Zoo, her boyfriend Timothy — who resides at the San Antonio Zoo — made sure her third birthday…

A new sun-studying spacecraft is set to get off the ground soon. Solar Orbiter , a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with NASA participation, is scheduled to launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Feb. 5 from Cape Canaveral Air …

Do you find it difficult to keep your hands and eyes off of your electronic devices? Google launched a set of digital wellbeing experiments designed to assist Android users when it comes to their use of electronic devices. The three new experiments, Screen S…

I was 10 and it was a white Lisa Frank journal with a red bubble gum dispenser on the front. It also came with a heart-shaped lock and key which was a must considering I had an older brother living under the same roof who was always looking for new…

I had never seen a soap bubble in an old painting before. I naively and unthinkingly believed that the thin film of water that floats on air was an occurrence that came into being relatively recentlyan invention that debuted around the time of microwaves or a…