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Sydney McLaughlin is a rising track-and-field superstar. At the 2021 US Olympic Trials, she broke the record for the fastest 400-meter hurdles time. Then at the Games in Tokyo, she broke the… Read More →

National Football League superstar Tom Brady is the most successful quarterback in league history. His seven Super Bowl wins are the most for any player. He also has three Most Valuable… Read More →

Strength, power, and keen senses are a few of the traits that make crocodiles some of world’s best hunters. Saltwater crocodiles are the largest of all crocodiles, and Nile crocodiles are… Read More →

Eagles are top predators in nearly every habitat of the world. Two of the largest kinds of eagles are the Steller’s sea eagle and harpy eagle. Keen sight and amazing flight make them great… Read More →

Using powerful, side-to-side sweeps of its tail fin, a great white shark surges through the water to find prey. Its acute senses—including sight, smell, and an electrosensory network—help it… Read More →

Huge and powerful, the grizzly bear is one of the best hunters in North America. Its great sense of smell lets it find even well-hidden prey. Its brown fur blends in with the woods around it… Read More →

Some of the fiercest and most skilled hunters in the world, lions use teamwork and strong senses of hearing, sight, and smell to track and kill their prey. Find out how lion prides work… Read More →

Owls are one of the world's top predators. With keen hearing and sight, owls are able to spot prey across long distances. Then they quietly swoop in for the kill. Two of the largest kinds of… Read More →

In the vast Arctic region, polar bears are top predators. Large and powerful, polar bears can take down the biggest prey of their habitat. Strong paws and keen senses help these great… Read More →

Wolves use teamwork and strong senses of smell, hearing, and sight to track their prey. And when they catch prey, wolves use their incredible bite force to take it down for the kill. See how… Read More →

Simone Biles discovered gymnastics on a chance day-care trip to a gym when she was six years old. Ten years later, she became the first Black woman to win the all-around world championship… Read More →

Volodymyr Zelensky first gained the spotlight as an entertainer, not a politician. A comedian and actor, he starred in a Ukrainian television show about a teacher fed up with government… Read More →

Rena Glickman, known professionally as Rusty Kanokogi, was a Jewish girl who grew up to become the preeminent female judo master of her time, overcoming many odds. At a time when judo was a… Read More →

Audrey Hepburn, Roberto Clemente, Albert Einstein—kids know the names, but do they know what some of history's most famous figures were like at the age of ten? Carlyn Beccia presents ten… Read More →

When Emily Dickinson died at her home in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1886, she left a locked chest with hand-sewn notebooks and papers filled with nearly 1,800 unpublished poems. Four years… Read More →

True or false: Sloths are lazy. Answer: False! True or false: Sloths are mysterious. Answer: True! Scientists are only beginning to discover how sloths live in the wild. Sloths spend most of Read More →

¿Alguna vez has intentado encontrar formas de resolver un problema en tu comunidad? Wangari Maathai trabajó para resolver una crisis ambiental y ayudar a las personas al mismo tiempo. Cuando Read More →

¿Alguna vez soñaste con ir al espacio exterior? Cuando Sally Ride era una niña, vio en la televisión cuando el astronauta John Glenn se lanzó al espacio. Veinte años más tarde, se convirtió… Read More →

¿Juegas juegos en la computadora? Si lo haces, probablemente has jugado Minecraft. Cuando el creador de Minecraft, Markus Persson, era joven, no estaba muy interesado en los juegos. Estaba… Read More →

¿Creaste alguna vez un proyecto científico genial? En la escuela secundaria, Aprille Ericsson ganó el segundo lugar en una feria de ciencias. Sabía que quería seguir creando proyectos… Read More →