Category: Today’s Features

Reading Time: 3 minutes Why Is the Ocean Salty? The salt in oceans, comprised of sodium and chloride, is the product of the erosion of landmasses.  Landmasses also surround …

Reading Time: 4 minutes What Are the Types of Precipitation? The four common types of precipitation are rain, snow, sleet, and hail, but meteorologists break that list down even …

Reading Time: 6 minutes How Do Glasses Work? It may surprise you to learn that if you wear glasses, you are in the majority.  In the United States, the …

Reading Time: 4 minutes Do Frogs Hibernate? Frogs do hibernate. Frog species employ one of two strategies to avoid severe temperatures: freeze avoidance or freeze tolerance.  Freeze-avoidance species can …

Reading Time: 6 minutes There are many birthmark meanings steeped in superstition and folklore. Before the advances in medical science, superstitions were used to explain every occurrence – from …