- Meet USPS’s handwriting detectives
. Daily Edition • July 29, 2025 SUPPORTED BY It’s the International Monarch Monitoring Blitz! That’s a mouthful, but here’s the gist: The annual event, running through Sunday, calls on individuals and organizations to go out in nature and report any observations of monarch butterflies, milkweed plants, monarch eggs, caterpillars, and chrysalises. The data collected helps scientists learn more about the current state of monarch populations and their host plant, milkweed. Get more info on how…Read more
- How old is “old”?
Daily Edition • April 27, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Some may not think of hordes of bugs as particularly nice, but we do think it’s nice to be prepared, so here goes it: Within weeks, a large swath of the country will be faced with cicada broods XIX and XIII. These two broods last emerged at the same time 221 years ago (as in, when Thomas Jefferson was president), so it might be a pretty intense cicada season for the overlap areas in Illinois and Iowa. The good news is that cicadas are relatively...
- How to stay safe from extreme heat this summer
Daily Edition • April 26, 2024 SUPPORTED BY April is all about the Earth, so it makes sense that National Arbor Day is celebrated on the last Friday of the month. The day was first established in Nebraska in 1874 to encourage residents to plant trees, and the rest of the country eventually followed suit (though some states celebrate it earlier or later in the year based on climate). If you aren’t able to get out to actually plant a tree today, consider supporting the Arbor Day Foundation or...
- 250-year-old cherries found at Mount Vernon
Daily Edition • April 25, 2024 SUPPORTED BY A few U.S. states are considered retirement hotspots — namely Florida, California, and some other warm weather locales. But the financial news site Insider Monkey recently came up with a list of the best states to retire to in 2024, and the No. 1 pick might surprise you. South Dakota came out on top thanks to its affordability, Midwestern friendliness, natural landscapes, and lack of an income tax. Learn more about the Mount Rushmore State and...