Articles by Laura Valkovic

There are a lot of Christmas carols, but there’s only one New Year’s song: “Auld Lang Syne.” This song was written hundreds of years ago and is often called the song that nobody knows – because while most people know… Read More

Christmas is an old and a young holiday. Christians are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ over 2,000 years ago, but many of the traditions we know today are only about 100 years old. For centuries, Christmas was only a… Read More

A few days after the November 3 election, many have declared Joe Biden to be the winner, and the next president of the United States. Is this true? In fact, it’s not quite accurate – not yet, anyway. Many newspapers… Read More

The Coronavirus pandemic has a lot of people worried about the dangers of getting infected. It’s easy to get scared, thinking that our bodies have no real defenses against the virus or other microbes like bacteria. That’s not true. The… Read More

When we get sick, it is often because a microbe – like bacteria or a virus – has entered our body. The Coronavirus pandemic has impacted millions of people around the world – but what is a virus, anyway? Here… Read More

Virtual reality has been a science fiction dream for decades, and now we can experience these alternate universes in a basic form – but have you ever wondered if this technology might benefit animals? One Russian dairy farm has, and… Read More

We all have our favorite Christmas movies and songs, but before film and sound recordings were invented, people had to rely more on the printed word to communicate their feelings about the season. In order to embrace the centuries of… Read More

A group of students at New York’s Adelphi University recently got a taste of smartphone-free life. As part of a course in technology addiction, titled “Life Unplugged,” students were asked to give up their phones for seven days – the… Read More

Have you ever made money doing chores at home or by setting up a lemonade stand in your neighborhood? Have you earned pocket money, worked a summer job, or paid for items with cash? Most people use money almost every… Read More

Not every news story is about a major scientific discovery or national leader – some can begin in our schools. A fourth-grade student made headlines after he was teased over a homemade football t-shirt. An elementary school in Florida recently… Read More

A new species of dinosaur has been discovered. A team of scientists found the fossils in 72-million-year-old deposits of marine soil near Mukawa Town in northern Japan. The dinosaur was first nicknamed Mukawaryu, after the site where it was found…. Read More

In the last few weeks, thousands of people have been protesting in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a one-of-a-kind city. An island located off the south-east coast of China, life in Hong Kong is a mix of Asian and European… Read More