BLACKFOOT PUBLIC LIBRARYIt’s a Diggin’ the Dinos summer for all ages. Something fun happens every day at the library — like meeting challenges, doing activities and earning raffle tickets. Also, ...

What if Albert Einstein’s unruly early childhood had been handled with enforced conformity? The toddler with a ferocious uppercut grew up to produce mind-blowing theories changing the way we view time ...

Based on the 1960 film by Roger Corman and featuring a book by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Ashman, Little Shop follows meek plant store attendant Seymour, his co-worker crush ...

There is a parlor game physics students play: Who was the greater genius? Galileo or Kepler? (Galileo.) Maxwell or Bohr? (Maxwell, but it's closer than you might think.) Hawking or Heisenberg? (A ...

Settles into a program of self-education at age 10 and begins reading as much about science as he can. Attempts to skip high school by taking an entrance exam to the Swiss Polytechnic, a top technical ...

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In August of 1939, Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, advising him that the process of nuclear fission could potentially be used to create a powerful atomic ...

Filmmaker Pierre Coffin is the creator and chief practitioner of Minionese, but it’s a dialect — like most things Minions — that’s taken time to hone. Coffin says. “The hardest thing,” adds Coffin, ...

Bose–Einstein condensates are a state of matter in which all the constituent particles exist in their lowest energy level. The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents more than one electron (an example of ...

In 1955, one year after the United States tested a hydrogen bomb 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb used on Hiroshima, an international group of scientists warned that “H-bombs might quite ...

Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano has been transported to Saratoga Hospital for X-rays after a four-horse spill in the Wild Applause Stakes on July 3, the opening day of the 2026 Saratoga summer ...