Thirty days have September, April, June, and November. All the rest have thirty-one, except for February, which has twenty-eight (except in a leap year when it has twenty-nine). That simple rhyme has helped me keep months straight for, well, as long as I can remember. So much so that every time the next year rolls around, as it inevitably does, I revisit my handy tune to discern the precise amount of time we will be spending in each month. The longer months, the shorter month

Photo via Amazon In the early morning of January 3rd, 2026, the US Armed Forces launched Operation Absolute Resolve. In the pitch-black darkness caused by a US-orchestrated power-outage, the Delta Force crept into downtown Caracas, Venezuela, and after a brutal gunfight with the Venezuelan presidential guards, took President Nicolas Maduro into US Custody, bringing him to the US mainland by the end of the day. In the late morning of that same day, the President Donald Trump a

As the year comes to a close, many people are left reflecting on months filled with heavy headlines and constant uncertainty. War, climate disasters, and political conflict dominated the news cycle, often making it feel as though the world was moving backward rather than forward. With so much focus on crisis, it has become easy to overlook quieter moments of progress happening beyond the spotlight. Yet, in December, several stories emerged that showed meaningful change contin

In early 2025, physicians at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine made medical history by treating the world's first patient with a personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy matched to his unique genetic profile. This personalized intervention may mark a turning point in how rare genetic diseases might someday be treated.   The young patient, known as KJ, was born with a rare metabolic disorder called severe carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1, or CPS1, a gen

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