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The Least Populous State in the U.S.

The Question: What is the least populous state in the United States? The Answer: According to national census figures, Wyoming is the least populous…

Dorothy Hamill

Born: July 26, 1956Figure skater won Olympic gold medal and world championship in 1976; Ice Capades headliner from 1977-84; bought the financially-strapped Ice Capades in 1993 and sold it several…

Multiple Births: Bundles of Joy

Multiple Births: Bundles of Joy by Elaine Rho   Related Links fertility drugs multiple births Houston octuplets National Center for Health Statistics The recent birth of the Houston…

DK Science: Nebulas

CLOUDS AMONG THE STARSLIFE CYCLE OF STARSFIND OUT MOREThe spaces between the stars are not completely empty, but are filled with clouds of gas and dust called nebulas. We can see nebulas when…

The Star-Spangled Banner

—Francis Scott Key, 1814O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,O'er…

Estimated Deaths from Earthquakes, 2014

The following table gives the number of people who died in major earthquakes in 2014. The magnitude of each earthquake is also shown. Magnitudes listed are moment magnitudes, the newest, most…

General Science

  Encyclopedia: Science The Six Kingdoms of Life The Branches of Science Scientific Classification The Chemical Elements Elements Table The Periodic Table Table of Geological Periods…