The University of Tel Aviv: for the first time in the world, researchers at Tel Aviv University recorded and analyzed sounds distinctly emitted by plants. The click-like sounds, similar to the popping of popcorn, are emitted at a volume similar to human speech, but at high frequencies, beyond the h

Your Name Engraved Herein is about two high school boys in an all-male boarding school exploring their friendship and genuine love for each other against the backdrop of the 1980s when Taiwan recently lifted its strict martial law, amid a transition from conservative society to become the most LGBTQ...

Missouri high school football player Jake Bain said when he came out at an all-school assembly, 'most people don’t have to come out. Most people don’t have to be worried about who they are attracted to.” “From the beginning, I wanted to just be myself,” Bain said. “And I wanted to show people aro

Actress Natalie Portman speaks at the Women's March in Los Angeles.

Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with a trip to Auschwitz, Poland on January 27, 2023. On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop ...

Although we are lucky to be in our lovely environment in the Pines, we are aware of the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for social justice by African Americans in the United States. Certainly, many of us can remember the hard-won battles that we fought in the LGBTQ community for safety and...

Rachel Zegler has been cast as Maria in Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story" movie. Out of 30,000 people to audition, the high school senior from New Jersey landed the coveted role. A few years ago, Zegler starred as the same character in a high school production.

Eighteen-year-old Evan Young was supposed to be the 2015 class valedictorian of Twin Peaks Charter Academy High School in Longmont, Colorado. But his principal prevented him from giving his graduation speech after learning he would announce he is gay. Instead, two weeks later, Young got to give his

Lady Brid is the winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Movie/Comedy or Musical 2018. Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson is a senior student at a Catholic high school in the suburbs of Sacramento, in 2002. She lives with her parents, with whom she has a strained relationship, her older brother, who ...

A special report from CBS News on the mass shootings that took place in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. August 3 and 4, 2019.