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There’s a comet barrelling toward our sun at breakneck speed. What happens when it gets there is anybody’s guess. Chances are good that it ends up being quite a show, though. Comet ISON is slowly warming as it hurls itself toward the centre of our so...

When school starts some 500 students will sign up for a healthy living fitness challenge. Over the last three years BF&M have been hosting The Inter School Fitness Challenge. The programme is both a mentally and physically healthy challenge for 500 s...

The sky has to be clear to see them. They are wispy clouds that glow in the dark sky for a while after the Sun goes down. They are called noctilucent clouds. Noctilucent means “night glowing.” These clouds are too faint to see during the day. The twi...

For thousands of years, people observed that some of the stars in the sky moved relative to the others. The Greeks called them “planetes” (plan EE teez), meaning “wanderers,” from which we get our word “planets.” Over time, people learned how to pred...

Graduating students are receiving their college and university acceptances. There are many factors that play a part in deciding where to attend school. One of the most important, of course, is cost! Going away to college is not cheap! To give you an ...

Meeting people you never thought you’d meet and experiencing different cultures were highlights of the ten-day Global Young Leaders Conference in Washington, DC and New York City, according to Leah Brookes and Rachel Bacon, two of the attendees from ...

The young photographers involved in the Bermuda National Gallery’s Youth Camera Action (YCA) programme are exhibiting photographic works highlighting the different skills they learned from September 2011 to June 2012. The photographs on exhibit until...

If all trees were blue, and every tree you had ever seen was blue, would you ask “Why are trees blue?” Maybe not. But if suddenly one day you saw a green tree, wouldn’t you ask, “Why is this tree green, when all the others are blue?” That’s what hap...

When you throw a baseball up, you expect it soon to fall back down. That’s gravity at work. No matter how hard you throw the ball, gravity wins. The ball comes back down. Many scientists used to think that would happen to the whole Universe — a very,...

With its bright “hairy” head and long, wispy tail, a comet seen in the night sky used to scare people. Now we know that comets are part of our solar system family. They are icy objects made of materials left over after our solar system formed. Scient...