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Get ready to question everything you know about leap years. We all understand the basic rules for how we measure time. We know there are 24 hours in a day, seven days in a week, and 365 days in a ...

And what do the seasons have to do with it? We like our summers in July and our snow in December. Leap Year ensures it remains that way, explains Duke physics professor Ronen Plesser in this short ...

February is here and romance is in the air - particularly with 2024 marking a leap year. Along with an opportunity to make use of the extra day, leap years have also long been associated with not just ...

NEW YORK--Leap year. It’s a delight for the calendar and math nerds among us. So how did it all begin and why? Have a look at some of the numbers, history and lore behind the (not quite ...

Skydiving is not for the faint of heart but for a Chicago area 82-year-old, a bucket list trumped trepidation. Lindy Pond is ...

He’s taken notes on his successes and failures and filed them away. He plans to reflect on all of those after the season and ...

She was born on 29 February, an elusive day that appears once every four years in a leap year - so she's only had seven birthdays on her actual day in her lifetime. Julia Alsop Julia, aged 12 ...

The pop for bond yields comes as the Trump win carries expectations that more tax cuts and steep tariffs could widen the ...

FOR more than three decades, Leroy Long, a fruit vendor who goes by the moniker “Piney”, has stood at the corner of Duke and ...