Girls' Life magazine
THINK YOU'RE READY TO DATE? READ THIS FIRST
Crushing is the easy part. But knowing if it's the right time to start something real? That can be harder than you think.
4 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
Is there anything Sirayam Ranjeet Bhatia can't do?
Her days of being known as \"the girl from Malachi's TikTok\" are long gone. You can call her Sway—and prepare to see her name everywhere.
2 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
Tryouts are tough - but so are you
You've been dreaming about making the varsity field hockey team since you first picked up a stick.
3 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
WE KNOW WHAT YOU'VE BEEN KEEPING FROM YOUR CRUSH
ABOUT THAT SECRET YOU'VE BEEN SITTING ON (YOU KNOW THE ONE): IS IT TIME TO FESS UP?
3 min |
August/September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
WALRUS TEETH
This Faceting Focus column is a bit different this time in two ways. First, this project does not have a design and is faceted freehand. Second, the material used is not transparent. Instead, the material is opaque, and this example is made using a fossilized walrus tooth from Alaska.
4 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Swallowed from Below!
What's going on deep beneath the American Midwest?
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
What Stone is That?
An excerpt from The Minerals Encyclopedia by Rupert Hochleitner, the Deputy Director of the Mineralogical State Collection of Munich since 1993, with a doctorate in mineralogy with an expertise in systematic mineralogy. (Firefly Books, 2022)
3 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Toxic Metal Pollution in Soils
Mapping the risks
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
When BROKEN Is Good
Understanding Breaks in Gemstones
6 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
THE LURE OF ULURU
In a classic example of understatement, most Australians simply call it “The Rock.” Rising 1,142 feet in awesome and solitary grandeur above the surrounding flat desert, it is one of the world’s best-known natural features. It’s also a sacred site representing 30,000 years of human habitation and an iconic image of Australia and that nation’s vast Outback. Previously called Ayers Rock, “The Rock” is today known as Uluru (ool-a-roo), a name of great antiquity that even predates the Ice Ages.
4 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Viewing the Deep Sea Floor
It's a rare event!
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
ROCK & GEM FIELD GUIDE: Peridot
Peridot is the bright green gem-quality variety of the mineral forsterite, a magnesium silicate.
2 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
A Shift Noted in Earth's Hydrological Cycle
It's being described as \"an irreversible decline in soil moisture.\" Earth's hydrological cycle, it seems, has entered a new phase, and it is global in scale.
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
More Stories from Distant Ancestors Human
Everyone loves genealogy. The further back you trace, the better.
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Spinosaurus Rebirth
A dino well-adapted to life in the water—or not.
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Promoting an Educational Outreach Program
Most amateur rock clubs are 501(c)(3) nonprofits. This requires a dedicated mission usually including charitable offerings.
6 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Was Myanmar's Great Quake a Supershear?
When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake ripped across Myanmar last March, 3,000 people were killed instantly and damage rippled into Thailand, where a high-rise building under construction collapsed.
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
An Iron Deposit of a Whole New Scale
A discovery in Australia is one for the history books!
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Fluorite Ridge
Collecting Light Green & White Fluorite
9 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
MAW SIT SIT
Maw Sit Sit is a rare, electrifying green stone only found in the surrounding region of the village of Tawmaw, north of Myanmar. Sometimes called “Chrome Jade,” many believe this stone to be a type of jade or jadeite.
2 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
FROM TEXTBOOK TO REAL LIFE
A High School Geology Buff’s Dream Classroom & Club
4 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Mars Excitement & disappointment all at once!!
With Mars exploration, it's two steps forward, one step back.
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Happy Birthday!
A new source of helium for party balloons!
1 min |
August 2025
Girls' Life magazine
Julia Butters and Sophia Hammons are for real friendship goals
In Freakier Friday (coming to theaters Aug.8), they play soon-to-be stepsisters caught between family drama and a body-swap disaster. But IRL, they're completely in sync—and took our BFF pop quiz to prove it.
2 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
PSA: YOUR THREE PERSON FRIENDSHIP MIGHT BE TROUBLE
During the first week of school last year, 15-year-old Piper R. made a new friend. She met Jamie M., 15, in English class, and the two instantly connected over their shared love of Minecraft.
3 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
THE REAL GIRL'S GUIDE THRIVING IN HIGH SCHOOL
School supplies? Purchased. First-day fit? Lined up. Now all that's left to do is hit the halls.
4 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
WHAT I WISH I KNEW ABOUT EATING DISORDERS.
BEFORE I REALIZED I HAD ONE
4 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
GIVE YOURSELF A BRAIN BOOST
Yep, you can actually make yourself smarter.
4 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
READ THIS IF YOU CAN'T STAND YOUR SIS
She's your built-in BFF—or at least she's supposed to be. Here's what to do when sisterhood gets complicated.
5 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
Dear Carol
Sometimes my boyfriend doesn't respond to me for, like, a week.
8 min |