All Stories
- Science & Society
Volcanic ash might have helped spread the Black Death to Europe
A volcanic eruption might have triggered events that led Italy to import grain — food that arrived in ships infested with plague-infected rats.
- Health & Medicine
A new cell model could help kids and teens with arthritis
This model was built by a teenager with juvenile idiopathic arthritis — a poorly understood chronic illness.
- Animals
Let’s learn about animals that can regrow body parts
Animals that regenerate limbs, eyes and other body parts may hold clues to superhuman healing.
- Brain
Adolescence appears to last far longer than once thought
The brain undergoes “rewiring” throughout adolescence and doesn’t reach its adult architecture until our early 30s, suggests a new study.
- Physics
Scientists Say: Equilibrium
This steady state may look like a total standstill, but it’s actually an equal opposition of forces.
- Earth
Build your own seismograph with this science activity
By recording earthquakes, seismographs help scientists better understand and hopefully predict quakes.
- Animals
Analyze This: Primates may have evolved in the cold
Scientists thought the ancestor of humans and apes lived in the tropics. A new study points to a chilly location instead for primate evolution.
- Animals
Animals’ personalities can affect a species’ survival
From bold foxes to shy parrots, animals’ personalities are increasingly being seen as key to saving species.
- Animals
Brazilian monkeys offer lessons on how to return species to the wild
Efforts included letting golden lion tamarins roam free in urban U.S. parks. Restoring natural behaviors was key to their survival in the wild.
- Climate
Microbes that dwell in tree bark devour major climate gases
Hidden in plain sight, this huge community of tree-bark microbes dines on gases — such as methane — that warm Earth’s atmosphere.
- Animals
Mummies suggest a way to help reintroduce cheetahs to Arabia
DNA from Arabian cheetah remains reveals that these now-extinct populations might be replaced by rewilding close cheetah relatives from northwest Africa.
- Physics
Could a person ever wield lightning as a weapon?
From the shocking powers of electric eels to laser-guided lightning, aiming electricity is more real than it sounds.
