All Stories
- Climate
Catch up with Climate Change Chronicles
Science News for Students spent a year documenting climate change around the globe. Here’s a roundup of the main stories from the series.
- Climate
Record heat is burning the Arctic and melting Greenland’s ice
High temperatures are melting Greenland’s ice. They’re also fueling Arctic wildfires that are pumping record amounts of carbon dioxide into the air.
- Health & Medicine
Outbreak of lung disease, including 5 deaths, tied to e-cigarettes
Some 450 e-cig users have been hospitalized for severe lung disease across 33 states and U.S. territories. Five of them have died.
- Chemistry
Chemists have created a ring-shaped form of carbon
A ring-shaped carbon molecule takes its place among buckyballs, carbon nanotubes and other odd forms of the element.
- Space
Scientists Say: Galaxy
A galaxy is a group of millions to billions of stars, plus a lot of dust and gas.
- Climate
Today’s global warming is unlike the last 2,000 years of climate shifts
Temperatures at the end of the 20th century were hotter almost everywhere on the planet than in the previous two millennia. And it’s only gotten hotter.
- Planets
Welcome to moon rock central
A Science News reporter’s visit to NASA’s moon-rock lab shows the hyper-pristine conditions in which these rocks are kept — and why that’s so important.
- Climate
Slow hurricanes, like Dorian, become dangerous and hard to predict
The warming seas associated with climate change may be fueling powerful but sluggish hurricanes, the type that 2019’s Dorian exemplifies. A climate scientist explains why.
- Science & Society
Eight stories you missed while on summer vacation
Catch up on the science you missed, from earthquakes in California to weather in space to ploonets.
- Materials Science
High-tech crops may survive harsh conditions, even space
Scientists have developed a non-invasive method for integrating metal-organic frameworks into plant tissue. This lays the foundation for resilient crops that can weather harsh conditions.
- Health & Medicine
Study links chemicals in ‘BPA-free’ plastics to obesity in kids
Scientists have linked exposure to chemicals found in BPA-free plastics and cans with obesity in kids and teens.
- Animals
Scientists Say: Extinction
When the last member of a species dies, it’s gone forever. That species is extinct.
