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  1. Tech

    Experiment: Make the fastest rubber band paddleboat

    With a rubber band and some cardboard, you can build your own paddleboat to speed across the surface of a pool.

    By Science Buddies
  2. Earth

    Earth farts may explain some spooky floating lights

    The gases released by earthquakes might occasionally ignite, triggering ghostly lights sometimes witnessed in South Carolina.

    By Nikk Ogasa
  3. Brain

    Scientists Say: Neuroplasticity

    Neurons in the brain forge new connections and sometimes trim back old ones. This capacity for change allows us to learn new skills and recover from injury.

    By Katie Grace Carpenter
  4. Plants

    Could trees ever get up and walk away?

    In fantasy, trees can walk, climb and even fight. Real trees move, too. It just happens in extreme slow mo.

    By Sophie Hartley
  5. Earth

    Analyze This: Smartphone data may help improve GPS

    Data from millions of phones helped fill in maps of the ionosphere, an atmospheric layer that can muddle radio signals key for navigation systems.

    By Carolyn Wilke
  6. Animals

    Dinosaurs are still alive. Today, we call them birds

    Birds don’t look like the scaly giants of Jurassic World. But fossils are revealing how these modern-day dinosaurs descended from ancient reptiles.

    By Aaron Tremper
  7. Animals

    What is a dinosaur?

    Scientists have named more than 1,000 species of nonavian dinosaurs. Their legacy lives on in the 11,000-plus bird species alive today.

    By Aaron Tremper
  8. Fossils

    This paleontologist solved a nearly 50-year-old dino mystery 

    ReBecca Hunt-Foster described what is now the state dinosaur of Arkansas 

    By Aaron Tremper
  9. Animals

    Let’s learn about bumblebees

    In the spring, queen bumblebees emerge from their winter hibernation to start new colonies.

    By Maria Temming
  10. Health & Medicine

    This Indigenous herb may improve therapy for muscle disorder

    Treating weakened fruit flies with an herb-drug combo was more effective than the usual drug-only treatment.

    By Maria Temming
  11. Chemistry

    Scientists Say: Nucleosynthesis

    For this nuclei-forging cosmic process, the Big Bang was just a way to get started.

    By Katie Grace Carpenter
  12. Artificial Intelligence

    AI-designed proteins target toxins in deadly snake venom

    The current way to produce antivenoms is outdated. In lab tests, AI-designed proteins could save mice from a lethal dose of snake toxin.

    By Meghan Rosen