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  1. A quick picture can help local bumblebees

    Bumblebee populations in North America are in decline. A new website allows citizen scientists to upload photos of the bees they see in the wild, to help track and conserve the rare species of this important pollinator.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  2. Planets

    Dwarf planet has water

    This asteroid is spewing water vapor, a new study reports.

    By Ashley Yeager
  3. Space

    Galaxies stash mass in clouds of gas

    Astronomers may have finally figured out why predictions of the amount of matter in the universe don’t match observations. A huge amount may hide in the gas clouds that surround galaxies.

    By Stephen Ornes
  4. Genetics

    Blue eyes in the Stone Age

    Genes from an ancient skeleton suggest that dark-skinned people may have been the first to evolve blue eyes.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  5. Climate

    Mapping our carbon footprints

    Population density can determine how much of an impact modern communities have on the climate.

    By Alison Pearce Stevens
  6. Health & Medicine

    Bones: They’re alive!

    This hard tissue is more than just a quiet scaffold for your organs and protective helmet for your head. It’s active and ‘chatty,’ influencing other tissues.

    By Kirsten Weir

  7. Interview: Ecologist follows the call of the pika

    Ecologist Johanna Varner talks to Eureka! Lab about her career path from cell biology to engineering to a rocky mountainside to study pikas.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  8. Earth

    Towering mounds: Can gophers be to blame?

    Scientists may have unearthed the source of Mima mounds, mysterious bumpy landscapes found on every continent except Antarctica.

    By Beth Geiger
  9. Health & Medicine

    Baseball: Keeping your head in the game

    Head movements play an important role in successfully tracking lightning-fast incoming pitches.

    By Stephen Ornes

  10. Teen finalists selected in 2014 Intel STS competition

    Forty high-school seniors learn they have been named finalists in the March Intel Science Talent Search competition.

    By Sid Perkins
  11. Space

    Dusty remains from a dead star

    A supernova first spotted in 1987 produced a huge cloud of space dust. Astronomers are now finding clues in it to how stars formed in the early universe.

    By Stephen Ornes

  12. Sizing up the Kuiper belt

    With the help of students and amateur astronomers, scientists are learning more about the unusual objects at the edge of our solar system.

    By Bethany Brookshire