All Stories

  1. Plants

    A Change in Leaf Color

    Leaves go to a lot of trouble to turn red in the fall.

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  2. Humans

    Oldest Writing in the New World

    Signs carved into a stone slab may represent the earliest known writing in the Americas.

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  3. Planets

    A Puffy Planetary Puzzle

    Astronomers spot an unusual object orbiting a nearby star.

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  4. Animals

    Sea Giants and Island Pygmies

    Food supply may help decide an animal's natural size on an island or in the ocean.

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  5. Brain

    Copycat Monkeys

    When you stick out your tongue, a baby monkey will follow your lead.

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  6. Animals

    Roach love songs

    Some male cockroaches whistle at females to get their attention.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Getting Enough Sleep

    Kids and teens need plenty of sleep but have trouble getting enough.

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  8. Fossils

    A Rainforest Trapped in Amber

    Tiny fossils show that rainforests existed in the western Amazon millions of years ago.

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  9. Fossils

    Dinosaur dig

    Researchers uncover the fossil bones of a new species of long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    A Sour Taste in Your Mouth

    Researchers may have pinpointed how the tongue's cells detect sour tastes.

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  11. Space

    Dark collision

    Observations of a tremendous galactic crash point to invisible stuff called dark matter.

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  12. Animals

    Saving Africa’s Wild Dogs

    Learning more about African painted dogs may help keep these wild animals from dying out.

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