All Stories
- Animals
Putting a Mouse on Pause
A gas known as hydrogen sulfide can put mice into a state resembling hibernation.
- Brain
Lightening your mood
Bright light may help some people who are seriously depressed feel better.
- Space
Return to Space
NASA is readying the space shuttle Discovery for its first launch in more than 2 years.
- Animals
Doing the Bob
A crane's jerky neck movements may allow the bird to see its food more clearly.
- Fossils
Dinosaur Eggs-citement
Scientists have found dinosaur eggs, with their shells on, inside a female dino fossil.
- Health & Medicine
Food for Life
New food guidelines emphasize that we should eat more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
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- Animals
A Sense of Danger
Can animals warn us if an earthquake or some other natural disaster is about to strike?
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- Space
Super star cluster in the neighborhood
Astronomers have spotted an amazingly compact grouping of stars in the Milky Way.
- Environment
Saving wetlands
In Louisiana and elsewhere, wetlands are disappearing, threatening plant and animal life.
