All Stories
- Fossils
Teeny Skull Reveals Ancient Ancestor
A tiny fossil skull represents the earliest known ancestor of monkeys and apes.
- Environment
Sounds and silence
Protecting nature's sounds and just taking the time to listen can enrich our lives.
- Tech
Toy Challenge
A toy design contest encourages both girls and boys to take an interest in engineering.
- Humans
Digging up Stone Age art
Researchers have uncovered some very old, mysterious animal sculptures.
- Animals
Baboons listen for who’s tops
Baboons can tell who's in charge by the sound of voices alone.
- Chemistry
Unscrambling a Gem of a Mystery
A new method can pinpoint which mine an emerald came from.
- Tech
Model Plane Flies the Atlantic
A historic flight takes an 11-pound model airplane over the ocean.
- Brain
Worry seems to shorten a timid rat’s life
Rats that prefer familiar settings tend to die younger than do more adventurous rats.
- Animals
Helping to save elephants
Preserving an enormous creature like the Asian elephant can be very challenging.
- Space
Sun Flips Out to Flip-Flop
The sun may reverse its magnetic field by blasting charged particles into space.
- Animals
Farming on a snail’s scale
Some snails plow leaves and add fertilizer to grow a fungus for dinner.
- Tech
Electronic paper turns a page
Changeable ink and battery-powered paper may make textbooks lighter and bring video newspapers into daily use.
