All Stories
- Environment
Swimming with sharks and stingrays
Marine reserves not only protect sharks, fish, and other sea creatures but also allow people to interact with them.
- Space
Dreams of floating in space
Traveling into outer space is scary, fun, and a possibility for anyone who's willing to work hard enough to get there.
- Humans
Ancient art on the rocks
Hand imprints and matchstick figures found in a Borneo cave were made 10,000 years ago.
- Animals
Frog chemist creates a deadlier poison
A poisonous frog takes up a toxin from its food and makes the chemical even more potent.
- Space
Tossing Out a Black Hole Life Preserver
A ring of matter would keep you alive longer as you get swallowed by a black hole.
- Genetics
A DNA Clue to Reading Troubles
Scientists have identified a gene involved in a learning disorder called dyslexia.
- Animals
Delivering a little snake venom
Poisonous snakes may control the amount of venom that they inject.
- Humans
Of Lice and Old Clothes
The history of lice hints that people started wearing clothes regularly about 70,000 years ago.
- Tech
Tinkering With the Basic Bike
Turning a bicycle into a blender, and making it go faster and farther with less effort.
- Space
Intruder Alert: Sweeping Space for Dust
The solar system is filling up with stardust three times faster than it was 6 years ago.
- Space
Big galaxy swallows little galaxy
Astronomers find a convincing case of a large galaxy caught in the act of eating a smaller one.
- Computing
It’s a Small E-mail World After All
It takes roughly half a dozen e-mail links to reach just about any other person in the world.
