All Stories
- Environment
Where have all the bees gone?
More than one-fourth of the honeybees in the United States have disappeared since last fall, and scientists are trying to figure out why.
- Animals
Pothole repair, insect-style
Army ants forced to travel on a narrow wooden strip throw themselves into holes and allow fellow travelers to race over them.
- Math
Math Naturals
Kindergartners can solve relatively complex addition and subtraction problems if allowed to use their intuitive grasp of approximate quantities.
- Health & Medicine
A big discovery about little people
Humans may have once walked the Earth with tiny people—a possible newly discovered species that scientists have nicknamed "hobbits."
- Climate
Earth’s poles in peril
Scientists are paying increased attention to changes in Earth's polar regions, which are in danger because of global warming.
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- Health & Medicine
Don’t Eat That Sandwich!
If you drop a sandwich on the floor, how quickly does it pick up bacteria?
- Animals
Life on the Down Low
The first scientific survey of organisms in the deep waters off Antarctica has discovered lots of life.
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- Space
A great ball of fire
Astronomers are marveling at what may be the hugest, most spectacular star explosion ever recorded.
- Plants
The Book of Life
Work has begun on a Web site called the Encyclopedia of Life, which aims to catalog every species on Earth.
