All Stories by Bethany Brookshire
- Ecosystems
Scientists Say: Understory
A forest isn’t made just out of the tallest trees. Shorter trees and shrubs thrive in their shade. This layer is called the understory.
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Scientists Say: Data
Data are a group of facts that are collected together for analysis.
- Space
Scientists Say: Yellow dwarf
Yellow dwarf is a term used for a medium-sized star. Our sun is a yellow dwarf.
- Physics
Doctor Who’s TARDIS is bigger on the inside — but how?
The TARDIS looks like a old police box on the outside. But on the inside, it’s got plenty of space. How does that work? It just takes a wormhole and a tesseract or two.
- Health & Medicine
Explainer: What are proteins?
In the body, proteins act as biochemical machines to carry out the work of cells.
- Humans
Scientists Say: Neandertal
This extinct species is a close relative of modern humans. Neandertals lived in Europe and Asia, and made tools and jewelry — just like us.
- Physics
Scientists Say: Kelvin
Kelvin is a temperature scale. It’s based around the concept of “absolute zero,” a temperature so cold that molecules stop moving.
- Chemistry
Scientists Say: Peptide
Peptides are short chains made of smaller molecules called amino acids. These chains can form proteins, and they can also do work on their own.
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New movies give an inside look at the ‘Olympics’ of science fairs
These two documentaries take you behind the poster boards of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
- Animals
Scientists Say: Larva
Many insects, amphibians and fish have a life stage after they hatch that looks very different from the animal’s adult form. This life stage has its own name.
- Animals
Cool Jobs: Sucking up science with mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are tiny, but the illnesses they spread can be deadly. To fight these germ spreaders, scientists need to get to know mosquitoes better — much better.
- Climate
Scientists Say: Climate
Climate is the atmospheric conditions that are typical to a general area over a long period of time.
