All Stories by Science News Explores
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Looking for an explainer? Start here
Science News Explores has explainers on topics ranging from anxiety to volcanoes.
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Check out the Let’s Learn About series
These mini lessons can introduce you and your students to a new topic — or just help you find stories you may not have read yet.
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Scientists Say: Latitude and Longitude
Latitude is a measure of how far a location is north or south of the equator. Longitude is a measure of how far east or west a location is from the Prime Meridian.
- Space
Say hello to gravity waves
Einstein predicted these waves 100 years ago. Scientists have finally proven him right.
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Scientists Say: Your weekly word
This glossary provides definitions and audio clips to help you learn and pronounce even the toughest science terms.
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Bake your way to your next science project!
This step-by-step series from the Eureka! Lab blog explains how anyone can do a research project and do it right.
- Planets
Hello, Pluto!
Here's a collection of our stories about your favorite dwarf planet — including those on the New Horizons flyby.
- Science & Society
Most students wrong on risks of smoking occasionally
Teens know that heavy smoking can seriously harm health. But most, a new study finds, don’t realize that smoking only now and then also is harmful. Data from a survey highlight teens’ mistaken ideas about the risks of intermittent smoking.
- Physics
Nobel goes for creating the ‘nanoscope’
A regular microscope can’t bring into focus the nanoscale molecules from which cells are built. Using lasers and fluorescent molecules, three scientists found a way to view these tiny features. Their reward: the 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
- Planets
The comet that came in from the cold
Comet ISON is hurtling toward the sun at breakneck speed. During this first (and possibly last) trip around the sun, it will either shoot back into space or be torn apart.
