- Environment
Water’s worldwide travels
Scientists track the movement of ‘virtual water,’ used in the production of goods and exchanged among nations.
- Space
There’s a snowman in space
The New Horizons spacecraft snapped pics of the space rock on New Year’s Day.
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Questions for ‘That’s no dino!’
Questions for ‘That’s no dino!’
- Brain
Respecting the body’s clocks
Daily rhythms affect everything from the time we wake to how well we perform in sports.
- Climate
Climate’s troublesome kids
The recurring climate events El Niño and La Niña trigger long-lived changes to weather around the world.
- Brain
Fooling the mind’s eye
Brain scientists find they have much to learn from magicians and their tricks.
- Animals
Chimp’s gift for numbers
Translating numbers into colors may explain an animal’s apparent memory trick.
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Deadly heat: Expected by century’s end, it’s here already
Instances of hot and humid conditions that threaten human lives are on the rise.
- Health & Medicine
Here’s why Rapunzel’s hair makes a great rope ladder
The fairy tale ‘Rapunzel’ features a princess with a lifesaving head of hair. Could someone really use their hair as a ladder? Sort of.
- Earth
Let’s learn about Earth’s secret stash of underground water
Groundwater provides drinking water to billions of people and is used to water crops worldwide.
- Brain
Soccer headers may hurt women’s brains more than men’s
Women sustain more brain damage from heading soccer balls than men, a new imaging study indicates.
- Health & Medicine
Which bacteria hang out in belly buttons? Here’s a who’s who
Bacteria are everywhere — even in our belly buttons. One teen at Intel ISEF decided to find out what types people were harboring in their navels.
