All Stories
- Animals
Firefly delight
Decoding firefly flashes unveils mating signals and other secrets of insect life.
- Plants
Pumping up poison ivy
Boosting carbon dioxide levels makes poison ivy grow faster and become more toxic.
- Tech
Extra Strings for New Sounds
A new musical instrument strums like a guitar but rings like a bell.
- Tech
Snow Traps
A prize-winning science fair project focuses on how snow fences create snowdrifts and increase water supply.
- Tech
Squeezing Oil from Old Wells
Adding certain bacteria to oil wells may allow recovery of crude oil that pumps can't normally extract.
- Animals
Staying Away from Sick Lobsters
Lobsters detect and shun potential roommates that are infected with a virus.
- Life
Assembling the tree of life
Scientists are organizing knowledge of all living things into a single evolutionary tree.
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- Animals
Missing moose
By studying population patterns, scientists hope to figure out why moose in some areas are in trouble.
- Animals
New Monkey Business
A rare, recently discovered monkey differs from other known types of monkeys.
- Space
Blast from the Past
Pieces of an ancient asteroid that created a 70-kilometer-wide crater survived the blast.
