All Stories
- Animals
Poisonous Spiders as Reluctant Hunters
The brown recluse spider prefers scavenging dead food to hunting live prey.
- Environment
Plastic meals for seals
Pieces of discarded plastic can end up in the stomachs of seals.
- Tech
Running with sneaker science
For marathon runners and other athletes, sneaker research helps reduce the pain.
- Space
Asteroid lost and found
A long-lost asteroid that came close to Earth in 1937 has been spotted again.
- Archaeology
Symbols from the Stone Age
Rocks found in a cave suggest the people used objects and colors to stand for other things more than 90,000 years ago.
- Health & Medicine
Fighting Off Micro-Invader Epidemics
Colds, the flu, and other, deadlier diseases can spread very quickly.
- Tech
Young Scientists Take Flight
Kids compete for fame and fortune by taking on tough flight-related challenges.
- Tech
A micro-dose of your own medicine
Medicine-delivering microchips implanted in the body could replace some injections and pills.
- Fossils
Did dinosaurs do handstands?
Enormous dinosaurs might have balanced on their front feet when wading in shallow water.
- Computing
A classroom of the mind
Computer technology that puts kids in a cartoon classroom may help them learn to pay attention.
- Fossils
Watery fate for nature’s gliders
Fossil bones hint that sea-level increases doomed Atlantic albatross populations.
- Humans
The puzzle of ancient mariners
Prehistoric sailors may have traveled from island to island across the ocean.
