All Stories by Emily Sohn
-
- Animals
Koalas, up close and personal
By learning more about koalas, people may help save the animals from an uncertain future.
- Humans
Chicken of the Sea
Chickens may have crossed the Pacific Ocean along with early Polynesian explorers.
- Climate
A stormy history
The number of severe hurricanes in recent years may be normal, it turns out.
- Animals
Pothole repair, insect-style
Army ants forced to travel on a narrow wooden strip throw themselves into holes and allow fellow travelers to race over them.
- Math
Math Naturals
Kindergartners can solve relatively complex addition and subtraction problems if allowed to use their intuitive grasp of approximate quantities.
- Health & Medicine
A big discovery about little people
Humans may have once walked the Earth with tiny people—a possible newly discovered species that scientists have nicknamed "hobbits."
- Climate
Earth’s poles in peril
Scientists are paying increased attention to changes in Earth's polar regions, which are in danger because of global warming.
-
-
- Space
A great ball of fire
Astronomers are marveling at what may be the hugest, most spectacular star explosion ever recorded.
- Plants
The Book of Life
Work has begun on a Web site called the Encyclopedia of Life, which aims to catalog every species on Earth.
