Emily Sohn

All Stories by Emily Sohn

  1. Animals

    News detective: Emily nurses wild animals

  2. Animals

    Koalas, up close and personal

    By learning more about koalas, people may help save the animals from an uncertain future.

  3. Humans

    Chicken of the Sea

    Chickens may have crossed the Pacific Ocean along with early Polynesian explorers.

  4. Climate

    A stormy history

    The number of severe hurricanes in recent years may be normal, it turns out.

  5. 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.

  6. Math

    Math Naturals

    Kindergartners can solve relatively complex addition and subtraction problems if allowed to use their intuitive grasp of approximate quantities.

  7. 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."

  8. Space

    Sun Beating

    When our sun was very young, a huge, exploding star roughed it up.

  9. Brain

    Baby Talk

    Some infants can tell the difference between two languages just by looking at the speaker's face.

  10. 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.

  11. Space

    A great ball of fire

    Astronomers are marveling at what may be the hugest, most spectacular star explosion ever recorded.

  12. 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.

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