All Stories by Emily Sohn
- Environment
Earth-friendly fabrics
Shirts made from bamboo, socks made from corn, and jackets made from chicken feathers may be in your fashion future.
- Animals
A tongue and a half
A nectar-sipping bat from South America has a skinny tongue that's longer than its body.
- Planets
Back to the moon
NASA unveiled its plans for establishing a base on the moon by the year 2024.
- Environment
To catch a dragonfly
Dragonflies are giving researchers new ways to think about relationships among animals.
- Space
Red dwarfs in the neighborhood
Astronomers have found 20 previously unknown star systems in Earth's galactic neighborhood.
- Space
Secrets of an ancient computer
A 2000-year-old astronomical computer could calculate planetary positions and predict eclipses.
- Animals
Lives of a mole rat
The toothy mammals known as mole rats have highly unusual bodies, brains, and social lives.
- Tech
Nonstop Robot
A new, four-legged robot can recover from damage to its own body and keep on walking.
- Animals
Chicken talk
Chickens can make meaningful sounds that, like words, refer to objects around them.
- Tech
Putting the squeeze on toothpaste
Studying the structure of toothpaste leads to new products that can make your teeth cleaner.
- Health & Medicine
Hot Pepper, Hot Spider
Hot peppers and spider venom can cause the same sort of painful burning sensation.
- Space
Sharp Eye on the Sun
An X-ray telescope aboard the recently launched Hinode spacecraft is capturing detailed images of the sun.
