Emily Sohn

All Stories by Emily Sohn

  1. Animals

    Booby brothers and bullies

    Baby brown boobies can be pretty rough and tough in the nest.

  2. Health & Medicine

    Sleeping Soundly for a Longer Life

    People who have trouble falling or staying asleep may be more likely to die sooner from natural causes compared to those who sleep well.

  3. Animals

    Fish nests with pizzazz

    Fish known as three-spined sticklebacks go gaga over decorating their nests.

  4. Animals

    Lucky survival for black cats

    A cat's black color may date back to a mutation that also protected the felines from diseases a long time ago.

  5. Space

    Phantom Energy and the Big Rip

    Weird stuff called dark energy could push the universe toward a runaway expansion and ultimate demise about 21 billion years from now.

  6. Health & Medicine

    Tapeworms and drug delivery

    Scientists are learning from tapeworms how to develop more effective medicines.

  7. Animals

    Better tools for techno crows

    Certain crows can make tools and even refine their designs.

  8. Planets

    A planet’s slim-fast plan

    A planet orbiting very close to its sun can quickly lose weight.

  9. Humans

    Digging for ancient DNA

    Soil has yielded identifiable DNA of animals and plants that lived up to 400,000 years ago.

  10. Health & Medicine

    Remembering Facts and Feelings

    An inner-brain region called the hippocampus may be the root of memory of both experiences and fact.

  11. Space

    A galaxy far, far, far away

    Astronomers have glimpsed some of the most distant galaxies yet found.

  12. Environment

    Cliff snails and rock climbers

    Rock climbers can accidentally wipe out communities of cliff snails.

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