Life
- Plants
Let’s learn about the future of food
Technology and a warming world will change what you eat and how it gets to your plate.
- Earth
Desert trails and microbial life excite this soil scientist
To help her desert community, Lydia Jennings focuses her research on how mining affects soil microbes.
- Brain
Scientists Say: Brainwaves
These patterns of electrical activity in the brain look like spikes or waves.
- Animals
Let’s learn about electric eels
Learn about where an electric eel’s powerful jolt comes from and more with this collection of stories.
- Brain
Zapping the brain may make it work right again
Sending electrical zaps to electrodes implanted deep in the brain can help people with Parkinson’s disease, depression and even obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Fossils
Let’s learn about dinosaur extinction
Dinosaurs disappeared 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous. What made them go extinct?
- Animals
Pandas use their heads as a kind of extra limb for climbing
Their short legs on a stout bear body mean pandas use a rare technique to climb up a tree.
- Environment
Decades-long project is linking our health to the environment
Started in 1959, this California study is one of the oldest ongoing research projects in the world.
- Brain
Do you sleep enough to banish unpleasant moods?
A large, long-term study in kids has linked getting too little shuteye with mood and behavior problems.
- Life
Scientists Say: Fermentation
Fermentation breaks down carbohydrates, such as sugars, producing energy and making gases, acids or alcohol. This process can help make foods and fuels.
- Life
Here’s how butterfly wings keep cool in the sun
Butterfly wings sport structures that let living tissues release more heat than the rest of the wing.
- Health & Medicine
Answers to your questions on the new coronavirus
As SARS-CoV-2 spreads globally, researchers are looking for answers on why this novel coronavirus is so infectious and hard to control.
