All Stories
- Earth
Ice Age melting and rising seas
Ice melted in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres during ice-age warm-ups.
- Environment
Fishing for fun takes toll
Sportfishing can account for a surprisingly large part of the catch of certain types of saltwater fish.
- Psychology
Worlds of self-esteem
The way you feel about yourself can affect what other people think of you.
- Planets
Saturn’s New Moons
The Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of lightning and two tiny moons orbiting the ringed planet.
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- Climate
A dire shortage of water
Parts of the southwestern United States are in the middle of the worst drought in at least 500 years.
- Brain
Seeing Red and Blue and . . .
Seeing lots of colors when you're young might determine how well you recognize hues later in life.
- Space
Burst busters
A powerful type of explosion in outer space is much more common, but not always as powerful, as astronomers had thought.
- Animals
The buzz about mosquitoes
Learning more about mosquitoes can help us control the blood-sucking insects and prevent deadly diseases.
- Health & Medicine
Spitting Up Blobs to Get Around
A nasty parasite finds a new host by making a fly cough up a blob of gel.
- Animals
Sleep lessons from sparrows
During migration season, certain sparrows remain amazingly alert even when they haven't had much sleep.
- Planets
Ringing Saturn
The Cassini spacecraft has arrived at Saturn to start exploring the planet and its rings and moons.
