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Sarah Zielinski is a science writer and editor with more than a decade of experience covering a wide breadth of science, from astronomy to zoology. A former editor at Smithsonian magazine, she has been published in Scientific American, Discover, National Geographic News, Science and Slate. The winner of the DCSWA 2010 Science News Brief Award, she has a B.A. in biological sciences from Cornell University and an M.A. in journalism through New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program. She writes the blog Wild Things at Science News.

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a photo of a group of Adélie penguins standing on a rocky surface

Poop can make things messy for Adélie penguins. But it can also provide information about the birds. That includes where they are and what they’re eating.

Liam Quinn/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

 Animals
To monitor penguin diet from satellites, look to poop
Landsat imagery can tell scientists what foods Adélie penguins are eating
a photo of the six teen cohosts and Adam Savage around a table on the set of Mythbusters Jr.

Six young MythBusters join Adam Savage (center) in the new MythBusters Jr.

Science Channel

Eureka! Lab Technology
MythBusters Jr. puts kids in charge of testing myths — for science
Six young makers and scientists join together in this new Science Channel series
cobra cannibalizing another cobra

Scientists working in the Kalahari Desert spotted this cape cobra, which they later named Hannibal, eating a smaller cape cobra. That set off a search for how common the practice of cobra cannibalism really is.

Courtesy of B. Maritz

 Animals
How Hannibal the cannibal led to a discovery about cobra diet
A sighting of one cape cobra eating another sparked a study of cannibalism
a gentoo penguin jumping into the ocean off a rocky outcropping

Researchers attached cameras to gentoo penguins on the Falkland Islands to see what they ate. The video revealed that some of the birds’ tiny prey can avoid being eaten.

J. Handley

 Animals
This penguin prey knows how to fight back
Scientists filmed ‘epic fight scenes’ below the ocean’s surface
people waiting in line to evacuate before Hurricane Irma struck St. Maarten

Many people evacuated the island of St. Maarten before Hurricane Irma struck last year. It was one of several hurricanes that year believed to have been made worse by climate change.

Staff Sgt. Angel Oquendo/U.S. Air National Guard

 Science & Society
Climate change sets people on the move
Many people are adapting to uncomfortable changes in their homelands by migrating elsewhere
a photo of pumping gas into a car

The liquid fuels that power most vehicles have been millions of years in the making.

bunyarit/iStockphoto

 Earth
Explainer: Where fossil fuels come from
Spoiler alert: It’s not from dinosaurs