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Explainer: How our body deals with stress

It’s the day of a big test. Your heart is pounding. Your palms are sweating. Your breathing quickens and your stomach suddenly feels full of butterflies. Although these stress responses…

Does your natural history museum need a makeover?

At first glance, it’s a simple scene. Six adult bison and a calf mill around a stream. But if you look closer, the plot thickens. Beside a well-worn path to…

A robotic hand helps piano players’ fingers move faster

You’re practicing a new song on piano. One part keeps tripping you up. No matter how many times you try it, your fingers just won’t move fast enough. Then you…

A changing Arctic current seems to be impacting bowhead whales

Addison Shea, 18, is fascinated by how changing Earth systems affect the creatures living in them. So when she came across an article about a puzzling change in an Arctic…

Let’s learn about static electricity

Static electricity is all around us. It’s the reason clothes stick together when pulled out of the drier. It powers the lightning strikes that zip through storm clouds. It’s also…

Pluto and its moon Charon may have paired up with a kiss

Pluto and its largest moon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New research shows the dwarf planet and Charon may have paired up in a “kiss-and-capture” collision. That’s when…

Scientists Say: Caecilian

Caecilian (noun, “suh-SEE-lee-uhn”) Caecilians are a group of worm-shaped amphibians. Caecilian means “blind ones” in Latin. The name fits: many species of caecilians lack eyes altogether. Those with them have…

Having sparse links in the hippocampus may maximize memory storage

Our brain’s memory center has a sleek design, new data show. The finding comes from looking at living human hippocampus tissue. This part of the brain plays a key role…

Viewing math as a language might help it make sense to more of us

Does math leave you anxious? Maybe you feel it’s unforgiving — that unless everything is perfectly right, it’s totally wrong. Perhaps it just doesn’t compute for you. It’s like looking…

How do storms impact coastal ecosystems?

Abstract Climate change is making tropical cyclones stronger. It is also making them more common. We know tropical cyclones can cause a lot of damage to houses and buildings. But…