Building a Better Shortcut

Ben learns how a cruise ship passes through the Panama Canal using a water elevator called a lock.

Champions of Hibernation

This article is about fat dormice or "seven sleepers" animals related to squirrels. They hibernate for seven or eight months of the year slowing their breathing and heart rates to...

Map for Columbus, the Traveling Bear

Article about a black bear named Columbus who traveled more than 10 miles amongst people in Washington state before being captured and moved to the wild.

Creating a Symphony of Steel

How a poor kid from Trinidad developed what became the only new instrument of the century: the steel pan drum. A bio of musician/drum maker Ellie Mannette.

Dueling Dinosaurs

Article about Triceratops' horns and their purpose. Triceratops had a sharp horn growing above each eye and a smaller horn growing in the center of its nose. Scientists wonder...

Exploding Stars Turn Red

Astronomers observe the formation of a red nova which occurs when two stars merge and explode.

Flying Galaxies

New evidence that two of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way are new arrivals.

Flying Solo

Personal account of the author's first solo flight at age 16. She's been a pilot and flight instructor for the past two decades.

Foxes in the City

Urban kit foxes have adapted to living in cities and are even doing better than their country cousins.

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