

Autumn Spanne
Joined: May 27, 2015
Autumn is an independent journalist and a 2016-17 Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She writes about the environment, climate change, sustainability, and human rights. Her stories, photos and multimedia projects have appeared in National Geographic News, The Guardian, Reveal, Scientific American, the Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Climate, Environmental Health News, CNN, and InsideClimate News.




Farts can make a lot of different noises. Some are high and squeaky, while others explode like a car backfiring—and some don’t make any noise at all.
Chemicals from special glands on a dog’s rear end tell other dogs a lot about them. Here’s why dogs sniff each other's butts.
Those 52 foot bones do a lot of heavy lifting.
As we get older, we lose some of the stuff in our skin that helps it to stretch and then return to its normal place.
Actually, it does! You just have to be in a really cold place to see it.
Scientists think a terrible event killed most of the dinosaurs off. But some remain—and they fly.
It could be your body's way of saying "watch out!" Here is the reason why sour things make you pucker.
It’s not actually your feet that stink. It's actually the bacteria that lives on your feet that smells.
Your movements and your feelings can give your heart a little workout. Here is why your heart beats faster sometimes.
A gurgling, rumbling stomach doesn’t always mean that you’re hungry. It just means your digestive system is trying to do its job.
Human migration played a big role. Here are the reasons why there are so many different languages around the world.
Did you know that when it’s summer in North America it is winter in some other continents, like South America and Australia?