SCIENCE

5 Times Kids Corrected Museums

Museums are bastions of knowledge, but they're occasionally no match for eagle-eyed kids. Here are five times that kids corrected their mistakes.

Oblique cuts in the bottom third of the legs of a medieval skeleton found in Portugal.

Archaeologists Make Rare, Gruesome Find in Portugal

A team recently excavated three graves located at the edge of a medieval cemetery.

8 Amazing Things Uncovered by Melting Glaciers and Ice

Global warming has revealed some fascinating bodies, objects, and landscapes, as well as a few deadly pathogens.

This Interactive Periodic Table Features a Haiku for Each Element

Chemistry makes for some great poetic inspiration.

6 Memorable Letters From Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong, who would have turned 87 years old today, is remembered as both a "reluctant American hero" and "the spiritual repository of spacefaring dreams and ambitions."

All That Meat in Pet Food Has a Big Environmental Impact

If Americans' 163 million dogs and cats constituted their own country, they'd rank fifth in global meat consumption.

How Do Solar Panels Work?

They power everything from off-grid rural facilities to your neighbor's home. Here's how they do it.

Scientists Remove Disease-Causing Mutations from Human Embryos

Researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to successfully repair mutations that could otherwise lead to a deadly heart condition.

PiccoloNamek, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0

How Just One Nasty Winter Forced This Lizard to Evolve

"Selection always comes at a cost, which is death, basically."

Archaeologists Uncover 'Little Pompeii' Buried Beneath Ash in France

A whole neighborhood has been preserved in a pristine state for nearly 2000 years.

Courtesy of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Canada

The Exquisitely Preserved ‘Mona Lisa of Dinosaurs’ Has Been Named

The name Borealopelta markmitchelli honors the man who spent more than five years revealing, bit by bit, the amazing creature encased in stone.

Mesobuthus martensii, also known as the Chinese golden scorpion.

Scorpions Use Acid and Protons to Make Their Stings More Painful

Scorpions in the Buthidae family make more than 100 different toxins, most of which we still don't understand.

Debasish Ghosh, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Heat Waves Could Make South Asia Unlivable by 2100

Scientists say that unless we do something, increasing greenhouse gas emissions could push temperatures past the "upper limit on human survivability."

6th-Century Writing Discovered Inside Medieval Bookbinding

Researchers at Northwestern University developed a new way to see inside old books.

8 Dazzling Facts About Hedy Lamarr

Enjoying that Wi-Fi? Tip your hat to Hedy.

You Could Be One of the First People to See the Upcoming Solar Eclipse With New Airbnb Contest

You’ll see the event itself from a plane, extending the amount of time you’ll get to experience totality.

How Thailand 'Disease Detectives' Use an App to Fight Livestock-Borne Outbreaks

Thanks to a group of vets at Chiang Mai University, a "poor man's Instagram" is helping rural Thailand communities fight back against livestock-borne diseases.

Scientists Figure Out How to Recycle Aluminum Foil Into an Ingredient for Biofuel

There's a new way to recycle aluminum, even if it has food on it.

United States Department of Energy // Public Domain

Watch Richard Feynman in Conversation, 1973

In "Take the World from Another Point of View," the physicist visits England with his family.

Slug Slime Inspires Super-Sticky Surgical Sealant

Wet surfaces like bloody organ tissue resist ordinary adhesives.

Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern

A 3500-Year-Old ‘Lunch Box’ Discovered in Switzerland Once Contained Bronze Age Cereal

The find could help experts learn more about how farming developed in Europe during the Bronze Age.

Total eclipse of the sun, observed July 29, 1878, at Creston, Wyoming Territory, by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.

The American Eclipse of 1878 and the Scientists Who Raced West to See It

In this excerpt from 'American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World,' science journalist David Baron writes about the morning and afternoon just before the eclipse, when national anticipation was at

Japanese Scientists Engineer 'True Blue' Chrysanthemums

The land of the cube-shaped watermelon has produced the first blue mum.

Science Explains Why You're Not a Morning Person

Can't get out of bed in the morning? Allow science to tell you why—and whether or not you can change that.

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