Giant beavers, which vanished from North America about 10,000 years ago, had a secret in their heads: a long compartment that stretched from front to back in the animals’ skull. Caroline Rinaldi, a paleontologist who studies extinct mammals, may have figured out the chamber’s purpose. Read more at Science News for Kids. My article is […]
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German scientists have found that Guiana dolphins can detect tiny electric fields using special organs in their snouts — which may help them pick up the scent of a future meal. This Science News for Kids snapshot was adapted from a Science News story by Nadia Drake. Photo credit: Richard Diepstraten
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How fast do bladderworts suck? I wrote about this question for a recent episode of the Loh Down on Science.
I wrote this profile of Sam’s school for Local Table, a magazine about food and farms in central Tennessee. Read it here.
Every day, the ocean absorbs about 22 million tons of carbon dioxide, which is about the weight of 15 million hybrid automobiles. Just as you can’t see the carbon dioxide that comes out of your own body each time you exhale, you can’t see the gas as it dissolves into the seas. Much of the
