Feature
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Health & Medicine
Insects (the original white meat)
Dining on insects, usually more by choice than necessity, occurs in at least 100 countries — and may be better than chicken for both people and the environment.
By Janet Raloff -
Health & Medicine
The Colorful World of Synesthesia
Science News for Kids explores the sensory explosion that defines the experience of people with this unusual, but not that uncommon nor unwelcome, condition.
By Susan Gaidos -
Humans
Science in the City
The inaugural World Science Festival kicks off in New York May 28 and features a variety of events celebrating the role of science in all aspects of modern life, culture and the arts.
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Computing
Scientists Get a 2nd Life
The virtual world of Second Life offers new ways to do and learn about real science.
By Terra Questi -
Life
Epic Genetics
The way genes are packaged by "epigenetic" changes may play a major role in the risk of addiction, depression and other mental disorders.
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Climate
Science News for Kids: Polar Ice Feels the Heat
From glaciers to sea ice, the big melt is on.
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Humans
Change Without Change
New clothes for the modern media climate, but no departure from traditional purpose for Science News.
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Environment
Down with Carbon
Scientists are exploring strategies for capturing carbon dioxide and storing it safely away in order to limit the levels of that greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
By Sid Perkins -
Life
Twin Fates
Animal and human studies suggest that a girl with a twin brother may never completely escape the influence of her opposite-sex womb-mate.
By Deborah Blum -
Out of Thin Air
Biologists dream of the day when they could engineer crops to make fertilizer out of the nitrogen in the air.
By Susan Milius