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  1. Physics

    Candy Science: M&Ms pack more tightly than spheres

    Squashed or stretched versions of spheres snuggle together more tightly than randomly packed spheres do.

    By Peter Weiss
  2. Humans

    Letters from the Feb. 14, 2004, issue of Science News

    Revealing words “Bookish Math: Statistical tests are unraveling knotty literary mysteries” (SN: 12/20&27/03, p. 392: Bookish Math) skipped one of the most significant methods for analyzing text for authorship. On March 11, 1887, Thomas Corwin Mendenhall reported in Science a straightforward method of plotting word length versus frequency. The beauty of this method is that […]

    By Science News
  3. Animals

    Flesh Eaters: Bees that strip carrion also take wasp young

    A South American bee that ignores flowers and collects carrion from carcasses has an unexpected taste for live, abandoned wasp young.