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  1. Tech

    Stuff gets stiffed by unstiff inserts

    In an odd twist, material that is so extremely yielding that it is said to have negative stiffness will make already stiff materials even stiffer when it's blended into them.

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  2. Paleontology

    The Latest Pisces of an Evolutionary Puzzle

    The recent discovery of coelacanths off the northeastern coast of South Africa was the first sighting of the rare fish in that country since the first living coelacanth, a type of fish thought to have been extinct for millions of years, was caught there in late 1938.

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  3. School kids cite widespread bullying

    A substantial proportion of children in grades 6 through 10 report bullying other children or being bullied themselves.