CATEGORIES

Trevor Cox – Acoustic engineer and Stonehenge researcher

Trevor Cox is a professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford in the United Kingdom. He engineers systems to make sound better. And he studies how the structures we build affect the sounds we make inside them.

Can You Please Lower Your Voice?

The experience of auditory sensitivity

THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES

Hunched over your paper, you try to concentrate. This is the worst kind of assignment.

LEARNING TO HEAR

With cochlear implants

Q&A

Q Where do personal preferences come from? For example, I like hard rock music. Why am I that social outcast who runs screaming into the bathroom at school dances when everyone else is singing along? —Kate, age 13, Ohio

Wonderful Wings

A moth’s costume lets it hide in plain sight.

Amazing Powers Of The Mind

What happens when scientists study psychic abilities?

TE JONES

BAT RESEARCHER

Hot Dogs in a Hurry DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME

EVERY YEAR IN NEW YORK CITY, PEOPLE ENTER A CONTEST TO SEE HOW MANY HOT DOGS THEY CAN EAT IN 10 MINUTES.

FANCY FOLDING

The amazing thing about origami is the enormous number of different objects you can make by folding a square sheet of paper.

The Real-Life: BATMAN

HOW ONE PERSON SEES THROUGH SOUND

DO YOU HAVE ESP?

MAKE YOUR OWN ZENER CARD DECK AND FIND OUT!

SHOULD PEOPLE BECOME CYBORGS?

IN THE MARVEL COMICS AND MOVIES, billionaire Tony Stark dons a red and gold suit and becomes Iron Man.

E. PAUL ZEHR

BRAIN SCIENTIST, AUTHOR, SUPERHERO ENTHUSIAST

Life in the clear

THE SECRET TO BEING (ALMOST) INVISIBLE

Demystifying

One reason a smart person may still struggle to read

A New Way to See BRAILLE

Remarkable discoveries are turning brain science on its head.

Tales for Sails

COULD DOGS BE A READER’S BEST FRIEND?

NICOLE PATTON-TERRY READING RESEARCHER

Nicole Patton-Terry loves helping kids learn to read. She is associate director of the Florida Center for Reading Research at the Florida State University. Patton-Terry works on teams with researchers, students, teachers, designers, parents, and community members. Together they study reading and develop tools that help children read.

READING THEIR WORLD

Before reading the words

A FUNNY THING HAPPENS

HOW JOKES AND WORDPLAY REVEAL THE INNER WORKINGS OF OUR READING MINDS

Friend & Fellow: Ant Man

Meet biology great Edward O. Wilson

Ants Rule!

If all ants suddenly disappeared from the planet, life as we know it would collapse. In their book Journey to the Ants, naturalist E.O. Wilson and his colleague Bert Hölldobler analyzed the enormous influence these creatures have on ecosystems. Ants promote plant life, serve as predators and scavengers, and, in turn, serve as food for birds, dragonflies, and spiders. But they also can destroy crops and be serious pests.

How Trustworthy is Social Media?

Social Media has the power to reach a large population almost instantly.

Alabama Wilson and the Zombies of the Crawling Brain

Alabama Wilson has rocked the scientific world with an amazing discovery.

Ants in Action

A world behind glass at the National Zoo

The true story of a young scientist: BOY NATURALIST

“Be a hunter and explorer.” This is the advice, says world-renowned entomologist E.O. Wilson in his 1994 autobiography, Naturalist, that he gives to his science students. “If you have the will, there is a discipline in which you can succeed.”

MAGDALENA SORGER

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST

SHAPING DICE

More faces, more fun?

EDWARD O. WILSON

BIOLOGIST, NATURALIST, AUTHOR, SCIENCE PIONEER