Stories by Shelley Sandiford

For thousands of years people have struggled to pin down pi. Watch how mathematicians from Archimedes on have wrapped their heads around the math of circles.

Could the fungus-farming leaf-cutter ant take on an Olympic weightlifter?

Could the tiny vampire bat give Olympic sprinters in Rio a run for their money?

Can a hot pink dolphin outswim an Olympic champion?

Scientists hope to learn whether arachnophobes' perception of spiders as larger than actual size causes their fear—or whether it is the fearfulness itself that causes their visual misperception.