
Salt on Ice
An activity to melt over from Science Buddies

Salt on Ice
An activity to melt over from Science Buddies

Science News Briefs from around the Globe
A few brief reports about international science and technology from Greenland to Palau, including one on the discovery of a trove of mummified cats in Egypt.


Budding Yeast Produce Cannabis Compounds
Biologists have taken the genes that produce cannabinoids in weed and plugged them into yeast, making rare and novel compounds more accessible. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Human Diet Drugs Kill Mosquitoes' Appetite, Too
When researchers fed mosquitoes a drug used to treat people for obesity, the insects were less interested in hunting for their next human meal ticket. Karen Hopkin reports.

The Fluorine Detectives
Researchers are battling to identify and assess a worrying class of persistent chemicals

Salt Doesn’t Melt Ice—Here’s How It Makes Winter Streets Safer
There’s a good reason to salt the roads before snow starts falling

New Adaptive Fabric Cools Down as You Heat Up
The dynamic textile becomes more breathable in hotter, sweatier conditions

I Was a Teenage Element Hoarder
Even at the age of 15, I realized my obsession with collecting all the elements in the periodic table’s is not something most kids aspire to

Forget Everything You Know about 3-D Printing—the "Replicator" Is Here
Rather than building objects layer by layer, the printer creates whole structures by projecting light into a resin that solidifies

Are 2 Snowflakes Ever Identical?
Is the “unique snowflake” just flake news? Mother Nature might never produce two identical snowflakes, thanks to the near-infinite variability of the conditions affecting ice crystal formation. But a Caltech scientist has developed a process for growing pairs of twin snowflakes.

Happy Sesquicentennial, Periodic Table!
The organizing scheme that revolutionized our understanding of the chemical elements turns 150 in 2019

Pesticides on Our Plates: Is Our Food Safe to Eat?
A new report looks at the amount of pesticides that are making their way to our plates