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Pinpointing where enslaved people came from helps connect them to specific cultures and political groups. This deepens our understanding of their identities. snexplores.org/article/stront…

Roughly one in every four freshwater-fish species is currently threatened with extinction. Here’s how we could help many of them. snexplores.org/article/freshw…

This slime-like goo generates electricity when squeezed. Someday, it could help you heal faster. snexplores.org/article/electr…

Parrots have a speech-processing brain region organized like ours. They’re the first nonhuman animals known to have this. snexplores.org/article/parake…

Scientists estimate vaccines have saved some 150 million lives in the last 50 years. The vast majority of those saved were children. snexplores.org/article/lets-l…

How do you see the world through the eyes of a goat? With a clever experimental setup and lots of tasty treats. Read more in our latest comic! snexplores.org/article/sheep-…

Warren Loeppky has been a kids’ dentist for 20 years. Over the last decade, he’s been seeing more tooth decay in his young patients. Many kids have so much damage that he has to put them under general anesthesia to repair their teeth. snexplores.org/article/fluori…

As fish hearing goes, sharks are somewhat limited: “If you were a shark, I would need to talk a lot louder to you than to a goldfish.” snexplores.org/article/tickin…

Scientists have been trying for decades to find replacements for animals in medical research. These advances are getting them much closer. snexplores.org/article/resear…

Using X-rays, scientists can study the core of distant, destroyed planets. snexplores.org/article/planet…

These molecules might be literal mirror images of each other, but biology still plays favorites. This week’s word is chiral. snexplores.org/article/scient…

“This is a decorate-or-die situation.” snexplores.org/article/caterp…

Salto, a spindly little hopping bot, could already stick the landing on flat surfaces. Now, engineers have figured out how to make it land on narrow “branches,” like a squirrel. snexplores.org/article/jumpin…

Pounded into paste with chili and spices or fried up and eaten whole, giant water bugs will remain on the menu if these three teens have their way. snexplores.org/article/giant-…

As a fight to the death reached its end around 1,800 years ago, a victorious lion sank its teeth into a young man’s hip bone. snexplores.org/article/roman-…

New findings suggest the endangered axolotl could be reintroduced to the wild. But that’s plan B. Plan A: Restore these wild salamanders’ habitat so they can survive on their own. snexplores.org/article/axolot…

Asteroids and other space objects that orbit outside a planet’s primary sphere of influence are quasi-satellites. That’s this week’s word. snexplores.org/article/scient…

Like siren songs of myth, these new robotic helpers will summon swimmers. Unlike the myth, their safe harbor invites baby corals to seek refuge. snexplores.org/article/mobile…

A robot like this could work in areas where electronics might be a fire risk, like in mines. Or it might find use in space, where radiation could harm electronic bots. snexplores.org/article/3d-pri…

Trouble, earthlings! Simulations suggest that the gravitational tugs of passing stars could fling another planet into our world — or even send Earth careening out of our solar system. snexplores.org/article/passin…